LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 19 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The local building trade continues very brisk.

Mr W. S. Carter notifies that trespassers on his property will be prosecuted. The Murtagh case was adjourned till the 23rd inst., bail being allowed.

At the Police Court yesterday, before F. W-.F'rankland J.P., a prohibition order was granted against a local resident. Mr M. Perreau has donated a gold medal for a fibre-spreading competition at the Athletic Club’s Sports to be held on the 9th November.

Mr Morgan O’Brien, District Health Officer, paid Foxton another visit on Tuesday last, and inspected a number of dwellings. His report on same has been forwarded to the Chief Health Officer.

A committee meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club will be held at 7.30 p.m on Monday in the Family Hotel. Business of an important nature will be discussed.

Messrs P. H. Rae-Howard and Co. offer for sale an area of land together with five-roomed cottage in Union Street,' next Catholic Church. Price cash.

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. The subject in the evening will be “ Glad Tidings.” The choir will render an anthem. Messrs P. H. Rae-Howard and Co. will sell at his mart on Saturday next a two-roomed cottage at the beach erected on half an acre of land, also a 13 years lease of one of the best building sites at the Sanatorium,

Whitebait were very plentiful in the Manawatu yesterday and enormous hauls are recorded. Messrs Langley and Dunn consigned 90 tins last night to outside markets. There was a slump, to use a commercialism, in the local market.

Parents, are notified by advertisement that the local school opens on Monday. They are warned that all scholars absent without sufficient cause will fender parents liable to prosecution under the Truancy Act. The approach to the local Court House has been laid down in concrete, which gives it an improved appearance. The interior of the building has also been thoroughly renovated, and the floor is to be covered with linoleum.

In connection with the district meeting of the Wellington district of the Primitive Methodist connexion, to be held in Foxton on Tuesday hext, a public meeting will be held, commencing at 8 o’clock. The chair will be occupied by the Rev. C. E. Ward, President of the Conference, the speakers wiil be Revs. J. Dawson; and J. Cocker, of Wellington. Solos will be rendered by Rev. J. F. Doherty, of Wellington. A collection will be taken during the meeting. At the local S. M. Court 011 Monday next the folllowing cases are set down for hearing : —Police v, S. J. Hickson, and Wright, breaches ot the Licensing Act; Inspector of Factories v. M. Hamer, breach of the Shop Act ; Inspector of Fisheries v. D. Lazarette, breach of the Fisheries Act; E. H. Howanv. D. Lazarette obstructing while in execution of his duty ; D. Lazarette v. E. Howan assault. There are also 25 civil cases to be dealt with.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS Superior to all other spirits. ? WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.—A tonic that has stood the test of years.

Reviewers declare that Mr A. C. Benson’s book containing selections from the letters of Queen Victoria throws a flood of light on the memorable historical incidents on the late Queen’s reign. According to a Parliamentary return presented the other day the total number of people who visited the New Zealand International Exhibition, including 9238 persons attending the Seddon memorial concert held therein on Sunday, March 3rd, was 1,906,632. Aout midnight on Wednesday Mr Levy’s shop was burned with its contents at Levin. Tozer’s jewellery shop suffered badly, but the stock was saved. The stock in Capper’s (grocer) and Pink’s (boot maker) also suffered by removal and water.

The Right Rev. Dr Ingram, Bishop of London, standing on a soap box, addressed an enormous crowd, including millionaires, and brokers near Wall-street. Business was suspended during the Bishop’s address. His text was, “What would Jesus do in Wallstreet ? ’ ’

Mr D. H. Guthrie, after 30 years’ experience as a schoolmaster under the Wanganui Education Board, and a year as a member of the Board, received a handsome presentation from the members of the Board on the occasion of his marriage, at Wanganui on Wednesday. The Stratford Dairy Company will pay to suppliers on Monday, for butter-fat supplied for the month of September, the sum of 9s, against ,£1538 18s 8d for the corresponding period of last year. Fifty-six boxes of butter per day are now being made, as against 44 for September last year. The first shipment of American apples this season reached Wellington yesterday, coming, in the absence of a direct service, via Vancouver and Sydne}\ The consignment consisted of about 600 cases, and in spite of the long journey, came to hand in excellent condition. The apples met at satisfactory sale at the fruit market. Farmers (says the “Oamaru Mail ’’) express themselves satisfied with the season’s prospects, although generally throughout the district growth is still sluggish, the cold weather having a continued deterrent effect. Except in the very exposed localities, lambs have weathered well, and percentage are already reported varying from 95 to 120. An all-round average of between 95 and 100 per cent is anticipated. On Wednesday afternoon a man was robbed in a rather daring fashion, says the Star. Whilst lying down on a couch in a boardinghouse in Feilding, a fellowlodger “went through” his clothes, and relieved the sleeper of a considerable sum of money. Instead of quickly investigating and reporting the matter, the victim allowed the thief to escape, which he did by the same day’s afternoon down express. A warrant has been issued for the man’s arrest. A man named George Cowan has since been arrested at Wellington, and remanded to Feilding. At an inquest touching the death of a child aged 3 months, which was accidentally suffocated while in its parents’ bed at Eketahuna recently, Mr W. J. James, the coroner, said this was a third or fourth case in the district within the last three months of death under similar circumstances. He considers that legislation should be introduced, the same as in England to make it an offence for parents to allow infants to sleep in same bed Such culpable negligence on parents’ part should be coped with. Doctor Chadwick gave evidence of the practice being unhealthy and dangerous, and he said suffocation was liable to follow. A verdict of ‘ ‘ accidental suffocation ’ ’ was returned.

The Lands Committee reported the National Endowment Bill to the House on Tuesday. The committee struck out the schedule of the Bill which allocated the endowments to the various land districts. A new sub-clause has been added to section x 2 (the Colonial Treasurer may appropriate ,£50,000 in any year for the purpose of the formation of roads and bridges upon any national endowment), providing ‘ 1 all sums expended under the authority of this section, together with interest thereon at a rate not exceeding four and a half per cent, per annum, shall be a first charge on the national endowment account, and shall be payable out of that account notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained.”

Bearded womep will not be confined for ever to the circus and freak shows, but they will become so common that the women without hirsute adornment will be regarded as a novelty. Thus Professor Samuel W. Willitson, a distinguished paleontologist. The picture that he draws of the bearded woman of the future will probably send a shudder through our young women, though the prediction of the Professor will be hailed, possibly, with delight by the barbers. The Professor cautiously adds, however, that it'will be a long time before the bearded woman becomes the vogue, and the chances are that the present generation will have been buried many centuries before lovely woman will take her seat in the barber’s chair. Everything is tending towards beards for women. Girls have more hair on their faces than the girls of a decade ago, says the Professor.

Chamberlain’a Pain Balm is one ol the triumphs of modern medicines, for by applying it to bruises, burns and like injuries before inflammation sets in they will heal much quicker and should not leave a scar. For sale at Gardner & Whibley’s Grocers.