LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 20 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr R. O. Goddin advertises for sale a new house on exceptionally easy terms,

Such a crowd assembled in front of Mr Cochran’s shop premises in Main Street, on Saturday night, that traffic along the footpath was blocked for a time. The attraction was the latest phonograph, the sound bell or funnel from which is about 10ft long. The records could be distinctly heard from a great distance. Everyone who appreciates the worth of genuine bargains should not fail to pay a visit to Wellington during the great winter sale of that well-known establishment, Te Aro House. If this is impossible, however, a complete bargain list may be yours by merely despatching a line to their mail department 1 . The firm calls attention elsewhere in our columns to the manifest importance 'of submitting orders early. Send now !*

In the Morning Watch a pretty story is told of the late Rev. N. Diraock, Mr Dimock was a scholar and an antiquarian, and* knew as much about literature of the times of the Reformation as the country. One day he saw a book he greatly wished advertised for sale price 265. Mr Dimock wrote at once to the bookseller, and told him that-the book was valued at £6, but that he himself was only able to afford £4 and would willingly give £4 for it. This was Mr Dimbck’s rule, never to take an advantage of anyone.

A man named C. Schmidt, a Swede, was the victim of a confidence trick while on his way from Melbourne, to Sydney. Among his fellow was a gentleman who represented to him that he knew all about horses, in fact, that be knew of the most certain of certainties for a race. Furthermore the gentleman would be only too pleased to put Schmidt on the high road to fortune. Schmidt listened to the tempter and fell, parting with with which his acquaintance decamped. Detectives axe engaged in an endeavour to trace the trickster. A Boer farmer in the Transvaal having to send a “blood smear” of a dead ox, prepared a second with his own blood, and told his neighbours that he was making a fool of the “ingevoorde Engelschman”—imported Englishman—and his new-fangled regulations. In due time the official report came back, worded: —“To Johannes, Hendrik Petrus Boonzaier, Esq., Vlakvarkfonteiu. Dear Sir,—With reference to the bloodsmears furnished by you on the 15th ult., I have the honour to inform you that the one—that of an ox —shows no trace of disease. The blood on' the other side appears to be that of a baboon in an advanced stage of senile decay. —I have,” etc-

During the course of his sermon in the Presbyterian Church last Sunday night, Mr H. Billens, of Palmerston, said he had the temerity to write to the Palmerston Standard some time ago, protesting against the boxing tournaments held there. If two men fought in a public thoroughfare as they did on the Opera House stage under the patronage of respectable citizens, they would be placed under arrest and severely dealt with by the Magistrate. Yet he had publicly protested against these brutal exhibitions in the cause of Christianity, he had been > assailed- in a blasphemous manner by a certain scurrilous

The present mild winter is gladdening the hearts of farmers throughout thjs district. A general meeting of the Fox* ton Hockey Club»is advertised to take place in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Wednesdaytevening. A Mohammedan deputation has left Natal for London to urge the Imperial Government to reserve

its sanction of South African Union legislation affectiug Asia-

. The Miners’ federation of Britain has decided to take a ballot on the question of a general strike in sympathy with the Scottish miners, who go on strike against a reduction of wages on July 26.

Mr John Jackson, aged 72, an/ old identity of Timaru, and a prominent citizen, died on Saturday morning. Rev. A. E. Worsley, formerly of Otaki, has arrived safely in England and has accepted an appointment as vicar of a parish at Margate, a popular seaside resort, 74 miles from London, situated on the Isle of Thaijet, in Kent. The sale of pianos and organs being held by the Dresden Piano Coy., Ltd., is in full swing. There is a splendid assortment of pianos by reliable makers, to select from. Inspect early in premises next door to Mr Patterson, chemist.^

The Mayor and several Councillors intend to be present at the official opening of the Levin gasworks to-morrow. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m., after which afternoon tea will be partaken of.

Tha May6r, Grs Adams and Levett canvassed local storekeepers yesterday . for sweets, fruit, etc., to be distributed among the children at the Park to-morrow afternoon after the tree-planting ceremony. They met with a very liberal response.

The Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union has decided to publish a monthly journal to be called “The Press Hank.” The publication of theabove journal will supercede the weekly column of Union Notes inserted in the Herald by the Union. It has often been said that the European fruit seller cannot compete with the Chinese. To a certain extent this may be true. Yesterday, however, a European fruit hawker visited Foxton and retailed Fiji oranges at 10 for a shilling “right at your doorstep, lady, and you can try the fruit before purchasing!” The same class of oranges, were being retailed by a local Chinese storekeeper on Satur- ( day night at as per dozen. Sir Joseph Ward will be entertained at luncheon by the House of Commons on the 13th prox., Mr J. Cathcart Wason, presiding, the occasion being the presentation of the original signatures of 400 M'P’s. appended to the cablegram despatched to New Zealand by the Government expressing appreciation of the offer of a Dreadnought. Messrs Asquith and Balfour will participate in the proceedings.

