LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 382, 7 May 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two cases of diphtheria from Bunuythorpe have been sent to the Palmerston Hospital. A great meeting of Hie liberal party at the Reform Club urged Mr Asquith to persist with the Licensing Bill. The Japanese revenue for the year ended January 31 was an increase of 25,65°, 662. The following advertisement appeared in a London newspaper: “Old lady, with very wrinkled face, required as demonstrator in West End facial parlour; good pay to right person.” Mr J. A. Nash was duly installed as Mayor of Palmerston by ex-Mayor Essex yesterday. Mr Essex was loudly applauded for his excellent and manly remarks. Other councillors also spoke, and Mr Nash replied in a suitable manner. A man named Thomas Pink, arrested for drunknuess at Henderson on Friday night, was placed in the cells at the Auckland police station, apparently asleep. Attempts to wake him failed till Sunday, when he complained of feeling queer- He was removed to the hospital, where he died.

A couch and two easy chairs, upholstered in leather, and of superior make, are advertised for sule. Address at this office. The British Incensing Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons, by 394 to 198, The majority was composed of 333 liberals, 51 Uaborites, three Nationalis s, and seven Unionists. Br glars were at work in Palmers,on ‘.forth on Sunday night, business places and two private residences being entered. In each place the cracksmen refrained from taking anything but money. Their total haul only amounted to a few shillings. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday next, when the Mayor will be duly installed for another terra. The annual estimate of receipts and expenditure will be submitted, and general business transacted. A pertinacious Irish Suffragette, with handbills, pursue I Mr Winston Churchill, preventing him addressing several workmen’s meetings. She demanded an apology for Mr Churchill’s insulting references to .Suffragettes in connection with the Peckhatn election. The following advertisement appeared in a contemporary : —“ For sale, bakery concern, with good oven, owner been in it seventeen years, good reason for selling.” Where was this baker preparing for ? We should say that after 17 years in an oven he should be seasoned for anything either in this world or the next.

Mr Tom L. Johnson, Governor of Minnesota, who is one of the Democratic candidates for the Presidency. declares that Americans must obliterate the imaginary line between the United States and the Canadian States. This spreadeagleism meets with small response except in Minnesota, Michigan and Dakota.

Two young men were having a heated argument over a . problem which needed a great deal of mental calculation. “ I tell yon,” said one, “that you are entirely wrong.” “But lam not,” said the other. “ Didn’t I go to school, stupid?” almost roared his opponent. “ Yes,” was the calm reply, “and yon came back stupid.” Writing to a friend Mr Thomas Horton, of Pahiatua, refers to the Braybrooke railway disaster, and says : —“ Mr Weightman, of Feilding (who is here in Melbourne with me) and myself were very fortunate indeed. We were to have travelled by that very train, but altered our minds at the last moment and took the next. I was on the scene soon after it happened, and it was a dreadful sight. On Monday the Premier fired the first shot of the Otira tunnel, amidst much cheering. The weather was very boisterous, Mrs McLean presented Sir Joseph with a handsome silver casket, suitably inscribed, as a memento' of the occasion. An adjournment was made to the banquet hall, where a pleasant hour was spent. Speeches in commemoration of the occasion were made and the Premier was thanked and cheered for taking part in the gathering. That there is more in the potentialities of a screwdriver than is dreamt of by the average person’s philosophy is shown by the statement of an Oaiuarn carpenter. He has ‘livented an appliance for use in operating screwdrivers, and his allegations to the Registrar of Patents say that the appliance “ consists of a collar adapted to fit and be secured upon the shank of a screw driver, and formed with ratchet teeth upon its periphery, and a cylindrical casing loosely surrounding the collar, and enveloping the ratchet teeth, provided with a pivoted spring pawl engaging with such teeth, and with a handle lor rotating the casing, substantially as specified.” The question as to what game can be shot, and what cannot, is agitating the minds of not a few sportsmen now that the shooting season has again relumed.. The following imported game, to shoot which a license must be procured, are enumerated in the Order-iu-Couucil: —Cock pheasants, hares, and quail (Californian and Australian swamp). Native game, which induces grey duck, teal, native pigeon, pnkeko and kaka, may be shot without a license. The Order - in - Council specifies various prohibited districts. Mr J. T. Oliver,, of Burley Hill, Deeds, formerly X-ray operator in the local infirmary, is now practically crippled, owing to the nature of bis work. After about eight years’ work a slight sore broke out on his hand, and, in spite of operations, spread. The forearm had finally to be amputated. He thereupon lost his situation, and the Infirmary Board gave him a retiring allowance of 30s per week. His general health has also suffered, and he often experiences considerable, pain. Dunedin Star issues a warning : “ Beware of an elderly and respectable looking woman who is going the rounds ot the suburbs and obtaining money on various pleas. At one house she makes an appeal for a dying daughter ; at the next on behalf of an injured son. She always wants to raise a specific sum for a specific purpose, which varies. In every case a pawn ticket is produced in evidence of the statement that a wedding ring has had to be left with “ mine uncle,” and the mark of the ring is exhibited on a work worn hand that has not been without it for forty years. This generally proves a trump card,”

Mr P. M. Page’s auction mart sale list for Saturday next, appears elsewhere in this issue. A vocal ani instrumental concert will take place in the Public Hall on Thursday evening next. Admission by silver coin.

The ingenious shooting gallery made by Messrs Ross, Rough and Mowatt will be sold at the Presbyterian Sale of Work to-night. Any enterprising young man with the necessary funds could make a very decent income with it.

Readers of ‘‘ Tom Browu’s Schooldays ” will remember, says the Feilding Star, the remarkable coolness of Crab Jones, who could play through the toughest school match with a straw in his imu b, 1 The local Juniors have distinguished themselves on Saturday by one of the backs smoking a cigarette while the second spell was in progress. This is indeed the very depth of bad form.

Rather a unique manner of canvassing was indulged in by one of the candidates for the Mayoralty at Hastings on Wednesday afternoon. A motor car, used for the purpose of taking voters to the polling booth, contained the wife and children of a candidate, and on the back of the car a placard in bold letters stood out, “ Our daddy every lime.”

A hig show of Eiderdown quilts and blankets in the windows of the Bon Maivlic. Palmerston. This stock and value is unsurpassed. Ross and Co. invite inspection.— A bit

Ash to see our new samples of linoleums and floorcloths—a lovely ran,"e direct from the manufacturers, at Watchorn, Stiles and Co.’s.— Advt. Onr new season’s dress goods have now arrived, ai'd samples of same will be posted on application to Watchorn, Stiles and Co.—Auv .

Never buy your prints, flannelettes, damasks, sheetings, and calicos, outside Foxton, as Watchorn, Stiles and' Co. import these goods direct, and their values are household words.— Auvt.

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, 10s 3d per 100; Bonax, 13s per too; and Kngby, 13s per hundred. Do not forget the address: Cenire of Commerce Buildings, Main Street.— Auvt. Mr, A. Adams, Havelock, Marlborough, N.Z., says :—“ I consider that Chamberlain’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 ol such a medicine. For sale by VV. J. Gardner, grocer.— Auvt. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is fid and 2s fid.

To Fi.axmii.i.ers. —We are prepared to print the new tin and leather regulation tags for hemp bales, and would request millers to inspect samples of leather before placing orders for same. Inferior leather will be condemned by the d epartmen t. We hold sam pies and invite inspection.—The Herald Priutery. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absilately invaluable to the traveller.