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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3784, 1 February 1908, Page 2

Ah inter-club friendly tennis match, Foxton v. Levin is being played bn the local courts to-day. .The Mayor invites the burgesses to observe a holiday on the sth inst., People’s Day at the F'eii'dmg Show.. '

Mr T. Ward, engineer , to . the .Moutoa Drainage Board, has .been ■on a visit: to Foxtpn in, .connection with drainage, matters at Moutoa.

, 1 -The friends of Mr .Wi Baker will .regret to hear that'he is.lyiug in a very precarious Gonilifipn, and little hope is held dutlfbr his recovery. rv .

Rabbit pofsbuihg |S'.' universal amongst farmers in the Wuirarapa. Hundreds of the J are lying BeadT It.iS; stated ‘ t*pr : j best seas’bii’ for pbiSpiilhg Sihcb ! i&tjqV' '

A’fire at Pahiatua otj , Thursday ■las,t destroyed-7; Mrs 1; Milne’s stock' of ; Taney- . .goods and stationery. : The stock was insured for The building was only partially damaged. . ' i • ,

’’ ‘ <& Whibley have received a cohsignment-of 'fruit ini'eluding Queensland pineapples at 4’d, £d,/ahd 6d : eacb p Fiji bananas, 6d per dozen ;■ : Frimley nectarines afid peaches, 6d per lb ; - oranges, iS 'ahd per dozen. Mason'S jars jlistafrived.* A correspondent signing himself ‘‘Historians, ” alleges that There is evidence' in Scripture fe-, cord that thb '. Israelites' passed 5 throtigh |New. : Zealkhd "in their •Wanderings,; , 'they* are stated To ( haye;. suffered' frbm the Moa-bites,' . This mhy also account Tori the bird not 'baying a feather to ■ fly. with. " ' One of the most prolific crops of mtilberfies we l have seen, is the product of three giant trees at Moutoa, at Mrs Saunders’ homestead. Miss Saunders, who is a crack shot with the pea-rifle, has succeeded in keeping off the feathered tribe. ■ This luscious fruit can. be purchased for the' rediculoiisly low figure-of is 6dper 'gallon, r ., : : ; i A, painful sequel to a practical joke occurred: in one,of the •country districts (Sasfs ;. thfi;-, Ashburton 6uardian). : Several young fellows •w epi : endeavouring to frighten:the. aisvhareby throwing .stbnes;,on the roof of the dwelling. One of the occupants of the .house, appeared ou.' tlje sqene wijfh, a' loaded ' ahd.h'appeh4 ing to see one of the offenders up in a. tree he, took v> ajjm..,.ah4. 'djacharged the; the. .‘Jres«t)L that_ the man iu/ tbe -Tree was, brought fb the .ground*. On' examination, 'it-was found that the young fellow’s ' leg contained a number of pellets of shot-

. A strange suit against a medical man has just been begun in the Sixth Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Department of the Seine. A young woman employed in the Post Office was engaged to; ba married but her sweetheart became alarmed at the appearance of an incipient moustache. She consulted a medical - man, who advised the use of X rays as a depilatory, buftheir use whs disastrous to her beauty, and the-young man refused to marry her. She is now suing the doctor for £IOOO damages, and the court has appointed Dr Beclere to make an enquiry. The February number of the Lone Hand, the popular Australian magazine, is just to hand frpm the publishers, Messrs. Gordon and Gbtch,. and is full of interest. Among the interesting articles are an illustrated account of the wreckof the Dundouald, an article on ; pig-sticking, Japan and U.S.A., and the “ Public Gbod ” department deals outspokenly with some' more quackeries. Verse and fiction are; Well represented, and the illustrations continue at a high standard quality. The editor announces that he has' secured the right to publishshortly of ' Madame Melba and Henry Lawson, two of Australia’s most interesting personalities, and Mr Louis, Esson is going to Asia to study the race problem there as it affects Australia;- and. will write his impressions for the Lone Hand.

Referring to the reported decision of ‘ ’ Tattersall’s, ” of sweep fame, to contest the legality of their exclusion from New Zealand, i)r Findlay, Attorney-Gene-ral, said that it was impossible, under the existing law, for Tattersall’s to .sell .tickets in New Zealand legally. As to the practice 0! sending letters out of New Zealand, the , Postmaster-General had Tower to arrest any , letters addressed to a lottery-promoter. The discretion of the PostmasterGeneral in this respect was absolutely uncontrolled by the courts. This statement :, was confirmed by the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Joseph Ward). He stated that the person to whom a suspected letter was addressed could be required to open the letter in the presence of an officer of the Department. If the . contents were such as to be contrary to the law, the letter would not be delivered. “The sacredness of the Post Office to the ordinary user is inviolate,’’ 1 said Sir Joseph/“and to say that it is not so is absolute nonsense. ”

The infant son of Mr and MiV Whibley died on Thursday night, aged seven months. The funeral to'ok place this ofternoon. 1

Messrs G, Reay.and-Cp,, family butchers, insert a business police in this issue.. Families waited on daily for orders. Prime joints frojtn 3d and 4d per lbInclusive of 17s 6d collected by Mr G. Coley at Foxton (a first instalment) the Palmerston Hospital Day Fund this year is nearly ralmost double that of last year.—Times.

