LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 1 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Several fresh cases of measles are reported locally. Owing to the indisposition of Mr Ennis, the local bandmaster, no practice will be held to-night.

Mr P. H. Rae-Howard will hold his first auction sale in Hennessy’s Buildings, at 1.30 p.m., on Saturday next, when he will offer furniture, boots, apples, etc. Further entries are invited.

The following are the vital statistics for Foxton for the month of Septemberßirths 8, marriages nil, death x. A number of drunks were in evidence about town yesterday. The mother and sister of the late Mr Bell, who was drowned in the Manawatu last week through the capsizing of a boat, arrived in Foxton yesterday. Up to the present the body has not been recovered.

Mr F. E. Jenks returns thanks to the burgesses who recorded their votes, unsolicited, on his behalf at yesterday’s poll. Messrs Sidey, Meech and Co., auctioneers, of Wellington, notify bj r advertisement that they will hold a sale of drapery, boots and shoes, etc,, in Whyte’s sample rooms, Whyte-street, on Saturday next, at 1.30 p.m. Full particulars appear elsewhere. Says the Rahotu correspondent of the Opunake Times: —It is the intention of the Maoris, at the next Road Board election, to nominate a candidate of their own. A native said, ‘‘Te Poard he make us pay, all tesame te pakeha ; kapai we have te vote, and te Maori he sit at te table like a big man, and when his cousin o r brother want te stone or te drain cleaned, te Maori he get up and say ‘ yes.’ I t’ink that te good law.” ■ There are some official changes to be made to celebrate the advancement of New Zealand into a dominion. The designations “ Colonial Treasurer ” and ‘‘.Colonial Secretary,” for instance, will be altered. In the first case, the Minister of that office will become Minister of Finance, and in the latter, Minister of Internal Affairs. In all probability the terra “ M.H.R.,” as applied to a member of the Lower House, will become. “M.P.,” and that of “r.M.t.C.” applied to a member 'of* the Legislative Council to V Senator.”

The municipal bye-election, which took place yesterday, elicited very little public attention, and barely a third of the voters on the roll recorded their votes. Mr Shadbolt’s supporters had two vehicles going in the afternoon. Mr Jetlks, the other candidate, took no interest in the election. A number of people assembled to hear the result, which was announced about 20 minutes after the closing of the poll, as follows : A. E. Shadbolt 87, F. E. Jenks 85, informal 5. The result was received With cheers, and both candidates briefly returned thanks.

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Strong winds still continue to blow throughout this district.

The Town Clerk notifiei that an auctioneer’s license has been issued to Mr Rae-Howard.

To mark the wind-up of her dancing class, Mrs Voting will give a plain and fancy dress ball on Thursday next. dominion Day, Thursday, September 26th, was the twentieth anniversary of Sir Joseph Ward’s entry into political life.

Tenders are invited for the erection of a Catholic presbytery in Foxton. We will publish details of the building in a subsequent issue.

A very interesting series of articles, on “new Manawatu,” from the pen of Mr C. L. Jewell, are now appearing in the N.Z. Times.

The junior members of the Albion Football Club are to be photographed at an early date. Particulars may ; be obtained from the Secfetarv.

American traders are not going to lose the business connection they have built up in New Zealand if they can help it. A new steam service has been arranged to leave New York monthly for New Zealand ports. The annual meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club had to be postponed last night to Monday evening next, by reason of the poor attendance. It is hoped a largeFnumber of members and intending members will put in an appearance next Monday night.

The farewell social to Mr W. Harris will be held in the Methodist schoolroom this • evening. Songs, recitations, duets, etc., will be contributed by various friends. Refreshments will be provided. The social commences at 8 o’clock. Admission, is.

At the Taihape Police Court last week William Jas. Webster and Geo. Dunlop were charged with playing, two-up at the corner of a street at Mataroa on the 14th. They pleaded not guilty, but the Bench sentenced them to one month’s imprisonment each, with hard labour.

Shortly after 7 o’clock yesterday morning at Wellington, Captain C. McGregor McKenzie, master of the cargo steamer Camphill, at present discharging West Australian timber at the Glasgow Wharf, was found dead in his cabin with his throat cut. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.

