LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 393, 4 June 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Some women are so orderly about the house that their husbands can’t be comfortable except in the coal shed.

Several cases of scarletina are reported in different parts of this district. Colds are also very prevalent.

The local Methodist Church and grounds have been receiving attention lately at the hands of the painters and members of the congregation, and a very marked improvement is noticeable. The new residence for Dr. Adams in Thynne Street is nearing completion. The building has frontages to Thynne Street and the Avenue. Mr Thos. Rimmer is the contractor.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening next, at 7.30 o’clock. The business will consist of striking rates and to consider an estimate for formation and metalling of various streets and to authorise a loan for same.

On our .third page will be found an advertisement in the bankrupt estate of Thos. Lee, calling tenders for the sale of part section 133, Union Street, Foxton, Tenders must be in before June 23rd., and they are directed to be forwarded through Messrs R, Moore and Barnard, solicitors, at whose offices plans of the property and conditions of sale may be inspected.

A message from Brussels states that in view of the statement that an American syndicate desires! to erect buildings on the battlefield of Waterloo, the Minister of Public Works stated that a Bill is to be presented to Parliament, forbidding the owners of land within the limits of the battlefield, to erect any buildings whatever. Thus the historic aspect of the field will be preserved. At Ironbark Gully, Victoria, on the 17th instant, Walter Gray, whilst digging up his potato patch, disturbed in the subsoil on the cap of an indicator a specimen slug containing of gold. About 100 yards’ distant from the potato patch, on the line of the indicator, 18 years ago, C. Smith unearthed the famous “ Magnum Bonum ” nugget, which weighed in the rough 45802.

“When walking through the streets of Wellington,” said the Rev. Flanagan recently, “a friend said to me, ‘ I am sorry to have to bring you this way, but we have to hurry. These are our slums.’ I told my friend that if he had not enlightened me, I should have concluded that the houses were the residences of the middle class. I have been looking for slums ever since I came to New Zealand, and I have never seen any yet that could possibly compare with those of the Old Land.”

Two cases of premature burial are reported at Vienna on April 13th. The first occurred at Makovice, Galicia, where a sexton was filling up the grave of a peasant, when he heard knocks on the coffin. He rushed away in terror, shouting to the disappearing mourners. Two of the mourners returned, and the lid of the coffin was quickly removed. The shroud was torn to shreds, and the clenched bauds of the peasant were bruised. He had, however, died before the lid was removed. In the second case a child was placed in a coffin at Krosedal, Hungary, the day before the funeral, and the lid was closed. When the lid was temporarily removed the next day, it was seen that the child had changed its position, and a doctor who was called in stated that it had only just died.

The latest journalistic venture in the Dominion is Good Cheer, a monthly journal for New Zealand homes. We have received a copy of the June issue, and we can honestly say that it is a remarkably good publication. The paper consists of thirty-two pages of stories, illustated articles, cookery and household notes, poetry and a variety of other matter. Some eight pages are devoted to the realm of fashion and the fashion blocks are as perfect as can be. A cut pattern is given away free with each number and the subscription for twelve months is only half-a-crown. Good cheer is on sale throughout the Dominion or may be obtained (post free) from the ‘ Proprietors, Wanganui,’ to whom stamps or postal note should be sent.

It has been found, as the result of careful investigation by the Federal Customs Department, that a considerable quantity of smoking opium finds its way into Australia by means of the post office. Careful search is made on all vessels from the East for concealed opium, but the Customs officials do not search the mail bags, and the parcels post is largely used to defeat the opium prohibition. The facts have been laid before the Postmaster-General (Mr Mauger), and he intends (says the Argus) to take immediate action. In the next issue of the Commonwealth Gazette he will publish a notification that smoking opium must not be transmitted through the post. “ This will bring the policy of the Postal Department into line with the policy of the Commonwealth, and of most of the States,” said the Postmaster-General.

The death is announced from London of Sir Redovers Buller. Entries for M. P. M. Page’s mart sale for Saturday next appear elsewhere in this issue. The Secretary of the Albion Football Ctub desires to acknowledge receipt of a donation from Mr Baillie. Mr O. Gardner notifies by advertisement his intention to contest the Manawatu seat at the forthcoming general election., Mr Davison, brushmaker, has commenced business in premises next to Mr Easton’s butchery establishment. Mr Davison makes brushes and brooms of every description and at prices that defy competition. The scow Echo arrived at Foxton on Tuesday with a cargo of 340 bales of hemp for Messrs W. Ross and Sons, part of the lonic’s damaged cargo- She finished discharging to-day, and is now taking in ballast preparatory to sailing.

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Licensing Committee held to-day at Marton, all the licenses were granted. The police reports were favourable. The recommendations that two septic tanks be erected on two of the local hotel properties was adopted.

The Government steam trawler Nora Niven has been trawling on the coast between Waikanae and the Rangitikei River during the past two days. She was trawling outside the Foxtou bar last night and has now proceeded farther north. It is anticipated that very favourable reports will he received in reference to trawling along this coast. Pilot Hall was unsuccessful in au endeavour to communicate with the trawler.

