LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 9 January 1908, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The MacCullem Family are making enquries in reference to a return visit to Foxton. Twelve bands have entered in the A grade at the approaching band contest at New Plymouth, and seven in the B grade. Another burglary is reported from Palmerston. The residence of Mrs Mitcheson in Main St. East was entered and in notes stolen. The prolonged dry weather is spoiling the crops and drying up the grass in the Canterbury district. Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has some startling information about straw hats, which will appear in her advertising space next issue. At Perth on Tuesday, a railway employee named M'Guigan and a scrubcutter named Hart quarrelled. Hart borrowed a gun and shot M'Guigan dead. He then committed suicide. A french hospital transport, named the Nine, was wrecked on the Moroccan coast. A rocket apparatus saved all the 240 persons aboard at the time of the disaster. The Hon, Hall-Jones, whose health is greatly improved, will return to New Zealand in the course of a few weeks, and will resume duty at once. Messrs P. H, Rae-Howard and Co. will sell at their mart on Saturday next at 2 p.m,, entirely without reserve, toys, fancy goods, furniture, and a quantity of sundries. Further entries invited. . The Eondon Times says that the Druce prosecution came to a fit and ignominious end, and one of the greatest delusions of modern times has been exploded and reduced for ever to a popular legend. Regarding the identity of Mr Druce and the Duke of Portland, the Daily Telegraph says it is difficult to adequately characterise the prosecution, rebutted by such impressive testimony and it expresses the hope that the Justice Department will put some pertinent question to those bolstering up the monstrous and wicked fabrications of the funeral. ■ ' When Dr Mandl commenced practice in Foxton he suggested, in conversation with a Herald representative, the necessity for a cottage hospital. The subject, however, was never publicly discussed. The doctor instructed Mr Rough to prepare plans and call tenders for the erection of a nursing home. A suitable site for the building was secured in Johnston Street and the tender of Mr Rimmer has been accepted for the erection of the building. Ample accommodation will be provided, for patients also matron and assist ant. The nursing home will be provided with necessary appointments, well ventilated and’lighted,. and, when completed, should fill a long-felt want in this district: ‘j nl 1 1 '•■S k’’l

11 1 ■ j j.;-L 1 'i "I* 'fltHPp Sawmilliag 1 in’ :l plantations lias been carried oafor a few years' in and the" timber'finds ready; the best,quality bringing from ss ’ per zoo feet. It is being largely *. used by farmers in the erection of sheds and outbuildings. - ;o';v£& The Mangamahoe correspondent of the Eketahuna Express reports that a large discovery of ;moa bones ''r' has recently been made in theMauriceville lime quarries by the men engaged in excavating. , This is the second time within the last - - year or two that moa bones have" ’' been discovered there. They are ’ in a very good state of preservation.

Two Chinese stowaways escaped from the steamer Ben Neyis, at Wallaroo, South Australia, on the night of December 23 rd. They had stowed away . when - the steamer lett China, and . the captain had successfully kept them in custody when touching at other Australian ports. The police took action, and one was captured in a mangrove swamp, having hidden in a hole six feet deep, and covered himself with bushes. Neither could speak English. James Tresstder, the Australian sculler who has come over to New. Zealand to row Wm. Webb for the sculling championship of the world, has been only a few days in Wanganui, yet he has already got to work in earnest, and his initial spins on the Wanganui river, has demonstrated in a most unmistakeable manner, says the. Chronicle, that he is a clean, finished sculler, who will have to be seriously reckoned with. The match is to take place on February 20. Webb is reported to be jogging along in his usual quiet way, and our Wanganui contemporary anticipates one of the finest races ever rowed in the Southern Hemisphere. The fell in the price of wool is having an effect on the loading ; of Home trade steamers, and the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Kaipara, which completed discharging at Wellington, is to go out into the stream to wait for orders. It is stated that it the price of wool had remained up, there would have been a rush of wool for the steamers, but, as a result of the drop in the price, growers are not anxious to; get their wool on the Home market at once,; and consequently a con- , siderable quantity of wool is being diverted to sailing ships, and the steamers which have been provided to carry the wool will now have to lay up until cargo accumulates.

