LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3761, 16 March 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

To-morrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Mr ■.-William C. Nation, of Devin, has. been registered as an officiating minister of the Spiritualists. 7 Australasian Squadron definitely leaves Sydney for New Zealand waters on April 16th.

:; In another column Cr Shadbolt notifies that he is a candidate for the Mayoralty; -■ We understand that Whyte’s Hotel, recently , purchased by Messrs Stevens, Easton and Austin, has again changed hands. It is more than probable that the “Ora” flaxmill at Foxton, owned by Mr Jupp, will shortly change hands.

- The latest addition to the telephone is Mr P. H. Rae-Howard, No. 53. Mr P. Hennessy has been elected Chairman of Directors of the Foxton Co-operative Building Society.

The average attendance at the local State School for the week ending yesterday, was 256'2-, absentees 57 ’8 , roll number 288. Raujitsinhji has been installed as Jam of Nawanagar, with great ceremony. He promised the British agent that he would “ play the game. ” An emergency meeting of the local Masonic Lodge was held last night. Wor. Bro. Fletcher, Grand District Superintendent, was present.

The death is announced at Wairoa of the Rev. W. Lambert, aged 74. He was recently vicar of Ormondville, and had held various positions in the Church in different parts of the colony. Alex. Nicol, one of the oldest settlers in the Horokiwi Valley, was found dead in bed last night. ! Heart trouble is supposed to be the cause of death.

The Carrington Estate, belonging to the beneficiaries under the will of the late Mr W. Booth, of Carterton, is to be acquired by the Government for closer settlement purposes. The area of the estate is 7500 acres, and the price offered is said to be £9 5s per acre.

The Directors of the Manawatu Railway Company have decided to recommend a dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year, making 7 per cent, for the year.

We direct attention to the fact that on Monday 18th inst,, the .usual 9 a.m. and 5. 35 p.m. train ; Palmerston to Foxton will stop for ..passengers, if required, at Pyke’s crossing. This is for the convenience of those attending the Oroua Sports. Palmerston North Victoria House notify ladies in another column of their ability to supply furs, muffs, and all necessary seasonable articles at cheap rates. They make a speciality of furs, and as they are widely known as reliable dealers, a visit of inspection "is certainly worth while. As showing the advantages of a good season a bee farmer a few miles from Palmerston will be able , tq gather 1 from 20 to 25 tons of honey this season, while last year,' on account of the Inclement weather, he was only‘able to get a small quantity. Beekeeping - .is not followed up alonglthis coast as it should be. ■ -^Farmer* The Rev. Richard Coffey, vicar of St. Mark’s parish, Wellington, Who had been seriously ill for some days, died on Thursday afternoon. •,The deceased was born in Cork, "Ireland, in 1836, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He landed at Port Chalmers in the ship Chili in 1868, and was appointed to the charge of Queenstown/ Lake Wakatipu, where he remained until 1872, in which year he was transferred to Milton. He continued his spiritual ministrations there for nearly four } 7 ears, when (in 1876) he was appointed vicar of St. Mark’s, Wellington. The seventh sewing concert was given in the State School yesterday afternoon and the following programme was gone through Very nicely indeed by the young performers. The children are trained by Miss Adams and do great credit to their teacher Song, “Pretty Tond Lilies” P. Symons; Recitatation, “My Dolly” D. Small; Solo, “ Une Peti Fleua ” G. Neylon; Song, “ Worst Girl In School ” F, Osbsldstone ; Song, “ Only a Band of Gold ” M. King ; Song, “ In the Hazel Dell ” G. Gavey ; Recitation, “Where are you going, my Pretty Maid” E. McCarthy; Song, “Rag Doll” M. King; Song, “My Dream ”P. Symons.

The cadets will arrive home by to-night’s train. A girl is advertised for to assist in light housework. Comfortable home.

Two cases of Enteric fever from Oroua Bridge have been treated in the District Hospital at Palmerston.

Cabinet has dedcied to take the necessary steps to enforce payment of fines inflicted by the Arbitration Court on the Canterbury slaughtermen for striking. Mr Gardiner, Government land valuator, was busy re-valuing land in the Borough yesterday. The re-valuations show a marked increase.

That there’s money in beer may be gleaned from the fact that in a Supreme Court case at Palmerston recently a publican stated that profits from his hotel annually were

A farmer in the Hawera Court during the hearing of a case was asked how long the milking life of the average cow was. He replied 12 years, and said that after that it would not be wise to milk a cow. It would be better to fatten her—for beef.

The sneak thief is still busy at work in the town and the police are waiting an opportunity to make .an example; A, certain individual who is breaking,down a fence and using it for. firewood, at the rear of a Main St. , shop will also do well to take a timely warning. At the Methodist Conference, at Melbourne, a proposal that church members be prohibited from attending balls or theatrical entertainments, or allowing their children to. attend dancing classes, met with strong opposition. Eventually it was decided to proceed with the next business. We understand that the local post office living rooms are unfit . for habitation. We suggest that •the department allow the local postmaster to rent a house until the new offices are erected, whenever that will be.

