LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3714, 20 September 1906, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Attention is directed to a replace advertisment from the Bon Marche, Palmerston, announcing the arrival of new spring goods.

All Saints’ Girls Guild Bazaar will be held in the Town Hall on November 14th. All sorts of novel competitions will be held. Full particulars will appear later. According to a London paper, Mr Allan Strang, of Palmerston North, was one of the sporting team who carried off the Prix International at the Ostend Polo Tournament.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS. Purchase only bottles with wrappers intact,

Mr H. Easton, of Howan-street, advertises carrots for sale-at 4s per sack.

A meeting of tlie Debating Society’s Cricket Club will be held in Mr Hill’s rooms at 8 p.m. on Monday next. Mr Bligh, Australasian representative of the White Cross League, delivered three short and tactful addresses to the soholars of the local State School yesterday. John Bourke O’Brien on a charge of vagrancy was sentenced by Dr Bennett and Alf. Fraser, J’s.P., to a months imprisonment at the local Court on Tuesday. Messrs Clapham Bros, of Ashhurst, have just received from St Louis the medal awarded them by the Exposition for their horseholder, The medal is large and was enclosed in a case lined with plush and silk.

Dr Mandl arrived last night and has taken up his residence in Foxton. He may be consulted for the-present at Mr Healey’s, chemist, between the hours of 10 and 11 a.m. and 2 and 3 p.m. The death took place at Masterton on Monday of Mrs Dixon, wife of Mr David Dixon. The deceased lady was one of the original pioneers of Wairarapa, having arrived at Masterton by the then only available route —viz., by walking over the Rimutaka Range. On the authority of a highly placed personage in the entourage of their Majesties, the Madrid correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that an interesting event may be expected in the Spanish Royal Family. His informant declares that King Alfonso, as is only natural, is highly delighted at the prospect of an heir to the throne. Mr Frank Mowlem, hairdresser and tobacconist, of Palmerston North, notifies by advertisement that he has a large stock of firstclass smokers requisites always in stock. Visitors from this district are invited to call on him and inspect his well-assorted stock. A cigarette manufacturing company that offered premiums to smokers awarded a prize for 10,000 coupons, to a six-teen-year-old boy. The company withheld the name of the boy, and when sending him the award the treasurer remarked: “If you smoke 10,000 more cigarettes you will win a coffin.

“ While I am not prepared to say,’ says Dr. Neligan, Bishop of Auckland, “ that it is a sin to play for penny points, I am convinced that bridge is the fruitful cause of gambling, and it would be a really national service if women resolved to resolutely refuse to allow any games to be played for money in their houses.

The greater portion of the output of the world’s supply of petrol is said to be controlled by the Rockfeller trust. What a corner or a big rise in this very necessary spirit would mean to the automobile industry the world over can be gathered from the fact that last year’s output of petroleum was over 3,000,000,000 gallons. W. A. Browning, proprietor of the Main-street Carriage Factory, near the railway station, Palmerston North, builds all kinds of vehicles to order. His pheatons, dog carts, buggies and gigs have a first-class reputation throughout the province. He makes the building of flax drays a speciality. Rubber tyring is also done on the premises. Intending purchasers of vehicles in this district would find it to their advantage to communicate with him. See advertisement.

The Argentine correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, writing from Buenos Ayres under date of the 20th June, says, “ Small-pox has been playing havoc here lately, the death-roll running into 150 to 200 a week. Toll has been levied on all classes of the community by the fell destroyer. East week one hailing from your tight little island was carried away by the dread disease, in the person of Mr Thomas Macintosh, who arrived here only a couple of months* ago from Timaru, where, it is under-

stood he was on the staff of the National mortgage and Agency Company. ’ ’ Miss Irene Ainsley, at the close of the Royal party at Marlborough House last month, received from the Prince and Princess of Wales an enamel brooch bearing the joint monogram of their Royal Highnesses in diamonds, and the exceptional distinction of being invited to supper with the Royal Family. In addition to the numbers set down for the New Zealand contralto, the Princess asked her to sing “ In My Garden,” and “Still wie die uacht.” During the autumn Miss Ainsley will sing at. the wedding of Miss Barbara Holland, which will be one of the social events ot late October.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS clears the Wood thr9U§h fte Wdneys,

A Christchurch message states that at Kaiapoi, J. G. Syvret, a prohibited person, was fined £lO for procuring liquor. B. A. Knight, on a similar charge, was fined 40s. It is not intended to gazette a general close season for native or imported game in 1907, but shooting will be prohibited in certain specified areas, and there will be a close season throughout the country for native pigeon, pukeko and kaka. The Premier told Mr Fisher yesterday that the question of introducing a Married Women’s Property Bill is now under consideration, This is the measure outlined by Mr Seddon to give women a half-share in the land upon which their home stands. The Eketahuna Express has changed hands. The new owners are a syndicate of Eketahuna business men, and Mr G. T. Allen, who had an interest in the business. One of the Taihape papers—the Post—-has also been purchased by a company of townspeople. Mr George R. Boulton, accountant at the Wanganui branch of the Bank of New South Wales, died suddenly at Wanganui yesterday. Deceased, apparently in good health, sat down to breakfast, and fell in a faint, expiring in a few minutes. The cause of death was apoplexy. Mr Boulton joined the bank in 1874. the early days he took an active part in rowing and athletics in Canterbury. The annual Inspector’s visit to the Foxton School for promtoion in standards was concluded on Friday afternoon and the schedules are now to hand. The Headmaster’s classification was in every instance approved. In accordance with the usual tustom we are allowed to publish only the names of pupils in the sixth standard, who after special examination by the Inspector were awarded certificates of proficiency or competency. Proficiency, St. VI : Percy Overend, Christina Honore, Mabel Cooke. Competency : Robert Coley, Sidney Gray, Erma Alsdorf, Trixie Crichton, Beryl Fraser, Nellie Gray, Pearl Hughes, Irene Langley, Violet Nye, Bessie Spiers. St. V. competency: Belle Small. Thus only one pupil failed to secure the coveted certificate. We are now showing a large and varied assortment of trimmed and untrimmed millinery in all the latest shapes and styles. Also a large and varied stock of blouss, bkmsings, children’s millinery, costumes, and all the latest novelties in Showroom goods. Inspection invited. Watchorn, Stiles & Co. A splendid assortment of wedding invitation and fancy cards now in siock, All kinds of commercial and general printing and bookbinding undertaken. Don’t send your orders for printing out of town. Support loc 1! industry and patronise the Herald office. Send or write for samples. Make never mock of cold nor cough— They danger spell, however slightly ; Nor e’er esteem it quite enough To treat the primal symptons lightly. Consider, e’er you money spend, To buy hut mixtures safe and sure— Remember one and recommend The worth of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,