LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 488, 2 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Stevens, Inspector of Post Offices, is at present making a vjsit of inspection at the local office. In this issue Mr W. SI Stewart thanks the electors lor the position in which they placed him at yesterday’s poll. Mr Parkes, jeweller, Main Street, has a splendid display of jewellery in his window, inspection of which is invited.

The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. G. K, Aitken. At the evening service Mr Aitken will take for his subject, “ A Valley of Dry Bones.”

Standard V. and VI. are the winners ot the good attendance shield at the local State School this week, with an average attendance of a little over 94 per cent.

The average attendance at the local school for the quarter ending September 30th was 254'06, We hope to be able to report a higher average for the current quarter, liy reason of better weather condiii ns.

The meeting of the Foxtou Harbour Board to have been held on Monday evening, has been postponed, and.will be held on the evening of the Hon. J. A. Millar’s proposed visit to Foxton. It is reported from M anila that pirates captured the revenue cutter Sora off Borneo, and murdered the captain and crew of thirteen. A gunboat has been despatched to the scene of the outrage. At the S.M. Court, Palmerston, on Wednesday, before Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M., L. A. C. Boranoff, who was arrested at Awapuni recently by Detective Quitke and Constable McLeod, on a charge of obtaining a cheque for L 5 by fale pretences, was remanded till Wednesday next at Foxton. Accused is alleged to have got the cheque from a Maori. Messrs J, and F, Mowlem, J.P.’s, were the presiding Justices.

At the farewell smoke concert tendered Mr O. E. Austin on Thursday evening, Mr T. Jones, in responding to the toast of “ Local Industries,” said that he had been connected with the flax industry for 20 years. When he started the price of. flax was ,£45 per ton, and the men employed in the industry were paid 6s 6d per day. Now the price was about £25 per ton, and the wages were about 8s per day. His experience was that at the present time the men did 50 per cent, more work than was done 20 years ago, for an increase in wages of about 25 per cent. Yet, he said, on all sides you hear that the wages are killing the industry. Special offer of a best pair of kid gloves to every cash purchaser of drapery to the value of ,£2*.

An advertiser wants accommodation for an invalid lady and child.

At the weekly parade of cadets yesterday afternoon good conduct badges were presented to Sergeant W. Nye and Cadet McEwen. The badge is to be worn upon the left cuff of the uniform.

The Marama r after clearing Sydney heads last Tuesday, was struck by a huge sea. Mrs Israel, a young married woman, who was standing at the gangway door with her husband, was swept overboard and perished. Her husband and another male passenger narrowly escaped going overboard in the same sea. To-morrow in All Saints’ Church the newly-confirmed will make their first Communion. A request has been made that the friends and relatives and others will join with them in this highest act of worship. After the Confirmation two years ago a large number of parishioners were present and communicated with the newly -con firmed. The services to-morrow in the Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by Mrs Ritchie. In the evening there will be a Communion service, conducted by the Rev. P. J, Mains, whose subject will be “ Pleasure and Quietude.” There will be an open air song service in front of the church at 6.30 p.m.

An Oamaru resident furnishes particulars to the Mail of an interesting case of egg-vitality which came under his notice in London. A consignment of frozen eggs was received and sold at 60 for is, the egg market being glutted. In view of the glut the experiment was tried of placing 13 of the once-frozen eggs under a broody hen, with the result that eight; chicks made their appearance ! All who are in need of summer dress goods, smart linens, muslins, prints, etc., should not fail to call at Mrs Hamer’s, Main Street, where large reductions are being made all round, on account of the extensive alterations and additions to be effected to premises. For stylish and up-to-date millinery, at low figures, you cannot do better than call at the Economic. Mrs Hamer has also a wonderful and varied stock of children’s bonnets, etc.—See advt. Prohibition orders are one thing, but the prevention ot prohibited. persons obtaining spirituous . liquor is quite another, according to the argument of counsel in an appeal case heard before Mr Justice Edwards, at Auckland. Some hotels it was stated, supplied something like 2000 persons daily, and when as many as 17 prohibition orders had been issued at Auckland in one da*y it was a matter of impossibility for licensees and employees to ascertain the identity of all. “In London,” remarks Mr J. R. Reed, ‘‘they have a ‘black list,’ which means that publicans are supplied with photos of prohibited persons.” Some such practice, he thought, might work successfully in Auckland.

