LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3747, 5 February 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Manawatu County Council call tenders for the erection of a roadman’s cottage at Himatangi. The Manawatu County Council, invite tenders for supply and delivery of 100 yards of metal on Whirokino road. Welcome rains continue to fall throughout this district and will replenish the tank supply so badly needed by residents.

The members of the local Oddfellows lodge will hold a church parade next Sunday evening. The brethren will assemble in the lodge room at 6 p.ra. Special excursion tickets from Foxton and other centres to the Exhibition will be issued from nth February available for return till February 19 th inclusive. See advt.

In answer to an offer by the manager ot the Newburgh Theatre, near Westpoint, and expenses to any couple who would go before the audience and be married, a young man and woman appeared, with witness and clergyman, went on the stage, and in the presence ot a crowded audience went through the ceremony. As a result of the squabble between two citizens well-known in their respective professions, which took place in one of our main streets last Friday evening (says the Dunedin Star;, one has summoned the other, who is his brother-in-law, for assault, and will also ask the magistrate to bind his alleged assailant over tokeep the peace. The matter will come on for hearing in the Police Court. “ The following story was told me by the owner of the horse, so I can vouch for the truth of it,” premises the Auckland Star’s Raurimu correspondent. ‘‘The morning being wet, the owner of this sagacious quadruped lay in bed after the usual hour at which he feeds his mare. Outside his tent are two boxes, in one of which forget me-uots are growing, and in the other pansies. The mare waited patiently for about an hour, and then pushed her head through the flap of the tent. In her mouth was a bunch of forget-me-nots.” An interesting contest is in progress among the readers of the “ Petit Parisien ’’.to decide by vote who is the greatest man in the modern history of France (says a Paris correspondent). At present Pastuer, with 215,725 votes, heads the list. Victor Hugo is second, Gambetta third, and Napoleon fourth. Much public interest is taken .in the contest, for, owing to the immense circulation of the Petit Parisien, the result will give a very fair idea of tue opinion of the majority of Frenchmen as to France’s greatest man. The Scot is rarely found guilty of perpetrating a distinctly Irish bull. At the New Zealand Athletic Union’s sports held at the Exhibition ground on Saturdaj', however, the genial Mr ” Kiltie” Smith, of Pahiatua, director of the gathering, had greatness of this description thrust upon him. A wrestling event was in progress and a number of interested officials within the ring were obscuring the view of the more distant public outside. As in duty bound, Mr Smith grappled with the circumstance, and commanded, “Now then, you gentlemen, if you want to stand up, you will have to sit down.”

Your husband wants new trousers, you can get them at the “ Economic ” from 5s 6d per pair.*

Tenders are called by the Wanganui Education Board for the erection of a school residence at Foxton. Plans and specifications may be seen at the schoolmaster’s residence, Foxton. James and Annie Godfrey, man and wife, were fined at Willesden for using bad language. Only having sufficient money between them to pay one fine, the wife at once said All right Jim. I’ll do' the time with a good heart, like a good wife should. So long, my old dear, and look after the kiddie until I come out.

Thus the Taihape “ News The plenitude of trout in the Hautapu may be realised by the fact that a local resident, fishing between Taihape and Mataroa, has secured such splendid catches this season that he has erected a smoke-house, an I is smoking all his surplus fish for consumption in the winter.

It the tired, men, and women, too, who brace themselves up on beer could only be induced to try hot milk, they would never again try such unwholesome stimulants. It must be heated as hot as it can be sipped, and although it will be somewhat less acceptable to the palate on account of the fact that when heated it loses its sweetness, still the promptness with which its cordial influence will be felt will be appreciated by anyone willing to be convinced. Statistics prove that men and women who do not drink do more work and endure more hardships than those who use spirituous liquor.

When is a bull not a bull ? Marie Corelli, in her last work, “ The Treasure of Heaven,” would have us believe that she has seen a Scotch herdsman driving Highland “bull heifers” to pasture. As an artist able to paint word pictures the delighted Marie is unrivalled, but as a judge of cattle she is about on a par with the Wellington “sportsman” who bought a racing gelding for stud purposes. All previous claims of the, unique qualifications possessed by the kings of the herd are excelled, however, by an advertisement which appeared in an Auckland paper on January 18, as follows : —For Sale—Pedigree Jersey bull, in full milk, with or without bull calf dropped 22nd ult.—Apply— When the story of the robbery on the Navua comes to be told in full, it will be found that it was a carefully planned crime in which a number of men were concerned. It is also probable that the perpetrators would have remained undiscovered but for the fact that differences of opinion arose among them regarding the division of the booty. When thieves fall out the police usually light upon a clue, and that? is what is believed to have happened in this case. The two men arrested here in connection with the robbery are said to have been implicated in confessions made to the Sydney police. One of them seems to have had a premonition of what was likely to occur, for when he read the first arrest made in Sydney, it is alleged he proceeded to the residence of the second man, and buried in sovereigns under the house. The treasure, however, has been discovered by the police, and it is only reasonable to assume that they were guided to the spot by ‘ ‘ information received. ’ ’

