LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 442, 1 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Howard Barlow, aged 17 was committed for trial for assault, at Invercargill on Saturday, on a seven-year-old girl. Accused admitted the offence.

Mr George Coley has donated a guinea tor prizes in the children’s section at the local Horticultural Society’s Show to be held tomorrow and Thursday. All persons having claims upon the estate of the late Mary Ann Whyte, widow, of Foxton, are requested by advertisement to forward particulars in duplicate to the solicitors for the executors.

Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to the Archbishop of Canterbury, invited him to make a statement of objections to the Education Bill with any counter proposals regarding the condition respecting the transfer of schools and contracting out. In connection with the departure for the Antarctic of the Nimrod to-day, the members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board and their friends will accompany the Nimrod down the harbour in the tug which will leave the wharf at 3.1. S p.m. No official invitations are being issued for the tug. At Sydney on Saturday a domestic tragedy occurred at Paddington. A young couple named Mather had been married 11 months, but their union was unhappy, and the wife returned to her parents’ home. The husband visited her last night, and was apparently friendly. When preparing for a walk Mather drew a revolver and shot his wife dead and t hen himselt.

More than usual interest attaches to the election of the Incensing Benches for the city and suburban electorates where reduction has been carried, in view of the discretionary powers within a certain limit, vested in the committees in regard to the closing of hotels. The election will be held in March next, but the actual date remains to be fixed.

A tragedy is reported from the township of Talbot, 107 miles northwest of Melbourne, and near Maryborough. A man named Robert Abell and his wife returned to their home in an intoxicated condition. During the night the house was burned down, and when the ruins were searched the charred remains of the couple were found among the debris.

Reuter’s Washington correspondent reports that America and Japan are considering an agreement based on free peaceful commercial development in the Pacific and contains a mutual guarantee of respect for territorial possessions and pledge to support the integrity of China and the principle of equal commercial and industrial opportunity for all nations in China, If.any occurrence threatens the above status quo America and Japan will consult with a view of ascertaining what steps should be taken.

A fearsome secret is said to have been disclosed by Dr. Peter Gibbous of New York, who declares that a negro murderer named Taylor came to life in Auburn Prison after he had been electrocuted. After the execution, according to Dr. Gibbons, the doctors pronounced the negro to be alive. It was found that something had gone wrong with the electric current, and they were forced to destroy his life by means of chloroform and strychnine. He says the facts have long been known to the U.S. Government, and he makes this startling declaration: “ Not a murderer who ever went to the grave from the death chair in use in New York was killed by the electric current. Everyone died from the dissecting knives of the surgeons, or was smothered in quicklime, ” Have you tried Wolfe’s Schnapps or kidney aihnehts. ■ '

Hay lever is very prevalent in Carterton, and quite a number are laid aside by this distressing complaint. Mr Wesley Woolhouse announces the last few days of his sale of pianos and organs. Further reductions.

A summoned meeting of the Druids’ Dodge will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, at eight o’clock. Business : Installation of officers. Attention is directed to the unreserved sale of furniture, etc., at the local auction mart, on Saturday, particulars of which are advertised.

Mr Wighton, nurseryman, of Palmerston North, will bring an assistant to the Show to-morrow, for the purpose of making up bouquets, buttonholes, etc., to be disposed of iu aid of the Association’s funds.

The Maori elections take place to-morrow (Wednesday), and not to-day as previously stated. The polling for Foxton will be in the Courthouse between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Mr Alf. Fraser is Deputy Returning Officer and associated with him is Mr N. Heta.

The body of a newly-born infant was found by a farm hand on Saturday morning lying by the side of the main road between Wrey’s Bush and Winton, near Invercargill. At the inquest the evidence showed positively that thd child had breathed, and that it had sustained antem-mortem laceration at the back of the skull and a broken jaw. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder by some person or persons unknown.

The Foxton Horticultural, Industrial, Floral and Poultry Association’s inaugural Show will be opened in the Public Hall, at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow, by Mr John Stevens, patron. The services of the Band have been engaged to play selections during both evenings. The Secretary reports large entries in every section. The committee and stewards are doing their utmost to make the affair a pronounced success. The following will officiate as judges at the local Horticultural Show to-morrow : —dairy produce, Mr Satherly ; vegetables and fruit, Mr Mayo (Feilding); cut flowers and pot plants, Mr F. Mayo (Palmerston North) ; cookery, Mrs J. A. Nash (Palmerston North); needle and fancy work, Mrs Heyes ; photography and painting, Mr Yerex ; fowls and dogs, Mr Fitzherbert (Devin). Stewards: Cut flowers, Mesdames A. S. Easton and T. Nye; fruit and vegetables, Messrs Hornblow and Heyes; dairy produce, Mr Jas. Whyte ; cookery, Misses Ross and Neylon ; decorative, Mesdames C. Robinson and O. Austin ; miscellaneous, Mesdames Baiber, sent., and C. Symons ; needle and fancy work, Mesdames Frankland and Jenks; poultry, and children’s pets, Mr Woodroofe ; dogs, Mr P. T. Robinson.