LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3780, 4 January 1908, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

An impounding notice elsewhere in this issue. '

Mr F. Healey advertises for a return of a bunch of keys. Reward.

A cricket match, Sandon v. Foxton, is being played on the local ground this afternoon. The vital statistics for. Fox ton for December are :—Births 4, 1 death, 1 marriage.

Messrs Levin and Co. conveyed 350 passengers per boat to and from the Beach on New Year’s Day. It is pleasing to note that not a single mishap occurred which reflects great credit upon the shipping staff.

When the alarm of fire was heard at the Park on New Year’s Day, a wild stampede took place. Men, women and children careered through ' fences and paddocks at break-neck paces en route to the scene of conflagration. It simply broke up the sports meeting, as only two events were subsequently got off. At Waitara Mrs Isaacs, a native woman, the other day gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. All are doing well. ‘ Natives around the district are very pleased at the event. Mrs Isaacs is a daughter of Paris Taylor, whose father was of great assistance to the troops at the time of the outbreak of war in Waitara. When a Montreal woman named Quinn was arrested for being intoxicated, she was found to have a chain tightly padlocked around her body. In consequence of what she told the police, her husband was arrested. He admitted that he had kept the unhappy woman chained .to the bed post in her room for a month in order to prevent her obtaining intoxicants.

A farmer in the Wairarapa found a kiwi’s nest under a clump of fern in the bush recently. They only lay a couple of eggs, which are of enormous size. The bird is not much bigger than an ordinary hen, but the egg is bigger than a goose egg —very long, and quite round at each end, and a very pure white. The cock bird does the hatching. As the turbine steamer Maori was leaving the Picton Wharf the cither day, an inebriated fireman belonging to the, ship fell overboard. A companion, in a similar state, probably with good intentions, did likewise. Mr Stringer, chief officer, pluckily jumped in after the struggling men, and made ropes fast to them, then all three were hauled back to the Maori amidst cheers for Mr Stringer . Crosby Hall, an historic old I,ondon structure, formerly one of the palaces of King Richard 111, has fallen from its high estate, and is now just a feeding place for those who can afford to pay for a good dinner. Mr H. Birch, engineer for the Wellington Gas Company, visited Crosby Hall as a dining resort, and states that he found a peculiar pleasure in “ getting up steam ” by the dim light of the old mullioned windows of the throne room, still emblazoned with the insignia of royalty. Mr Birch informed reporter that the Crosby waitresses were a particular type'of beautiful women, Who wore dresses of a grey material especially woven for the Crosby proprietary. John Hutchinson, of Trenton, New Jersey, a blaster at the quarries of the County WorkHouse, was at work on a rope ladder 150 ft in the air, when he was attacked, the Daily Express says, by a snake which had crawled out from a rock fissure. Hutchinson had a stick of dynamite in his free hand he could not drop the dynamite because of the people at the quarry’s bottom. Pie put. the dynamite in his coat pocket,., and drew from it a' small si eel drill. With this he struck at the snake, which, hissing fiercely, was already close to his head. The ladder swungmnder his action and the blow missed. The snake, struck in his turn, but as quickly Hutchinson struck again. He hit the snake’s head; dazing if. Again and again .thi: drill descended,, until the; undpili'ng; ftdih theJ9pe,‘['f.ell 'pit

The Foxton Borough Council invite applications for the posit Loti of ranger. Schedule of duties may' be seen Clerk’s during office hours. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on the xsth inst., to fix the day on which the statutory half-holiday will be held fcr the current year. The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. Southern. The subject in the morning will be “ The New Year’s Gue&t,” and in the evening, “God our Helper.”

Two persons who had been celebrating the old year out and the New Year in by pouring too much liquid down their throats, were dealt with in a lenient manner at the local police Court yesterday.

On New Year’s Day there must have been fully two thousand persons of all ages and from all parts of the Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, at the Beach. A large number of persons arrived by rail from Palmerston, many attending the Friendly Societies Sports and picnic at the Park and others wended their way along the river bank. All went home sunburnt and happy.