The order of President Roosevelt to leave the national motto, • “In God We Trust,” off the coins moulded in the mints of the conn- \ try, aroused a storm of protest, says ' r a San Francisco correspondent. The , President defended himself with his usual vigor, pointing out that the many cheap specimens of would-be wit, and the blasphemous expressions used by the ungodly, , 1 were rearsons enough tor, his . action. The clergy replied that it ' was a menace to a Christian nation " to thus deny God, that the motto had become recognised as part and parcel of the national life, and that blasphemy was unfortunately, a common vice, but that its existence did not warrant a return to preChristian times. , To the observer, it seems that the President might have consulted Congress, or ascertained the public pulse, but the impulsive Roosevelt is not addicted' - to such a course of action at all times.

“ What about them art union tickets?” he asked. He was an upstanding son of the soil, and he was questioning one of the secretaries who recently conducted an art union. “ Yes> sir. Want to know the numbers ?” he said, replying to the query and asking - another in the same breath. ‘ “ Well, why wasn’t they putin the ■. paper? That’s what 1 want to know,” doggedly persisted the big man. “They were in both papers,” said the secretary. “ Oh, perhaps. But I never takes any , paper. My neighbour generally gits it and she lends it to me. But she’s away for ’er Christmas holidays, so I didn’t git none. ’ ’ The secretary then produced the list.'of winning numbers, which were eagerly conned by the rustic. “ I’ve got two tickets home,” he murmured, and he blushed, “ A bloomin’ bit of a girl wheedled me into getting em. But blessed if I can remember the numbers, now. No, I don’t think it was one o’ V them. It started with a3,ora 4, ‘ ->■ og~-a- g,—er something like that. Jist my luck I Ta-ta !” Exhange, A Danish girl, living in her father’s home in Denmark, having ■.) ■ probably, heard something about ’ Sydney* and anxious to add to-her’ collection of postcard views from ’ New South Wales, hit upon a plan,’. - ’ 1 the success of which will probably ■-/ astonish her.. Having selected a ; s card with a very pretty rural scene ■ . of the home in which she lived, the little maiden addressed the card in English, “ To the cleverest girl'in*; - the biggest school in Sydney,. would she please send a card in fe* 1 turn.”-*The mail duly Sydney, but the postal authorities were perplexed as to whom they • < should deliver the letter. How* ’ >; ever, the card was delivered bythe.j'v postman to the Girls’ High School in Elizabeth Street. The - judg- - ment of the postal authorities, was ? ? evidently wrong in this matter, for-., >. while the High School judging by ' / their successes of the year, may; have, some very clever girls in, ,it,Vos; yet it is not the largest school in the 1 . j state. The receipt of the card, the girls in the High School aroused a spirit of pupils, numbering some 500, are going to each forward a their unknown Danish -iriexjdi-i'k l ! She wiU, therefore, receive postcardaSSiThe onus. .of the :

