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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

—♦ — The local Masonic lodge meets to-morrow night. Up to the present the potato blight has not made its appearance jn this district. Japan’s foreign trade for 1906 amounted to and the exports exceeded the imports.

At the local S.M- Court on Tuesday a prohibition order was granted against a local resident. *The people in sunny Nelson are praying for rain. There has not been a downpour for two months and vegetation is being burnt up. Special and ordinary meetings of the local Borough Council will be held next Monday evening. Slight showers of rain fell in this district last night but not enough to be of any material benefit. If some enterprising individual would open a refreshment room at the beach it would be found to be a very payable concern.

The local fishermen met with a financial loss the other day by reason of their fish being condemned at Palmerston station as a result of the very hot weather. Eocal fishermen report that flounders have been very plentiful in the river of late but there has been an absence of kawhai and schnapper. A large number of people are spending a most enjoyable time at the beach. The road to this ideal seaside resort is the only drawback to many who would otherwise take advantage of spending a few weeks in the locality. Two local celestial market gardeners had a very heated and prolonged debate in Main St. the other morning. Some onlookers were auxibusly waiting to see “skin and hair fly.” But they settled their difference without resorting to fisticuffs—or knives.

At a meeting, of the Southland centre of the N.Z. A. U., last evening, T. King of Victoria, who competed last season in the Auckland and West Coast districts, and J, Foster, or G. J. Foster, of Auckland, were disqualified tor life for alleged “ringing-in.” The society intend taking criminal action against the latter.

Mr Spring, senr., of Norbiton road, has grown some prolific rhubarb this season from last year’s seeds. Some of the stalks and leaves are of gigantic proportions. The growth is an evidence of the richness of the soil in that locality —-as these plants were not nourished by means of artificial manure.

For using obscene language in the corridor of the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, while a performance was going on, a young man was fined £lO, in default two months’ imprisonment. Defending counsel protested that that was a serious fine to impose on a young man, but Mr Graham, S, M., would not consider an application to reduce it, remarking that the offence was a serious one and that the public must be protected

In another column the Town Clerk advertises that a list of licensed carriers may be seen at the Borough office during office hours.

We are informed that proceedings are pending against several carters in the borough, who are at present carting without a license for the present year. A word to the wise should b& sufficient.

Foxton people are trying to start a building society. We (Manawatu Farmer) wish the project success. When Devin tried to do the same thing enough shareholders could not be obtained. Archdeacon Walsh, on December 20th, fixed the site upon which the cross in memory of the Rev. Samuel Marsden will be erected at the Bay of Islands. It is a commanding site, and probably the veryspot on which Hpngi set up a pulpit made out of half a canoe. A swarm of bees settled in the postal pillar box at the rope works corner on Tuesday and took charge of the King’s mail. Alter a little trouble the intruders were transferred to another box, not before leaving their post mark on those who sought their removal. A . splendid opportunity is offered to anybody desiring a farm of 257 acres, situated two miles from the railway station at per acre. The land is all flat excepting xo acres and there is 3 7-roomed dwelling and outhouses. All particulars can be obtained from Mr Theo. Easton. See advt. A recent visitor to Foxton on seeing the Post Office with its oldfashioned gables remarked: “Is that one of the old missionary churches?’’ He was surprised to know that he had made a mistake. No, its a shabby, worm-eaten, inadequate departmental building and reflects stagnation in local public life. Upon milking and stripping cows a dairy farmer .of experience says :—•' Cows like to have always the same milker, so let each miker have the same set of cows- If you have a good milker,- one the cows like, never change unless forced to do so, and you will receive from the cow her best possible yield. By no means have another follow a good milker to strip a cow.’’

A teacher in one of the country schools had a class of yotqsg children in mathematics before her. The examples were in addition, and she propounded this question: — “ Now, children, if I lay four eggs on the desk, andjSam,” pointing to a freckled-faced boy at the head of the class, ‘ ‘ should lay three, how many would there be ? ” The bad boy, who was at the foot of the class, had been listening intently, aud shouted out, ‘ ‘ Go on, Sam, take her up. She can’t do it.” Some lads while walking along the river yesterday were greatly alarmed at seeing a large animal lying in the grass at the water’s edge, says the Wanganui Herald. The boys described it as being about 6 feet long, with large eyes, evidently resembling a seal. They were too terrified to make close observations, and quitted the locality with all speed.

The third teetotaler to be elected to the captaincy of the Yale ’Varsity football team is Thomas Leonard Shevlin, who has been chosen to succeed Captain Jim Hogan as the guiding star of the Yale gridiron the coming season. Captain Rafferty, of the 1903 team, was a temperance man, it is said, and Captain Jim Hogan, of the 1904 team, prided himself on never having tasted intoxicants.

A number of people were taken suddenly ill at Kaiapoi a few days ago with symptons of ptomaine poisoning, supposed to have been caused by cream. Medical assistance had to be sent for, and some of the victims are expected to feel the effects of their attack for some time. The . ill effects only developed some hours after the cream had been consumed with fruit or fruit pie. One sufferer, who had reached Dyttelton, had to be brought on shore again from a steamer to the doctor, and sent home.

Of 138 suppliers at the Kaupokonui (Taranaki) factory and branches, 10 received over £IOO and 44 received over apiece in the way ot advance at nd per lb of fat for the month of November. The Kapuni factory is now the largest branch of the Kaupokonui Company’s business in point of output. The suppliers averaged per man for November milk, whilst four of the suppliers drew about ,£6OO between them for the month. The largest individual supplier from one farm of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company delivers 47001bs per day equivalent to about per month.

