LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 817, 26 February 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A grey overcoat is advertised for. We direct attention to Messrs Durward’s replace advertisement in reference to white sheeting. The local school cadets returned to Foxton by this afternoon’s train from the Kitchener camp. The good-attendance shield at the local State school was won last week by Standard IV., with an average attendance of 94 per cent.

The services to-morrow in All Saints’ Church will be taken by the Rev. John Walker, M.A., vicar of Newtown, Wellington.

Cr. Gibbs was absent from the the special meeting of the Council on Thursday evening, on account of a breakdown at the Atiki flaxmill.

The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev G. K. Aitken, and in the evening by Mr H. Billens, of Palmerston North. Welcome rain commenced to fall throughout this district on Thursday evening and has continued at intervals since. The household water tanks have been replenished.

Mr Gordon and the Misses Loouey and O’Brien were lost on Mount Kgmout for two days and were discovered by a search party yesterdav in an exhausted condition.

We acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of an invitation to be present at a social and dance to be held on March nth, under the auspices of the Bulls Town Board, to celebrate the opening of the new Town Hall.

A special meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board was held at Palmerston to-day for the purpose of fixing the rental to be charged the West Coast Steamship and Trading Co., who are about to erect a wharf on their section near Levin and Co.’s.

A special meeting of the Foxtou Harbour Board is advertised to take place in the Council Chambers on Tuesday, Bth March, at 7.45 p.m., for the purpose of adopting by-laws and regulations in connection with the port of Foxtou. Copies may be seen at the Borough Council office during office hours.

The operat ions of the Standard Oil Company of New Zealand at Carrington road are becoming interesting. The bore is now down 2947 feet and is dry. Yesterday the pumps brought up quantities of oil, and tanks are being excavated to receive oil which it is honed to strike within three or four weeks. The company intends to shortly commence other bores.

The Wairarapa Daily Times (Mastertou) says it is rumoured that Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., the present Member tor Masterton, will not contest the seat at the next election, but will contest instead one of the Auckland seats as a Eabour candidate. The name of Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, formerly M.P. for Wairarapa, is mentioned as that of a probable candidate for Masterton.

The autumn show of the Foxtou Horticultural and Industrial Association, to be held on March 9th and 10th next, promises to be a very successful function and there should be a large number of exhibits in each class. Besides the ordinary prizes, a points prize will be awarded in each section. Catalogues may be obtained on making application to the Secretary. Is Ford Kitchener an Irishman because he happened to be born in Ireland, or an Englishman because his parents were English ? This is a matter that has given rise to some disputation in the Australian press. Here we claim to be New Zealanders if born in the Dominion, but there is a sort of reservation. We would, for example, hardly relish accepting a full-blooded Chinese as a New Zealander, merely because this was his birthplace. Would we say that a child of English parents, born in Paris, was a Frenchman. Yet there must be a point at which English blood becomes Irish or French, if the family goes on living there, and the question is: When is that point reached ?

Much astonishment and surprise has been excited by a decision given in the Upper Court at Vienna recently. A poor woman, who has a small grocery store in Cracow, bought a lot of waste paper for wrapping up the purchases made by her customers. Unfortunately this paper consisted of the title-sheets of a Roman Catholic journal, on which the picture of a saint and a prayer was printed. Information was given to the authorities at Cracow, and the woman was prosecuted for irreligious behaviour/’ She was sentenced to seven days’ arrest, the punishment to be accentuated by a twenty-four hours’ fast. She appealed to the Upper Court at Vienna, which has confirmed the decision of the Cracow Court, holding that the use of images of saints for packing up eatables is showing disrespect and contempt for the institutions of the Catholic Church. Such a proceeding is contrary to the reverence that should be shown towards images. Some of the papers object to this decision, regarding it as a symptom of a retrograde movement in the public life of Austria.

The remains of Bishop Lenihan were interred at the Auckland Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday morning. The building was packed. The Hon. Carroll represented the Ministry and Dr. Neligau, the Anglican Bishop, was also present. Solemn requiem mass was celebrated by Bishop Grimes and an address delivered by Archbishop Redwood- The interment followed, the body being placed in the crypt in front of the altar.

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