The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 424, 15 August 1908, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 5, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The secretary of the Foxtou Athletic Club acknowledges receipt of one guinea from Mr John Stevens, M.P, The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. P. J. Mairs, and in the evening by the Rev. Mr Aitken. The Toudon Times says the American fleet has impressed the world and gratified the Americans. Its great circumnavigation is the test test of efficienc3 r . The Times comments on the large proportion of officers of the old school, who dearly love obsolete drills. At the local S.M. Court yesterday, Magistrate Thomson ihflicted a fine of 5s and ys costs on the following residents, for allowing their stock to wander at large in contravention of the borough bylaws W. Howau, Jas. Cargill, and Chas. Spiers.

Mr F. W. Hopper notifies that he is prepared to instal gas fittings. Prices and full particulars on application. For allowing his chimney to catch fire, Mr George Gray (for whom Mr Read appeared) was fined xos and ys costs, at the local Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr Reade pleaded that the chimney had only recently been cleaned, but the Magistrate was obdurate.

Recently tbe Department of Industries and Commerce received an inquiry from a firm of paper merchants in Vancouver for a quantity of New Zealand flax (the green blade) for the purpose of experimenting with a view to successfully manufacturing a fine quality paper from it.

The British bluejackets, in spite of expectations to the contrary, do not fraternise with the Americans to any great extent. Men from the two fleets are seldom seen together. The other night some bluejackets from one of the British cruisers tried to enter an hotel bar' occupied by American seamen. The police had to interfere and close the bar on account of the disturbances that resulted. There is little danger in the fact that some of the Americans apart from the patrols carry revolvers. “Victor” in the Wanganui Herald writes : —lt is pleasing to know that Webb is progressing well. He has quite thrown off the effects ol the recent illness, and has had three or four useful spins. He hopes to be able to go to the post on December 15th as fit as ever he was, and should he do that we can look forward to the result with every confidence, notwithstanding that the Australian critics are so sweet on Artist’s chance.

A Wairarapa Daily Times representative was informed on Saturday that since the recent increase in the price of butter to is 6d per lb sales have materially decreased. Thus do the great factors of demand and supply equalise matters in these cases. AtTs 6d a pound many families cannot afford to purchase butter, and either use some substitute such as syrup, dripping or • honey, all equally wholesome and palatable, or do without. Stocks will accumulate as the demand recedes, and by-aud-by the price will be reduced. A certain couple went to Dunmow, in Essex, to claim the flitch of bacon which is to be given to every married pair who can swear that they have had no dispute,, nor once repented their bargain in a year and a day. The steward, ready to deliver it, ask ad them where they would put it; the husband produced a bag, and told him iu that, “That,” answered the steward, “is not big enough to hold it.” “So I told my wife,” replied the good man, “ and I believe we had a hundred words about it.” “Ay,” said the steward, “but they were not such as will butter auy cabbage to eat with this bacon,” and he hung the flitch up again. A strange case of death from auto suggestion has occurred at Westminster, (Eng). The young wife of a medical electrician applied some carbolic acid to an aching tooth. In her nervousness she accidentally swallowed some of the acid, and at once called out to her husband in a great fright. Olive oil was copiously administered as an antidote, but the young woman became very, ill and died shortly after, exclaiming piteously, “ Don’t let me die Oh, God don’t let me die.” It was found afterwards that the carbolic was a very weak solution, and that only a very small quantity had been taken. Death had occurred from auto-suggestion, or fright. The Greytown paper is annoyed because the Government won’t spend any money for improvements to its railway station and says inter alia: —“The Government is a barren reef so far as Greytown is concerned ! When the gold-miner cannot “ raise the colour” he gives the reef or alluvial strata on which he is working, best, and that isjustwhat Greytown electors on both sides of parly politics should do in December next. Government with their sisters, their cousins, and their aunts, are accommodated in the very latest style of sleeping carriages and carried to Auckland at the country’s expense, and they jubilate there to the tune of £SOOO. Not even a simple and unassuming verandah for arriving and departing passengers at Greytown Railway Station “to come in out of the wet ’ ’ when the elements are leaky, can Government see its way to grant. The Government and the member for Wairarapa have their limitations, it would seem.”

Shortly before n o’clock on Friday night an oil lauch was approaching the tnan-o-war steps in Quay - street, Auckland. The launch was expected, as _ was evidenced by a group of British Jack Tars waiting for it to convey them to their ships for the night. The night was brilliantly illuminated by the moon, and the water looked very inviting ; in fact, it so much appealed to one of the bluejackets that pirouetting merrily down the the steps, he precipitated himself head first into the briny between the steps and the launch, which were then almost within touching distance, A cry of alarm escaped from his comrades, who thought he must surely be crushed between the launch and the pier, and it was a big relief to all when it was found that the amphibious sailor had dived right under the keel of of the launch. The water was icy cold, and it was a very bedraggled and sorrowful looking individual that was hauled on to the launch and “ talked to ” by his companions.—Star.

