LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3767, 1 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Ten local horses left by train this morning to compete at the Otaki meeting.

The Foxton Football Sub-Union meet to transact important business next Wednesday evening, at the Manawatu Hotel.

Monday next, Prince of Wales’ Birthday, will be observed as a close holiday throughout New Zealand. The Southland Times states that it has good authority for saying that extensive transfers are shortly to be made in the Postal and Telegraphic service, the number of officials concerned being mentioned as 300. On Monday, 3rd June, the foF lowing hours will be observed at the local post office : —Prom 9 to 10 a.m., and 7 to 8 p.m. The Money Order and Savings Bank branch will observe a close holiday. Mails usually closing on the afternoon of this date will close at 10 a.m. There will be no deliver}' by letter-carrier. It was stated 'at the Tower Bridge Police Court recently that a Frenchman who was called in to identify a man accused of swindling him was told to walk along a row of men and touch the man he recognised. When he reached the man, however, he gave him two blows in the face. A. remarkable coincidence in finger-prints has been discovered in South Africa. The prints are those of two Englishmen awaiting trial on criminal charges—one at Capetown, the other at Bloemfontein. The finger prints of both men were produced at the trial of one of them, and found to be identical in every respect. At the Wellington Divorce Court yesterday Mr Justice Button granted a decree nisi on the application of Elizabeth Vine for dissolution of her marriage with George Vine, now of Gisborne, on the grounds of respondent’s drunkenness and failure to provide support. The parties were married at Christchurch on 25th March, 1880.

The seals which were so well treated at the Exhibition Grounds and had got into the way of expecting their daily necessaries in the way of fish found for them, now that they have been turned adrilt to find for themselves do not know quite which way to turn. They have been up and down the north beach off Leithfield and off Kaiapoi, and one of them went up the Kaiapoi river as far as the railway bridge, apparently in search of the Exhibition Grounds. They have been playing havoc with the nets at the mouth of the river, and the owners have sworn to exact retribution if they do it again. Two of them have more than once been basking on 'the beach of Pegasus Bay, and they seem to have no idea of making for their original habitations. We regret we were informed wrongly with regard to a local in Thursday’s paper, as representing the Rev. Woodward saying that if his congregation did not agree with his religious principles and work with him they could go elsewhere. Since then we have ascertained what he did say, and it was this ; ‘ ‘ Some people may not like new things introduced into the parish, but they were not to be offended with the church simply because they do not agree with the priest in charge. If any member of the congregation came to him and said ‘ I don’t like your way of doing things, and think they are too High Church, therefore I am going to leave the church,’ his answer would be, ‘lf that is all the love you have for the church, simply because your clergyman who is here to-day and gone tomorrow, does not quite fall in with your views, all he could say would be, perhaps you had better go.’ The church was a living body not depending on one man nor on one congregation, but world-wide. The congregation were to build it up in their own town, not only for themselves but for those who were to come after.”

Khkumo has curoil thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. It will cure you. Try it. All stores and chemists, 2s 6d aud 4s (id. A positive cure. 9

The Flaxinills Employees Union meet to-night. Colds are prevalent throughout this district.

The Albions are playing the Sandon football team on the Racecourse this afternoon.

The Arbitration Court, presided over by Mr Justice Sim, will sit in Palmerston on Tuesday. Mr Rinimer is making good progress with the erection of Mr A. I). Clemett’s new residence, next to the tennis court. All available land in and near Ohakune is being purchased with avidity. Mills are being erected in all directions. The final sale of the M.D.I.C. is being conducted by Mr W. H. Hawkins in the Masonic Hall today. Charles Towns has signed articles to row W. Webb, of Wanganui, New Zealand, for the championship of the.world.

Mr Alf, Fraser, our esteemed Town Clerk, and Mrs Fraser, returned to Foxton on Thursday after spending an enjoyable holiday in the Auckland province. A writ claiming ,£2OOO damages has been issued by Wm. Plowman against Patrick Gleeson, the wellknown brewer, of Napier, for alleged slander.

Mr Bell, whose wife was killed and he himself injured in the Brooklyn tram accident, had sufficiently recovered to leave for Nelson on Friday. Messrs Gardner and Whibley are removing into the premises in Main Street up till now occupied by Messrs Sutherland and Rough. The shop will be open for business on Tuesday next. The Waihi company’s May return was ,£64,196 from 28,382 tons of ore, the largest monthly return yet obtained, making the total output of the mine ,£5,666,696, and the total dividends, ,£2,577,896. The expedition on the steamer Huia was delayed by bad weather in the attempt to recover gold from the Elingamite wreck. The diver secured a small quantity of treasure. After replenishing stores at Mouoganui the Huia resumed operations. The Pahiatua Herald states that Mrs J. Vile, mother of the late Mr Job Vile, M.H.R., was 90 years of age on Tuesday last, and is still hale and hearty. .She has been the recipient of congratulations from many relatives and friends on attaining such a ripe old age. Mr Fowlds: If the people ot Wellington will assist me to get Mount View cut up altogether, so that the revenue from the leases would be available for mental hospital purposes, I will then make a big effort to give you a site. Mr Aitkeu : We will never consent to that.

The services in the Methodist Church will be conducted by Mr W. Harris in the morning and by the Rev. J. Southern in the evening. The evening subject will be “The Centenary of Primitive Methodism ” —The River in Flood. The choir will render the anthem “ Fear Thou not.”

The depositions have been taken from a young girl residing at Caterton, whose name is mentioned in connection with a charge which has been preferred against a young man. The illegal operation is alleged to have been performed at Masterton. The patient is a child about sixteen years of age, and she is still in a most critical state..

Push the town along by giving your local drapers your trade ang try Watchorn Stiles and Co. for the very best values.* Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a special line of lace curtains at is 1 id per pair, see them.*

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