The Hon. W; P. Reeves states that 8839 assisted emigrants have sailed for New Zealand in the last three years, including 656 female servants. He declined 3334 ap-' plications for assisted passages. The Wanganui Herald of the 21st inst. states:—We understand that a Hawke’s Bay land agent came over here at the latter end of last week, and on Saturday negotiated for and bought the Mangamahu property, which he turned' over to another party within an hour, at an additional price of £IOOO on which he had but a few minutes before paid for it. A settler informs the Hawera Star that the milk supply at Riverdale factory is xo.ooblbs. bdow what' it Was this tiine last year, and this fall has practically all taken, place Within a few weeks. Last year’s record at this tinfe was ; a little above’the previous , year. Evefi if : rain comes soon; it will v only stop the fall, not bring up the volume to fits former, standard again. :

At the meeting of the Wanganu 1 Education Board it was decided to award the following junior scholarships -W. K. Wilton,., Queen?s. Park; A. Taylor, Aramoho ; D, H. Preston, Upokongaro. This does not complete the list, as the senior scholarship results are not yet out. It is; probable that one or two more junior scholarships will be awarded at the next meetof the Board.

■ ;The teacherS of two' schools in the, Wanganui Education Board district where the Std. VI. examinations, are bad, are to be notified that unless better results are attained at special examinations to be held within six! months, the respective committees will be consulted with a view to terminating the teachers’ engagements. The Chairman pointed out that the secondary schools were handicapped as well as the pupils by such failures.

.The halfpenny post-card,- the issue of which was commenced some six weeks ago, is meeting with, an unprecedented l demand in all parts of the Dominion. In Christchurch alone -30,000 of these cards .had been. dis posed of. ; The new nard possesses a great advantage in-being practically free from dll printed; matter except the stamp and the word “ Post-card,” leaving plenty; of space for writings while a margin isi left at the; top to= ■take the cancellation stamp; to avoid defacement of. the-address. ■

During the course of a conver sation with a Hawera Star, reporter/Mir W. ,H. Hawkins,...ex-; PhJiia’tuia, sfated' fhat the New 'Zealand Political Rdfptm League Was how doing the" thing for'which it was so loud in condemnation of the late Mr Seddon in connection with electioneering. It Wanted, he said, to dictate to the people whom to select as representatives. Referring to the Pahiatua seat', Mr Hawkins. said he had been asked to allow his name to be submitted to a ballot which is to be taken with a view selecting a candidate to represent the? league. This he refused to do; his reason being that he had first claim to contest the seat, and also that should the ballot not result in his favour he would still be a candidate at the next general election, A scheme that could give every owner of poor and worked-out. soil a promise of renewed richness and fertility, and an increased bank-' ing account, would be surely one of the most acceptable that could be launched. . Yet. this is what is propounded in the “ Review of Reviews” for February just to hand. The famous discovery by Professor Bottomly, of King’s College, London, which was re-; ferred to in the January number of the ‘ ‘ Review of Reviews, ’’ is enlarged upon in the February issue. If the prognostications of Mr Bottomley turn- out to be correct, and there seems to be no reason, why they should not be, the value of lands in Australasia of a certain, would be increased tenfold. The Character Sketch for the month is “ The Tchinovnik of the Foreign Office.” The History of the Month, and the reviews of leading articles in the world's magazines, are quite up to the mark, and the number is a; good one.

A few days ago Mrs Mary Ann Moote—who surely ought to have been, though she wasn’t,,* the widow of the famous ~ “ Old Moore” of almanackical fame—r died in the Lambeth Workhouse, South London, at the fairly, advanced age of 100 years, leaving a daughter, aged 83, still living at Bristol to mourn her loss. Those figures are somewhat strikingbut the really remarkable feature has yetto .be disclosed. That very surprising Mrs Moore who has just been “cut off,” so to speak, “in the flower of her youth,” actually leaves, as well as a daughter of 83, a mother still living to mourn .her loss. This still more astonishing old lady resides at Betwick-on-Tweed, and has attained what may fairly ; be called the prime of life, having reached the reasonably mature age of 118 years. , '

’Your storekeeper or .chemist sells Eheunxo at 2s 6d and 4s 6d.

