LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 386, 7 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* Focal amateurs intend to stage two interesting and amusing dramas in the Public Hall at an early date. The ordinary’ meeting of the local Borough'Council will be held on Monday evening next _ when tenders will be received for sinking artesian wells. Cr Hennessy will also submit a new proposal for a borough.water supply.

The forthcoming Rowing Club Bazaar promises to be a very successful function. Donations of each from Messrs T. Rimmer and Geo. Coley have been received by the Secretary.

The Returning Officer notifies the withdrawal of. Mr Alex. Saunders’ candidature for election to the, position of trustee to the Moutoa Drainage Board. Mr B. G. Gower, who has been mainly instrumental in the formation of the Moutoa Drainage Board, notifies his candidature as one of the trustees, elsewhere in this issue. We can conscientiously recommend and urge Mr Gower’s claims to election.

A challenge has been accepted by Mr Sid Birchley, a well-known stock-driver in this district, to ride one of Messrs Bibbey Bros, and Hensley’s outlaws for two minutes at the buck-jumping competition in the section next to the Post Office this evening. If Birchley is successful he receives £lO if unsuccessful he forefeits that amount. We understand that Mr F. S. Fasten has completed the purchase of a further block of 800 acies of the Moutoa Estate at a satisfactory figure. This is a block which had been held in offer to a local syndicate for some time and is the last of the original surveyed lauds put up for sale after the estate was taken, over by the present proprietors-

The Secretary,of the local Rowing Club induced Arnst, who has challenged Webb for the sculling championship of the world, to have his photograph taken in the local club colours. We understand that the photographs, which will bear Arnst’sautograph, will be disposed of at the forthcoming bazaar at i/each. We understand that a similar application will be made to the champion. The Sunday school anniversary of the Methodist Sunday School will be held to-morrow. The children will sing special hymns. The preacher in the morning will be the Rev. G. K. Aitkeu. In the afternoon the distribution of prizes will take place. In the evening the Rev. J. Southern will take for his subject, “Tell the children.” This will be Mr Southern’s tarewell service.

A big, burly, fierce-looking man, and a meek, inoffensive-looking little chap, were sawing timber with a cross-cut saw. A strapping Irishman, passing that way, stopped to watch them. Back and forth, back and forth, they pulled the saw. Finally, the Irishman could stand it no longer. With a whoop and a yell he rushed at the big man and brought him to the grpuud, burying his knees deep in the saws'er’s chest. “There,” he said, “letting him have one parting blow on the nose, “nowmer’ be ye’ll let the little felly hev it!”

’The members of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild are very busy getting the details of their “ Sale of Work and Fancy Fair,” in order,. which takes place in the Public Hall, on the 29th and 30th of April next. Quite a multitude of new and novel entertainments and competitions will be provided which will afford amusement for old and young, and make the function one of the most attractive of the kind ever presented to the Fox ton public. Further particulars will appear in future issues.

On the voyage in connection with the Atlantic cable Eord Kelvin conceived the idea of sounding deep waters by a steel pianoforte wire instead of the ordinary lead line. A'story is told in this connection which shows that Eord Kelvin, though constantly occupied in abstruse calculations, was rich in the sense of humour. The philosophical instrument maker to Glasgow University constructed most of the apparatus required for Eord Kelvin’s inventions, and one day Lord Kelvin (then Sir Wm. Thomson) took his friend, Dr Joule, to the shop of that offial. Joule saw a lot of pianoforte wire lying about, and asked what it was for. “ Sounding purposes,” replied Thomson. “ What note ? ” innocently inquired the doctor, and Thomson answered readily “The deep C.” The Secretary of the Flaxmill Employees’ Union sent an invitation to Mr John Stevens, M.P., to attend the meeting of fiaxmillers and employees, convened by .Mr Ross. Mr Stevens, in reply, telegraphed as follows; — “Have just received your invitation to attend meeting of employers and employees, to discuss lowering of royalty. I regret that a previous important appointment here will prevent my being present at the meeting. The scale last agreed upon is automatic, by which, millers have benefit of large reduction this month. Our firm is equally anxious with millers and employees, —to keep mills continuously working. Our heavy responsibilities, however, in connection with the estate, and from which we cannot escape, compel us to make heavy periodical payments. Our desire is to work as amicably and equitably as the difficult position will permit, —John Stevens.” Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, announce the opening up of Autumn and Winter Fashions. Their Eondon buyers were this season assisted by Miss Emerson, head of their millinery and mantle department, who has been on a twelve months visit to England, with the result that one of the finest selections of millinery, mantles, costumes, and furs ever seen in Palmerston, is now on view at the Bon Marche, of which early inspection is /invited. —Advt. j WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS/—A tonic that has stood the test of years.

