LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 490, 5 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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1 ASensational suicide occurred in Paris last Friday. A girl, after quarrelling with her sweetheart, who is a lion tamer at the Theatre Moncey, infuriated the lions with a Vvhip, arid then thrust the upper part of her body through the bars of their cage. She was toru to pieces.

At a meeting of creditors of Israel Gelhor, lately racehorse owner, called in Wellington, there was no quorum. The bankrupt, examined by the Official Assignee, stated that his expenses had been higher than his winnings. He had been obliged to part with his horses to pay his accounts, and there was a deficiency of about £l2O. He vowed he would never touch racehorses again. Replying to a Maori deputation which welcomed him home at Auckland last week, Sir Joseph Ward mentioned that he had met the Maori troupe now touring America while in New York, and had succeeded in having removed certain disabilities under which they were working. Those Maoris had asked him to convey greetings to the natives of New Zealand, and had informed him that they were anxious to get back. . ,

Dr O’Brien, Palmerston, has consented to act as judge of the sculling handicap to be rowed at Foxtou early in December. Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston, have an announcement of interest to buyers of drapery, in this issue, in connection with their importations for the spring and summer seasons. A particularly extensive show of dress goods is now being made, to which attention is invited.— Advt. The Southland Sawmill Workers’ Union has decided to fall in with the proposal to collect shilling subscriptions with the object of raising funds “to present a national testimonial to Mr A. W. Hogg to recompense him for his financial self-sacrifice in resigning from his position as a Minister of the Crown.”

The proposed dinner by the Explorers’ Club of New York, in honour cf Dr Cook, has been postponed, pending an investigation into his claim to have asceu ded Mount McKinley. Lieut, Peary has accepted an invitation to lecture before the Royal Geographical Society.

“The man who advocates selling wool locally does not know what he is talking about,” says Mr J. Thomas, of the firm of Thomas and Cook, the well-known wool brokers of London, who is on a business visit to the Walrarapa and Forty-mile Bush districts. “On the London market the grower obtains the ruling price in competition ; on the local market he obtains the price of the exploiter.” There is no getting away from the fact that Mangaweka has no time lor the Chinese. One Celestial who took a five years’ lease of premises in the centre of the town a month ago, says the Settler, quitted his premises yesterday, a wiser and much poorer man. He cut the prices down to a starvation level, and only succeeded in taking eighteen shillings and niuepeuce in four weeks! This is how the people of Maugaweka solve the Chinese problem. At the Stratlord Magistrate’s Court last Friday, Alfred Nicols appeared to answer a charge of having assaulted F. Wi. Webb by striking him with a bottle at Whaugamomoua on the ißlh of September, and a further charge of having used obsene language on the same occasion. The assault took place at a footballers’ smoke concert. His Worship said accused had been guilty of a foolish and dangerous action in throwing the bottle, and upon the charge of assault would be fined £i and costs and expenses amounting A) £p 7s, in default one month’s imprisonment, and upon the obsene language charge would be fined and costs 7s, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Intending exhibitors at the ManawatuShow are reminded that entries close next Friday, the Bth October, at 9 p.m. The prize list comprises classes for all sections of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, Manawatu Kennel Club’s dog show, poultry, art and industrial classes for photography, art technical and public schools, home and art needlework, and home industries. The Secretary advises that all divisions of the Show will be well represented, and supported from the provinces, and there will also be a good display of agricultural implements. Those intending to make exhibits should send them along at once, or if a schedule is required, write to the Secretary, Box 85, Palmerston North.

As an offset to the contention made by one of the speakers (according to the Southland Times) at a meeting of South Invercargill ratepayers recently, that the past generation had got on very well without trams, and the rising generation should be content to do without them also, Mr P. S. Brodie told a little story. It concerned the time when the sanitary rate was first introduced. A ratepayer had said complainingly to the speaker : “I see they are going to liave a sanitary rate in South Invercargill.” “Yes,” Mr Brodie had replied, “don’t you think it a very good thing?” Whereupon the conservative one had exploded : “Ain’t I been doing that for myself for the last 25 years, and can’t I go on doing it for another 25 years?”

