LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 16 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The owner of an overcoat, left at the Public Hall on Friday night, is advertised for. ■ Mr F. W. Hopper notifies that he is a cash buyer of tea lead in any Quantity. At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Alex Cockburn, J.P., Thomas Murphy was fined 5s and 2s. cab hire for drunkenness.

The Secretary of the Band desires to notify Mrs Robinson, who holds No. 2. ticket in Duchesse set raffle, that she has drawn the winning numbers. All accounts against the local school committee must be rendered to the Secretary on or before Saturday next. As an evidence of the marvellous growth of flax, under cultivation, we have beetr handed a magnificen t blade standing over Bft high which was grown from a plant transplanted by Mr Geo. Nye about three years ago. The flax plant in question is flourishing in sandy soil in Norbiton road. Your husband wants new trousers, you can get them at the “ Economic ” from 5s 6d per pair.*

A notice re election of school committees appears elsewhere in this issue.

Mr Andrew Collins, formerly a member of the Wellington Conciliation Board, has been on a visit to the Taranaki district with a view to forming a union of dairy factory workers. He reports that his mission has been successful.

An Adelaide contemporary relates a remarkable, experience which befel a carpenter in that city. The man was employed in laying a floor on the third storey of a "building in course of erection, and fell through the joists. Marvellous to relate, he passed through the joists ot the second floor without touching them, and fell to the basement, where a heap of sand broke his fall, and saved him from serious injury. A breach of promise case brought by Mr F. T. Stevenson of Feilding, against Fredra Clara Parsons, of Pahiatua, daughter of Mr Thomas Parsons, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Farmers ’ Dairy Union, claiming damages, will be heard at the next sitting of the Court at Palmerston.

Here is a puzzle that puzzles everybody ; —Take the number of your living brothers, double the amount, add to it three, multiply by five, add to it the number of your living sisters, multiply the result by ten, add the number of deaths of brothers, subtract 150 from the result. The right hand figure will be the number of deaths, the middle will be the number of living sisters, and the left will show the number of living brothers. Try it and see. A Scottish paper recently quoted from a Pretoria letter, in which was asked the question if his (the writer’s) lather and-uncle, at the age of seventy-three years, can claim to be the oldest male twins in the United Kingdom. Noticing this, Mr J. S. Panton, of Glasgow, replied : —“ Might ! be allowed to inform Mr Robertson that his venerable relatives are lar behind ? On Christmas Day, 1824, in the quiet town of Leslie, in Fifeshire, a Mr Patrick Jollie had presented to him by his wife a Christmas box in the shape two of healthy boys. These boys are now old men, and if spared for another six weeks will, as you can see, be eighty-two years of age. These patriarchs are still hale and hearty. David is still employed in St. Ann’s Leather Works, of this city and his brother Henry is managing a bookselling business established by their father in the town of their birth, and resides (as he has done all his days) in the house in which he was born.” These venerable twins, remarks the Dunedin Star, are uncles to Mrs W, Morrison, who lives in Dunedin, or, rather, at St. Ann’s road, Glen Mornington.

Interviewed at Christchurch, Sir William Russell said that he did not mind saying that he still felt capable of rendering some service to the country, and that he had not abandoned all idea of reentering Parliament. He did not intend to let the next election in his own district go by default, though he would riather see some younger man [of his own way of thinking in the field. There was still room for an active, vigilant, progressive Opposition, that would not be afraid of itself, or of the other side, and that would make an earnest and well-sustained effort to bring the electors back to sound principles and prudent practices.

Andrew Carnegie is famous tor excellent advice that he gives to poor men. “In considerable fear,” said a New York millionaire, ‘‘l once consulted Mr Carnegie about a new venture. The business looked as if it ought to be profitable. There seemed to be a public need of it. Still, there was some risk involved, and I was afraid. But Mr Carnegie laughed at my fears. ‘lf it’s a good thing, plunge in,’ he said. ‘ Fear is old womanish. Fear is what keeps untold millions from making fortunes. When Benjamin Franklin thought of starting a paper in Philadelphia his mother, greatly alarmed, tried to dissuade him. She pointed out that there were already two newspapers in America.”

A strange story > is told in whispers in connection with the Amir’s visit to India (says M. A. P.). Hitherto he has always been given the title of His Highness, but on this occasion it has been changed to His Majesty and thereby hangs the tale, for the Foreign Department of the Government of India has been much concerned about whether it would be right that he should be greeted with the strains of “ God Save the King,” the Afghans having no National Anthem. It is said the difficulty was referred to the Commander-in-Chief. " What does it matter ?” Lord Kitchener is said to have replied. “ Play a bar of music. ‘‘Who’ll know the dfference ?” Itwas held that a single bar of music was a meagre dish to set before a king, but the idea was adopted, and whenever guards of hononr presented arras, the band played the eight bars of the slow march from “Ccipio.” And now the Indian newspapers are all praising the Afghan National Anthem.

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a special line of lace curtains at is i id per pair, see them.* “ Forewarned, forearmed, 1 ’ remarked the sage, And now when winter’s bleak winds rage, Forearmed is he and well armed, too, Who holds a safeguaad ’gainst the crew Of ills that come upon the wind, And that safeguard you’ll always find In medicine that’s safe and sure, The trustworthy Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 7.

Correspondence unavoidably held over.

A special .meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmill Employees Union was held last night, when Mr W. Westbrook, Secretary of the Wellington Trades and labour Council, and who has been associated with labour matters for some 30 years, was elected to represent the Union in the pending Arbitration Court proceedings. A complaint has been lodged by the natives, living across the river, to the police, alleging that on Sunday a boat-load of young men visited the locality and committed certain acts of destruction to property. Complaint is made that an iron fence was wrenched away from a grave and a patiki (food house) was thrown into the river. Constable Woods visited the locality yesterday and is making further enquiries prior to taking proceedings. At the local Police Court this morning, before Messrs Thomas Rimmer and Alex Cockburn, J’s.P. T. Mitchell was fined 5s or 24 hours for drunkenness. The police also applied for a prohibition order against accused. Accused objected, stating that his wife was opposed to the prohibition order, and that the beer would then cost him more. He asked for a chance. The Bench granted him a month’s grace. Charles Williams was charged with drunkenness and pleaded guilty. He was fined 5s or 24 hours. He asked for time to pay the fine. The police objected, stating that accused was in possession of the money. Accused said he wanted the money for his railway fare to Oroua Bridge, The Bench refused to grant time for payment of fine.

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.*

Watchorn Stiles and Co- can supply you with linoleums, floorcloths, carpets hearthrugs and all house furnishing at lowest town prices-* Rhbumo has cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. It will cure you. Try it. All stores and chemists, 2s 6d and 4s 6d. A positive cure. 9 BROUGHT TO BAI Are those enemies of civilisation, indigestion and dyspepsia, when Dr Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules are employed. 2s 6d per tin. Obtainable from E. Healey, chemist For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6'and 2/6