An Auckland detective arrested a dog on Saturday, apparently on a charge of inciting and assisting an officer to resist arrest. It appears that a constable was endeavouring to arrest a man who gave considerable trouble and a nicely dressed detective came to the assistance of the man in blue, possessing possibly some Irish blood, the dog into the scrap, and, siding with the minority, settled himself to work, on the calf of the detective’s leg The man, at that moment submitted to arerst, and the detective, shaking the dog from his leg, chased and captured it- It was a most humble and penitent dog that was to be seen patrolling inside four high fences at the police barracks. The question is, was this merley a spirited noble specimen of the canine race, or was it a welltrained mongrel of a local Bill Sykes ? The appearance of the owner is very much awaited by the police. It is understood bail will be fixed at the price of a new pair of trouers. —“ Star.”

Oitr representative, in company with two local residents paid a visit to the gipsy tent last night. Several of these tawny visaged nomads made their appearance in town yesterday and pitched their moving tent next to the Public Hall. When the tent was approached a feminine voice called softly : “ Come on ! Me read you hand; me cross you hand with silver! You no frighten ? Come on !” Thus abjured the inquisitive ones pushed aside a flap of canvas, and by the light of one candle gazed upon not an unpleasant looking woman, with boots off, squatting on the ground smoking a queer-looking pipe; beside her squatted a heavylooking fat-faced male, also smoking. In a large bed the heads of two or three children appeared, sleeping peacefully. The woman took hold of one of the visitor’s hands, but first of all requested silver to cross the palm ‘ ‘ for luck.” The silver having passed into the hands of the fortune-teller, she “fired off” some extraordinary statements, which lasted for about a minute. These people have been hunted out of every town visited. Senior Constable Woods gave them their marching orders last night, ' and they left for fresh fields by this morning’s train. For nervous debility and hysteria— WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.

Mrs Oliver, late of Palmerston North, notifies that she has opened a private boarding house in Union St. Terms, 18s per week, including washing and mending.

Mr W. P. Snell notifies that his stock of drapery, clothing, etc must be sold and to effect this all goods will be sold at half prices. Those desiring bargains should lose no time in paying him a visit at Sutherland and Rough’s buildings.

The “ Timaru Herald” states that a North Island dealer has been operating in South Canterbury, and has purchased several thousand two-tboth ewes, to be shipped north and there fattened. The price he had to pay would not, however, leave a large margin, and does not necessarily indicate more extensive “deals” of the same nature. The owner, in geting rid of his flock for lack of pasture, staled that the forced sale meant a straight-out loss to him of Cable advice has been received by the Minister for Education of the death of his father, Mr Matthew Eowlds, aged 101, at Kilmarnock. Death was the result of an accident, which caused a broken thigh. Henry Stratton Izard, solicitor, of Greytown, who pleaded guilty at Masterton to four charges of misappropriating trust money amounting to £18,812 and breaches of trust, was on Saturday morning sentenced by Mr Justice Cooper to five years’ imprisonment in the Terrace gaol, with hard labour.

Alexander Wait Purvis, formerly secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees and master of the Ohiro Home, who pleaded guilty to twelve charges of theft and false pretences involving a sum of £136 12s 2d, came up for sentence at the Supreme Court on Saturday morning before Mr Justice Cooper and was sentenced to twelve mouths hard labour.

The suggestion of trial marriages made recently in a book by Mrs Elsie Parsons is, the “ Chronicle” New York correspondent says, about to be adopted by Mrs Herbert Rider-Kclsey. a well-known singer in that city. She is engaged to be married, and has drawn up an agreement with her future husband to try wedded life for one year, at the end of which either may sue for divorce without opposition from the other member of the agreement, or they may decide to continue the experiment. Cardinal Merry del Yal is the first Cardinal to indulge in golf which he plays twice weekly over a private course in the grounds of the Villa DoriaPamphill. His villeggiatura is spent at the Papal summer'palace of Castel Gandolfo, which the Italian Govern, meat has connected with the Vatican by telephone for the greater conven . ience of the Cardinal. He is an ad vocate of all modern labour-saving im. provements, and has introduced telephones, elevators, electric lights, and type-writers into the Vatican. Such in brief, is the Papal Secretary of State as the world knows him.

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