Local and General.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3704, 25 August 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

Messrs Watchorn, andV Co. advertise packing case's sale at is each. ' , ♦ The next meeting of the local Oddfellows Dodge will be held in the Good Templars’ Hall on Tuesday evening next. This week’s Gazette notifies that the Government intend to call tenders at an early date for the carrying of mails for 1907-8-9, R. N. Spiers has for sale heart of totara posts at £5 per 100 on truck at Foxton. Sample of posts can be seen at timber yard.— AdvT. In a previous issue we mentioned that Mr Betty was the conductor of the local Glee Club. We were misinformed. Mr E. Jenks wields the baton. In future the monthly meetings of the Wanganui Education Board will be held on the third Wednesday in each month instead of the third Monday as hitherto. During July the Public Trustee was placed in charge of 54 estates of deceased persons. One of these persons named in the Gazette as “ Colmer, or Garner, James (otherwise Walter England or ißilly the Spud).” This queerly named person was a resident of Hastings, formerly of Victoria. The Hon. Mr Mahuta, who was a Minister without portfolio in the Seddou Cabinet, is still a member of the Legislative Council, though he has not yet put in an appearance. The appointment of such an individual to the Upper Chamber has heaped ridicule upon the Government and the Chamber. William John Roberts was sentenced at Bow-street, London, to six months’ hard labour for forgery. It was stated that some years ago he was a man of soma means, and several doctors told him he had not long to live. He immediately set about spending all his money, and when it was gone he recovered. We are reliably informed that certain members of a football team while travelling in the Sanson tram recently, indulged in a jollification, and left the car, which by the way was borrowed from the Government, in a disgusting mess. A complaint has been lodged, and we understand the Sub-Union will deal with the matter.

When a man mistakes the police lockup for the open bar of an hotel, it is fair to assume that he has been looking on something redder than artesian water. A case in. poidt happened in Christchurch recently. The man rolled in to the police station, a two-shilling piece on with the air of a capitalist, aud authoritatively demanded a long beer. It took the assembled policemen quite a long time to enforce the fact that tb * droughty one was not in Waruers’s Hotel, aud even then he was not convinced'.

Whitebait are not yet plentiful in the local river. On our fourth page will be ,%md an article under the heading ‘ ' To rest and rise refreshed. Board and residence is required for a young lady within easy di:->- ' tance of Messrs Watchorn and Stiles’ business. Mr Morgan, local manager of Messrs Levin and Co.’s, left for Wellington to-day. He returns on Monday. . A meeting of the Foxton Borough I Council will be held at the Library Buildings on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. - Business-.—To receive tenders for the White Pine laying in the Borough Yard, and General. One of the oldest settlers of New Zealand passed away at Aramoho on Monday in the person of Mrs Mary Kendrick, relict of the late Mr James Kendrick, aged 75 ears. The new school at Glen Oroua is to be opened on Wednesday next, the 29th, at 2 p.m. Messrs Bennett, Fraser and Pirani, the members for the Southern Ward of the Wanganui Education Board have received invitations to be present. The death occurred at Wellington on Thursday last of Captain Frank Lawton, at his residence, 10 Douglas St. at the ripe age of 73. Deceased was the father of Mr Lawton in the local employ of Messrs Levin and Co. In the N.Z. Times issue of the 24th, appears a notification of a batch of new Justices of the Peace, numbering 74 having been created. The names of those for Wellington district appear but none have been appointed for Foxton. Thus, in spite of the petition sent by the Borough Council over nine months ago, Foxton still has to put up with the original three, one of whom is only a temporary one. The “ Times,” speaking of the opening day at Parliament, heaved a brick thusly at the Chamber of political derelects : “ The Legislative Council amused itself—if amusement may be permitted in so sepulchral a connection—listener \ng to t?he opening of the Address-'-q'n-Reply debate—a folly which has little justification in the House, but which, in the Legislative Council, is almost a wanton outrage.” Commenting on the case of a young man who was before the Court at Auckland for the first time on a charge of drunkenness, Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., said that he was sorry to see so many young men before the Court lately. What the reason was he could not say, but there was no getting away from the fact that large and increasing numbers of ypung men were in the habit of drinking far too heavily. In the last issue of ‘‘The Crown,” a new illustrated Loudon journal, appears an interesting article containing several illustrations entitled “ The Maori and His Mythology,” by Mr Chas. C. Reade, son of our well-known local solicitor, Mr L. E. Reade. The writer is, we are informed, * engaged on the literary staff of the paper, and the article stamps Mr Reade as a literary contributor of great promise. In seconding the Address-in-Reply, Mr Poole said it would be interesting for Parliament to know whether the people of the colony at large or only a few in the locality were the owners of the Wanganui river, which seemed to be in the hands of a monopoly. It was a question whether people who came to the colony for a visit and went away again were entitled to greater consideration than those who were permanent settlers.” In the report presented by the Commandant of the Forces, General Babington, to Parliament, he says inter alia : —“ It does not appear to me that the colony takes the question of defence seriously, or gives due attention to a subject so important. It will be well for New Zealand if by any means she can be persuaded before it is too late to look seriously upon, and to thoroughly appreciate her defence forces, and to listen more attentively than she has yet done to the advice of those whose duty it is to offer it as to the measures necessary to render such forces really efficient.” The members of the Wanganui Education Board paid a visit to the Wanganui Girls College last Wednesday and were shown over the buildings and ground by the principal. Miss Fraser, including the new A| swimming baths and gymnasium. The baths were constructed last year at a cost of £BOO, ,£4OO of which wo*'raised bv the pupils and tutors ark*■ this sum. with the Government subsidy, covered the whole cost. The members expressed their pleasure at what they were shown, and were subsequently entertained at afternoon tea. The members are the Board of Governs ?! iastlttttiout

