LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3721, 25 October 1906, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Several additional trophies are displayed in Messrs Southerland and Roughs’ window, Main Street. Members of the local rifle club are requested to hand in their subcriptions to the Secretary as early as possible. Tenders are invited by Mr J. W. Rough for the erection of grading stores at Foxton for the New Zealand Shipping Company. See advertisement. Railway arrangements are advertised elsewhere in connection with excursion tickets to Christchurch and Palmerston Show. Our attention has been called to the unsatisfactory manner in which the nightsoil arrangements are being carried out. Messrs John Chambers and Son, of Wellington, are supplying Messrs 0, and H, Austin and Ross with 52 h.p. gas suction Tangye engines for their flaxmills. The following is the attendance at the Foxton State School for the week ending October 20th 1906: — Average attendance. 211 '6 ; average absents, 57*4; roll number, 269'.

A meeting of the N. Z. Flaxmills Association will be held at Palmerston on Saturday next to discuss the demands of the Flaxmills Employees Union. Lung Wong was to be charged on remand at the local S.M. Court

this afternoon before Mr. Alf Fraser J.P. with having caused actual bodily harm to Young Dee at Foxton on the Ist inst. Our readers will remember the trouble arose out of Dee’s claiming the return of two sacks allegedly loaned to Dung Wong. Mr Moore is appearing on behalf of the ac-. cused, who was further remanded. Daughters of exrMinisters of the Crown are not to be lost to the State. Miss Mary Stuart Seddon commenced work in the Treasury Department on’ Monday last at a good salary,- Miss Grace Mills, daughter ot the ex-Minister of Customs, is employed at the Newtown Post Office, and another daughter, Miss Olive Mills, has joined the staff of the Tourist Department. A good cookery book is indispensible in every home, and housewives delight to procure recipes that have been tried successfully by their friends. Mrs Chisholm is editing such a book which is shortly to be published at this office. It will include recipes from well-known people throughout this and other districts and will also contain advertisements from the leading tradesmen. We understand that the receipts from the sale of the book will be handed to some local deserving institution. Such books have found a ready sale in other parts of the colony where tried and although some very clever women pooh pooh the idea of such publication, we feel sure this book will be a huge success. We understand that the local girls sewing guild is in some way connected with the publication.