LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 378, 28 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Warm rains fell throughout this district last night and to-day. Twenty-nine case of scarlet lever occurred in Wellington last week. The Secretary of the Foxlon Rugby Sub-Union, acknowledges receipt of one guinea from Mr G. H, Stiles (vice-president). In future the school committee meetings wdl be held in the school house. The meetings will be held every third Thursday in each month. Mr H. G, Hammond, notifies, per advertisement, that any person found trespassing on his property at Moutoa with dog or gun after this date will be prosecuted A “■ kitchen tea ” is to be tendered to Miss Adams by Mrs and Miss Hamer at their residence tomorrow afternoon, in view of Miss Adams’s approaching wedding with Mr A. Percy Easton. On Saturday the Himatangi and Saudon Rifle Clubs fired .off their match, with the result that the latter were defeated by a good margin throughout, the shooting being excellent. Himatangi has now to fire off for the final.

Mrs Wallis, mother of the Right Rev. Frederick Wallis, Bishop of Wellington', died at Streatham, England, e.irly ir March. News of the sad event was received by the Bishop by cablegram at Colombo on his way home. The deceased lady was the wife of the Rev. J. Wallis, M.A., Vicar of St. Andrew’s, Stockwell, Surrey, The stock auctioneers operating in Eketahuna have introduced a timelimit— iyi. minutes—on which to dwell on the sale of a pen of stock, and the new system was brought into operation on Friday last. - The time limit, says the Eketahuna Express, was adversely commented upon by vendors, who considered the system would be an admirable one if the limit was extended to two minutes.

Sunday burials was a matter which came before the Masterton cemetery trustees recently. The sexton recommended that Sunday burials should be discouraged, and that when they did take place double sexton’s fees should be levied. The Trustees considered this a reasonable suggestion, and it was unanimously adopted.

After divine service, at Moutoa on Sunday afternoon, certain lads amused themselves by releasing valves on certain bicycles used by some of those taking part in the service, and who had to ride several miles home. The cyclists were on the point of walking, when a twitter of laughter from the juveniles suggested a further examination of the machines, disclosing the unscrewed valves.

During service at St. Patrick’s Church at Palmerston on Sunday, it was announced that Mother Mary Bernard of the Convent had been recalled to Wellington, the removal following upon that of Sister Mary Frances being a serious blow to the paiish. Mother Mary Bernard, who was greatly beloved by the’community, young and old alike, was the founder and head of nearly every parish institution—the Children oi Mary, Sodality'of the Sacred Heart, Library and Alter Society, etc., and will be greatly missed. Mr Oreem, ilaxmiller, while motoring from Palmerston to Moutoa on Sunday last, met with a serious accident through his car striking the bridge crossing the Mangaone creek, and hurling him into the water below, the car following. Luckily, Mr Green was the only occupant of the car, which was very badly damaged. Mr Green appears to have had a miraculous escape, as he is merely bruised from the waist down, and suffering from shock. Dr Peach is attending to him at the Clarendon Hotel. He says that he has suffered from what he describes as occasional “paralysis of the brain ’’ of late, and believes that it must have overcome him at the time of the accident.

The postal revenue of the Dominion during the March quarter of this year was £112,034 as against ,£109,846 for the corresponding period of last year. The telegraph revenue was ,£71,581 compared with £,’67,050. During the first quarter of this year the total amount deposited in the Post Office Savings Banks of the Dominion was ,£2,542,188 as against ,£2,325,099 during the first three mouths of 1907. Withdrawals during the same period totalled ,£2,382,935 for 1908 and ,£2,000,251 for 1907. The excess of deposits over withdrawals being £t 59,253 for this year, and £■324,849 last year.

The “ Review of Reviews ’’ for May, just to hand, contains an unusually large number of interesting articles. The chief one is an exceedingly novel one, its title being “ What To Eat, Drink, and Avoid.” Considering that so much of our life is concerned with nourishing the body, and that our desires of appetite are so often likely to clash with what is really best for us, this symposium of opinions of eminent men is likely to be of the greatest interest. The men best qualified to speak on the subject of what to eat, drink and avoid are assuredly those who have lived the longest, for no theory of food fitness can ever take the place of the experience of those who have attained to great longevity. The leaders of religious thought and men of letters have been selected to give their opinions on this all-important question. Another interesting item is an interview on the Old-New Theology, in the course of which the Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the London City Temple, explains his position in regard to the recent evangelical proclamation. A young New Zealander in Russia writes on the question of the failure or otherwise of the Russian Revolution, Mr Percy Meggy, who always \yrites ilium inatingly, has a capital article on “ Christian Economics while another New Zealander gives a well-illustrated article on a new departure in constructive Temperance Reform. The remainder of the magazine, devoted to a survey of the world’s events, of the reviews of the leading magazines and the caricatures of the world, is well up-to-date.