Remember the Winter Garden Fete next Wednesday and Thursday. The Town Band have kindly consented to play in the open air from 7.15 to 8 o’clock. The evening service at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening will be conducted by the Rev. P. J. Mairs. The two ministers of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches exchanging pulpits this service. Miss Akeuei Hei, the first State registered Maori nurse in the Dominion to qualify by examination, has been transferred from the Napier Hospital to St. Helen’s Maternity Home, Christchurch, where she will undergo a further course of training. One of the regulations of the U.S. navv is that no intoxicating liquor shall be taken aboard the warships, excepting for medicinal purposes. Much, therefore, as the officers of the fleet would like to return some of the hospitality shown them, this regulation debars the offeiing to visitors of any beverages of an alcoholic nature.

The report that the Rev. G. Y. Woodward has purchased the property lately owned by Mrs Coley, senr., in Johnson Street, is absolutely unfounded. The imagination that gave birth to such a ieport could have only come from an unknown genius. If these visions are indulged in we shall wake up one morning to find Foxton the capital city of the Dominion ! Mr F. Pirani, Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, accompanied by Mr Alf Fraser, and members of the local School Committee, visited the local school yesterday. Matters of interest regarding school administration, technical school matters, and improvements to the grounds were discussed.

At the local S.M. Court yesterday, in tne case of John Weller (Reade) v. John Walls (Barnard) claim four guineas, amount incurred by plaintiff for medical expenses incurred through the biting of the plaintiff’s infant daughter by defendant’s dog, Mr Barnard objected to the proceedings, on the ground that the father of the child had not taken the proper steps to have himself appointed as “next friend” for the purpose of the case. The Magistrate, after deliberation, upheld the objection, and non-suited plaintiff without costs.

C. E. Harden, solicitor, was charged at the Palmerston Police Court on Wednesday, that on or about the 9th June, 1908, at Palmerston North, he did commit theft of the property of one Margaret Martha Handcock. Sub-Inspector O’Donovau prosecuted, and asked for a remand till Friday, 21st inst. Mr F. Cooke, for the accused, agreed to the remand. After consultation the. Bench granted bail of and two sureties of ,£IOO each. East week Mr Hennessy communicated with Mr John Stevens, M.P., with a request that arrangements be made with a view of allowing a deputation to wait on the Eocal Bills Committee in reference to the Foxton Harbour Board Bill. Mr Stevens replied to-day, stating that he had communicated with the Chairman of the Eocal Bills Committee on the subject, and as soon as he received a reply he would again notify Mr Hennessy. In the meantime Mr Hennessy is arranging the personnel of the deputation, which will be representative of the whole district.

‘ ‘ In Hawera we have some astonishing things,” remarked the Rev. Mr Shaw the other evening, apropos of the lack of church attendance. “Boots are sold that keep out the rain six days in the week, but let it through on the seventh; umbrellas are numerous that are rainproof all the week, but are pierced by raindrops on Sunday ; people are to be found who readily catch a cold on a Sunday night in church, but escape the dire calamity if they are sitting in the dress circle at the theatre during the week.”

A touching incident occurred at a dinner given by the NonCommissioned Officers’ Club in honour of the visit of the British and American sailors at the Auckland Drill Hall on Wednesday evening. The gathering was just about concluded, when Chief Turret Captain Miller, of the Vermont, rose and said: “ Men, there is but one toast more. ” ‘ What is it?” cried some one. “It is the toast of ‘Your Mothers,’ came the reply. The words 'seemed to have a magnetical effect, and while the proposer repeated the lines: “God bless our mothers wheresoere they be —the women who gave their sons to fight upon the sea,” one could have heard a pin drop, and the silence did not cease until the 500 men present had again placed their glasses on the table. It was evident that Turret Captain Miller had touched upon a tender chord.

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A curious fact about the American fleet is that the sailors who are Americans by birth mostly come from the inland States, only a very small per centage having been drawn from the States that have a sea frontage. "Half of our men are good riders,” said an officer of one of the battleships. "They hire horses when they get a chance and ride the tails off them !”

Sir Joseph Ward celebrated the v second anniversary of his Premiership this week, and received many congratulatory reminders of the occasion. Two years’ work in the most responsible office in the country has to give, have not left a mark upon the Premier. He is in the best of health, he informed a New Zealand Times reporter, who took advantage of the occasion to put some questions about the effect of a Premiership upon the health of the holder of that position.