LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 476, 4 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Further additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale list.

The vicar of All Saints’ has received word that the Lord Bishop of the Diocese will hold a confirmation in Foxton on Sunday, September 26th, A London message states that a fatal motor accident occurred on Wednesday. Lord de Clifford suddenly applied the brake of his motor near Horsham to avoid a cart. The motor-car overturned, and Lord de Clifford was killed on the spot. The Wednesdays and Fridays religious instruction classes will re-open again at All Saints’ Church on Wednesday, Bth September, at 8.45 a.m. The classes were closed during the school holidays, apd it is hoped many will make a fresh start on Wednesday next. New spring and summer goods are now being opened up at the Bon Marche : Department, where buyers can obtain best value for their money.

The Native Concert held in Gardener’s Hall, Moutoa, last night was an unqualified success. There was a large attendance, the building being filled. The affair was the best of its kind yet held in Moutoa and the items by the Natives were worth going a long way to hear and see. It is proposed to repeat the concert at Foxton at an early date. Dorando Pietro, the Marathon runner, has arrived at Genoa, stated, in the course of an interview, that he was delighted with the United States, and that he intended to return in November to take part in other Marathon races. He has won ,£4OOO, and hopes to continue running for two years more. He will postpone his marriage until after the expiration of that period.

A progress report of the Management Committee of the Farmers’ Co-operative Freezing Company states that .£27,765 has so far been subscribed towards the capital of the Company. Only £,700 out of this amount has come irom the West Coast, The report further states that the tightness of the money market has seriously interfered with canvassing operations.

The Palmerston North College Street School Committee are annoyed at the action of the Board in transferring a female teacher, and appointing another, without in any way consulting them. This led the Chairman to remark ; “It practically comes to this, that the Committee are only of use in raising money for the grounds and cleaning out the buildings.”

Some amusement was caused in the main street of Waipukurau by the unusual spectacle of a calf pursuing a telegraph messenger. After vain endeavours to ride away from the animal, the messenger was brought to the ground. The calf then went in pursuit of a medical man, who was in his motor-car, and he was obliged to take refuge in the post office. The calf, weary of waiting for the doctor to reappear, followed in the wake of the Waipawa coach. The lengthy trial of Arthur Frederick Wimsett, charged with complicity in the extensive robberies by James Hemingway from the parcels department of the Wellington Post Office, where accused was employed, came to a conclusion at Wellington on Thursday afternoon, states a Press Association telegram. Without leaving the box, the jury found Wimsett not guilty, adding that the trial left no stain on his character.

The ease with which some men can make a living without work is demonstrated by the Temuka Deader. A young man called at a Temuka shop and saw some cakes of pink soap on the counter. Teaming that the price was 2d a cake, he bought a dozen, and a few days afterwards bought the entire stock at a slight reduction. The tradesman who sold the soap next discovered that his customer had done a brisk trade, re-selling the article at is a cake as a valuable substance for removing grease from clothing.

A witness at the Police Commission at Auckland, who asserted that there were a great many whisky stills in the Dominion, paid a high tribute to a certain constable who had been sent to Kawhia to help in the suppression of sly grog-selling. “He did the work well,'’ said the witness. “He even went to the length of burying himself in the sand, leaving only one ear sticking out, which he kept open.” The result was (he added) that, with the assistance of Mr Northcroft, S.M., the place was made too hot for the sly grogsellers.

On Wednesday last Messrs F. Pirani, Bennett and Alf. Fraser, members of the Wanganui Fducation Board, motored to Taikorea where they met about 20 settlers in conference, regarding the proposed removal of the school to a site on Cooper’s Line, as recommended by Mr Fraser. The recommendation, when adopted by the Board, evoked strong opposition from the settlers. Hence the conference on the subject. The views of the settlers were heard by the visiting members, who will meet later on to discuss the matter and will also present a report to the Board on the subject.

The German Emperor’s view of Anglo-German relations has, according to the Paris newspapers, been frankly revealed at a luncheon given by M. Gaston Menier, the French millionaire, on his yacht Ariane, at Kiel. “The real struggle between Great Britain and Germany,” the Kaiser is reported to have said, “ will not take place on the battlefield, but in the industrial and commercial world. It will be an economic, not a naval or military war. Great Britain is passing through a nervous phase which is, only transient. She will eventually realise that what she may have lost in economic spheres can be regained, not by a destructive war, but by increasing her industrial activity.” According to Lee Matin, the Kaiser expressed the fear that the “Yellow Peril” might some day menance Europe, and for that reason, if no other, he desired the maintenance of European peace.

