LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 6 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Mr P. Hennessy returned from a trip to the Exhibition yesterday.

We are informed that Dr Mandl will shortly remove into Messrs Levin and Co.’s central premises*in Main,St. Mrs W. S. Stewart met with a very painful accident last evening. She upset some boiling water over her foot.

The football season opens in Foxton to-day. A practice is being held at the race course this afternoon.

The Band Bazaar and Village Fair promises to be a pronounced succes next week. It will last for three days. A neat booklet containing particulars and advertisements has just been published.

Mr Hall and his assistant, who were severely burnt about the face, neck and arras through an explosion of the gas generator at White’s Hotel, are progressing rapidly towards recovery.

Cheap excursion tickets will be issued to Christchurch from Foxton, by morning train on Wednesday next, 10th inst. All particulars may be obtained by applying to the local stationmaster. All who intend to- visit the Exhibition should take advantage of this excursion.

The Rev. Mr Aitkin, who ar" rived in Foxton with Mrs Aitkin and family on Thursday evening, has taken up his residence in the local manse, and will conduct his first service in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow morning, and , preach in the out districts in the afternoon and evening. The Committee of the Borough Brass Band met last night, and finally arranged all particulars in connection with the Bazaar. Bandsmen are to meet in the practice room at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday, and march to the Hall. The Bazaar will be officially opened at 3 p.m. An attractive programme has been printed, and will be circulated through the town and district. An advertisement appears elsewhere calling the attention of all who promised to contribute to the various stalls. Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., who has been visiting Westland, found that Kumara, that was once uproariously prosperous, has fallen on sad days. As instancing the decline of the town, he said that during his visit to the coast, a firstclass hotel, freehold, was sold, lock, stock and barrel, as a going concern, for /120, Quite near by a quarter-acre section, with a fiveroomed cottage, was gladly sold for

A North west Canadian farmer writes :— ‘ ‘ Dear Sir, —If you see any women that want to get married, send them this way. I want a wife myself and a good many more.” At the Wesleyan Church Rongotea, on Tuesday, Miss Mary Cook, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Wallace Cook, was united to Mr W. Satherly, ofFoi.ton, the Rev. J. G. W. Ellis performed the ceremony. Mr J. W. Coffey, who is seventy;: years of age, and who for years travelled with Barnum’s show as the “living skeleton,” is now starving at Burlington, New Jersey.

A shameful crime was discovered at a mill at Great Harwood, near Blackburn, England. During the night some one entered the premises through the roof, and cut the beams of 800 looms in the weaving shed, doing damage to the extent of and throwing more than 200 people out of work for several days. At a meeting of the board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr Harold Beauchamp (Wellington) was elected chairman. Mr Beauchamp has been a director for eight years, and acting-chairman for ten months in 1905.

A footless race of men is said to have been discovered in New Guinea. They live in the midst of lakes, moving about on little canoes, and possessing a few cabins built on wood piles. Their feet are so undeveloped as to be practically useless for walking. During the hearing of a case at Auckland on Monday, a witness said that when suggested to a testator that he should get a lawyer to draw a codicil to a will, the reply was rather an unconventional one. Pressed by counsel for the exact words, the witness said they were, “I cannot trust these — thieves of lawyers.” His Honor judge Cooper remarked that they would not take that down. The strike of colliers at Port Said, ?t the Mediterranean entrance of the Suez Canal, is rather an awkward thing for steamers wishing to coal there, and the Australian line s in particular, although there is hope for a speedy settlement in the fact that the colliers are not organised. Port Said has a population of 7000, and owes its existence to the business engendered by the opening of the Suez Canal. The man who ran the Wild West Show in Feilding during the last few days mysteriously disappeared on Wednesday, leaving behind him the tent, horses, and sundry articles, as well as five members of his staff, to whom he owed varying amounts as wages. The stranded staff, who already had liens on some of the horses in lieu of wages, decided to seize everything which had been left, considering they had the first claim.—Star.

