LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 436, 15 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦ Mr P. H. Rae-Howard advertises in this issue a property at a low price on easy terms. The Secretary of the Foxton Athletic Club acknowledges receipt of a donation from Mr F. W. Hopper. The Mayor and Cr Hennessy will represent the Borough Council before the Rivers Commission which sits at Palmerston on Wednesday next. Cambridge is to possess a Town Hall. A poll of ratepayers has decided by a majority of 20 votes to borrow ,£SOOO to erect and furnish a Town Hall.

At a special meeting, of the Borough Council last night, prior to the ordinary meeting special rates on a loan of authorised to be raised for the formation and metalling of certain streets, was confirmed.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting, the poundkeeper reported the impounding of 44 head of cattle during last month ; driving fees 2 is. Several animals were impounded by residents. It has been reported to us that certain persons are in the habit of plucking flowers from the graves at the local cemetery. No doubt such acts of, shall we say sacrilege, are the work of irresponsible children. We hope parents will warn their children of the consequences that follow such acts of vandalism.

The Rev. C. H. Nash, the cleric over whom there has been gnashing of teeth in Victoria for months past, had the unique experience of a full house on the occasion of the first sermon preached by him since the renewal of his license. Canon Nash preached at St. Philip’s Church, Colling wood, which holds 600 people comfortably ; but extra seats had 10 be brought in. Every inch of space was occupied, and in addition an overflow meeting of 300 people was held in an adjoining school hall. In the Palmerston Supreme Court on Saturday, before Mr Justice Chapman, Charles Edward Harden, solicitor, was charged that on June 13, 1908, having received the sura of and being required to account for and pay the same to one Margaret Martha Hancock, he did fraudulently convert to his own use the aforesaid sura, thereby committing theft. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was represented by Mr T. M. Wilford. After hearing evidence the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. One evil usually brings another in its train, says the Wairarapa Daily Times. The Second Ballot in an evil, because the electors of New Zealand don’t require it. They are willing to give Labour candidates a fair chance at the polls, and not to stab them in the back with a Second Ballot. The first evil brings a second in its train, a gagging of the Press, in order that the second ballot may be worked smoothly. In a constituency it will be lawful, between the first and second ballot, tor any number of outrageous and untruthful statements to be made ; but the Press must neither report them nor contradict them. It is about time that the present Parliament was wiped out for its obvious unfitness and incapacity. A party which devises handcuffs and gags in order to win a general election is, to say the least, contemptible.

Rowing Club bazaar opens tomorrow.

Arnst has left Christchurch for Wanganui. Mr Percy M. Page has a fine line of up-to-date seed potatoes for sale at the Auction Mart. Members of the local Masonic Lodge who intend to proceed to Levin to-morrow, are requested to hand in their names to Mr Healey.

Teacher ; What are the three personal pronouns ? Pupil: He, she, and it. Teacher: Give an example. Pupil: Husband, wife, and baby.

Special services on the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament have been conducted in the local Catholic Church, by the Rev. Father Cognet. The last service was held this morning.

Owing to the unavoidable absence ot the President, Mr B. G. Gower, and Trustee Mr P. Hennessy, there will be no formal opening of the Rowing Club Bazaar to-morrow evening. Elsewhere an announcement states that the doors will be open at 7.30 p.m.

A special to the Post on the Auckland hemp industry states : “ The quality ol the hemp coming forward is not particularly good, many of the hanks being bruised and poorly scutched, while others are stained—the result in many instances of the leaf being cut too low, and in others of being insufficiently washed. Several mills are commencing operations next week, and it is considered that those who are milling their own leaf will be amply repaid. Experts will not say the same.for those who have to pay royalties or heavy freight charges on the raw material. It is held that prices will firm, and that the demand will be for the better qualities, and ‘ fair ’ to ‘ good fair ’ will be wanted by the merchants.” A mother writing to an Australian paper, offers a “valuable preventative and cure for throat troubles, including diphtheria.” It is a simple remedy which anyone can try. The ingredients are one teaspoonful of sulphur, halfteacup of glycerine. They should be beaten up to a creamy consistency. For infants milk ot sulphur should be used ; for adults, a teaspoonful, and for children half to three-quarters ol a teaspoonful, should be taken three or four times a day and swallowed slowly. Neither of the ingredients is in the least harmful.

