LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 380, 2 May 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We desire to thank Mrs Hughes for a beautiful collection of chrysanthemum blooms.

The following are the vital statistics for Foxton for last month Births 4; marriages 4 ; deaths 3.

The Borough Council call tenders for carting 300yds metal from the railway station to different parts of the borough, A general meeting of the Foxtou Rugby Sub-Union will be held in the Post Office Hotel, on Wednesday evening next, at 8 o’clock, when business of an importaut nature will be discussed. A concert is advertised tb take place in the Moutoa school house on Friday, May 15th, in order to raise funds for the erection of a flagstaff. A number of local people have consented to assist, and an excellent programme will be submitted. At the Palmerston Police Court last Thursday before three justices, a young man named George Flowers, a plumber, 26 years of age, was fined £1 for assaulting' “Dinny” Hoben, editor and proprietor of the Palmerston Times after the speechifying which followed the result of the mayoral poll on Wednesday night.

Beautiful weather is being experienced at present throughout this district and feed is getting very plentiful. W. Webb, the champion sculler, stales that his desire is to have any maich rowed on the Wanganui river. The date of the match with Arnst is pretty well settled for December 15. When replying to a deputation at Ohakune last Friday, the Hon. Hall-Jones is stated to have said that Ohakune would grow beyond the comprehension of most ot the present residents, and be one of the most important towns between Marton and Hamilton. The services in the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be of a musical character and will be,conducted by the Rev. P. J. Mairs. There will be a song service commencing at 6.40 p.m., during the service there will be a solo, quartette and anthem. The subject is Wesley's Hymn No. 516, “ Come, oh thou Traveller unknown.” Please bring Torrey and Alexander books.

To-morrow is the harvest festival at All Saints’ Church. The fruit and vegetables will be sent to St. Mary’s Rescue Home, Wellington. The preacher in the evening will be the Rev. C. C. Harper, M.A., vicar off Palmerston North, who is well-known in the Mauawatu district, and who has proved himself to be a lover of men and athletics. We trust his visit to Foxton will be appreciated by regular and irregular church goers.

The danger of swallowing grape seeds was illustrated at a village near Bathurst recently, when a lad named A. Morgan ate some grapes slightly green, and immediately after complained of pain in his side. His mother treated him to the best of her skill, but no improvement showing, he was taken to the hospital, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis with success. On the appendix being removed it was found to contain a grape seed. In 1883 the value of butter exported from New Zealand was £42,020. Ten years later it was 2254,645- i 9°7 was ,£1,522,113. Cheese exports increased from ,£6892 in 1883 to ,£99,626 in 1893, an d ,£449,676 in 1907. Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington are the chief producers of butter ; Patea, Wellington, and Invercargill are the principal shippers of cheese.

The statistics of the live stock in New Zealand for 1906 have just been published. The number of sheep on 30th April, 1906, was 20,108,481, an increase of on the previous year. The number has fluctuated but little during the last ten years. Horses and cattle show a slight increase, and swine exhibit a decrease. Dairy cows have increased from 324,485 iu 1897 to 543,927 in 1906.

Mr Martin, the local artesian well sinker, has put down an artesian well for Messrs Levin and Co. at the north end of their dumping and grading sheds which yields a flow of about 1200 gallons of pure gushing water per hour. The bore went down 195 ft and passed through a very obstinate gravel strata which, Mr Martin states, is to be found at a certain depth throughout the whole borough. Water is obtained in plenty below this strata. The flow at Messrs Levin and Co’s is 10ft above the ground level.

Even in this age the Puritan spirit of our forefathers is apparent in Biblical quotation. While the Waikouaiti (Otago) County Councillors were assembling for the meeting, conversation turned on the chairman, who since the last meeting had taken unto himself a wife. The clerk entered with a telephone message to say the Chairman could not arrive till later. “Humph!” remarked au aged councillor, “It’s a case of ‘l’ve married a wife and cannot come already, is it ? ’ ”

Mr T. Ling, the Chinese mandarin, before leaving for Sydney, said to a reporter: “ For too long China has been the dumping ground of the manufactures of other nations. No country in the world imports so many outside manufactures as China does to-day but now we are as keen upon developing our commercial status as we are upou improving our array and our position generally. Between Australia and China there is already a fair exchange of trade, and I hope the appointment of a Chinese consul iu Auckland will be the first step towards the establishment of better relations between the country and China.”

