The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, February 17, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 813, 17 February 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, February 17, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We direct attention to Millar and Giorgi’s replace advertisement.

Mr G. Brewer advertises white and brown leghorn cockerels for sale. Price 3s 6d each. Mr A. W. Playle, tailor and costumier, Palmerston N., inserts a replace advt., elsewhere in this issue.

We desire to acknowledge with thanks golden wedding favours from Mr and Mrs Procter, seur. The ordinary meeting ot the local School Committee will be held this evening. Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia have arrived in London for a week's stay at Buckingham Palace.

Mr C. Muller, representing Shackleton’s Dash for the Pole Pictures, is in town making arrangements for the visit to this town on February 24th,

It is rumoured that Mr R. McNab, ex-Minister for Lands, will take up his residence in Palmerston N., and there are whisperings that he will stand in the Liberal interests at the next election.

On Sunday the school cadets headed by the band, will attend divine service at All Saints Church at 11 a.m. The Rev. A. S. InnesJoues, Chaplain to 2nd Battalion of the Wellington Mounted Rides, will be the preacher.

Mr McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to a correspondent, says that Lord Charles Beresford’s allegations at Hartford are nonsense. The Invincible has fired, and can, fire her guns, and will be able to do so again if war came.

During the progress of the cricket match at Himatangi, yesterday, Mr Reade, who was standing, as umpire, got a nasty blow on the groin from one of Reddy’s lightning strokes. An umpire’s lot is not always a happy one. A general meeting of members of the Foxton Horticultural Society is advertised to take place in the Council Chamber on Monday evening next at 8 o’clock. As matters of importance in connection with the forthcoming autumn show will be discussed, a full attendance of members is requested.

The Foxton cadets, who are to take part in the big gathering of school cadets to be reviewed by l ord Kitcher on February 25th, in the Hutt Park, will leave Foxton on the 23rd by the 9 a.m. train to Palmerston. They will connect with the Palmerston contingent leaving at 11.25 a.m, and will arrive at the Lower Hutt at 4-17 p.m.

In connection with the alleged death by poisoning of Raisuli, the brigand chief, the Telegraph's Tangier correspondent says that he is in the best of health.

Several burglaries have been reported at Carterton recently. The Club Hotel was broken into on Tuesday night and the cashbox containing in gold, silver and cheques, removed. Mr Harry Bullock, manager ot the Wanganui firm of Messrs Hatrick and Co., died at Wanganui early yesterday morning after a short illness. The deceased gentleman, who was only 36 years of age, was the third son ot the late Geo. Bullock, of Auckland. “Your prayers have been constantly going up to the Council,” said the Mayor of Feilding to a meeting of ratepayers, ‘ “ Bet their be light!’ The Council has sent those prayers on to the Gas Company, and they have not been answered. Now, if the ratepayers do their duty on polling day on this question of electric light, you will be able to say ‘ And there was light!’ ” Feilding has decided to take a loan for electric lighting installation.

The Scarlet Troubadours made their initial appearance in Foxton last night to a big house, and the whole entertainment was of a high standard of excellence, clean, bright and humorous. The audience showed its appreciation from beginning to end. Every item was encored, and three or four double recalls were demanded and gracefully given. The ladies all scored encores, and every one of the male members made clever hits. The final item was perhaps the company’s cleverest effort—a song of parting, which produced roars of laughter.

When the notorious “Dr” Boranoff was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment at the local court for false pretences, he subsequently told the constable that he looked upon the sentence as small and he would ‘‘do it on his head.” It was not long after his release from prison that he indecently assaulted a little girl up Feilding way and for which crime he was sentenced at the Palmerston sitting of the Supreme Court on Tuesday to three years’ imprisonment. His plea was drunkenness. It seems a pity that such criminals could not be banished from these shores and made a charge on the country from whence they came. Boranoff will no doubt not now feel so jubilant as he did after his Foxton sentence.

The mascot of the Inverness railwayraen has passed away, writes” A.R.” in The Field, in the shape of a brown trout, whose life history was somewhat peculiar. The fish had been lauded at Milburn by the son of Mr McDonald, enginednver, was kept alive and soon became a great pet. Upwards of ten years ago the engine driver had it transferred to the tank of his engine, and it bad since passed a curious existence in the tanks of three separate engines. The trout was so tame that it would feed from the engine driver’s hand, and when a pail was dropped into the tank to take it out it would flop into it at once.

