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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3772, 14 September 1907, Page 2

Several hundreds of acres of the Moutoa Estate have been secured by a syndicate for the purpose of flax cultivation.

Owing to a number of the Manawatu hockey reps, being victims to influenza, the match which was to have taken place to-day between them and the local players has been postponed. The very inclement weather on Thursday night interfered with the attendance at the Methodist social in the Masonic Hall. A most enjoyable time was spent by those in attendance.

The borough roadmen commenced work this morning on the formation of a footpath in the Avenue from Johnson to Futter Streets. Mr P. H. Rae-Howard will hold bis first auction sale during the first week of next month. The premises next to Mr Hennessy’s grocery establishment have been secured as a mart.

Owing to the stormy weather, the School Committee meeting, which was to . have been held on -Thursday evening last, lapsed for the want of a quorum. The meeting will be held on Monday evening at Mr Frankland’s residence.

We remind members of committee ot the Foxton Horticultural Society of the meeting to be held in Mr Perfeau’s rooms, on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock. The business will consist of drawing up rules and catalogue, to be submitted to a future general meeting. Messrs Barraud and Abraham, of Palmerston North, notify that they have just landed their new season’s supply of turnip and swede, mangold and rape, clovers and mustard. • This well-known firm also carries a stock of cocksfoot and rye grass, including a very fine sample of Indian rye. See advertisement.

Some time since we published a paragraph from a contemporary stating that acompetition was being waged between the sawmillers at Ohakune and as a result undressed timber was procurable at 6s and dressed at 8s 6d per 100 ft delivered, Mr T. Rimmer, acting on the information published, at once communicated with a milling firm in the district mentioned and received a reply to the effect that the firm was unable to quote for timber delivered at Foxton.

Some suggestions by the Hon, Dr Collins upon the relations of ths sexes were made in the legislative Council, on Thursday, and will no doubt be discussed with vigour by opposing sides, for the proposals are not new. The hou. gentleman declared himself against any interference with the marriage ceremony, but believed that if unsuitable marriages could be prevented it would be a good thing. Would it not be a good thing for parties about to marry to furnish each other with a certificate of health, showing hereditary tendencies ? This might prevent some unsuitable marriages. In these days when women entered upon commercial life on the same basis as men, would it not be good if the woman should have just as much right to ask a man to marry her, as the man had to propose? A woman, he concluded, had just as much right to choose a comrade in life as a man.

Our new goods have now arrived, and for variety and low prices, you will do well to patronise Watchorn, Stiles & Co. * Women who require a stimulant should try WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.

Mr Hogg’s amcnimeut to take the duty off flour was defeated after a prolonged debate on Wednesday.

For using obscene language at Wellington, two men named Hugh Campbell and James Glover, were fined £5 each or one month. At Masterton two men, on a similar charge, were fined £3 each or a month. Wrathful Editor: ‘‘Who wrote this obituary?” Sub: ‘‘Our yachting expert.” Wrathful Editor: “Don’t let him write any niore. He says that Mrs Jobb, who died last week, ‘ snapped her mainboom.’ ”

At the Palmerston N. Supreme Court, Apostolos Rapteles, a Greek, was charged with assaulting a fellow-countryman, G. Gambestis. The accused was alleged to have stabbed Gambestis with a knife. The jury acquitted the accused. The reckless waste of timber in almost every part of the world has had the natural result in that it has brought the limit ol supply within the distance of a few decades. Even in North America, that land of. gigantic forests, the end of the supply is said to be within measurable distance.

Addressing a Catholic Conference at Preston, Archbishop Bourne, of Westminster, declared it would be impossible to maintain Catholic schools without State aid. If they were extinguished, Socialism and anarchy in the political orders would be a natural retribution-. He appealed to Nonconformists, who did not deserve the hateful name of persecutors. The Masterton Borough Council has passed a resolution that the Town Clerk and Borough Engineer and all those connected with the departments of' these officials, receive three months’ notice, terminating their engagement with the Council. The Town Clerk has held the position for a period of over 30 years. But apparently the Council think a change is desirable in the public interest. It is surprising the amount of pleasure the small boy derives from witnessing the discomfiture of a motor party caused by a break down of the engine or a tire puncture. A tire went bang near Heretaunga school on Monda}'’, says the Hastings Standard, and a small boy, with a diabolical grin, cycled round and round the wind bound car. Motorists may be pardoned for wishing they were permitted to carry six shooters at such times. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells in Cassell’s Magazine of an illiterate millionaire who gave a wholesale dealer an order for a copy of all books in any language treating of any aspect of Napoleoti’s career. He thought that it would fill.a case of his library. He was somewhat taken aback, however, when in a few weeks he received a message from the dealer that he had got 40,000 volumes, and awaited instructions as to whether he should send them on as an instalment, or wait for a complete set. At the last sitting of the Taumarunui Court, a young man “from the front” was mulcted in penalties amounting to £6 for being a too energetic disciple of Squires. After the Court he expressed himself to some bosom friends somewhat in this strain : “I brought fifteen quid with me ; I thought that would see me through ; but the old gent only called for six, so you bet I’m shaking hands with myself. I’ve nothing to squeak about.” —Taihape Post. The Sydney Morning Herald reports an extraordinary discovery was made by a workman last week in an empty house at Eeichhardt. Whilst dusting the walls of the front sitting-room, preparatory to kalsomining them, he brushed down a large cobweb formed in a corner above the front window, and to his astonishment found a £5 note adhering to the brush. It is supposed that the note had been placed loosely on a table during the occupancy of the last tenant of the house, and had been blown during windy weather into the cobweb when no one was in the room.