Messrs Millar and Giorgi’s replace advertisement will appear in our next issue.

Owing to pressure on our space, we have been reluctantly compelled to hold over correspondence and other reading matter. The list of entries for the next stock sale at Himatangi, to. be held on the 16th iust., by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., is advertised elsewhere in this issue..

We would draw the attention of our readers to the farewell social to be tendered to the Rev. and Mrs Southern on Monday night, in the Methodist schoolroom, A good programme and refreshments will be provided, and we hope to see a large attendance. This will be the last opportunity afforded of meeting the Rev. and Mrs Southern, as they leave on Tuesday, en route for the West Coast. The reward of virtue! A lad found a parcel (that had been .lost and advertised for) at a considerable distance from the city a few days ago,, says the- Christchurdh Press, and at much personal inconvenience restored it to its owner, who signified his gratitude by overwhelming the youngster with gifts, which consisted of one apple and one pear!

“ The man does not appear to be all right,” said Station- Sergeant Johnston, at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court in reference to an individual who had attempted to commit suicide. “No man who attempts to commit suicide is all right,” said Mr Bishop, S.M. ‘‘l consider such an act prima facie evidence of insanity.”

A resident of Master ton walking home after a theatrical performance in the Town Hall a few evenings ago stepped into a deep aperture near the sidewalk in Lincoln road, which was caused through the progress of the 'Borough Council improvements to the thoroughfare, and which was unlighted. The Council decided to reimburse the resident referred to the cost of a new pair of trousers, as his own were badly damaged through the mishap.

Some mischievous Oaraaru urchins possessed themselves of about a score of frogs, and wrapping them in a piece of paper threw them into the swimming baths while the ladies were disporting themselves. The paper burst when it touched the water, and the frogs flew hither and thither, and for safety tried to climb on the backs of the lady swimmers. The ladies, with one accord, made a dash for the shore, diving in their consternation into the nearest reception rooms. Mrs Hunter, however, was equal to the emergency, and, obtaining the services of a number of boys from the street —probably the same young rascals who threw the frogs in—they soon cleared the baths of the reptiles, and transferred them to the creek.

It is good in these days to hear of amicable arrangements being come to between employers and those who work for them, telegraphed the Post’s Invercargill correspondent recently. It has been customary for the workers at the Southland Freezing Works to discuss matters periodically with their employers, and as reported recently a conference of this sort has been going on. The result is indicated by a letter sent by the Secretary of the Freezers’ Union to the Trades and Labour Council. The letter says that the conference with employers had been eminently satisfactory, and that an allround increase of 20 per cent, had been granted.

Should the Roman Catholic world be prepared for the election of another Pope? There is certainly a warning in an incident that occurred on the afternoon of January xy. Whilst walking from the library, in which he grants audiences, the Pope collapsed and fell on the floor. He was carried to his bed and Dr Petacci was summoned. A rumour became current that the illness was an apoplectic seizure, but the doctor stated that the Pope had fainted owing to long standing heart weakness. Either trouble is serious enough to cause constant anxiety. Have you tried Wolfe’s Schnapps for kidney ailments. Boots and shoes to be sacrificed af half price at the Economic, in order to make room for Winter goods shortly to arrive.*