LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 9 November 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Welcome rains fell throughout the district last night. , To-morrow (Sundayj the 1.0.0. F. Eodge and local Band will attend divine service at All Saints’ Church at n a.m.

At the evening service in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow night, Mr W. H. Hawkins will sing the sacred solo ‘ ‘ He wipes the tear,” during the offertory.

We direct attention to Messrs J. A. Nash and Co’s replace advt. appearing in this issue. The firm has purchased a large stock of crockery, glassware, etc. tor the festive season which will be opened up for inspection in the course of a few days.

In Gore there is an undertaker named Grave.

Mr W. Hopper, plumber, advertises that-he is a cash buyer of lead in any quantity.

Sir Thomas Liplon is about to establish an up-to-date tea-packing house iu New Zealand. The Minister of Ha hour does not intend to proceed with the Workers’ Compensation for accidents Bill this session.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will take place on Tuesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock.

Switzerland, by 326,102 votes to 264,183 votes, ratified the new law tin owing the chief burdens of military service on young men. Eight at a Wellington warehouse were on Saturday handed a week’s wages and informed t hat their services would not be required after that day. In conversation with a representative of this journal, Mr Simms said that nowhere throughout the Manawatu had he seen vegetables and small fruit crops so forward as in Foxton.

During the month of September, 1907, there were 2345 immigrants to, and 1831 emigrants from New Zealand, among the former being a batch of 13 from the Society Islands, and among the latter there were 52 for British Columbia and 18 for the Norfolk Islands.

“ A good land, a land of brooks of water, ot fountains, and depths that spring up out of the valleys

and hills. ... A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack anything in it.” This quotation prefaces the latest book on New Zealand, published by the Tourist Department. The fact that it should happen to be published just at a time when people are unable to eat bread without scarceness is another illustration (says an exchange), no doubt, of the long arm of coincidence.

Says an English paper :—“ The New Zealand ‘ School Jomrnal ’ is a new monthly established by the Government of that progressive dominion. It.is made up for the most part of selections from standard English authors suitable for juvenile reading. From a statement made in Parliament, it appears that the editor is remunerated at the rate of £8 a week. He is to be congratulated. Roaming through a library with scissors and paste-pot is not so generously encouraged at this end of the earth.”

An accident of a somewhat peculiar nature occurred between Waitakerei and Avondale on the Katpara, line reports the Auckland Star. The door of a van was torn off its hinges and dashed against several carriage windows. The passengers were somewhat alarmed. A man who was standing on the rear platform of the carriage adjoining the van experienced an unpleasantly narrow escape, having his hat knocked off and being grazed on the head by the flying door.

A striking testimonial to the curative powers of the Rotorua waters was given by a Christchurch gentleman at the anglers’ supper last week. He said that his present visit to Rotorua was a sort of thanks offering. He had visited Rotorua twelve years ago under painful circumstances —an invalid who had to be carried or wheeled about in a chair. His case had been given up by.'the doctors, and he had come to Rotorua as the final desperate cast, and had won. Three months’ treatment and bathing had completely cured him. Mr C. J. Bonaparte, the Secretary of the United Slates Navy, addressing the National Prison Wardens’ Association has demanded that the death penalty should be passed upon habitual criminals. He declared that modern society should cease to nourish and shelter its inveterate enemies. An attempt to commit a capital crime should be met with the same punishment as would be imposed had the deed been actually committed. The fourth conviction for any crime ought to involve the passing of the death penalty upon the criminal.

Conversing with a Post reporter, a Tory Channel whaler said: —I’ve seen at Tory Channel a right whale so big that twenty-seven men could stand inside his mouth. And that isn’t a whaling yarn. There’s five ton in a decent right whale’s tongue. He may have six or seven hundredweight of whalebone. The best whalebone, say six feet long, might be worth a ton —if you could get a ton of it. You can’t from one Tory Channel whale. . The biggest whales grow in books like Frank Bullen’s—you’ye heard of Bullen ? Down in Tory Channel we think him the very greatest writer of fiction of them all. Think! We know him ! He’s simply immense.”

A Karitane Maori named Epiha Maaka has in his possession a pipi shell which is a decided curiosity, says the Otago Dailj' Times. At some period in the life of the shellfish another small fish must have made its way into the shell, and when the rightful owner closed up the intruder was trapped. Evidently the visitor became troublesome, and so irritated the host that the latter set to work to embalm the unwelcome guest in what is usually termed mother-of-pearl. On the shell in the possession of Maaka may be seen the result — the shape of the intruder outlined quite plainly, the eye being quite distinguishable. Maaka believes the shell and the figure on it is of considerable value, but on this point opinions will doubtless differ. The outlined figure is 3m in length and about rin iu breadth at its widest part.

The tone of New York financial circles is more cheerful, but there is little sign of improvement in the United States as a whole.

