LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3767, 4 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A correspondent writes, asking us to publicly mention that the street lamps have not been lit during the past few evenings. We acknowledge receipt of complimentary ticket for the forthcoming Winter Show of the Manawatu A. and P. Association.

At the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday night, during the offertory, Mr W. H. Hawkins sang the sacred solo, “ Remember now thy Creator.”

At the local Masonic gathering on Friday evening, the officers and brethren took occasion to present Wor. Bro. Stewart, the retiring Master, with a handsome gold jewel, made by Mr C. L,. Barnard, local jeweller. Messrs Gardner and Whibley, grocers, etc., have removed into more central premises in Main street, lately occupied by Messrs Sutherland and Rough. All is now in order and customers can rely on prompt attention as usual. We give a reminder of the pro" menade concert and dance to be held in connection with the local lodge of Oddfellows to-morrow night. First - class local talent has consented to assist with the concert programme, and all attending are assured of spending a most enjoyable evening. Holders of invitation cards are requested to present same at door. The next ordinary meeting ot the Manawatu County Council will be held on the 12th inst., when general business will be dealt with and rates struck for the current financial year. A special meeting will also be held on the same date, to pass special order making separate rates in the Riding of Rongotea (excluding the township of Rongotea) and the Whirokino Division of the Awahon Riding. Mr D. D. Hyde, Government poultry expert, remarked to an Auckland Herald representative that the Auckland poultty trade had gone ahead by leaps and bounds. The production from Ist April, 1906, to 31st March, this year, was about 15,000 head for export and the local market, and 1,128,000 eggs —a great increase on last year. If gone about in a proper way, this industry would take its place alongside the butter and frozen meat trade.

The Christchurch Press says editorially : —“ We do not believe in pampering prisoners, and so making gaol life too attractive, but undoubtedly something might be done to render the conditions less brutalising and more reformatory in their nature. Mr Laurenson states that the prisoners need more light, and should be supplied with wholesome literature. The rule which forbids prisoners to read or receive newspapers, in our opinion, is a piece of stupid red tape, dating back to the dark ages, and ought to be abolished. It is surely a piece of unnecessary cruelty to keep prisoners in the dark as to what is going on in the world during their confinement. We can quite believe that this enforced ignorance of current events in some cases acts as an obstacle to a discharged prisoner being able to take up honest employment.” Frank Wilson, a boy of thirteen, taking advantage of the absence of his foster parents from his home in Chicago, sold all the furniture to a second-hand dealer and eloped with a girl of twelve. Wilson concocted a telegram from a mythical aunt in Cleveland, Ohio, which said: “Your mother is dead. Sell furniture and come on here.” He showed this to the second-hand dealer, who promptly paid him for ,£2OO worth of furniture. Young Wilson then invited Molly Haney, his twelve-year-old girl friend, to elope. For a week they went about together, Wilson introducing her as his sister, putting up at hotels and dining at fashionable restaurants. When Mr and Mrs Wilson returned, they found their flat empty. The police were instructed to search for the missing boy, and he was found in a theatre with Molly. They were occupying stalls. The June issue of ‘‘The Tone Hand,” a new and sparkling mazagine, is just to hand from the publishers, Messrs Gordon & Gotch. Its get-up and matter is excellent and compares favourably with English mazagines. The contents are varied and attractive. An excellent sketch of David Syme, of the Age,“Melbourne, with the only photograph he has ever sat for, is included. J. F. Archibald’s memoir continues brightly. Someone writes on “ The Bar of Victoria,” and there is also an interview with Nellie Stewart, Stories there are both long and short, gay and sad, by Edward Dyson (“Two Battles and a Bear”); Ethel Turner (‘‘Widening the Horizon”); Albert Dorrington (‘‘An Australian Whaling Station ”) ; G. B. Lancaster (‘‘A Job for the Parson ”); the first of an interesting series entitled “Secrets of a Prime Minister,” and others. Illustrated and plain verse is in abundance. A strong appeal is made for an Australian Navy, built in Australia, in an article called ‘‘Building an Australian Navy. ’ ’ Artistic folk are not neglected —there are articles on “ Etching,” illustrated by the choicest examples of the art executed in Australia, and another contribution by Blamie Young on Fremiet’s “Gorilla and Woman.” The illustrations are innumerable. To cure rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago, you must treat the blood The best remedy is Kheumo, which has cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at 2s. 6d, and 4s 6d. Give it a fair trial. 12 Women who require a , stimulant should try WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.

