LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 22 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Greenhills Estate, the wellknown property near Kaikoura, Marlborough, is being sub-divided into blocks of moderate size. There. are 36,500 acres of sheep country, and the estate will be open for inspection early next month. In accordance with the ancient custom, dating from the time of Frederick the Great, any officer in the German army who falls from his horse at a review, is bound to offer a banquet to his brother officers in the regiment. Thus, 'as soon as he had risen from his fall the other day, the Kaiser • exhis intention of carrying, on the-tradition;

Mr J. Walker, of Mangaraingi (Taranaki), went out to prepare for his crops the other day—and reaped a fine Maori axe. His land has evidently been much used by the natives in years past, as there are several Maori ovens. Ploughing operations have unearthed a stone chisel and a skull. The axe is in a splendid state of preservation, being highly polished, smooth, and as sharp as a carpenter’s adze. It is about ten inches long, three inches thick, and four inches wide, weighing about six pounds.

Somewhere out of Foxton a master was giving his boys a lecture on “Thrift,” and pointed out that even the animals exercised that quality ; instancing how the squirrel stored up nuts for the winter. Then he asked for another illustration of thrift in animals, and one boy replied : “A dog! “A dog? In what way does a dog practise economy ?” ‘ ‘ Please, sir, when he runs after his tail, he makes both ends meet.” Before the master-could say anything, another boy said: “A bear!” “ Well, how does a bear exercise thrift?” “He makes one coat last him a life-time,” The bear would be a bad customer for the local tailors.

Yesterday was Trafalgar Day. The School re-opened yesterday. It is proposed to hold a flax exhibition in Wellington before the end of the present 3’ear. The proposed visit of the Rev. Dr Gibb and Mrs Gibb to England next year will mark the conclusion of the twenty fifth year of Dr Gibb’s ministry. He was ordained by the Presbj’tery of Melbourne in February, 1883.

A proclamation in last week’s “Gazette” prohibits the importation to New Zealand of tincture of lemon and tincture of sweet orange peel, made according to the standard laid down in any recognised pharmacopoeia. Colonel Goad, who arrived from S3 r dney on Thursday, has come to New Zealand to enquire into the question of purchasing remounts in this country for the Indian army. He has gone to Hawkes Bay to attend the A. and P. Shows in that part of the Dominion. Herne Bay, Kent, England, was suddenly invaded recently by a swarm of small black flies, which descended ,on the sea front like a cloud. The clothes and faces of people on the front were literally covered with , the insects, and almost. a stampede was caused among those who were listening to the band ' performances. The flies however, vanished as suddenly as they came.

A young girl, clad in a thin night dress, had been startling the citizens of Fort Dodge, Ohio, by flitting.about the streets like a ghost at midnight on a bicycle while in a somnambulistic trance. The mystery was solved when a policeman, hearing a crash and scream, ran around the corner and found the girl, in her night attire, lying injured on the road. Her bicycle had struck a brick and thrown her, and awakened her from her sleep. The New Zealand hemp industry shows an increase in the value for the 3’ear of Prices have been quite up to those of previous years. The exports for the past year, as published in the report of the Agricultural Department, amounted to ,£850,653. The Secretary for Agriculture (Mr J. D, Ritchie) complains “ that the quality has not been maintained, a much larger proportion of the lower grades having been submitted for grading, many millers turning out an article which only just reaches its particular grade. The difference in value between ‘ fair ’ and ‘good fair,’ £$ per ton, should be an incentive to millers to improve their outputs.” The following infants and invalids’ foods will in future be admitted to New Zealand free of Customs duties :—Allenbury’s Foods (Nos. x, 2, ond 3), Allenbury’s Pancreatised Milk and Cereal Diet Allinson’s Food, Bengers Food, Burroughs, Welcome, and Co.’s Peptogenic Milk-powder, Carnrick’s Soluble Food, Chapman’s Food, Du Borry’s Revalenta Arabica, Frame-food diet, Hewlett’s Food, Horlictk’s Malted Milk, Maltico Food, Mellin’s Food, Moseley’s Food Neave’s Food, Nestle,s Milk Food, Nestle’s Milo Food, Ridge’s Food, Savoury and Moore’s Food, food composed of pasteurised milk or casein of milk in combination with malted or unmalted ground grain, gluten flour.

