LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 26 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

There is a movement afoot to form a bowling club in Foxton. A well attended meeting of the local Masonic Eodge took place last night. The second reading of the Endowment Bill has been carried by 44 votes to 22. Some boj's, while, playing in front of Mr M. Perreaii’s shop last night, broke one of the windows. We acknowledge receipt, from Secretarj' Lane, of the official catalogue of the forthcoming. Show. The concrete kerbing of Main Street footpaths has been completed, and the work is a great improvement on the old wooden system. The recently-formed footpath in the Avenue is much appreciated the many residents along that locality. Thomas Hell, a St Eouis policeman, has been ordered to change his surname or resign from the force. The Rev. Mr Young-Wood-ward is meeting with much success in his self-imposed task of conducting religious services at the flaxmills. Mr Thos. Rimmer is the successful tenderer for the erection of a two-storeyed building in Main Street for Mr M. Perreau. The work will be put in hand almost immediately. A number of handsome trophies to be competed for at the Athletic Club’s Sports on thegth November next, are now on view, in Messrs Gardner and Whibley’s’shop window. The local public may expect a musical treat on the 30th and 31st insts., when the charming operetta, Flower Queen, will be staged. Mrs Young is coaching the singers, who are showing great proficiency. Every housewife- knows the value of a good broom or brush: Messrs Gardner and Whibley notify that they have just opened up a splendid assortment of brushware, which they are disposing of at reduced prices. | The excellent catering arrangements in connection with the Rose- ■’ Jupp wedding celebrated last) Thursday, were carried out by Mr M. Perreau. The very handsome four - decker wedding cake was made and presented to the couple ■hv Mr Glare', of Palmerston N. ■ -

The Foxton Gas Syndicate hope to make a substantial start with the erection of the local gas works at an earlv date.

Henri Falmont, a veteian soldier, committed suicide in Paris because his doctor advised him to give up his pipe if he wished to preserve his health.

The next dance of the Valeta Quadrille Assembly will take place in the' Masonic Hall on Monday evening next. Next Monday week the ladies will tender a return dance.

A meeting of the Tennis Club Sub-Committee was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening. Mr Alf. Fraser presided. The Chairman was authorised to secure a loan on mortgage in order to pay off debenture holders, and obtain title of the court grounds. The Wanganui School Committee have decided to recommend Mr L. J. Furrie for the position of first assistant to the District High School. Mr Furrie comes from Foxton, but for the last 12 months or so has been assistant at the Eltham District High School.—Feilding Star.

Messrs P. H. Rae-Howard and Co. advertise for sale by tender, lot 6, section 304, Norbiton Road, containing half-an-acre of land and' dwellinghouse. Conditions of sale can be inspected, and tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of 10 per cent on the price offered. Tenders close on November 9th. An Indian native paper reports that a Shan was arrested at Rangoon recently, with a couple of dead ducks and a hen in his possession. He was dressed as a Mohammedan, a Hindu, a Burman, and a Chinaman, so that by throwing off successive layers he could transform himself into any one character of the lour in a few seconds. He also had more than one headdress.

The Review of Reviews for November is of special interest. Students of current world historj 7 are well catered for. The Character Sketch of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, is excellent, and introduces readers to the storm centre of Europe in a way that vastly wider general reading cannot do. The digest of the current thought in the world’s magazines is excellently reviewed. Altogether the number is verv fine.,-

Miss Palmer, a lady of wealth, who once acted with Sir Henry Irving, recently arrived at New York, clad in sandals and a single garment fastened with a girdle. She is convinced that the age of reason will soon dawn when the world will go back to the tunic and sandals. “The corset,” Miss Palmer said, “ is a physical crime. So are long tight stockings. II mothers would adopt this costume, they would be healthier, and their babies would grow up stronger and better looking.” A Wanganui resident succeeded in abstaining from food for three weeks and a-half, and at the end of that period felt himself to be cured of the ailments from which he had been suffering. During the long days of abstinence he found himself fit to undergo both mental and physical toil. He kept a diary ot his experiences, and the only entries in it which were not bright and encouraging, were records of occasional temporary fits of depression, which he had the courage to endure. He weighed nst 81b at the outset, and lost about a pound a day in weight, consequently, although he was a thin man when his ordeal was over, he was by no means a skeleton.

