LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 420, 6 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Five thousand apple trees have now been planted in the Greytown Fruit-growing Company’s orchard at Moroa. Mr P. H. Rae-Howard, who has been appointed local agent for Messrs Wighton, the well-known Palmerston seedsmen, will display on Saturday a collection of seeds, spray pumps, etc., and will book orders for plants, trees, and shrubs, A heiler owned by Mr B, G. Gower died suddenly the other day. A post mortem disclosed a button, heavy split ring, and brass buckle, which had caused a stoppage in the intestines. The ordinary meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will beheld on Monday evening next. Business : to confirm special orders, to receive tenders for formation ot Futter Street and additions to pound, and general. A young lad named Bowling, employed in a Palmerston North printing office, met with an accident in a peculiar way recently. A ring he was wearing on the small finger got caught in a hook on a revolving belt, and he was drawn up to the ceiling. The small finger was so badly smashed that it was found necessary to amputate it. A man named Willis Wilson attempted to cut his throat with a pocket knife at Palmerston No: th on Tuesday. The knife broke before his purpose was fully carried out, and he walked to a doctor’s surgery. After attending to the wound, the doctor handed the man over to the police. Wilson had been out of work for some time, and was destitute. We are in receipt of the August number of “ Good Cheer,” which has just come to hand from the publishers at Wanganui. This monthly is an admirable production, and bids fair to be New Zealand’s popular home journal in every sense of the word. As usual, a cut pattern is given away free with “Good Cheer,” which is sent to any address for half-a-crown a year. For an up-to-date and enterprising firm of drapers and milliners the Economic, in Main-street, stands pre-eminent. The window display, too is remarkably artistic, and sets forth to advantage some very handsome millinery and a large range of all kinds of men's clothing, which latter is being made a speciality this season by Mrs Hamer, and is well worthy of inspection.* The following business was done in the money order and savings bank department of the Foxton Post Office for the year igoy. Money orders issued 1543, commission £53 4s; amount ,£5,283 gs 3d; paid 537, representing £2,425 14s 2d. Savings bank ; isg new accounts were opened, and deposits amounting to £11,727 8s 5d were lodged ; 75 accounts were closed during the year and £g,740 19s sd was withdrawn. In conversation with Pilot Hall yesterday, our representative was informed that the tide-table as published in the Heraed, though substantially correct, was nevertheless subject to weather conditions. Sometimes a westerly wind would keep the tide at full for over an hour after the published time. On Tuesday, a coal-laden boat came over the bar an hour and a half before full tide. He stated further that with the present tides there was 10ft of water on the bar.

Why is SANDER AND EON’S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other eucalyptus product ? Because it is the result of full experience, and of a special and careful process of manufacture, and the dangers attending the use of the irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off as “ Extracts ” are avoided. A death was recently reported from the use of one of these concoctions, an 1 at an action-at-lavv a sworn witness testified that he suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an ulcer of another which was sold as just as good as Sander’s extract. Therefore, beware of such deception I Remember that a drop (hat cures is better than a tablespoonful that hills, and insist upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria, and by numerous authorities during the past 35 years to be a product ot genuine merit, viz., the genuine SANDER AND SONS’ PURE VOLATILE eucalypti extract. Chemists and stores.—Advt.

Owing to pressure on our space, correspondence re the flax industry, is unavoidably held over today.

Mr G, V. Peirce, chairman of the Patea Harbour Board, has been selected as the Opposition candidate for the Patea seat.

The Hon. H. Feld wick, M.L.C., w,ho died in Wellington on Monday evening, aged 63, was a brother of Mrs Hudson,.of Foxton.

The friends of Miss Ross will be pleased to learn that the condition of her health has greatly improved of late.

Mr F. D. Whibley was last night unanimously elected Secretary of the Foxton Athletic Club, vice Mr Rough resigned. An old Maori, Metera, ninety years of age, died at Katihiku, near Otaki, last week. He is said to be the last of the old-time prophets.

At last night’s Athletic Club meeting, Mr F. Martin was elected a life member in recognition of services rendered since the Club’s inception.

