LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 24 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Mr J. C. Wilkin, managing director of the Lyttelton Times Co., died in Paris last week. Warrington defeated the New Zealand professional Rugby team on Saturday, by 8 points to 7. Some very artistic Christmas and New Year cakes are on view and for sale at Messrs Cargill and Sous’ bakery establishment. A preliminary announcement in reference to the forthcoming Catholic Bazaar, appears elsewhere in this issue. The river excursion and picnic is the local attraction for Boxing Day. The boats leave the wharf at 9,30 a.m. (sharp) for the Heads, returning at 6 p.m. The price for the trip, including lunch (at Mr Perreau’s rooms), at the beach, is adults 2s 6d and children is 6d. Parties who desire to take their own lunch will be charged 2s, children is. A subscription list for funds for the proposed new Parliamentary Buildings on the line suggested by the Premier at Taihape was. says the Dominion, circulated in a prominent club in Wellington on Wednesday evening. The yield amounted to is i>4d, a few postage stamps, and three buttons. At the local S.M. Court yesterday morning, before Messrs F. W. Frankland and A. Cockburn, J’s.P., Oliver Robinson was charged by the police with refusing to quit licensed premises, to wit the Family Hotel, on Saturday night, and also with drunkenness. He was fined £1 and costs on the first charge, and convicted and discharged on the other. The borough of Greytown, with a population of 1123, has just erected and opened a Town Hall at a cost of £ 2500. The building will seat 800 people, with ample staging facilities. Levin, which has just blossomed forth as a borough, has carried a loan of ,£13,000 for street improvements and installation of coaljgae/ "w e congratulate thr> citizens of both boroughs fM. their achievements. A scene was witnessed bj'iuany thousands of persons in Jsew York when Ernest Capelle, a steeplejack, seated in a boatswain’s chair with bowlines, climbed the steel flagpole on the top of the Singer Building, America’s loftiest sky-scraper, 708 feet above the street, and coolly adjusted the gilded ball on the top of the flagpole. Capelle was paid ,£4O for his task. To-morrow, Christmas Day, there will be special services in All Saints’ Church. The blessed sacrament will be celebrated at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., and 11 a.m. At the 11 o’clock service Mrs John Robinson will sing a solo “ Sleep Holy Babe.” In the evening there will be festal evensong at 7 o’clock. The vicar will give a short address. During the service the choir will render a number of carols. An individual who had been imbibing not wisely, but too well, created some mild excitement on Saturday night last, by demanding to speak to the crowd. He broke in upon the band of street preachers who have taken up their stand during the last two Saturday evenings at the corner of White Street. He embraced one of the speakers, and demanded his say. His antics drew the crowd, but spoilt the preaching. He was subsequently taken in charge by the police. Wanganui is proud of its fasters, and has issued the following challenge to Dr Bakewell, of Auckland, who ridicules the alleged cures:— “A Wanganui man is ready to stake ,£IOO that he will fast for 25 days: he is willing to submit to the strictest supervision that Dr Bakewell can devise, and the only stipulation he makes is that he is to be allowed to go about his daily work and take such air and exercise as he pleases. He will afford all necessary facilities for watchers following him wherever he may go.” Dr Bakewell intends to visit Wanganui to further investigate the fasting cases. The Auckland City Coroner (Mr Thomas Gresham) was called upon in the Police Court last Friday, to answer an accusation by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for whom Mr Brookfield appeared, of having cruelly ill-treated a dog on the Bth inst., by hooking it with a fish hook. He requested, through his solicitor, for an adjournment. Mr Mays understood Mr Gresham was desirous of making a test case. Mr Brookfield insisted that the particular variety of angling accredited to Mr Gresham in the information must be discontinued,, test or no test. The Society existed to protect animals and the hooks in question were put in a fence to capture dogs. They were not going to allow that sort of thing to continue if they could help it. An adjournment was made till January 13. The days of disagreeable, harsh medicines are past, ond Chamberlain’s Tablets top the poll as the most pleasant to take, mildest gentlest in effect, safesi and surest in their result. Try them next time you need a purgative, - and you will be more than pleised For sale at Messrs Gardner and Whib ley's, Grocers, Foston.,