The pound keeper notifies that a horse is impounded. The licensing Committee meet at Marton on the 6th hist.

The police intend to proceed against a drover for cruelty to animals. It is alleged that a number of beasts were confined for several days in the Himatangi sale yards without food or water.

A section of the North Island Main Trunk railway between Taihape and Mataroa is now open for passenger traffic. The section is six miles long, making the distance from Marton fifty miles. Goods trains have been running up as far as Waiouru for some time and it is intended next month to open the Mataroa —Turangarere section, eleven miles, for passenger traffic.

“The American Language,” says Mr C. N. Baeyertz, “ has at least the merit of picturesqueness, and compared with this quality considerations of exactitude, syntax, or euphony have but little weight with the average Yankee. I remarked to a New Yorker that I was very busy, to which he replied sententiously, Well, I don’t need to sit up night writin’ letters to myself ! ’ Talking to another, I referred to the wealth of a certain millionaire, ‘Yes,’ he replied ‘money don’t care who has it.’ ‘Well,’ said another,jlist before dinner, ‘guess I’m so hungry I figure I could eat anything that didn’t bite me first.’ ”

“ In England and on the Continent,” says Dr. Truby King in a recent lecture, “ about 80 per cent, of women do not —though only 10 per cent, cannot —suckle their offspring. Our own statistics would not greatly differ from these, the majority of women bringing up their babies on the bottle. Of babies that die during the first three months of life, it is found that in England that the mortality among the bottle-fed is fifteen times as great as among the breast-fed. Dr Armstrong, Health Officer for Sydney, recently reported to the Health Congress in Adelaide that from the investigation of 600 odd cases he had found the Sydney mortality to be '37 times as great among the bottlefed as among the breast-fed. If there is but a step between the sublime and the ridiculous, as little distance divides the truly pathetic from the irresistibly comic. Some time ago a clergyman and sexton met at the little cemetery of Congleton, Cheshire, to await the arrival of a funeral cortege. They waited long past the appointed hour, but no one arrived. At last the sexton went to the gates of the cemetery. There he discovered a small boy with a perambulator, which was covered with brown paper. “Standaside, sonny, there is a iuneral to come,” said the sexton kindly. “ Please, sir, I’m the funeral!” answered the boy. The man removed the covering from the perambulator, and found a tiny coffin containing the. bodies of two babies. The coffin and the interment fees had been paid by a relieving officer ; the child’s parents were unable to attend, and so the little chap with the perambulator had come along to see the melancholy business through, and simply to declare himself the funeral. Considerable sensation has been caused by the announcement that the Italian Government has handed over to the Vatican ,£120,000 in cash and ,£24,000 in Government stock representing property seized upon the occasion of the sequestration of certain religious houses in 1870. It is added that the Pope, in acknowledging the receipt of the money and stock, warmly thanked the Italian Government for its solicitude in the matter. The transaction is generally described as an act of restitution by the civil power to the church, and the newspapers hail it as one more proof of the excellent relations now existing between the Quirinal and the Vatican.

“ When I saw our latest leviathan warship, the Indomitable, launched at Glasgow the other day,” writes a correspondent of the Westminster Gazette, “ I could not help wondering what our forefathers of a century ago would have thought of her. In 1880 a leading naval authority wrote ‘ The size of our ships seems now to have reached its ultimatum. ....

