LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3745, 31 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The building trade is still very brisk in Foxton.

Pahiatua possesses 29 empty dwellings. Pity a few of them could not be transferred to Foxton.

Marton gasworks showed a profit of £2l 6s 8d for the month of December.

Two slight shocks of earthquake were felt throughout this district yesterday morning. Holiday excursions for the Feilding Show are advertised in this issue.

We have been shown the plans of a two-storied building which Mr Hamer intends to erect at an early date in Clyde street.

The. Secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce has been “hitting up” defaulting members who are backward with their subscriptions. j

A youth is advertised for, to learu the plumbing.

The monthly meeting of the local Masonic Lodge will be held to-morrow night.

A church parade of the local Oddfellows Lodge will take place next Sunday week.

Electroplate and jewellery suitable for wedding or birthday gifts are being offered retail at wholesale prices, cartage free, by Thomas Crouch, manufacturing jeweller, Cuba street, Wellington.

The great question now raging, ,l What shall we do with our boys ?” has been solved by a butcher’s advertisement, which runs as follow's : “ Wanted a respectable boy for meat sausages. ’ ’

In the House of Keys (Isle of Man) a bill has been introduced proposing to constitute a Government Board, with power to acquire and conduct licensed houses, and profits to be devoted to public purposes.

“ In my opinion the system of rating on unimproved value has not had the effect of cheapening the price of laud,” said the Mayor of Petone (Wellington) the other evening at a meeting of the Borough Council. We have been requested by the postal authorities to draw attention to the fact that all correspondence for government departments or officers should be stamped- Franking correspondence has been abolished and letters to government officers not stamped are delayed in transit, and in some cases not delivered.

lii conversation with a local land agent our representative was informed that he had a number of clients who were willing to buy building allotments but who positively refused to pay the rediculously high prices asked. The present values are in possession of the Government valuator and there will be some growling when the valuation list has been revised.

A meeting of ladies was held in the Public Hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the advisability of holding a bazaar to raise funds for the local band. Those present formed themselves into a committee to generally organise and carry out the bazaar. The committee will meet again in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Feb. 13th,

B. G. Gower and 140 others of Moutoa, petitioned to have the Moutoa Bend included in the Manawatu Electorate. The request was considered by the Commission and a reply has been received from the Chairman of the North Island Representation Commission regretting that it was found that it could not be given effect to, 1 ‘ as such an alteration would materially effect other districts. ’ ’

During a discussion at the University Senate on the question of exemption from attendance at lectures, the Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout) stated that the young colonials now did not work anything like as hard as those of forty years ago. “You have only got to go to the theatre to see that, ’ ’ he added, “ and then look at the number of young men and women at the Exhibition in the evening.”

The following time-table (says a contemporary) should be preserved by every mother, as it is often a source ot the greatest anxiety to know whether or not a child will develop a disease after having been exposed to it. Chicken pox symptoms usually appear on the fourteenth day, diphtheria second day, measles fourteenth day, mumps nineteenth day, scarlet fever fourth day, small-pox twelfth day, typhoid fever twenty-first day, whooping cough fourteenth day.

Nothing is more gratifying to me, as a journalist, (says London “ Truth ”), than the extent and variety ;of the knowledge which the public at large attributes to people of my humble profession. During the last week or two I have been asked to recommend a matrimonial agenc}*- and a cure for kidney disease, to name the winner of next year’s Derby, to settle a dispute at bridge, and to say whether two partners who have not a trump between them can both count chicane. I have also had to answer about fifty inquiries respecting advertisements in the daily papers ; to explain what relation the German Emperor is to the King of Norway ; to inform somebody what salary the Duke of Manchester receives as Master of the Horse, and on what dates he gets his cheques ; to advise a lady, who having ordered a bootmaker to make her a pair of slippers which she had. worked for her husband, found that they were too tight when sent home, and did not know what to do; and to calculate whether when a pack ot cards is dealt into four hands it is odds on or odds against one hand containing only one card or no card of a single suit. These are of course nothing to the questions sometimes propounded ; I mention them as examples of the variety rather than the profoundly of the knowledge expected of editors. Sometimes I wonder whether the interrogators do it for a lark, and have bets privately as to whether they will bowl the editor out. Sometimes I wonder how anybody would know anything if it were not for journalists.