Our attention has been called to the fact that the flat-bottomed boats in use at some of the mills up the river are very risky things in which to venture on the water with. Owing to the meagre information at our disposal we don’t know that we can deal with the subject farther than saying this, that if such “ coffins ” are provided by the mill owners for the use of the employees, then some action should be taken by those responsible to see that the boats are river-worthy before endangering human life in them. If, on the other hand, these flatbottomed shells are used by the men for their own pleasure, that is their risk.

Speaking at Wellington on Dominion night, Sir Joseph Ward said “In the years that have sped New Zealand has produced a history, rich in noble lives, rich in patriotic enterprise, chastened by war with its burden of debt and its death-roll. Since then the feeling of exile has completely disappeared. New environments have been created. New homes have been formed, but the heart-strings of the Motherland have not been cut. They still remain. Cities have arisen. Sturdy settlers have made homes for themselves in the wilds from end to end of New Zealand, and to-day I think I am voicing the sentiments of the people of New Zealand when I say that with those who now do not look upon their residence in New Zealand as being an exile, the feeling is not a less love of England, but a greater love of New Zealand.”

This is how the Times records the recent assault case at Foxton : “An interesting assault case was heard in Foxton before two J.P.’s on Saturday, illustrating the fact that a man never knows, what is going to happen to him. The complainants had met the defendant in a hotel, where he had gone to imbibe a “ whisky and quinine ” to relieve influenza. Apparently this lone drinking displeased the subsequent complainants who invited the defendant to 11 shout” for them, an invitation he did not accept. The evidence at the hearing disclosed the.fact that the complainants threatened the defendant with injury to his business by influencing other people against him. Subsequently the two complainants, who were large men, met the defendant, a small man, and a “few words,” mostly of an unprintable nature, were used. Annoyed, the small defendant hit the first complainant in the stomach, throwing him into the nearby ditch, and slashed the other man who asked for war on the head with a lantern. After a careful hearing the Foxton J’s.P. fined the small defendant a sum which, with costs, totalled £7 9s. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS

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The new regulations in respect to the tags to be used on hemp bales came into force to-day.

The increase in the scale of police pay will come into force’ throughout the Dominion to-day. The Feilding Borough Council has decided to ask the ratepayers to approve a loan of ,£3040 for sewer extension, and a loan of ,£10,368 for street improvements. Lady Plunket, honorary colonel : of tile No. 2 Regiment, North Canterbury Mounted Rifles, will inspect her regiment at Culverden on October nth.

Mr Richard Brown, the retiring Town Clerk of Masterton, who has held the position continuously for the past thirty years, is to be presented with an address and purse of sovereigns by the townspeople. Mr J. A. Perreau offers a reward of ,£5 for information that will lead to the conviction of the person or persons who removed a gate from his right-of-way, in LiddleSt, on Saturday evening. The matter has also been placed in the hands of the police. Mr Cornelius Vanderbilt, interviewed regarding Sir Thomas Lipton’s America Cup Challenge, declared that he favoured the argest boat permissible, remarking : —“ Call the boat a freak, anything you like, but we cannot handicap ourselves, even if our boat is only fit for the junk heap the day after the race.” The Minister of Lands has presented a return to Parliament showing that the estimated quantity of kauri timber held by the Crown in the North Auckland counties is 270,575,777 superficial feet. Last year’s output of the mills working on Crown lands was 82,022,250 superficial feet. Several charges under the Bank' ruptcy Act, 1882, were laid agains l Alexander Paterson at the Auck' land Police Court on Friday. The accused, who had lately been trading in Hawera under the name of Patterson Bros., drapers, was adjudged a bankrupt in September of last year. His liabilities totalled ,£18,688 and assets leaving a deficiency of ,£11,343. He has been committed for trial. Some of the settlers in the Waiwera Block, near the Mangahao river, on the border of the Eketahuna and Pahiatua counties, complain that, although only four miles from a railway station, they have to either sledge or pack their food and merchandise during all the winter months, as the storekeeper cannot cart their stores through the mud. They are asking assistance in getting their road metalled.

