The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, August 14, 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 467, 14 August 1909, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, August 14, 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Constable Woods left yesterday afternoon for Palmerston, to give evidence before the Police Commission which sat there this morning.

During evensong on Sunday night at All Saints’ Church the choir will sing an anthem. The solos will be taken by Miss Hilda Barber and Mr Jenks.

A special meeting of the Mana’ watu Flaxmills’ Kmployees Union is advertised to be held in the registered office on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. We remind members and intending members of the Foxton Athletic Club that the annual general meeting of the club will be held in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Monday at 8 p.m. The Australian cricketers commenced a match against an Fnglish eleven at Blackpool on Thursday, and at the conclusion of the first day’s play the home team had scored 379 for the loss of three wickets.

Miss Dulcie Deamer, the clever young New Zealand writer whose stories in the Lone Hand caused such a stir in literary circles, had a son born to her at her parents' residence, in Featherston, on Monday. She is Mrs Albert Goldie in private life, and the daughter of Dr. Deamer.

The services in the Methodist Church to-morrow morning and evening will be conducted by the Rev. P. J. Mairs, whose evening subject will be “Counting the Cost.” The usual 7 a.m. prayer meeting and Bible-class at 2.30 p.m., under the leadership of Mr Huntley, will also be held. None of the Chinese in Sydney were working on the last Friday in July. Inquiries elicited the fact that it was the 2320th anniversary of the invention of carpentering and architecture by Low Bann. Throughout the Chinese Umpire and amongst Chinese abroad the anniversary is always kept as a holiday. That old age is, after all, merely comparative, was in evidence at a sitting of the Supreme Court in Christchurch. The case touched a transfer of interest under a will. Counsel said that an objection had been lodged on the suggestion that the principal was too old. He was 69. “Is that all?” replied his Honour; “why, he’s quite a boy !”

In a letter to the editor of this journal, the editor of the Levin Daily Times states in respect to the Levin to Marton link of the Main Trunk Railway : “I am intensely interested in the furtherance of the progress of what we, as well as Palmerston, must consider our seaport, and I look for the time when a commercial territory, with Foxton as the port, will be to a large extent selfcontained.”

An epidemic of diphtheria has broken'out in Lyttelton and five cases have been reported in three families, one being fatal. Owing to the want of an infectious diseases hospital the cases cannot be properly isolated, and anxiety is felt less the outbreak should spread. A# it is. the treatment of the cases is putting a severe tax on the local medical men, and is also interfering with their work in other directions.

The following were the revenues of the principal Harbour Boards in the Dominion for the year 1908: Wellington ,£171,875, Auckland ,£101,719 19s 4d, Westport £85,970 13s, Otago ,£85,053 16s ,(d, Dyttelton ,£60,201 4s sd, Napier £39,43 s l6s £24,948 X2S 6d, New Plymouth £i5.393 8s gd, Oamaru £13,71° 4s 2d, Wanganui ,£13.585. 8s gd, Patea ,£3761, Nelson £3,685 2 , s 2d, Thames £2150 6s gd, Hokitika £1,409 7s ud. What about Foxton ?

Mr Holmwood waited on the Manawatu County Council the other day to explain his proposal for reading his property at Bainesse consisting of 1467 acres which he intends to sub-divide into ten farms. He said he did not propose to metal the road. The Chairman said unfortunately the Council could not compel him to metal the road. Mr Holmwood replied that possibly alter metalling the road the land might not be sold. After some examination of the proposal as shown by a map produced, Cr Kendall and the Overseer were appointed to inspect the proposed road line, with power to inform Mr Holmwood whether his proposal would be acceptable to the Council. Great sale now on for a. few days | only at G. H, Stiles’. If you want to buy goods at half price visit the sale at once.*

Further additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale list.

Mr 0. E. Austin advertises several articles of furniture for private sale. During a dispute at Hamilton on Wednesday night, between three men, William Bradley received a stab iu the lower part of the back inflicted by some sharp instrument. The injury appears to have been sustained somewhat mysteriously, as the injured man declares a foreigner came along and stabbed him. The police arrested one of the three men concerned, named John Murray, who appeared at the Court charged with wounding. He was remanded on bail.

Local people have been “ seeing things ” in the heavens during the past few evenings. The “ big airship with the head and tail lights " has been located in the western heavens. For the form of the ship and the whirring of the wheels, the imagination has to be drawn upon. However, two large planets of great brilliancy were seen on Thursday night, travelling iu a south-westerly direction. They were visible between 6 and 7.30 p.m.

Mayor Stiles has decided to beautify the reserve known as the Triangle, in Main Street, bywidening it and removing certain large shrubs and occupying the space with grass plots and flower beds. An asphalt path will run round the enclosure. We understand certain members of the Works Committte will donate two seats. A portion of the cost of improving the reserve is being borne by the Mayor. The Triangle, when completed should be a great improvement on the old one,

The clerk of a local body in th e Westport district has received the following extraordinary reply to a demand for the payment of overdue rates (says an exchange) ; “In the year of our Lord, 1909, Amy Bock got two years for obtaining money under false pretences, theft, and lying. Take this for an example that ‘the way of thetrangressor is hard,’ and ‘he that is being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without mercy.’ ” If the clerk has to accept such threatened risks as those foreshadowed by his correspondent, the officer,is, at least, entitled to an increase of salary.