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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 25 January 1908, Page 2

A movement is afoot to secure municipal baths for Palmerston. Ten shillings reward is advertised to the finder of a gold bangle. The ordinary mpntlil/ meeting of the. local Masonic was held’last night. : ; : Mr Jp.hu M’Eldowney has been elected .(unopposed) Mayor of Marton, vice Dr. Skerman, resigned, ' Father Schaeffer, who has been awa3 r on a health recruiting trip to the South Islaud, is expected to return to-day. It is reported in Auckland that butter will go up to is 6d per lb before the winter sets in, owing to the shortage at Home. Mr Hawkins, of the Agricultural Department, has been on a visit to Foxtou in reference to matters connected with the hemp industry. The Rev. Father McCarthy will celebrate mass at the local Catholic Church to-morrow at n a.m. Father McCarthy will also collect for the Cathedral funds. Mr J, R, Stansell will offer goods not quitted at this afternoon’s auction sale, for private sale this evening at Manchester House. Today is the last day of the sale. Bush fires 'have done an immense amount of damage at Pongaroa. ‘ The school at Maku has been destroyed and sawmills have lost heavily in timber and tramways. The funeral of the late Mr P. Martin took place at Shannon on • uesday afternoon. The services at the church and the graveside were conducted by the Rev. Father Mein, of Otaki. We have been .shown by Mr Patterson, a splendid specimen of a moth known as thedeathead, which he captured at Rongotea. Its body measured three inches, and six inches between the wing tips. The case of Lionel Terry was under consideration of Cabinet on Thursday. It was decided that Terry should be removed from Seacliffe Asylum, Dunedin, to a gaol. The particular part of that institution occupied by him in future is to be declared a mental hospital. We have been shown some very handsome sampleS"of chip carving in the shape of two trays and a prettily-designed photo frame, the work of Mr Win. Hounslow. We understand it Is Mr Hounslow’s intention to open a class in Foxtcu for this kind of work at an early date. The annual Conference of the Wanganui District Oddfellows is being held at Kimbolton. The report of the Foxton lodge states that the total funds are £79, an increase of j£n. The money is in the Post Office and Bank of New Zealand, The membership is 79. Sick claims have been exceptionally heavy, no less than having been paid away during the year. The local delegate is Bro. Dobson.

It is reported from Nelson that amongst the people who were hoaxed with brass filings Recently was Mr R. McKenzie, the member for Motueka, and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives who undertook to give the discoverer £to for his claim and who took an active part in pegging out. the claim. The rush of people to the I<and Office to ..take out miners’ rights and register claims was a sight to see. During the passage of;the Warrim.oo.fr6m Sydney to. Wellnigton, aseaman uam ed Angus McKinnon, aged 28, a single man, fell overboard, and was drowned. Deceased was painting at the time and the accident was not seen by any of the ship’s officers or crew. The officer in charge of the boat’s crew which made search said there were several sharks in the vicinity, one a tremendous fellows as long as the boat itself. From this it would seem probable that the unfortunate seaman, who could not swim, was probably devoured by the monsters.

The Levin Amateur ' Dramatic Company gave one of the best performances they have ever produced in Foxton, on the second night of the races, entitled “ For England’s Glory,” and despite the scanty attendance, doubtless due tb sideshows, played it right through in a most creditable manner. To praise Mr and Mrs GoodaUV respective parts would only be a repetition of what has been said about them in previous performances, but a special merit must be awarded to Miss Gurney, who made her first appearance before a Foxton audience. Messrs Barratt, Fitzherbert, and Phillips creditably filled their respective roles. Last, but, not least, the orchestra did their share in the incidental music.

The Age states that a very rare spectacle .. was witnessed in Masterton on Tuesday evening, namely a Chinaman in the street iu an intoxicated state. His name was Ah Cbee, and he was hned 5s for his folly. The body of the man who was?, drowned at Lyell Bay on .Wednesday was identified as that of John Clark, 28 years of age. He is not known to have had relatives in New Zealand. A verdict of found drowned was returned at the inquest. If the present rate of increase continues, and is not interrupted by a big movement of population to Australia or elsewhere, the Registrar-General expects that by the middle of this year the Dominion’s population will total 1,000,000. This is including the Cook grohp. “ Dense, ignorant, heartless pakeha savages, who possess no more delicacy of .feeling than to meet the solemn rite a noble race accords its. dead as a grotesque exhibition got up to amuse them gratis,” are the terms in which the Otago Daily Times describes some of the proceedings at the funeral of John Taiaroa at Otakou.

