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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 8 May 1909, Page 2

The appeal of Captain Naylor against the suspension of his certificate for 12 months, in connection with the wreck of the s.s. Penguin, has been dismissed without costs.

The contractor for sinking the artesian bore in Main Street, has completed the contract without striking water. The contract was 350 ft and that d epth was reached at twelve o’clock to-day. As the Vicar was away last Sunday morning, the monthly midday Holy Communion wiil be celebrated at 11 a.m. to-morrow in All Saints’ Church.

As a result ol a favourable season, quail are reported to be more plentiful in the Wairarapa than for some time past. Judging from the reports of Sportsmen, pheasants are also on the increase*

The monthly meeting of the Foxtou Harbour Board will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday, at 11.30 a.m. Business, general.

On the second day of the Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting, Mr O. E. Austin Toa Tuhi won the Telegraph Handicap.

Potato blight is said lo be bad this year, and it has been found that potatoes coming to Wellington from widely separated districts all have been affected by it. Sound potatoes, it is said, are extremely scarce.

The Rotorua correspondent of the Auckland Star states that the isi of May saw every second man in the place carrying a gun. “In big game, one man, mounting his horse -with gun at full cock, accounted for the horse.”

A Wilbur Wright aeroplane, which is being introduced into Australia by Messrs J. and N. Tait, is due to arrive at Fremantle early in June, The firm has not yet decided whether the car will fly eastward or be brought by boat.

A few days ago a man entered the police station at Rakaia to report that his portmanteau had been stolen. He was recognised as a man for whom a warrant had been issued at New Plymouth on a charge of wife desertion, and was at once arrested, to his great astonishment. The services in the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev- P. J. Mairs, whose evening subject will, be “An Important Question.” There will be a prayer meeting at 7 a.m. also Sunday school at 2.30 p.m.

The first meeting of the new Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday, May 10, 1909, at 7.30 o’clock. Business:—lnstallation of Mayor, declarations of councillors, consideration of estimated receipts and expenditure tor year 1909-10 and general. Amy Bock, says the Free Press, would seem to have been a very fascinating “ young man,” albeit of the “weedy” type. His pockets when arrested, a reliable deponent states, were filled with letters from young ladies she had met, in various places beginning “Dear Mr Redwood,” and “ Dear Carrol,” telling her to be sure to call again, and giving evidence of the pleasure the impostor’s previous visits had occasioned.

A phase of the labour question which Madame Melba met with iu the South appealed strongly to her sense of the humorous, says the Christchurch Press. “ I had no idea,” said she “to what extent labour legislation prevailed here until it was brought practically home to me. In one of the towns where I sang I was unable to get any supper after the concert. The members of the Cooks’ Union would not work after 7 p.m„ and had my butler not gone to work and cooked me a chop I should have had to go supperless.” The Auckland Herald, in an article demanding the opening up of Maori lands for settlement, says that 120,000 townspeople and 120.000 country people live and thrive on the product of less than half the area of-Auckland province, while the larger part supports only 40,000 Maoris, many of whom are destitute in the midst of estates they can neither use nor sell, but which are being made more and more valuable year by year by the construction of roads and railways, to the cost of which the Maori owners contribute next to nothing. At present neither rates nor taxes nor produce, nor any form of public or private revenue, is being obtained from the great bulk of this 7.465.000 acres, which within five years could be made to provide work and wages for tens of thousands of country settlers and city tradesmen.” When the Wairarapa Daily •Times was established in Masterton (Sir Joseph Ward must then hive been a very small boy) this town was over-banked, and yet there were but two banks trading here (says the editor of that paper). Money was plentiful, and the bankers twain would button-hole a customer and whisper “ Don’t yow want an overdraft.” The world went very well then and “every man who had a wheelbarrow enjoyed an overdraft.” There was a land boom, too, but, alas, one sad day a stern-looking official arrived on the scene and called iu all the overdrafts. There was weeping and wailing then, for Masterton had gone up -like a rocket, only to come down like a stick. The bad time then. was something far worse than our presenf experience of to-day. We learnt/then' the lesson that there j are mpre perils in ‘ ‘ over-banking-?’* than in “ under-bankin^*<^^^J

At a municipal electioneering meeting in Devonport, Auckland a speaker is reported by the Auckland Herald to have said: “lam speaking as truthfully as I can.” There was applause. The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted morning and evening by the Rev. Geo. K. Aitken. Mr Aitken’s evening subject will be “Sons of God.” The anthem “Fierce Raged the Tempest ” will be sung by the choir. Cryptic letter from a cheerful indigent to a Wairarapa solicitor : “About that 12s wot you rote, i carnt pay it, but if you will give me a fortuit i will pay it imagetly, i don’t no wot this world is coming to. i carnt get any money and i carnt pay nobody, the other day i had some money, but it was gorn before i got it. Yours trully.” 'The solicitor decided to credit the 12s to “ bad debts.” Gardeners in Nelson are getting anxious about the re-appearance of the mimosa blight, which, after much trouble was eradicated some years ago. The Evening Mail suggests that local scientists should agitate for the reintroduction of the ladybird. The writer thinks that the insect, which has become a rarity, may have taken to cannibalism, in the absence of its natural food. Cr. Tolley, who represents the Feilding Borough Council on the Foxton Harbour Board, informed the Council at the meeting on Friday night that the Board’s monthly meetings were now held at 11.30 a.m. on Mondays. The only way he could get to Foxton at that time by train was to stay from Saturday night in Palmerston. The meeting agreed to ask the Board to alter the time of meeting to enable the Feilding representative to attend and return on the same day.—Star.