The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, March 5, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 810, 5 March 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, March 5, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya, which are to cruise in Australian Waters ou a visit, have arrived at Thursday Island. The Rising Sun Hotel at Nelson was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The building and contents were insured for ,£750. Mr W. T. Wood is to give a definite answer to-day as to whether he will contest the Palmerston North Mayoralty against Mr J. A. Nash, the present Mayor.

The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by Sister Moody Bell, and in the evening by the Rev P. J. Mairs. The subject will be “Repentance.”

Reference was made at the Methodist Conference at Sydney this week, to the possibility of Mohammedanism spreading to Fiji, owing to the importation of coolie labour fron the East. Mr R. H. Gray, assistant master of the Eltham District High School, has been selected for the new position of assistant at the Campbell Street School, Palmerston North. There were eighteen applicants. At the Hamilton Supreme Court, George Mallensen, on charge, of arson and theft at Waihi, received a sentence of three years' hard labour. Naomi Adele Dey Peacock, married woman, also of Waihi, on a charge of arson, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. At Auckland Police Court, Percy Henry Ellis, an employee of the Auckland Harbour Board, was committed for trial ou a charge of having stolen 479 cases of benzine, valued at ,£47 10s, and with having falsified the Board’s books with intent to defraud. He was committed for trial, bail being allowed in two sureties of £2OO each and one of ,£4OO. Reuter’s Capetown correspondent states that a quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore at intervals in the neighbourhood of Mossel Bay (about 250 miles from Capetown). A most significant object is a cushion marked “W,” and a hatchway. The articles have been sent to the Waratah builders, with a view to identification.

An important decision was given by the Land Court at Gisborne this week, regarding the valuable estate of Hemi Willoughby, the Maori woman who was burned to death some time ago. She died intestate, and the Court decided that the native custom was applicable, and deceased’s brother (not her European husband) was entitled to succeed. Notice of appeal was given. To rid the diningroom of flies, sprinkle Insecxibane on live coal, and whip the smoke with a towel.* 3

Dr Scannel will attend to Dr MandPs practice during the latter’s absence on a holiday from Foxton. King Edward starts on Monday for the Continent. He spends two days in Paris, and goes thence to Biarritz.

Premier Asquith proposes to raise the salary of the Hon. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, from ,£2OOO to His Excellency was tendered a ceremony by the people of Napier on Thursday. An address was presented to his Excellency, and appreciative speeches delivered. Lord Plunket was subsequently the guest of the Mayor at luncheon.

A bankrupt who was being examined at Whangarei the other day (reports an exchange) was so closely questioned with reference to his business transactions that he became irritated, and said, with indignation, that in the last bankruptcy case he was concerned in a million and a half had been involved, and there had not been halt the fuss that there had been over the paltry ,£3O or so that was then occupying the attention of the court.

Interviewed by a Taranaki Herald reporter with respect to Guide Warbrick’s theory about the Pink and White Terraces, Mr W. Percy Smith, ex-Surveyor-General, whose opinion must carry great weight, says he has no doubt that the Terraces were completely blown into the air on the occasion of the Tarawera eruption. He made a topographical survey of the site of the eruption two months after the event, and established beyond any doubt in his own mind that they were destroyed.

The Minister for Rands, telegraphing to the Ashburton Guardian, states that the area of the Ruapuna estate, which has been purchased by the Government for closer settlement, is 4423 acres. The price paid was £9 an acre, the total purchase money being The exact number of sections into which the estate will be subdivided has not been determined, but there will be probably from fifteen to twenty sections, although it may be found possible later on to cut the estate into even smaller areas.

Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston N., announce their first grand show of latest Condon novelties for autumn and winter wear in stylish coats, costumes, millinery, blouses and dress goods. It is claimed that this season’s importations eclipse all former occasions in extent and variety, and the firm are anxious that visitors from this district to Palmerston will make a point of looking through their warehouse, and inspecting the goods and values now at their disposal.'-'-

The spook “Julia,” with which Mr W. T. Stead created a mild sensation in London a short time ago, caused Sir Robert Stout some little amusement while he was in England. Sir Robert told a Dunedin Star reporter that “Julia” was a “perfect farce, Mr Stead,' 1 he cont ; nued, “is a very able journalist and a very clever man, but, all the same, he seems to believe implicitly in this thing. It is an illusion with him—nothing else —but there is no doubt that he believes in it.”

Questioned on his return Home as to the demand for preference in the colonies, Mr Win. Crooks said : “ There isn’t any ; preference is laughed at. I told the Canadian Club at Toronto, quoting a great Imperial organ, that their loyalty was strained almost to breaking point for the want of preference. A huge burst of derisive laughter. The cry for preference is absolutely bunkum. The cry was : What more can we get ? If we like to foster our own infant industries in our own way is that any reason why a burden should be put on your shoulders and life made harder for your poor ?” lu a letter to the Standard, a correspondent says; “A decent lamb in England is now fetching about 16s, clear of skin and offal. In the South Island fat lambs are fetching up to 14s 3d, while on this island, owing to a combination, we get the lovely offer of Ks for a prime fat lamb, about 6s a head less than the South Islaud, and the market value of Southern lamb at Home is only about a per lb more, making a difference in a lamb of from gd to is 6d, not 6s. Here’s a subject for the Farmers Union if they study the loss to this district.

