LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 19 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Welcome rain commenced to fall this morning. Mrs Young’s concert party visited Bulls on Tuesday night, and submitted an excellent programme to a fair audience.

Mr E. Healey,, chemist, removed into his new and commodious shop (almost opposite the Bank of N. Z.), yesterday afternoon.

Several “ hoodlums ” created a disturbance by their horse-play and interjections at the concert given by the Foxton amateurs at Bulls on Tuesday night. While at play in the local State School play ground yesterday morning, a boy named Jones, whose parents reside in Union St, sustained a simple fracture of the forearm, through falling from a horizontal bar. The lad’s companions carried him to Dr Mandl’s residence, where the injured limb was set.

It is to be regretted that local social functions are allowed to clash. Two events took place last night, and one acted as a counter-attraction to the other. It is hoped that in future a mutual arrangement will be arrived at, so that the public will not be offered more than they can “chew,” to use a Yankeeism.

Greetings telegrams; containing the words, “ Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,” will be despatched from all telegraph offices during the periods ißth to 24th and 27th to 31st December, at a uniform charge of sixpence, provided that the address ajtkl signature do not exceed eleven words (any excess will be charged per word) and that the text be not varied.

We acknowledge receipt of a card containing Christmas greetings from the local Post Office staff, which we gladly reciprocate.

The Chairman of the Mauawatu (Foxton) Race Course Trustees convenes a public meeting to be held in the Racing Club Office, at 2 p.m., to-morrow (Friday), to receive the annual report and accounts.

Children attending State Schools under 14 years of age, and who obtained proficiency certificates may be granted exemption certificates relieving them from attendance. The exemption certificates may cover a period not exceeding one year.

Mr A. Gallon, of Matarawa, who grows potato crops each season, has not been troubled with the blight for three years. He states that he makes it a rule each year, about the third week in December, to cut off the tops of the crops, and sprinkle the rows with lime.

A paragraph as follows, from’an American paper, was quoted at a banquet at Eltham on Tuesday evening:—“Mr has just landed at Auckland, New Zealand, and motored through to the Bluff. He is the first to accomplish the feat. He says the country is very barren, and comments on a flock of sheep he met en route.” “I very greatly deprecate the anti-Chinese feeling that is abroad in New Zealand,” said Mr Justice Button when addressing the AntiOpium League on Friday night. “ This reference to the Chinese as heathens is wrong and ill-founded; they have been a civilised nation for thousands of years. lit deplorable, this anti-Asiatic feeling that is abroad in the land ; our Lord was Himself an Asiatic, and we might as well indulge that feeling towards Him and His Apostles! ”

A large gathering in the Sydney Trades Hall welcomed Mr Keir Hardie, British M.P. He declared that it had been said that his want of tact and judgment in India had chilled the otherwise unanimous reception he would have received from the Australian people. ‘‘ If that were so,” he said “ he was thankful that his want of tact had produced such desirable results. He came to Australia to meet the men in the labour movement. The crime he committed in India was the same as he was committing in Australia, and the crime whereof he would probably die guilty—that of mixing with the common people.” The Labour members entertained Mr Hardie at Parliament House.

Writing on a political question, the Post says that day by day the army of contestants increases. By the rate of the announcements, the masculine adult population will soon be divided into two divisions, a great majority of candidates and a negligible quantity of non-candi-dates. Politics are indeed a seething sea. The first session the members lean back and rest after their strenuous life at the hustings, in the second they do a little woik, and in the third they are meditating schemes for the next election, and perhaps do a little to amend the product of the second session.

Uncle Sam’s navy ‘has started out on a voyage to the Pacific under Admiral Evans. The cruise will take 140 days. The fleet consists of 53 vessels, manned by 16,000 men, and carrying 850 battleship guns. The New York correspondent of the Times anticipates that Congress will vote for more warships on the basisthat America must maintain fleets in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It will cost two millions sterling to send the fleet to the Pacific, and fourteen millions to complete the new naval programme. There was an amusing side to some of the evidence submitted in the Wallace divorce case, which created such a sensation in society circles in Melbourne. The housekeeper was under examination. Mr Duffy : I believe the visitors were known by “little names”? “Yes.” Will you give us some of them ? Who was Mr Rogers ? “Sossa-” (Daughter.) What was Mr Glenny’s name ? “Fatty.” (Daughter.) And Mr Houseacre’s? “Bunny.” (Daughter.) Mr Parkers? “ Viv.” Mr Bear’s? “Jam-pot.” (Daughter.) Witness said that Mrs Parker was known as “ Olive,” and Mrs Wallace as “ Ruby.” Dr Strong was known as “Bob.”

Lieutenant Shackleton is delighted with the news that the New Zealand Government will give to the Nimrod expedition, which will shortly leave Lyttelton for the South Pole. He asks that the following message be conveyed to New Zealand : “ Say that I find great difficulty in expressing my feelings. lam deeply impressed with the practical sympathy your Dominion has shown with the expedition. We are lifted from bedrock to a position in which cur finances are sound and satisfactory. Not so much does the monetary gift delight me as the manner in which the sympathy has been expressed. I feel that the Dominion oversea has given a lesson to the Old Country, where the apathy displayed is in marked contrast to the practical interest shown by New Zealand and Australia.”

