LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 2 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A large contingent of local “sports” attended the Feilding races yesterday. An advertiser wants private bojund and residence for tour weefcs. Communications to be leftist ithis office.

The N.Z, Loan and Mercantile Agency Company advertise particulars of Himatangi sale to be held on Bth inst.

Three Japanese training ships are at present visiting Wellington and the residents of the Empire City are treating the “little brown men’’ very hospitably. The visitors arc greatly interested in the New Zealand training ship. A number of picture shows, some of them of a third-rate order, are at present endeavouring to eke out an existence in the country towns of the colony- Country audiences, however, are getting sick of the jerky picture business and stale films which have been in use lor the past five years. ■ The weather for the Easter holidays started bad but ended up gloriously. On Thursday the rain fell in torrents and it was very cold. The afternoon trains on that day, however, were packed with excusionists travelling in all directions. Friday it blew “big guns’’ and on Saturday the weather was perfect, as was also the case yesterday. The scholars of the Methodist Sunday School, attended by their parents and friends, had a most enjoyable time yesterday up the river. As a number of parents were unwilling to'let their children attend the picnic the teachers decided to give the. absent ones an opportunity of enjoying themselves next Thursday afternoon in Mr Read’s paddock, Johnson St.

Some cyclists from Wanganui, who were proceeding to Levin yesterday, had a very lively experience when they arrived at the flood waters which cross the road for nearly two miles this side of the Whirokino bridge. Nothing daunted, however, the/ tucked up their trousers and shouldered their bicycles and waded through the water.

The April number of the Review of Reviews tor Australasia just to hand, contains a very readable article on the New Zealand Exhibition, with some good views. A larger number of pages are devoted to current history in caricature. The whole number is a very fine one, and is crowded with interesting -matter from cover to cover.

Some person or persons removed Mr Johnstone’s large boat from the Foxton-Eevin road yesterday and dragged it a considerable distance away from where it was moored and left it lying in a dangerous position on the road. It is important that this boat should not be interfered with as it is used in flood time to convey passengers and mails and its disappearance may lead to serious inconvenience and delay. When the Prince of Wales accepted the honorary colonelcy of the Eight Horse Regiment of Australia he presented a hundred guinea silver cup for competition in section drill, riding and shooting. At the same time MajorGeneral Hutton presented a fiftyguinea shield for a similar purpose. New South Wales has, says a Sydney cable, secured both prizes, South Australia and Westralia being second and third in each competition.

A correspondent of the Press writes :—My amiable mother has refused to dine since she read clause 3 in the slaughtermen’s conditions ; “No dead sheep to be skinned.’’ Her natural inference is that the sheep are skinned alive. Could you kindly explain this appalling stipulation. The editor confesses that the clause is a little ambiguous as it stands, but the refeience, of course, is to sheep which die from other causes than the slaughterman’s knife.

On Saturday afternoon a number of residents who have had business dealings with Mr S. Alcorn (local manager for Messrs Smale and Hay) presented him with a smoker’s cabinet together with a letter expressing their regret at his departure from Foxton and wishing him prosperity in his future endeavours. Mr Alcorn feelingly replied, and referred to the good fellowship that had existed between those present and himself and thanked them heartily for their kindly wishes. An adjournment was made to Mr Gray’s Hotel, where Mr Alcorn’s health was enthusiastically drunk.

It is stated by the Rangitikei Advocate that some residents_ of Feilding have secured the raining rights of over 80 acres of land about one and a half miles from town, for a deposit of lignite. The existence of lignite in the vicinity has been known for at least twenty years, for it outcrops in different places, but it has been judged, on account of its inferior quality and the thinness of the seam, that it was entirely valueless, at any rate while firewood could be obtained fairly cheap, The attention of the syndicate was drawn to it by one of the number striking the seam in a well. He dug through 3ft of it only, and then having a good flow of water, decided to stop sinking for fear it he passed through the seam he would lose the water. Rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago arc caused by excess uric acid poison in the blood which deposits in the muscles and joints. Rheusio quickly cures. 2s6dand4s6d. 1

Mr P. H. Rae-Howard has a few cases of peaches left which must be sold at 5s 6d per case.

Constable Dickson, of Foxton, won the Cumberland wrestling at the Palmerston sports yesterday. A numerously signed petition has been presented to Mayor Gower, asking him to continue in office for another year. Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, notifies the public that she has opened up her winter goods. The latest in all lines.

Owing to the flooded state of the swamp at Moutoa, the flaxcutting match between Robinson and Harper did not take place last Saturday. The match will eventuate as soon as circumstances permit. Robinson has lodged his deposit and is anxious that the match shall not lapse. The Rev. R. Young, one time Vicar of All Saints, has been on a brief visit to Foxton. He left for Carterton to-day. BROUGHT TO BAY Arc those enemies of civilisation, indigestion and dyspepsia, when Dr Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules ai’e employed. 2s Gd per tin. Obtainable from E. Healey, chemist,