LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 502, 2 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly sitting of the local S.M. Court will take place tomorrow.

Totara posts and strainers are advertised for sale cheap. Apply this office. The vital statistics for Foxton for October wereßirths, 12; marriages 2 ; deaths 1.

The Professorial Board of Victoria College has elected Mr Robert Kennedy as the college’s candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship this year. At Pahiatua on Saturday morning, Thomas Aubue, alias G, Storey, remanded from Foxton, was charged with forging an order for £ l s hi the name of J. W. Murray, and with having uttered same to Mr G. Powell, storekeeper, of Makuri. After evidence accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence.

The friends of Mr Bailie will be pleased to learn that he has so improved in health that he was able to make the trip from Palmerston to Foxton to-day, per motor car.

In order to quit 300 Edison records this week, Mr Cochran is offering them at rs each. Those possessing phonographs are invited to call early to save disappointment.*

At the local Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr Rimmer, J.P., John Harper, charged by the police with threatening behaviour, on Saturday, was fined £2 and costs 7s. Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche invite visitors to Palmerston North during show week to inspect their magnificient stocks of new goods just opened up for the summer trade in every department of their business. *

Some human leg-bones have, been discovered on the beach, about two and a quarter miles from ( Cape Terawhiti. It is believed they are relics of the Penguin wreck. The police authorities are despatching a constable to where the bones were found.

It is stated that a Suffragette imprisoned in Strangeways Gaol, Manchester, barricaded her cell door with her plank bed, and that the warders inserted a hose through a window and drenched her for an hour. Then they forced the door.

The recent rise in the price of coal compelled Mr H. Coley to raise the price locally from 3s to 3s 6d per sack. Owing to an oversight on our part, the price was not altered in the advertisement. The retail price is 3s 6d per sack, and not 3s as previously advertised.

A special feature that must not be missed at the Palmerston Show, will be the finest collection of Pianos and Organs ever • got together, and the wonderful Pianola. See outside stall taken by Mr Wesley Woolhouse for the British and Continental Piano Co. — Advt.

All those who intend to exhibit fruit, flowers, etc., at the forthcoming Horticultural Show, can obtain entry forms and catalogues upon application to the Secretary, Mr J. T, Devett. The Show will be held in the Public Hall on the 24th and 25th insts. The Misses Vibert, dressmakers, notify that they have removed from the shop in ■ Main Street to more convenient premises in Hall Street. They have also engaged the services of an experienced assistant from Auckland, so that all orders will be executed with despatch. Fit, style, and workmanship guaranteed. Our representative was shown a handsome piece of furniture in Mr Cochran’s shop yesterday, in the form of an antique side-board, which had been manufactured on the premises. The design and workmanship were of a very high order, fully ■ demonstrating the fact that art furniture of any design can be manufactured in Foxton as well as in the larger centres of the Dominion.

A lengthy court case W. H. Smith v. E. D. Hoben was concluded at Palmerston North last week. There were two claims and a counter claim, the claims being ; (i) ,£B6 ns id for balance on rents, rates, discounts on bills and exchange on cheques ; and (2) ,£4O los for rent of premises lately occupied by Watsbn and Eyre ; and the counter claim was for ,£79 7s gd, for a gas engine purchased by defendant, type and erection of stairway. Judgment will be given to-day.

At the recent conference of Trades’ and Labour Council, held in Wellington, the Hon. J. Barr M.L.C., voiced his appreciation of the methods and energy of the Manawatu Flaxmills’ Employees’ Industrial Union ot Workers. Especially were they to be complimented he added, upon their official orgin, ‘‘The Press Hank,” of which he was a regular and interested reader. Mr W. Pryor Characterised The Press Hank, in conversation with the Secretary of the Union, as “the best little labour paper in New Zealand.” It is to be hoped that the production will continue to merit the praise it has so far earned from both sides.

Concerning Standard V competency certificate, Inspector Braik says A great deal of misconception exists in the minds of the public respecting the way in which this certificate may be secured. Twice a year the board offers every facility to pupils who desire to gain it, viz., at the inspector’s annual examination for the proficiency certificate in December. The conditions under which it may be obtained are definitely set out in the syllabus —conditions, I regret to say, which are not understood by parents. It is .quite common for young people to receive appointments in the Public Service; confirmation of the appointment being dependent upon the production of a certificate of competency. Application is made to the teacher, who cannot supply the certificate, and finally the inspector is appealed, to, who can supply it only after examination. In a majority of cases the candidate is unsuccessful, hence much heartburning. I would recommend the board to have printed and placed on the wall of every school in the district the conditions under which the certificate may be obtained, accompanied by reasons why every pupil should endeavour to secure the certificate before leaving school.”—Wanganui Chronicle.