LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3728, 6 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Upwards of 2000 tons of coal has been unloaded at the Fox on wharf during the past few days. The police arrested a young woman recently in Palmerston in delirium tremens. She had a young child with her at the time. Mr Hugo, phrenologist and physiognomist, may be consulted in the Methodist Schoolroom from 10 a.m. to 1 p,m. and from 3 to 6 and 7 to 8 p.ra. The following steamers were at the wharf yesterday:—Himatangi, Kennedy, Charles Edward, Gertie, Putiki, Waverly, and Moa, coal laden; Queen of the South and Baden Powell, general cargoes. Speaking at the opening of the new Post Office at Nelson recently, the Premier said New Zealand was the most up-to-date country in the world in regard to Post Offices. This statement may apply to other parts of the colony but it certainly does not to Foxton.

Surgeons who operated for appendicitis on John Olaffson, a farmer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, discovered that he had taken sweet pea seeds in mistake for liver pills. His wife then dug up the sweet pea bed and discovered that she had planted the liver pills. Nine boats were hitched up two and three abreast to the wharf yesterday. There is- only berth accommodation for three boats. The skippers were using nautical language in reference to the meagre wharfage. But the Railway Department when approached for berthing accommodation said that “only one boat regularly traded to Foxton.”

Mr S. Feek, ranger, met with an accident yesterday while attending to his duties. His horse stumbled and fell on him, causing injuries to his shoulder and knee which will incapacitate him for some time. Dr Mandl attended the sufferer.

Some people will pay a lot of money lor jewellery and not get value, yet cheap jewellery is trashy. Thomas Crouch, the wholesale and retail jeweller, Wellington, is now selling a single article at its wholesale price. Those wanting wedding or Christmas presents cannot do better than consult Mr Crouch’s advertisement each week as they appear in this journal. In his establishment at Wellington is everything that a high-class jeweller ought to stock, —articles ranging in price from a few pence to hundreds of pounds. The great Christmas Sale and Bargain Bazaar at Messrs George and Kersley’s Drapery and Furnishing Establishment, the Economic, Wellington commenced on the 6th December. With this issue is an inset which gives prices and particulars of a very comprehensive list of articles suitable for Christmas gifts for the child, youth or adult of both sexes. Country customers, who order by post, are assured that every effort will be made to give them quite equal advantages to those who purchase over the counter.

A splendid stock of ladies and gents underwear bought at a sacrifice (travellers’ samples) will be almost given away at the Economic. Call and inspect.* A splendid assortment of wedding invitation and fancy cards now in stock. All kinds of commercial and general printing and bookbinding undertaken.

Intending competitors at the Feilding Athletic Club’s Sports on Boxing Day will please note that nominations for all handicaps close on Friday next. Pedestrian events will be run under rules of the N.Z. Athletic Union and cycling under League Wheelman Rules. Programmes may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Mr Andrew Carnegie, speaking at a St. Andrew’s Day banquet, in New York, said he rejoiced that Scotland had ceased to be a British recruiting ground. The young men were realising that they were fitted for something better than food for powder. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador, dissented, and thanked God that some Scots did not consider themselves too good to become British soldiers.

At Nelson recently the Premier alluded to the approaching Colonial Conference in London.' Though no Jingoist, he strongly recognised the necessity of increased support to the British navy for protection and the maintenance of peace., He also spoke strongly of the Yellow Peril, the need for the maintenance of race purity, and for guarding against an influx of Chinese.

An unoccupied four-roomed cottage in the Avenue Road, owned by Mr W. J. Fullara, was totally destroyed by fire at 1.30 a.m, yesterday morning. There was no furniture in the house, which was insured for and valued at tion to add to the building and occupy it after Christmas. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The day preceding the fire Mr Fullam received a cable from Sydney informing him of -the death of his father.

The captains of the various vessels in port yesterday spent an anxious time. The meagre berthing only allowed three boats to lie alongside the wharf, and six others had to make fast as best they could. There was a fairly strong fresh in the river and it would not have taken much more current to have caused the wharf and shipping to have carried away. The wharf is under the control of the Railway Department. The “Rancet” advocates the custom of dressing for dinner, and declares that every worker should change his clothes before the evening meal, even if he does not possess “evening” clothes. The bracing effect of a change of clothes is well known. Sometimes when a person feels almost too tired to change his clothes he finds himself refieshed when the change is accomplished. He always feels more prepared for his dinner, and so nutrition is favourably effected. The effect of a change of clothes after a day’s toil is similar to that of a bath, mildy stimulating, bracing, dispelling the feeling of tiredness and fatigue. The explanation, most likely, is that clothes, after they have been worn all day, get more or less clogged, and lose temporarily their ventilation properties, so that the emanations of the body do not escape freely.

At last a man has learned to live without air, an American contemporary informs us. Sodium peroxide, one of the newer products of electrolysis, is a compound of sodium with oxygen that decomposes in the presence of damp carbonic acid. The value of this substance may be gathered from the fact that a man can live in an airtight box as long as any sodium peroxide remains unconverted. It is suggested that, by means of sodium peroxide, submarine boats will be able to remain under water for considerably longer periods than hitherto has been possible. How long will be a matter of calculation, the factors in the calculation being the amount of oxygen converted into carbonic acid by one man in one hour, the number of men present, and the weight of peroxide that can be carried. Used in mines, it should enable a miner to live with his head literally in a bag of india rubber containing this peroxide, whereby he can tide over a period of danger.

Mme. Debourgeois is besieging the house in which her husband lives at Dunkerque, Belgium, About four years ago M. Debourgeois, who lived at Havre, went out for a walk and never returned. A few mouths later a man’s body was dragged from the Seine, and Mme. Debourgeois recognised in it her husband. The body was buried with due ceremony, and a mass was said for his soul. Dast month a Havre merchant went to Dunkerque on business, and met his old friend Debourgeois, who was in the best of health, in the company of a pretty young widow. The merchant, on returning to Havre, told Mme. Debourgeois of his discovery, and she promptly followed her faithless husband to Duukerqe. For the past two days she has been sitting on the doorstep of the house in which he is living. Both sides up to the present have assumed a passive attitude, the husband contenting himself with sitting behind the bolted door.