LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 31 December 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Herald will not be published on Thursday next. We take this opportunity of wishing our readers A Happy New Year. in this issue in reference to dog registration.

Rain has continued to fall throughout this district since last night. The Palmerston United Friendly Societies Sports will be held in the local Park to-morrow. When the Kaiser went to Windsor the English Court adopted all the ceremonies and usages of the Court of their Royal visitor, and German was the official language of the Court. Mr J. Wyeth will run a conveyance to the Beach daily, leaving the Post Office at 6.30 a.m., (except Mondays, 10.30 a.m.). The conveyance will leave Mr M. Perreau’s tea rooms on the return journey at 4 p.m. A united watch night service will be held in the Presbyterian Church to-night commencing at xx. 15 o’clock. The RevASouthern and Aitken will conduct the service which will be of an interesting character. Hymns appropriate to ( the occasion will be sung and tb e ‘" solo, “ A Dream of rendered. The service will dose at 12.5’a.m. Helen Surigiu-, a uineteej/ year' old Roumanian bride committed suicide in front of the.altar during her wedding in church at Jassy. She had been" forced to renounce her lover.arid to accept as her husbamjr'a certain Demeter Gfuuza. 'When the priest began the ceremony the girl burst into tears, and drawing a revolver from her pocket, shot herself through the heart. A match has been arranged between Mr T. D. Taylor, of W. Clarkson’s Wanganui cycling depot, and Mr Lawrence, a long distance runner well known in the Marton district. The conditions are that Taylor is to leave Wanganui on his cycle at 2 p.m. on Wedenesday, the Bth January, at which time Lawrence will leave Marton, the former to ride his machine and the latter to run to Feilding. The first to reach the latter place to win a stake of and L 5 added by Mr Clarkson. This contest is a novel one, and no doubt will attract very great interest.

A newly-married pair had left the Jewish synagogue in Rykestrasse, Berlin, the other day, and the bride had taken her seat in the carriage, when the bridegroom was seized by an official executor armed with a warrant to levy, a personal distress for an unpaid debt. ‘ 1 Give me your watch and chain.” The bridegroom obeyed. “Give me your purse.” The bridegroom tendered his purse. “Empty your pockets.” Once more the bridegroom obeyed with a gloomy face, and then was released. During this dramatic scene the bride covered her face and wetaL while the crowd jeered. The brfllgroom hurried into the carriage, and started on his honeymoon in a penniless state.

The course of true love never did run smooth. A rather exciting incident bearing out this saying occurred on the Woodville station recently, A woman married_,a man and later found her affinity in the person of a second man, who suggested flight. The woman being agreeable, managed to send her lawful husband away on a bogus errand, and during his absence wrote a note telling him she had decided to go away from him and was leaving Woodville with Mr by the 1.15 train that day. Unfortunately for the success of the scheme, the husband returned home and found the mite much too soon, and set off hot foot for the station, arriving soihe ten minutes before the departure of the train, which time he employed in pummelling his wifi’s Wlijofr all round the station, evidently much to his satisfaction, fofr' as the train steamed out he wished 'his wife and her choice a ffitppybNew Year and M|B[he

A light bay cob mare is advertised for. Mr and Mrs Geo. Coley left Foxton yesterday morning for a tour through the Auckland province. Holy Communion will be cele" brated in All Saints’ Church on New Year’s Day, at 7.30 a.m. Captain E. F. Gaunt, son of the late Mr Justice Gaunt, of Victoria, has been appointed to the command of the battleship Majestic. Ten thousand of the poorer tenants in the East End of New York refuse to pay their rents unless they are substatially reduced. An authentic portrait of Van Dyck, given to his sister, a nun, was sold by auction for iourpence among rubbish from the Convent at Walmunster, Flanders. The New Zealand team of professional footballers played the twenty-fourth match of their tour on Saturday, when they defeated Salford by three tries (nine points) to one goal (two points). The “booby” prizes at the progressive euchre party given by Mr and Mrs Perreau, at the beach last Friday night, were won by Miss Holben (not Miss Dahl as previously stated) and Mr Stalker. The better class Italian clerks and warehousemen of New York, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia have formed a ‘‘White Hand” Society to assist the police against the “ Black Hand ” gang.

The first ballot for a draw ot ;£ioo in the Foxton Co-operative Building Society, will take place at an early date. All shareholders who are in arrears should pay immediately to enabK^kfcnriToparMr Martin, the local artesian well sinker, has put down an artesian well for Mr Neylon, which is giving a flow of 1500 gallons an hour from a 2-inch pipe. This demonstrates that there is an abundant supply of pure water under Foxton.

By advertisement the Foxton Building Society notifies that the first ballot for the appropriation of £IOO free of interest will take place in the Borough Council Chambers on January 15th. All arrears must be paid by the nth January.

. It should -be unnecessary for. us to remind the public of the charming entertainment to be staged by local amateurs in the Public Hall to-morrow night. Besides the operetta “ Flower Queen.” there will be a gavotte and swing song and chorus and other vocal attractions.

Dr. George Adams, son of Mr W. Adams, headmaster of the local' State School; arrived -with his wife, at Foxton, from England last week.-*” Dr. A dams, went Horae' some six years ago to enter the medical profession, and acquitted himself very well. He intends commencing practice in Foxton. ■

An inquest was held at the Napier Hospital on Friday, on the body of George Valentine Chatterton Johnson, an unfortunate who bad been on a drinking bout. The jury-returned the following verdict: That deceased died from an acute attack of Bright’s disease accelerated by a drinking bout.”

