LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 414, 23 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald quarterly aud halfyearly accounts have been issued, and we should esteem as a favour a prompt settlement of same. A general meeting of the local Chamberof Commerce will be held this evening in the Secretary’s office.

A petition is being circulated in Foxton by supporters of NoFicense, affirming the bare majority principle in regard to local option, and :s being numerously signed. “Personally I have a high regard for Mr Massey,’’ said Mr J. Stevens. “ Politically I can only describe him as representing to the people of the Dominion a position that has no foundation in fact. His fears, threats and termerity as to the future are such that one can only say they must be due to the outcome of a belief that there are still ghosts and spooks.”

At Sydenham, Christchurch, last Thursday, the wedding took place of Cr S. H. Baker, of “The Pines,” Foxton. to Miss Harris, only daughter of the Rev. Walter Harris (at one time stationed in Foxton). The ceremony took took place in the Primitive Methodist Church, and was performed by the bride’s father, assisted by the Revs. Nixon, Henderson, and Dudley. Mr and Mrs Baker arrived in Foxton on Tuesday evening last. We tender our congratulations. The manager of an office had advertised for an office boy. In consiquence he was annoyed for an hour by a struggling line of boys of all sizes, claiming various accomplishments. “ Well,” he said to a late applicant, “I suppose you can read anything and write anything, and figure a little and use the typewriter a little, and ” “ If I could do all them things I’d strike yer for yer own job. I ain’t nothin’ but an office boy.” He got the position.

“ If the lawyers of this country had only kept their savings in gilt-edged securities,” remarked the Attorney-General in the Legislative Chamber, “ they would be much happier and belter off than they are to-day. While I have succeeded in my profession I certainly have gone down disastrously in my speculations.” The Attorney-General has paid the same price for bis “ speculations ” as many a foolish litigant has in engaging the services of legal luminaries. Let the lawyer stick to his gilt-edged securities, likewise the sensible man to his own brains.

Mr M. Moynihan, of Shannon, went to Wellington recently to interview members of Parliament on the question of urging the Government to construct a road by way of the Tararua range to unite Shannon with Kketahuna and the small settlements between Eketahuua and the range. Mr Moynihan has up to the present interviewed four membeis and from each he had received the assurance that they will give their support to the project. We wish him success in his efforts.

In marriage, incompatibility of means is bad, incompatibility of tastes is worse ; but incompatibility of temper is hopeless. There is no relation of life which temper cannot ruin, no memories it cannot sour. And the worst of it is that when people have out grown childhood ano. can cast off discipline there is no cure save in the people themselves. Others can do nothing, and, as a rule at any rate, do not try to do anything. “ What a temper!” they sigh. Then either flee or remain and bear it weeping. Don’t let your temper get you down ! You pity the weakminded drunkard but have you managed to overcome, by strength of will, your own temper ?

Mr Alex. Cockburn, who has been in business in Foxtou for some time, intends to take a holiday in the Canterbury District at an early date, before settling again in Sanson.

Mr W. E. Barnard has received the following letter from the officer commanding the district in reference to the formation of a rifle corps at Foxton :—“ Will you please arrange a suitable date for a meeting of the persons wishing to join the Corps at which the Officer Commanding District will attend and explain the conditions of service they would have to perform.” The oldest cemetery in New Zealand, near Horeke, on the Hokianga River, North Auckland, is—according to Mr J. Strauchou, Commissioner for 'Crown Lauds, who recently visited the locality—in a shocking state of disrepair. The enclosure, he says, is overrun with sweet briar, gorse, and scrub. Some of the graves have fallen in, and the tombstones are lying at all angles, while cattle are grazing on and around the tomb-stones unmolested, The earliest cemetery was 1826, butthere are othersdating back as long as 1812.

Mr Hornsby’s Anti-Quackery Rill this session is a simple measure of three clauses. It seeks to make it unlawful, under a penalty, not exceeding to advertise or supply any preparation, medicine, or appliance alleged to be for the prevention, alleviation, or cure of any human ailment or physical defect that is declared by a Judge of Supreme Court, on the application of the Chief Health Officer, to be harmful to health or of a fraudulent nature, or of such a character that it cannot have the effect claimed for it, or cannot effect the purpose for which it was supplied.

Percy M. Page, reports a good attendance at the mart on Saturday last, when considerable business was done in small lines. The horse, express, and harness, submitted was not sold and will be offered again on Saturday next. The “Spencer” piano will also be offered again. Quotations : Oats, 3s gd ; wheat, 5s rod ; pollard, 9s 6d ; bran, 8s 6d ; potatoes, ys 6d ; pumpkins, 8s ; table swedes, 4s 6d ; carrots, 4s 6d; parsnips, 4s 6d; onions, 10s 6d, (smaller quantities 81b is); apples 8s 6dper case, (smaller quantities 3d lb); smoked schnapper 3d, qd, 6d, qd, and is, each ; leeks is per bundle, table fowls 3s to 3s 6d per pairl Chlorodyne-drinking formed the subject of an answer on Wednesday by the Minister for Public Health to a question asked by Mr Field. . “I regret to say,” remarked the Minister, “ that there is a large amount of this medicine consumed unnecessarily, and that great harm has resulted. I hope to introduce at an early date a Poisons Bill for the consideration of hon. members. By including it in the first schedule of that Bill the person buying and the person selling chlorodyne would have to observe the same precautions as are necessary in the case of other poisons included in that schedule.” Mr Field saida case had been brought under his notice where a woman had become a victim to the chlorodyne habit. She is now an inmate of a ment d disease hospital.

