The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 14, 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 480, 14 September 1909, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 14, 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr E. Wanklyn advertises a flaxmill for sale. Mr O. Robinson has purchased the late Mr T. Nye’s farm on No. 2 Line. We understand the price paid was £26 10s per acre. The monthly meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Friday next, 17th inst,, at 7,30 p.m. A euchre party and dance is to be held in Gardiner’s Hall, Moutoa, on Tuesday, 21st inst., to raise funds for the purchase of crockery for social functions.

A meeting of the committee of the Foxton Horticultural Association is advertised to be held in the Council Chambers on B’riday evening at 8 o’clock. For permitting drunkenness on his premises, Reginald Walter Beadnall, licensee of the Cheltenham Hotel, has been fined and costs.

Mill-owners and employers of labour are notified that the Herald Printery can supply wages books approved of by the Labour Department at 3s 6d each. The annual general meeting of the Foxton Cricket Club is advertised to be held in the Good Templars’ Hall to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. All members and intending members urgently requested to attend. Among those who have been registered by the Board as qualified accountants under the Accountants’ Act is Mr Alf. Fraser, of Foxton. In future it will be necessary for any accountant desiring to be registered to undergo an examination.

At last night’s Council meeting it was decided on the motion of Cr Stiles, seconded by Cr Ross, that Town Clerk be instructed to write to the Gas Company, asking If they will enter into negotiations for the sale of their works to the Borough Council, and also to state price at which they are prepared to sell.

A British schoolmaster relates that he asked a class what was meant by the entente cordiale. One little fellow in the back part of the class immediately raised his hand. “Well ?” I said. “It means, sir,” he replied, “that when you meet a Frenchman and you get talking to him you must not mention Waterloo!”

The official opening of the local tennis courts, which was postponed owing to the inclement weather last Wednesday, is advertised to . take place to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. F. W. Frankland Esq., patron, will perform the opening ceremony. The friends of members are cordially invited to be present.

Mr Culver, inspector of awards, visited Foxton yesterday. In conversation with bur representative he stated that the wages book kept by a number of local firms is not in the prescribed form and unless this form set out by the Act is adhered to prosecutions will follow. He stated that certain books at present being retailed do not meet with the Eabour Department’s approval. Owners of premises in Main Street will have to pay particular attention to their yards before the next visit of the Government officials as he intends to institute proceedings if there is no improvement before his next visit. He stated that the excuse, that there is no drainage system in the borough, will not hold good. We issue a timely warning to save prosecutions.

Special offer of a best pair of kid gloves to every cash purchaser of drapery to the value of £2*.

We draw the attention of our readers to the advertisement in today’s issue, concerning Madame De Thebes, whose reputation as a clairvoyante, etc., is unequalled. Private consulting room, Manawatu Hotel, Mr William Ross offers a reward tor the return of a sky terner dog lost or stolen from his residence on Saturday night. Any person detaining same after this date will be prosecuted. At the recent Trinity College musical examination held in Palmerston Miss Elsie Reeve, daughter of Mr and Mrs Reeve, of Foxton, was among the successful pupils in the preparatory division, securing 97 out of a possible 100 marks. Miss Reeve is a pupil at the Convent School.

“Our class has won the Shield for the best attendance in the school last week, and we get out five minutes earlier than the other scholars each day,” said a Standard II scholar to our reporter yesterday, “and I think you ought to put something in the Heral,d about it,” he concluded. We have very much pleasure in acceding to the little fellow’s request and to express the hope that they will hold it another week.

The Mayor stated at last night’s Council meeting that the engineer, Mr Climie, had informed him that the Borough map would be completed within the next two or three weeks, and he would then be able to submit an estimate of the cost of a water and drainage scheme. He had previously told the Mayor that he considered the cost would be in the vicinity of ,£14,000, and he now stated that he estimated the cost would be under that amount.

A nugget of gold weighing 1140 ZS, and valued at ,£450, was discovered a few days ago in the Ross borough, within a chain of the Ross goldfields claim. Two men, named Sharp and Scott, were working on a small piece of an abandoned field, near Donnelly’s creek, where they picked up a couple of small nuggets. They were encouraged to continue operations when they came on a large lump, which is about the size of a turnip and contains little quartz. The nugget was bought by the Bank and it is proposed to name it after the Minister for Mines. “Mr Gladstone Secundus.” Thus begins the Character Sketch of Lord Hugh Cecil, in the September number of the Review of Reviews For Australasia, which is just to hand. A very interesting and illuminating article is a compilation of opinions given in connection with a visit of the Press delegates to London. The article is illustrated with a large number of photographs of prominent pressmen. The section devoted to a review of the world’s literature is as usual complete. The books of the month are: “George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism,” and Mr Masterraan’s “The Condition of England,”

The committee of the local rowing club met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of deciding re the boat shed. There were present: —Messrs Gower (President), Hornblow, Heyes, Morgan and Whlbley (secretary). It was decided to thoroughly renovate the shed and turn it end on to the river. Mr T. Rimmer has been entrusted with the work and will commence operations to-day in order to have everything in readiness for the opening of the season. The annual meeting of the club will be held at an early date.

Messrs C. J. Cooze and Son, of Wellington, are the inventors of a flying machine, a model of which they are now experimenting with. The principle of flight is that of a bird on the wing. There are two wings, beating alternately on each side, establishing, it is claimed, perfect equilibrium. It is not necessary with this machine to use skids. The invetors say that an eight horse-power engine will supply enough power to carry six passengers. The inventors believe that the New Zealand Government should follow the lead of the Victorian Government, which offers as an inducement for the production of a really workable flying machine.

An Auckland dentist writes to a local paper observing that there is too much dentistry in New Zealand. He says:—“We are becoming a toothless people. The cause, no doubt, is the lack of lime. Our cereals, meat, vegetables and water are produced from land deficient in lime, which is an essential in the formation of bone. It seems to me it wouid be of great advantage if lime were put into the drinking water. It must do good, purifying the water it nothing more. It might also be put into our wheat before grinding and our raw sugar and our milk. What would purify milk more than a pinch of lime in the pail before straining ? If there were more lime in food and water there would be less work for the dentists.”

All winter goods now on view at the Economic are being disposed of at ridiculously low figures, in order to make room for a fresh shipment of new season’s good. As stocktaking operations commence shortly, this week is absolutely the last of the great clearing sale at Mrs Hamer’s. There are still a few beautiful furs which are being sacrificed, together with other lines, at almost given-away prices, and intending participants would do well to make the Economic an early visit, thus avoiding disappointment.* For watch, "clock or jewellery repairs go to Parers, the jeweller, Main Street.