LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 814, 19 February 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Several local orchards have been robbed lately, and a number ot petty thefts are recorded, A general meeting of members of _ the Foxton Horticultural Society will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday evening next, at 8 o’clock.

If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkes’, he jeweller, the shop for presents.*

Messrs C. Smith Ltd., direct attention in their advt. space to their summer fair sale. Read it. :|:

Pearce has lorwarded /’ioo to immediately clinch his challenge with Arnst to row for aside in West Australia.

Catalogues and entry forms lor the the forthcoming Horticultural Society’s Autumn Show, maj' now be obtained from the secretary, Mr J. T. Levett. At the Palmerston sittings of the Supreme Court on Thursday, Frederick Dunn, found guilty of false pretences at Pahiatua in 1903, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. M. Vincent, a French physician, claims to have proved as the result of experiments that vaccine from sterilised typhoid bacilli will render human beings immune from the attacks of typhoid fever. A single man named Percy Parish, aged about 28 years, a labourer employed at the Newtown carsheds, Wellington, blew his brains out with a Winchester rifle on Thursday whilst suffering from meloncholia. Deceased’s parents reside at Fast Oxford, North Canterbury,

The services at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. D. S. InnesJones, vicar of Feilding. There wil be a church parade at 11 a.m. of the school cadets headed by the band. During the evening service Mrs Boyes will render the solo which she was to have sung last Sunday evening.

That’s a wonderful little stove, the Tux primus, and when fitted with the Wilson toaster it makes breakfast getting a pleasure, and will do a lot towards easing the way for the hard-worked housewife. It is cheap to buy, cheap to run, sate and clean, and fully guaranteed by Fowler and Gordon.*

It is stated by the London Chronicle that King Fdward has acquired the Villa Braziliana, on Posilippo, a hill immediately adjoining Naples on the west, and commanding a magnificent panorama of the Bay ot Naples. ExPresideut Roosevelt will be one of the first guests to be entertained there by King Edward and Queen Alexandra. In connection with the Rutland fire sequel, the Feilding Star states that on Thursday the local police reported that they had received information to the effect that a quantity of jewellery, roughly valued at had been fo.warded to an auctioneer in Feilding by Davis and Haynes, the Wanganui jewellers who have been arrested in connection with the fire at the Rutland Hotel.

At the meeting of the school committee on Thursday night, the headmaster reported that the average attendance for the two wedcs during which the school has been open is 311.5 out of an average roll number of 349 - 5- Kilty pupils have been admitted and 16 withdrawn. The present roll number is 360 and the average for the first four days of this week is 323-6.

In connection with the position in the hemp (flax fibre) market, the Trade Review says that there is a wide difference of opinion as to the probable output for 1910. The merchants dealing in the fibre, who are in close touch with the millers, estimate an increase of 20 to 23 per cent. The officers of the Government grading division speak of a probability of the output for 1909 being doubled during this year.

“There would be no decrease in membership,” said the Rev S. Palmer at a Christian Endeavour convention at Blyth last month, “if our leading members spent a little more time on their knees, reading their Bible, and a little less time in turning over the pages of their tank books. I have been told that if all the clothes worn in church on Sundays and not paid for would fall off there would be a great revelation.”

The teacher of a local Bible instruction class had been speaking of John the Baptist. At question time he had elicited from a scholar that the subject of discussion was a “baptiser,” but he wanted the answer that he was also a herald. So he put a pointer: “The name of the local paper is the Manawatu Herald, now what was John the Baptist. Quick is thought up went the hand of a little fellow: “Please sir, he was the Manawatu Herald.”

The French Academy of Sciences has been informed that Madame Curie, in co-operation with M. Debierne, has isolated a small quantity of polonium, which far exceeds radium in its radioactive power, and is five thousandfold rarer. It is believed that as a result of this discovery the identity of helium will be shortly established, and science will then possess experimental proof of the transformation ot a body hitherto believed to be elementary.

A case has been reported in which a patient was put under the hypnotic influence and the suggestion made that his hand had been burned, but the burn would be painless. The hand was then bound in cotton. Five hours later, under repeated hypnosis, the bandage was removed and a red inflamed patch was found, in which was a fair-sized blister. Pricking the blister let out a few drops of a rapidly coagulating fluid. The patient was then given the suggestion that the hand would heal very rapidly, and he was awakened. The next day there was still definite reddening, though less marked, and the blister was more lax. Five days later the hand had healed, leaving a smooth scar.

A local storekeeper had a counterfeit coin rung on to him recently. As a number of these coins are reported to he in circulation, tradespeople should watch out.

The Mauawatu County Council advertise for tenders, ,to close on Wednesday next, for deepening 112 chains of drain and clearing and constructing So chains of drain near Himatangi. Philanthropists in New York are raising ,£200,000 to construct a Hospital Adjunct in the City to to he called the Children’s Court for the treatment of degenerate children in the hope of remedying physical and mental causes of crime.