Mr G. S. Munro, the great gee bung of the N.Z. Internaiional'Exhibition, leaves shortly on a trip to England,' He intends to promote “ New Zealand in' London ” exhibition at Earl's Court. Dr Hugh Stott, medical officer oi East Sussex, speaking at a public meeting at Cuckfield, said that the linen pocket handkerchief was an abomination, and could not be too strongly condemned from a health point of view. The Pipiriki Block, near DanneVirke, has been secured by the Government for closer settlement purposes. It will not be possible, however, to place the land on the market before next spring, owing to the existence of certain timber cutting rights. By that time it is anticipated 10,000 acres will be available for settlement. Mr Thomas Mackenzie, who uas occupied the position of Independent member since his election for Waihemo after the death of Sir John Mackenzie, has announced that in future he will support the Ward administration. His jhcnp from “Independence” to “Dependence,” has made him a target for the press of the Dominion. A movement is on foot among local footballers (saj r s the New Plymouth paper) to raise a memorial to the late Mr Alfred Bayly, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, for many years one of the finest of New Zealand’s representative footballers. The suggestion is that the memorial should be erected in the Recreation Sports Ground. A Cornish editor appeals to his subscribers in this unique way : “ If you have frequent headaches, dizziness, and fainting spells, accompanied by chills, cramps, chillblains, epilepsy, and ja nndice, it is a sign that you are not well, but are liable to die at any minute. Pay your subscription a year in advance, and thus make yourself solid for a good obituary notice.” A goose with an apparently abnormal appetite was killed for table by a New Plymouth resident the other day. Inside its gizzard was found embedded a miscellaneous assortment of ironwork, including a staple and about a dozen nails and tacks. Notwithstanding this unusual fare, tbe goose apparently enjoyed perfect health —indeed, was thriving on its indigestible food. inJte.?®sling preserved by a local medico, says the News. A valuable cow, owned by Mr Fendall, of Masterton, died _a. victim to its own thirsty dissipation one day last week. The animal broke into a neighbour’s dairy, and went on what may be termed a “ lacteal tangle.” After getting outside of eighteen gallons of milk, the cow calmly walked outside, and, after one long look at the heavens, fell down and died. There was nothing wrong with the milk, and it is a general opinion that the cow died of “ too much of a good thing.” A teacher was instructing the class on grammar, and requested them to compose a sentence containing the words “bitter end.” One boy said, “The Russians mean to fight the war to the ‘ bitter end,’ ” Another said, ‘ ‘ Our holidays came all too soon to their ‘bitter end.’” The one that outshone all others was from a bright ten-year-old, and was as follows: “Smith’s bull pup chased Brown’s cat across the yard, and as she jumped through the fence he ‘ bitter end ’! ” The cat came back ! A resident of South Carterton, says the News, the other day, wishing to lose a couple of felines, took them in a bag to a lonely spot on the Taratahi plains, where they might be expected to live on rabbits and feathered pests, and liberated them. Two days later the family was surprised to observe one of the cats walking in at the door, but with no indication of what had become of its companion. In returning to its old home the cat had walked a distance ot about five miles, and the heart of the family was so touched that the animal was received back to its bosom. On November 4th an old man, 90 years of age, entered the Crown Office of the Daw Courts, London, and set down a voluminous document, which proved to be an affidavit. Asked what it was, he said it was an action he was taking against “ the King, Crown, and Parliament of England for ,£20,000 damages for neglect, ” and added that he wanted to sue in forma pauperis. It turned out that the old man was Mr John W. Burt, a Tasmanian, once an emplover of of the late Hon. Richard John Seddon, and that the coming trial (for the affidavit was proved to be regular and in order) arises out of an action in Tasmania nearly twenty years ago. Burt now resides in the London County Council lodging-house in Drury Lane. At the inquest held in Auckland last week on the headless infant recently found in the harbour, Detective Denorville stated that when he questioned Mrs Farndale, the woman arrested on a murder charge, she stated that the infant was in the Salvation Army Home. He conveyed her there in a cab. On arrival she admitted the child was not there, and added: “T took baby away on Tuesday ; went for a blow up the harbour on a ferry-boat. The baby was restless, and I walked up and down, then set it on the side rail of the steamer which lurched and baby fell overboard.” She added that she was too scared to tell anyone on the steamer or at the boarding-house, and expressed regret that she had told so many lies. * She sobbedj violently while making this state-