Great attraction now on at the “Economic,” Main Street, where the whole of Mrs Hamer’s large and assorted stock of beautifully trimmed and uutrimmed millinery is being cleared at enormous reductions. Call early, and secure your choice.* Ladies’ jackets, new shapes, usual price up to 655, now being cleared at the great sale at G. H. Stjies’ for 2xs and 25s/ 1 '

The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. Mr Aitken, and in the evening by Mr Young of Palmerston North. The death occurred on Thursday at Wilton’s Bush, Wadestown, of Mrs Ellen Wilton, an old and respected resident of Wellington, and wife of Mr Job. Wilton, alter whom the picturesque bit of Native bush at Wadestown is named. Mrs Wilton was 73 years of age. She leaves a grownup family of eight sons, three daughters, and forty grandchildren. The deceased is mother oi Messrs Wilton Brothers, of Oroua Bridge.

The s.s. Wairau, when crossing the bar yesterday burst the main steam pipe, but the damage was patched up sufficient to enable the vessel to arrive at the wharf. The Wairau, by the way, is a queer looking craft and before she was converted by the Anchor Tine from a scow to a steamer, had a very unlucky record. We are informed that on one occasion she turned over and all aboard were drowned. She Is now, however, a payable vessel. Her first mate is the late skipper of the ill-fated Penguin.

According to this week’s Gazette, a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, beginning on or about the 20th day of the month; a Junior National Scholarship and Free Place Examination will be held on or about December 1 and 2; and a Civil Service Senior Examination, and an examination for teacheis’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1910, beginning on or about the sth day of the month. With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the special examination for senior free places in secondary schools and district high schools, and the first examination cf pupil teachers. With the Junior National Scholarship Examination will be taken the Junior • Free Place Examination (including the examination for junior tree places in technical schools). Prince Miguel of Byaganza, whose engagement to an American young lady is announced, is a “Pretender” who no longer “pretends,” for there has been a public reconciliation between the present King of Portugal and the representative of the house which occupied the throne in the person of the grandfather of Prince Miguel. The prince is thirty years of age, and has been popular in English society (remarks the Westminster Gazette). Miss Anita Stewart, to whom the Prince has become engaged, is in the neighbourhood of twenty-one years of age, and is one of the great heiresses of the day. She is the daughter of Mr James Rhinemander Stewart, and her mother married as her second husband that “ Silent ” Smith who inherited the greater portion of the millions of the more famous “Chicago” Smith, who died some years ago at the Reform Club and gave Sir Michael HicksBeach a dramatic windfall for his Budget. Miss Stewart will inherit the great wealth of her father, and in due course will receive a portion of the Smith fortune.

A settler was driving in his trap to Levin from the direction of Heatherlea the other evening, when he saw an elderly man resting on the side of the road. He offered him a lift, and the man, who was under the influence of drink, managed to get into the trap and the horse travelled on into Levin. When the stranger saw the lights, he exclaimed, “God’s truth where are we ?” “ In Levin,” said the driver. Then the air was filled with expletives and the man who was helped along the toad swore at the good Samaritan in round terms. It seems that the stranger had imbibed freely at Levin that day and had started on a tramp to Foxton. When he found that he had been brought back instead of lifted forward on his journey, the old Adam rose in wrath. He got down and recommenced his journey, muttering curses upon everything around him. —Chronicle.

In following up his efforts to arouse the younger generation to a realisation of the potential harvests that remain unreaped by the neglect to cultivate their mental gifts, Mr G. H. Reid addressed a gathering in the Bourke Street Congregational Church, Sydney, last week. One of his strongest appeals to the young men of the audience was to be ambitious—to aim at achieving something that would gain them not only advancement and honour, but something that would make the world, even in a small degree, better for their efforts. The curse of Australians was that the ambition of 99 per cent, of them was set upoapaltry, worthless, evanescent things, and the ambitions of the men were the ambitious of the boys. He en» : joined upon them to remember that sport was a jolly fine thing in its place, but the universe was not given over to playing cricket or to racing horses. He appealed to them to think what this world would have lost if the ambition of some of the great scientists who had conferred everlasting benefits on humanity by their discoveries had been cricket instead of research that would give some new mental creation to their fellow beings.

The quick results of Chamberlain s Tablets in the cure of biliousness, and prompt relief of all its bad symptom* is something unequalled by any other medicine. They cleanse the stomach, clear out aud gently stimulate the liver; drive away every symptom of pain, distress and discomfort. For sale everywhere. Advt.

Th& services in the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. P. J. Cossum, of Feildiug. The service in the evening will be of an interesting character, the sublect being “ True Manliness.” A solo, “ Nazareth,” will be rendered by Mr Chrystal. On Monday evening the Rev. Cossum, ExPresldent of the Manawatu Christian Endeavour Union will conduct the consecration meeting of the local Methodist Society and deliver a consecration address to which the public are cordially invited. There will be a prayer meeting at 7 a.in. —Advt