The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, October 7,1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 491, 7 October 1909, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, October 7,1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Eva Humphreys, aged thirteen, was found dead in bed at Gisborne on Tuesday, having evidently expired three hours previously.

At the local S.M. Court yesterday Mr J. K. Hornblow, was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace by Mr A. D. Thompson, S.M.

Messsrs W. R. Barber and O. Robinson have been appointed Foxtou representatives for the Horowhenua A. and P. Association.

A Moscow theatre is engaging sixteen odalisques (female slaves in Turkish harems) from the harem of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid. They will appear in operetta.

®A boy aged six years, son of J. Nicholas, carpenter, Martpn, was drowned in a small pond at Marton this week. In conversation with Mr G. Coley, yesterday, our representative was informed that during a residence in this district of 38 years he had not seen so much surface water lying about as at present. He had a large area ot country to plough and 20 horses idle, but nothing could be done until the weather held up. While prospecting for fish during his trawling expedition round the coast of New Zealand, Mr Ayson discovered some fine groper off the Titnaru Breakwater. About a dozen launches have since been regularly at work securing a harvest of fish for the principal markets, and earning as much as £8 to £l2 per week. One of the Cavills was asphyxiated in a bath on the Pacific Slope (America). He was giving an exhibition of staying under water for a given time, and used an inverted tub to help to hold himself down. Unfortunately, in this particular bath gases accumulate in the water, and Cavill was asphyxiated. It seems strange that,, although he died under water, he was not drowned.

Accounts were published in the New Zealand press regarding what was thought to be the strange termination of a South African murder case. An elderly man named McLaughlan was extradited from Australia on a charge of having shot a man in one of the South Africian States. McLaughlan was taken on board the Waratah, on the occasion of her last trip, and when her mysterious disappearance with all hands were recorded it was taken for granted that he had gone with her. The latest papers from South Africa show that he is in safe custody at Durban, and standing his trial there on the capital charge. Durban was the port at which the Waratah touched, and McLaughlan and his custodian must have gone ashore at that place. The Loudon Times publishes the text of Dr Wallace’s documents concerning Shakespeare’s business connection with London theatres. They are the most interesting finds since Mr Green’s discovery of Shakespeare’s will in 1747. The deed of partnership traces the history of the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres from 1859 to 16x6. Shakespeare owned a seventh share of Blackfriars and a one-fourteenth share* of the Globe. The total annual rent of of the Globe was .£l4l 2s. The exact site of the Globe was not where the present brewery stands, as is generally supposed, but at the opposite side of Park Street, which was called Maiden Lane in Shakespeare’s time. Dr Wallace states that the Globe, Rose, Bear Garden, and Hope Theatres were all between Maiden Lane and Bankside.

Special offer of a best pair of kid gloves to every cash purchaser of drapery to the value of

Report of the variety concert unavoidably crowded out of this issue.

Mr Pryor has accepted an invitation to be present at the Harbour Board meeting to-morrow night, when certain important matters will be discussed.

Mr J. G. Speirs invites tenders for the purchase of a property in Norbition Road. Tenders close on the 2 ist instant at 12 noon. Full particulars can be obtained on application to Mr Speirs. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening next when consideration of the proposal for the purchase of the gas works will be considered.

The annual general meeting of the Mauawatu Rowing Club is advertised to be held in the Council Chamber, on Tuesday evening next, at eight o’clock. All members and intending members requested to attend.

The Johannesburg correspondent of the Times indicates that the scheme to initiate the South African Union with a BoerBritish coalition Ministry is a failure. It is receiving no support among the- general body of the Afrikander Bond and Het Volk (the Transvaal Boer party). The King opened the Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute at Belmont Park, Montreal, by pressing a button at Buckingham Palace, which has electrical communication. This throws open the doors, turns on the lights, and hoists the flag at the Institute. The Pittsburg Press has taken a vote of its readers, with the result that 73,257 express the belief that Dr Cook reached the pole, 17,043 believe Peary reached the Peary reached the Pole, 2814 disbelieve that Dr Cook reached it, and 58,009 disbelieve that Lieut. Peary reached the Pole. Mr Whitney states that when he met Dr Cook it was difficult to distinguish him from the Eskimos. Dr. Cook was exhausted and ill. There was nothing but skin on his bones. His condition precluded the idea of his only being two days’ march from land as Lieut. Peary asserts.

The other morning at Fitzherbert West, Mr Reginald Vautier’s little boy, Frederick Peter, aged two years and nine months, was drowned in a creek near his parents’ house. The scene of the accident is within a few chains of the Fitzherbert West creamery. The little fellow must have wandered away from the house and fallen into the stream. When taken out he was still alive, but he succumbed before medical aid could be obtained. The father of the child was in town when the accident occurred and was not apprised of his loss till it was too late to be of any assistance. Mr John Brown, postmaster of Carterton, is retiring from the service after forty years’ official work. He first entered the postal service in 1869, in the north of Ireland, and left there for New Zealand in 1870, arriving in Port Chalmers. He entered the New Zealand service on January 1, 1877, 33 years ago, and has been continuously in it ever since. Mr Brown will give up his duties on December 31, and has been granted three mouths’ leave on full pay, and retiring compensation. Mr Ramsay will act as postmaster at Carterton until Mr Brown’s successor is appointed.