LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 385, 14 May 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Before A. Fraser, Esq., J.P., yesterday morning, Frank Coyle was fined ios for drunkenness.

The Taumaranui Press reports the finding of two mountain dogs at the Maori settlement in that district. These animals were supposed to be extinct. They are low-set white woolly dogs with jet black eyes. Occasionally a flash enlivens even the dreary routine of a County Council meeting. At Horowhenua on Saturday a discussion took place as to the expenses of councillors, when absent on council business. The Chairman said that he thought a guinea a day was a “fair thing.” “You can send me away altogether on those terms,,’ remarked a councillor. “ Aren’t you going to make it retrospective ?” enquired another. The guinea, in addition to railway fares, was carried. There is work for the police to do on some of the tootball grounds in this district. At Waitara, yesterday and all last week as well, a stream of filthy language came from some of the spectators. There were some women close by, too — Maoris, it is true—but that did not make any difference. This conduct must have been very trying to the players.. They had to bear this obscenity roared at them mingled with evil advice, and yet they had to play a clean game and keep a clean tongue. One player in a moment of excitement let out a comparatively unoffending “cussword,” and the referee promptly did his duty by sending him off the field. The language of the louts on the line became a deeper blue then. It was chiefly directed to threatening the referee with grievous bodily harm. One or two prosecutions for obscenity would do the cause of football in Waitara a lot of good. In other places in New Zealand a policeman is invariably sent to a match at which there is likely to be a crowd ? Why not in this district ? —Taranaki Herald.

Mrs Wright has received a consignment of oysters. Pork small goods obtainable every Saturday. Order early. *

• A gold bar brooch is advertised for. Valued as a keepsake. Messrs Dr Maudl, F. S. Fasten, and G. Gray, proceeded by motor car to Wellington yesterday. We give a final reminder of the concert to be held in the Public Hall this evening. An excellent programme has been arranged. Admission by silver coin. A complimentary dinner is to be tendered to Mayor Gower, at Perreau’s rooms, by the business men of Foxton on Tuesday evening next.

A cable message to Sydney last week stated that W. Squires, the Australian boxer, defeated W. Roche, champion ot Ireland, in Dublin, in four rounds.

A Wellington bankrupt who was yesterday sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, originally assigned his financial difficulties to “the harrassing legislation of the present Government.”

Singers are seldom consumptive (writes a physician), for there is no better method of developing the chest and lungs than by singing exercises. In ordinaiy breathing the fresh air never penetrates the lowest cells in the lungs. They therefore become weak through lack of exercise, and sometimes actually decay. That is where lies the value of deep breathing ; and singing, if rightly practised, ensures deep breathing. Then it empties and fills every cell of the lungs, while the chest, the cavity of which encases the lungs, is enlarged.

Mr Bland Holt makes his entrance as Edgar Treffusis in “The White Heather” on a bicycle. During a performance at Adelaide the machine ran over the footlights, and he was precipitated head first into the orchestra, landing on top of one of the musicians. The audience were startled, but Mr Bland Holt speedily resumed his part. His opening remark, whiclr came in very appropriately, although it is in the actor’s lines, being “I don’t see anything to laugh at.” Eady Molly Fanshawe “ gaughed ” to the extent of saying: “Mr Treffusis is breaking records to-night,” and the retort was, “Imight have broken my neck,”

A serious statement concerning the drinking habits of the women of New South Wales was made lately by the Rev Howell Price, at the Centenary Hall, during the demonstration of the New South Wales Alliance. The drinking customs of to-day in society, he stated, were most ruinous. “ You have only to go to some of the marriages and attend the after breakfast or dinner in. order to discover what I mean. Young women in their teens take it without shame—strong wines, drink whisky, quench their thirst again and again with the best champagne do it until their cheeks grow red and the eyes grow bright, and, perchance, before the evening is spent the feet grow unsteady. Not only do our young women do that, but our middle-aged women do the same thing.”

An imposter of a somewhat novel type is reported in the “Free Press’’ to be “doing” the Clutha district at present. He is of far-mer-like appearance and wears riding pants, although from all accounts he makes his peregrinations on foot. His method is to call at a farmhouse and represent himself as the agent of a combination of stock and station agents who are out to buy grain in unlimited quantities and at prices just a “bit better” than anyone else can offer, “on account of the largeness of their operations, etc.” The prospect of a penny per bushel more for his oats usually tickles the fancy of the sturdy producer, ‘and makes him feel very hospitable towards the caller. The latter requires no pressing to stay to dinner and tea or even to accept a bed and breakfast. Little sample bags of the orthodox type are produced, and the agent takes the farmers’ grain samples, and goes on his way rejoicing. That is the last the tiller of the soil hears of the matter, for his whilom friend representing the “ big agents,” when he gets out of sight of the farmhouse, coolly empties the sample bags and goes on to the next place.

