LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 600, 23 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A wheel cap lost between Foxton and Moutoa, is advertised for.

Mr Wanklyn advertises for sale owner’s right in an eleven years lease of section at Sanatorium. Good nibble.

A rent book, lost between Mr Moore’s office and the Catholic Church, is advertised for. Will the finder kindly return to this office.

The ordinary meeting of the local Masonic Lodge will be held this evening at 8 o’clock. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to be present.

Inspector Wilson, in charge of the Wanganui Police District, paid an official visit to Foxton yesterday. He arrived by the morning train and left for Shannon by coach in the afternoon.

A conference under the auspices of the New Zealand Alliance is to be held in- Wellington to-morrow, when the agreement arranged between “ the trade ” and the Noliceuse authorities will be discussed in all its phases, and a plan of campaign for the future will be arranged. After the earthquakes three craters, the largest on the south side, opened at Pico de Teyde, Teneriffe. They emitted a lava stream a mile long and 500 yards wide, flowing at the rate of six yards an hour. It is threatening the towns of Icod and Garachico. The inhabitants have fled. The eruption is now diminishing. A special meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers on Friday, 26th November, 1909, at 7.30 o’clock p.m. Business: Consideration of purchase of gas works, together with report of auditor and town clerk thereon.

After three days’ secret trial, Mrs Augusta Stetson, leader of the Christian Scientists of New York, has been excommunicated for rebellion against Mrs Eddy, the founder of the first Christian Science Association. Mrs Stetson’s adherents threaten to establish a rival organisation.

The mission services connected with the local Methodist Church and conducted by sisters Adey and Minnie (sisters of the people) were well attended on Sunday last. The mission will be continued during the week. A children’s service was held this afternoon and a Bible reading for adults will be held to-morrow afternoon at. 3 o’clock. Mrs Hamer, of the Economic, has a number of dainty muslin dresses for sale at the low cost of 16s each. Surely, this is an un-heard-of offer so early in the season. A very special range oi stylish dust coats at ridiculously small figures, which must be cleared as soon as possible, on account of alterations to premises. Inspection invited.*

A very severe storm from the north-west passed over this district yesterday. To-day is bright sunshine.

A very fine example of the confectioner’s art in the form of a two-decker wedding cake is on view in Mr M. Perreau’s window.

At the local Police Court yesterday, before Mr G. H. Stiles, J.P., a first offending inebriate was convicted and discharged.

The following acceptances have been received for the Eoxton sculling championship :—Webb, Welch, Haguey, Mitchell, R. R. Green, Larsen, Felton, Kemp, A. Green, F. Green, Ellis, Rewiti, Ogilvie, and Lawson. The following tenders for the conveyance of mails for the ensuing twelve months have just been accepted by the postal authorities : Foxton, Moutoa and Shannon, twice daily—Mr T, H. Gingell (Foxton) ; Levin and Foxton, twice daily—Hodgraan and Draper (Levin),

The Ashburton Guardian slates that last Thursday afternoou, during a thunderstorm, a thunderbolt struck a willow tree, on the Alford Forest. Road. In its appearance it was like a large globe of light, and when it struck the tree it exploded with a report like that of a cannon, scattering the leaves in all directions and disturbing the stones on the gravel beneath, to the great alarm of those who witnessed the incident from a house only a short distance away. It is stated that during the storm many telephone bells rang as the lightning flashed.

Referring to the grievances of bank clerks, an Auckland manager says :—“The statement that the men whose hearts are bigger than their purses have to leave if they are getting less than per year, and want to get married is too foolish for words. Instead of their hearts being bigger than their salaries, their salaries are bigger than their brains. Any person gifted with any common sense at all must know that it is absolutely impossible for a bank clerk to marry on less than per year and at the same time try to keep up his position.”

The Sydney Morning Herald referring to a police raid on a Chinese opium den in Sydney, says that the officers who made the raid will readily agree with Bret Hart that “for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee is peculiar.” They had caught one Chinaman enjoying a smoke of the drug, and naturally expected to find a stock of opium hidden away. They discovered a small amount of opium in a tube, but were not satisfied, and commenced lifting loose floorings boards, “No more opium,” said the occupiers of the house ; .“you find him all,” One of the constables had dislodged a board over a gaspipe, and was about to put his hand in to feel for the hidden tins. John grew anxious, and whispered excitedly in the searcher’s ear. “Mind out, Mr Pleeciman, plenty big mouse ; plenty big lat in there ; him bitey pleeciman’s finger.” The constable switched on a small pocket electric lantern, and this revealed, instead of ferocious rodents, no fewer than forty tins of opium.