LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3718, 4 October 1906, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

There have been quite an influx' of visitors to Foxton lately. The annual meeting of the Foxier! Cricket Club will be held tomorrow evening. The monthly meeting of the, local Masonic lodge will be held, to-morrow night. The meeting of the local school committee adjourned from last night will be held this evening.

Inquiries are being made by a number of outside people re seaside arrangements for the coming season.

A special meeting of the Awahou Football Club will be held in the Family Hotel at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday evening.

The Manawatu County Council invite alternative tenders up to noon of Wednesday, 10th inst., for the right to work the Shannon Kerry and to collect the tolls thereat for a period of one year.

We remind ratepayers of tomorrow’s poll on the-gas-works. and municipal buildings loans. The polling booth will be situated in the new borough Council Chambers and the hours of polling will be between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.

A committee meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club will be beldam the Manawatu Hotel on Monday evening next. As business will be discussed of an important nature every member is requested to attend.

During the month of August, "2840 persons arrived in the colony and 1565 took their departure. The respective figures for August, 1905, are 2252 and 1438. The case of Tulley and Stevens y. the Carterton Borough Council, airising from the non-payment of a|n award for compensation, has been, settled, and the sheriff has released the Borough property.

A girl was born at the Christchurch Exhibition Maori pa on Tuesday. The father is Ranga Whenua and the mother Raiha. There will probably be a presentation to the little stranger.

A horse belonging to a local butcher cast a shoe the other day and went off on its own account to 4 blacksmith’s shop to get the blatter attended to. We are not informed as to whether it held up its Idg when it arrived there, but it cbme away apparently satisfied with a new shoe on.

i Mr Hill, dentist, left Foxton today. He will commence the practice of his profession at Arch Hill, Ponsonby, Auckland, in the course of a few weeks. The best wishes oii residents will follow Mr Hill in his new sphere of labor. Foxton possesses a mimic of no mean order in Mr Haggerty. At the presentation function tendered to Mr Hill last night he treated those present to impersonations of Mr Fred. Pirani, late member for Palmerston, the late Premier, and “little Ben Tillet.” As will be seen by our advertising columns, an attractive sale by aubtion is to be held on Saturday next in the Masonic Hall, The sale will be conducted bv Messrs Hudson and Eastber, the Levin •auctioneers, on account of a Wellington merchant, and a large and well assort-d stock of boots, shoes, slippers and drapery will be submitted to auction. We understand that all the goods are new and in first-class condition, and every facility will be given to would-be purchasers as the stock will be open for inspection on Saturday morning. “ Many complaints are received,” says a London paper, “ from the colonies that some of the emigrants who are sent out fr<j;ra Home, however excellently fitted they may be for English conditions, are of no u j e at pioneer work ; but it is seldom that we have the situation described by the man who is thus branded as inefficient. A letter from a Londoner who went out to seek work in New Zealand has recently been published, and it shows us his point of view very accurately. He complains : “ This job is a fluke. There are no workhouses in New Zealand, and as soon as anybody is out of work, there is only one alternative—to go to the Labour Bureau, and they send them up here to work on the railway. About thirty-four of us came up )iere, and already about twelve of them have turned it up and have gone on the tramp.” I Our Dressmaking Department is (now in first-class working order, and we should like to take this opportunity of recommending our customers to place their orders as soon as possible and thus save disappointment, for as the season advances the greater the tush,—Watchom, Stipes & Co,

Mrs Haywood advertises a 5-roomed cottage to let. A smart boy is wanted by Mr M. H. Walker. Mr Rae-Howard makes additions to his property list in to-day’s issue.

Messrs Sutherland and Rough have taken over the premises lately occupied by Mr Thompson in Main St.

A dementedjmother named Mansfield at Narratan, Gippsland, murdered her two young children almost decapitating them with a carving knife. She also cut her own throat, but there are chances of her recovery. When the item in “ Mescellaneous Services ” of the Colonial Secretary’s Department on the Estimates “Grant to widow of late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, ,£6000,” was reached in the House of Representatives, the vote was passed without debate, and with the unanimous consent of the House.

1 The football competition banner presented by Mrs H. Austin is now bn view in Messrs Sutherland and Rough’s window, and is a striking example of the manufacturer’s art. lit is the best trophy of the kind it has been our lot to inspect, and ..once rival football clubs gaze on its ijiagnificence we feel sure a bold bid will be made to wrest it from the present holders, —the Sandon club, Mrs H. Austin is deserving of all praise for her magnificent gift, which should attract the attention of all whilst on exhibition.

Interest in the alleged existence of platinum in the Fitzherbert ranges has been revived in Palmerston (says the “Manawatu Daily Times”) with the return of Mr A. Mensdaffer, the discoverer, who recently went to Sj'dney to obtain funds to carry out tentative operations. Mr Mensdaffer, it is stated has been successful in securing financial assistance; he has brought tools and machinery with him, and is sanguine as to the success of the venture.

Dr Valentine, in the Health Report tells how he found a very filthy dairy, and interviewed the managers of the receiving company next day. They owned that the milk from this farm generally arrived in a filthy condition, but denied that it was ever allowed to supplement the supply of an important institution for which they were the contractors, “What do you do with it, then?” “Oh,” naively replied one of the managers, ‘‘ we send that milk on our street round, where people are mostly bad marks. ’ ’

Dr, Maurice Le ulle appeals to the Parisian population to take the following elementary steps as a safeguard against tuberculosis: — “ Every person should make it a duty never to sit down to the table without washing his hands, no matter how clean they may look. The lips also should be washed and the mouth rinsed out before eating. In this manner the dust which may have lodged on the lips and hands, a d which generally contains germs of tuberculosis i; got rid of; and as it has been proved that tuberculosis is communicated through the digestive organs, you are pretty s J afe if you don’t swallow dust.” The Christmas number ot the ‘‘Weekly Press” just to hand contains some very excellent work, especially in the matter of its illustrations. Among these are “ The Timber Industry,” ” Sheepfarming,” “ Children on the Sands,” and some New Zealand birds. ’ ’ The thermal springs district of the North Island affords Mr Chas. M, Phillips, who has made its scenes his own, a great opportunity, of which he takes advantage, to produce a fine set; while the Rev. H. E. Newton, who is a master of Alpine photography, has excelled all his former efforts in the present series. Add to these the most beautiful specimens of New Zealand scenery, and several views of the four principal cities, and a slight idea may be had of the contents of this splendid annual. The coloured pictures include a copy of Mr Dittmer’s “ Keeper of the Pahikaure,” a Maori subject; and Mr. A. A. Grace of Nelson, contributes a story entitled ‘‘ The Junior Sub.” The general get up and printing is of a very high order and the number is perhaps better than any of its predecessors. Messrs Sutherland and Rough have two additional house properties within easy range of P. O. for sale cheap. Mr Carnegie has informed Scotish public bodies that he intends to distribute during his life time for humanity’s benefit. He invites suggestions of beneficial objects, excluding Church services and the ministers.