The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 6, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 705, 6 January 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 6, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advertisers and subscribers to the Hurai.d are notified that accounts have been rendered to 31st December, and an early settlement of same will be much appreciated by the proprietor. Small fruits have not done well in this district this year. An advertiser wants a cottage on the river front at the Heads for four or five weeks. The funeral of the infant son of Mr and Mrs M. H. Walker will leave their residence, Norbiton Road, for the Foxton Cemetery, at 3 p.m. to-morrow (Friday). Dr. Dunn, Wanganui’s first lady doctor, will be amongst the applicants for the position of house surgeon to the Wanganui Hospital. The Zionist Congress, now sitting at Hamburg, unanimously decided to establish a co-operative Settlement in Palestine. The sum of ,£BOOO was voted for preliminary operations. One of the most prolific crops of tomatoes it has been our pleasure to inspect is grown' under glass by Mr R. E. Gray, of Johnson St. The trees are heavily burdened with fruit ot the Constant vaiiety. In the open Mr Gray has some hardy-looking plants which promise, well from seeds obtained from the famous Burbank Nursery. The January Review of Reviews just to hand is, as usual, full of world-wide information. The character sketch is of Lord Lausdowne, the man who engineered the scheme which resulted in the destruction of the Budget in the House of Lords. There is an excellent review of Lieutenant Shackleton’s book, “The Heart of the Antarctic,” illustrated with several photographs. The description is one of the most interesting and informative that we have read. The section devoted to a review of the month’s magazines is very complete, and invaluable to anyone who wishes to keep in the march of current thought and events. The Rev. Mr Woodward has written to the several ministers who have officiated as vicars in charge of this parish since its inception, asking for their photographs, to be hung in the vestry. He has just received a photograph and a letter from All Saints’ first vicar, the Rev. George Aitkens, now of Stonstead Rectory, Clemsford, Suffolk, England'. In the letter, Mr Aitkens desires to be remembered to his old parishioners, and is joined in this wish by his wife. The letter states that “it may interest old friends to know that my eldest daughter and two eldest sons are in British Columbia on the Okanegan Lake, and that my third son starts on Friday for Montreal, where he has obtained an appointment.” The letter is dated November 22nd, 1909.

The monthly meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held to-morrow night at 8 o’clock. Nominations for all events at the Foxton Racing Club’s Annual Meeting except the Trial Hack Race, first day, and the Maiden Hack Scurry, second day, close with the Secretary, Foxton, this evening at 9 o’clock. Professor Lowell states that the new Martian canals are strikingly evident eastward of Ysrtis, and denote the presence of au animate will. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. On Tuesday, nth inst. a special meeting will be held at 7.30 p.m. for the purpose of considering Mr Climte’s water and drainage scheme. Mr Alex Ross (of the firm of Messrs Wm. Ross and Son) left Foxton to-day for Sydney, where he will catch the s.s Mooltan foi Old Country, Mr Ross’ visit is on business in connection with new plant for the rope and twine works recently destroyed by fire. Mr Ross expects to be absent about four months. Rualt, of Germany, and Clark, of Australia, won a six-days’ team cycle contest in Berlin, and divided the prize, amounting to The winners covered 2327 miles. Ruatt, the co-winner with Clark, was a defaulter in the German mi]itar} r service. His punishment by the War Office has been deferred at the intercession of the German Crown Prince, who was frantic with joy over Ruatt’s win. There are a large number of visitors at the Beach this year. All the houses are occupied and tents are erected in all directions. Quite a number of new .cottages have been erected since last year. Visitors are represented from Masterton in the south to Taihape in the north. The time has arrived for some enterprising person to erect a suitable accommodation house. It would be a payable investment. A narrow escape from a drowning fatality occurred at the Beach on New Year’s Day. Niuian, the little sou of Mr and Mrs Alex. Ross, was wading in the ripples when a wave broke on the beach and carried the little fellow out. Luckily, the incident was witnessed by a number of people including Mrs Ross, who was_near at hand and the little fellow was quickly rescued none the worse for his immersion. The combined Presbyterian and Methodist river excursion-., and picnic to the Beach on iWw Year’s Day proved a very ;n----joyable outing and was w 4 patronised by Palmerston people;, A number of excuniohlsfcrby a later train expressed keen disappointment because they bad missed the boats. There were no mishaps. A few days ago a photograph which will serve to record a very interesting incident, was taken by Mr W. C. Barrows, of Inglewood. The occupants of the sitters’ chairs were two brothers —Mr Frank Clough, of Inglewood, and Mr John Clough, of the Vancouver Police Force, who met a week or so ago for the first time after an absence of 60 years. Mr Frank Clough will be 84 years of age on April 12th next, aud Mr John Clough 80 on March Ist next. The latter, however, is still on the active service list and leaves New Zealand on January Ist next to resume his duties in the Vancouver Police, —Taranaki Herald. The Gore correspondent of the Southland Times says :—A story is going the rounds of a little incident which is said to have occurred at a church not so very far out of Gore. A reverend gentleman was interrupted in the course oi his sermon by a child crying, aud when the mother rose to take the infant outside he appealed to her to stay, saying that the child did not disturb him in the least. With a pitying smile at his ignorance of the facts the fond pa rc "t replied “No sir ? It’s you who disturbed the baby,” and out she went. A sturdy supporter of modernism in teaching is the Mayor of Wellington, Dr Newman. Latin and Greek, for example, have evidently no place in his affections, and he said so quite plainly at the Teachers’ Conference on Tuesday, during his brief address of welcome to the delegates. “ Abolish such nonsense as Greek and Latin,” he said, with emphasis. “There is no need for them, and I am only sorry that my son has wasted so much time in learning Latin when he might have studied something more useful. Sweep away the cobwebs, and try to give the children the kind of knowledge that will fit them for the battle of life.”

