LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 27 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A large native gathering is being held at Te Ore Ore ‘ pah, Masterton.

An epidemic of measles has broken out at Woodville, and the school has been closed..

The enquiry into the recent railway accident at Rotorua, which resulted in the death of Guard Low, is still taking evidence.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Foxton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., will be held this evening.

A ladies’ and gents’, hockey tournament takes place in Mr Symon’s paddock, near the Public Hall, to-morrow afternoon. It is hoped that all interested in the poultry industry will make a point of attending Mr Hyde’s lecture on Frida}'’ night.

Sir William Russell has disposed of his run of 8000 acres, near Hastings, to Mr John Lethbridge, brother of the member for Oroua.

War is waging with some fury between the sawmillers at Ohakune, with the result that the price of timber has fallen, and speculators are taking advantage of the position. Undressed is procurable at 6s, and dressed 8s 6d per 100 ft delivered.

At the Dunedin Supreme Court criminal sittings, after a two days’ trial, Thomas Millar was found guilty of arson, and sentenced to five years’ hard labour. Prisoner asserted his innocence before leaving .the dock. An interesting ’ State School function is to be held at the Moutoa School to-morrow afternoon. The pupils will unfurl the flag, short speeches will be made, and the ground beautified by the planting of trees. The parents will regale those present with afternoon tea. A most enjoyable time is anticipated. For Bronehial Coughs take Woods Great Peppemint Cure; Is 6d. and Is 6>L

In reply to Palmerston’s request for £lO ,000 for a Technical School, the Minister has offered £ 1 for £ 1 up to £3503. In deference to the recent remarks of the Premier, the Marton Jockey Club has decided to abandon the double total isator at its meeting on September 4th and 5 th.

In this issue is published the concert programme in conjunction with All .Saints’ Guild annual tea and conceit. The small charge for admission should ensure a large attendance.

A girl who died at Patutahi (Poverty Bay) the other day had attended school for eight and ahalf j'ears without missing an attendance. She had passed through all the standards, and the number of attendances registered was 3533. Mr Hyde, poultry expert, says he has supplied this year over two thousand fowls for breeding purposes from the Government stations to farmers and others. Orders are now coming in rapidly for eggs for setting. He considers that from the export point of view the possibilities are enormous. An old man charged with vagrancy at the Christchurch Court recently, stated that he had plenty of money in the bank* “You say you have got money in the bank,” remarked Mr V, G. Day, S.M. “Yes,” replied the accused sarcastically, ‘ ‘ there’s millions in the bank if I could only get it.” Worry (some people think) is not a cause; it is a symptom, or an effect. When we worry we are ill —literally diseased. Plenty of rest, fresh air, vigorous exercise, healthy sleep, an hour a day in the gymnasium, the unquestionable stimulus of a change of air, or a change of scene and the worry disappears. The poisons are oxidised, and eliminated. —New York Times.

Visitors to Picton just now are not too anxious to make a prolonged stay, says tlie local paper. The smell of the dead herrings which are strewn up on the foreshore is none too pleasant, even to local residents, whose olfactory nerves have become accustomed to the unsavoury “ perfume,” and it is therefore not to be wondered at that strangers arriving by train or steamer should bury nasal organs in their handkerchiefs immediately they come within the “fire zone.” Edward VII, in five short years has converted the insolation of England into the strongest and most formidable alliance known in history. Five years ago the prestige of Great Britain was comparatively low, her influence in the international affairs perceptibly weakening. To - day she is stronger by far than ever before in her history, and the whole credit for the transformation lies in the personality of her sovereign, and in no other force.—Newsletter, San Francisco.

The Petone Chronicle says : There was a time when members of Parliament had some idea of the real nature of the duties they had to perform for their country, but that time seems to have vanished and with it all financial concern. The electors who rejected such faithful watch-dogs of the public interests as Messrs T. E. Taylor and F. Pirani will live to wish both men back in their old places in the House, and that before long. Indeed, we shall be. very much surprised if both men do not contest the next election and be returned by substantial majorities. The country has need of them, for the majority of members of the present Parliament have been tried and found woefully wanting.

