The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 4, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 704, 4 January 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 4, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All local business people report having done good business during the Christmas season.

Thursday being the Feast of the Epiphany, there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion in All Saints’ Church at 7.30 a.m. Of the 550 men constituting the complement of H.M.S. Challenger, about 250 are natives of New Zealand or Australia. There are twenty-seven unregistered racing clubs in the Gisborne district, which will be affected by the racing legislation recently before Parliament. There will be a garden fete in connection with All Saints’ Church on February 2nd. Further particulars will be given at a later date. Mr R. H. Barber notifies that he has admitted Mr J. Ross (late of the s.s. Queen of the South) into partnership, and that the business will in the future be conducted under the name of R. H. Barber and Co. Mounsey and Co. advertise particulars of an unreserved sale they are conducting on Monday next on account of Messrs Newth Bros., when the auctioneers will sell the whole of the dairy herd, a spring cart, house, and farm implements. The sale commences at 1 p.m. Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, have a replace advertisement in this issue relating to the capacity of their furnishing department, to which the attention of our readers is directed. A large stock of high class goods at reasonable prices is always on view at the Bon Marche.* The passenger traffic on the Wairarapa and Napier-Wellington sections of the railways yesterday was very congested. The NapierWellington' trains were delayed over an hour. The 'numbers J travelling must easily have 3 stituted a record for this sen 1 The officials did their utmc-J. cope with the human freights. 'v-. If in want of Birthday, Wedd u . 3r otheLnfts, go to Parkes’ , t££> presents.* " i l -

Mr Robert Rankiii, aged 28 years, of Wairangaf Dunedin, was killed on New Year’s Day through being capsized out r bfhis gig.

The Palmerston: North High School re-opens on Wednesday, February 2nd. Particulars. are advertised elsewhere in- this'issue.

On Friday afternoon, the three and a-half, year old son of Mr Matthew Price, living at Tiratu, near Dannevirke, was drowned in the Manawatu river.

Mr Reay, butcher, notifies that he will make application for the* transfer of his slaughtering license; at the next meeting of the Mafiawatu County Council. Mr Eeo. Alzdorf, the local sprinter, succeeded in winning a couple of events ai Sira'uord Sports on Nt j ” r . A; Taihape liis I , wa.. a second place. . • ' -

The wedding .re last week of Mr Boye:-, o. teemed local dentist, and Miss Tatton, daughter of Dr, Tatton. Mr and Mrs Boyes have taken up their residence in Foxtou and this paper joins in wishing them long life and prosperity.

On Friday last, a married man named John McCrorie, aged 36, a resident of Green Island, Dunedin, left his home to go fishing. He did not return that evening, and a search party on Saturday morning found his body on Green Island beach, where it had apparently been washed by the sea. Whilst out driving on Friday afternoon Mrs Catherine Williams, 38 years of age, wife of William Geo. Williams, of Einwood, Christchurch, was thrown out of a dogcart. She was removed to the hospital, where she died the same evening. A six-months-old child in her arms escaped unhurt. A correspondent of the Dannevirke Advocate writes Two thousand sheep passed through Weber on Tuesday morning, en route for the Gear Company’s meat works at Petone. Eleven' shillings and sixpence is'not over-high price to pay for. g.S!bS freezers, but the question tor The grower is can he do better by freezing on bis own account. One farmer refused 13s, and then shipped on his own account, to find that he realised 8s per carcase. Dissatisfaction is expressed throughout ■ the Wairarapa at the altered railway arrangements and the line is now looked upon as a branch affair. Wool and other produce is hung up at nearly every siding, and complaints are heard on every hand at the very, unsatisfactory arrangements for* passenger traffic. Economy hai« been wedged a little too far by thfSl Minister in respect to the Waits rapa line, and S si the " water the lire spreading to the other buildings. There was bo insurances on either shed or its contents and Mr Seifert estimates the loss at about

At the local Police Court this morning before Messrs Stiles and Hornblow, J’s.P., a prohibition order was/ granted against a local identity on the application of a townsman. Mr Reade, who appeared for the defendant, asked for an adjournment for a fortnight in order that defendant might be allowed to pull himself together. This was opposed by two witnesses and the police. The Bench the defendant if the prohibition order was not respected steps would be taken to have him committed to an inebriates’ home. Mr R. Stevens informed the Dannevirke Advocate that until quite recently it was a matter for "•urorise to him that rabbits did not' incfeaS€4fi4bg. Some years ago the rodentswere' fairly numerous in that district, and rabbiters had to be put on to keep them down, but they have since then not made any headway ; in fact, their numbers have been lessened. Mr Stevens now believes he has solved the reason for this. A. few days ago his men found the dogs much excited near a log, and on turning over the timber, about a dozen healthy stoats were discovered making a meal off a full-grown rabbit.

In the Gaming Bill which is to be introduced by the Government next session members will be asked to decide whether the licensing of-the totalisator and of the bookmaker is to be continued. “ The Prime Minister and his colleagues seem determined,” says the Dunedin Star,- ” that the question shall be put so that ‘ tote ’ and bookmaker shall stand or fall together; in other words, the opportunity will not be given under the BiH of saying whether the tote ’ is to go and whether the bookmaker is to remain, or viceversa.” AH who are in need of summer dress goods, smart linens, muslins, prints, etc., should not fail to call at Mrs Hamer's, Main Street, where large reductions are being made all round, on account of the extensive alterations and additions to be effected to premises. For stylish and up-to-date millinery,

at b— figures, you cannot do bettv t .a call at the Economic, b'he prices are right, and the ai ■fitst-oJass'quaiity. The -• season is now on us,, and wt y millinery is essential to ;¥y {a dy’s toilette. Mrs Hamer ■;* also a rare and varied stock chnd :ens bonnets, etc.*

Barnes and Grierson are lewin£ for the chess championship tourney at Auckland. ; ; Says last week's Free Eancd : !‘Called in at this office'pn mas Eve, Frederick Wr Frank- w land, late associate actuary of the if New York Eife Insurance Corqpany, and a candidate for the. SI Manawatu seat at the last general election. Mr Frankland was im . Wellington for a day or two fixing up matters in connection with his forthcoming trip to Ainerica. He has booked his passage to San Francisco, via Fiji, for the 19th January, and will leave Auckland by the “ Navua,” connecting with the “Mukura” at Honoiliilu- Mr Frankland hopes to visit England whilst away, and he will slip across the her ringroad from New York after - transacting his business in the big Yankee city. He has a good deal of .business to get through on the Californian coast, however, on his was through. This political warrior intends fb “scorch” on his trip. He has got the ManawhtU - seat at the next general elect Jioeu firmly fixed in his eye. ar 9 he intends hitting home again sc s -aewhere in September, or the huii't end of August, in time to miw * personal house-to-house cr* v. V from the Beersheba to Dan ' electorate. It is six years m.', ’ Mr Frankland travelled aor - and the chances are that this will just fix him up with seve.’aV *-■ horse-power strength to fight out the ManawatU4?snewhen the next general election heave§ jn .sight ’