Local and General.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3712, 15 September 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

Thirteen new candidates were proposed for admission to the local Oddfellows’ Lodge last Tuesday. Subscribers not receiving their papers regularly are requested to at once communicate with us.

The Town Clerk is now installed in the new Council Chambers.

The weather last night was very boisterous and heavy rains fell throughout the district. We are sorry to hear that Mrs Jupp had a serious heart attack yestculay, but is progressing satisfactorily to-day. The Rev Mr Speirs will conduct the evening service in the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow. The s.s. Oueen of the South arrived with a full general cargo this morning. Miss Cooper notifies the ladies of Foxton and district that she is prepared to undertake orders for all classes of dressmaking. Address, Cook St.

liTour report of the Rowing Club Ball we inadvertently omitted to mention the name of Mrs Stewart, who lent such valuable assistance to the function.

Mr A. H.. Overend, of Levin & Co.’s local stall has received notice of bis transfer to the Company’s head office in Wellington. He leaves Fpxton at the end of the month. Mr F. Collins, of the Post and Telegraph office takes, Mr Overend’s place here. Mr G. W. Morgan, local manager for Messrs Levin and Co., was presented in Wellington on Thursday evening with a handsome travelling hag and dressing case by the members of St. Peters Club Literary and Debating Society, of which organisation he acted as treasurer for a number of years, A most enjosmble time was spent and the good wishes of the members follow Mr Morgan in this district.

Never has the interior of the local Public Hall been so tastefully decorated as for the children’s fancy and floral invitation ball given by Mr and Mrs Barthold last evening. The walls were covered artistically with nikau and other ferns and dotted with bright flowers. It had the appearance of a leafy bower, and the scene as the gaily dressed children flitted hither and thither was a brilliant one. The little ones spent a most enjoyable time and their cup of happiness was full. Messrs S. and R. Hickson were responsible for the pretty decorations.

The evergreen John Burke O’Brien did us the honour of a length interview this morning. He spoke of gaols,, magistrate;;, policemen, hospitals, doctors, Salvation Army homes and other homes, the Governor, Premier and other Ministers, the rise and progress of Foxton, and heaven knows what else. East night he devoted his lime to studying the glories of the heavenly bodies between rifts in the clouds. He informs us that he is saturated with insults. O’Brien, may your khaki undercoat never grow less ! and we trust the Foxton climate will agree with your health and shattered hopes.

Archdeacon Colley, speaking at the Spiritualists’ Convention at Southplace, London, told some strange stories of a guardian spirit which had many times befriended his son, an array officer. The spirit occasionally materialised itself in the shape of a white dove. On one occasion the officer found himself “ levitated ” in an hour of special need over a wall six feet high. Recently, the archdeacon added, he received a letter from his son, now in India, in which he said that on a certain Sunday he had “ a strange sensation of the number 237. I wonder if you preached that sermon.” The archdeacon searched his catalogue of sermons, and found that on that particular Sunday he preached sermon ‘‘ No. 237 : Wings like a Dove.”

The Parisian hat of 1906 is ('says a writer in the Gentlewoman) a plate-like one, set tiptiited on the head, with flowers massed upon one side. These hats have the look rather of inverted precipices, with a wonderfully luxuriant growth climbing on the off-side of wild roses, violets, sWfeet peas, or forget-me-nots, as the case may be. After studying the .ways of Frenchwomen, I came to conclusion they treat their hats as head-dresses —in a word, make them quite subservient to their hair and fits arrangement, whilst we here make our hair and faces subservient to our hats. The Frenchwomen’s are the more becoming methods.

For Colds in the Head and Influenza Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per Bottle. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is pure, wholesome and unadulterated. Try it.

All umbrella, silver-mounted, taken by mistake from the hall last night, is advertised for.

A splendid opportunity is offered to poultry fanciers to secure sittings of puie-bred white Wyandottes. Apply this office. All accounts owing to the late proprietor of the Manawatd Herald are requested to be settled on or before the 30th hist. Mr Hornblow’s receipt will be a sufficient discharge. Mr R, H. BHgh, the lecturer of the Australasian White Cross League, will be in Foxton on Tuesday next, and will deliver his address to young men over 14 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Hall, Special services will be held in the Methodist Church to-morrow to celebrate the opening of the new organ. The preacher will be the Rev. J. Southern, and his subject for the morning will be “ The Diveisity of Christian Service.” In the evening the subject will be ‘‘ Duty set to Music,” At the morning service the choir (assisted by friends) will render the anthem ‘‘l was glad.” In the evening, the quartette “From every stormy wind ” and the anthems “Cast thy burden ” and “God reigneth ” will be given. In the afternoon at 3 o’clock a masical service will be held, the items for . which appeared in Thursday’s issue. Collections will be taken at each service in aid of the Church funds.

It was a general cause of complaint by the representatives at the Municipal Conference that in nearly every borough the horse and cattle straying nuisance was increasing. The Mayor of Kaiapoi, on Tuesday evening, told his Council they were not exceptional in that respect, Cr. Eagle was able to offer a remedy. He said that a ranger who had to make his living by impounding cattle never succeeded, but if the Council gave a man regular work and included the cattle ranging within his duties, there would no longer be damaged paths and river banks. The Council, however, decided to write again to the police on the manner in which the by-laws were infringed. It is hardly possible that any athlete among the ancients received a more demonstrative welcome on his return home than was given to Sherring, the winner of the Marathon race at Athens, on his arrival at Toronto, and his own town of Hamilton, Canada. In material ’rewards showered upon any victor in the Olympic games, Sherring must easily have surpassed any of his predecessors. The Ontario Government, city councils, and athletic clubs bestowed upon him gifts valued at £3OOO. He was presented by friends with a house and with funds to furnish it. At the city hall in Toronto, where a month previously a ceremonious reception was given to Prince Arthur of Connaught, he was made a freeman of the city with a wild enthusiasm passing all bounds. This was the climax of the greeting he received from cheering crowds at the towns where his train stopped. By comparison with Sherring’s home-coming that of the American team was a tame one, and in fact so little heralded as to cause the moral to be drawn : “ When about to be a hero, move to Canada.”