An Anglican clergyman in Stewart Island was quite sure a little while ago that a Presbyterian brother was a pagan. The Governor was on holiday down there —so an unauthorised version of a true story runs—and when Sunday came round Cord Plunket announced that he would go to church. A message was sent to the Anglican pastor, who at once bestirred himself to get a record congregation. The people were promptly told about it, and when n o’clock, the hour for service, arrived on Sunday, the bell was rung as it had never been rung before ; but his Excellency tarried. The bell was rung more, it was rattled tiil noon, and still there was no Governor. Then the poor parson discovered that Cord Plunket had mistaken the direction to the Anglican Church, and had strayed into a neighbouring Scotch kirk. His Excellency said that once he was inside'the building he did not care to leave, but this explanation did not convince the Anglican shepherd that his Scotch contemporary had not set a snare for vice-regal feet.

Further additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale list. Several Auckland orchards returned £IOO an acre for the past season, there being remarkably good crops and high prices. The shooting season opened yesterday, and we are informed that hundreds of ducks were slaughtered, We cannot, of course, vouch for the truth of such! statement, because we have not yet seen a feather! The Government has appointed l< or d Ranfurly to represent this Domihion at the celebrations in Canada in connection with that country’s • tercentenary in June next. These celebrations are to be carried out on an extensive scale. We are authorised to state that the following gentlemen have kindly cousen'ed to act as a committee of inspection in connection with the guessing competitions arranged by the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild for the Sale of Work and hancy Fair next week :—Messrs Clemttt, Fraukland, and Dr Mar.dl. The public will thushave a guarantee that' everything will be done in a thoroughly rati factory manner. A contemporary, giving a graphic description of a wedding, wrote as follows“ The bride was given away by her father, who looked sweet and winsome in a creation of billowy lace and white mousseline de seie over silk, with a pink rosebud bonnet.” We understand that the father, looking neither sweet or winsome, is looking for the local editor, who has hastily gone on a holiday, leaving no address.

Terrible explosion down at Gardner’s. Cartridges going off all over the shop. No wonder. Look at the prices: Clubs, 10s 3d per 100; Universal, ms 3d per 100; Bonax, 13s per 100; and Rugby, 13s per hundred. Do not forget the address : Centre of Commerce Buildings, Main Street.— Am r.

Mr. W. Robinson, Grocer, Mornington, N.Z.. not only sells Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy butmesit. He says :—“ I have been troubled several limes with influenza, and the only cough medicine that has ever done me any good was Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Innumerable times I have recommended it to iny customers and they were more than pleased with the result. I have customers that always keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in their house, and won’t ure anything else for their children.” For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer. —Advt. Mrs Jessie Lomas, Gladstone, CL writes;—“ I strongly advise every psfl ent to keep a bottle of Chamberlains Cough Remedy- in the house, and I always make a po'nt oftcllingmy friends of the recovery of my son. For 11 years he had suffered from acute bronchitis, and though I had him try a lot of things nothing seemed to give him permanent relief. A medical man advised me to get Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and I d : d so. A decided improvement was noticed before the first bottle was used, and I am pleased to stale that after he had taken four bottle?, he was completely cured, and is now enjoying the best of health. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt.

An extensive window display of i;enilemen’s motoring requisites and winter overcoats is now being made.in the windows of the Bon Marche, Paimer.-ton, which is attracting considei able attention.—A dvt.

Mr, A. Adams, Havelock. Marlborough, N.Z , says:—“l consider that Chamb.rlain’s Tablets are an A.i. remedy, and the most efficient procurable for all disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels. I have used them for some time, deriving the greatest benefit, and have every confidence in recommending them to all in need ot such a medicine. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt. For Bronchial Coughs lake Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is fid and as fid.

Wolfe's Schnapps.— A tonic that has stood the test of years. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. iS 6 and zs fid

MR CHAPMAN WAS SCEPTICAL BUT RHEUMO CONVINCED HIM. Mr F. J. Chapman is well-known in Nelson. Read how RheCmo cured him. He writes: ‘‘Being a bit seeptical \yas the reason that I did not try Rheumo, until you put the experience of others you know and the benefit they derived. lam no longer a sceptic after what Rheumo has done for me. I am constantly in draughts in my occup ition as engine-driver at Messrs Griffen and Son’s factory. 1 can recommend Rheumo as a good remedy. F. J. Chapman, Nelson.” Why suffer when Rheumo will cure you. At all stores and chemists, 2/6 and 4/6. X