The wealth of United States, according to the latest census returns, amounts to £25,376,280,000, an increase since 1900 of £600,000,000.

A most enjoyable time was spent at the local tennis court yesterday. A chimney sweep was charged at the Bltham Court recently with allowing a chimney in his house to catch fire.

The colony’s revenue in 1897 ten years ago was ,£4,798,708. It is confidently expected this year to reach the sum of 276,000. Mr R. T. Betty notifies that he makes a speciality in the boot and shoe repairing line. He has recently imported a special machine for sole-pressing purposes. A light bay mare branded “ A ” on neck, small white star, on forehead, a little white on each hind foot, is advertised for. The Commissioner of Crown Bands notifies that sections 7 and 8, block VII. Pohangina, about 15 miles from Ashurst, will be open for application on optional systems on and after the 27th February. See advt.

The following players will represent the Debaters in their match against Moutoa at the Park on Saturday : Messrs Stiles (capt), Woods, Betty, Chisholm, Rough, Dunn, Southern, Shields, Reeves, Clark, McGonagle. Emer Wanklyn.

Astounding resolution passed by the Stratford County Council: — ‘ ‘ That this Council, in view of the continual spread of noxious weeds in the county, respectfully recommends the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture to instruct the Noxious Weeds Inspectors to administer the law more stringently. ’ ’ Mrs Martha Hunt, of Kansas, who is 105 years of age, has applied to the courts for a divorce. She says she is tired of bearing the name of her husband whom she turned out when he was ninetyseven. The man is her third husband, but she informed an officer of the court that she has no intention of re-marrying. At the Wanganui district meeting of Oddfellows held at Hunterville, complimentary references were made to the Foxton Bodge, which opened with a membership of 51 —a record for New Zealand. The work of Secretary Gardner was also very favourably commented on. The next District Meeting is to be held at Foxton,

A fatal accident of. a most peculiar nature is reported from Cambridge. A little boy named Arthur Young, a child three years of age, was playing at leap frog with his young sister. In some manner that has' not been clearly explained, he cut a vein in his mouth. Dr Roberts did everything that was possible to stop the wound, but the unfortunate boy gradually sank, and really died, some days after the accident, from collapse, brought about by loss of blood.

A New York correspondent cables—Mr John P. Holland, the submarine-boat inventor states that he is designing a craft which should be a great factor in the movement for international peace. The craft is designed not to destroy warships, but to disable them without loss of life. “ I believe the boat will 'startle the world,” declares the inventor.

The superintendant of the pauper asylum at Portland, Oregon, Mr D. D. Jackson, relined a bath tub with a preparation of enamel purchased at a local shop. The next day Mr Jackson took a warm bath, and while reclining comfortably in the tub went to sleep. On awaking some minutes later he found that his hair, back and limbs were securely glued to the tub. He summoned assistance and after great difficulty and still greater pain Mr Jackson was prised loose and put to bed. He had used the wrong kind of enamel, and when the doctors have finished with him he intends relining the tub under the supervision of an expert. The organ at All Saints’ Church will be dedicated at n o’clock on Sunday morning. Mr Chas. England is coming down from his new home at Pakihikura to play for the services on the opening day. The total cost of the instru* ment is .£242. Of this was paid to the English builders and was expended in freight, duty and other charges, together with erection in the Church. The churchwardens still require a sum of ,£23 to complete the payments. They will be glad to receive further donations for the purpose. Worshippers should bear in mind that the offertories for the opening day —Sunday— will be for the organ fund. At the last meeting of the Vestry it was decided to offer the old American organ for sale for £lO.

A Melbourne cable states that Dr. Paton, the veteran New Hebrides missionary, is dead. At the Wanganui Police Court yesterday morning, William Burns was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, Wanganui, on a charge of assaulting Daniel Griffin with intent to rob. To cure rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago you must treat the blood. The best remedy is Eheujio, which has cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at 2s 6d and 4s 6d. Give it a fair trial. 12