During the discussion on the Railway Estimates, Mr Millar speaking of the reduced train service between Mastertou and Wellington, said that through sending the Napier service over the Manawatu 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 j Manawatu Hue, he said the rates j now charged for goods carried j over it were simply the ordinary \ gazetted rates. If it was found that the 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.

I ”T I Mr Baillie, late manager of the, ' local branch ot the Bank dl left Foxton to-day for Palmerstoi>“ ,'r; N. accompanied by Mrs Bail”" and family. After spending week in the latter place, vvV’TmJ 1 Baillie will proceed toPicto;. / ' a few months prior to resiu y y duty. He cairies away with * the best wishes of Foxton resfv* dents.

A striking example of regular school attendance was. mentioned by the headmaster, Mr C. D. Hardie, at the prize distribution at the West Christchurch District High School, when a lad named Arthur Barnett, stepped forward for his attendance prize. Mr Hardie stated the lad had not missed one school day for eight years, and for the last three years* he had had to travel twelve miles to the school and twelve miles back home. The lad was loudly applauded by those present. The Lone Hand magazine Christmas number is lull of interesting reading matter. “ Australia’s Amphibians,” descriptive of _ surf bathing at Bondi and Manly, is a seasonable article, and then*®--are a number of stories whichW make good holiday reading, be-\ sides musical, dramatic and fashion ' notes and miscellaneous reading. The serial, Galahad Jones, and Theodore Roosevelt’s South African hunting narrative are continued. The illustrations, a number of which are in colour, are excellent.

Marriages in private houses have to some extent become fashionable in Australasia, although they were so performed because of the remote distance of churches. With some denominations they are regarded as a quite regular proceeding. Bishop Wallis, however, thinks that no marriage should be celebrated in a private house except in cases where both parties live at least six miles from a church or church room. He has expressed a desire to that effect to the clergy throughout the diocese.

“ If there is any dauger threatening our educational system,” said Mr Edmunds, of Deniliquin, at a recent Teachers’ Conference in Sydney, “it is the entry into the service of a great number of ci young fellows eminently unfitted - to be there. Some I have met are without culture of any kind. They cannot talk English, and cannot set an example tc others, judging by their behavior in the railway carriages. These are in want of very drastic training, and there should certainly be a higher qualification for entry into the service, lest it be degraded in the eyes oi the whole community.

While sauntering along Jervois ell in gtoa, a day or two \ ago,' r, >|v-jr • costed by a lazy individual in tl® ■’ •following terms; —•“ Excuse me, \ sir, what would you advise me do with this hand ?” The Petoueite looked at the brawny hand that was held up to his gaze, and replied: “Look here, my friend, Christ restored a blind man’s sight by spitting on his eyes. You just take my advice, which is—spit on both hands, rub them together, take hold of a long-handled shovel, V and then get to work. You’ll find the hand cured in no time.” And with a look of unutterable contempt for the manliugerer, the suburban resident passed on. A pathetic little story of au old . woman In the Isle of Man waiting in vain for news of her son in faroff New Zealand was told by Mr Hall Caine a few. weeks ago in a paper read before the Liverpool Jewish Literary Society. “The law of human nature which, from various causes, estranges—sometimes utterly separates —parents aud children has always seemed to me one of the most tragic things in life,” he said. “That the love of the child for the parent is in itself a pathetic fact. When I think of it, there comes back to my memory a little incident which for several years was constantly present to my eyes—an old woman living alone in a thatched cottage near to my home in the Isle of Man, waiting for a letter from a son who, years before, had gone away to New Zealand. Every evening, winter and summer, she hobbled out to the end ot the high J road at the hour \yheu the post- T f man was expected to pass. There ' j it was the same scene always, the same salutation, and the same reply. ‘ Anything for me, postman ?’ ‘ Nothing for you tonight, Mrs She wanted nothing from her son except to hear that he was well and happy, aud thinking sometimes of his old mother who was alone at home. But she died without ever hearing.”