LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 18 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

. - Mr John Stevens, member for the district, is at present visiting Foxton and will remain here till the middle of next week.

Hughes, the ;diver who rescued the entombed miner, has been feted and presented with a watch and purse of 100 sovereigns. Mr R. O. Jarrett, physical culturist, expressed his willingness to give a demonstration in breathing exercise to the pupils of the local State school. The Chairman of the local committee and headmaster fell in with the generous suggestion, and Mr Jarrett gave a demonstration at the school this afternoon.

Ma Geo. iSfye, one of our highly esteemed pioneer settlers, is still bedridden by reason of an internal trouble. The cld gentleman has borne up wonderfully through months of extreme pain. He is however, pleased, when able to meet and converse with old friends. The New Zealand Trade Review refers to the general complaint about the difficulty of collecting mousy. It says the Christchurch Exhibition is blamed for this, but suggests it is only one cause, which is the tendency of people to live beyond their means and at an extravagant rate.

The District Court of Chicago convicted the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, of receiving secret rebates from the ChicagoAlton Railroad Company. The various counts render the company liable to maximum fines aggregating thirty million dollars. An appeal has been lodged. The Secretary of the Manawatu Rowing Club, on behalf of his committee, desires us to state that the committee cannot take notice or enter into any correspondence in reference to recent criticisms dealing with club matters by anonymous writers in these columns, unless the names of the writers are disclosed.

MrH. W. Robinson, whose challenge to cut flax against any man in the ManaWatu, was accepted by Mr W. Harper, is anxious that the match shall take place without any unnecessary delay. Mr Robinson has requested us to state this fact with a view bringing matters to a head, as be says he •is in no way responsible for the delay and is most anxious to try conclusions with Harper. At the local Police Court yesterday morning before Alex Cockburn Esq. J.P., a first offender and a man named Thomas Chute Smith were fined 10s, each and costs for creating a breach of the peace. The latter asked for time in which to pay the fine but the Bench refused the application as accused had only recently been previously convicted. He was sentenced to a week’s imprisonment.

. As a party of three local residents were driving to Palmerston yesterday, and when near Longburn, they heard screams from the roadside; and on jumping out of their vehicle saw a little boy with his foot jammed between the spokes and fork of the front wheel of a bicycle. They lost no time in liberating the injured foot. It appears that the boy had been riding the bicycle sitting in front of his brother with his legs, over the handle bar. It will be some weeks before the boy will be able to use the injured limb.

In conversation with Mr GeoNye, our representative was informed that tobacco cultivation was carried out on the banks of the Manawatu River, by the late Mr T. U. Cook about 53 years ago. Tobacco was manufactured and found a ready local and outside sale. The coarse leaves of the plant were also used for sheep dipping purposes in those days. The manufacture of tobacco was supervised by an expert whom Mr Cook brought to the colony from Sydney.

Mr Carnegie, speaking at the dedication of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, made a dramatic appeal to the Kaiser to pronounce the word ‘ ‘ Peace ’ ’ at the Hague Convention. General Lowenfield, the Kaiser’s General Adjutant, who was present, the Kaiser having been asked for permission, said he had a special mission. Mr Bryce sent a message of regret that he was unable to attend and other members of the British Embassy also declined. France and other countries were represented. The Canadian and British visitors regretted the absence of British representatives. Their absence is interpreted as marking sympathy with American industrial enterprise.

All the candidates for municipal honours publish notices to burgesses in this issue. Mr P. H. Rae-Howard notifies that all apples on sale must be quitted at 3s. per case, cash. Cooking and dessert varieties. Mr H. Bradcock, a candidate for a seat on the Borough Council, suggests to us that each candidate should deliver a short address to the burgesses on some evening prior to election day. 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.* “ Forewarned, forearmed,’’ remarked the sage, And now when winter’s bleak winds rage, Forearmed is lie and well armed, too, Who holds a safeguard ’gainst the crew Of ills that come upon the wind, And that safeguard you’ll always find In medicine that safe and sure, • The trusty Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 7 Rheumo cures rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago quickly and permanently. It is a thoroughly safe and absolutely reliable remedy. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6, 6 FRENZIED WITH PEAR Are many who develop lung trouble. Dr Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption will cure them. Price Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable from E, Healey, chemist.