LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 20 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A meeting of Moutoa settlers will be held in the Mayor’s office to-night, to< discuss drainage matters.

The Government has definitely decided to take the Carrington estate of 617S,.acres, the property of Mr W. Howard Booth, near Carterton.

Mr A. A. Laing, of Foxton, has purchased Mr R. F. Haybittle’s interest in the Masonic Hotel, Woodville, says the Examiner, and will take possession before the end of the month. Mr Laing’s many friends in this district will wish him success in his new venture.

Mr Ongley, has been selected captain of the Palmerston rep. team, which is to play Foxton reps, on Saturday, with Mr C. Fraser as manager. Mr E. Nash was appointed referee. The team will leave by the mid-day train on Saturday for Foxton and return via Shannon.

In connection with the Methodist Sunday School a _ lantern enteitainment will be given on Friday evening. The subject will be “ Switzerland.” A number of comic slides will also be shown. A collection will be taken in aid of the Primitive Methodist Orphanage Fund. The lecture will commence at 7.30.

Quite a determined agitation is going on in France, Switzerland, and in some American States for a tax on all bachelors between 25 and 50. Some bachelors contend that if they can produce evidence of having been refused by three young ladies they ought to be exempt from taxation. The following dialogue took place in the course of a trial at Jersey Citv : —Judge to 13-3'ear-old boy witness : ‘‘ Do you know the nature of an oath?” Boy: 11 It’s a promise to tell the truth.” Judge: ‘‘ And what will happen if vou tell a lie?” Boy: ‘‘We’ll lose the case. ’ ’ Judge : ‘ ‘ Swear him.”

Auckland Education Board complains of the dearth of teachers and the Herald remarks : “ One reason why many young people fight shy of taking up the teaching profession is the difficulty they have in getting on with local committees. In the country, it would seem, the people have plenty to do with their hands, but, as the proceedings of the Board show, at almost every .meeting, for want of better occupation of the mind the rural folk made a burning question of school management, and a difference of opinion about a water tap may embitter a whole country side for years.” For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6

Empire Day will no longer be a holiday, but a day for special lessons on the lines adopted by Mr Adams at Foxton, says the Feilding Star.

The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company paid out on Saturday upwards of for milk supplied during May, being a record payment for the company for that month. The average test for the month was 47. The Presbyterian Assembly of Canada decided by 137 to ix to support the projected union of Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists under the name of the United Protestant Church.

One of the prisoners who was sentenced at the Supreme Court in Christchurch the other day, had a remarkable piece of good fortune. In delivering sentence, His Honor said: “Six months’ imprisonment; no, twelve. Well, as I’ve said it, six months ; I don’t wish to alter it, but that was a slip. It should have been twelve months.” And the man looked correspondingly relieved. A man at the Umpire Hotel, in a loud tone of voice, called his friend back just as he was leaving the dining room, on Thursday afternoon (says the Dance), and then whispered to him: “How far would you have got if I hadn’t called you back?” The other straightening himself up, replied in a tone loud enough lor all to hear ; “ No, sir, I won’t lend you £5 ; I haven’t got it on me, and if I had I wouldn’t let you have it until you have paid me what you borrowed two months ago.” On the whole, the hoaxed man sort of scored. With this issue Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame, the well-known drapers of Palmerston, make an announcement which should bring joy to many a household. The sale starts to-day. It is impossible to give details in our limited space, but we can advise anyone paying Palmerston a visit, to call in at C. and C’s., in fact, it will pay you well to make a special trip, as the reduction alone on the dresses and jackets will far more than repay you. Blankets, flannels, sheetings, and, in fact, every line comes under Collinson and Cunninghame’s sale prices.* A remarkable story is told of a farmer who lives near Ilfracombe, who travelled to Exeter to see “The White Witch.” respecting the death of three horses. The animals died in a mysterious manner, in the first place sitting on their haunches, and then lying on their sides. Two veterinary surgeons were unable to say what was the nature of the disease, and. after the death of the third horse, the farmer made the journey to Exeter. The woman known as “ The White Witch ” visited the farm, and told the man that he had undoubtedly been “ witched.” The farmer firmly believes that such was the case. In answer to interrogations by a pressman as to whether he really believed in the superstition, he replied definitely that he was sure that it was right, adding ; ‘ ‘ And it was a good job I went, or else I should have lost everything. I lost all my horses, and it was awful.”