The book-keeping methods adopted by some Wellington tradesmen are by no means satisfactory, according to the remark made at a meeting of creditors in that city last week, ■ The assignee said that, judging by the books which came into his office, something should be done to remedy the existing state of affairs. One creditor suggested that instead of the Government appointing so many inspectors for other work some should be appointed to examine the books of tradesmen to see that they were being kept in a proper manner. The assignee replied that he thought some step might be taken in this direction before very long.

A despatch clerk at the Napier Telegraph Office, named Arthur Hanlen, aged iq, was arrested on Tuesday night on a charge of attempting to conspire with one Hiram Ashcroft to defraud Kdward Timbrick, of £2O 9s and by means of false pretences. It is aileged that Ashcroft arranged with Tim brick, a bookmaker, to accept wires on horse races. These wires bore the telegraph office stamp as having been handed in half-au-hour before the races were run, but Inquiries showed that the wires had never passed through the office. Hanlen was before the Court yesterday morning, and was remanded till Monday on bail. Ashcroft was arrested at Palmerston North and remanded to Napier,

The art and industrial section at the Mauawatu A. and P. Show is the only annual exhibition of its kind on such au extensive scale, and with so many sub-divisions provided. The sections comprise photography, landscape, seascape, figure study and animal life, besides junior classes. Technical schools are furnished with a most extensive number of classes embracing drawing, painting in many phases of art, modelling design and art craft work, architectural and mechanical drawing. The public school competition syllabus compiled by the Teachers’ Institute is accomplishing admirable work, and is much appreciated by the pupils, who enter in large numbers. The schedules have been largely distributed to the various technical and public Schools, and judging from advice: to hand, entries will be on a larger scale than last year. If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkes’, the jeweller, the shop for presents.* New spring and summer goods are now being.opened up at the Bon Marche Department, where buyers can obtain best value for their money,*

A rolled-gold chain found in the Masonic Hall is advertised.

Mr J, Symons publishes a thanks notice elsewhere in this issue.

Mr and Mrs Symons left Foxton yesterday to take up their abode in Hastings, Mr O. E. Austin left Foxton this morning for Waihou where he will re-commence flaxmilling.

The vital statistics lor Foxton for the month of September were : Births, 5; deaths, 1 ; marriages, o. The programme of the euterlaiumeut to be given in the Public Hall next Wednesday, is published in this issue. It is of sufficient merit to attract a bumper house.

Six hundred Cincinnatti women have petitioned President Taft to enact a law for punishing wife desertion similar to the manner in which deserters from the array are punished. The petition stales that 2700 Cincinnatti wives were deserted in three months.

In order to compensate for the loss of the fees received for the publicans’ booth rights {the racecourse now being in a uo-license district) the* Avondale Jockey Club ran a “ soft stuff ” booth ou its own account. On the first day of the races the stock of drinks ran out, although it was thought sufficient had been laid in tor the whole three days.

The preparations for the opening of the various lands in the North Island, totalling some 70.000 or 80,000 acres, under the improved farm settlement scheme, are approaching completion. There are in all some 400 sections, ranging in area from about 150 to 200 acres, and situated in close contiguity to the Main Trunk liue| in the Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington laud districts. The following areas .of new land have been opened In the Auckland land district during the first nine months of the present year : January, 5212 acres;- March, 760 acres ; April, 180,331 ; May 3493 acres; June, 5143 acres; July, 127,104 acres; August, 1273 acres; September, 195,545 acres ; total, 518,861 acres. This last includes 3943 acres opened in June under the Maori Land Board, but does not include the 15.000 acres in the Te Akatt Block, which is to be opened next month. The purchase from the Natives of a second portion of Te Akau Block, consisting of some 14,597 acres; has just been completed by the Lands Department.