At All Saints' Church on Sunday last the vicar made an appeal for the sum of £\ to supply a bed St. Mary’s Home, Wellington. He wished the sum to be given quite voluntarily, and to be placed in the box at the Church door. A new wing has been built on to St. Mary's Home, and this is to furnished with 12 beds. The cost of such a bed, including bedding and a chair, is ,£4, and the bed will be for all time bearing the name of the giver. St. Mary’s Home Is chiefly rescue work, and one of the noblest works ot the Church —it has been the means of saving hundreds of girls. The sum collected in the box at the door last Sunday was £2 2s. The vicar stated that he would be pleased to receive any help during the week, so that this parish could be one of the first to respond to the appeal made. The bed will bear the name of “All Saints’, Foxton.” There is another £1 18s required, and we trust it will be sent during the week. A beautiful assortment of electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery ostablishment. Main St.*

Ladies’ jackets, new shapes, usual price up to 655, now being cleared at the great sale at G. H. Stiles’ for 21s and 255.*

If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Pakkes’, the jeweller, the shop for presents.*

The Inspector's annual visit to the local school will take place on Thursday, October 14th. The ordinary meeting of th local Masonic Lodge will be held at 8 o’clock this evening. The monthly sitting, of the S.M. Court will take place tomorrow.

The Court of Conciliation, to be presided over by Mr Hally, will sit at Palmerston to-morrow, to hear the dispute between the flaxraillers and employees. A meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held on Thursday, 7th inst., at 7.45 p.m., at the Council Chambers. Business :

General and important. The Shannon Tennis Club open the season to-morrow. A cordial invitation to local members to be present has been received by the secretary, Mr Phillips. It is hoped that the local club will be well represented.

We were shown this morning a very fine sample of blue kidney seed potatoes procured by Mr G. Tozer from Canterbury. Mr Tozer intends to localise these flowery tubers and we hope his efforts will meet with success.

An old Mastertou settler in the person of Mrs Parker died at her son’s residence, Russell Street, Foxton, on Sunday last. Deceased had been an invalid tor some time. The body was conveyed to Mastertou this morning, where the interment will take place. Pakatoa Island, where is situated an inebriates institution, will receive as an addition toi.s population an African pigmy named Andrew Jacobs, a well-known figure in the streets of Wellington, The Stipendiary Magistrate committed him to the institution for one year. He was charged with being a habitual drunkard, and of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. “I would not advocate growers of wool paying more attention to weight than to the quality of staple,” remarked Mr Thomas, of the Loudon wool-broking firm of Thomas and Cook, in the course of an interview. “In New Zealand at the present time, there are far too many poor Lincolns, and this fact is acting detrimentally on the general standard of wool from the Dominion. We had the greatest difficulty imaginable last year in disposing at any price of large consignments of this,sample of New Zealand wool. The sooner some of the woolgrowers of the Dominion see the fallacy of straining aiter weight at the sacrifice of staple, the better it will be for them. Of course judicious attention should be paid to both staple and weight.”

Archbishop Kelly, speaking at the Catholic Congress at Sydney, entered a Strong protest against the Education Department of New South Wales, authodsing the use in the Training College of Carlyle’s “Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History ” as a text book, because of the passage in which John Knox, the famous Scottish reformer, contemptuously refused to worship the image of the Virgin Mother. Mr Mahon, a Labour member in the Federal Parliament, said it was an outrage on the Catholic community that their money should be used for disseminating lies. It was a libel on one of their dearest doctrines, and he hoped the community would not rest until the book was withdrawn by the department and an apology made to the Catholic people. After battling hard for a month to capture the local fruit and grocery trade, Leo Bung, the Chinese vendor, quitted Mangaweka yesterday for fresh fields and pastures new, says the Settler. To show his appreciation to the one Englishman, who had granted him a lease of his premises, Leo left a- card with the following written in Chinese, but which has since been translated into English; “ Me thankee landlord, good lillie fiend Chinee; no good Mangaweka paper man; welly glad him no get to Parliament stop Chinaman come New Zealand. Me likee Function agent Trubee. No money pay rent; me likee him all same ; all banana, peanut, pineapple him take home; some he send my fiend Trubee make good flute saladee. Managweka no savee Chinaman ; him people no d—good.—Leo, ’ira gone Bung.”

The doctors have discovered that what is vulgarly known as the “blues,” the “pip,” or the “hump,” is really a disease. After more investigations they have come to the conclusion that it is caused by a defective circulation in the cells of the brain cortex, and is aggravated by any weakness of the heart. Anything that causes a bad circulation may bring on the “hump."’ When the circulation is bad the brain cortex is never quite normal, says the Health Review. This scientific fact is really the explanation of the common idea in England that May is an unlucky month for marriages, for in May we meet with the worst circulation in the brain, and, consequently, greater depression and bad temper. But there is a crumb of comfort in this. One cannot suffer from “hump” and from rheumatism at the same time. The explanation of this is simple. The poison cannot be in two places at the same time ; it cannot be in the joints, irritating them, and at the same time in the blood, obstructing the ci r cu!ation. As a result of this, depression gets worse while rheumatism and gout decrease.

