LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 31 August 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Archbishop Redwood will open a new Roman Catholic Church building at Aramohp, to-morrow.

The services in the Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. J. Southern, in the evening by Mr Harris. The choir will render an anthem at the evening service.

The Motueka Harbour Board is taking steps to urge the Government to expedite matters to .enable the Board to proceed without further 1 delay in effecting very neccessary harbour improvements.

The death occurred at Palmerston yesterday, after, a long and painful illness, of Mr H. Bryant. Deceased was born at the Hutt in 1854, and for ’many years carried on sheep farming at Oharui Valley and Stoney Greek. He leaves a wife and seven.sons to mourn their loss. -• ••

Mr A. Toogood, a well-known business man'' from the South Wairarapa, and who, by the way, is interested in one or two flaxmills in this district, Was on a visit to Foxton yesterday. Mr Toogood, in conversation with our representative, remarked on the progressive appearance of Foxton. “We are going, to, allow men to sell trout caught in salt water, outside a halt-mile radius from the mouths of the rivers,” said the Minister of Marine. “If men presume on that and take the trout close to the river mouths, then there is no doubt what we shall do. The boats and nets will be confiscated, and we will make an example of the offenders. ’ ’

Madame Melba, accompanied by her son and daughter-in-law, has arrived on a six months’ visit to Australia. In the course of an interview, Madame stated that the most promising Australasian singer in E.ondon at present was the New Zealander. Madame Melba’s visit is stated to be of a purely private nature.

Mr Archibald Hall, who was manager for many j r ears of the old horse trams in Wellington, has made‘an offer'to the Wellington City Council to lease the electric tramways from the city for a period of twenty-one years, paying ,£40,000 a;v.year,yrent, , besides a monthly sum per car-mile run. The pffer ,is under consideration by the Council. - • •

A meeting of the Council of the local Chamber of Commerce was held in Mr Rae-Howard’s office on Thursday night. Present —Messrs Morgan (chair), Alex. Ross, M. Perreau, arid the Secretary. Correspondence was read from the Member for the District touching on matters already referred to in these columns. It was decided to vote five guineas towards the Technical School, when started. Accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting rose. Some time ago the Education Department gave the Wellington Board to understand that it w r as prepared to purchase a vehicle to try the experiment of carrying school children between Mohunoa and Martiuborougb. The Te Horo Committee recently asked the Board to buy a trap to enable them to have children driven daily from Hautere Cross and Otaki Gorge road to the school at Te Horo. On the motion of Mr Field, M.H.R., the Board decided to ask the Department t*) purchase a vehicle.

The September number of the Review of Reviews just published is exceptionally fine. The article of chief interest is the account of the trip of the Governor-General to the Northern Territory, written by MrS. Mauger, M.P., who was the Minister in attendance. Another article of great interest is that on Church and Labour by the Rev. S. Pearce Carey, M.A., of Melbourne. The Character Sketch leads one into another and comparatively unknown world Siam. The King of that country forms a very' 1 interesting subject. The section devoted to a review of the leading magazines is, as usual, thorough and informing, and one gets the world in a nutshell. The serial story “ Carette of Sark,’ by Jphn Oxenham, is continued.

Mr Hall Caine 'says “St. James’s Budget ”) regards Raisuli as a statesman. Mr Harris, the “Times ” correspondent, who has been one of the .brigand’s victims, has some .regard, for him, too, but tells us plainly that the man can act the monster, for he once sold a captive to a neighboring tribe and watched while he was murdered in cold blood. The average brigand, while in active business, though he may now and then display a softer side, is at best but a tiger more or less tamed. A band of them in Sicily captured and carried into , the. hills a priest and a young girl. Their purpose was that the priest might baptise and the innocent girl act as godmother to an infant both in the outlaw’s stronghold.. When- the girl was led back to civilisation the grateful father of the infant, pressed a package into her hands. Upon ■reaching her home she opened it to find that it contained a pair of human ears—in them earrings worth a fortune.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6

The Bishop 5 of London (the Right Rev. Dr Ingram) exhorts the clergy not to solemnise the marriage of a deceased wife’s sister or lend their churches for the purpose. Bunkum !

