LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 15 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Very heavy rains fell throughout this district last night.

At last night’s Council meeting when the question of planting trees at the sides of the streets was being discussed, Cr Jeuks suggested that gooseberry trees would be the most suitable to plant in Clyde Street.

When the Mayor mentioned at the Council meeting last night that the baud be asked to give monthly performances, Cr Levett said that he would suggest that no request be made lb the baud for any monthly performances until they had had a little more practice !

The end of Amy Bock’s escapades has not yet been reached (remarks the Gore Standard). The latest story has it that a Southland girl who received a term of imprisonment he came acquainted with Amy while serving her sentence, both being Incarcerated at the same period about sixteen years ago. They became fast friends. After being released from gaol the girl from the south took a situation as cook in a southern district. While there she became intimately acquainted with a young man, who afterwards went to Sydney. And this is where Amy comes in. She came South to spend a holiday with her friend, and learned that the latter was corresponding with her young man in Sydney. Confidences were exchanged, and Amy learned that the young man desired his sweetheart’s consent to marriage, but she would not give it. Amy saw her opportunity and stepped into the breach. Obtaining the address of the young man in Sydney, she proposed marriage on condition that she received a stated sum of money, of which she was in sore need, and her friend’s name to the letter. The writing of her friend was so well imitated and the style of diction so well copied, that the young man was overjoyed and sent the money.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is fid and ss fid.

A Melbourne message states that excise statistics show that the annual average consumption of beer works out at four bucketfuls tor every man, woman, and child in Victoria.

Indian files contain a description of the marriage of Miss Elsie Thompson, of Randwick, a wellknown Australian actress, to the Maharajah of Tehri, It also stated that prior to the marriage Miss Thompson became a convert to the Hindustani religion. The Cunard liner Slavonia, bound to New York from the Mediterranean, is ashore on the Island of Flores in the Azores Group. Four hundred and ten passengers were taken off by other liners. It is feared the Slavonia is a total wreck.

While Mr Dugald Matheson, a well - known farmer, and his widowed sister-in-law were driving on Saturday morning, a motor car frightened the pony in the Palmerston North Square, with the result that the trap was overturned. Mr Matheson sustained scalp wounds, and Mrs Matheson had her left arm broken. Both were taken to a private hospital. The motorists went right on without rendering assistance. Mr Clement Wragge telegraphed from Tiraaru as follows: —With respect to the recent storm in the sun which I reported recently, further earthquakes and volcanic action may be expected before the twenty-first of this month. Eet readers again watch the cablegrams. The disturbance “ Ngata ” is gradually approaching. The vacancy in the House of Commons for East Eimerick — caused by the death of Mr W. Eundon, Nationalist—resulted in the return ot the late member’s son, Mr Thomas Eundon, who defeated Mr J. Maloney (Independent O’Brienite) by 1978 votes. The “Record” (a well-known Anglican journal representing the Evangelical party), commenting on the acceptance by Archdeacon Wright of the Archbishopric of Sydney, regrets the withdrawal from the Councils oi the Church of England of one whose wise judgment and breadth of views had a moderating influence of incalcuable value. Nevertheless, says the “Record,” it is right that the Mother Church should give of her best to the daughter churches.

Dr Mason, ex-Chief Health Officer, made some interesting remarks on. the occaion of receiving a presentation from the members of the Civil Service Club. There was a lot of talk (he said) about Civil Servants peing subservient to the Government of the day, and he hoped that a law would be passed to prevent Civil Servants from voting, as well as from discussing politics. The men in the Service who disturbed the Service were those who aired their political views in truckling to their masters. There should be no politics in the Service. They should “ play the game,” no matter what party was in power. “ Truckle to no one,” he said, in conclusion, “and you can hold your head as high as anyone.”

At Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhenua County Council Cr Venn moved: “ That this Council desires to protest against the decisions arrived at in our S.M. Courts with regard to the furious driving of motor cars on our public roads.” He strongly criticised the recent judgments of the Magistrates and condemned them and considered that any person driving a car at an excessive speed to the danger of life and limb ‘‘ought to be hanged without benefit of judge and jury.” Other Crs also spoke strongly on the matter, Cf Prouse remarking that ‘‘death by motor accident is almost as prevalent as death by railway accident. He, however, deprecated the reflections on the Magistrate, as that gentleman had to administer the law as he found it. After some further discussion the motion was put and lost.

Compulsory military training took up a certain amount of time at Saturday’s meeting of theHorowheuua County Council. Councillor Prouse was the first to express his convictions. He considered that all boys in the public schools, should be given a thorough course of physical training which should include a military course, so that when they left school at sixteen they should be capable soldiers, physicially sound, and ‘‘ perfectly developed men.” Councillor Venn wanted Councillor Prouse to define the latter term. He believed that a little training went a long way. The Boers diddn’t have much training, and it was the Boer class of soldiers they wanted in New Zealand—not that stiff-collared, red-coated crowd that was only taught to stand in a straight line ! Councillor Richards believed the time had come when all Englishspeaking men should be put through a course of military training. Councillor Stephenson spoke in a similar strain, and the matter then dropped.