There has been considerable discussion in local bodies and in Parliament lately concerning the case of a comsumptive refused admission to the Otaki Sanatorium. The Wellington District Hospital Board considered the matter, and indignantly repudiated the charge that admission was refused because of the man’s straightened financial circumstances. The Board decided that it must be guided as to its treatment of the case by the report of its medical officer, who will decide whether the case has a prospect of being cured. It was also decided to hold a conference of bodies interested to prevent overlapping in future. The Government will be asked to be represented at the conference. The opinion is held that an intermediate hospital for consumptives should be provided.

Last year George How Chow, a wealthy Gisborne Chinaman who married a European, left with his family on a trip to China, intending to stay some time. The family, not caring for the change, returned to Gisborne but the husband, having invested funds there (in China), remained to realise. How Chow having failed subsequently to return, his wife revisited Hong Kong, having in the meantime received the disquieting news that all efforts to find her husband had failed and it was feared that he had met with foul play by lawless bands. Mrs How Chow has now returned to Gisborne with her son, aged n, who had been placed at a college in Hong Kong.

For Bronchial Coughs take Woods Great Peppemint Cure; Is 6d. and 3s 6d.

We understand that a local hotel will shortly change hands.

The Manawatu River was in a very flooded state yesterday by reason of the recent heavy rains.

. Preparations are well in hand for the forthcoming All Saints Bazaar, to be held in the, Public Hall on October 15th, 16th, and 17th. Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has received her shipment of new millinery, which will repay inspection. ,

The local football sports and concert to be held Wednesday, Sept 25th, promises to be a success. Tickets for the concert may be obtained from school children. The Premier intimated in the House yesterday that he will ask Parliament to proclaim September 26th, Dominion Day, a public holiday. Mr O. Cook will run a conveyance to Carnarvon on Wednesday evening for the convenience of those attending the Presbyterian concert.

The Rev. Mr Wilson, late vicar of this parish, will conduct services in All Saints’ Church to : morrow. The Rev. Mr Woodward will supply at Rongotea. At Wellington, yesterday, David McEoughlin, for cruelly illtreating a horse by working it. while suffering from a sore shoulder * was fined I,with costs 7s, hi default 48 hours’ imprisonment. On account of a principal witness removing from the district, and thereby not receiving suificieut notice, the Foxton Sub-Union meeting had to be postponed last evening.

Mr J. W. Rough is busy completing plans for the erection of a Catholic Presbytery to be erected near the church site ; also plans for the erection of Mr M. Perreau’s new shops in Main Street.

At the Palmerston Supreme Court yesterday, the man McGlashan, charged with breaking, and entering at Foxton on May 25th, was acquitted. At the local Court to-day an application for a prohibition order against a country resident, was granted. Peter Glennie, charged with having used obscene language in Main-street last night, was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in the Wanganui gaol. Messrs T. Rimmer and A. Cockburn were the presiding justices.

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. H. Daniel, of Rongotea. The subject at the evening service will be, “ A Great Doctor.” The choir will render the anthem, ‘‘Jubilate Deo.” Mr Daniel is the Missionary Deputation to the Foxton circuit this year. On Wednesday Mr Daniel will deliver an illustrated lecture on Egypt. The lecture will commence at 7.30. A collection will be taken on behalf of the Missionary Fund.

“ The second coming ot Christ ’’ is the Rev. G. K. Aitken’s subject in the Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening. This is the last of Mr Aitkeu’s addresses on the character and teaching of Christ. This series of addresses will be followed by another fortnightly series on the “Church of Christ,’’ which should prove equally interesting to the series just closing. Johann Kovacs, a railway station porter at Bihar, in Hungary, had on July 22nd a narrow escape of being dissected alive. It is stated that two days before he fell down unconscious while at work, and was taken to the hospital. The doctors pronounced him dead, and a post-mortem was decided on, for which all preparations were made, the body being put on the dissecting table, where a lecture was delivered over it to the students before the body was opened. At the first prick of the knife Kovacs awoke with a start, and as soon as he realised the position, endeavoured to assault the surgeon who held the dissecting knife. He had to be forcibly restrained by the other doctors.

A knowledge of first aid was very effectively applied by two Maori boys at Manurewa, Auckland, a few days ago. A settler’s wife, who had got on the roof of her cottage in order to extinguish a fire in the chimney, fell to the ground and broke her arm. Two Maori boys who were near by went to her assistance and commenced to fix the injured limb, which was twisted round. They worked it gradnally into position, though the woman fainted at each turn. On getting it into position they placed it in splints and then directed their attention to the fingers, which were also broken. After putting them in splints they procured a horse and trap and drove the woman several miles to a doctor, who declared that but for the skilful manner in which the lads had treated the injured arm, an operation would have been necessary.

A nurse maid is advertised for,

We have just opened up a beautiful of black and coloured Dress Goods, also all the latest in Fancy Voiles, Muslins, Tussores, etc. Push the town alpng and deal with your local draper. — Watchorn, Stiles, & Co. * The reputation of the Economic dressmaking department is too well known to heed comment. Mrs Hamer has made arrangements which will 'enable her to favourably supervise this department during the coming season.* _

Eehumatism can be- oared then—why will you continue to suffer. Eheumo has effected wonderful cures for others after all else had failed. It will cure you Try it. • i A horse cover is advertised as found. Owner can have same on paying cost of advertisement.