Eton’s loss of the famous switching block, which has recently been stolen, will no doubt tempt some well-intentioned humanitarian to revive the suggestion that the timehonoured form of punishment at the college should be abolished. It has even been said that : a picture of the operation in an illustrated paper would at once put an end to the practice. But it is significant that complaints have never come from Etonians or their parents. Indeed, is there not the historic remark of a Marquis of Granby to his sons who had revolted and returned home because their pleasure had been curtailed, that they should go to the theatre that evening for their pleasure, and on the morrow return to Eton- to be flogged for his ? Within the last few days the Wanganui Chronicle has been shown two novelties in the way of musical instruments. The first, a violin, is novel merely in the circumstances under which it was made. The maker, a local labourer with musical tastes, feeling that he could not spare the money for the purchase of a good instrument, set to work to make; one', and being handy with tools, turned out a really good job. The wood used for the body is totara, and the' tone is very good. novelty consisted of what* forsvant of a better term* we must call'digar box fiddles. A long neck, carrying one string only, was joined on to ordinary cigar boxes, and the queer looking, instrument was played with a bow as in,, the case of a violin. An instrument made from a 100 cigar bpx had a tone not unlike that of a viola, while another made from a 500 box had quite a’cello quality in its notes, and really excellent music was produced from both.

WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS healthfully stimulates without exciting. A sluggish liver gives rise to biliousness,, headaches, irritability and other disorders. The liver wants stimulatinggently to doits work, and themedi-, cine for this is Chamberlain’s Tablets,' They are nnld and gentle in their action and their use is not followed bv constipation. Foe sale at Gardner' & Whibley’s, Grocers. ,

Constable Dickson resumed police duty at Foxton to-day. Railway excursions are advertised in this issue in connection with the King’s Birthday. It is more than probable that the Salvation Array will commence services at Foxton at an early date. The Supreme Court circuit sittings are fixed for Wanganui for February 17th, May 26, August 25th; Napier, March 16th, June 22nd, September 21st; Palraerstont March 2nd, June 9th, September 8 th.

The passing of the second reading of the Meikle Acquittal Bill by the House of Representatives marks the first instalment of the tardy justice t 0,., a cruelly injured mart, says the Post,'and we heartily congratulate the country and Mr Meikle himself upon the fact. European medical experts have exploded the theory that the continual use of the telephone is injurious to the sense of hearing. On the contrary, celebrated physicians say the daily use of the telephone sharpens the faculty and increases its alertness, proving thereby a positive help. Swarms of grasshoppers at Narrabri, 350 miles north-west of Sydney, blocked a train of empty trucks. After tunning part of the train back to the station the engine was returning for the balance, when the grasshoppers smothered the brakes, which refused to act, and the engine collided with and smashed some of the trucks. The Nelson Colonist celebrated its golden jubilee on Wednesday last. When first published, the paper was issued twice a week at the price of 6d a copy. All the staff of the then infant journal are now dead, with the exception of Mr W. C. Nation, now of the Manawatu Farmer, Devin, and Mr J. B. Innes, bookseller and stationer, of Wellington. The training ship Amokura will make her initial voyage with the young Jack tars about the end of the present month. The first trip will probabty be from Wellington to Piclon, and some time will be spent in the calm waters of the Sounds for training purposes. There are now fifty boys on board the vessel, and they are all anxious to go to sea.

According to London newspapers, Scotland Yard detectives have been informed that the man suspected by the Melbourne police of the murder of Mr Bernard Bauer, diamond merchant, in June last, has landed in England. There is a reward of /J'iooo for information that will lead to the murderer’s arrest.

