The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30. 1908.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3783, 30 January 1908, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30. 1908.

. A meeting j is. convened by the Chamber ot Commerce to take place in the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock, to discuss the formation of a harbour board. The President of the chamber will occupy the choir and address the meeting. An informal meeting of the local Building Society ; members was held in the Secretaay’s ..office last Misfit-. It was decided .to asR the Directors! to cqjl; a' special general 'meeting Of shareholders to discuss The iecerit ballot, fix the Secretaries salary and discuss other matters, ‘ A.’.Dunedin telegram says ; The local stockmarket is absolutely at a standstill on account of the dry weather, resulting, of course, in a scarcity of food. Six weeks ago Southland dealers were buying freely, as the outlook was promising, but since adverse advice' has been, received from the North the bottom is out of the market. The freezing-works, however, will now, no doubt, take away the fat stock, which will help the feed, and give the, s market an opportunity of fighting itself.

An.-inq nest was held at Bulls on 'Monday, before Mr J. J. McDonald, Tbfbrife'r, on the body of Joseph Shed; who was found dead in his rophf at Bulls on Sunday evening. Dr Watson stated he found deceased 1 had died from carbolic acid poisoni'fig. From other evidence it was obvious that deceased had awakened during the night, and, desiring a drink, had taken a bottle of carbolic acid in mistake fora bottle of beer, both bottles standing together alongside the bed* . The jury returned a verdict’ of accidental poisoning by carbolic acid.--

.At a meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board recently,; Mr Coyle, referring to old age pensions, cited -.the case ot ,an old army veteran, 82 years of age; an inmate of the. Cpstley Home, who because he imF partaken of one glass of Beer .and dozed off iri a pubiie R piace, "has -been deprived for five years of his , pension, which practically meant a fine of ,£135 for this one slip. He was a man of unblemished character; and only on this one occasion had he, lapsed. There were other inmates of the Home who were fully entitled to the : money, but for some reason could, riot get it. After discussion> the question of pensions was referred to a committee.

Mr Patterson notifies the general public that he has taken up his private residence in Thynnc v St. The Yorkshire Fire Insurance Co. notify by advertisement the appointment of Messrs Gardner and Whibley as their Foxton agents.

A notice appears elsewhere in this issue from the Five Stock Insurance Co., in reference to the appointment of Mr P. H. JRaeHoward as their Foxton agent. Mr Rae-Howard will also accept plate glass risks.

Auckland is to have something in the nature of a skyscraper, for a contract has been let for the erection of an eight-storey brick building in Custom street East, near Queen street, for Mr J. Spedding. The building will cost close upon. .£20,000. r 'v' Whatever the merits ;pfThe social case may be, we-can doubt that the immediate outcome of the Hull Conference will be the liberal party along new lines of clevage, arid its definite separation frpW the .extreme section of the, Parflamenfcary representatives of •Eabpur.—Auckland Star. "

AtThej inquest on a man .named Topharii; found dead-on-the" Sumner Road last Sunday, the evidence .showed t&kt• ; ttie triaii' jiati opened a varicose vein in his leg and bled to death ih a few minutes. This wound led the constable' to believe that the leg was fractured. A medical witness said this was a most unusual means of suicide.

Mrs W. Gittos, wife of the Rev. W. Gittos, superintendaut of Maori Missions, and daughter of the late Rev. John Hobbs, died at Devonport,' Auckland, on Friday evening. The deceased was born at Hokianga in 18.31 J her father having arrived with the Rev. Samuel Marsden ou missionary work in the Bay of Islands in 1823, Deceased is survived by her husband, four daughters and two sous. : During the past two months gfpat interest'has been taken by leading, chiefs in forming a Maori Association in Wanganui. From the object in view it is anticipated that a large gathering of educated Maoris from all parts of the Dominion will atteiia the meetings, which are to be held in Webb-Tressider week. The old system of Maori meetings at pahs-will be dispensed with and the idea of the pakeha adopted. At a meetipg.of the Tradesmen’s Association held at Hawera last Thursday, it was resolved to expunge ihe rule that forbids the issuing by tradesmen of pictorial calenders and other advertising matter at Christmastide, the feeling being pretty general that the storekeepers .themselves should be the best judges as to how to improve their . business, and that this privilege should, not be interfered with. ...