The Rev. G. Y. Woodward will conduct a service at the beach on Sunday afternoon, at 2.30 p.m. The service will be held in Mr M. Perreau’s tea rooms, and if appreciated, Mr Woodward is willing to hold services periodically during the summer months. 11 Tomorrow's service will consist of shortened evensong, hymns, an 4 a short address. The hymns used will be those ot the aneient and modern hymn book. The pulpit of the Presbyterian Church will be occupied to-morrow by the Rev. James Paterson, of St. John’s Church, Wellington. Mr Paterson is one of the late Mr Duncan’s oldest friends, and the opportunity is being availed'bit to get him to conduct a memorial service in connection with the death of the Rev. James Duncan. Mr Paterson preaches both morning and evening. The latter service will take the foim of a memorial, and friends are invited to send flowers.

A man accompanied by his wife and two little children had a narrow escape from a serious accident at the Beach on New Year’s Day. They were driving in a trap, when one wheel went over a log which tipped, the trap and threw the driver out. This factor righted the vehicle but the horse started off with the vehicle and its helpless occupants. Two gentlemen managed to arrest the animal’s progress much to the relief of the mother. The male occupant was rendered temporarily unconscious and received a nasty wpund on the head, but was able to resume the homeward journey without further mishap. An interesting find ot Maori relics was made the other day on the farm of Mr Herbert Stanscombe at Greenhills, says the Southland Times. He was breaking up new ground when the plough struck something hard a foot deep, which proved to be a Maori axe. Further examination disclosed a “plant” of five, all finely polished and in perfect order, the cutting edges being surprisingly sharp. Two were fifteen inches long, two were thirteen, and the fifth was a small one. Early in the last century the Maoris were numerous in Awarua Bay, and it is probable that these axes had been buried and their hiding placeiof^fottc»n. A fog last week was responsible for a very disagreeable experience to the wife of a farmer onf the No; 2 Dine, which, indeed, might have had serious consequences (says Wanganui Herald). S/he left, the house about six o’dfock in the evening to muster tap the cows, but lost her way, jand wandered about for some honors vainly trying, to find her home/the rough nature , of the country rendering her plight still more unpleasant. Alarmed by her non-appearance, a search party went out to look for her, and finally found her, after midnight, near the No. 3 Dine, she having wandered all over the country, her tween the two roads. She was in a very hysterical and exhausted condition when found, but, with attention, soon recovered.

Mr Joyce, who has charge of t-h£-dogs of the Nimrod expedition, was a member of Captain Scott’s expedition. He speaks of the strange fascination , the work has for those who have once seen the Polar ice. ' “ There is something attractive,” he says, ‘‘in the Polar regions \when a man has been in there once and can stand the strain of it all*-- Look at Peary.’ He goes north as a Tegular matter of habit. The silence'is the worst thing to become accustomed to. You go out into the darkness of the Polar night, alone, , but cannot cover more than 50 yards before you turn back again. At first you can hear nothing. T£e silence almost roars in your > Or then, perhaps, the shrill thistle of a seal below the ice sehds your, heart into your mouth. ;The seal bumps, bumps on the ice,] and you feel somehow that yqu want human society, and ypU make tracks back to your chumps almost in a panic. But, once y/®%have tasted the life, you han^ er again. J VJr Persistent coughs ,' Qa t cnntnijaie through the spring anr® u mmer uhu«ililjy indicate some r tJKoat, and luoix trouble and it is'a,serious mistake |■toj neglect them, taiamberlnin’- Cough Remedy is /aij*> us tor,; M® s Cdughs pf anMMS taken m tisus i»4J save a doctor’s >uj, andperha^l.e saje ,al ( XJNjg |l|h| cers* ' r 1