The days of disagreeable, harsh medicines are past, ond Chamberlain’s Tablets top the poll as the most pleasant to fake, mildest gentlest in effect, safes? and surest in their result. Try them next time you need a purgative, and you will be more than pleased. For sale at Messrs Gardner and Whibley's, Grocers, Foxton. We have! on sale balance-sheet and timesheet forms for flaxmillers. Orte sheet to 50. Inspect same.~HE»AW> Printery.

1 he Picturescope booked the local Public Haff(for- ( V $ Boxing Night. • ' Mr E. Healey has imported’ consigmentof perfumery, sqitable\.! fof Christmas gifts. ; Mr Mi Perreau has a fine Selpction of Christmas cakes on views ' in his window. • ' We direct attention to arrangements re Palmerston Races sT); published elsewhere in this issue. ‘ JmfParticulars of the excursion and picnic to the beach, to be held onL Boxing Day, appear in our advertising columns. Hare Matenga, the Maori outlaw, was captured in the Gisborne district ou Tuesday, by Detective Broberg and Constable Skinner. The world’s sculling champion l - ship will take place on the Wanga- . nui, River, between Webb and' " : j ri Tresidder, on February 20th. / Constable Woods has completed ’ • / a visit of inspection to all shearing;;?., sheds and accommodation in the; 1 Foxton district and reports every-;! thing satisfactory. Annie Amelia Simms, wanted' in Auckland for a breach of the - Licensing Act, was arrested in Palmerston by Detective Quirk yesterday, and sent North. . , ; - Mr Berthold’s pupils, by friends, will tender a concert ufcriK ’ the Public Hall to-morrow The programme, as published ’ where in this issue, should attract , a large audience. 1 * ' o; Those requiring bicycles will.do well to call and inspect the machines for which the Palmer-, ston Cycle and Motor Co. are sole, : agents. Permanent local branch in premises lately occupied by E. Howe. Mr W. Bullard has a fine assortment of travelling bags and, portmanteaux, so indispeusible to, holiday - makers during their' travels abroad at holiday time/ . Change advertisement next issue.

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, -■ has purchased a large assortment of traveller’s samples including stockings, skirts, pinafores, children’s clothing etc. Crash skirts; from 4/6 each. A large assort*;, ment of fancy goods suitable fqtf, Christmas presents.* 1 ‘ ll- ■ * Those contributed to the presgafr tation to Mrs S. Hickson were as follows: Mesdames Whyte, Jenks, ■ O. Austin, Barnard, Barber (sen.), R. Barber, Edwards, C. Robinson, John Robinson, James Robinson, r Stewart, J. Symons, Clemett, Frankland, Wilson, Adams, Shadbolt, B. Austin, Morgan, Speirs, ‘ J. Coley, C. Collins, Walker, .C. H. Collins (junr.), Stiles, Barnes,, Healey, and Misses Creswell, ‘ Symons and Dinihan. ; A letter which came by the Home mail the other day, says the Christchurch Press, was addressed as follows : ‘ ‘ Timaro, Kanaborg, Nyseland, Thora Harrits, mark.” The postal officials. in Denmark had marked the letter “ New Zealand,” and the rest apparently was easy, for, when it reached Timaru it was marked, ’ “Try Mrs Harris, Buchanan’s Paddock.” who proved to be the person for whom the letter was intended. The Dominion states that it'is estimated that with the new Par- ' raehtary Buildings, the General • Post-office and the Public Trust - Office in coarse of erection atCme same time, the Government vjAtl , be involved in buildings in ( lington next year to the extent - £200,000. If it is decided to put in hand the proposed new railway ; * station and the addition to the ■ new Drill Hall at Buckle-Street, -"3 that sum will easy amount to a , quarter of a million sterling. Mr Massey, leader of the Oppo“ sition, in the course of a speech at the Political Reform League’s social to him at Pukekohe, said the whole of the Government’s land legislation was arrant humbug. Too much influence was exerted by people who had ppver been half-a-mile from a gas-lamp. The land question would come up again at the general election. The Opposition would not rest until it had obtained for Crown tenants the option of the freehold. He was certain that .£150,000 would be required to re-build Parliament Buildings. He had been sur*f t. prised at the Prime suggestion as to change of site. 'X . Lionel Terry, in a letter to theF V editor of the N. Z. Times,' adheres ~ to the belief—if such a word may be used when the capacity for in- - tellectual assent is so obviously absent—that the shooting of aliens is , a highly commendable proceeding, .; but he goes further, and intimates ' his intention to, repeat the act. His design in slaying the Chinese in Haining street was to put our laws to the test. He was met, he says with “arrogant ignorance, contemptuous scorn, and transparent trickery,” and he insinuates in pretty broad terms that he , intends to give the of the law another chance. The -jl Times remarks that as Terry .isii obsessed by the notion that it is destiny to kill Monogolians, it the duty of the authorities to that he gets no opportunity carrying his intentions into effect.’ WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS Superior to all other spirits, > t - : -- r