The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted morning and evening by the Rev. P. J. Mairs. The subject for the evening will be “Sin, What it Does.” Miss D. Signal will, at the evening service, render the solo, “ The Gate of Fife.” Prayer meeting at 7 a.in. “Subscriber” writes, directing attention to the fact that while passing the intersection of Clyde and Main streets, the other evening, he was compelled to listen to some very vile language from a youth who was conversing with others at the corner. “ Subscriber ” suggests that the police should move these street loiterers on.

The Congo Budget was voted by 79 to 40. The revenue continues to be mainly derived from forced labour. Mr F. D. Morel states King Leopold transferred two millions sterling to other institutions which properly belongs to the Congo. If the money is recovered King Albert is willing to devote it to remedy evils.

A writ has been served on the New Zealand Times at the instance of Mr T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, claiming damages for alleged libel in connection with a report which appeared in the Times describing the race for the New Zealand Cup. The case is set down for hearing at Napier in June. (This is no doubt in connection with the Times’ remarks as to the running of Downfall and Bobrikoff.) At a public meeting at Feilding, recently the following resolution was passed ; “That the Borough Council be asked to give the ratepayers an early opportunity of voting on the proposal to establish electric light in the Borough of Feilding.’’ At Thursday night’s meeting a resolution was carried that the Council take steps to raise a loan of ,£6,500 for the purpose of installing an electric lighting scheme for Feilding.

At the Conference of School Inspectors at Wellington on Thursday the chairman read a letter from the Minister requesting an expression of opinion on the effect on education of the freedom of classification that had been accorded teachers under the present syllabus. In the discussion several speakers warmly approved the change and the report of the Scholarship Committee was read expressing the opinion that the powers at present in the hands of inspectors, if carefully exercised, are sufficient to ensure proper classification. At the Palmerston sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday, an old man named Abraham Connolly, was sentenced to three years hard labour for committing an indecent assault on a little girl. His Honour, in passing sentence, said he felt the sentence should not be a light one, in order that the people of the community might thoroughly understand that as far as the Courts were concerned children of such tender years would have the fullest protection that could be afforded. A sentence of three years’ hard labour was imposed. The conviction of Mr Peter Bowling and the sentence of twelve mouths’ hard labour passed upon him had a deplorable effect upon his wife, who is now seriously ill at her home at Honeysuckle Point, Newcastle (says an Australian paper). Mrs Bowling had naturally been under severe mental strain during the days preceding her husband’s trial, and when the news of his conviction and sentence reached her she completely collapsed. At first the symptoms pointed to brain fever, but fortunately this did not develop, although she was hysterical and delirious, and did not recognise her children. She was, in fact, so ill as to require the services of three doctors.

The New Zealand Trade Review remarks that the flow of money from the realisation of wool, butter and cheese which is beginning to irrigate the country districts is showing results in the improvement of rural trade, but town trade generally shows little animation. The demand for dried fruits is still affected by the presence of supplies of the fresh commodity, while the demand for certain classes of dried and preserved fish receives an impetus from the advent of the season of Rent. The soft goods autumn-winter season has opened, but little trade is expected for another month. The improved condition of the Dominion as a whole gives, however, reason to look for a satisfactory volume of trade for the current year.

In order to make room for a fresh consignment of goods, Mrs Hamer, Main Street, is holding a clearance sale of men’s and boys’ clothing, ladies dress materials, millinery and fancy goods, etc. All the above goods are marked at absolutely “give away” prices, and all those in need of summer goods should make a point of visiting there before the close of the sale,*

Work must be plentiful in Foxton. The County Clerk informs us that no tender was received from Foxton for several large contracts let by the Council in this district. Yet Feilding contractors found it worth thetr while to take on the work. The Council, in this issue, advertise for tenders for drainage, etc., at Himatangi. The price of lambs has taken a sudden upward tendency in South Canterbury, says a Timaru paper. Prior to the rain feed was so scarce that farmers were willing to part with their lambs at almost any price ; but there is now an abundance of fresh, green feed, and no one is in any hurry to sell. Fat lambs have been selling this week at up to 14s 3d-

Reuter’s Berlin correspondent slates a man named Lackensteen, impersonating Fred Vanderbilt, endorsed bills totalling ,£374,000 sterling, which Prince Miguel of Bragauza was induced to give for gold, emerald and other mining shares. It is now alleged that the shares are worthless. Mr Vanderbilt has repudiated the endorsement on the ground that it is forged. Two hundred thousand, pounds worth of bills have beenseized in Berlin. It is understood that Tackeusteen is in Paris.

Perhaps the proudest father on the Osterley (says the Argus) was an immigrant who set out with a wife and two children and arrived in Melbourne with a wife and three children. The newcomer was born in the Suez Canal. The surgeon of the steamer is Dr. Muir, and the delighted parents promptly loaded the new baby with the eloquently descriptive Christian names of Muir Osterley Suez.

A peculiar case has come under the notice of the Gisborne authorities, action being unavailing by sought to bring back a woman, the mother of several children, who was alleged to have taken passage south with another man. The wife and family of the latter individual, so it is stated, have left on a visit to Auckland. The aggrieved husband learned on enquiry that there is not provision for bringing back a runaway wife, although a defaulting husband, of course, can readily be arrested and ordered to contribute to the maintenance of his family.