LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3738, 5 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

We direct attention to Mrs Hussey’s replace advt.

The exact number of passengers by the Foxton excursion train on New Year’s Day in connection with which a guessing competition was instituted, was 1768. The Meikle Commission has been sitting at Wellington this week. Several witnesses have been examined. The Hon, Mr McNab, will be called as a witness at an early date. The hills towards Shannon were enveloped in dense smoker yesterday, caused by bush fires. A rumour travelled round to the effect that the flax on the Moutoa estate was on fire. This report was false.

Horse-owners are reminded that nominations for all events for the Foxton meeting except Maiden Hack Hurdles and Trial Hack Race (first day) and Maiden Hack Scurry (second day) close with the secretary, Mr Angus Keith this evening at 9 o’clock.

When the London County Council came into being in 1889 the debt it took over amounted to £17,563,262. Last year this debt had increased to ,£44,620,262. The annual expenditure of the Council had increased from £3, 3 0 3.923 in. 1889 to in 1905.

At the local S.M. Court, Alfred Potter was sentenced to two weeks imprisonment for using obscene language ; Henry Webb was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and Louis Dorriquer* was sentenced to two weeks for being illegally on the premises. Mr Alf Fraser was the presiding justice. An offer of ,£130,000 for a vacant piecetof ground in Fifth-avenue, New York, has been refused by its owner, Miss Josephine Wendel, an elderly lady, who is related to the Astors. The reason given is that the spot at present serves as _ a playground for her pet dog Trixie, and if it were sold the dog would have no open space where it could take its exercise.

A man who arrived at Wellington with £6O recently, after a four day’s “ spree ” sought an assisted trip back to hard work in the country. Of course, he had been robbed. The hawk’s who watch drunken men marked him out. Already the march of time is marked by the financial state of the “drunks” who get into the hands of the police. They have not as many shillings as, a few days ago, they had pounds. Complaints have reached us that the borough windmill which pumps water for horses and cattle in the borough and also provides many residents with the precious liquid at this time of the year, has been put out of gear. It is stated that certain merry individuals tampered with the mill on New Year’s night. If the trouble can be sheeted home the culprits will find that they have indulged in an expensive joke. A lad named Drayton, residing with bis parents near Maitland (New South Wales) feeling unwell lay down on his bed. His mother went into his room shortly afterwards, and was alarmed at seeing a large brown snake stretched across the sleeping boy. She stood transfixed with fear for the boy, and a few minutes later the snake glided to the floor and was killed.

Mrs Dowie, wife of the “prophet,” is leading the “simple life” at the magnificent summer palace of the deposed Zionist leader at Whltelake, Michigan. All the servants, including the gardeners, the maids and the cooks, have been discharged. Mrs Dowie is doing her own housework and cooking. Her son Gladstone, the “ unkissed,” rises at six in the morning, makes the fires and milks the cows-

Prices for local town sections are a little easier and as a result several sections have recently changed hands. We understand several others will be disposed of before the Government valuer pays his promised visit. This official obtained some information from the local commission agents some time since, and consequently will pay particular attention to this borough.

Capt- J. W. Evans, Premier of Tasmania, was interviewed in Auckland, and as he had come from the extreme south of the colony to the north he was asked to give his views on what he had seen. “Well,” he replied, “I think the thing that struck me most was the almost total absence of agricultural country. lam not a farmer but what I mean to say is that for miles one sees nothing but grass grown in New Zealand and intense cultivation is comparatively rare. The dairying industry and stock raising have undoubtedly put New Zealand well on her feet, and so long as prices for butter and mutton rule as they do, and so long as the high quality of these staple exports is maintained I cannot see that New Zealand can go back.”

Mrs Snowdon, wife of Mr Phillip Snowdon, M.P., undressing a Fabian Society meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge, on woman’s suffrage, declared that the police were not such enemies of that movement as their actions would appear to suggest. Some policemen in the House of Commons had infinitely more brains than were possessed by some of the members. A policeman at the House told her that he carried out the suffragists as gently as he could and one of them" said to him, “Thank you very much.” The officer said he was not sure he did not whisper in the ear of his fair burden, “ Come again as soon as you can,”

The Palmerston Times is now controlled by Mr W. H. Smith. I ■ ‘ .

A lost Swan fountain pen is advertised for.

Complaints are still made in respect to the unsatisfactory sanitary arrangements. The weather in this district is ext eraely sultry and rain would be gladly welcomed.

A meeting of the Flaxmills Employees Union will be held on Monday night. His Honour Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, has gone to Rotorua for the long vacation.

Rowing men throughout the colony are anxious that Webb should challenge the winner of the world’s championship. Mr I. J. Fake, contractor, who has an announcement in to-day’s issue, is at present engaged in Foxton. Any orders lett with Mr Chas. Easton will be promptly attended to.

An old resident of Pahiatua informs us that this is the driest season experienced in the Bush district during his residence, there. As a result there has been a great falling off in the milk supply.

The other evening a report was circulated in Levin that a female had suicided. Half the town turnen out to search for the horror. The would-be suicide was discovered at home partaking of the evening meal.

The postal authorities have been advised of the departure of the Manakau from Sydney for Auckland on Wednesday last with 4 ;2 ° bags of Australian and English mails. The Wellington portion should arrive on Monday evening The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. SouthernThe subjects will be, morning,. “God’s Message for the Year ” ; and evening, “ Paying the Price,’’ The choir will contribute anthems at each service.

Flaxcutters can find employment in this district. In some flax areas the blades are rather stunted and as the cutters are paid at so much per ton these localities are tabooed by experienced men, and the new chum gains experience there. The wages, however, to be earned in the stunted areas are good compared to wages paid for other classes of unskilled labour. It will interest new comers to this district to learn that in the early days —in the ’4o’s there were six rope walks in full swing on the banks of the Manawatu river and splendid samples of rope, cordings and wool lashings were made up. The walks were owned by Messrs Jas Nash and Son (grandfather of Messrs Jas., A., and Henry Nash, of Palmerston North), the late Thos Sevan and Sons, Charles Hartley, James Anderson, H. Wilson and George Bevan.

The Rev. E- J. Hardy, writing on the “Romance of Love, ” in the London “ Daily Graphic, ” has a story of two bachelor maids who shared a flat for nearly three years. Each had a latch-key and did what she liked. Every day they told each other that they would never surrender to the tyranny of man. But one of them who was pretty, did at last get married. The other abused her and was thus answered : “Women may grow newer &nd newer, but they will never be so new as really to despise the old, old story revealed to them in love’s young dream. ” All cyclists will be interested in Messrs Reynolds & Co’s change advertisement, which appears in another column. For the month of January only, the firm are making great reductions in the usual prices of bicycles and accessories, and our readers who wish to make a considerable saving will do well to send in their orders. The goods can be supplied at the same prices by the Co.’s agents and depots throughout the colony. We must congratulate Messrs E. Reynolds & Co., on their new head office building into which they moved on January xst. This fine four storey structure is situated in Victoria-street, Wellington, and the fact that it is by far the largest warehouse occupied by any cycle firm in the colony, is in itself a great tribute to the growth of the firm’s business.

Rheujio has-enabled many a poor sufferer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago to once more enjoy health and happiness, 3s 6d and 4s 6d. Sold everywhere. 13