There has been a shortage of coal at Foxton recently, and Mr W. Coley, local merchant, received a communication from the manager of the State coal mines under date May 27th. The manager stated that railway requirements are in arrears at Foxton. The letter continues : “An accident having occurred at Point Elizabeth mine there is just a chance that the “ Himatangi ” may not be able to get her loading till late in the week, the mine being closed down for three days. There is therefore a possibility of her missing these springs.”

W. Dickson completed his term of imprisonment on Saturday for refusing to obey an order of the Court to pay a carpenter back pay on an arbitration award. He was met by a large crowd of sympathisers on arrival at Drury, and enthusiastically cheered, while a band played “ See the Conquering Hero Comes. ’ ’ In the evening he was entertained at a welcome social, at which a resolution was carried recognising Mr Dixon’s “ noble sacrifice in the cause of freedom and in fighting the battle ot the employers in the Dominion.” A letter was read in which a Wanganui resident offered to contribute to assist Mr Dixon in fighting any further action that may be taken against him.

A remarkable tragedy occurred at Lisbon recently in consequence of two sisters being in love with the same man. Senhora Anna Couceicao recently became engaged to a young infantryman, and her sister Maria, who had formerly been courted by him, planned a terrible revenge. On Anna’s birthday Maria made a pudding in honour of the event. She added a large quantity of arsenic to the other ingredients, with the result that Anna and a friend named Rosa Cachedo, who partook freely of the pudding, became seriously ill. They died in a hospital, and Maria, who was arrested after the remains of the pudding had been analysed, hanged herself in her prison cell. She left a note addressed ‘ to her former lover, declaring her undying affection for him.

Arthur Weber, a young Swiss employed in a tobacco factory at Reiach, in the canton of Argovie, was shot by a woman recently under the most distressing circumstances. For some time past Weber has been pestered by the woman —a beautiful young Italian. She declared that she was violently in love with him, and implored him to marry her. Unfortunately, Weber’s affections were engaged elsewhere, and when he informed the Italian of the fact she threatened to kill him if he did not marry her. She nearly carried out her threat. In the afternoon, with a revolver in her hand, she entered the factory, brushed by the workmen, and going up to Weber, shot him in the back. “ This is my revenge,” she said, and throwing down the revolver, she walked out of the factory before any of the astonished workmen could interfere. She was arrested the same night. Her victim was dangerously wounded, with little hope of his recovery. ‘•For croupy coughs,” says Mr J, Abbott, general merchant, Dandenong and North Mirboo, “ there is nothing so good as Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It is the one medicine that I always keep in my home, so as to have convenient to give any of the children who show symptoms of a cough or cold. The longer I use it so does my faith increase as to its efficacy. The people of Dandenong think a great deal of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and their comments are always flattering. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt. ' -

A big show of .Eiderdown quilts and blankets in the windows of the Bon Marche, Palmerston. This stock and ralue is unsurpassed. Ross and Co. invite inspection.— Advt.

■ 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.— Advt.

Forty-five years ago this morning—namely, on June 4, 1863, — the first attack was made by the British in the second war at Tataramaki (Johnnie’s Flat), Taranaki, The attack was made in consequence of the massacre of a party of the sth regiment a month previously, when Lieutenant Traggett, Assistant Surgeon Hope, Colour-Sergeant Ellens, Sergeant Hill, and Privates Banks, Flynn, Kelly, M’Carthy, and Ryan were killed. The British casualties totalled three, and the Maoris lost about fifty. Governor Sir George Grey and General Cameron were spectators of the attack, which was led by Colonel Warre, C. 8., afterwards Sir H, J. Warre. “ While ruling across the bridge to Stratford,” says Mr H. Crawford, of Cardiff, New Zealand, “my horse slipped, coining down on my leg and burning it very badly. As soon as I got home I bathed the limb in very hot water, and then had Chamberlain’s Pain Balm thoroughly rubbed in. Have always been a beslaver in this liniment, and am tnorero now, for in two days’ time the soret e s had nearly disap. peared, and with! i a week I was as fit as ever.” For sdebyW. J. Gardner, grocer. —A dvt.

Mr Horace J. Moon, secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington. N.Z., is a great believer in Ch 'inberlain’s Cough Remedy. He ;ays “ I-am pleased to be able to apeak in high praise of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, it having cu cd me of a very severe cough. Other cough mixtures I had taken failed to even relieve me. For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.—Advt.

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is good for any member of (he family. It cvres coughs of all kinds. It is the product of much thought and study. It is composed of ingredients which cure easily and soothingly without harming the most delicate tissues of the throat. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy acts as easily and safely on the young as on the old, It is the ideal remedy for coughs. For sale, by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt.

Every lady contemplating the purchase of a .New Jacket or Paletot for the coming winter season would do well to inspect the stock of these goods 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.— Advt.

Our new season’s dress goods have now arrived, and samples of same will be posted o;i application to Watchorn, Stiles and Co.—Aovr.

Wolfe’s Schnapps— A tonic that has stood the test of years. .