These sharp-shooting feats on the stage are not always “ fakes.” Two marksmen now performing with Fuller’s Vaudeville Co., in Dunedin have a ‘ ‘ turn ’ ’ that proved the other evening as risky as it looks. The star performer carried small targets on his head and shoulders, and he fires at these from three rifles fixed in a vice a short distance away. He has to hit the triggers of the three guns with bullets from another gun to get the shots into the targets. So that he really shoots at himself. One shot went a shade low, and the marksman got it in his scalp instead of in the target. That particular “turn” is now cut out of the programme—the management dosen’t want a funeral.

Many people have been inquiring concerning the condition of Mr F. Barratt, says the Farmer. He is still lying in the Wellington Hospital, unable to speak, paralysed in the right arm, and in a very low condition. He is sensible, recognises everybody who goes to see him, though dimly, and he nods or shakes his head in answer to questions. It is a pitiful case, and the wonder is that he has borne all without complaint, and lay so quiet for so long a time. It was on the 24th June that he met with the accident by an explosion of acetylene gas, and it is close upon eighteen weeks that he has been lying apparently between life and death. The five children are distributed among relatives, and Mrs Barratt is now engaged in one of the large drapery businesses of Wellington. In the Magistrates' Court, Westport, on Wednesday afternoon, at the conclusion of the case charging a commercial traveller and a young lady with picking shrubs and flowers from a grave in Orawaiti Cemetery, the magistrate, Mr Kenrick, had just given his judgment, dismissing the information, when Mr Brebner, a local commercial traveller, called out from the body of the Court, “ Hurrah! the dominion for justice!” “Bring that man • back,” demanded the magistrate, and the police instantly dived out of the door, arrested the, man, and ,• brought him. back into the Court. His Worship, asked him what ,he meant by crying out as. he done. “ I Wrish to say that I duly acted on .impulse.' Surely a person is at liberty to express his own feelings in a case like this ?” “ No, you are not,” said the Magistrate. “In a court df law a person has no right to express his feelings.” “Then I apologise,” said, the offender. “In that dase, I will let you off, but take Warning for the future,” replied thelMagistrate and the incident closed/^-Tinies.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS stands paeeminent anvsug stimulants and cordials. Messrs Watchorn and Stiles have just received for the holidays a very fine shipment of blouses in silk, delaine, and muslin, and can confidently ask the public to inspect same. A nice selection ot black and gray walking skirts, also a very extensive array of ladies’ and children’s millinery are on view.*

Mr Arthur Beverley; a wellknown mathematician and astronomer, died at Dunedin yesterday in his eighty-sixth year. Mr W. J. Salmon, well-known in Wellington commercial centres, died suddenly at Palmerston yesterday morning, from heart failure. A poll is advertised to take place on Thursday, November 14th, in the Council Chambers, to decide whether the rating on the unimproved value shall be adopted in Foxton,

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. The evening subject will be “What is a Christian?” The choir will render the anthem “God is the Refuge.”

Palmerston and other large centres throughout the dominion intend to observe Monday, nth November, in lieu of Saturday, 9th, as a public holiday. Which day will Foxton observe ?

There are, roughly, 1500 applicants for twenty-one sections of the Tamaki block, irrespective of those yet to come in from Napier. The land is close to Dannevirke, and is excellent dairying country. The ballot takes place to-day.

The services of Mr Alf. Fraser have been secured to manipulate the lime-light during the opperetta next week. Mr Fraser is making preparations for a spectacular effect which will eclipse any previous local effort in this direction. Sixcolour lights will be blended from both sides of the stage. The Wanganui Chronicle states that a disgraceful scene was witnessed in the yard adjoining the butoher’s shop at Taylorville on Wednesday evening, when a father and his two strapping sons had a determined set-to. The old man Was unable to withstand the’onslaught of the sons, and conse - quently was considerably knocked about. The fight was witnessed by a large number of spectators.