With the object of keeping New Zealand and its resources prominently before the notice of newspaper readers in the United Kingdom, the Government has made an arrangement with Reuter’s Telegraph Company to despatch three times per week from New Zealand to England a message of a hundred words containing items of general news which will be of interest to newspaper readers at Home. The selection of the news is left entirely to Reuter’s Agency, it being understood that the items are to be free'from bias. Matters which no doubt will receive attention will be any important statements by the head ot the Government, crop prospects, mining returns, yield of wheat, matters affecting the extension of trade between New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Canada, and America. It is proposed to allow the newspapers of Canada and the United States to take the message upon payment of their share of the comparatively small distributing cost. The pacific cable will be used. This is evidently an attempt to rectify a deficiency in the news services pointed out some months ago by the Prime Minister, who referred to the fact that while comparatively trivial happenings in the Old world were cabled out to the New Zealand press, there was no systematic supply of New Zealand cable news to the newspapers of England.

The shooting season opens on Friday next, ist May. The Tennis Club will hold an invitation euchre party and dance in the Masonic Hall, to-morrow (Wednesday) night. The owner of a lost key can have same on application to this office.

The local agent notifies us that the s.s. Turakina will leave Wellington for London on 30th May, instead of June 4th, as previously advertisedAn advertiser offers 68 acres of land at Ohau for lease, also 200 acres of first-class land for sale, situated three miles from Manakau.

A meeting of the Awahou Football Club is advertise! to take piace in the Post Office Hotel on .Saturday evening next. Business important. The annual meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce is advertised to take place in the Secretary’s office next Friday evening at eight o’clock, when the annual report and balance-sheet will he read, and officers and council elected for the ensuing term. All members and intending members are requested to attend. Seventy-five political prisoners confined in the fortress of Sehlusseburg, near St. Petersburg, have smuggled out an appeal to the foreign press to obtain amelioration of their condition. They declare that they are fed on bread and water; their hands and feet are chained day ahd night; and they are knouted for small infractions of discipline. Next Sunday the harvest festival will be celebrated at All Saints’ Church. The preacher in the morning will be the vicar, and the evening service will be conducted by the Rev. C. ' C. Harper, M.A., vicar of Palmerston North, and will take the form of choral evensong, at which Mrs John Robinson will render a solo, “Angels ever bright and fair.” The Unionists have “ got even ” with MrWinston-Churchill, struck a damaging blow on the prestige of the Asquith Administration, driven another nail into the coffin of Freetrade, and re-captured a lost seat. This, in tew words, may be summed up the achievements of the victorious party in the fiercelycontested by-election for the northwest division of Manchester, — Chronicle.

Japanese physicians declare it is impossible for internal poisoning to occur if powdered charcoal be swallowed as soon as the gastrointestinal disturbance is felt, French physicians have tested the power of charcoal, and proved that it is the most active of all known antidotes. The charcoal must be taken as soon as the poison begins to show its effects, and the dose must be large. Charcoal is in no way injurious, and as much as a soupspoonful may be taken in divided doses mixed with water.

“This demand for increased wages came as a surprise to me,” said an employer at the Conciliation Board at Wanganui. “ I had not received a complaint about wages, and it seems that we are to be ever saddled with new awards. We no sooner receive one award, than we are into another. I am now working under seven awards, and believe it would puzzle a solicitor to prevent us committing breaches. ” “ Oh, ” interjected Mr Andrew Collins, “I know of a man who empltws under n awards, and does not commit breaches.” The employer, ■ continuing, said he was looking forward to the time when he should have “ one man and a dog to look after.”

During a dinner in South Africa, Mr Winston Churchill, who has just been defeated at Manchester, and an officer were seated side by side. The officer proved boresorae, until Churchill could stand it no longer. “Do yon know,” he said, “ I met a man to-day who would gladly forfeit ,£SO for the pleasure of being able to kick you 1” “To kick me, sir !” exclaimed the astonished officer, in a dignified tone, “I must ask you to tell me his name at once !” “Oh,” replied Winston, “I am not quite sure that I ought to do that.” “ But I insist on knowing,” demanded the officer. “ Well, then, I suppose I must tell you. It was a poor young fellow in the hospital who has lost both his legs by the bursting of a shell.”

Fate would appear to have played its part in the shocking affair which ended in the loss of four lives in the Lower Harbour on Saturday night, says the Otago Daily Times, It appears that on Saturday afternoon LieutenantColonel Allen, who was in charge of the Military Manoeuvres at the Heads, in the course of his peregrinations, came into contact with four members of the Port Chalmers Navals with swags. On being quesioned, they stated that they were on their way to Port Chalmers, When asked if they had obtained permits to leave, they replied in the negative, whereupon Colonel Allen firmly insisted that should not leave their posts without authority. It so happened that while they were being questioned their officer hove in sight, and Colonel Allen told the men that they could apply to their officer for leave. This they did, with the result that Gunner Methers was granted leave and the other three men ordered to return. As Fate would have it, Gunner Methers was drowned while returning to the Heads in the oil launch, and it is possible that but for the enforcement of military discipline and the compulsory detention of the three men they also might have come to the same end.

