LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 31 October 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Mr Thos. Rimmer advertises for two first-class journeymen carpenters.

The charming operetta “The Flower Queen ” will be reproduced in the Public Hall this evening.

The running and cycling tracks at the local park are in good order for the sports on Nov. nth.. Training is in full swing. Mass will be celebrated at St Mary’s Church, by the Rev. Father Schafer at 7 and 9 a.m. to-morrow (Frida}'). A notice re the estate of the late Charles Mitchell, flaxmill hand, Foxton, deceased, appears in the advertising colums of this issue.

We have reason to believe that nearly half the methylated spirits imported into this colony is sold as whisky and gin,” said the Minister for Customs.

Friday is the festival of “ All Saints,” and the Paternal festival of All Saints Parish. At 7.30a.m. there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion. The festival will” be kept on Sunday, and special services have been notified.

We are requested to remind members and adherents of the Presbyterian Church that the adjourned Annual congregational meeting will be held to-night. Rev. James Paterson of Wellington will give an address, and the Tadies’ Guild will provide refreshments.

What may prove to be a “ lucky find” (says the Thames Star) was made by two Maoris tfie other day. They were engaged prospecting between Owharoa and Waitekauri, and while engaged in the search for the precious metal one of the men slipped and fell. He grasped the branches of an overhanging tree to save himself or break his fall, when the tree gave away at the roots and disclosed a nice gold-bearing leader. In some manner the information leaked out, and efforts were made to obtain information as to the locale of the find from the Maoris, but they were well protected, and after some little manoeuvring the finders pegged out the ground, which is now heine applied for under the title of “Tuck Find.”

Wellington has secured municipal recognition of the importance of cremation as a substitute for burial, and a society lias been established in Auckland having the same object in view. It is stated that the outrage at President Kruger’s grave was the result of a drunken freak. Three officers will be court-martialed. Lieutenant-General Hillard has expressed his regrets to the Dutch leaders.

Fasting promises to become a favourite remedy for certain complaints. A young man who was in bad health, recently fasted for 30 days at Dunedin, with satisfactory results. He lived almost entirely on water.

The body of George Lindsay Duke, a High School boy, 16 years of age, who went fishing to the New River, Invercargill, on Saturday afternoon and did not come back, was found on Monday afternoon on a sand shoal about 300 yards below where he is supposed to have fallen in. One woman in ever}' five in the United Slates is a bread winner, and the number is increasing. This is the report just made by the Census Bureau, based upon information derived from the last decennial census.. . There are almost 500,000 farm labourers among the women of the United States.

Owing to the increasing work, a new' cable, making the fifth, is to be laid across Cook Strait from Lyell Bay to White’s Bay, The cable is on the Opawa, which is due from London next week. The Tutanekai ts now shipping a cablelaying gear to carry out the work.

Mr Joseph Ivess, the veteran journalist, who holds the world’s record as a “rag-planter,” has disposed of his last creation, the Taihape News, to the rival company which purchased the Post, to “run him off,” and, having failed to do so, preferred to offer ' ‘ solation ’ ’ to the extent of ,£2250. Mr Ivess says he has ‘ ‘ planted his last rag.” The number of devotees of the fasting cure is increasing in Wanganui. The Chronicle hears that one gentleman, now past middle age, completed a 29 days’ fast last week. He is feeling much improved in health and is confident he can continue without food for another week or two. He has been in bad health for some time, and is delighted with the improvement wrought by abstention from food.

People are no longer ashamed to be about and doing their work at eighty. They no longer feel compelled to apologise to their young descendants for standing in the way. They have discovered that old age is a relative term, and that, unless serious physical disablements or crippling disease come, at eighty, one may be active without being disrespectful to the younger generation or lacking in respect for one’s own contemporaries.

The following is a copy of a prescription for influenza, by a doctor in the Edinbofough Hospital, who dealt with from 1300 to 1400 cases in the season, none of which were fatal: —“Thirty grains of bicarbonate of potash in a small tea cup full of milk every 2>4 hours. A tablespoonful of weak whisky and water to be taken between doses. Three or four doses should suffice. Be careful for a week or 10 days after recovery to avoid undue exercise, taking chills, etc.” Land has become costly in Wellington, says the Otago Daily Times; only the wealthiest residents within the city boundaries can afford to keep a garden, while even a backyard would seem to be a luxury, and the children of hundreds of families are forced to make the streets their playground. The uncomfortable feeling is prevalent that the values to which land has been forced there, are fictitious and cannot be regarded as permanent.

A post mortem exaraiaation on a man who died in Greentown Hospital, Hobart last week, from natural causes, revealed the fact that all the single organs were reversed from the normal older. The heart was on the right side, the liver on the left, the stomach was completely reversed, and the large blood vessels ran down the the opposite side to that on which they were always found. The case is believed to be unique in the history of human anatomy. The international postage stamp, which was adopted at the Rome Postal Congress last year, on the suggestion of Mr Henniker Heaton, M rP., came into use on October roth.’ It is an artistic picture of a goddess, with a background of olive branches, was designed by Grassett, and has been printed at Eiuriedeln, in Switzerland, Its value is 2)4d, and it will be sold in every country in the Postal Union, so that a correspondent may prepay a reply from any of these countries.

