LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 3 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Two auction sales take place in Foxton next Saturday. Both commence at 1.30 p.m.

Constable Dickson, of Foxton, is at present relieving Constable Breen, of Bulls.

The terriffic gales experienced throughout this district on and off for the past fortnight, blew themselves out yesterday. .The Rev. I. Jolly, of Palmerston, will conduct services both morning and evening in the local Presbyterian Church next Sunday.

The performers who took part in last night’s concert were entertained at supper ih Mr Perreau’s rooms after the entertainment. A most enjoyable time was spent. The fumes from the actylene gas jets in the hall at last night’s concert were very distressing, and there was much complaining thereat by performers and audience.

The Manawatu County Council invite tenders in this .issue, for working the Shannon Ferry. Conditions may be seen at the County offices and the ferry.

The Premier on Tuesday gave notice in the House of Representatives to move that on Monday next, and for the remainder of the session, the House sit at 7.30 p.m. on Mondays. As a result of a twelve days canvass by the Y.M.C.A. at Christchurch, for for the erection of a large and up-to-date building for the association, it has been announced that the amount required has been over-subscribed to the extent of ,£354. Messrs Barraud & Abraham, Ltd., the well-known merchants of Palmerston N., have been appointed, sole agents in the Manawatu, Horowhenua, Rangitikei, Oroua and Pohangina counties for Messrs Sutton and Sons’ worldfamous farm and garden seeds. A notice to this effect appears elsewhere in' this issue.

Mr F. Pirani, Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, is to inspect the local schoolmaster’s residence, recently erected. The erection of the edifice in question has caused the contractor and Board’s architect to lose affection ene for the other. We believe litigation is in the air. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., in accepting the invitation to deliver a lecture at Foxton next Thursday, says he will he glad of the opportunity of seeing Foxton for the first time. We think all our legislators should visit Foxton because we want some things ! We have just opened up a beautiful range of black and coloured Dress Goods, also all the latest in Fancy Voiles, Muslins, Tussores, etc. Push the town along and deal with your local draper. — Watchorn, Stiles, & Co. *

Mr P. H. Rae-Howard adds a number of lines to his auction sale list for Saturday next. No hope is now held out for the recovery of Mr F. Barrett, who met with an accident to his head through an explosion of actylene gas at Levin some time ago. An inset appears in this issue in reference to the auction sale to be held by Messrs Sidey, Meech and Co. in sapiple rooms in Whyte St. next Saturday. All goods will be sold without reserve.

We direct attention to the change advertisement in this issue by Messrs C. W. Wycherly and Son, the well-known saddlers. The firm make a specialty in re-string-ing tennis racquets.

A search party, organised by Mr S. Hickson, left by the Maidai this morning to drag the river in the locality where Mr Bell lost his life by drowning last Friday afternoon. Constable Woods is also assisting the party in the dragging operations.

On Sunday the services will be taken in "All Saints Church by the Rev. C. W. Maclaverty, 8.A., of Brooklyn, Wellington.- Mr Maclaverty is chaplain of the Masonic Lodge in Wellington, and we are sure he would be pleased to see his brother masons of Foxton in church on Sunday. Mr Maclaverty will be the guest of Mrs Whyte during his visit. If it be the case, says the Otago Daily Times, that stationmasters are compelled to : work for very long hours day after day in order that they may keep abreast of their duties, and that the staffs are not being augmented sufficiently to cope satisfactorily with the expansion of the railway traffic, the Act-ing-Minister’s cherry assurances to the House can scarcely be accepted as convincing.

The truth of the saying “ In the midst of life we are in death ” was amply justified yesterday. About a quarter of an hour prior to the accident b} r which Mr Charles Bowers lost his life, he was apparently in the very best of spirits and partoqk of a cup of cocoa with his wife. The awful suddenness of her husband’s death came as a stunning blow to Mrs Bowers, who was prostrated with grief. About 80 persons were present in the Masonic Hall 011 Tuesday night, to listen to Mr Cornwall’s pianoforte recital. His interpretations of [some of the old masters’ compositions were very inspiring, and heartily appreciated. The following programme was submitted : Transcription on a March (Schubert Friendenthal), Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven), composition by Satter, Sonata "Moonlight’’ (Beethoven), Mandoline (Thome), "Invitation to the Waltz” (Weber), "Duetto and Spring Song ” (Mendelssohn), Sonata " Pathetique ” (Beethoven). On the 1 ith September a murder took place at Camden Town, London, the victim being a woman named Emily Dimmock, who was also known as Shaw. The police were at fault, being totally unable to find a dire to the murderer. Seeing no way to overcome the difficulty, the detectives entrusted with the case were at length induced to accept aid from a clairvoyant. The medium was thrown into a trance, and while lying on the bed on which the corpse was found gave a startlingly vivid reconstruction of the crime, and declared that the murderer 6f Dimmock is now voyaging to Melbourne.

The Klthara Argus says that a Maori legend which passed from mouth to mouth at Puketeraki recently on the occassion of the tangi for Mrs Parata tells how there was no death until the great ancestor boasted that he would climb into the open mouth ol the sleeping divinity, and drop, feet foremost on to her heart, how all the Maoris gathered together to witness the performance, and how the birds came too, how the great ancestor got halfway into the goddess’s mouth, and looked so droll with his legs dangling over her chin that all people laughed, and the birds laughed, how that laughter woke the goddess, who shut her mouth with a snap, and unintentionally bit the great ancestor in twain, thus bringing death into the world for the Maoris.

The magnificent incapacity of the average country alderman has had another fine advertisement upon the prosperous N.S. W. North Coast. Five years ago, Murwil--1 urn bah formed itself into a municipality, and provided itself with an outfit of maj'or and aldermen ; but, although the town consisted wholly of wooden buildings, and though it knew all along that it was in constant peril of being swept right out of existence by tire, its outfit of ma5 r or and aldermen let year after year slip without organising a fire brigade, or providing even the beginnings of a plant to stop a blaze. The alwaysthreatening blaze posponed itself for five years ; then something went wrong in a bakery, and 59 premises, including four banks, were ashes and charcoal before the fire burned itself out on Monday morning. All sorts of estimates are made of the loss—from £70,000 to £ 150000; but it is likely to be nearer the bottom figure than the top. In Switzerland they do things better than that. In some cantons, at least, fire insurance is a Government monopoly, and is compulsory ; and the Government takes all sorts of care under those circumstances that fires don’t rage if it can stop them. —Sydney Bulletin.