Messrs Robinson Bros, warn the public against trespassing on Herrington estate.

A member of the Bristol Deaf and Dumb Football Club was reported last month for using bad language on the field ! Who heard him ?

Mr Nikola Tesla, the famous electrician, in an address at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, predicted that twenty million horsepower of electric energy would be drawn from the waterfalls of the United States, giving a force sufficient to destroy an entire army in a few minutes by electric waves projected through the air.

The editor of a Milan paper organised a competition,. and announced that a valuable prize would be awarded. Not uuti the competition was closed did he state that the prize was himself. As the winner proved to be a married woman some difficulty has arisen. A bull-fight, in which one matador was fatally injured and another dangerously hint, was the feature of the leslivilies given at Lima, Peru, in honour of the crews of the American battleship fleet. A despatch from Lima states 3500 officers and sailors were present at the hull-fight, which was also attended by the President of Peru and his Cabinet, and many other high Government officials.

The Church Family Newspaper has been seeking to ascertain by the votes of its readers which are the most popular English hymns lor children. Over 29,000 voting coupons were sent in. and more than 350 hymns voted upon. The first six favourite hymns were as follow's:—(1) “There’s a Friend for Little Children,” 2257 votes; (2) “ There is a Green Hill,” 1930; (3) “We are but Little Children Weak,” 1615; (4) “Once in Royal David’s City,” 1486 ; (5) “ Now the Day is Over,” 989 : (6) “ All Things Bright and Beautiful,” 877. The author ot the first hymn, Mr Midlane, is still alive.

A mountain of old boots and shoes, indescribably ugly, indescribably filthy, lay in the factory yard, “ We’ll make combs out of > them,” said the chemist. “Combs that will pass through the perfumed and lustrous locks of the most beautiful girls. Seems strange, doesn’t it?” “Very.” “Yet it’s a fact. That is what becomes of the world’s old boots; they are turned into combs. The leather is first cut into small ■ pieces and immersed two days in a chloride of sulphur bath, then it is washed, dried, and ground to powder, then it is mixed with glue or gum and pressed into comb moulds. It makes good enough combs, but I prefer the rubber ones myself. I don’t like to put £ on my head what may have been once on the foot of an old tramp. ’ ’

A further batch of simplified spellings has been issued.by the Simplified Spelling Board, of i, Madison avenue, New York, and approved by the Advisory Council. The additional modifications are chiefly confined to certain words containing “ph” changed to “f,” as “telefoue,” “fonetic,” “sulfur,” “fotograph,” “ filosofy,” etc; the omission of final “e” from the terminals “ive,” “ ine,” “ite,” as“activ,” “ defectiv,” “doctrin,” “glycerin,” “granit,” “exquisit,” etc.; the dropping of the “ b,” in “det,” “dout ” ; of “s ” in “ ile,” “iland” ; “c” in “sissors”; “a” in “bedstead.” “Ake,” “tung,” ‘‘siv,” “quire,” etc., are also among the forms simplified. Boots and shoes to be sacrificed at half price at the Economic, in order to make room for Winter goods shortly to arrive.* An extensive window display of gentlemen’s motoring requisites and winter overcoats is now being made in the windows of the Bon Palmerston, which is attracting considei able attention. — Advt.

‘ Wobds’ Peppermint Cure appears to bring Your trade amongst the snuggest, I ’spose it won’t cure everything ?" “ Well, no,” replied the druggist. “ It won’t cure everything, at least, Unless I’m much mistaken !’’ “ What won’t it cure in man or beast ? f ’ Said he : “It won’t cure bacon 3 We draw the attention of the public to the advt. of Messrs Watchorn, Stiles and Company This ffrm is opening a large shipment ot goods direct from the best manufacturers in Bradford and the goods are going to be marked at very special prices. No middleman's profit will have to he added to these woods, and extra inducements are going to be made by fair prices to keep the business within the place. We trust the public of Foxton will do their utmost to support onr local trade and before ordering elsewhere give the above firm an opportunity of quoting prices.— Advt.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails, is 6d and 2s 6d. No one need now suffer the agonizing pains of sciatica and acute rheumatism, as quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, This fact has been clearly demonstrated in many thousands of cases. Tms liniment relieves the pain and makes sleep and rest possible, which is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt.

For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and 28 6d.

The mother who has acquired the " habit of keeping a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Bemedy on hand saves herself a great amount of uneasiness and anxiety. Coughs, colds and croup, to which children are susceptible, are quickly cured by its use, It counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia and if given ag soon as the first symptom of croup appears it will prevent the attack. This remedy is free from all poisons, which makes it the mother’s favourite everywhere. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer,— A dvx. ; / ,; ’ J: I .. .-I * _l V-_