LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 437, 17 September 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The majority of gas connections have been made to local private and public buildings. Mr R. H. Spencer has been appointed secretary to lire New Zealand Flaxmiilers’ Association. A concert was held at Rougoten last night, under the auspices ol Carnarvon Presbyterian, Church. Tire Borough Council advertis a special order elesewhere in tbi issue.

. The monthly meeting of the School Committee will be held in the schoolhouse this evening. All borough rates unpaid on the ist Cclobcr next will bo sued for without further notice. See advertisement.

The Christchurch City Council has decided to protest against the proposal to observe Domini on Day as a holiday.

Mr. John R. Howard, advance agent, was in Fox ton yesterday making arrangements for periodic al visits of the Royal Pictures to Foxton, cm the 28th hist. The Ballance Co - operative Dairy £O. paid A3 OOO to suppliers, partly as a bonus on last season’s supply of milk, and partly for milk supplied during last month.

Our Palmerston morning coutemporaiy inadveitenlly stated in Tuesday':, issue that .Mr F. W. Frankland was stan ling for the Oroua mat.

A complimentary social was loir dered to Mr R, K. Honiblow, Independent liberal candidate lor Oroua, by his supporters at Feliding on Monday night. The candidate was presented with a gold watch and chain. Fully 500 sat down to supper afterwards.

Mr Oswald Gardner writes as follows to lire f'eilding Star: — “ You stated in the Star that at lust election I only decided to contest the Manawatu scat a fortnight before the election. In case it may be thought I am trying to make capital out of this, kindly allow me to correct it. It is true that my private affairs prevented me from entering the contest until about a fortnight before the election, but I made up my mind to stand and advertised the fact two or three months before the election.”

The absolute importance of clean seed has recently been brought home to a Masterton farmer, according to. the Age. We are all familiar with the parable of the tares and the wheat, and in that narrative it was not the sower but someone else who scattered the tares. In the case under notice, however, the farmer had a very fair chance to sow Californian thistle liberally on his land. It seems that he imported a quantity of oat seed from the South Island, and before using it he noticed, very fortunately, that there was a quantity of Californian thistle seed amongst the oats. He is, of course, returning the seed —both oats and thistles,

Taranaki defeated Otago to-day by eleven points to nine. “Shirt blouses” is the heading to Messrs. Durwood’s replace advertisement appearing elsewhere in this issue.

Messrs P. Ilennessy and R, Moore returned to Foxton to-day from Wellington where they had been in connection with Harbour Board matters.

There does not seem any likelihood of Fox ton observing a public holiday on Dominion Day, 26th inst. .Saturday is rather awkward for business people to close their premises.

Mr Andrew Martin, J.P., till recently propietor of the Gore Standard, and who has been an active figure in party politics in Gore for many years, has been selected as Government nominee to contest the Wakatipu seat. All hope of the Aeon turning up having been abandoned, Cranby and Co. have arranged a duplicate order of Oregon pine. The steamer is now loading at Vancouver, and is expected to arrive in the colony in about six weeks. Energetic precautions are being taken in Western Europe and London against cholera. Seven thousand deaths have occurred in two months in Russia. The New York 'Herald reports 10,681 deaths from Cholera in the Philiii me Islands,

The latest craze ...among local school children is whip cracking. This pastime may be alright on private property, but it should certainly not be tolerated in the streets. Two clays ago a horse, driven by a lady, took fright and bolted, as a result of the whip-cracking nui.iice.

According to the Express, a young lady attended a plain and fancy dress ball at Eketahuna recently in the character of “ Nolicense.” The three issues bearing on local option were printed large across the front of the skirt with a deleting mark through the top line while the words “ Vote for No-Liccuse ” were prominent on the blouse and belt.

The Foxton Chamber of Commerce has declined the Palmerston Borough Council’s contribution of £(5 towards the Foxton Harbour Board in a curt letter suggesting that the Council had forgotten to add the nought, says the Palmerston Times. The Mayor said that be was much surprised at the letter. There was •no specific amount asked for, and nothing had been said as to the amount of expense. The letter was received.

The Americanist Congress is sitting at Vienna. Professor Iritskh : barged German colonists in South Brazil with brutal treatment of Indians, the natives complaining that the Germans sold them and their child■ tin into slavery. The Congress declined to petition Brazil regarding the matter as it was a political question.

The Palmerston Supreme Court has been occupied for two days hearing’ the Levin newspaper case, in which Mr. D. Pap worth claims bom the Horowhenua Publishing Co., the sum of ,£827 65., being 6s. unpaid sa’ary, money advanced to the Company, and./,‘500 as damages for wrongful dismissal. Evidence in support of the claim given by D. Pap worth (plaintiff), A. E. Copping (manager Stratford Post). W. H. Hawkins, N. A. Grant and John Robertson, and for the defendant Company by H. J. Richards (chairman of directors)'W. C. Nation, and others. The summing up is taking place this - afternou.

There are complaints in Auckland as to the scarcity of men for work on the wharf at certain times. “It is not that there are not the men,” said an employer seen on Saturday, -“there are plenty of them, but they won’t do the work. It is worse on Saturday mornings, as the majority of men frequently have objections to working the half-day, especially if there is a good football match on. We have been delayed this raoruing in finishing with the Invertay, and the Mortlake is now being worked sliortbauded. We tiied to get men to-day, but no, they wouldn’t come out of that shed of their’s there. When I went up there must have been,. I suppose, about 50 or 60 men—five or six sets playing at cards, and the rest smoking and chattering. Some of the members of the Harbour Board deny that gambling goes on there, but it does, and frequently we can’t get the work done. Marry prefer to play cards. On an occasion like this, trouble Iras been experienced off and on for 12 or 18 mouths. During the last year it has been worse than ever. Frequently when the union .. en'wou’t work, we have to employ non-union men.” Now, why on earth don’t those toilers bring forward au action for libel against newspapers for alleging that they were gambling ! The Tongam‘o lias brought us 103 cases and packages now spring and summer goods, the largest shipment over received by us by oue steamer. These goods are now opened up in the various departments, —U. M. Ross and Coy., The Bou-Murche.* Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, and her staff of assistants, arc at present busily engaged opening up the first shipment of Spring goods, and a special display of millinery will be made next Saturday evening.—Anyr. To FlaxmiulUks. —We are prepared to print .the nevv tin and leather regulation lags for hemp bales, and would request millers to inspect samples of leather before placing.orders for same, inferior leather will be condemned by the department. We hold samples and invite inspection.—-The Hrkau) Printery-

Mrs Margaret Brown, aged" sixty-nine, was drowned in a drain at Balmain, Sydney, on Saturday evening, August xoth. She stepped off the kerb where the gutter is at a steep incline, and the water rushes down like a small rapid. It swept her off her feet, and carried her along to the mouth of the drain pipe, which runs under the road. A woman in a shop, hearing her rushed out, and was just in timeto catch the fallen woman’s cape as she was half-way in the drainpipe. Unfortunately, the cape gave way, and the hapless woman was swept under the roadway. _ Assistance was obtained, and the load was dug up. After threequarters of an hour’s work the body was found at a point where the drain bends. Tile was quite extinct. The entrance to the drain is a veritable death-trap,£ and some years ago a child was 1 just saved from a| similar fate.