Mass wiJ be cdetmtfii' local' Catholic Chufch The Herald will on Thursday next, Bn«ipg\n^ ;^H|W Heavy rains, by are recorded in Brisbane ■ By advertisement in .thjsfcisf will be found tram arrangements I ,’ ['• « for the Bulls Races. H Grasshoppers have invdfled Orange district, New 'f<j| in millions, and crops. ■ r%L . 'Wmjk Mr O. Cook notifies byaJl; eitise*^;.jyj ment that he will run a to the Potu Sports on Day, and to the beach on Day. , Baroness Adolphe Rothschild; whose death was announced re ; * s«|j cently, bequeathed .£*40,000 ior Jl Jewish charities in Paris; 1 ; JMm A coach will, leave ?Mr C. •F Johnston’s stables for Potu' sports; y&ssk on Christmas Day leaving at 12 (noon). We acknowledge and season’s greetings from'the prietors'and staff of the Bay Herald and Eketahftna Ex?S|||R; press * I • ‘:|Pw By advertisement it - that the usual 5.35 p.nuitraln. • January Ist will be IWfiye'l leave Palmerston at Foxton. A number of the places have decorated/ the* of their premises with fernjs and other greenery, W 1 5& Over twenty teachers.are sengers from Sydney by Wimmera to attend aat Auckland. Afterwards will play cricket, tennis and ing matches. : The German War Office has pfiti* chased the right to use Poulsen’s "' wireless telephone, by, wh^ti y it will be able to communicate with places 250 miles away. . The death is announced from;’ London of Dr William of Wellington, fifth sou c|[ f Mr Logan, Superintendent ofiElectric Lines. Deceased was 33 of ./-t? age, and leaves a widow two, children. jj * A Taranaki newspaper pfO-‘ k prietor acknowledges a Christmas - ; hamper from a grocer biscuits and a bottle of syrup. It is not recorded whether ’ any of the staff dropped dead. , , *4 Mr R. O. Jarrett, the well: / ||ii known instructor in deap ' ci&tre, b£.< been offered a lucrative posltl&u -, u Sandow’s staff, mi Ljjuo' Mr , Jarrett has the matter tmder sideration, and is waiting"a farther communication. .-“S A horse attached to Ml meat delivery cart, bolted in biton Road on Saturday. shaft of the cart' stnu& tied up in t.he f f vicinity l , to Mr' P. T, Robinson, causing f ’®i such injury to : the jaw of the uu-. \sSi fortunate animal that it had to * destroyed. f Willliam Walker, a deacon of K aristocratic Baptist cburcit,; : -^aii2lC: treasurer of the New Britain ’ (Connecticut) Savings Bank, Has.been arrested. He was toundl!_ V"? working in a Mexican mine, .ifte£.t'“"'tj| absconding with ,£122,000. funds ot the church and bank. Pearce has issued a challenge-'to - ’S'* row Arnst, the New ZiffiMtKitf., for 1 £IOO a side. of this ;’*■& challenge, Fogwell hafapkpressed his willingness to row Jrecrce J for /200 aside. Fogwell, and probably r & George Towns and a %;■' aquatic men will visit to witness the Webb-TresSidet match. Practically, all hope is now doned of rescuing the men. tombed in the Pittsburg Coal Com- r '.*? pany’s Narr mine at in which an explosion few days ago. Thirteen bodies * have been discovered, in a terribly r . ■*' mutilated condition, and three of •rjc. them were headless. Two htui- ! dred and fifty miners, Americans . and Hungarians, were entombed 4n ■the workings. After the explbsion •■■■' -S? fire broke out, flames'and .dense, % .3 smoke issuing from the mij&moutftA and rendering the work rescue , almost helpless from the Mprt- Y" \ Speaking at the fe J Broken Hill, Mr Keir ferring to his Indian vmKi said if" Qri had been said in to his actions in India, is>it he ! ought to be shot. * Those spoke like that theMtt; motest idea what he had said and done in India. One; journalistic cabled a report to England from India to the effect that? He _ Hardie) was stirring up atrife i i:im§,i'M India. The journalist was one out of seven, and the otlujr papers gave' the lie to the if On the word of one man wjuBHB concocted the lie, the taken as being authentic putable. People who such statements were past for. Mr Hardie said thised with the Indian their efforts to improve ditions and get some self-government. One member had said that Hardie) should not have gone j spoken to the coolies, but those coolies they wpuld people with as keen intellects'," with as bright brains •“ old England.- ' wished to; snake no apologv.- - believed he had done would take 'the consequeilp^^r" Hardie arrived in Sunday night. He ‘■-SwjMiSjS Wellington oh Friday;, Mrs Hamer, of has purchased „ a of traveller’s stockings, skirts,' dren’s clothing from 116 -