i«it — 1 — r ' Mrs G. Newth advertises for a 1 girl for house work v The has approved of the proposal to establish a District High School at Bulls.- . £> . The half-yearly meeting of the iLManawatu Flaxmills Employees Union is advertised to take place Rpb the 13th lust. Malachy Sheridan was charged at Wellington yesterday with the murder oi John McNally ; on Friday last. Accused wa? re- , marded to Wednesday next. Bail was fixed at and two sureties of each. The London Times has fallen a ' ’ prey to American yellow journalism methods and is to be formed into a limited company, ranch to the disgust of journalists throughout the British Empire. The Union Company’s new steamer, now building at the Clyde, will be named the ■ Makoura, which practically means “ all red.” The new vessel is intended for the Vancouver trade, and will be 450 ft long. Tenders are called elsewhere in this issue for sounding the bar and Manawatu River, from the wharf ’ to the Heads, also buoying the -same foraperiod of twelve month's. Particulars of work to be done may be obtained at this office, or &e Pilot’s residence. The Borough Band held a most successful open-air concert at the beach last night, which was greatly appreciated. The bands- , men were subsequently entertained at supper by Mr M. Perreau. A collection was taken up, which defrayed expenses of the trip. It is reported that some of the “ bookies ” doing business on the Takapau racecourse became unfinancial, and were unable to “pay out.” Their clients resented this and took to the “publishers,” giving them a severe mauling. The police were not forceful enough to give the “bookies” much protection. Bandmaster Ennis, in conversation with our representative, ex- : pressed disappointment at the indifference of certain bandsmen in absenting themselves from the concert at the beach last night. He stated that unless more enthusiasm is displayed he will have to abandon the proposed visits to other parts of the district, , What is probably a shearing record for Mcnaro (New South Wales), was put up at Delgate station on Tuesday, when eight shearers, including two learners, shore 1,178 merino .sheep. The principal tallies were ; —S. G. Bingley, 187; B. Hollingworth, 177 ; White 175; E. Abercrombie, 157. The time worked was seven ■ hours five minutes. • M The body of a man, aged 25, of tslight build and fair complexion, l Kyas found on St. Helier’s beach, on Tuesday, with a bottle of cyanide potassium beside him. Letters were found in one of his pockets addressed to “Joe,” and reference made therein to a ■ Dunedin young lady staying in Auckland, but so far the body has not been identified. We draw the attention of our readers to the moonlight river excursion and Gipsy tea, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, to be held on Wednesday evening next. Owing to the success of the excursion last month, the promoters have organised a further trip on the river, with an hour or more on the beach, and several other attractions thatsaoud make the proposed outing a great success. The age ofmitacles is not yet ■ passed (says the Fiji Times). A Tongjan boy who was reported dead (not by any medical authority) was visited by a priest and brought back to life. The priest asked him if he had been to heaven, and the .boy said “ Yes, but he was sent ~ back by the Almighty for a special r purpose.” He went back again for certain by next morning, and was accorded a grand funeral by the Catholics who are full of the incident.

In New Zealand it is a painful fact that year by year the number of men volunteers for public school teaching is shrinking, says the Post. They see nothing specially attractive in the scale of salaries. They have a vista of • hard toil, on poor pay, with the possibility of a respectable income in the remote hereafter. They are asked to mainly live on hope, which is not very fattening whenthe realisation is so long deferred. A man may feel , the call to teach ; he may be convinced that his power of greatest service to his race lies in the classroom, but he may not be quite sure that he should altogether sacrifice himself on the altar of a high mission. ■ The man who gives himself up to equip others to make a living should not be denied the means of living decently himself. The first case under the new Gaming Act will be heard at Martinborough on Tuesday, 14th inst. It is stated that under subsection 29 of the Act, the Lower Valley Jockey, Club instructed the Wairarapa “Standard,” Greytown; to supply the second day’s; race qards, which that paper printed for the club, with the ret suits and dividends paid on the Lftrst races. The ‘‘ Standard, ’’ followed instructions,

HSJftad delivered the race books on PP the morning of the .races to the dub, which in turn handed, them : ■■', a third party who had purchased • th^privilege of selling them. It h . seems that the man, who had the, privilege to sell the cards did not •/' confine his sales to the racecourse proper, and accordingly the police p l ' . ba,ve taken the matter up, and laid H' - att informatiori : against the “ Stancharging him information.