The watches and clocks at the Arthur’s Pass tunnel are half an hour in advance, not through any meridianal variation, but as a means of having daylight (states a contributor to the Christchurch Press). Work in the tunnel starts nominally at 8 a.m., but really half an hour earlier. “ Wet ground in the tunnel heading is the bete noir of the men working underground. It is said that the water possesses some peculiar mineral quality which exercises baneful effects on the skin. Should it come into contact with an open sore inflammation and festering are set up. Mr C. B. Morison, in addressing Mr Justice Cooper at the close of a case in the Wellington Supreme Court recently, made some observations upon the demeanour of witnesses, with special reference to the credibility or otherwise of witnesses who coughed in their evidence or occasionally put their hands over their mouths. His Honour referred to the practice in Irish courts. “There,” he said, “lam given to understand, they set a witness on a table and they test him by seeing how his legs behave. If they are kept still then the witness is generally regarded as credible.”

Life in London! Two weaklooking creatures, Frederick McGee, twenty-eight, and his wife, twenty-four, were brought up at West London recently on the charge of begging, and using their children (aged four and two) to induce almsgiving. When arrested the man said, “ It’s either this or stealing.” McGee told the magistrate he had tried hard to get work ; he had served a year ‘‘at the front ” in South Africa. Nothing was known against the couple, but the magistrate sentenced them to one month’s hard labour each. On hearing the sentence, McGee exclaimed, “After this I turn dishonest.” The cries of the children as their parents were taken from them were most piteous.

A male child, years of age, was “ charged ” at the Nelson Magistrate’s Court last week with “having no means of subsistence.” The circumstances surrounding the case were very sad. The child is illegitimate, and his mother is dead and the whereabouts of his father are unknown. He has been brought up by a single woman, but she, having now to go out to work, cannot longer look after the boy. The little chap who is particularly bright and clean, and who quite took a fancy to the Court and police officials, was committed to St. Mary’s Industrial School. The good Samaritan who so unselfishly cared for the boy feels the parting, and the little fellow’s “ Don’t cry, mother,” touched a tender chord in many hearts. The Nelson Mail asks: Could not a mere child like this be adopted instead of being doomed to an industrial school in the future ?

There is not a particle ot opium or other narcotic in Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and never has been since it was first offered to the public. It is as safe a medicine for a child as for an adult. This remedy is famous for its cures of colds and croup, and can always be depended upon. For sale everywhere.-- Anvx.

Warm rains are falling throughout this district

A notice of particular importance to flaxmfilers, inserted by the Tongariro Hemp Co., Ltd .(in liquidation) appears elsewhere in this issue.

At the Supreme Court Palmerston yesterday, in the action against Edward Henry Perry, oculist, by Elizabeth Dunstall, claiming for alleged wrongful treatment, verdict went for defendant, with costs.

Another injustice to Foxton! The Premier addressed a telegram to the Chairman of the “ Foxton Town Board. ’ ’ Appropriating our wharfage to swell the railway revenue is bad enough, but to designate our boiough as a Town Board—ye gods ! The Town Clerk and Cr Frankland are still gasping.

We have received from the publishers, Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., the first number of a new literary serial, “ Current Thought,” which deals with the current literature of the day, and the lives and works of authors. The articles are well written, and one that trenches on politics and is called “ A Fustian Assembly,” is decidedly clever. Our Parliament, from a literary standpoint, is not altogether what it should be.

A french physician of repute says that the measurements of a perfect female figure should be : Height, sft 5m ; waist 24m ; bust (under the arras 34m, and over the arms 43m ; circumference of the upper arm 13m, and of the wrist 6in : thighs, 25m ; calves of the’ legs, ankles, Sin each ; weight of the entire body, 1381 b. These measurements are based on the best models of Grecian sculpture.

During the coarse of a speech on the cultivation of music, at the opening of the Hurstville Eisteddfod at Sydney recently, was met with an interjection, “ What about the bagpipes?” “Ah,” said the speaker, “That’s the sweetest music of all. You have the religious, sentimental, patriotic, convivial, and solemn all in one. You get all these kinds of musii* ‘ rolled out of one instrument.” The audience applauded, but a still, small sotto-voce remark swept across the back rows, “Something like your party, George. ’ ’ A number of German provincial newspapers of good standing recently published the following : j “ The Emperor William has given the German nation a good example. Accompanied only by a cruiser and a torpedo destroyer, the Emperor passed cooly and quietly through the lines of the British Fleet, and accepted the homage of the British warships, v The Emperor, in so doing, revealed a cool courage which many Germans have lost in these days of international complications. Many Germans have asked themselves the anxious question whether the Emperor would undertake his usual Scandinavian trip this summer, because there was a danger that the unscrupulous English would seize the opportunity to provoke war by kidnapping the defenceless Emperor while he was cruising far from home.” To the British who had no desire to have the Kaiser at t heir naval manoeuvres it appeared a case of “ cool cheek ” rather than “cool courage.”