At the local Methodist Church on Sunday night the preacher gave out an intimation which was shrouded in a good deal of mystery at the time. He said a social would be held at a certain home at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday at which all were welcome. H,e stated further that the time was not a very convenient hour but a, social had been held at the same'place previously and—speaking feelingl y —had been much enjoyed. Now it dothf appear that the preacher himself at that “ inconvenient hour” did take unto himself a wife from that household and much joy has enterek into his heart.

At Wellington on Saturday, James Hemingway, the young man who was recently sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, for theft, was brought before his Honour Mr Justice Chapman on five other charges ot breaking and entering and theft. In sentencing prisoner, his Honour said: “It is necessary that I should pay attention to the fact that you are not the paly young man in New Zealand who has romantic ideas about crime. It is necessary and a part of my duty that I should let all these romancers know what an extremely expensive thing it is for anyone to enter deliberately on a criminal career. You are sentenced to imprisonment for five years, with hard labour, on each charge, to be concurrent,” Referring to the proposed Farmers’ Co-operative Freezing Company, MrJ. C. Cooper says that the new company is intended to handle on behalf of the farmer only, and not to buy and sell. The proposed nominal capital is £IOO,OOO. On the Wairarapa side between .£20,000 and £30,000 had already been subscribed. A committee' has been set up to visit and inspect all the sites and recommend the best. The Railway Department intends to reduce the staff on the Himutaka, and that is a reason why the works should not,be put in the Wairarapa. The proposed works would be capable of handling 2500 carcases .a day—■ that should be sufficiently large to meet the farmers’ demands. Each farmer is asked to take £5 worth of shares per 100 sheep of his registered flock. The farmer who did not take up that pumber of shares would not. receive any bonds,' though they would be quite willing to handle-his sheep. Advances to farmers shipping to London would be made through the banks, institutions which heartily supported the co-operative works. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure , iS\sd and as 6d. .

Mr T. Rimmer has just completed extensive \alterhtions to Mr C. Robinson’s residence in Lady's Mile. Messrs R. Moore and Barnard, make additions to their property sale list. We give a final reminder of ,the clearing , Sale ,of stock, etc., at “Sunnyside* ’ ttf-morrow. Messrs Wm. Ross and Son advertise for hoys and girls for the rope and twine works. The sequel to a “row” last Saturday night, between two local young men, will be heard before local justices on Thursday next. The Borough Council invite tenders, to close on the 22nd lost., at 7 p.m., for carting 700 yards of metal from the railway station to borough roads. Mr Andrew Collins, Secretary of the Bakers’ Union, and exmember of the defunct Conciliation Board, has been on a visit to Foxton during the last few days, Mr L. E. Reade, solicitor, informs us that this day 40 years ago be landed in Dunedin from England, by the well-known sailing vessel, “Challenger,” after a journey of 84 days from port to port.

During the Challenger’s voyage across the Tasman Sea she was in wireless communication with the Encounter at Auckland, the Prometheus at the Nev? Hebrides, and the Powerful in Sydney. . Two more “ twb-uppers ” were • before the Wellington Police Court on Saturday. One, said to be the ring-leader, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment, and otte month fqr getting drunk and not > appearing on Friday. Another, ( described as a “ lambi” was fined 20s.

“Passenger” writes complaining of the conduct of a number of male passengers on the train from Palmerston to Foxton on Saturday night, and the drinking that was faking place, and urges that an enquiry be made into the matter by the railway officials. We pass the complaint on to the local stationmaster.

The price of coal gas in Mastertop is 7s id per roobft net for, lighting ; 4P 2d per 1600 ft for cookers, and 4s 7d per 1 oooft for power purposes, and there is an intermediate discount of 3s 4d per 1 oooft allowed where boiling rings, grillers, and gas fires are used. A further. reduction is to be recommended when the new 'works plant is in full working order.

kfr Clement Wragge has forwarded the following to the Mataura Ensign : “The umbra of a big Antarctic depression ‘Gibb,’ is overlapping the Dominioh, and we can expect winds from between north-east and north-west, increasing in velocity, and thereafter shifting to the south-west and south, when the west coast will-be affected. ‘Gibb’ will bring rain, sleet and snow over the southern highlands. The shipping is advised that this disturbance will more or less affect all waters between Auckland Harbour and the Bluff. Tne present system ot naming storms in honour, of men renowned in the land will cease at the end of the present month, and the appelations thereafter will be culled from Virgil.”.