The Medical Record gives the following way of using eggs in therapeutics * A mustard plaster made with the white of an egg will not leave a blister. A raw egg taken immediately will carry down a fishbone that cannot be got up from the throat. The white skin that lines the shell of an egg is a useful application for a boil. White of an egg beaten with loaf sugar and lemon relieves hoarseness _ a teaspoonful taken once every hour. An egg added to the morning cup of coffee makes a good tonic. Chamberlain’s 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 Gardner & Wbibley’s Grocers, )

His Excellency the Governor opens a Masonic Eodge at Martinborough this evening.

The Government has circulated the much-promised Native Eand Bill.

Herr Harden defendant in the notorious German libel case has been acquitted.’ This year Adelaide expects a wheat surplus of 10,506,000 bushels for export. Reward is offered for recovery oa horse strayed from Foxton Public School.

Mr A. Symons offers a reward for information that will lead to the recovery of a strawberry cow. Messrs P. H. Rae-Howard and Co. will not hold a mart sale on Saturday.

A large number of local residents intend to visit Palmerston to-morrow, People’s Day at the Show. A waterfall that can be heard four miles away, situated in Taranaki, is being pressed upon the Premier with a view to the surrounding country being preserved. The New South Wales Budget, delivered last night, discloses a net surplus of £1,012,000. Pensions are to be provided for all incapables in the State.

The bell presented to All Saints’ Church by Messrs Geo. and H. Coley has arrived, and is being fitted up to-day. It will be tolled for the first time to-morrow (All Saints’ Day) morning at 7.30 o’clock.

The man who was recently “ tarred and feathered ” at Opunake, was yesterday sentenced to four months hard labour for sending a telegram, signed with a fictitious name, to a Hawera man and reflecting upon the character of the latter’s wife.'

Mr M. E. Perreau, baker and confectioner, notifies by advertisement that be will occupy temporarary premises next to Messrs Rae-Howard and Co.’s auction mart, until bis new buildings are ready for occupation. Tea rooms provided for. Tbe jumping at the Manawatu Show yesterday afternoon was considered by old show-goers, much above the average. The barebacked riding over hurdles of the two ladies, Misses Abbot and Briggs, was exceptionally good. The former lady secured second prize, and the latter third, competing against over 20 gentlemen riders.

The power of suggestion was exemplified on the local stage last night during the production of the “ Flower Queen.” While the poppy sleeping scene was being enacted, several little tots lay down near the front of the stage to feign sleep. The ‘ ‘ Poppies ’ ’ wands and the enchanting song lulled one of the dear little ‘ ‘ Heather Bells ’ ’ to actual sleep. The little one slumbered on after the scene ended, entirely oblivious to her surroundings. Her look of bewilderment on being awakened created much amusement.

The question of Sunday funerals was discussed at Christchurch Diocesan Synod, and the following motion carried, on the motion of Archdeacon Scott: —“That this Synod welcomes the protest of the Canterbury Trades and labour Council against the custom of Sunday funerals, and urges the laity ot the Diocese in all possible ways to support the clergy in their endeavour to reduce such fuierals to occasions of absolute necessity on the ground emphasised by the Council, that Sunday funerals deprive many persons of their day of rest, and still more, that the spiritual work ot the church is thereby seriously interfered with.” The court of Enquiry at Wellington, into the Turakina fire found that there was no evidence to disclose the actual cause and origin of the fire, and therefore the Court was unable to say whether it could have been prevented or not. The Court was unanimously of the opinion that spontaneous combustion in the flax or tow was not the cause of the fire. The inspection of the cargo prior to shipment and during receipt was totally inadequate, and the Court also emphasises the danger of allowing the men engaged in working cargo to take their coats and waistcoats into the hold. Tae temperature of holds is not taken regularly enough. Recommendations to meet these points are made by the Court.

Mr W. Daniels, Temora, N.S.W , says :— ■* Some six months ago I was very ill for nearly a week with colic pains, suffering great agony. Speaking to Mr Rigney, one of our local chemists, about it, he said he had a good remedy for such complaints. Leaving me for . a few minutes he returned with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy. After the first dose I felt relief, and in hours was completely cured. My ’daughter has also during the last few months been similarly attacked, but a dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrohea Remedy soon put her right. I am now never without it in the house, and make a point of eccommending it to my friends.” For sale at Gardner & Whiblev’s Grocers.

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.* There is nothing that will so effectually refresh and brace up the system, clear the brain, cleanse the complexion and brighten the eyes as a dose of Chamberlain’s Tablets. Their effect is to stimulate the bowels to perform their work in a natural and gentle manner, thus cleansing the system of alhthose poisonous matters that cause biliousness and sick headache. For sale at Gardner & Whibley’s, Grocers.