It is a'significant fact says the Age, That..twelve months ago, in the height of a good season, it was impossible for Wairarapa buyers to purchase sheep in Hawke’s Bay, while now they can be bought in any quantity. One Wairarapa stock dealer has 100,000 Hawke’s Bay sheep on his books for sale. Farmers in the northern province, and even in this part of the Dominion, are getting rid of their sneep at almost any price on account of the lack of good pasture, and every day sees train-loads of these animals passing through Masterton on their way to the slaughtering works in Wellington. German spiritualists display in their cult the true note of national downrightuess, and soar far above the conjuring seances which seem to satisfy their British colleagues. ’The other day there took place a spiritualist festival, and the occasion was marked by the presentation of l a “newplay by Shakespeare iti his spiritual state.’ ’ Hundreds of spiritualists crowded the building, and the piece was a great success. The title is “ Antinous,” and the action represents Roman life. The play is “by the h&nd ” of Herr Band, of Munich, but was dicated to him, at his request, by the spirit of Shakespeare.” The medals provided by the Government for presentation to all school children to mark the raising of the status of New Zealand to a dominion’ will be presented to the scholars next month. It is stated that 170,000 medals have been ordered, a Dunedin firm having the contract in hand. The medal,; which-, will be of magnaliuni/'will be about the size of a florin. On one ' side it is indicated that New Zealand was proclaimed a dbminiori on September 26th, 1907, arid on the opposite side King Edward’s ’ portrait is given, surrounded by the British and New Zealand ensigns, with the inscription :— u God Save the King, King F,dward VII., of the British Dominions, King.” . . ; - v What might have been, Avery, serious matter, but was fortunately attended with no worse results than a severe shock to those in .The house, occurred at Dr Meuzies’ residence, Stratford, the other, morning, when, owing to a piece, of gelignite if some such explosive having been left in a piece ( of coal, which had been bought in the ordinary Way by Dr Menzies, the kitchen stove was blown to pieces. The incident is not quite a singular one, says the Post, and it therefore behoves residents to carefully examine their coal before putting it into the fire, otherwise a serious accident may have to be recorded. The explosive, it may be explained, gets into the coal when the work of blasting is being carried on at the mine, and a portion of the charge is not exploded at the time the charge is fired. This remains in the coal when it .is handed to the householder, and Thus the danger arises.

An advertiser requires board and lodging in a private family. A meeting of the Council of the Chamber ol Commerce will be held this evening. Railway excusions are advertised eleswhere in this issue in reference to the Feilding Show. A gold tie pin with heart and cross attached, valued as a keepsake is advertised for. Reward/

Lye Moon, grocer, of Foxton, trading under the name of Lye Moon and Co., has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Messrs P. H. Rae-Howard has been instructed to sell a variety of Australian birds at his rooms on Saturday next at 2 p.m.

■ ' Welcome rains commenced to fall throughout this - district;. last and there • is ; every prospect of it continuing for a time; '

Three or four elder scholars of the local State school found amusement yesterday afternoon in throwing, stones on the roof of a Chinese laundry opposite the school. We hope the schoolmaster will endeavour to put a stbp to qL juvenile hooliganism in the future.

The Times has given a good deal of attention to the investigation of the problem of Asiatic immigration into countries where Western methods prevail. A special commissioner of the paper wrote an interesting series of articles on the influx of Asiatics into Canada, and the general conclusions arrived at, which were endorsed by Mr Rudyard Kipling, was that there are many spheres of employment in which the labour of Orientals might be used with advantage.

To Bay by coach, sitting on a case of dynamite, sounds a rather fool - hardy experiment upon such rough roads, but this was the experience of one member of the Ministerial party who was quite careless throughout the day of the contents of the innocentlooking box on the box seat alongside him. Needless to say when at the journey’s end he made the discovery of his true position his nerves received a bit-of a shock.'

Mr Just, Palmerston North, writes as follows to. the Weekly News : —The question is often asked by people about to plant opt an orchard what variety Of fruit tree pays the best, so I send you,the weights of fruit borne by one plum tree for the last three years. This season we have picked 5201 b, which realised £775 5d wholesale. East year the weight was 441 lb, and the year before last 5821 b, which shows that the tree is a continuous bearer, and which, I think, is a record for New Zealand, if not for the world. The variety is a new Japanese plum that . I raised from seed ten years ago, and have called Lord Kitchener. The tree is now 20ft high and 25ft in diameter, so is a very strong grower, which makes the tree capable of bearing the great load of plums. I think this variety should be widely known amongst your readers, as the fruit ripens about Christmas time, when plums are scarce and are sure to command a good price.

Nikola Tesla, the American electrician who, a cable- message told us, proposes to flash a message to the planet Mars, has a personality almost as interesting as his remarkable project. Tesla may be described as a brilliant outpost in the advance of modern electrical science, grasping with ready mind the possibilities of new departures, and continually coming forward with inventions and improvements upon other inventions. The fact that the daring inventor has a tendency towards sensationalism may shake faith in the wild endeavours he has been guilty of suggesting, but do not detract from the interesting character of Tesla himself. Tesla is in his 55th year. Tesla’s father, a clergyman and orator of the Greek Church, intended his son to maintain the family line in the church; but the boy had already learnt a love of mechanics from his mother, a woman of great ingenuity, who found great happiness in the construction of such mechanical appliances as looms, churns, and other farm machinery. Once embarked upon the engineering profession, Tesla set his face steadfastly towards the west, and from, Carlstatt and Gratz he journeyed to Paris, where he worked in the corporation telegraph department. Tesla then crossed the Atlantic, and became a naturalised American in 1884. His work has been fruitful of inventions in telephone repeating, ; arc lighting, pyro-magnetic generating, alternating, current power transmission, and many other branches of the science. In 1897 he experimented largely in the transmission of power without wiresi and since -1903 he has been evolving a system of word telegraphy and telephony wherein power will be generated by a large plant to be erected at Niagara, and transmitted without wires. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.—rA tonic that has stood the test of years. Persistent .coughs tnat continue through the spring and summer usually indicate; some throat and lung trouble and it is a serious mistake to neglect them. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is famous for its cures, of coughs of this nature, and a few doses taken in time may save a doctor’s bill and perhaps years of suffering. For sale at Gardner and Whibley’s, Grocers. He was the cotter's only child, They called him Little Jim, And Deith with scythe and hour-glass Had called round to wait bn him ; The mother wept, the father sobbed, For death looked very sure, But Little Jim’s still in the swim Through Woods’ J Great Peppermint Cure.