The Rev. Mr Young-Woodward, Vicar of All Saints, has decided to look after the spiritual welfare of the seasiders, by conducting Divine service in Mr M. Perreau’s tea rooms at the Beach next Sunday afternoon (weather permitting) at 2.30 o’clock. Members of the choir will lead the singing. This will be the first service yet held at the Beach.

During a marriage ceremony at Fairlie (South Canterbury) one day last week as the bridegroom was about to say “ I will” to the clergyman’s momentous question, he was suddenly overcome with faintness. A little water, however, soon revived him, and the ceremony finished in due course. It was explained that the bridegroom had been working exceptionally hard of late, and on the wedding morning he had omitted to take his breakfast. Surely he needed a wife! At a suburban church on Sunday last, says the Christchurch Press, just prior to the commencement of the ‘‘Carol Service,” after Evensong, a stray dog entered the church and found its way to the organ, and quietly entering at the back, walked backwards and forwards over the pedals, causing the instrument to emit strange noises. The vicar, unaware of the cause, looked reproachfully at the organist, who was powerless, and made the strange announcement that “a dog was in the organ.” A member of the choir managed to extricate the musical intruder, and an ejectment having been effected, harmony was restored and the service proceeded. The story of a sudden hope, and a more sudden disappointment, is told by the Newcastle Herald. An amateur gardener, says the paper, on the North Shore (Sydney) line was digging in his garden recently, when he was surprised and gratified to find a shilling—then a two-shilling piece, then, a little later, a sixpence, several coppers, and half-a-crown piece. Needless to say, he began to dig witn renewed energy in the hope of turning up a few sovereigns, and soon the perspiration was standing krbeads on his brow. He straightened his back at last, with a feeble groan of pain. and in the same instant he telt something sliding down his leg, ’ In# moment he _ had grasped the truth —there was in his trocars-, pocket,

Owing to theBandmaster Borough Band will te'Jpnable tf play out this ' News has been miuied Hobart that Archbishop Murply . of the Roman Catholic 1 passed away yesterda£r|t| || Ernest Stedman,, of the J. C. Tyoj’s Building pany, 'New York, which hiwmtm £1,250,000,' Mr losses being £500,000, has-MMS mitted suicide under a We acknowledge receifllHH calenders from the don and Globe IhsurantflHHH Shaw Saville and W : Morgan, agent) Shipping Co (G. Phillips Also greetings from tfce Herald and Chrohicletstaff^H^H^H Two young □red with the spirit of built a punt of white pifIIHHHH long, for the ling from Palmerston Foxton beach 011 the surfajMHHH Mauawatu. They journey in 21 hours, fering any mishap, experienced a few sodes. Some sea-siders, a light on the opposite bank river on Friday night/. across to investigate, and couple snugly camped tent lit up with a plant. The names of young fellows are and Dilks. They intend their craft, and ho^SHj^H This is the last day cgINHH and among many membered is the fact' .thoHH| carters and owners of billiard saloons, etc., v^ho.«HHH| not yet taken out a license, plying unlawfully after We gather from a conversatiqraH with the Town Clerk, that he have to take legal proceed against those who have failed tqJH renew. Now, we don’t like idea of our fellow citizens court costs tacked on to licenses, hence this > remtndSjjjH The Town Clerk must do «Rol duty, and we don’t suppose it a pleasure for him to issue mouses, in , fact, it must be - reverse, as it entails extra wort ‘:|l and trouble, so no one can blame-'-J him, if by their own neglect, this; 23 unpleasant duty is forced upon; him. ’ •

The January’issue of the Re- -review of Reviews is just to , hand; • One of the most interesting, . > features this month is a Character Sketch (illustrated) of 'Professor- -X| W. B. Bottomley, the man. who has perfected a method for supply- J ' ing nitrogen to soil which has that property. This should> ; be;of-. ;■■] great interest to agriculturists everywhere. Mr W. T. ’ Stead y continues his notes on the Hague: ■ Conference. The Book of the month deals with the -'recently ■>; published letters of our late Queen ■ - Victoria, covering the period iron! 1837-1861. The reviews of the leading magazines are as usual very up-to-date and informing.. The pages devoted to Topics of . the , day in the Periodicals of the - Month are exceedingly useful. The serial story “ Carette Of Sark,” by John Oxenham, is Speaking to sin, iuterviewenHHT Auckland, regarding his suggeaßH tion as to the rebuilding of Fa«3| Hament House by means of aaM national subscription, Sir JpgKjJn 1 Ward said: “After the holidlays are over I intend to make enquiries * 'tl with a view to ascertaining the' feeling on the subject throughout ' the dominion. As I have already said, the idea did not originate * i with me; the suggestion was made to me, and I think it is a very good one. The people of New - ' Zealand are doifig well, and they have been well for year» } . V and if all united the amount re-, quired could be ragged without ' ' - difficulty. It is not merely a sem timental matter; it has its > prac-j , tical side, and if the proposal were; sm carried out it would be’ a object-lessonto the outside world. M l ean quickly ascertain the state of JBj public opinion on the subject when--4« I get to. Work. If' it is not taken *! j up with enthusiasm, it would, of in course, be useless;, to ther in the matter.” *