Dr Mason is of opinion that when the various Hospital Boards have fixed up shelters, no consumptive case capable of being treated will lack room, Wellington has the Otaki Sanatorium and the Victoria Hospital, Nelson, Taranaki, Southland and other places have made provisions tor consumptives. Christchurch has laid the foundation stone of a hospital, and Auckland has this matter under consideration.

An exchange reports that at the Tai Rawhiti Land Board the other day a native claimed an interest in a block of land. His claim was proved and it was a sixth of a quarter of an acre, about enough land to put a billiard table on. The native whose claim was next to be heard was very scornful at so much time being spent over this “bit of property.” “Not enough to bury him in,” heejected, “ less you put him up and down, all the same the strainer post.” A serious case, in which poison was apparently wilfully administered with deadly effect to a horse, has just occurred in Hamilton. At the request of a young man a local chemist provided a harmless drench for a thoroughbred horse, valued at about £3O. Soon after the drench was administered the animal died in great agony, and investigation proved that death was due to arsenical poisoning. The police are busily engaged making inquiries with reference to some suspicious circumstances, and some important developments are expected in the course of a few days. The Rev. Rodney Swope, rector of the Vanderbilt church at Ashville, said the other night in the course of an address;— “Subtle attacks are most wounding. You have heard about the clergyman and his aged parishoner? “The parishoner said that he thought clergymen should be better paid. ‘‘ I am pleased to hear you say that, Brother Brown, ” exclaimed the clergyman, beaming with goodwill and happinese. ‘lt rejoices my heart to hear you say that. ’ “Yes,’ resumed the parishoher, thoughtfully ; ‘we’d get a better class of men then. ’ ’

The Vicar of St. John’s Anglican Church, Feilding, is seemingly, like - Abraham, rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold, and manservants and maidservants, says the Star. As advertised, the money put in the collection plates at the religous services on Easter Sunday was a present for the Vicar. After the money had been collected on Sunday evening, the wardens handed the plates to the Vicar in the usual way, and while he held them in his hands, the choir and congregation sang—“We give Thee but Thine Own, Whate’er the Gift may Be. All that we have is Thine alone.”

For Bronchial Coughs take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. l/6'and 2/6

Mr W. Carter has two or three miles of drain cleaning to let. Particulars on application. Notice is given in another column that the partnership existing between Messrs Adsett and Baigent has been dissolved. Dunedin is the first city in the Australasian colonies to undertake the establishment of winter gardens for the cultivation of tropical and sub-tropical plants and trees, and a building for the purpose will cost ,£II,OOO. The eleventh annual No-License Convention of delegates representing the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki provincial districts was opened on Monday, at Palmerston. The Convention decided to exclude the Press representatives and „to supply its own report of the proceedings.

“Was the deceased in the habit of taking drugs ?” said the' coroner to a witness at the Islington Coronet’s Court recently. “ Very much,” was the reply; but when the coroner asked what kind of drugs, the witness explained, “I thought you said * grub.’ ” Miss Alice Perry, the first lady in Ireland who has qualified as an engineer, has been appointed country surveyor of Galway, in succession to her father, thelate Mr James Perry,. The appointment becomes permanent next month. The post was formerly worth ,£IOOO a year, but this has now been reduced to .£SOO.

The traffic returns on the Wellington - Napier - New Plymouth section of railway during the fourweekly period ending March 2nd, amounted to .£66,901, against .£59,052 for the corresponding period of 1906. Passenger traffic accounted for ,£24,957, as compared with .£21,296 for the same period last year.

At the inquest at Wellington with regard to the death of a man named Daniel McKay, whose body was found floating in the Wellington harbour on Wednesday, it'appeared that the deceased was of intemperate habits. There was no evidence as to how the deceased fell into the water, and the the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the body was found drowned.

