LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 16 February 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A smart boy is required for bike shop.

The school committee meets at 7.30 p.m. sharp on Thursda}' next.

Before Mr Heuucssy J. I*., yesterday morning, a first olfender, who did not appear, was fined 10s for drunkenness. Another pleaded guilty and was convicted and discharged.

Specimens of wli.'al. and barley sent to the Government biologist contained pupae of Hessian fly, but in the same straw were found some of the natural enemies of the fly and it is believed these useful insects will serve as hitherto to keep the fly in check.

Wc are advised that a shortness of rubber is now prevailing, consequently the Nonpareil Cycle Coy., of Palmerston North, advertise in another column that they are prepared to purchase 1000 old cycle covers, and will give is each off the price of new ones. Foxton cyclists should take advantage of this.

It is often said that the cow which gives 1000 gallons or more milk a year is useless by the time she is seven or eight years old. According to records of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, heavy milking cows appear to live quite as long as those producing half the quantity. Since these records began there have been many instances of cows from filteen to seventeen years old giving large quantities of good milk, and there are two of twenty years, one of which gave 87S gallons, of an average of 3.70 per cent of fat. During January there was an increase in the exports from the Dominion in comparison with the corresponding period last year. In butter 7716 cwt, cheese 12,556 cwt, frozen beef 16,063 cwt, frozen mutton 45,821 carcases, legs and pieces of mutton 3283 cwt, frozen lamb 92,171 carcases, oats 101,996 bushels, tallow 347 tons, wool 470,878 lbs ; and a decrease in heusp of 1205 tons, and timber 5.349,169 feet.

Qrcat dissolution sale at Watchorn Sf-ilos’ and Co.’s on Saturday, January Itdh. Eemcmber, for 14 days only.*

The Wanganui Kducation Board meet to-morrow.

Maoris were busy last Sunday, seeming eels in the large drain at the bottom of Mr T. Nye’s property. A good catch was reported.

Although orchardists have gone to much trouble in spraying their Iruit trees, the codlin moth is still plentiful in this district.

Great bargains in drapery, millinery, and sunshades are announced for this week at the Bon March?, Palmerston. It will pay buyers to see these parting prices. * Joseph Norman, a prisoner in the Wellington Terrace Gaol, who was sentenced recently to three years’ imprisonment for a savage attack on the Gaol Governor (Mr Armstrong), on November 28th last, has been certified to be a lunatic. He will probably be removed to an asylum. The annual meeting of the Poxton Horticultural Floral, Industrial and Poultry Association is advertised to take place to-night at 7.30 o’clock, in the Secretary’s office. The report and balancesheet will be submitted, and officers elected. All members and intending members are requested to be present.

We remind our readers ot the floral iete to be held in the Palmerston Show Grounds to-morrow, in aid of the funds of certain deserving charitable institutions. The present effort has enlisted the sympathies of their Fxcellencies Lord and Lady Plunket, who, in addition to extending their patronage, are also assisting in a practical manner.

We were shown this morning by Mr F\ Hadlieki, the feather of a rare bird, called the Amakura, which is highly prized by the Maoris. It is an extremely long aud narrow feather edged with red, and is worn by Maoris of high rank. Mr Hadfield gave it to Mr P. J. Heunessy, as a curiosity to take with him on his trip to the Old Laud.

The Taylor Carrington combination appeared before a Foxton audience on Saturday night, in a new role, purveyors of animated pictures. The hall was simply packed. The pictures were entirely new, amusing, novel, and educational, and were particularly well shown. The T.C. management, when they take anything in hand, believe in doing it throughly, aud we have no hesitation in saying that we have seen no better animated pictures in Foxton than those shown on Saturday night. At Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhemia County Council the engineer repoited re Wirokiuo Riding.—The metalling of the Florida road is now getting on very well. If the weather continues favourable it will be finished in about a fortnight. I have got the F'oxtou road attended to with metal, and very little more will be required for this financial year on this road at least. I propose to get Potts road attended to during the month.

Mr Justice Cooper and a common jury of twelve completed the hearing, in camera, of an action brought by Grace Logan, wife of Robert Logan, farm labourer, Taita, against Spark Philp, hotelkeeper, F'oxtou, to recover ,£IOOO damages for criminal assault. After a long retirement, a majority verdict was taken by consent of the parties, the damages being fixed at with costs on the middle scale, and fifteen guineas second day’s allowance for counsel.

Mr N. West, fireman on the railway between Foxton and Palmerston, had a narrow escape of losing his life last Friday. It was his day off, and he thought he could not pass the time better than by lopping off some limbs of a fir Iree near by his house in Norbiton Road. He accordingly climbed the tree, removed the lower branches, and then went up higher. He was seized with a fit of giddiness, aud fell from a height of fully 20 feet, landing on all fours, and clear of any branches. As a result of the accident, Mr West will be confine! to his bed for a few days.

The ill-fated Penguin, 842 tons, was one of the oldest boats in the Union Company’s service, and was a sister ship to the old Hawea, which was wrecked many years ago near New Plymouth. The Penguin had been trading for 47 years between Nelson and Wellington, and being a fast boat was looked on as a favourite by passengers. It was the custom iu the early days for the Penguin to carry two captains, as she made the day-and-day trip between Wellington and Nelson via the French Pass, then unlighted, and the company considered the work too trying for one captain.

Mr W. Wilson, BcVans-streot, Newtown, Wellington, N.X., writes : '• My liver lias given mo a lot of Iron I >le. Not long ago I had liver blotches all over my face and tried all sorts of things but obtained no relief. On the advice of a .friend I tried Chamberlain’s Tablets and before I had taken two bottles the blotches had disappeared from my face, and I have not been troubled since.” For sale everywhere.—-A nvr.

In our advertising columns it will be scon that Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, is contemplating giving up business, and is therefore prepared to make great sacrifices. The largo and varied slock she keeps is well-known and (his opportunity to purchase cheaply should not be overlooked. Mrs Hamer de.-iros lo reduce her stock by at least bait so that she may dispose of her business as early as possible. We advise our readers lo see her prices before buying elsewhere, as no object is gained by sending money out cf town when you can buy as cheaply at home and sec exactly what yon are getting for your money.-

IC. J. Scarle, who was convicted at Wellington ot forgery, has been admiltod to probation for two years.