“It is quite fashionable now to be a tee-totaller,” remarked the Bishop of London at the meeting of the London United Temperance Council at the Memorial Hall. “ In the City the waiters are quite used to planking down my tankard of lemonade, and there would be Lord Roberts on one side and Lord Methuen on the other sharing the Bishop’s lemonade. Public opinion is coming round to our side, and not the least of our victories is the conversion of the doctors. I like the present Parliament —although I do not agree with it on all points—because it contains the largest number of teetotallers.” The Bishop also said that starting at 7 o’clock in the morning at Clapton by dedicating a new church, and later in the morning assisting in laying the foundation stone of the new S.P.G. building, he had since been engaged with his Nonconformist brothers in London in discussing means of putting down what was a great evil in London —what was called ” living statuary.” He hoped the Nonconformists would support the Archbishop of Canterbury and himself in protesting against that evil. Some interesting views on preaching were expressed the other day by a Sydney clergymen, the Rev. J. Fergusson. “ I have no great faith in music,” said Mr Fergusson. ‘‘can’t sing, so perhaps I am prejudiced. I put preaching above all choirs and organs and bands. We don’t want people who say things can’t be done. I would order them out to Bondi Beach, and make them sing their dirges to the sad sea waves. (Laughter.) We don’t want a minister to lie in bed and think Providence will fill his church. No ! Providence has more sense than that. (Laughter.) A minister should build up a morning congregation, for a morning congregation provides the sinews of war. To do this he must go into the homes of the people. He must know their fireside cat and the tongs and the kettle. (Loud laughter.) Then he must keep in mind the carnal things, and the carnal things to the morning congregation are the one o’clock dinner, the trains, and the steamboats. If you make a congregation miss its train you will be written down in its blackbooks. (Laughter.) Sermons should be judiciously short. I believe in the short sermon. They are harder to make, but easier to preach. You stop when you’re done, and blessed is the preacher who knows when he is done!” Loud laughter.) .

The Manawatu County Council publishes special orders in this issue re rates.

The Catholic Mission which was to have commenced in the local Church on Sunday next has been unavoidably postponed until the 14th July. A general meeting of the Albion Football Club will be held in the Manawatu Hotel on Friday (tomorrow), at 8 p.m. Business— Election of secretary.

The Inspector of Nuisances notifies householders that regulation sanitation receptacles must be installed in all w.c.’s, within the borough sanitation area within five days from date. Mr S. Hickson has generously donated boundary flags and touch line flags for the rep, match on Saturday between Manawatu and the local reps. The flags represent the colours of the two unions. Mr Hickson is deserving of the union’s thanks for his thoughtfulness and generosity.

In reply to a letter of sympathy from Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., the Hon. W. Hall-Jones writes : “ I have had a rather trying time, but am thankful to say that I am now improving. lam advised on all hands to take a rest, and I feel that I must do so. I have been very pleased with the many communications of sympathy and good wishes which I have received from all parts of the colony. They have cheered me at a critical time. I shall never forget the kindness and goodwill shown to me, and if it is so willed that I may continue my Ministerial work, it will encourage me to do what I can to retain the respect and esteem of those to whom I refer.”

The present high cost of living is being freely grumbled about, and it appears to have been causing housewives to effect little retrenchments in various directions. As an illustration, an applicant for relief to the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees said that she formerly supported herself by going out washing. She was asked whv she did not continue to do so. ‘‘l can’t get any washing to do this month,” she replied. “How’s that ?” asked the chairman. “Oh, everybody seems to be doing their own washing now,” was the response. If this is the true state of affairs the people of Dunedin may be coming to the position that Mark Twain found in Guernsey—everybody living by taking in everybody else’s washing. An extraordinary story of football enthusiasm comes from Sheffield. A 3 r outh who was suffering from rapid consumption, and was aware that his end was near, anxious to see the Cup final, travelled from Sheffield to London on Cup day. He witnessed the victory of his favourite team and then went home. Retiring to his bed on getting home early on Sunday morning, he asked his mother to place Sheffield Wednesday colours close to him where he could see them. This she did. “lam glad I lived to see good old Sheffield Wednesday win the Cup again,” he said, and then, with wonderful calmness, the coloms of the club near him, he waited the end, which came on the Sunday night.

There is a quaintness in some of the letters sent by Maoris to the Truant Officer (Mr Small) to explain absence of their children from the school. One recently received commences: “Dear Mr Sarah,’’ —but whether this is merely an error, or a quiet poke at the Truant Offiicer, it is hard to say—- “ I have received your letter saying that I have to pay ios a week for four weeks for the absence of (Pare) at school. I think there is no trouble for being absence, because I wrote to the teacher, telling him that (Pare) is very sick, and she not coming back to school for about two months. She, the people where she stayed told me she had not eaten anything for two weeks, and she has also been absence at school for a week. I came back from the bush, and her auntie told me about it, and I went to see her, and she began to cry to me. She can go back to school when she get better. The way she got sick because she was very sorry to us, and she is going back to school again because she is better now. I think you must not summon me for the absence of (Pare) because she could not go to school as she was sick ; besides I told the teacher, that’s why I say there is no trouble. So go od-by for all the time.”—Auckland Star.

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