The last “ Gazette ” contains the names of the additional Justices of the Peace, amongst them are the following : —Messrs James Bull, Hunterville; G. Davey, Taranaki; T. A.Duncau, Hunterville; F. W. Frankland, Foxton ; W. B. Fussel. Taranaki; W. Greenhow, Oroua ; C. A. Griffiths, Wellington; P. J. Hennessy, Foxton; W. W. Kerr, Ohakune; R. Lloyd, Palmerston North; A. Carrington Marsh, Pahiatua ; H. S. Mason, Wairarapa South ; J. McLeavy, Horowhenua ; G. M. Rawson, Bunnythorpe; W. Rogers, Stratford ; F. W. Standish, Taranaki; F. F. Tucker, Pongaroa; T. H. Windley, Te Horo ; G, N. Wood, Shannon.

“ Professor Rutherford is among New Zealanders who have distinguished themselves here. On leaving the New Zealand University he went to Cambridge as an 1851 Exhibition scholar. He has recently filled the position of McDonald Professor of Physics in McGill University, Montreal, but has now been appointed Professor ofPhysics and Director ofPhysical Laboratories at the University of Manchester. I understand (writes a London correspondent) that he has already resigned the former position, although he does not take up the latter position until October. The professor was one of the pioneers of wireless telegraphy, and made a name by his experimental work on radioactivity.”

Some years ago a firm of brothers carrying on a flax milling business in the North Loburn district, Canterbury, had, through misfortune, to take advantage of the Bankruptcy Court, and paid only a small dividend. The brothers went to the North Island, and eventually started a flax mill in the Wairarapa district, where they are now carrying on a highly prosperous business. Recently they determined to pay off all liabilities left at the time of their bankruptcy, and on Wednesday a widow in Rangiora in indigent circumstances was agreeably surprised at receiving a cheque for over for goods supplied the firm by her late husband, and an old age pensioner had his heart made glad with a cheque for about A number of others about the district also benefited by the meritorious action of the firm.— Lyttelton Times.

A remarkable story of a girl who was induced by her mother to masquerade as an errand, boy in order to rob her employer was told at the Liverpool police court. Emily Barnes, an intelligent girl of fifteen, said that after conversation with her mother she dressed up as a boy some months ago, and obtained work running errands. A few weeks ago she obtained employment under the name of ‘ ‘ Harold Barnes ’ ’ in the shop of Mr Jacobs, Noticing where the money was kept, she hid one night in the cellar. In the early hours of the following morning, she broke open the till with an axe and stole ,£4, subsequently giving the money to her mother. Suspicion, however, fell upon the supposed boy, and she was charged at the police court without her real sex being- discovered. It was only when remanded to the workhouse that she confessed to being a girl. The mother was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for receiving the money, and the girl was remanded for seven days.

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

The Commissioner of- Taxes gives notice elsewhere in this issue in reference to making returns under the Tand and Income Tax.

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow; will be conducted in the morning by Mr Huntly, and in the evening by the Rev. J. Southern. The evening subject will be “The Wedding Garment,” In the afternoon at 3 o'clock the prizes for good attendance will be d :-< 'ib.ncd to the Sunday school scholars. Parents and friends are invited to attend. Watchorn Stiles and Co, are a strong Firm and import heavily. They hold one of the largest stocks in calicos, flannelettes, prints, blankets, sheetings damasks to be seen on this coast. —Try them.* Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a special line of lace curtains at is lid per pair, See them.* Recommended by the Medical Faculty—WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6 To cure rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago, you must treat the blood. The best remedy is Rhecmo, which has cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at 2s 6d and 4s 6d. Give it a fair trial. 12 DON’T WAIT TILL TO-MORROW.

It’s little colds that grow into big colds, the big colds that end in consumption and death. Don’t wait till to-morrow to cure the little colds, for one dose of Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery for Cough's, Colds, and Consumption will break up a cold if taken at the beginning. Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery is a safe and never-failing remedy. Price, Is 6d. and 3s. Obtainable from E. Healey, chemist.

The afflicted all fly to it, The suffering cry for it, Sing praises high of it, It can ensure ' Protection from chills, Chest troubles and ills. Keep down doctors’ bills—— Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 3