Mothers and Fathers ask at G. H. Stiles for their new line oi boys suits, which are the best in the market, and marked at prices to suit the smallest purse.*

Mrs Cromer, Percy*street, Geelong writes: —“ Acting on the advice of a friend of mine, I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Kemedy to give my little girl, who was suffering with a very bad attack of Croup, 1 am pleased to say that after a few doses relief was obtained, and before the bottle was finished my little girl was able to go to school again. I will always recommend Chamberlain’s Cough Eemcdy to my friends as being the best I have ever used." For sale everywhere.—Ann. ,

Lietut. Shackleton was cordially welcomed on his arrival at Brindisi. He occupied the spare time on the voyage Home in writing his book on the Antarctic expedition.

The Masterton Times refers to the member for Manawatu as “Dr” Newman. Whether such distinction has been recently conferred by the Church or medicine, our contemporary sayeth not. The memorandum on finance presented by the Prime Minister to the House las’: night was wired through this morning, but owing to pressure on our space, we are unable to deal with it in this issue.

According to the Greymouth Evening Star, Mr Harry Lauder, the noted Scotch comedian, has a brother at Runanga. His name is Mr Mat. Lauder, and at a recent concert he sang his brother’s song, “I Love a Lassie.”

Last Thursday was the third anniversary of Mr Seddou’s death. It was also the opening day of the seventeenth Parliament of New Zealaud, but throughout the whole of the proceedings there was not one word of reference to the departed statesman.

The services of several experts of the Department of Agriculture are being dispensed with, among them being Mr Jaques, fruit preserving expert (salary Mr D. D. Hyde, poultry expert (^3 oo )> a °d Mir C. J. Fulton, chief fibre expert (^300). Mrs Eva Herrick, a resident of Lichfield street, Newton, Auckland, saw her son and husband off to work on Friday morning. When the son returned to lunch he found his mother apparently asleep on the sofa. He did not attempt to disturb her, and when the father and son returned home at night, Mrs Herrick was found in the same position dead. / Miss Isabel Harding, aged 19 years, only daughter of Mr Arthur Harding, ot Siberia, Ashhurst, was thrown from a horse opposite Heretaunga school last Friday afternoon. She fractured her skull and subsequently died. Miss Harding w r as on a visit to Mrs McFarlane at Clive Grange, with whose daughter she was out riding at the time of the accident.

At the Supreme Court, at Auckland, on Saturday, Alfred Charles Norris, postmaster at Whakatane, and at one time Secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, for the misappropriation of £ 325. James Simpson, a postal messenger, on a charge of theft of £SB 7s 6d, was admitted to probation for two years.

There are a deal too many who are ‘‘Tom Manns” in a small way, who cultivate ‘‘the gift of the gab,” and manage to eke out a precarious living without work by acting as secretaries of one sort or another, or by going about the country as organisers. They are paid out of the hard earnings of those who work and who do not realise the injury that those pests of the real workers do their cause. —Greymouth Argus.

For assaulting Stanley East, reporter, of the Lyttelton Times’ staff, whom he believed had written a severe criticism of an alleged objectionable turn with the Chiug Lhing Soo Company, Ted Kalman was on Saturday fined fio and costs. Mr Bishop, S.M.. said the press was a free institution, and had every right to protection in the discharge ofits duty. Kalman was a first offender, and evidently lost his temper. He would not be sent to gaol, but the fine would be an exemplary one.

“I want to know what class Councillors are supposed to travel on the railway when on Council business,” queried Cr Venn, at Saturday’s Horowhenua County Council meeting. The chairman thought that members on Council business were entitled to travel first-class, and other Councillors agreed with him. Cr Venn-moved that only second-class fare be allowed in future so as to have a definite ruling. Cr Watson supported him. After some discussion it was resolved that Councillors in future ride second-class or pay the difference.

A story reaches the Pal merston Times to the effect that on a recent occasion two horses were taken from a livery stable and driven so hard that they died next day. A Press Association telegram lately told of something of the same kind being done for a wager elsewhere. Our contemporary adds that it would be just as well for the local branch of the Society for ; the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to make inquiries into the case of which we have been informed to ascertain if it is a matter coming within their jurisdiction. The secretary to an impecunious brass band which has been using the municipal supper room of a Canterbury seaside borough as a place in which to practice the art of discoursing sweet music, applied to the Council for temporary assistance in the shape of a reduction of the rent —a matter of three shillings a week. The Town Clerk stated that the band had had the use of the room for six months, and had not paid any rent during that period. A councillor expatiated on the merits of the band, and dilated on the fact that the times were particularly hard with the members. Another councillor remarked that the band was not without sympathisers in their distress. “Only the other day,” he added, “a kind resident sent them a bottle of chloroform.”

Clothe your boys with a pure wool Norfolk suit, and one wc guarantee hard wear, to be had only at G. H. Sliles.*

WmV Mundy and Frank McCann were charged at the Palmerston .Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning before Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M., with having native game in their possession without a license. Both had been caught with a hare each in their possession -by the ranger Mr Weir, one having caught his with the assistance of a greyhound and the other had used a gun. They were each fined 20s and costs 7s.