LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 25 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Ordinary meeting of the local Masonic Lodge to-morrow night. The Secretary of the Awahou Football Club acknowledges with thanks a donation from Mr S. J. Hickson. Owing to other public engagements the Athletic Club’s annual meeting has been further postponed until Monday, July 29th. “I have been 16 years in Wellington and have regularly attended Parliament as an onlooker, and I must say that the tone of the House is steadly deteriorating. I consider its condition to-night is a reflection on the intelligence of the people of New Zealand.”—A remark made by a gentleman sitting in the Strangers’ Gallery a few nights ago. At Watchorn, Stiles & Co.’s great sale, new season’s millinery from 3s lid to 12s fid, usually 12s fid to 455.* Kapoc pillows being cleared at the Economic at is 1 id each.*

The Manawatu County Council notify penny royal and hemlock as noxious weeds. Word was received last night that the All Blacks defeated Queensland by 23 points to 3. The Financial debate concluded jn the House of Representative', jast night. The remains of the late Thomas Henry Haj'ward, were interred in the local cemetery this afternoon. The Rev. Mr Woodward officiated at the graveside. Anti-Japanese rioting has taken place in San Francisco. Four people were killed and many injured. The tramcar sheds were set on fire and burnt. We acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the banquet to be tendered by the local Oddfellows, to the District Delegates, in the Methodist Schoolroom to-morrow night. Our lady readers are advised by an advertisement in another column that, a “great re-organisa-tion sale ’ ’ at Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., Wellington, will begin on 31st July. A large budget of bargains will be sent post free to all who ask lor it.*

A gentleman who had taken a lad into his office as junior clerk out of charity, kept him at the office later than usual the other Saturday. The lad became sulky, and performed his duties in a very dilatory manner. At last his employer, out of all patience, remonstrated with him and said : “You ungrateful rascal, where would you be now but for me?” To his intense astonishment the lad replied : “At the football match!”—Exchange. Prince Bulow, interviewed by a French journalist, rejoices in the improved relations between France and Germany. He denied that Germany desired colonial expansion. The fleet was only intended to protect commerce, and he did not anticipate trouble between Japan and the United States, and further, did not believe in the yellow peril. The Japanese were too serious and sensible to threaten Europe.

A correspondent to the Taumaranui Press writes ; —“ Itma}’’ be of interest to your readers to know that the rock the Kia Ora is supposed to have run on is known to the natives of Piritoko. When Te Rauparaha lived on Tirau Point one of his wives swam out to it and back. Her name was Taha Moana. Many of his fighting men tried to accomplish it, but never could. It is also an old fighting ground of the natives. That was Te Rauparaha’s last stand in the latter part of the 20’s, perhaps 1828. The distance to Piritoko from the Point (short) is about one mile and three-quarters or two miles.”

It falls to the lot of few married couples to spend as many years of life together as Mr and Mrs Brinsmead fof piano fame), who have celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding-day amid much rejoicing. But even this remarkable record of wedded life has been beaten within repent years by at least three couples. Only recently the death was recorded of Mrs William Woolass, of Uaneham, Notts, whose husband, still living, led her to the altar more than 71 years ago, when William' IV. was still King. In August last Mr and Mrs R. W. Crocker, of Taunton, celebrated the seventy-second anniversary of their nuptials, the husband, who has since died, having seen 96 years, and his wife 95 ; while a short time since, Mr and Mrs Pierre Forget, of Montreal, completed 76 years of married life, at the combined age of 196 years. Definitions are awkward things, and sometimes appear more complete than thej r really are. A police witness in a nautical case heard recently, was cross-ex-amined at great length by a humorous advocate, and showed a good deal of shrewdness in his replies. He admitted that he knew very little about ships, and nautical phrases were beyond him. Questioned as to where ‘‘ aft was on a ship,” he said he believed it was the part that went last. This was accepted as humorously accurate till the Bench drily interjected, “How about when the vessel was backing out.”

If you have not visited Collinson and Cunninghame’s sale an opportunity is still open before 31st July. As C. and C. take stock on that date we would advise anyone looking out for genuine bargains in drapery to paj r Collinson and Cunninghame, of Broad St., The Square, Palmerston North, a visit. It will repay you.* At Watchorn, Stiles and Co.’s great sale, new grey tweed skirts, usually 255, now 7s 6d.* Liniments cannot remove the real trouble in rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago, Eiieumo does, by removing the excess uric acid from the blood. Ehepmo effects a thorough cure. 2s 6d and 4s 6d. 4 For Bronchial Coughs take Woods Great Peppermint Cure; Is 6d. and 2s fid. The ordinary cough medicine may soothe the throat, but it has no power to heal; recovery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. Chamberlains Cough Remedy is quite different, because it not only soothes but also heals, so that the affected parts are restored to a healthy condition, and the danger of a future attack is removed. For sale by Messrs Gardner and- Whibley, Foxton. Now, if from any sudden chill A cold your nose should tint, On no account take anything For it but Peppermint. We all are liable to colds, Or frequently to cough, On hand keep Woods’mighty Cure, Don’t put this matter off, 14