The French, indeed, have latterly built a ship of most extraordinary size, 172 ft keel, 55ft Qin by the the beam, tonage about 2850 tons ; but she is pronounced to be entirely unfit for service.’ And yet this marine monster of 1800, whose size made her so unwieldy that, she hath never been out of harbour,’ was but a third as long as our latest cruiser, little more than two-thirds the width, and a sixth of the tonage —in fact, she was relatively so small that she might easily, one would think, have been carried on the Indomitable’s deck. Although aSO acre forest had provided her timbers, and it had taken 200 shipwrights a year to build her, her total cost was less than one-tenth that of her successor of to-day.”

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a special line of lace curtains at is i id per pair, see them.* Push the town along by giving your local drapers your trade and try Watchorn Stiles and Co. for the very best values.* Rheumo 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 THE LATEST AND THE BEST Remedy for Chest Complaints is Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It cures when all else fails. Price, is. 6d. and 3s. Obtainable at E. Healey’s, Chemist.

Last night’s report as to the Hon Mr Hall-Jones’ health was that he was progressing very satisfactorily. Only Mr Deakin and Sir Joseph Ward stood up to the bitter end of the week’s festivities in London, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, General Botha, Mr F. R. Moor, and Ur Jameson all succumbing between the Imperial Industries Club luncheon on Friday afternoon and the Pilgrims Club’s banquet in the evening. If you are wanting a real nice lace curtain, well C. and C., Palmerston North, can supply you, as they have just landed direct from the best lace manufacturers some very nice new designs, and at any price you may require. A case of sample pieces of curtains, very nice for bedrooms, qd, is, is 3d, and is 6d ; these are very quickly picked up, and Collinson and Cunninghame would advise anyone wanting these to secure them at once.

In connection with the incident (says the Post) in the Supreme Court at the conclusion of the Paget murder trial, in which Mr Wilford, counsel for the accused, was alleged to have used strong terras towards the members of the jury, it is understood that the jurymen have received letters from Mr Wilford expressing sincere regret for what occurred, and pleading his overwrought state in extenuation.

The latest rat story is perhaps the strangest (says the North Otago Times). According to report, a leakage of gas was discovered in a business place in Oamaru a few days ago, and a plumber was summoned to put it right. The escape, having been located, the pipe was uncovered, when a rat was found lying dead beside the pipe with its teeth buried in the lead. Apparently the rat had taken to gnawing the pipe, and when the gas burst through its fumes overwhelmed him.

Farms in Taranaki, it would appear, can be bought almost without money. A transaction took place lately in which the price was considerably over ,£IOOO. All the money that changed hands was £SO, of which sum over ,£4O went to the commission agent who effected the sale. Some of the sellers who bought early are selling at such good prices that if they merely collect the interest on the sum they have sold for they are making a good deal, even if they never see a shilling of the principal.—Eltham Argus. A correspondent of the British Weekly who visited the Protestant Cemetery at Rome recently, reports an act of vandalism at Shelley’s grave. “As we wandered about,” says the correspondent, ‘ 1 we saw for about half an hour a young man tourist sitting on Shelley’s grave, carefully occupied in cutting the marble with a sharp instrument. We thought he was restoring the lettering, but, coming to his side, we found that he had cut his own name (which I will not give), ‘ New Zealand, April, 1907. I love thee,’ close to the .inscription on the flat white marble surface. He had then soaked with ink his own work, leaving the disgraceful fruits of vandalism for all who visit this interesting place. ’ ’ For nervous debility and hysteria— WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS. ORIGIN OF DISEASE. Nine-tenths of the principal diseases which to-day afflict the human race have their rise in a common, ordinary little cold The history of most cases of disease of this character is very much the same. The cold comes and is neglected. It moves down from nose to throat, from throat to bronchial tubes and lungs, and when it dosen’t end there, in consumption. Its after effect are sure to weaken the kidneys, liver, and heart. This is all accepted, and taught in tiro medical schools of to-day. It is well for you to remember it. An equally important fact to remember is that the proper and only scientific treatment of a cold in any stage is Dr. Sheldon’s New Discpvery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. This medicine will cure any kind of cold or cough, and will prevent all the dangerous after effects of Lung and Throat diseases. It is guaranteed to cure, or money back. Try it. Price Is. 6d. and 3s. Obtainable at E, Healey’s, Chemist.