The Health Officer has reported that the sanitary arrangements at the public schools in certain parts of the Manawatu County were very primitive, and suggested the improvements he thought should be given effect to. The value of the Herald as an advertising medium was again proved last issue. Mr Thos. Rimmer picked up a purse containing a sum of money just before we went to press. Within a few minutes after the boys had gone on their rounds, the owner called and claimed the purse. Mr W. Pegden, Palmerston North furniture dealer, gives special notice in another column that he is at present holding a big clearing sale of furniture at reduced prices, so those in search of bargains could not do better than give him a call, and satisfaction is guaranteed. The Manawatu County Council tramway manager reported at Wednesday’s meeting that the credit balance for the month was Details were appended Of work carried out below the Rcngotea siding, and it was recommended that 300 new sleepers be procured. It was also recommended that the present gang be kept on for six months effecting necessary repairs, Bridges were also being repaired as required. It was decided to obtain necessary sleepers. The Manawatu County Council have decided to pay a visit of inspection along the full course of the tramway line. During the visit a special meeting will be held, at which details as to the future management of the line will be decided upon, this course being rendered necessary owing to the resignation of Mr Purnell, the present tramway manager. At Wednesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council, the Health Officer reported that complaints made with regard to a nuisance at the Oroua Downs Creamery were quite justified. The nuisance was caused by stagnation owing to defective draniage. There was also a shortage of water at the creamery > and he recommended that earthenware pipes be laid and an artesian well bored, i

The late prophet Dowie seems to have been a man possessed by both an angel and a devil. Up to a certain point the angel may have held the reins arid assisted hiiri to found a new city arid a riew social order. Then the devil got the upper hand and Dowie was driven out from his own Zion and became an outcast irom the society which he had organised. How far he was responsible for both his successes and his failures is a mere matter of .conjecture. Zion city still lives as a monument to his strenuous endeavour and may, in a way, exercise a beneficial influence on humanity.—Exchange. These are some of the points that were received with marked applause in Dr Dindo Ferguson’s speech at the Medical Conference at Dunedin: “There are some chidldrenwho ought to be fed up and massaged instead of being stuffed with free education ” ; “ more youngsters go down from overreading than ' from under-reading, and the long hours do- far more to stop them and muddle them in their work than want of sufficient application”; “ these confounded musical examinations are the curse of the colonv. ”

Visitors to Palmerston North should not go past the Cafe de Paris Hotel in search of good accommodation or liquors. This well-conducted hotel is now under the able management of Mrs Adams, late of Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton., We direct our readers’ attention to the advertisement in another column.

All sufferers from lung or throat troubles should, not lose hope- until they make trial of Hearne’s famous Bronchitis Cure. We direct attention to the advertisement on the fourth page, In the local Methodist Church the services to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. Morning subject, “ The Race and its Hindrances.” Evening subject, “Keeping up Appearances,” when the choir will render an anthem.

Open all doors and windows and let the winds blow through ■ the house for an hour and a-half each day, and the chances of any of the family taking influenza are greatly reduced, writes one who claims to know something about the disease.

A serious accident befell a stevedore named Henry Tobin, engaged on the Turakina whilst unloading cargo from London at Wellington last night. Tobin leant over to clear the cargo hook and fell headlong to the bottom of the hold, a distance of about 35ft. His injuries were found to include a severe scalp wound, slight concussion of the brain, a broken collar tone and a contused spine. He lies in a precarious condition. At the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday, William Henry Clayton admitted having obtained goods by means of a valueless cheque. The prisoner said he had lived as a respectable citizen until recently. Last month he had been advised to take whisky as a cure for pneumonia. Through taking this advice, he had cultivated the drinking habit, and had thus come to his present pass. Sentence was deferred for a week to give Clayton an opportunity to refund the money wrongly obtained. In, the London Daily Telegraph recently the following appeared : “ A new use has, according to the Musical Journal, been discovered for the phonograph. A young lady in Australia,, believing that she had a good voice, was anxious to come to London to compete for a scholarship. The inspiration seized her to sing into a phonograph and send fhe record to a well-known teacher of singing over here, asking his advice. She did so, and, as a result of a favourable verdict, the lady came to this country, and was one of the two successful candidates out of 190 competitors. Congratulations to the lady, the professor arid the phonograph. ” The lady is Miss Peach, of Sydney, the anecdote is almost exactly accurate, and the scholarship is now running at the Royal College, London, says the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The agonising pain, stiffness, and soreness of the joints and muscles, felt by sufferers from rheumatism, is quickly removed by Rheumo. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6 per bottle. Try it. 16

Furnish your home right through with Watchorn Stiles and Co.’s Linoleums, Damasks, Curtains, sheetings at Bargain prices.* Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a special line of lace curtains at is i id per pair, see them.*