At the close of his address at Auckland on Friday night last, Mr Ben Tillet was asked to state his opinion of Keir Hardie, He replied: “Keir Hardie is a very good fellow indeed ; and you must not take all the press says for gospel. As a matter of fact, the most important heads and representatives of the press in India, who are in correspondence with our own great papers, have united in a protest about the misrepresentation going on as to the condition of affairs existing in India. Your excitable member of the Parnell Council has shown himself to be very un-British in his remarks. If Keir Hardie comes here he will be able to make out a good case for himself. (Appaluse). As a British subject,” continued Mr Tillett, “speaking to you as Britishers, I say that when any country dominating another people permits the death from starvation of two millions of her subjects in one year, that government is bad, and that capitalism is bad that permits it.”

The fact that the use of the telephone without proper precaution is attended with danger during tlie present' influenza epidemic is recognised by the . Postal Department (says the Melbourne Argus). A great number of the lady telephone attendants have been stricken by the disease. There is permanent instruction to the attendants to keep the instruments clean, and an order has now been issued to the effect that the rule must be scrupulously observed. At each one of the public telephones officers, have been instructed to provide a clean linen cloth, soaked in a formalin solution. This must be hung near the instrument, so that the users of telephones may clean the transmitter before speaking. The Commonwealth electrician (Mr Hesketh) states that reports on the subject point out that a great deal more can be done by the users of private telephones observing habits of ordinary cleanliness than can be effected by departmental regulations. Over private instruments the department has no control; but in the telephone directory are suggestions to subscribers to clean the telephone daily, and to keep a cloth soaked with formalin hanging near the instrument.

A week’s Carnival is to be held in Napier In March next. A wedding which is creating much local interest takes place on Thursday, The third reading of the Land Bill was carried at an early hour this morning by 42 votes to 15. The weather was again boisterious on Sunday and yesterday warm rain fell in the morning. The warm rains falling on the hills will cause the snow to melt with the result, that more floods may be expected. The secretary ot the local Tennis Club invites applications for the removal of a tree on the Tennis Club grounds. In this issue is published the particulars in connection with the flax-spreading competition at the forthcoming Athletic Club’s meeting-

Mr T. P. Henderson, piano tuner for the Dresden Piano Co., will visit Foxton on Thursday. Orders left care of this office will receive prompt attention.

An invitation has been received by the Secretary of the local Tennis Club, from the Shannon Club, extending a cordial invitation to the local members who care to be present at the official opening on Wednesday next, 23rd inst. The following were drowned through the capsizing of a launch about ten miles north of Hokianga on Sunday evening David Wallace, flaxniiller; Harold Wallace, flaxmiller ; W. Adamson, clerk ; Hawiri Rini, mill-hand ; Thomas York, mill-hand; George Harris, saddler ; Arthur Popplewell, a boy. The pleasing operetta, “The Flower Queen ’’ will be produced in the Public Hall on the 30th and 31 insts. Mrs I. Young is sparing no pains in order to make the affair an unqualified success. ,The characters are set out in full in another column. As the oppereta is being produced for a charitable purpose we hope the hall will be packed on both nights. Mr J. Hessey, who has been prospecting on the Manawatu river flats on Mr M’Rae’s' property, a short distance out of Palmerston North, has informed a Wairarapa Age reporter that he had come across quantities of very fine gold, but it would be necessary to have the samples accurately weighed in Greymouth before he could be sure of the quality of the gold. “Ido not want to boom the thing until I am sure of my ground,” said Mr Hessey. 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. '

Our new goods have now arrived, and for variety and low prices, you will do well to patronise Watchorn, Stiles & Co. * A delightful drink. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS with lemon and sodawater.