LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 396, 31 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow is All Fool’s Daj\ Frank Lewis, while intoxicated, fell over the traffic bridge at Hamilton on Saturday night and was drowned. A prohibition order was issued against a local resident at the Police Court yesterday. Mr Henuessy was the presiding justice. Mr Walton, Stock and Noxious Weeds Inspector, will be absent from Ibis district for about a month at the Chief Inspector of Stock’s office, Wellington. Mr C. 1,. Barnard, who has been confined to his room during the last few days, is, we are pleased to state, making a satisfactory recovery. The cash system is an absorbing topic of conversation in Foxtou at present, and while the Herald regrets it cannot adopt that system, it, nevertheless, requires prompt payment, in order to exist. Our accounts for the past quarter have been issued, and we have appointed Mr F. D. Whibley to collect same. Need we say more ? Mr Henry Berg, shipwright and boatbuilder, late of Wellington, has decided to take up his residence in Foxtou, for the purpose of following his trade here. Mr Berg is not only an experienced shipwright (having been employed by the U.S.S. Co. for a number of years), but he has won honcfurs as a boat builder. He will be pleased to undertake overhauling, refitting, or building of any decriptiou. His address is Union Street. The extention of the preferential tariff comes into operation on and after Wednesday next, and importers of foreign lines, on which additional duty will be charged, have been bringing into the Dominion large shipments during the past few months in order to save money on their transactions.

President F'alliers visits London in the last week in May. He will he present at the Anlo-French Exhibition,

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt throughout this district at about xo o’clock on Saturday night, accompanied by a rumbling noise.

Speaking at a public meeting at New Plymouth receutly, Dr Leathern said he considered girls In schools should be taught domestic economy in all its branches including the feeding of children. The Mauawatu County Council invite tenders for clearing out 150 chains of drain known as the Government drain along the Whirokino road, also for the purchase of the punt at Scott’s Ferry. The wife of an English M.P. writes:—“The balder a man is, the more successful he seems to be in politics. Not a man with flowing locks is to be seen on either of the front benches sacred to the great, wise, and eminent of the House of Commons.’’

The Urewera natives, as a result of their conference with the Hon. J. Carroll, Native Minister, have finally agreed that their land may be opened for prospecting and be utilised, in accordance with the land laws, for agricultural purposes.

Te Aro House, Wellington, want to know if you have written to them for a range of samples of their winter-wear blousing materials. The new stocks have just arrived and you would be wise to write immediately and not delay.

A serious accident occurred in Courtenay Place, on Saturday morning, when a tramcar and steam lorry collided. The motorman, Frank Barton, was buried beneath the wreckage, and when extricated was found to be seriously injured. As soon as the vehicles were unlocked the lorry bolted as the result of the steam not being shut off, and it ran on to the footpath, knocking down and injuring an onlooker named W. Young. At the last meeting of the Borough Council Works Commute, it was stated that noxious weeds were on the increase in the borough. This statement is open to question, and casts a reflection on the local inspector, who has done a great deal during his residence in Fox ton to compel residents to destroy noxious weeds. We are not of opinion that noxious weeds are on the increase within the borough, Mr Birrell, in the House of Commons, justified his refusal to allow the Union Jack to be hoisted on the national schools in Ireland because no political symbol was permitted. The Daily Telegraph characterises the decision as disgraceful, and asks why should the feelings of loyal Unionists be violated in order to avoid the faintest offence to the disloyal susceptibilities of the Nationalists?

Rev. H. J. Lewis, Baptist Church Minister, in a speech of welcome to the Rev. Mr Flanagan at New Plymouth last Friday, referred to the ripe experience of Rev Mr Flanagan, and mentioned the mania in New Zealand for “ striplings” as preachers. Any young man of 26 years who didn’t drop his “ IPs'” or murder the King’s English, might have his choice of pulpits in preference to the men of maturer years, who had spent a lifetime in Christ’s work.

At one of the Sydney Police Courts, recently, there appeared on a charge of inebriety, an old Sydney identity. He was fined ss, or three hours, and “ took it out.” In the forties he was in business in George street, and later on he owned North Shore property valued at ,£30,000. He could have got a shade over ,£30,000 for it, but was advised to hold on, and he did so until the boom burst. There was a mortgage of about ;£io,ooo on the estate, and it seems to have eaten the depreciated assets, body, bones and all.

Rua, the Maori prophet, is a man of some resource. He once claimed that he could walk on the water, and came down to the beach with a number of natives who were anxious that he should perform the feat. One would have thought this was rather an awkward fix, but the Maori prophet was equal to the occasion. He turned to his opened-mouthed followers and said: ”Do you truly believe I can walk on the water ?” “ Yes,” they cried with one voice. “Then there is no need for me to do it,” he replied and walked away. 1 Mr D. A. Bramble, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Outram, was the victim of a fatal accident at the Mosgiel railway station on Friday night. No one witnessed the accident, but it is surmised that the deceased, who was a passenger from Dunedin, attempted to quit the train while it was in motion, with the result that he fell between two carriages. One leg was completely severed from the body. Deceased, who was a married man, is believed to have been about 40 years of age. What may be considered a record droving performance has been accomplished with a mob of 1700 bullocks brought from Victoria Downs station, in the Northern Territory, to Narrabri, an approximate distance of 3000 miles (says the Sydney Morning Herald;. The animals have just arrived at Narrabri, after being 13 months on the road. They are owned by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Mr Buchanan, of Killarney station, Narrabri, a year ago brought from near the same locality in two mobs 6000 head. They were fattened and sold in the Sydney market.

£1 reward is advertised for 'the 4 return of a bag containing an optician’s outfit. Owing to the failure of her nationalisation scheme, Japan proposes to lease her railways to a ' foreign syndicate, which will extend and improve them. Cold water, says a medical man, is necessary to good health. The functions of the body -can--oal3L.be carried on in the presence andby the aid of cold water. Drink four or five pints daily. The term of which Mr Strang’s house at Hokowhitu, Palmerston North, has been taken as a residence for the Governor is two years. Mr W. G. Lamb’s Tararua vineyard was a busy scene on Friday and Saturday last, when over eighty hands were employed on the vintage,says the Wairarapa Age. The break in the weather on Friday was seized upon by Mr Lamb as an opportune time to gather the purple harvest, which had greatly benefited by the preceding rain. A letter was read at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston District Hospital Boa rd from Messrs Moore and Barnaid,. solicitors, staling they had advised Mrs Perreau to take legal proceedings in the Supreme Court to obtain the transfer of a property at Foxton on which she was living, subject to the amount owing to the Board being paid. The Board decided that it had no objection to this action provided the amount is paid. Foxton’s levy this year was set down as ,£32 os Bd, and the Mauawatu County at 12s 9d. All goods will be sold at a great sacrifice during the drapery sale at the Economic (Mrs Hamer’s) in order to make room for the arrival of new goods.* Boots and shoes to be sacrificed at half price at the Economic, in order to make room for Winter goods shortly to arrive,* Every lady contemplating the purc'*asc of a New Jacket or Paletot for I'bc coming winter season would do " ell to inspect the stock of these goor’s now showing at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North The style, fit, and finish of every garment is exquisite, and the prices most reasonable.—C. M. Boss and Co.— .Adyt. Nothing could be worse for the S3’stem than some of those violent cathartics or purgatives that some people take to move their bowels, They frequently cause constipation, sometimes inflammation. Chamberlain’s Tablets bring on a natural action, mildly and gently, which cures the real trouble without dangerous after effects. For sale by W. G. Gardner, grocer. — A dvt.