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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 609, 14 December 1909, Page 2

Those who have not already given their orders for enlargements to strange canvassers are requested to take them to the Yerex studio at once, as this is the last month.* The Foxton Friendly Societies advertise a picnic at Piaka (up the river) on Boxing Day. The steamer fares, are very reasonable, and the affair should attract a large gathering. The Masterton Master Bakers 5 Union advertise bread for cash at the counter at 3d per alb loaf. The price of bread in Foxton is 4d cash. A correspondent elsewhere in this issue puts in a plea for a reduced price. We regret to note that the Yerex studio will soon be closed. You will miss the little studio and the most attractive window in the town. Your children’s noses, which have been flattened against this window during the past year, will now have an opportunity to grow straight.* A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Council Chamber this evening at 8 o’clock, when the schedule for the autumn show will be drawn up. On Thursday evening there will be a general meeting of members in Perreau’s Rooms to approve of same.

local State School last week was won by Std. I with an average of 94 per cent. Miss Doull has been appointed sole teacher to Mangamlngi School (ten miles out of Eltham). A buggy whip lost between Foxton and Himatangi last evening is advertised for. Probate has been granted of Mr. Samuel Horden’s will. The value of the estate is sworn at 000. Mr H. Walton, of Douth Nursery, Norbiton Road, advertises cherry plums for sale in any quantity. Macterlinch’s play, “The Blue Bird,” produced at the Hay market Theatre, proved one of the most remarkable dramatic and pictorial successes of the present generation. A great suffragette" meeting at the Albert Hall, Dondon, welcomed Mrs and Miss Pankhurst on their return from America. In a few minutes they collected for the suffragist cause. The local State School will break up for the Christmas holidays on Friday next. The Chairman of Committee will present the good attendance certificates to those entitled to receive them. On the arrival of the Union Company’s steamer Moeraki at Hobart, from the Bluff, Mr Will Crooks, M.P. for Woolwich, who was a passenger, was handed a cable message recalling him to England immediately. Mr A. Dazarette desires us to inform our readers that he is in no way connected with any other fish business in Foxton, except the firm of Dazarette and Hasletc, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue. A party of sixty Maoris left Auckland by the Maheno to take part in a series of native entertainments at Manly, the Sydney seaside resort, during the holiday season. They came most from Rotorua, and were in charge of Maggie Papakura, the well-known guide, under whose direction the entertainments were organised. Mr Clement Wragge writes as follows to a contemporary “ The drought in South America and the present drought in New South Wales are intermittent preludes to the coming deficiency of rainfall in the Southern-Hemi-sphere and Australasia generally. Moral; Conserve water.” Elsewhere in this issue the Palmerston North Friendly Societies notify that their annual picnic and sports will be held in the local Park on New Year’s Day. An attractive programme has been drawn up, which includes a number of novelties. The Foxton Brass Band will be in attendance. The catering will be in the capable hands of Messrs Langley Bros. Hot water and milk will be supplied free. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Messrs Stiles and Hornblow J’s.P., a Devin lad. was charged on the information of the police with the theft of a bicycle at Foxton, the property of John Ross, value £lO. Accused pleaded guilty and was convicted and ordered to receive five strokes of the birch. The property to be returned to its rightful owner. Mr Haslett, who has become swell and favourably known in Foxton since his arrival here and by his business connection with the firm ot Messrs Hennessy and Co., has decided to strike out in a new line of business. He has gone into partnership with Mr Dazarette and the new firm. will conduct a fish and oyster saloon on modern lines. Premises have been secured in Main Street, and will be opened in the new year. A cart will make a daily delivery. According to the Horowhenua County Council Engineer, the road between Foxton and Devin has suffered to a considerable extent by the cartage of water pipes tor the Levin Borough Council. The damage to the road is estimated at He states that it would have paid the Council twice over to have paid the difference between the steamer and cartage freight and the railway freight. The Council on Saturday resolved to ask the Borough Council for a subsidy towards repairing the damage. Mr Dioyd-George exhibited his Celtic temperament at Carnarvon last week, where after announcing that he would never forsake that town for Cardiff, he was much moved by his hearers’ enthusiasm that he burst into tears and resumed his seat without finishing his speech, wherein, at the outset, he had declared that neither Ireland nor Wales can never obtain their rights except by marching over the ruins of the House of Lords, adding : “When the Liberals win this fight there will be a new earth.”