“Imagination has a great deal to do with some cases of sickness,’’ said a doctor in St. Joseph’s Hospital, quoted in the Philadelphia Record. There was a woman who used to come here regularly, complaining that she had swallowed a pin, and that it was stuck in her throat; hurting her dreadfull y. Week after week we assured her that we could find no pin, but still she came. At last we determined to satisfy her, so we told her to open her mouth wide, and shut her eyes. Then we placed a pin between a pair of long forceps and ran it down her throat. After fooling around a while we drew it out, and declared that we had at last succeeded in .extracting the troublesome pin. She got up, declared that she felt better, and went away. I saw her later, and she declared that the pain in her throat had entirely disappeared.” At the inquest on Mrs Augusta Billett, who was found drowned at Nikau, Colyton, on Friday morning, it appeared from the evidence that Mrs Billett’s children were sent out shortty after six o’clock to get the cows. On returning they found their mother in the position stated. They informed a man named Love, who happened to be passing the house, and he, on ascertaining the state of affairs, left the body where it was and went to Feilding and informed the police.' Deceased, it appeared, had carried several gallons of water into her room with the intention of having a bath, and this exertion, the medical evidence showed, acted upon an already weak heart and death ensued. A verdict that death was due to syncope was returned. Deceased was well known in the Colyton district, and greatly esteemed, and sincere is expressed for her husband and children.

The reputation of the Economic dressmaking department is too well known to need comment. Mrs Hamer has made arrangements which will enable her to favourably supervise this department during the coming season.*

Spring weather is being experienced throughout this district. On Sunday last Mr J. Linford’s flax-cutting camp near the Whirokino bridge was destroyed by fire. Everything in the camp was lost.

We direct attention to an announcement in this issue by W. F. Durward and Co, (late Victoria House) Palmerston N. It will repay perusal. Every one interested in the poultry industry should make a point of hearing Mr Hyde, Government poultry expert’s lecture in the Public Hall on Friday evening next. Admission is free and the lecture commences at 7.30 o’clock. Messrs Styles and Coley, of Foxton, have just disposed of their mill and leasehold land, comprising 600 acres of first class flax, in the Makerua swamp. The purchase was made by the Green Flax-dressing Company, Ltd., whose-frpehold property adjoins the newly-acquired area. It is practically settled that General Booth will visit America in the fall of the year. The tour, which will extend to about two months, will probably commence in the latter part of September, and conclude early in November. The preliminary arrangements are now on the way, and halls are being secured in the various cities to be visited.

Speaking at the opening of the Marton Technical School, on Saturday, the Minister for. Education said he did not think any education board in the colony deserved greater credit than the Wanganui Board for the enthusiastic and intelligent manner in which it had taken up technical education. It was one of the first to recognise the importance of the agricultural side of technical education, and now it had a dairying instructor and agricultural instructor at work.

We think that if the present Ministry were well advised they would recognise that to apply the term Conciliation Board to any body of which Mr Collins is a member is an absolute misuse of terms says the Palmerston Times. On Wednesday the bakers of Palmerston quite rightly refused to proceed with their case before the Board on the ground that Mr Collins was secretary of the Bakers’ Union. It is not the first time that a similar course has been taken by employers with equally good reason, and we do not expect that it will be the last. Ministers must see that the presence of Mr Collins on the Board renders it quite useless for practical purposes, and we can only suppose that they are afraid to risk the outcry which would be raised by some labour agitators if Mr Collins were asked to return to private life.

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It ivon’t cure neuralgia, temper, squints For working men or toffs : But Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

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The man who sells the same old

goods in the same old waj r , Is the very same man who, some fine day, Will find that his business does not pay. And that his trade will go, day by day, To the man who sells the same old

goods in the brand new way. * % 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.