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J A girl to assist id*" work is advertised for. .The Hon. Hall-Jones returned to Wellington from London by . Cprinthic- this morniri^. 0 ' '*"*'* *'•** The vital statistics. ; £or Fpxtpn, ; for the raOhth,; of January , areBirths, 8 ; : marriages; 2; deaths* ; ::y - iv'i I The MauaWatu * GduntyGounciL f 1 notify that ten per '/ added to all rates not paid on.-or 'v. ; before .the 15 th inst. «j ■' ■' .■ u The auction sale of > j*. bitlds will be held onnext, 1 sth inst., not to-day' as? • r previously advertised. The Horseshoe Drainage at the instance ,of Mf Hopping,' ' has been served with a writ claim- ‘ ing for . alleged negligence ; in maintaining a drain. Tbe death occurred at Carterton last evening of Mr Ellis Gooden, : aged eighty-six years; Mr Gooden came out to New Zealand in 18417 and had lived in Carterton for the past forty years. He leaves a." widow. ’. ; ' *•'

t Notice is given by.the Returning 'Officer in‘another column in re- ' ference to the ratepayers' list for Moutoa Drainage District. The : lists may. be .inspected 'at the Borough -Council. Chamber?, nnd „ Motttoa Post Office.;’’' ■/ : ?

‘ * Diqvolo ’ J (J. C. Carter), who' “looped the lodp”-' successfully l > during peifoni»a^'>«^eßi!£|s-:«* numberipfttowns in New Zealand, about three years- ago, has taken ’ the risk once too idften-. i cile fell ■ oht of the 100p 1 ih»-Singapore >re- - • cently and was killed.- 1 - A special.. general, meeting. shareholders of, the' Eoxtpn.;ips- - Building- .Society 'is- ad- ' - •vertised’to take ‘:place“ r iri- the' Borough Council. Chambers' on Thursday, 6th 'inst., at y'.jp.p.m.l Business :To discuss, the recent 1 informal appropriation and Secretary’s salary. ' . At a large and .representative meeting of Roman Catholicsate. , Auckland : recently ,an c finduepi- *\}\. rial committee was - appointed ... to make • ceptioh of Cardinal Moran, ; on'the occasion of his approaching ..visit. for the re-opening of St. Patrick’s - Cathedral. ‘ . - ~.

At a.special meeting ’of the. Nelson City Council on Thursday 7 to consider the question of fixing the weekly ' halfholiday, the Council resolved in favour of Sat-' urday, which will therefore & the ’ statutory closing day for the next fifteen months. Prbceedihgswere lively and af times the crowd in the auditorium' was Very disorderly. ‘ , ■ ; ’

A clerk in a commercial house in Wellington earned- 80,me-. - time ago in a very easy manner., Waite on a visit to England, he,ascertained the name of an absentee who was thfe owner-pf a fine block r -.;' of 1 buildings in Wellmgtpn,. gnd subsequently, learning- qf the - late tor’s death, placed; tlie matter.before a small syndicate ; -pf. -specula*■ tors,; who made .an -qffer ; tp.the.-.. - executors - and.- .ob*. tained-the , prqpertyfj'pn : terms'. : ;The pterfc tJVPS ♦ re*-.,-- - warded for bis trouble,: the - syndicate handing him a cheque for .£4OOO. The property, is, in of the busiest parts of Wellington, and the syndicate made a capital investment.

The friends of Mr A. 'D; Speirs, r who „ was located 'at 'as , home missionary of the Presbyterian Church up till about* 'ls ‘ months/ ago, will regret to hear, of the death of his wife, which; took place at Picton, on Wednes- ? day last. The deceased’s gentle and affectionate disposition.,eudeared her to all with whom she'' ' became, acquainted. To her husband, she wras a faithlul ; and devoted wife, and heir loss will be • • a great blow to him. Mrs Speirs. had been in very indifferent health for months past. To the sorrow;- ; . ing husband and little onesieft to mourn their loss, we, in common with others throughout ’ this , : district, extend' our heartfelt sympathy.

Recently an Evening Post re* . porter quoted some remarks from an Englishman who had expressed dissatisfaction that, after five , years hard work, he had tiarel'y * saved £25. ; 1 another Englishman informed., a representative of that journal that He arrived in Wellington some two years and three months 'ago* arid? during his residence in this Dor' minion he had been able to place in the bank, notwithstanding the fact that' portion of the time he had been Out pf employ' ment. This man, who Is married gave the credit of his savings, t the fact that he had an econom? wife. Last week " A Lanpashf Lad,” awaiting the arrival of- i wife and daughter, stated that ‘ had only been in New Zealand : ,a period of nine" months,, dur? * which he had followed the bt pation of a la]bourer,. and, «*, dition to paying his wife daughter’s passages, had ; ’ able to send £25 to them necessaries that might be teq before embarking for their home. Speaking to a rep the “ Lancashire Lad ”reg having had to wait two dathe arrival of the vessel wi wife on board. “I spent t five bob on Saturday,” ! 1 ‘ and this morning J spent another quid whilst for the vessel. You get ii number' of fellows, l an ‘shouting ’ a time or f wonder where the money to. When the wife gets shall do a lot better ths doneaofar.” '" ‘ WOLFE’S SCH&APP that has stood the test of ’