We circulate an inset with this issue in reference to the public meeting to be held in the Public Hall on Monday evening next, with a view to forming a local volunteer corps. Messrs F. Woods, W. Cook and Horublow have been appointed a sub-committee to arrange the concert programme in connection with the local Athletic Club’s annual concert to be held on the evening of the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. The Hon. T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, was asked by a deputation on Tuesday to be ■ candidate for Wellington Cpnii__ at the general election. He wgive his reply tc-day. It is undt. stood that it will be in the affirm ~ tive. A correspondent, “Parent,’ directs attention to the “ unlovely appearance ” of the Foxton StalSchool grounds, aud asks why th children are not encouraged t< beautify the same. Our reply it that the committee hope to take some action in this matter at a future date. Palmerston North contemplates raising for the establishment of tepid swimming baths. A, committee of the Borough Council has been set up to consider the proposal, which will be placed before the ratepayers for their sanction at an early date. A schema for increasing the water supply is also under consideration. Five Richmonds are now said to be in the field for the Palmerston contest: Messrs W. T. Wood, David Buick, Andrew Collins, A. Buchanan,and J. A. Nash (Mayor)., The latter is being urged by his many* friends to contest the seat,; Mr Buchanan is in much the same position, Mr Buick is being requisitioned, Mr Collins comes as r ■ merry Andrew, and Mr Wood does' I not need any urging, says the j Feilding Star The picture the American fleet ■ will present as the ships come up Waiiemata harbour, Auckland, will doubtless be one to be long remembered. Here is a description of the sight presented at San Francisco. The arm oured cruisers fell in behind the 18 battleships, making a five-mile column, and in a great circle, in sight ot the hills of Oakland aud San-Francisco, they swept round, ship after ship, before, in three columns, they came to anchor —the strongest fleet which any nation, except England, has ever mustered under one command.”

The Wellington Official Assignee, Mr A. Simpson, whose recent action in refusing to allow a Jew to keep his hat on while taking the oath was very severely commented upon in Parliament, at a meeting of creditors in Wellington yesterday morning questioned a pressman present as to his right to report certain facts connected with the Assignee’s attitude in the case in question. pressman stated that was a matter ' between himself and his editor, but the Official Assignee said that it was a personal question between the reporter and himself. He added that the press were only allowed to attend such meetings of creditors “ on sufferance.” A firm confidence that the Maori will, in spite of the scepticism of the pakeha, acquire the habit of continuity of effort, was evinced by Mr Ngata, M.P., in his lecture at Christchurch recently. “ The habit of continuity of effort was the very last thing the Anglo-Saxon acquired,” he said, “and he did not acquire it until he was starved and buffeted by pressure of the economic system. The Maori is feeling the pressure of the system, and it is making him put forward a continuous honest effort. Give the Maori 50 years to acquire industry as a habit; it has taken you about a thousand.” (Laughter.) ■■ “ Maori superstitions die hard,’J< says the Waipukurau paper. “ On Wednesday a young man had the m misfortune to cut a finger on some glass, and it bled profusely. A Maori, who witnessed the incident, immediately marked a piece of paper with some hieroglyphics and circles, and presenting it to the injured one told him to place it over the cut, and it would stop the . bleeding, explaining that it was a charm which the Maoris used to stop their wounds from bleeding when injured in battle. The"? young man accepted the paper, >? but later on sought the aid of a chemist.” But the Waipuk paper does not say where the Maoris used to get the paper from ! See the parting prices for last week of sale at the Bon Marche, Palmerston. The unsold balance of ladies’ jackets, blouses, costumes, and millinery, being parted with this week. C. M. Ross and Co. invite your inspection.— Ad vx.

The Foxton Harbour Board Bill (Mr Stevens) was read a first time in.the House on Tuesday. In the House yesterday, the Wellington Harbour Board Empowering Bill was read a third time, as was the Local Elections Act Amendment. All desirous of obtaining a good wall paper, at a reasonable price, should consult Percy M. Page’s auction list, which will be found in our advertising columns. Attention is directed to the prize bred Indian Runner ducks and Brown Leghorn and Silver Wyandotte fowls, to be sold by auction on Saturday next. The annual meeting of the Foxton Tennis Club will-be held in the Council Chambers this evening at 8 o’clock. The trophies won during the past season will also be presented. A full attendance of members is requested. To-night in the Methodist schoolroom the Rev. E. Evans, representative of the British and Foreign Bible Society, will deliver an address on the aims and objects of the society. The public are cordially invited to attend. Dress poods at Watchorn, Stiles and Co.’s —4a od for is nd, 3s ud for is gd, as gd for is, is 6d for 6^d. —Advt. Miss N.Challis, High-street, Carterton, N.Z., writes :—“ I was a sufferer fiom chronic indigestion, and gave Chamberlain’s tablets a trial, with most satisfactory results. 1 can sincerely say that they are the best medicine that I have ever used, and have p’easure in recommending them to all who suffer from indigestion in any form.” For sale by W. J. Gardner, grocer.— Advt.