The movement in Parliament to restrict the sale of ctilorodyne has resulted in Mr T. Wilford, one of the movers, receving a pathetic letter from a Napier resident. The writer expresses the hope that everything will be done to wipe this curse out of New Zealand. His case, he said, was that of many others. His wife was addicted to the drug, and as a result, after 30 years spent in getting a home together, he had been involved in trouble, and had had to mortgage his property. He had tried every remedy under the sun. The victims of the drug suffered from all sorts of imaginings, and took their husbands to Court. ‘‘ My wife, ”he concludes, “lies in front of me almost at death’s door, filled up with chlorodyne. I don't know the minute she may pass away. In God’s name, do your utmost for the sake of humanity.”

A tragedy has occurred at Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, where a girl named Walkingham was found dead. A youth named Groves was found in a dying condition in an adjoining paddock, and succumbed at the hospital. Investigation shows that their deaths were caused by strychnine poisoning. A quantity of chocolate creams, with strychnine crystals adhering, and a bottle of supposed poison, were discovered in Groves’ pocket. The victims were sweethearts. The night before the tragedy, when she was going to meet Groves, the girl told a companion that Groves was very jealous, and had repeatedly threatened to kill himself and her. She did not care for him, but intended to marry him for the sake of a home.

A Gisborne milkman, whose baker owed him £5, asked lor a settlement, and incidentally remarked that be was compelled to pay cash for his bread, if not in advance (by means of the coupon system), at least on delivery of the bread. A few days later the milkman received a rather bulky communication from the baker, and found the missive to contain bread coupons to the value of £5 odd in settlement of the account. He found on making calculations, that it would take him considerably over six months to convert the coupons into bread, and that he would consequently be paying the baLer cash in advance for that period, so he eventually decided to return them with a request lor a more satisfactory settlement of his account. —Times.

The half-yearly district meeting of Oddfellows will be held in Wanganui to-morrow. Bro. M. Littlejohn is the local delegate. In order to make the flag sent from Gore to Auckland to aid in welcoming the American Fleet the more conspicuous, a Gore Councillor suggests that the amount of the Borough overdraft should be inscribed upon the “ bit of bunting,” in addition to the soulful “ Welcome from Gore.”

Opinion regarding the paying capabilities of the North Island Main Trunk Railway has greatly changed within the past few years. Not so very long ago, when Mr J. A. Millar was speaking in opposition to the route, he referred to the poorness of. some portions of the country through which a line would pass. ‘‘lt would not keep a rabbit,” someone interjected. “ No,” replied Mr Millar; “the only blade of grass it ever produced is now pressed in a treasured book.’’

At Ohakune, on the Main Trunk Raihviy, Mr Stanford, S.M., fined William Oliver £25 and costs, in default three months’ imprisonment, for having ten cases of whisky in his possession in a prohibited area. For carting whisky for Oliver, R. Malmanche was fined ,£5. At Raetihi S.M. Court, Brown, driver for a coaching firm, pleaded guilty to delivering liquor to persons he had reason to suspect of sly grog-selling, and was fined ,£ls and £8 costs. This ' is the first case of the kind ever heard in the Dominion.

Those who intend planting fruit trees this season will be well advised if they provide shelter against the prevailing winds. Instances have peeu brought under our notice (says a Nelson newspaper) where trees have produced three crops of leaves in the season. This has been due to the fact that the young leaves, as they made their appearance, were shrivelled up by strong winds. , The effort to replace them has. had the effect of weakening the producing powers of the trees to a considerable extent, and the wisdom of providing shelter must, therefore, be apparent. A Chicago paper offered 12s for the most oiiginal advertisement for a Sunday issue. Among- those received was the following “ Wauled : —Young man in gaol wants to get out: suggestions solicited that might result in immediate release ; want poet’s address who wrote : “ Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”—Addresss John L. Silber, County Gaol.” This so tickled the public that readers of the paper became interested in the man, and as the result of an agitation, his pardon was granted by the Governor of the State.

Sir William Steward, “father” of the House of Representatives,, ' has secured an interesting returnV showing when each member was first elected. He heads the list with a record attendance of 37 sessions and 16 Parliaments, for he was sworn in on August 14th, 1871. Next is the Hon, T. Y. Duncan, who was elected in 1882, and has seen nine Parliaments. The present Spea' e; and the member for the Southern Maori district, Mr T. Parata have each seen eight Parliaments. There are five who boast experience of seven, and six who come next with half a dozen.

