LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 12 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A monster weasel, measuring x 6 inches from tip of nose to the end of its tail, was caught yesterday morning, by Mr Dunn, in Mr Austin’s fibre paddocks.

A brass tablet has been erected in All Saints’ Church over the family pew of the late Mr E. S. Thynne. The wording, is as follows : —“ To the Glory of God, and in memory of Earnest Stephen Thynne, died February 20th, 1903. Erected by his family. R.1.P.”

There will be no Mass at St Mary’s Church to-morrow.

Corkscrews have sunk more people than cork-jackets will ever save.

The district engineer invites tenders for the erection of a police station and lock-up at Shannon. Up to the present the campaign against rabbits in Queensland has cost the State ,£1,200,000, of which ,£696,000 has been found by the Government. The services in the local Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by Mr A. J. Arnold, of Levin, and in the evening by the Rev. P. J. Mairs, whose subject will be “A question of Manhood.”

The juice of a lemon taken the last thing at night squeezed into a tumbler of water, and yet again on waking up in the morning, has a wonderful effect upon the eyes and complexion. It clears the liver, and so clears the skin. The ordinary meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. Business : To strike rates, receive estimates for borough map, water and drainage schemes, consideration of artesian well and general. The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. G. K. Aitken. The subject for the evening service will be “Soul-Thirst.” On Wednesevening at 7.30 o’clock, a weekly prayer meeting and Bible reading will be held, the subject will be Hebrews 2. The trial artesian bore in the Triangle is down 510 ft. This is the deepest bore in the Manawatu. The bore is in fine gravel, and a slight flow is obtained a little above the surface. The contractor was only authorised to go 500 ft, and has driven further On his own responsibility. The general opinion is that the Council should go down at least another 25ft. A distressing gun accident which ended fatally occurred at Mitchain, Ashburton, on Wednesday, the victim being a lad of 17 years of age named John Booth, a blacksmith’s apprentice. It appears that Booth was in the act of shooting fowls with a breach-load-ing gun, and, anxious to save a large cartridge, which was in the gun, he picked up a stone to hurl at the fowls on the roof of a shed when the gun accidentally exploded and the full charge entered his right side. “ The Lords of the King’s Navee” in the June Review of Reviews, just to hand, puts most succinctly and vividly the position regarding defence which is now agitating the minds of the British public both at home and over seas. The question is a live issue now, and it is going to to be livelier in the near future, and among the many diverse opinions that are being expressed it is well to get an inside view of the situation. This is given in the article mentioned. The leading articles from the chief magazines of the world cover thirty pages, a full and choice compendium of the world’s best and most recent thought. The book of the mouth is on “The Cult of the joy of Life.” An English mining prospector named Courtney has arrived at Los Angeles from San Bernadino, in California, after fifteen years of hermit existence hunting for gold in the Arizona deserts. His first query was “ How’s Her Majesty,” and he was most astonished when told that Queen Victoria was dead. On the matter of the American Presidency, too he was, hopelessly at sea. “Roosevelt, Roosevelt,” he queried. “ Who’s be ? I never heard the name before,” Courtney learned for the first time (says the Standard) of the Russo-Japanese and Spanish-American Wars, and when told that Great Britain had gone through a successful war in South Africa, he removed his hat and cheered. As a motor car passed along the street Comluey jumped into a doorway in alarm. He flatly refuses to believe iu wireless telegraphy, and says people are trying to “ fool ” him.

There is probably no country in the world so well supplied with newspapers and periodicals as the Dominion of New Zealand. Still they come. The latest to make an appearance is from Christchurch, called Daylight. It is to be specially devoted to sport, and its aims are given in its “foreword” as under :—“The light of its criticism will he turned on all sides. It will illuminate all that is pleasant, healthful and happy in life—our sports and pastimes, music, politics and the drama, and the doings, sayings and happenings in the thickly populated world of the Turf. The darker aspects of life will be subjected to the searching light of day and to the conviction of cold, hard print. The dusty, cobwebbed crannies wherein the light is lacking will be as far as possible cleansed by that most potent of all cleansers—publicity.” The first number is well turned out and smartly written, and contains reports and references to sport aud'pastimes of all kinds. It is illustrated, and will be found very interesting to' the ' class of readers for whom it is specially published.

If you are suffering from Biliousness, Constipation, Indigestion, Choronic Headache, invest one penny in s post card, send to Chamberlain Medicine Co., 608 Harria-street, Sydney, with your name and address plainly on the back, and they will forward you a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale everywhere.— Advt. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and as 6d.

The display of jewellery in Mr Parkes shop in Main St. is attracting much attention;

Mr Alex. Ross, of the local firm of Messrs Wm. Ross and Son, returned to Foxton from a business trip to Sydney this week. The case in which W. Clarkson sued A. Porter in the Feilding Magistrate’s Court for .£IOO, on a promissory note, as part payment for a motor-car, concluded on Thursday. The defence was that defendant was drunk when he signed the bill, and therelore was not responsible. After a length y hearing the Magistrate decided that Porter was not drunk, and gave judgment for plaintiff. The Eower Manawatu Gorge bridge was opened this week by His Excellency the Governor in beautiful weather. The former bridge was swept away in the 1895 flood. The bridge has been many years in building, and at times Mr Maurice O’Connor (contractor) and Mr H., J. Haynes have had their plans repeatedly interrupted by floods, which have done severe damage to the work completed. The bridge should now, in the opinion of Mr Haynes, last for a century. It consists of six spans of 138 feet each, resting on braced steel cylinders sunk from 40ft. to 69ft. in the river bed, and the decking is 30ft. above the average water level. The roadway is 14ft. wide, and the contract price was ,£IB,OOO, but the total cost will be above ,£20,000. His Excellency cut the ribbon and ' declared the bridge opened, in the presence of many hundreds of people and representatives of all the local bodies from Pahiatua, Wdodville, Feilding, Palmerston and Ashhurst. The usual juncketing was subsequently held.