Daring the discussion on the railway estimates, Mr Millar, speaking of the reduced train service between Masterton and Wellington, said that through sending the Napier service over the Mauawatu, a saving of ,£14,000 would be effected per year. The running distance had been reduced by over 320 miles per day. The Minister stated that engines were not going to be imported—they were not going to send out of New Zealand for a single thing they could get inside. The engines manufactured in New Zealand were doing excellent work. As to the rates on the Manawatu line he said the rates now charged for goods carried over it were simply the ordinary gazetted rates. If it was found that water-borne trade was affecting the traffic on the line a change might have to be made, but in the meantime the traffic was very heavy.

the Horticultural' Society ' wiir' be held in the Council Chamber this evening at eight o’clock. A river excursion and picnic, under the auspices of the,combined Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, will take place on New Year’s Day. Particulars will appear in a subsequent issue. At the recent Devin Horti- • cultural Society’s Show, Mrs Kempster, of the Avenue, Foxton, was successful in gaining first prizes for cushion and shadow work. Members of the Try Again Dodge are notified that owing to the holidays, there will be no meeting of the lodge until January 20th. The Secretary of the Horticultural Society notifies that he will be in attendance at the office in Mr Hennessy’s Furniture Department on Thursday and Friday next for the purpose of paying prize money and issuing certificates to prize winners at the recent show. Dealing with the fact that patent foods were often responsible for fattening rather than strengthening an infant, Dady Plunket said she was recently shown a baby who had been brought up on patent food. Is it not a fine baby ?” proudly asked the mother. Her Excellency tactfully replied, “It is a large baby.”

We have been asked to direct the attention of the police to the conduct and language of certain boys who use that portion of the river near the boat slied for bathing purposes. We are informed that the language from some of these lads, to put it mildly, is “deadly.” As ladies have to pass this locality to go to the boat house we would suggest that a more secluded bathiug ground be obtained. Our attention has been drawn to the fact- that certain individuals are supplying prohibited persons with liquor, thereby defeating the ends of justice. “Cutter-runners” may not be aware of the fact that they are taking grave risks, as the law provides a penalty of £lO or three months’ imprisonment for such tricks. This business does, not meet with the approval of hotel-keepers or police, so we issue a timely warning to offenders. Mr W. E. Riddle, who has leased the orchard and vineries at “Sunnyside,” laid out by the late Mr Geo. Nye, notifies elsewhere in this issue that he is prepared to receive orders for all fruits in’ season. Mr Riddle has already put in a considerable amount of work in the orchard and vineries and the trees look exceptionally well. We feel certain that Mr Riddle will be well repaid for his enterprise. A sample of the cherry plums left at this office and which are now ready for marketing should find a ready sale either for . dessert or preserving. Orders 1 left with Mr Thorpe at the Public Library will receive prompt attention. At last night’s Council meeting the Borough solicitor (Mr Mooted acting under instructions from the Mayor, forwarded particulars of the steps that would have to be taken in order to have the old Maori cemetery at the north end of Main Street transferred from, the present native owners to the Borough. The matter would have to be dealt with by Native Land Boards and the Land Court, and" would take anything from one to three years before the transfer would be complete, and would cost somewhere in the vicinity of ,£4O. Further, the Borough would have to take the chance of the matter being “blocked” at any of the stages. Mr Moore suggested that the Borough obtain prices from different legal firms for doing the work. This would not commit them to any expenditure, and if they then decided to go on with the matter they would know exactly what the cost would be. The Council decided to leave the matter in the hands of the Mayor and Mr Moore.