LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 17 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Two houses at Bulls, belonging to Mrs Seddlesand Mrs McGregor, were destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The Manawatu County Council on Wednesday confirmed the special order authorising the loan of for Council’s share of the cost of the Shannon bridge. At Palmerston yesterday Arthur Roberts was remanded till Tuesday on a charge ot thieving jewellery to the value of ,£25 from the residence, of Mr Kerslake.

There will be keen competition among Mr Jarrett’s lady pupils in the physical culture classes for the gold medals. All the pupils are practising assiduously. At a large Esperanto Congress at Cambridge, thirty nationalities were represented. Church services, sermons, and hymns were rendered in Esperanto. A large school of whales has been sporting off Sydney Heads. As many as a hundred, ranging from sixty to seventy feet in length, have been seen at one time.

The County Council at Wednesday’s meeting decided to invite tenders for repairs to the Wbirokino bridge as soon as the Treasury had notified that the necessary loans were available. At the Presbyterian Church tomorrow night Mr Aitkeu will deliver his fifth address on the character of Christ and its teachings to the present age, the subject being “ The death of Christ and its lessons to us.”

The Rev Mr Davys, of St. Peter’s Wellington, will conduct all the services in All Saints’ Church on Sunday next. Mr Davys is vicar of the largest parish in the Wellington Diocese, and is a most earnest and eloquent preacher. The vacancy on the School Committee caused by the retirement of Mr Clemett, will probably be filled by Mr Levett, who scored the highest votes outside those elected at the last meeting of householders. The next in order are Messrs Henderson, Austin, and Rae-Howard.

Webb, the world’s champion sculler, was accorded a most enthusiastic reception in the Wellington Town Hall on Thursday. Complimentary speeches were made by the Mayor, the Premier, and members of Parliament. As the train conveyed the champion to Wanganui yesterday, groups of enthusiasts were in waiting at almost every station to congratulate Webb. He had a great welcome at Wanganui.

There is great jubilation in Woodville over news that a big lode has been struck in the lower level of the Maharahara copper mine. The company is to be congratulated on its success. Many years have passed since copper was first discovered in the ranges, and many thousands have been spent in endeavouring to locate the lode, but it remained for the new company to strike it. ’ Indications go to show that the lode is 30ft in thickness. It was struck at midnight on Wednesday.

At Wednesday’s County Council meeting the Engineer reported as follows on the Awahou Riding : The usual repairs have been effected, and the spell of fine weather has kept the road in good order. About 80 yards of sand has been spread over the Karikari road. Mr Peterson is progressing satisfactorily with his contract for erecting stop bank near the Shannon Ferry, and should fine weather continue, he will have the work completed next week. Now the bank is erected, it will be necessary to fence it off and protect it with willows.

At Watchoru, Stiles, & Co.’s great sale, floorcloths, linoleums, carpets, hearthrugs, sheetings, damasks, calicoes, flannelettes, all at great reductions.*

To Flaxmillers. —We are prepared to print the new tin and leather regulation tags for hemp bales, and would request millers to inspect samples of leather before placing orders for same. Inferior leather will be condemned by the department. We hold samples and invite inspection.—The HERALD Printery.

Most men are happy while hustling! The rust of idleness is what breeds the microbe of misery in a man’s mind, but a busy man even forgets his dispepsia and his debts. You can’t turn the man who is in dead earnest. He makes you feel his faith in the proposition he puts before you. There is no substitute for this quality in advertising—it is power. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is the only genuine article bearing that name.

The Manawaua and Hawke’s Bay football reps, try conclusions at Palmerston this afternoon. A number of flaxmillers inspected brands and punches at the Hehauj office this afternoon to be used in accordance with the new hemp branding regulations. They expressed satisfaction with same.

Constable Woods sold the horse, cart, and harness on behalf of the Public trustee in the estate of Charles Mitchell, deceased. The horse brought and the cart and harness £*] 10s. Mr J. P. Innes advertises for sale, by tender, part section 30 of sub-division lots 9 and 10, Block VIII., Foxton, together with two dwellings erected thereon, in the estate of the late Samuel Saveli. At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday, Thomas Miller, grocer, was charged with having wilfully set fire to a house in North-East Valley, and after lengthy evidence had been tendered, he was committed for trial.

Henry Fairbrother, the jockey who was injured in the recent meeting at Trenthara, died in the Wellington Hospital on Thursday. The deceased, who was a single man, belonged to Hastings. The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. The subject in the morning will be “ Names in God’s Book,” evening ‘‘The fruit of our doings.” The choir will render the anthem ”In the cross of Christ I glory.” In a private letter written a few years ago, the King declared that he had a horror of gambling, which, in his opinion like intemperance, was one of the greatest curses that the country could be afflicted with, and he went on to add : “ Horse racing may produce gambling or it may not, but I have always looked upon it as a manly sport, which is popular with Englishmen of all classes, and there is no reason why it should be looked upon as a gambling transaction. Alas, those who gamble will gamble at anything.” The Treasurer reported as follows at Wednesday’s County Council meeting : —General account, dr., >£3638 ns gd ; Loan account, cr., 10s Bd. Accounts available for expenditure. —Sandon Riding 10s 2d, Mt. Stewart 16 2d, Waitohi 7s 7d, Rongotea ,£296 6s 4d, Carnarvon 7s id, Kawa Kawa 10s 3d, Awahou 14s id, Whirokino 3s gd. The Tramway Manager reported that the: credit balance for the month was £l6 18s nd. The traffic, both in passengers and goods, had been satisfactory.

Mr H. Bradcock has decided to leave Foxton early next month to take up his residence in Nelson. It is 24 years ago since Mr Bradcock settled in our midst, and he has taken a prominent part in local civic and educational affairs. He was a member of the Borough Council and School Committee for a number of j'ears. He was one of the promoters of the Foxton Athletic Club, and has been one of its supporters ever since. Deserving objects have always been liberally supported by Mr Bradcock. It is worthy of mention that Mr Bradcock ran the first coach between Foxton and Kereru. His many friends throughout this district will wish him health and prosperity in his new home.

A lost greenstone pendant is advertised for.

Attention is directed to the replace advertisement of Messrs Gardner & Whibley, the Premier Cash Grocers.

At Watchorn, Stiles and Co.’s great sale, new grey tweed skirts, usually 255, now 7s 6d.* A correspondent in the Take County Press (Arrowtown, Otago) refers to an antagonist in the most extraordinary terms of mixed metaphor. He says:—“Under the lash he wriggled and squirmed like a worm cut in two, while his wild, piercing cries were like the vulture in the desert, hovering over its quarry when disturbed ; but, unlike the vulture, when his howl dies away nothing remains but an empty case.” A flight of colds set out one day, Great ugly things, and flew away, Across the lulls and o’er the sea, Determined vengeful thus to he. But all at once these colds grew fewer, Vanquished hy Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure; And so died, all one hy one, Their deadly work left all undone. There is no opiate ot any description in Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and (hat is one of the reasons why it has become so popular all over the world. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy soothes and heals, strengthens the lungs and removes the cause of (he cough or cold. We condemn no honest medicine, but when the safety of your life or that of your child is at stake, take no chance for poison. For sale by Gardner and Whiblev, Grocers.