It is stated that some stone resembling the opal has been discovered in a district at back of the Thames. Whether the stone has any marketable value or not is unknown at present. -The exact locality of the discovery will not be disclosed until the value of the stones has been ascertained.

In the Presbyterian Church to : morrow evening the Rev. G. K. Aitken will deliver his sixth address on the Christ character and its influence on the world. The subject will be “The Resurrection of Christ, an historical fact, and a present power.” A sacred duet entitled “He Leadeth Me,” will be rendered by members of the choir.

A gentleman ivho has been sojourning in the.Urewera country told a N.Z. Times reporter the 1 other day that the hand of Rua was likely to wane, although it was now powerful. Rua hqs a canvas town and about 2000 Maoris —mien, women, and children —under him. Sickness is very prevalent, the mortality among children being large. It is thought that much sickness will convince the more intelligent Maoris that Rua is not omnipotent. Many Maori schools are closed, the parents and children having been influenced by Rua. We are informed, on reliable authority (says the Opotiki Guardian) that about 30 of the children who were- attendants at the Waimana native school have died at Rua’s camp at Mangapohutu as a result of the outbreak of typhoid and measles. Diphtheria is steadily increasing in Wellington, says the Times, and for the month of August twenty cases have been noted to the Health Department. There were nine cases reported last month, and thirteen cases in Juhe. The present prevalence of the disease is most unusual. Scarlet fever; which has been more or less prevalent for six months, is not on the wane, and the authorities are not able to find a cause for its continuance, They believe, however, that its presence is prolonged by unnotified cases. Actinomycosis, the disease lately added to the‘list of notifiable infectious disorders, is found in both man and cattle —a blood disease which affects the tongue, jaw, face and throat. It is difficult sometimes to identify, especially in man. Its infectivity is great and its organisms highly prolific. The Rev. Frederick C. Spurr (Congregational), of London, startled some of his people the other day by attending and officiating'at a funeral of one of hjs deacons, attired in a grey suit of clothes. The innovation was,quite intentional, and Mr Spurr defended his action. “In the first place,” he said “ I do not believe in death, and I think that if people busied themselves preparing how to live instead of how to die, the world would be a better place. I am heartily sick of the paganism that is connected with a good many Christian funerals. If we honestly believe that a good Christian has gone into a higher and truer life, why should we wear clothes even suggesting that he is dead and done with ? It was Charles Dickens’s protest in all his works, and in future I will not conduct funerals in a black suit. I would rather wear a white cassock surplice than a black suit. During the second reading of the Tariff Bill on Thursday evening, Mr McLachlan,, member for Ashburton, rose to speak, but the chairman called on Mr Wilford. Mr McLachlan : I was up first; I was up before Sir Joseph Ward. The chairman again called Mr Wilford, and ordered Mr McLachlan to resume his seat. Mr McLachlan said he would bow to the arbitary rule, but it was not honest. The chairman called bn Mr McLachlan to withdraw, but he said he would not do so, but would leave the House. The chairman called on the leader of the House, and Sif Joseph Ward said the authority of the chairman must be maintained. Mr McLachlan withdrew the objectionable remark. Mr Wilford explained that the trouble arose through Mr McLachlan not being able to see him (Mr Wilford) rise, as he'was behind Mr McLachlan. '

Mr, H. J. Bull writes to the London press ;— *• May I, as the leader of the Norwegian commercial expedition that was wrecked last December on one of the Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean) beg the indulgence • of a few lines in your valued columns to tender the thanks of myself and my 10 rescued shipmates to the British nation for the use of the provision depot sq thoroughly placed there in 1880, by Captain East, R. N. (His Majesty’s ship Comus), and particularly to the New Zealand Shipping Company, for the kindness shown to us by Captain Francis Forbes and the crew on their steamship Turakina, which rescued us after a sojourn of nearly three miles on a desolate island. Only castaways can apprepreciate. our feeling of joy on exchanging the misery of qur existence on the island for the palatial comfort of the big-English steamer, but everyone will understand our appreciation of the company’s generous action—-of which I only heard to-day—in waiving its claim for salvage, and leaving it to the Norwegian Government to make what compensation they think proper.” A No matter how long you have suffered from rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbago, Rheumo will cure you. All chemists and stores stock it. Price 2/6 and 4/6. J WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absolutely pure; a pleasant tonic-beverage.