noxious 'wti. hb day night - | ‘ ’ - JjM Mr;’ Jff. J tSnce*Tuesday MrMgig. piston, .advejrtplyM preventing“ ; the trovihg,;, Ranfurly -m Whqti at Niagara * Mr. William. i,p Cable, of Wellington^ W4i|, shown over at| electric „power;hoUse' the Canadian side of the r^ver, 1 that/ when ’l'Otapfefed, wftl.gcnfrji-y rate 1 \,:t At /Wellington '' yesterday 'a' drunken brawl resulted in the, death of Jplin Me Anally who * was . struck by a man named , ! Sheridan. /'Sheridan. has been . previously 1 charged with murder and “is 1 abqmt 30 years old. MqAnally wha a middle-aged man and -leaves! a widow. Sheridan, has been a’rjrested, ’ 5; n “ Proceed H was the brief, message which |Mr Andrew Carnegie cabled to Mr Crajgie, Mayor of Timaru. Mis Worship had writ- , ten ashfoglMr Carnegie to say . whether .fiiffplansr for a .public ; library were approved* as a condiifs precedent to a dqna-, ; tiqn of^3o»S spme .pyftifcal jokers on New Year’s their attention on the cart. When the contmptor|iampred|. a dwelling in Norbitb|i foaJl* "they unharnessed , theihorsie® bordugh’s faith-f , fuljservatianJfe throhgh the gate, a bathirfof ffl'Crackers 7 wasTdischarged! horse charged ,' furiouslmtjßl the shafts, which, • fell Jparki and set off at a 1 furious road. The contractor had to’ wend his way back, to-th e pound, and bring the horse bar k> and was put to great ■ inconveni ifice., It was lucky that * the jokers! made themselves scarce after thtf*t fmk Tficj fiveiypar-old daughter of Mr F; I draper, of Newton, Auckland, wl 1° sustained severe burning injuries/ as the result of playing with h atches at her honie on December 9th, died in the hospital from tl effects yesterday. £elie ring a feeble excuse to be worse t none, a Dunedin youth set hu ase lf to invent one that V would R et him safely past every collectiM* box i, n the city on Hos- < pital Saturday (says the Otago Daily 1) imes). In the morning ht/!h went ./Jauntily, citywards, and aV; out her box with/the/' ■■ usual [demand. “My dear young replied, “ I would give ; ‘ you’ only it agree ..I hstve ““mg said which he beamed * , triumphantly; but*.his joy wasjjil&ft sho/iived. Said thedamsel, .uri-if a !? t shed, “Put it right’in herb don’t need to go any furtber.v->J$ I im sure I’m, the ugliest.” y nth delivered his coin and der///-|| ijrted sadly, having learned! v hen the hospital ifunds are at®ake a woman’s vanity is. ■“W - V from Gisborne the////°t%r day gave in brief the story of; V/j a s iisational episode in the life of a mfwlsow, a well-to-do man of he Gisborne district.. Poverttßay Herald furnishes ther psticulars, to the Mr Vicent Pyke, manager a:. Bank c New Zealand, has jusi ceivedja letter , signed < by;/Hpwf,|s-* Chow with his usual signature|* r /-.j dated jitong Kong, Novembeivigj - , The alter reads: “Dear Your favour, vembd: 27, 1906, only reached somf time last month * and con-taffiS* 1 “ j I regret to tell you ‘ n ' so/why I did not receive/your'. .. ii let/er before was that I h'ajl.'bepr/k kept for ransom for nearly a injthe brigand’s den, and suffered * a lot of trouble until last month /,. when I was released. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your draft - for £ —■ —which was duly collected when I returned.. Kong. Thanking you lor your trouble and hopiug you/ are rips-j©tt "well.” .Advice received '' by Mr Pyke from agents, the Hong ."Kong and. Shanghai Banking Colrpom4ipn|i& L y Hong Kong, states that the ; 'moheyK /'' was paid to How Chow, pe^pip|ll^. 1 The information contained in the-' above letter was Mrs How Chow who so far had received. from her husband the experience he has^nnle^iie^^ol