Dairying is rapidly becoming a staple industry along the Main Trunk Dine. Although the present season has been rather a bad one, the indications are that butterproducing is going to grow by leaps and bounds when the railway is through, though sawmilling now bulks large in the district from Mangaweka northwards. The Taihape Dairy Co. has had a large increase in its milk supply, which will be augmented as the bush comes down, and the factory there is expected to become the largest in the North Island. An interesting fact in connection with this factory is that home separated cream, detested by experts, is taken in, and so far the butter has turned out first grade. With the advent of the railway, the Raetihi dairy is now able to send its butter by rail to Wellington. Formerly it had to be carted to Pipiriki, taken from there down the river to Wanganui, by boat, and thence by rail to grading stores at Patea. The saving in cost of working is therefore very great.

' WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absolutely invaluable to the traveller. A big show of Eiderdown quilts and blankets in . the windows of the Bon Marche, Palmerston. This stock and value is unsurpassed. Ross and Co. invite inspection. —Advt. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and as 6d.

Mr Percy M. Page publishes a lengthy list of goods to be submitted at his weekly mart sale on Saturday next.

We finally remind the public of the concert to be held in the Moutoa schoolhouse to,-morrow (Friday) evening. An excellent programme has been arranged, and, given a fine night, there should be a record attendance.

We regret that, owing to pressure of space, we are unable to deal fully with the result of the deputation which proceeded to Wellington to wait on the Minister for Marine and Minister for Railways, in connection with the proposed Harbour Board. The full report will be published in our next issue.

The youth of Foxton are not long in finding an outlet for their surplus energy. On Monday evening some evil disposed persons or person laid several of the cast iron gas pijes across the road in Johnson Street, while a number were deposited in the ditch. This kind of prac. Dal joking is dangerous, and might have had serious results. Fortunately, it was moonlight, but had a cyclist or horse and trap happened along, something disastrous may have happened. We understand the mailer has been placed in the hands of the police.

On one of the southern railway lines there is a station building that is uncommonly small. It is of this station that the story is told that an old farmer was expecting a hen-house to arrive there, and he sent one of his hands, a newcomer, to fetch it. Arriving there, the man saw the house, loaded it on his waggon, and started for home. On the way he was overtaken by a man in uniform, with the word “Stationmaster” on his cap. “Say, hold bn. What have you got on that waggon?” he asked. “A hen-house, of course,” was the reply. Henhouse, be jiggered !” exploded the official. “ That’s the station!”

“ Drunkenness among women in Eondon and other cities in England,” declared Mr r Johan Hanssou, a Swedish visitor to Auckland, “is considerable. I made a practice of looking into the hotel bars when I was there, and I seldom lound them free from women. I have never seen such degradation amongst the sex as I saw over there —in Eondon particularly.” Mr Hansson thought that the Athletic life led in the Old Country, by the young men was tending to check the drinking habit. “At all events,” he asserted, “you <• will find nearly as many drunken women on the streets of Bond on as men in that condition. Statistical investigation has shown, more- , over, that whereas drinking by> men is decreasing, drinking by women is on the increase.”

The credit system is unsatisfactory to both sides, says the “ Christchurch Press,” if a tradesman has to give credit to the customers, it usually means that he must get credit himself and pay for the accommodation. If he received cash he could himself pay cash, and thus get his goods at a cheaper rate. More than this, he would avoid the bad debts which at present form such a harassing feature in traders’ worries and cares. With a general adoption of the cash system he could afford to supply his customers with goods at much cheaper rates. With a general adoption of cash payments there would come an all-round reduction of prices. Moreover, the customer would be helped iu another way in his or her efforts to observe due economy, since it is well-known that, while those who pay cash usually hesitate to buy anything they do not really require, the credit system conduces to reckless expenditure.

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

Did yon ever stop to think that Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment and when applied to cuts, burns, bruises, causes them to heal without Maturation, and in about onethird of the time of any other treatment ? For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer. — Advt.

For Bronchial Goughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and 2s 6d.

Mr. W. Robinson, Grocer, Mornington, N.Z., not only sells Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy but uses it. He says;—“ I have been troubled several times 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 my 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 use anything else for their children." For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer,— Advt. x WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS has stimulating properties possessed by no other spirit.