The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, March 1, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 818, 1 March 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, March 1, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr and Mrs Fodmore insert a thanks notice elsewhere in this issue.

Mr Jagger, of Montoa, has disposed of his to the Whitanui Flaxmilling Company. A meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society will be held in the Council Chamber tomorrow evening, at S o’clock. The monthly meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held in the Board’s office on Friday evening next. The Mayor notifies by advertisement that a poll upon the proposal to borrow ,£20,000 lor a combined water supply and drainage system for the borough will be taken on Friday, March 18th.

The British Museum has secured the original Battle of Trafalgar memorandum —in Nelson's handwriting—containing instructions to his captains before the battle.

A hearty welcome to Wellington was extended to Robert Fitzsimmons, ex-champion heavy-weight boxer of the world, by representatives of various branches of sport, at the Grand Hotel last Saturday.

In order to erect a headstone over the grave of the unfortunate man, Joshua Rich, who ou Sunday sacrificed his life in an attempt to save another, a subscription list has been opened and up to the present over £2O has been subscribed.

Colonel Wallack, Deputy Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth Forces, in a report on the Fort Nepean gun accident, supports the finding of the first board of inquiry. He says the member of the detachment who caused the accident lost his head.

Amusing mistakes are sometimes made in transmission of press telegrams. An instance was furnished in a message from Christchurch in connection with Lord Kitcnener’s inspection of the cadets and his appreciation of their appearance. The telegram pictures Lord Kitchener walking down the lines and exclaiming in a stage whisper “Good God !” “Good! Good !” was the expression used.

The Raglan correspondent of the Waikato Argus says the season in that district has been a remarkable one for insect pests. This is variously attributed to the remarkably hot summer and the mildness of last winter. Caterpillars have been very bad in some parts of the district this season, not many oat crops entirely escaping their ravages, while many fields have been entirely stripped of leaves.

Dr Newman, Mayor of Wellington, has resolved definitely that he will not seek re-election.

All the dairy companies in the Manawatu district have received notice from the Labour Department to pay their wages fortnightly. Five shearers were fined £s each and costs at Queenstown on Saturday, on a charge of taking part in a strike at the Mount Nicholas Station. The Town Clerk notifies that on and alter the 14th instant all dogs without collars having the proper registration labels thereon, will be collected by the dog registrar and destroyed. With this issue Messrs C. Smith, Ltd., drapers, of Palmerston N., circulate an inset drawing attention to their sale of general drapery, etc., which commences on Thursday.

An enormous glut in the supply of fruit is reported in the Hastings district. The total output daily by the Hawkes Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association is between 1500 and 1600 cases.

Mr F, Newman, son of Dr A. K. Newman, Mayor of Wellington, who was recently called to the English Bar, is on his way to New Zealand. He intends to practice his profession at Wellington. The Returning Officer notifies that an election for three representatives on the Palmerston N. Hospital Board, will be held on Wednesday, March 16. Nominations close on Wednesday, March 9th. Counterfeit sovereigns, half sovereigns and half crowns are being circulated in Sydney and other parts of Austraia. It is stated the spurious coins, which are excellent representations, are manufactured in Japan, and are forwarded to agents in Australia for distribution.

A meeting of the leasehold members of Parliament called for the purpose of considering their future attitude on the land question, has been fixed to take place at Christchurch on March ro. It is expected that the gathering will be a very representative one. Mr G. W. Russell, M.P., who is suffering from nervous breakdown, has resigned from the Canterbury College Board of Governors, of which he has been a member for 13 years, and chairman for three. He states that the strain of public duties has impaired his health.

The codlin moth has attacked Hutt grown apples loan alarming extent this year. As an instance of this, it is worth recording that one well-known grower, who had received an order from a private house for roolbs of cookers, found it necessary to pick over 3oolbs to get the requisite quantity of sound fruit'

At a meeting ot Condon shopkeepers under the auspices of the National Service Teague, Mr Robert McNab, ex-Minister of Lands for New Zealand, stated that Australia and New Zealand were the only portions of the British Empire which made military service compulsory. He attributed the success ot the movement there to the universal suffrage vote.

At the sitting of the Royal Commission on Divorce, in Tendon, Ford Corel! drew attention to the exercise in New Zealand of the power to forbid the publication of divorce proceedings in the newspapers. The Hon. Sir John Charles Bigham, President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, and the Hon. Sir Henry Bargrave Deane, Judge of the same division in the High Court of Justice, both denounced legal separation.

The following advertisement appears in the Berliner Zeitung : “Wanted. —Young man about thirty, of good family and faultless manners, who is capable of making bright and entertaining conversation at social gatherings. Subjects not arbitrary, but racial and religious topics must be avoided. Musical gentleman with good if untrained voice, who can sing to the accompaniment of the piano, will receive the preference, also those who possess title or can prove noble birth.”

Mr Fitzherbert, S,M., gave reserved judgment at New Plymouth yesterday in the case Police v. Sims, licensee of the Tariki Hotel, for selling liquor at the Waitara races without a license. Sims obtained a conditional license from the Stratford licensing Committee, but the police held that the committee had no authority to issue a license, as the racecourse was not within the boundaries of its jurisdiction, though the Tariki Hotel is. The Stipendiary Magistrate upheld this view, and fined Sims ,£5, with costs.

Two ratepayers were recently discussing the loan proposals in Main Street. One was championing the cause of water and drainage, the other was opposing it. The former was a small ratepayer and favoured the scheme, the latter held a lair quantity of P'oxtou soil and didn’t want - the loan. They got on to valuations and the big man said he was rated quite heavily enough as it was, and it the loan was carried he would sell out and live outside the borough. “Well,” said the small man, “if you fancy your are rated to your full value I’ll tell you what I’ll do, I’ll find the money within 24 hours to buy your town properties at an increase of 15 per cent, on their present valuation, and willingly pay the increased rates if the loan is carried and then reckon I’ve got a snip.” Our informant did not say whether the offer was taken up.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow.

The vital statistics for Foxtou for February are as follows ;—■ Deaths, 3 ; births, 5 ; marriages, nil.

The annual rugby football match was played between Scotland and Ireland on Saturday. Scotland won by 14 points (tour tries, one of which was converted) to nil.

Apropos of the poll to be taken at an early date on the proposal to raise a loan of ,£20,000 for water and drainage purposes, the following table of ratepayers and the unimproved values of their properties should be interesting. There are 43 ratepayers whose valuation does not exceeed ,£25 ; 64 whose property does not exceed ,£SO ; 34 ,£75; 19. £uoo; 16, ,£l5O : l8 > ,£2OO ; 24, ,£3OO ; 25, ,£SOO ; 15, ,£I,OOO ; 8, ,£1,500 ; one each of ,£1,528, £,1,568, .£1,853, £U,953> and ,£2,484. The trustees appointed to control “ The Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research ” (established by the late Mr Alfred Beit, whose bequest was lately supplemented by his brother, Mr Otto Beit) have elected ten candidates, including Mr G. M. Mathieson, who will conduct research in connection with respiration. Each appointment carries with it .£250 a year for three years. Applications for the second election must be received by the trustees before November 15th next.