LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 442, 14 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev I. Jolly has been elected the next Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly. The services in the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. G. K. Aitken, and in the evening by Mr G. Huntley. During a storm at Oban, Sydney, on Tuesday, lightning fused a wire fence, killed a fencer named Campbell, and injured three others. The Lyttelton hotekeei ers have refused to accede to the demand of the whaif labourers to reduce the price of beer to qd per pint., an 1 the labourers now threaten to vote No-Lsceuse.

Britain’s imports for October decreased by ,£6,911,000, exports decreased by ,£5,312,000, aud reexports by ,£209,000, compared with the previous October. The police offer a reward of a thousand pounds in connection with the murder at Seveuoaks (Kent) of Mrs Luard, wife of the late Major-General Luard (who subsequently committed suicide).

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. P. J. Mairs, who will take for bis evening subject, “The Diviue Summons concerning the Driuk Evil.” The oat crops throughout the Wairarapa are looking particularly well just uow, and give promise of handsome return. On the East Taratahi the oats are up to the top of the fences and in full ear. It is very satisfactory to note that there is a considerable increase in plots on small farms, the scarceness and high price of fodder last winter having taught dairy farmers a lesson.

A large number of people assembled near the Post Office on Thursday night, in order to. listen to an open-air address by. three Ashburton residents. Owing to Some bungling at headquarters, one was sent to Palmerston to speak there and one came by the 7 p.tn., train and he was sent to Himatangi to address a No-License meeting there. The other speaker, who came via Shannon was apparently not met.

A cow, ju.it calved is adverthed for sale.

Mr K. Healey, chemist, inserts a notice of importance to ladies.

Mr and Mrs K. Dunn insert a thanks notice.

The half-yearly meeting of the Druids Lodge will be held on Wednesday evening next.

A notice is inserted to the effect that Mr John Stevehs committee is disbanded as from last night.

Mr J. K. Hornblow has consented to address a public meeting in the Marton Opera House to-night in reply to Dr. Hatherley.

There is a time in every one's life when opportunity comes their way. The opportunity is now offered these, and all residents of Foxton, to secure a beautiful piano or organ on t.e easiest possible terms, as Mr Wesley Woolhousc is now holding a great clearing sale of magnificent pianos and organs, being the balance of a special consignment sent on exhibit ion to the Palmerston Show. Mr Woolhousc is also sole agent for (lie first complete piano, “ The Pianola Piano,” and will lie most happy to explain this wonderful instrument. Every one should visit the grand display in premises next to Mr Patterson, chemist, Main St. Come along tin's evening, The Gore Standard’s Tokonui correspondent writes as follows: ‘ Some of Mr John Chisholm’s children, going to the beach at Forlrose, discovered the skeleton of a Maori in a canoe, with a chain, fastened by a padlock, round the leg bone and attached to the canoe. There was also a double-barrelled blunderbuss with flint locks, a pair of scissors, a butcher’s knife, lead bullets, and other Maori curiosities. A strong wind bad blown the sand away, thus revealing what must have been buried for many years. The stock of the gun was rusted away, the iron parts being not much more than rust.”

By the Ruapehu, due at Wellington about October 18, a large number of immigrants will arrive in the Dominion, but only 27 are “assisted,” of whom ten are children. Seven domestic servants and three farmers are included, and capital ranges from downwards. The Papanui, due at Port Chalmers about October 23, will bring a large, wealthier crowd of State-helped newcomers. Her passenger list includes 148 “r listed ” persons, including 45 farmers and 24 domestic servants. Six of the servants are for Wellington. One immigrant brings /i,ooo, three one £3OO, one one and five /roo. The body of an infant found by the King’s Wharf, Wellington, on Thursday, floating in the Harbour was the subject of enquiry by the coroner (Dr. M'Arthur, S.M.) Evidence was given by the finder, Howard Caswell Parsons, a carpenter by trade ; and also by Constable Moore, who stated that round the body, which had been in the water for some time, was wrapped a blue and white apron, weighted with two pieces of iron, a cold chisel and a punch. The parcel containing the child had been most carefully bound with bands of string, encircling the body from head to foot. The child was apparently newly-born. The inquest was adjourned.