For watch, clock or jewellery repairs go to Parkes, the jeweller. Main Street.

In connection with the Catholic Conference at Sydney, a presentation of Jubilee addresses from various bodies to Cardinal Moran took place with an imposing ceremony on Saturday, The Cardinal asked the donors of the rich gifts to devote them to the fund for the equipment of the St. Columba Missionary College and the completion of St, Mary’s Cathedral.

Archibald Muir, who was brought back on remand from Hokitika, appeared before the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North on Saturday morning to answer a great number of charges. It appears the accused was storeman in the Tongburn Freezing works, and It is alleged that he collected the money of thirty-three cheques illegally. These cheques were of about £22 each, and the total amount tallied to near Accused was remanded on bail in two sureties fcof or three sureties of £too.

The contractor for regrading and asphalting the footpaths in Main Street, has almost completed the grading. The asphalt has been picked off, exposing in many places fine sand, which is shifted by the wind into the shop premises. It has been pointed out to us that a mistake has been made in having the grading done throughout before starling the asphalting. A better method, our ink rmant states,, would have been to have graded and completed say a half chain of footpath at a time.

The “ Lone Hand ” for October is an especially good number. It contains Mr Theodore Rooesvelt’s first article on his expedition to Africa in search of big game, which is of a particularly interesting nature. Mr Roosevelt reports, “I have had great luck; the game has come quicker .than I thought.” The article is illustrated by photographs. “ The secrets of cinematography,” by Edmund Fisher, shows the enormous strides that have been made in this form of entertainment of late years, a good insight being given into the work of film-production by the Kodak Co. of Rochester (N.Y.),, Pathe Freres (Paris), fylr West and the Salvation Army in Australia. As the author aptly remarks, the camera is the great king of instructors ; it will conquer ignorance in every corner of the world.”

Many and varied are the tricks of the opium smugglers, and ingenious are the subterfuges resorted to with a view of eluding the . vigilance of the Customs officials. In the Central Criminal Court in Sydney, a Chinese witness told of a scheme that was intended to completely baffle the authorities. A launch, he alleged, was to be built and taken outside the Heads, ostensibly for the purpose of fishing, but really to meet steamers on its way down the coast. Accomplices on board were to throw overboard the opium. This would be secured by the party in the launch, and later on brought up the harbour. If suspicions were aroused they would take half of .ic to the authorities, and, telling a plausible tale, claim the reward. It they landed the opium safely the whole profit would be divided.

Mr E. Newman, MiP., attended the monthly meeting of the Rangitikei County Council, held on Saturday, and reported having met Sir Joseph Ward at Marton Railway Station. They discussed the question of the amount of money availablß][l(jr local bodies. The Prime Minister gave him to understand they could get an unlimited quantity on satisfactory security, and local bodies could offer this. The amount would have to be In stuns of £I OO,OOO, and perhaps this difficulty, said Mr Newman, could be got over by consolidating all the loans. It intention of the Government 'to guarantee loans, but thfey would assure the, moneylender at Home. If they were satisfied there was good security the money could be obtained at 3j£per cent., but Mr Newman considered that if local bodies went in for this borrowing at least one per cent, sinking fund should be added. If the money could be obtained at this rate of interest and in unlimited sums, it would be a boon to settlers. The council intend to go into the question thoroughly, and will call a special meeting if necessary. Says the Feilding Star-“Mr F. W. Frankland, of Foxton, who is as well-known in literary and scientific as in political circles, has just published the second edition of the summary of ’ the contents of his collected essays and citations. The contents refer to his writings on ethics and politics from 188 S to 1909, and show the immense literary industry and great mental activity of him whom we are lempted to call the Recluse of the MaUawatu ; for it seems as if nothing short of a political fight can tempt him out of his library. For a man of his years—he is only 55 —Mr Frank* land has crowded much effort and experience into his life ; and as the son of a noted scientist (Sir Edward Frankland) fie has inherited unusual gifts and a perfect genius for analysis, whether it be Jn figures, forces, phrases, or forms, of religious or political economics. We can well understand, as the pamphlet before us indicates, what a world-wide correspondence must be his, with many famous men exchanging views with Frankland of Foxton. A perusal of this latest edition the lists of contents of his achievements with the pen would simply astonish not only the average New Zealafider, but even the best-in-formed of pur people.” We acknowledge ?a copy of the pamphlet referred to above.