The Hon. J. A. Milla-, during his recent trip to the north, had a royal time fishing at Rotorua. One day he made the record catch of the season, an eleven and a quarter pounder. Fishing for five hours on another day, Mr Millar secured fourteen fish, one of which was a nine pounder Rotorua lake, Mr Millar says, is simply alive with fish at the present time, and they want “ thinning out.” The potato blight in and around Hamilton is making its presence severely felt, and this year the ravages are not confined to the potato, and cauliflowers have been attacked and completely destroyed. At Thames too, the blight has made its appearance on the tomatoes and onions, but as yet no serious losses are reported. A man paid a flying visit to the Wairarapa one day last week, with a cart, selling hams. The Sanitary Inspector seized seven of these in Greytown and 37 in Martinborough, all of which were condemned as being unfit for human consumption. It is stated the man was selling these as having been cured by a Wellington firm; but they did not bear the firm’s brand. The hams were nicely varnished, and bore a tempting appearance. They bad apparently gone bad from the bone, and the coating of varnish hid any smell until the hams were cut open. According to the Taihape Times, a man riding a horse from Raurimu to Ohakune on Sunday last, tried to ride his steed over the Toanui viaduct, but failed. The horse got a few yards safely, when it fell between the sleepers, and hung on for about five minutes by its forelegs before dropping to the bottom of the cutting. The man managed to Climb up the horse’s back while it was hanging on to sleepers and get back to the viaduct. The horse was killed. The balloon affords a new instrument to the physician, according to Dr Albert Robin,' the French scientist, who suggests that a balloon to take the consumptive poor .into- the upper regions of the air for a few hours, each day would do more good than expensive trips for a few days into the country. He has already conducted a series of experiments with consumptive patients. If the Hindu were fifty times a citizen of the Empire, bis racial disqualification would still be paramount. The Dutch, whatever their faults and prejudices from our point of view, are our blood peers, and it is not beyond hope that the Dutch and English peace in Africa may be cemented by the admixture of equal citizens. An Eurasian alliance is as detestable in the Transvaal as it would be here.— Evening Post.

One of the grievances of the Rotorua native is that all the native fish are falling victims to the trout. Their favourite koura (the fresh-water crayfish) is sharr ing the fate of the other native fish, and the Maoris, stated Sir Robert Stout in conversation with a “ New Zealand Herald ” representative, |are loud and bitter in their complaints against the ravages of the voracious trout. The grievance is not palliated in the eyes of the natives by their prohibition from catching trout without a license. One native, who caUght two or three trout at the beginning of the season, was fined for the act, although the fish were taken from a creek, the land on both sides of which was owned by him. “ Where does the Treaty of Waitangi come in ?” the wondering native asks. A prisoner named William P. Sinclair, was charged in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, recently, with having had in his possession in Wellington orison and secreted on his person, under his prison clothes, a black alpaca coat, pair of knickerbocker pants, false hand or glove, rope ladder, skeleton, key, and a half sovereign with the intention of escaping from legal custody. Accused said that the articles, which he found jin his cell, -were put their by another prisoner, who had informed on him. Mr Armstrong, chief gaoler, informed the Court that all the articles, excepting the rope ladder, were found on the prisoner. The* glove was made in such a manner as to disguise the fact that the prisoner had lost several fingers. Prisoner was sentenced to six weeks' solitary confinement, and to forfeit marks which would have secured a remission of sentence for one year.; WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS.—A tonic that has stood the test of years.

A-married woman Ellen. Haynes, aged 42, hanged herself 'M at Ponsonby, yesterday. y Police Sergt, Foster, of Dune- ' din, and at one time in charge of the local station, is spending a M short holiday in Foxtbn. * In our next issue an advertisement will appear from the well-known Palmerston nurserymen, Messrs Wighton and Co. Charles Young and Daniel Doyle, charged by the police with playing two up, appeared before T. Rimmer, Esq., J.P., at the local court on Thursday, and were remanded to Palmerston for trial. Out ot five suspicious characters searched by the police during the races, the,total amount discovered Was the munificent sum of SS, independent of return tickets to Christchurch and. Wellington. They were given short notice to quit. A man named A. J. Burgess, a stationer, committed suicide at New Plymouth yesterday. He placed his head on a charge of dynamite, having - previously lit the fuse. Persistent , coughs tnat, continue thrbugh the spring.and suiqnjer jusually indicate some throat * 'and " lung trouble and it is a seriou¥ ; ihMafce to neglect them. Chamberlain’s iGdugh Remedy is famous lor. it? icures of coughs of this nature, and a few doses taken iu time may save a doctor’s bill and perhaps years of suffering., Fpr sale at Gardner and Whlbley’s, Grocers. 1 ‘