' Mr Keir. Hardie, has arrived in Christchurch. The temperature at Adelaide on Sunday was 108 degrees in the shade. General Booth has been invited losend to Canada 25,000 navvies. Work is guaranteed for ten years at xps per day. For having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, Alfiei Milieu, of Oamaru, was fined £5 ; in default 30 days’ imprisonment. The dry weather and intense heat that has been experienced of late has had a detrimental effect 0:1 the potato crops in the Martinborough district. The bishops of the Anglican province of New Zealand have issued a notification of their desire that no clergymen should be married within three years of their ordination to the diaconate. * The upper reaches of the Thames are frozen over, and very severe frosts prevail over the whole of England and Ireland, and skating is general. Twelve ice fatalities have been reported, and several more men have been frozen to death. A Carterton baker informs the correspondent of a lower Valley paper that if everyone paid cash for their bread the bakers in that town could reduce the price to 3d per 2lb loaf. Robert Caldwell, the most prominent witness in the Druce case, who recently fled to New York, is reported to be dying. He is in custody, awaiting the issue of an extradition order to London to stand his trial on a charge of perjury in connection with the Druce case. ‘‘ So far as it is possible to state with certainty,” said the AttorneyGeneral, to an interviewer at Christchurch, on Wednesday, “the North Island Trunk Railway will be open lor through communication by the end of the year. When that is done, the - Government wil 1 proceed to ascertain the amount o compensation to be paid for toe Manawatu Company’s private line.” An application by the Flaxmili 8 Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers —representing some 800 members —for affiliation to the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, will be considered at the Council’s meeting to-night at Wellington.

A special and ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday next, 13th inst. At the special meeting the day on which the statutory half holiday is to be observed will be fixed and the special order making additional by-laws will be confirmed. Tenders for ranging and general business will be disposed of at the ordinary meeting. News from Sumatra states that Dr Elbert, the German geologist who has been conducting researches in South Sumatra, reports that the discovery of an ape-man is false. He has found human remains which he estimates is twenty thousand years old. They are human, not simian, bones, and his discoveries are directly opposed to the Darwinian theory.

The Government steamer Hiuemoa returned on Sunday from her visit to the Kermadecs, where she landed a party of scientists from New Zealand, who are to remain on the Island for twelve months. The various depots which were found intact were overhauled, and where necessary the contents renewed, There were great quantities of fruit, principally oranges, growing, but in places where it would be almost impossible to ship them. No wreckage was seen at any of the Islands called at. During his visit to America Mr J. K. Logan, Inspector of telegfliphs, was struck with the merits of a new telegraph printing instrument which was brought under his notice, and recommended the Department to procure a number of them. The feature of the -instrument is that much time and expense are saved by its use. Authority has been given and a number of instruments ordered, but owing to the great demand for them from other parts some time must elapse before the order is fulfilled.

During the past 50 years New Zealand has exported 18,218,678 ounces of gold, valued at ,£71,528,978. The returns for the last year show a decrease oT 55,635 ouuces, valued at £243,414, as compared with the figures for 1906., The totals for the two years were—1907, 208,208 ounces, worth ,£2,027,490; 1906, 563.843 ounces, w0rth,£2,270,904. Last month’s export was 45,839 ounces, valued at ,£181.749, as compared with £51,649 ounces, valued at ,£208,980, in December, 1906.

An act of generosity was performed by one of the inebriates who appeared in the Court last Friday, says the Wanganui Herald. had been fined 10s, or 48 hours’, but lacked anything like sufficient pocket money to pay his penalty. Another drunk had been mulcted to the extent of ss, or 24 hours,’ and wanted but 2s to be able to pay his fine. The former thereupon handed over to his fellow accused the 2s required, and himself went to “do time ” at the gaol, while his mate left the Court unaccompanied by the officers of the law.

“That tiled feeling” imot always caused by the weather, as some people would have you believe. The fault lies in some deiangement of your digestive O'gans. Your stomach is out of order, or your liver has become sluggish, and * refuses to perform its functions. All you reed is a dose or twjTof Chamberlain’s Tablets and that feeling o£ weariness will disappear Fcf sale at Gardner and Whibley’s