An Kdvvard medal of the firstclass has been awarded to two men named McWhirter and McLellaud. While two steeplejacks were fixing a lightning conductor of a chimney at Newmains, Lanarkshire, one was overcome by gas fumes and fainted on a nine inch scaffold. His comrade tied him to the plank while he was unconscious. McWhirter and McLellaud, who had never climbed a chimney before, ascended 180 feet and rescued the steeplejack, despite the risk of death from fumes. The death occurred at the Pahiatua Hospital on Tuesday evening of Mr Alexander Reese. Deceased, who was in his 66th year, was born at Belshill, Lanarkshire. He emigrated to New Zealand in the ship “ Himalaya ” in 1867, landing in Lyttelton. In 1878, the late Mr Reese started in Wellington as a building contractor, and in 1882 removed to Masterton as a bridge and building contractor. The deceased took an active part in public matters, and he was for many years a member of the Wellington Land Board and a Justice of the Peace. He was, also, a member of the old Pahiatua Town Board, Borough Council and School Committee.

Mr G. Brewer advertises a five roomed house for sale.

The attendance shield at the local school was won this week by Standard 111 with an average attendance of 91.2 per cent.

Mr L. G. West, architect, advertises for tenders for the erection of a grandstand and other racecourse buildings for the Olaki Maori Racing Club. A meeting of the Foxton NoLicense League is advertised to take place in the Good Templar Hall on Monday next, 7th instant, at 8 p.m. Mr A. E. Smith, cabinetmaker, who is giving up business, notifies a list of furniture for sale cheap at his shop, Manchester House. No second-hand goods are offered. Messrs G. C. and E. A. Coley have purchased one of the Whitanui Company’s mills on the river bank, and will enter into possession on Monday. They will obtain their green leaf from Carnarvon.

The cocksfoot yield this season is said to be a record one at Kaikoura (Canterbury). From 800 to 900 sacks will probably be marketed by local growers, outside of what will be used for private use. Ten years ago the local yield did not exceed seventy sacks. In a year or two Kaikoura bids fair to become a keen rival of “The Bays” in the production of grass seed.

The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev G. K. Aitken. Mr Aitken’s pastorate of the church commences as from to-morrow, and the service will therefore be ot special interest. In the morning the subject will be “A Gospel Ministry,” in the evening the second part of a sermon on the “Lining Dead” will be preached, dealing with the character of the life of the future revealed in Scripture. A hearty welcome is extended to all. All seats free.

The municipal elections at Napier, on Wednesday last, to fill five vacancies caused by the disqualification of councillors through supplying goods to the council resulted in the return of Messrs J. J. Niven, E. Crowley, F. Bee, J. P. Thomson, and J. Spence. The only members re-elected were Messrs Crowley and Thomson. There were sixteen candidates. The three former councillors who lost their seats were Messrs A. E. Eagleton, K. Beecham, and G. Wilderstrom.

Bouttell’s Picture Company were greeted by a fairly large audience at the Public Hall on Thursday evening, and alter the last picture had been thrown on the screen, everyone left the hall thoroughly satisfied with the entertainment provided. The show was on a higher level than the majority of picture shows that visit Foxton, the pictures being new and free from flicker. During the evening the prize of £i given to the 200 th person attending the performance was handed to the lucky winner. It is Mr Bouttell’s intention to regularly visit Foxton, and if his future entertainments are on the same level as Thursday night’s, he is always sure to be greeted with a good audience.

To-morrow, at All Saints’ Church, there will be a special collection on behalf of the Melanesian Mission. An appeal is being made all over New Zealand in the Anglican Church for funds for this mission, and it is hoped Foxton will give liberally to this, the greatest work in Christ’s vineyard. A church that does not make a special effort on behalf of the mission fund is spiritually dead. To carry the gospel to the heathen is the highest work we can do for Christ, and although we cannot go ourselves, yet we can give our money to send others, and so be the instruments of the spreading of Christ’s kingdom.

A scheme, the ingenuity of which is almost startling, was put forward at a recent meeting of the Paris Municipal Council. As is well-known, the depopulation of France is a constant pre-occupa-tion of French statesmen. But on the other hand, Paris landlords often refuse their flats to families with many children because the other tenents object to them upon the score of noise. The proposition laid before the council is that paterfamilias shall pay smaller rates in the ratio of the number of his children. The more children a man has the lower would be his rates. And the scheme might be expanded. If the town of Paris offered a bonus to landlords for every child in their houses, landlords would soon welcome large families as tenants.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Marton Chamber of Commerce this week, Mr Newman said he was glad to see that the Marton Borough Council was going in for a loan. What was first required in Marton was an improved water supply. The town could never derive any advantage from its central position without an abundant supply of good clean water. This would encourage industries, and the dairy school would probably have been established in the district if water had been available. Speaking in regard to the Bevin-Greatford railway, Mr Newman stated that no scheme would succeed that did not include a connection of Feilding with the proposed railway. He gave it as his opinion that this railway would pay. He spoke of the Foxton Harbour improvements as being ot great interest to Marton and district.

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