LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 30 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Further entries are made to the N.Z. L. and M. Agency’s Himatangi stock sale list. Mr Jas. Walden, of the Silver Grid, Main-street, to purchase pickle bottles in any quantity. We remind all members of the Chamber of Commerce that the annual meeting will be held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening next at 8 o’clock. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Wednesday, (to-morrow) at 7.30. p.m, when the Mayor will be installed and. councillors sworn and the various committees set up. 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.* For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure--1/6 and 2/6

A very sharp Irost was experienced yesterday morning, followed by warm sunshine.

Many paupers have lived to be 100 years old, but there is no record of a millionaire having attained that age. A physician declared that if only twenty minutes a day were spent in physical exercise as an adjunct to mental education, we might live to 70 without a day’s illness, and perhaps prolong our lives to 100 years.

Mr Chalmers’ trim little oil craft, the “ Maida,” put into port on Sunday (after sheltering from the storm at Kapiti), and was admired by a number of people. She was accompanied from Kapiti by the s.s. Thistle with a cargo of Puponga coal. A local resident (says the Hawera Star) was surprised the other evening to find that his domestic cat had captured a goodsized hare. The prey was quite overpowered, and only required a slight finishing to end its existence.

A district visitor asked the wife of a- notorious drinker in the village why she did not keep her husband from the public-house. “Well,” she answered, “I ‘ave done ray best, ma’am, but he will go there.” “ Why don’t you make your home look more attractive?” “I’m sure I tried hard to make it ’omelike, ma’am. I’ve took up the parlour carpet and sprinkled sawdust on the floor, and put a beer barrel in the corner. But, lor,’ma’am, it ain’t made a bit of difference. ’ ’

Mr A. F. Bory, a Swiss gentleman. recently arrived in Cairo from the Cape, having travelled overland. The interest of this journey of eight months through the very heart of Africa lies in its uneventful character, which testifies to the extraordinary advance of civilisation and the facilities of travel in the remote regions traversed. The actual journey across Central Africa from Chinde, at the mouth of the Zambesi, to Gondokopo, on the Nile, occupied six months, three of which he spent in tents, having covered a thousand miles on foot. The trip did not, according to Mr Bory, entail any serious hardship or danger, “my worst enemies being occaasional bad water, mosquitoes and fever. I did not come across any wild beasts, although I heard the roaring of lions several times.

In the course of the debate in the House ot Commons on the Women’s Suffrage Bill. Mr Cathcart Wason, formerly a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, said : action of New Zealand in granting the franchise to women was relied on by the supporters of the Bill. He had lived for many years in that country, and could say that not only the conditions there, but the people there, were entirely indifferent. It was the most parochial country in the world. It was confined absolutely to its own affairs. The priests and parsons had no power there ; here they were all powerful. There social interest was as nothing; here it was everything. In such a country the franchise might be extended to boys and girls just left school, and things would go on just as ever.”

Has a headmaster the right to “ keep a child in ” after specified school hours without the consent of his parents? The question arose at a householders’ meeting at Christchurch, the other night, and a delegate to the School Committees’ Association maintained that no such right existed. Ihe matter had been before the Association , which had discovered that according to statute the teacher could not detain a child . “ One by one,” said another member indignantly, ‘‘these new - tangled associations will try to take away every duty of a headmaster, until he has nothing to do. They will not allow him to keep a child in, and there will be no discipline at all. I hope a master will always be allowed to keep a child in if he deserves it, and al so to punish a child. A few more hammerings will mean a few l ess larrikins.’’ The chairman said that the association had been badly advised in coming to the conclusion put forward. The master had the right of detention. It was purely a question of discipline, and they could rest assured that the Government was not going to clip the wings of the headmaster so that he could not fly round bis own premises and grounds. Flax-owners and others who objected to the Chief Fibre Expert being sent on an educative expedition to St, Helena may not be uninterested in the following paragraph from the Melbourne Argus: “As satisfactory progress is being made with the cultivation of experimental plots of New Zealand flax by the Department of Agriculture, it has been determined to test the possibilities of the industry cn a larger scale, and to-day the director of agriculture (Dr Cherry), with the departmental expert (Mr Knight) and the trustees of the Leongatha Labour Colony, will pay a visit to the colony, to select an area of 50 acres, which it is intended to cultivate. A block of 10 acres, put under cultivation last year, is reported to be looking very well. The crop of the larger block to be sown with young plants this year will, when the plant is ready for cutting, give a test on a commercial basis ot the value of the industry. If it proves as successful as is hoped, there is to be a considerable area in different parts of the state which may be made more productive than at present. It will be three or four years before the crop can be taken off.”

