LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 451, 2 March 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

James Butler, a single man, aged 23, was drowned at Devonport while bathing on Sunday. A. Shrubb, the English runner, easily beat Dorando, the Italian, in a 15-mile race at BuffaloIn all sixty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the steamer Penguin. It is believed that twelve are still missing. The following are the vital statistics tor Februaryßirths, 6 ; marriages, 2 ; deaths, 1. We regret to slate that Mr Hennessy is confined to his house through an attack ot rheumatism. Mr Newman, M.P., will distritribute the prizes won by children attending the local State school on Thursday afternoon next. The chief fibre expert (Mr C. J. Fulton) visited Foxton to-day in connection with the grading of tow. A full report of an interview with Mr Fulton will appear in our next issue.

The infant son of Lord and Lady Plnuket will be christened at Palmerston North on Saturday. Bishop Wallis will officiate at the service. A garden party will be held at Government House grounds the same afternoon. At a meeting of 1200 of Messrs Lever Brothers’ (soap maufacturers) employees at Port Sunlight (Kngland), it was decided to heartily accept an offer by the firm to admit them to co-partnership. Woodville is taking great credit to herself for keeping up the birthrate. There have been four births, since Friday of last week, in one street only, including a pair of twins. James Moran, 23 years of age, a single man, and a painter by trade, died at the Christchurch hospital yesterday morning, as the result of injuries received by falling off the Little River train on ►Saturday night. The protest of the Trade against the local option poll in the Ohiuemuri electorate has not been upheld by the Court. This means that No-license will come into force in Ohiuemuri.

As a sequal to the late raid on the House of Commons, Mrs Despard and three other suffragettes were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for refusing to be bound over to keep the peace. According to reports received, sheepstealing still appears to be rife in the Masterton district. One station is reported to have lost close on 200 sheep in one lot quite recently, and information is being gathered with a view to arrests.

It is rarely that one hears of a batman applying for a prohibition order against an inebriate, yet such was the case at the local Court on Saturday last. The Justices (Messrs Fraser and Hennessy) granted the application. Prohibition orders were also granted against two local residents.

The following recipe for bottling tomatoes, should be welcome at the present time : —-Put one quart or more of water in a pan, one tablespoon of vinegar, and salt to taste; let it boil, then put in the tomatoes whole. When fairly soft put into bottles, fill up with juice, and screw down. Tomatoes must be perfectly sound and bottles air-tight. The fruit should be carefully wiped with a dry cloth —not washed. “ Nobody cares a snap of the finger at Home for ritualism,’’ declared Bishop Neligan at Auckland last Thursday night. “You never hear it mentioned there. A friend of mine, when asked how this came to be, replied, ‘ because the Anglican clergy in Kngland to day care for nothing except foreign missions and social questions.' I hope that will be true of the clergy of New Zealand, and of the diocese of Auckland,” added the Bishop.

A fine crop of barley has been threshed on Mr James Guild’s Trevena Farm, Milford, Temuka. From 106 acres 7540 bushels were got, giving an average of over 71 bushels to the acre. A crop of wheat on the show grounds paddock at Winchester yielded 40 bushels to the acre. The weather has been most favourable for harvesting, and stacks are to be seen all over the country. A large part of the grain has been either threashed or stacked.

The following places in New Zealand have decided on Saturday as the day of the weekly halfholiday : Milton ; Amberley ; Outrara ; Dittle River, Akaroa County; Pukekohe Town District ; Albertland South, Rodney County: Karaka, Manukau County; Mahuraugi Eastern, Rodney County ; Maungatawhiri, Manukau County; Okains Bay, Akaroa; Paparata, Manukau County : Taitapu, Selwyu County ; Rodney and Maniototo.

Admiral L,ord Charles Beresford, commanding the Channel Fleet, has presented a bulldog pup to each of the battleships Commonwealth, New Zealand, Dominion and Britannia, and recently he made the following signal to the captains : —“ I have not yet named the bulldog pups, but I am calling them my ‘ battleship breed.’ The pedigree of these pups will be sent to ships companies later, but the owner of the sire has refused for him.”

Mr G. Coley informs us that two sharks were captured at the beach recently, one about sft and the other 12ft in length.

The tides and other circumstances will prevent the State School children holding the picnic at the beach on Friday next. A meeting of the committee will be held to-morrow night to decide the matter.

The continued spell of dry weather is fast drying up the pastures on the open and coastal farms in Taranaki, and farmers are anxiously waiting for rain. The root crops are forward and good, the turnips being free from the fly. In the higher bush country grass is very plentiful and green. Farmers who have harvested their winter fodder during the past month have had the best of weather conditions, the hay crops especially being put in sweet and fresh.