A recent visitor to the Piako Swamp country, where the Government is carrying on an extensive drainage scheme, speaks enthusiastically of the land that is being reclaimed for cultivation. On laud that had been partly drained he saw red clover growing three feet high, turnips (grown without manure) seven and eight inches thick, and grass as tall as a man’s head. Where a motor-launch took shooting parties only a few years ago, one can now drive a horse and dray. A canal, which will be i6j4 miles long, 40ft wide, and 20ft deep, is part of the drainage project. Stores are taken to the contractors across the swamp lands in canoes drawn by horses.

A residence of seventy years in the Dominion as colonists is a rare experience (says the Wairarapa Standard), yet Greytown holds four such—Messrs W. O. Williams, aged 83, William Udy, aged 72, Mrs Hawke, aged 74, and Mrs J. Judd, sen., aged 71. These four landed at Wellington seventy years ago on Tuesday. All are hale, hearty, and well, in full enjoyment both of their physical and mental faculties, and good for many more years of healthy and vigorous life yet we hope. Shipmates—then children, of course, and forming units of their respective families—in the good ship Duke of Roxburgh, which sailed from England for this new land in the far Pacific, on October 1, in the year 1839, they found their new home on February 8 of the following year.

The missionary was taking tea with a mandarin’s eight wives—she was, of course, a female missionary. The Chinese ladies examined her clothing, her hair, her teeth, and so on, but her feet especially amazed them. ‘‘ Why, ’ ’ one cried, “ you can walk and run as well as a man !” ” Yes, to be sure,” said the missionary. “Can you ride a horse and swim, too ?” “Yes.” “Then you must be as strong as a man?” “I am.” “ And you wouldn’t let a man beat you—not even if he was your husband would you?” “Indeed, I wouldn’t,” said the missionary, The mandarin’s eight wives looked at one another, nodding their heads. Then the eldest said softly : ‘‘.Now I understand why the foreign devil never has more than one wife. He is afraid,”

A beautiful assortment ot electroplate goods, brooches, engagement ings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery stablishment, Main St.*

Mrs C. L. Barnard, of Te Aroha, is spending a short holiday among old Foxton friends.

Messrs Eazarette and Haslett have just received a consignment ot Stewart Island oysters.

The Mayor convenes a public meeting of ratepapers for the 25th, hist., to discuss the water and drainage proposals. The body of a man named Russell, a coal trimmer on the steamer Suevic, was found at the entrance to Port Jackson with his head badly battered. Murder is suspected. At Wellington on Tuesday eight men were fined ,£3 each for playing “two-up” in a public place. Two others similarly charged were fined ,£4 each, as they had been previously convicted. The mineral product of New South Wales last year was valued at ,£7,627,500, a decrease of ,£982,100 compared with the previous year. This is largely due to the labour troubles affecting the output of coal.

The death is announced at Palmerston of Mr Alfred C. Morton. He will be best remembered as a temperance advocate, and the author of a booklet on prohibition. A few months ago he entered into business as a land aud estate agent at Feilding, but as his health grew worse (the effect of an accident while with a contingent in South Africa), he entered a private hospital at Palmerston.

The following Palmerston North, Wanganui and New Plymouth candidates passed the Civil Service examination (senior) last month : John Callanan (Palmerston), John Cuthbert (New Plymouth), Edward Dewhurst (New Plymouth), Wilfred Kennedy (New Plymouth), John Morrison (Wanganui), Dennis Mulves (New Plymouth), Arthur Pearce (New Plymouth), Harry Smith (Wanganui), Eric Wyllie (New Plymouth), John Smith Smith (Wanganui). The death of the late King Leopold was put down to embolism, an accident which gives a curious example of physiology taking a wrong turn. A speck of congealed blood, or less often a fat globule, forms in a vessel, and is carried along by the blood stream until it reaches one of the finer ramifications through which it is unable to pass. If the speck is small or lodges in a relatively not minute vessel the circulation is only temporarily interfered with. Much depends on the situation of the clot. If it happens to lodge in one of the finer vessels of the brain or lungs insensibility and paralysis probably follow, and death may be almost instantaneous. This mishap is common after surgical operations, but is known to occur at other times. Blood-clotting to some extent takes place normally. It always happens in minor ruptures of blood vessels, and also commonly accompanies inflamation and microbial injection of the blood vessels. These forms of heart disease that depend on inflamation of the valves strongly predispose the patient to embolism ; and this in the neighbourhood of the heart is almost sure to be fatal.