For using obscene language in a railway train, A. D. Haslam was fined £lO and costs at Palmerston yesterday, Daniel Henrickson for smoking in a railway, carriage contrary to regulations was fined ios and costs, by Magistrate Thompson at Palmerston yesterday.

Messrs Rae-Howard and Co, report having sold Mr A. Reeve’s property in Baker St. to Mr S- H. Aldridge at a most satisfactory price.

At the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court recently before Mr. V. G. Day, S. M., James Burgess pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally selling beer, and was fined

A large number of local residents intend to camp out to-night in various parts of the district where the wild duck, abounds and to-morrow the slaughter will commence.

All persons found trespassing on the property of the Green Flax Dressing Co. Ltd., at Makerua, with dog or gun, will be prosecuted. Notice to this effect appears in our advertising columns.

We remind the public of the Borough Band’s social and dance to be held in the Public Hall this evening. Preparations have been made to enable the public to enjoy a pleasant evening; The floor has been specially prepared and the music will be first-class.

Mr W. P. Reeves, New Zealand High Commissioner, states that for the year ending on March 31st, 3712 emigrants were sent to New Zealand under the reduced rate system, including 254 domestics. The applications of 1849 emigrants were rejected. The Foxton Physical Culture School will this week be held in the Masonic Hall on Friday evening instead of Wednesday, owing to the instructor, Mr Jarrett. having a prior engagement with the Flower Show Committee in Palmerston, on Wednesday, xst May. Intending pupils kindly note Friday, for this week only. The bats chosen by the local Hockey Club as the most suitable for their immediate use, are an English make, called the Warwich, and retailed at 9s 6d. The latter are obtainable from Messrs Howe or G. Fowler, who have been instructed by the Club to order a large number of same, the sample of which can be seen at Mr Howe’s shop, Main-street. *

An infant female child about two months old, was found on the doorstep of a house in the main road at Parnell (Auckland) last evening. It was well clothed and had an empty feeding bottle alongside it. The child, whose antecedents are unknown, has been sent to the Door of Hope Institution. The Anniversary Social in connection with the Methodist church will be held to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock in the Schoolroom, A good programme will be provided. Songs will be contributed by Messrs Hoar (of Palmerston) and Fowler, glees by the choir, recitations by Miss Walker and Mr Hornblow. An orchestra will also give selections. Refreshments provided. Tickets is. each.

There appears to be a likelihood of a fruit war in Wellington. One ‘ ‘ coster ’ ’ began with a barrovv a short time ago, and the innovation proved successful enough to warrant a number of others starting in the same line. They are said to be doing well, and owing to their small expenses, beating the Chinamen for price. There are signs of a “ tariff ” war ; the Chinese.have cut their prices down a little, but the hawkers still undersell them.

Mr James Walden has opened an up-to-date refreshment saloon in premises lately occupied by Messrs Smale and Hay. Fish and oyster suppers can be obtained at all hours and pork butcher’s small goods are always in stock. The Silver Grid should be liberally patronised by the public, and under the control of Mr Walden, patrons can rely upon every attention, cleanliness, and civility.

The annual Manawatu Winter Dairy Show of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association will be held on June 18, 19, 20, and 21st at Palmerston North. All features of farm, garden, and dairy work are comprehensively classified and include fruit, vegetables, potatoes, field roots, chaff, ensilage, grass and grain seeds, school district farmers competition, public school gardens, natural history, home industries, collection of birds eggs, fat sheep and pigs, and champion utility poultry breed show. The prize list is on a liberal scale and those interested should write the Secretary, Box 85, Palmerston North, and obtain a free booklet containing all particulars.

The Manawatu Times understands that Mr Edward Newman, of Marton, intends to be a candidate in-the Opposition interest for the Manawatu electorate at the next election. Mr Newman was for many years a membex: of the Rangitikei County Council, and has also sat on the Wanganui Education and Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, and is now chairman of the Marton branch of the Farmers’ Union. Mr Newman has all the qualifications for the position of representative, and will no doubt receive the support of all in Manawatu who desire to see this country governed better and more economically.—Permit us to state that Mr Newman is “ not the only pebble on the beach!”

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