LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3760, 14 March 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Mr Betty is erecting a sevenroomed dwelling in the Avenue. The Slaughtermen’s strike is still unsettled. Palmerston shopkeepers refuse to close their premises on' Easter Saturday. The local school cadets will arrive from the Exhibition on Saturday night. The Rev. R. Coffey, of StMark’s Church, Wellington, is dangerously ill.

Everybody's filter may be purchased by sending a P.O. order for 3s gd to Mr W. Badden, Wellington.

Welcome rain fell throughout this district last night and this morning which is much appreciated by farmers.

Mr Hamer has let a contract to Mr Rimmer for the erection ot a two-storeyed building in Clydestreet.

By the capsizing of a boat on the Sacramento river, in California, twenty-two Greek labourers were drowned.

“Cheap Quilts,” is the heading of Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame’s advertisement to appear in our next issue.

Railway arrangements are advertised in this issue in respect to the spprts to be held at Oroua Bridge on the xßth March. Thos. Phillips, while attempting tojump a gate on horseback, was heavily thrown, his skull being fractured. . His condition is hopeless. '

' Jamfek ’ Odod was sentenced to two mouths’ imprisonment at •Palmerston on Saturday for stealing a bicycle and cornet, the property'of Foxton residents. There is plenty of work for carpenters at present in Foxton, and one or two outside building firms and a firm of architects are ‘‘ on the job” for local buildings to be erected. Mr P. H. Rae-Howard has received a consignment of 30 cases of prime peaches, direct from the orchard at Riwaka (Nelson). To be sold for 6s 6d per case, Cash. Order at once.

The numbers of the various corps comprising the Manawatu Cadets at the Exhibition are as follows : —Feilding 98, Campbellstreet 69, Foxton 53, Terrace End 27, College-street 45. Yesterdey’s N.Z. Times contains a contributed article descriptive of the buildings erected and in course of construction in Foxton, particulars of which have already appeared in these columns. Lord Charles Berestord, interviewed at San Francisco respecting the limitation of armaments, said the people were now arbiters of peace, and should realise that battleships were cheaper than battles.

Railway excursion tickets will be issued from any station to any station on the Wellington-Naoier-New Plymouth section, from Tuesday, 26th inst., to Monday, Ist April, available for return up to and including Wednesday, May Ist.

A woman was convicted for the one hundred and nineth time for drunkeness at Dunedin and sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. It was stated that it was intended to have her committed to the receiving home for drunkards at Christchurch.

Mr 'W. L. Aitkin, bookseller and stationer, of Palmerston N., has the finest set of pictorial postcards ever seen in Palmerston. Seven pence in stamps will purchase an album of six rare pictuies. The latest publications and magazines stocked, including beautiful prize books at reduced prices. At the inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs C. F. Gieson an Miss Kate Campbell, held at Wanganui on Saturday a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. At the spot where the double fatality took place it appears there is a strong eddy and a depth of 20 to 30 feet. Immediately after the two ladies sank efforts were made to bring th,em to the surface, but without success. It was left for Mr Gieson himself to recover the body of his wife. The body of Miss Campbell was subsequently recovered by Constable Isfell.

Flax from patches of land around Manaia is being carted to Hawera for railage and shipment to Flaxton (Foxton), says the Waimate Witness. The land here is considered to be at too high a figure to entertain any idea of cultivating the plant at a profit. Incidentally it may be mentioned that between iqoo and the end of 1905 the annual value of all manufactures in the rope and twine making industry rose from ,£87,833 to £100,753. Phormium fibre was used in 1906 to the extent of 6xß tons, and Manila 363 tons. A thrilling story of the privations of a wrecked ship’s crew is contained in a mail story from Singapore, which has been received in London. According to the story a vessel with a crew of eight Chinamen sailed from Singapore about five weeks ago. The vessel was badly damaged in a terrific gale, and for three days the sailors clung to the rigging to save themselves from being washed overboard. On the third day the vessel went to pieces on a barren, uninhabited island, where there was no food but shellfish. The crew spent three weeks there, enduring great privations and suffering intensely from hunger and thirst. When death seemed certain if they remained, three of them constructed a raft of bamboo, and put to sea to chance being picked up by a passing steamer and bring help to their companions. They drifted five days without seeing a sail, and on the sixth day were picked up more dead than alive by the Nan Sang, of Hong Kong. They could not then give any coherent instructions which would lead to the discovery of the Island on which their companions were cast away. It is feared?that all hope of saving these will have to be abandoned.