Local residents wlil be pleased to hear that a sum has been placed on the estimates for the erection of a new post office at Foxton. The effects of the wet ‘‘summer ” in England are seen in the unusually heavy straw crop. Some of the oat straw in West Sussex is reported to be seven feet high.

Forty one thousand three hundred and one passengers were carried in the Christchurch trams on Saturday (Cup day), and 22,068 on Sunday.

It has been decided by the Wairarapa Racing Club to purchase a twenty-four horse totalisator on the new silent system. Mr Ames wili work it in accordance with his contract.

Of a mob of 635 cattle travelling from Walcha (350 miles north of Sydney) 585 died in one night. It was at first supposed the cause was the eating of thistles after rain, but the Government Veterinarian now reports that the death of the cattle was due to anthrax.

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. The subjects for the day will be ‘ ‘ The hands of the Mighty God of Jacob,” and ‘‘The Sin Bearing Lamb. ” The choir will render an anthem at the evening service. The Premier, in his capacity of Minister for Railways, has received a five pound note, sent as ‘‘conscience money ” by a person who signs himself (or herself) “ Light and truth.” The sender had obtained ,£5 for claims for lost goods falsely made against the Railway Department.

A fatal accident occurred at the Paparoa Coal Company’s jworks, Blackball, yesterday afternoon, whereby the foreman of the tunnel works, Martin Horrobin, was killed by a fall of stone. Deceased was forty-two years of age and has a wife and family at Home.

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has just received a beautiful assortment of runners, cushion covers, fancy table cloths, brush and comb bags, etc,, etc., which she bought at exceptionally low prices, being a lot of travellers’ samples. The same are being shown in window. *

Bush working in the northern Wairoa district is very active. The Mitchelson Timber Company are laying down a six-mile locomotive tramway at Kirikopuni, where the} 7 have some 50,000,000 feet of kauri, rimu, and white pine. The Tatarariki mill owners are also laying down a tramway from Tangowahine to Avoca, over which 10,000,000 feet of white pine is expected to pass. Mr John Stevens, member for the district, introduced a deputation to the Minister of Marine, yesterday, consisting of Messrs Woods, M.H.R., McKerrow, Revs. Patterson and Aitken, P. Hennessy, R. Moore, F. W. Frankland, J. W. Rough, and Thos. Rimmer. The deputation urged upon the Minister the necessity for immediate action in connection with controlling the river in the vicinity of Duncan’s Bend. Full particulars of the interview will appear in Tuesday’s issue.

We made a serious error in the obituary notice of Tom Harris, who quit this earth last Wednesday (says an American paper). We said that Tom had always been a good citizen. This is a mistake, as Tom had been in gaol on several and sundry occasions for minor offences, the most serious of which was changing the brand on a sorrel horse belonging to the Jabarranch. Tom was, however, about as acceptable a citizen as ever came from the Goose Creek country, which locality has furnished the bulk of our gaol boarders. A trivial assault case, in which Aileen Jauhcey, a domestic servant, sued Kathleen Jordan, nurse for assault, and claimed £l7 for damages, medical expenses, and loss of wages, was productive of a flood of words and no little amusement, at the Wellington S.M. Court on Thursday. It was shown that the parties worked in the same house, and the case arose out of a quarrel through the servant taking the nurse’s kindling vvood. His Worship gave judgment for defendant without costs.

Mr A. G. Simms, the Government Pomologist, in the course of an interview, stated that the potato crops in Foxton were far in advance of anything he had seen on the Coast. Other vegetables were equally well advanced, and the soil here was particularly adapted for root crops. Speaking generally of the Coast, he considers that the fruit market will be exceptionally good, especially in stone fruits. Mr Simms says he considers Foxon far ahead of any other locality visited. The potato blight has made its appearance in almost every district along the Coast, and spraying is being extensively carried on. Mr Simms regretted to state that there was laxity shown among orchard growers in protecting fruit trees against orchard pests, and was of opinion that the only effective measure would be to prosecute in order to make examples. He stated that three colonies of calicphiabtes missa—the enemy of the codlin moth —have been liberated in the Manawatu. Small quantities of the same can be procured from the Department on application. Mr Simms carries with him several interesting specimens of orchard pests, which growers should make a point of inspecting- in order to guard against them. Mr Simms will revisit Foxton next week.

Speaking theatrically, it is doubtful if ever the Foxton public have had such a treat as that given by the Elton Company for versatility and excellence. From the rise to the fall of the curtain they deserve the greatest possible praise. They play here again to-night, staging ths American farcical comedy, “ Why the Colonel bolted,” together with a bright vaudeville bill, and Miss Elton’s many and varied musical instruments. The prices to-night are 2s, is 6d, and a few seats at is. A rational concert will be given on Sunday evening, patrons contributing.