Mr Hill, dentist, has disposed of his locai practice to Dr Tatton and Son, of Palmerston North, who will take possession as from Oct. Ist.

Robert Ross Moore was committed for trial Marion on Wednesday on charges of arson and perjury.

The secretary of the Foxton Athletic Club (F. D. Whibley.) acknowledges the receipt of one guinea from the Mayor (B. G. Gower, Esq.) The Mayoress, Mrs B. G. Gower, invites the ladies of Foxton to meet at Mr Hill’s rooms on Monday afternoon next at 3 o’clock for the purpose of forming a ladies committee to assist the Rowing Club in their forthcoming dance. All ladies are invited to attend. Advt.

Miss Carrie Moore, who made a hit by singing the 1 ‘ Sandow Song’ ’ in ‘‘The Dairymaids,” in London, has been inundated by letters from women wanting to know howto become strong. One lady wrote (from Cumberwell): ‘‘Oh, dear Miss Moore. My husband is no taller than I am, but he is stronger, and knocks me about when he likes. I enclose one-and-nine in stamps for you to tell me how to get strong and be able to knock him about,”

Referring to the playing of Miss Ava Syraon at the farewell concert tendered to Miss Lilian Irvine in the Wellington Town Hall, last Wednesday evening the Evening Post says: ‘‘A feature of the entertainment was the violin playing of Miss Ava Symon, a young lady about 12 years of age. Her bowing was skilful, and her command of the fingerboard, for so young a player, was excellent, and she was~ justly rewarded for her fine performance.”

Members and adherents of All Saints’ Church and townspeople generally will regret to learn that the Rev. Mr Wilson is to leave Foxton shortly to take up his residence in Rongotea. The Foxton parochial district has been divided, and will now only include Moutoa and Hiraitangi. The Rev. Mr Wilson will take charge of the Rongotea parochial district, which will include Glen Oroua and Oroua Bridge. The Rev. G. J. Woodward—who leaves the colony next week for England, but who returns in February—will replace Mr Marshall.

Mr Field has given notice to submit the following question to the Minister for Railways: — Whether the Government have satisfied themselves as to their legal position respecting the Crown’s right to purchase the Wellingtou-Manawatu railway and whether, as it seems that the twenty-one years mentioned in the Railways Construction and Land Act, xBBr, expires in November, 1907, and twelve months’ notice is required of the intended exercise of the Crown’s right of purchase, the Government will give the necessary notice, either before or immediately after November, 1906, according to the advice received, and introduce legislation, if required, to give the Government the necessary powers ?