A special meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees Union will be held in the registered office on Monday evening next at 8 o’clock. The business to he dealt with is the amending of the rules. When a shopkeeper was charged at Shanghai with selling a cake unfit for human consumption, containing several cockroaches, two or three centipedes, and a beetle, the defendant said he had prepared the cake as medicine for himself. His assistant had sold it by mistake. A flask of whisky is lying in the snow on top of Mount Ruapehu, so Dr Marshall told the Otago Institute on Tuesday evening. ‘' Still there?” ejaculated a member. “As far as I know,” replied Dr Marshall. ‘‘ I think if it had beeri found mention would have been made in the newspapers, and so far there has been no record of that.

The largest orchard in the colony is that at Frimley. For the past two years there have been sixty miles of peach trees in the orchard, and the company has just planted sixty miles of peach and pear trees. The Hastings Standard states that it takes two men four days to spray the, new orchard, each spraying on an average of eight miles a day. A. post mortem examination •in connection w r ith the death of a child four years old, at MoobL l N.S.W., revealed the fact that the \ Child died from appendicitis, caused through a- single pellet of shot lodging in the appendix. The father shot some plovers, which were cooked and eaten. The deceased partook of some, and in this way swallowed a shot. Professor Berger, of Paris has performed an operation on a man who gained his living as a-“-hu-man ostrich ”at fairs. From the man’s interior were extracted : One fork bent double, one buttonhook, three four-inch nails, 139 tacks, needles in vast quantities, and two steel chains each five inches long. He came under medical notice because he complained of chronic melancholia. Those beautiful kid gloves which delight the feminine heart are the source of great cruelty to the original owners of the skin. In order to obtain the skin as soft and pliable as possible, the goats in\ India are subjected by the natives pto a process known as “flaying,” ' or, in other words, they are skinned alive and killed after this operation has been completed. The work of the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has done much to stop this barbarous practice, but according to the society’s latest report it still obtains in some parts of India. The half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Society of New Zealand held at Auckland, was attended by delegates, from the whole colony, and passed a resolution con gratu- ; dating feishop Lenihan on the jubilee'bf the Funeral Fund, which totalled an increase in the half-year of a sum of .£l4O having been expended in death claims. The general account balance was ,£246, and the amount loaned on mortgage at 5 per cent., was ,£5885. A motion was carried that steps be taken to encourage Irish emigration to New Zealand. The officers elected were: District President, Bro. Dane; VicePresident, Bro. T. Birend; Secretary, Bro. W. Kane ; Treasurer Bro. M. J. Sheehan; auditors, Bros. T. J. O’Meara and J. B. Stead. v

Astronomers are expecting three known comets to make their reappearance shortly. Jacobini’s ' comet, which was discovered in 1900, is now somewhere about; and Encke’s comet, which has a short period of 1,210 days and has been regularly observed for half, a century or more, is expected in May, 1908. As both these comets are telescopic objects they will be of little interest to laymen, but in 19x0 the return of Halley’s comet is expected. Halley’s comet is a large and brilliant body, and was last visible from the earth in 1835. Astronomers believe that it is identical with a comet which was seen in 1531, 1607, 1682, and 1759, giving it a period of approximately 75 years. As the periodicity of Halley’s comet on these dates has not been perfectly regular, the observatories of the world will be part on the outlook for it from the y&x 1908. 1 WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is invaluable to the traveller.

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