Scintillations of light, appearing and vanishing at the door of the Dunedin Star office late the other night, caused a passer by to hurry up in the belief that something was amiss. On arriving he found an old man, apparently seventy, beginning another interlude of matches. He asked' if anything was wrong, and got the following reply : —“ Fook here, young man, I’m reading the Star to look for a billet, and it’s got nothing to 'do along o’you.” Then the septuagenarian lit his fiftieth match and resumed his midnight hunt for work.

Our representative had the pleasure of listening to the pianoforte playing of Mr H. J. Cornwall s'esterday afternoon. By the way, Mr Cornwall is to give a pianoforte recital in the Masonic Hall this evening. Mr Cornwall played Friedenthal Schubert’s “Transcription de Concert” and ‘‘Mandoline ’ ’ by Thorme in a manner that revealed the master touch:- His interpretation of these pieces was perfect and those who have been invited to hear him to-night are “in'for a treat.” • Mr Cornwall was born with the sound of music in his ears. From a child of eight years, to the present day, most of his time has been occupied with crochets and quavers and producing music from all kinds of instruments. He is an enthusiast.

The police at Cambridge are now wanting a man, who is known under the name of Tobin (says the Waikato Times), and who, if all that is alleged against him be true, should be made to pay for the trouble into which he has got a young girl. From the particulars supplied it appears that Tobin arid a young girl, whom he said was his wife, went to Cambridge some mouths ago and put up at a boarding house. ' He said he had plenty of money. In .course of time the woman gave birth to twins. Tobin then took his departure and paid neither the boardinghouse keeper, nor the doctor, nor the nurse. It now appears that the woman is not married to the mao, and is in a destitute state.. The boardinghouse keeper ha§ been supporting her for the past two or three months, and the police, it appears, brought the case under the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, asking that some relief be granted. It is said the girl came from Auckland, and the Board decided to give some relief for the unfortunate woman and her two children, and to apply to the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Board for the return of the relief expended. Rheumo Conquers Rheumatism. Mr. H. G. Bristow's Experience. August 1, 1907. 1 experienced the pains of Rheumatics or Rheumatic Gout, and for 8 or 10 weeks had to take to my bed. My sufferings were very severe. Having heard about Rheumo, I decided to try it. I got relief, and was soon able to get about. If anyone would only take ‘ Rheumo ’ as soon as they. feel any rheumatic pains, it would stave off a long sickness.—Henry Ghorge Bristow, Harbour Board carpenter, Port Ahuriri, Napier.” Rheumo will quickly cure YOU. All stores and chemists. 2s 6d and 4s 6d. 3

A plant Brownii, or jv. plant Jonesii, and a plant Smithii may be pretty enough in itself, but the naming is ugly. On this point Mr D. Tannock, speaking at a teachers’ class at the Dunedin Technical School, was very much to the point. He stated that the generic names of plants were right enough, and the specific names were sometimes right and sometimes wrong, but the variety names were often what the schoolboy would call “ holy terrors. ” Maori naming would be much prettier and better than the Latinised version of the discoverer’s name or that of his wife. In speaking of a new celmisia produced by Mr Bathgate, he hoped the latter would give it a Maori variety name. The meeting also seemed to hope that at least Mr Bathgate would not christen it celmisia King Edward Seventhii or celmisia Kaiser Wilhelm Twoii.—Star,

Two beer bludgeons in Wellington on Friday night caused a commotion in Cuba St., by using obscene language. A constable warned them to move on. They obeyed, and subsequently walked up Little Taranaki St., singing and swearing. The constable approached them, and they pleaded for a chance. The constable gave them a chance, but oh hearing one of them make use of obscene lan- y. guage, arrested him. Accused ' resisted violently, kicked the constable, and struck him in the mouth. Then the other took a hand, struck the constable on the eye, on the mouth, and kicked him twice on the ribs. The constable tried to draw his baton, but one of the bludgeons seized it, and hurled it. into the : street. Then-he knocked the .constable’s shako off, and tore his tunic. For this the blackguards were punished by the Magistrate in a fine of £6 between them, and one to a fortnight and the other to sik weeks for assault. Our new goods have now arrived, and for variety and low prices, you will do well to patronise Watchorn, Stiles & Co. * WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absolately pure; a pleasant tonic-beverage.