A driver named Bradley gave a splendid exhibition of fortitude on Wednesday. He was driving a five-horse team through Taihape when the horses bolted down the hill towards the Hautapu bridge. There is a bad approach to the bridge, but he saiely steered the team across, and on the other side a stump caught the brake and the jerk resulting broke his leg ; Disregarding the intense pain he turned the horses, put them over the bridge again only to have them bolt a second time. He, however, succeeded in turning into BatleyM. stables, where, after some trouble, 7‘ the horses were brought to a standstill. He then remarked casually, “ You might help me down as my leg is broken.” Mr Alf Fraser advertises a comfortable cottage to let in Norbiton Road, together with five acres of land at a weekly rental of twelve shillings.

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has just received a large consignment of travellers’ samples, including a line of over 1000 pairs of stockings. These together with a numerous assortment of winter goods suitable for men, women, and children, will be quitted at ridiculously low prices. Come and see. You will be astounded at the value you get for your money at the Economic.— Advt.

Sewing Guilds and mothers —fancy being able te buy xos 6d calicoes for 7s rrd, gs 6d for 7s. This department overstocked at Watchorn, Stiles and Co.’s— Advt

Those who are well posted as to the best mens of relieving pain and curing * - sores, wounds or burns, always use Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. They insist there is nothing like it. For sale by W. J. Gardner grocer. —Advt. Mr W. Marshall, Inspector, Vermin Destruction Act, Coleraine, Victoria, says:—“We always keep Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in the house, and J* would not be without it. I consider it the best of all medicines for it gives instant relief, whether the patient is one of the children or myself. When I first tried Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy I was drying through the i . Casterton* district, and had caught a'~*S, severe cold. I bought a couple ot bottles from Messrs H. and Gf. Harris of Casterton, and kept a bottle in mjr pocket, taking a dose about every threeV hours, and before they were used was *■ completely cured. I used to suffer from bronchitis, but by taking Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy at the first symptom always ward on an attack. I have given Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a sound and substantial trial, and have no hesitation in saying it is the best ot all cough • medicines, and can highly recommend it to anyone with a family.’’ Ftfr sale bv W. J. Gardner, grocer.—Advt. :

' debate on -the financial "'statement' was continued in the 'ijdiise of Representatives yesterday. ' A meeting of the local Nolicense League will be held in the ' Go6d,Templar Hall, at 8 o’clock ..this evening. • An elderly man named Nicholson died at the residence of Mrs De Ridder tprday. He had been ailing for some time. f Mr M. Littlejohn notifies that daring his absence from Foxton, .. Mr Percy, Cole, of Mr.F. Mowleui’s establishment* Palmerston N,, will conduct his hairdressing saloon. Tue Reefton secretary of tne Inangahua Miners’ Union received a wire from the Bealey, where about twenty men are employed on the Olira tunnel, staling that a strike was on there, and warning miners that things were unbearable, and requesting assistance. On Monday, August 3rd, a banquet will be held in the Shannon Town Hall, on the occasion of the opening of the Foxtou-Shannon bridge, and as a farewell to Mr J. Stevens, M.P. Shannon now forms a portion of the Otaki electorate, and will no longer he - represented by the member for Manawatu.

“I am of opinion,” says the Minister for Railways, “that special railway cars for ladies would be no more successful if -placed on the trains to day than they were a few a few years ago.” ‘ The experience in this country had been that ladies, when travelling alone or with children, preferred to ride in the ordinary carriages in all cases. Some years ago the experiment had been made of running 011 the 'through trains carriages specially provided for ladies, but they were invariably unoccupied, and ultimately were discontinued. Listen to the editor of the Western Prairie News on his duties : “All an editor has to do,” he says, “is to hunt news and clean the rollers and set type, and sweep the floor, and pen short items, fold papers, write wrappers, make paste, and mail the papers, and talk to visitors and distribute type and carry water and saw wood, and read the proofs and dodge the bills, and delinquents, and take cussing from the whole force,' and tell our subscribers that . we must have money, and turn a smiling countenance to the man who tells us our paper ain’t worth, a dollar anyhow, and that he could make a better one with his eyes shut. So it goes on.”

The following are extracts from .a letter recently received by a Wanganui man from a Nelson tradesman: —“It is now the bewitching hour of 7 o’clock, Friday evening, when the poor unfortunate shopkeeper of Nelson, vainly waiting for the cash (which does not come along under the new regime), sits and grins and bites his nails and cogitates over things of the past, and tries to persuade himself that the new condition of things in keeping open shop on Friday night and closing on Saturday will make no ultimate difference to the “takings’” and to his worldly position. As I write, the shops are resplendent with their many attractions, shown to advantage under the glistening effect of our Nelson gas, and the hum and scurry of the street is—like unto that of a cemetery and poor miserable ‘shoppy’ tries to be happy and easy in his mind under the conviction that he is particularly helping along the civic gasworks by using up their products, and rejoices in the knowledge that Nelson is leading the way in the new reform.”

A jack plane, found on the Whirokino Road awaits an owner. Wolfe’s Schnapps —A tonic that has stood the test of years.