There is no doubt, says the Hawke’s Fay Herald, that England has a responsibility with regard to Ireland. She has to make up for centuries of oppression. But she has for some time past re- , cognised her responsibilities. The work of the last ten years lias revolutionised the condition, and the prospects of Ireland, and if she were allowed to carry on that work for another ten years in peace and quiet, we believe that the bulk of the Irish pe'ople would be forced to admit that justice, and more than justice had been done to them. The old trick of the orator ot quoting statistics and stories of twenty and thirty years ago, is unfair and disingenuous. For since then an entirely new spirit has been infused into the administration of Irish affairs, and we have little doubt that these are now more efficiently conducted than they could be under an Irish Parliament. And we believe that the conduct of the Irish County Councils during the last few years would satisfy the ta* quirer on that point.

Grass fires are of almost daily occurrence in South Wairarapa. A building site of half an acre recently changed hands at This is striking evidence of the advance of the town. A similar section a few years ago could have been purchased at from £lO to £3O. An eight-roomed house in Main-' street, Palmerston, owned by William Wild and occupied by Mrs Halsall, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The occupants saved nothing. The furniture was insured for in the Alliance office, and the house for A party of carol singers in the Wairarapa are reported to have seen a mirage of Mount Egmont over the Tararuas early on Xmas morning. It is surprising what can sometimes be seen by those who are abroad in the early hours of the morning. A London cable istates that Cardinal Logue’s threat to denounce the Nationalist weeklv newspaper, “The Irish Peasant,” published at Navan, On the ground that its views on education were poisonous and non-Catholic, has compelled the suspension of publication. The editor appeals to Rome. We read of all sorts of devices to cure kicking cows. Like balky horses, kicking cows are usually made so by the men who handle them. The best device we have seen is to put a ring in the floor overhead and with a halter on the cow draw her head up pretty taut. She cannot kick very well in this position, and the beauty of it is she does pot know what it is that prevents her, as she soon comes to know if a strap is buckled about her legs.—“ Hoard’s Dairyman.”

“ The Windsor ” Xmas issue is a sumptuous Double Number. A perusal of its many attractive pages proves that the very high standard ot exeellence associated with this magazine has been admirably maintained. The art section has twenty beautiful pictures by W. Q. Orchardson, R.A. Max Pemberton cothmences a new striking serial, “The Dodestar,” illustrated by Maurice Giffenha,gen. Twenty-six of the famous Vanity Fair cortoons, under the section of “leaders of Religion,’’ introduce General Booth, Pope Deo XIII. r Bishop of Dondon, Rev. R. J. Campbell and others. In all 2XO pages of work by the best writers and finest artists. With its many all round delightful features, no better shilling’s worth is available. It commences another volume — a good opportunity for new subscribers. Money is playing too big a part now in New Zealand and personal character too small a role, says the Wairarapa Times. There is but little to choose between the two political parties now in the field. The Government side perhaps possess the better brains, but as regards personal wealth the Opposition can hold, its own against it. We look to neither side for that righteousness which exalteth a nation, for the uprightness which commands the highest ot good men. Det us hope that when next the people of New Zealand are called upon to elect representative men, they will recognise that character is of greater value to the colony than either brains or money, and that they will give it the preference it ought to possess. A pure demoAacy' may be built up on personal character, but it cannot be secured by either money or brains.

. The Wairarapa Standard chronicles the death of Mrs Thos Kempton, ope of Greytown’s earliest settlers. A sad case of drowning occurred at the Western Spit, Napier, on Tuesday afternoon, says the Herald, the victim being Florance Beatrice Laseelles, aged 3| years, the daughter of Mr M. W. P. Lascelles. The little girl was playing at fishing on the small jetty near the Napier Sailing Club’s shed, when, it is conjectured, she got entangled with her line and fell into the water. The body was recovered and Dr Bernau was summoned, but his efforts to restore animation were Unavailing. Settlers ate crying out for rain in almost every part of the colony. Perhaps, says the Oamaru Mail, the locality which most acutely from drought in a district over which the drought has generally made itself pitifully manifest is the Ellerslie settle--ment. We are assured that over the whole settlement there will not be thresbel out of the crops now standing an average of 15 bushels to the acre. The Loudon Daily Telegraph states that there is lively to be a rise of 2d per lb in butter in the Old Country during the winter just commencing there. The Telegraph attributes the probable rise to the long continued drought experienced not only in Eng-' land, but in Canada, France, apd other European States, stunting the growth of pasturage and shrinking the yield of milk.

The schooner Emma Simms, own ed by Mr E- &• Pilcher, is making a lengthy voyage from Wellington to Onehunga, The vessel is now sixteen days out, blit (according to the Post) no anxiety- is felt by her owner as to safely, as there has been a succession of calms and head winds on the West Coast. The schooner Lizzie Taylor was sixteen days out from Timaru to Greymouth on Thursday, according to a Grey paper. .... Wheat-growers in some parts of the Wairarapa, at any rate, have no reason to complain of the sub-tropical weather. At Waihakeke, the wheat crops of Messrs H. Peters and F. Court are particularly good, and the crop of Mr Peters is above the fences, and the grain in some parts is so heavy that the wheat is lying down with the weight. It is estimated that the crop will yield 5® bushels tQ the acre. liniments cannot remove the real trouble in rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. Ehepmq does, by removing the excess uric acid from the blood. Eheuiio effects a thorough cure 2s 6d and 4s 6d. _ 8