LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 820, 31 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The value of the Dominion's exports for the twelve months ended February 28th, 1910, was ,£19,768,880 as against ,£14,928,999 for the preceding twelve months.

At the local police court yesterday morning, a first offending inebriate was convicted and discharged, and ordered to leave the town. Mr Stiles was the presiding justice.

A young man named Brindley, a resident of East Taranaki was struck by a tram car whilst riding a bicycle along Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, on Tuesday and killed.

Owing to ill health Mr W. T. Wood has decided not lo contest tho Palmerston North Mayoralty, and up to the present Mr Nash, the sitting Mayor, is the only candidate who has signified his intention of standing.

An explosion occurred at the Knner Glynn coal-mine, Nelson on Tuesday through a miner named John Tilley entering a shall with a naked light. Tilley, who was badly burned about the head and arms, was removed lo the hospital. The Rangitikei friends of the late Colonel Gorton intend to commemorate his memory by presenting a stained glass window to the Greatlord Church, where for many years Colonel Gorton acted as lay reader.

A nice point in precedence was well put in Blenheim, last week, when the defendant in the case of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order told the Blenheim Stipendiary Magistrate that if he disbelieved him he could go and ask the proprietor of the fish shop as to the state be was in when he entered there for supper, “f am afraid,” said his Worship, ‘That you will have to bring the fish shop here.” Mr Walter Carter, of Moutoa, leaves Wellington on Friday lor Australia. The trip is being taken under medical advice, as Mr Carter’s health has been anything but satisfactory for some time past. We hope that he will return thoroughly restored in health. There is plenty of work for drainers in this district. The Manawatu County Council are inviting tenders for cleaning over t\yo miles of drain and the Moutoa Drainage Board have three and a halt miles of drain to be deepened and widened. This work is to be let ju four contracts, On Sunday next the harvest festival will be held in All Saints’ Church. After the festival all gifts of fruit aud vegetables will be sent to St. Mary’s Home, Karori, and AU Saints’ Children’s Home, Palmerston. The vicar will be at the church on Saturday at 2 p.m. to receive gifts of fruit and vegetables and to conduct the decorations.

The sergeant of police at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court stated that a man charged with being idle and disorderly was a “lighthouse keeper.’’ As the result of enquiry the Court was informed that a ■“ lighthouse keeper’' was a man who stood qq a corner with a bottle and dispensed sly-grog to customers.

Mr I. W. Wilson who is shortly leaving Foxtou, advertises his freehold property in Duncan and Watson Streets, comprising six sections together with the buildings erected thereon, fpr private sale. They will Ire sold in one lot or separately and terms will be given. Full particulars can be obtained on application to Mr Wilson.

A first-class all-round blacksmith

is open for engagement. Apply this office.

Powelka, the prisoner who escaped from the Eambton Quay gaol is still at large. Mr K. Wauklyn advertises several sections in Coley Street for sale on very easy terms. Robert Corkbill, bailiff, charged with the murder of Christopher Smith, in Pipitea Street, Wellington, several weeks ago, was yesterday committed for trial. A patrol of Girl Peace Scouts was formed at Kaiapoi last week by girls from the woollen mills. Major Cossgrove gave an address on the movement, and it was decided to call the patrol the “ Rock Patrol. 1 '

Mr John D. Rockefeller’s agent has been informed that the Pope has pronounced a blessing on the great multi-millionaire, tor that he has devoted his immense fortune to the alleviation of human suffering and the betterment of mankind.

A petition is in circulation among the ratepayers in the sanitary area, requesting the Borough Council to take the necessary steps to get a report and estimate of the cost of a water supply from the Shannon hills, with a view of taking a poll of the ratepayers on same.

A man named Pearce employed at Mr Saunders’ flaxmill at Moutoa, met with a very painful accident yesterday afternoon. It appears that a tin got caught in the belt and before the engine could be stopped the tin was thrown by the belt into Pearce’s face cutting him very severely about the mouth. He was brought into Foxton for medical treatment.

Mrs Hamer, of the Economic has just opened up her new winter goods, including dress materials, furs, millinery, etc., inspection of which is invited. These goods have been imported direct from the manufacturers and will be sold at city prices. All in need of goods for winter wear should not fail to call atthe Economic as the value offered is absolutely the best yet shown in Foxton.* A man named Herbert Higgs has been missing from Bulls since Friday last. He rented a piece of ground from Mr F. Ellis at the back of the Bulls racecourse, which he used for the cultivation of onions. Although of steady habits fears are entertained for his safety as he was in depressed spirits lately, being disappointed with his crop. Constable Breen and parties have been searching lor him but without success up to the present. The difficulty of securing teachers for country schools will, in the opinion of the Minister for Education (the Hon. Geo. Fowlds), decrease when the provisions of the last Act are in proper working operation. The number of scholars requiring a second teacher for a school had been altered from 41 to 36, and the salaries now paid to teachers in New Zealand, he said, were far more liberal than those of any country in the world, and particularly was this so in regard to smaller schools. An increase had also been made in the number of students admitted to the training colleges, and that should also have the effect of making more teachers available.

Under date iSth February, The Post’s Loudon correspondent writes :—“ In a local police court, in which the Waratah was mentioned, it was stated by a representative of the owners that about had been paid as compensation to the sufferers. In the Nisi Prius Court this week Mr Justice Madden gave leave to presume the death of Nora Connolly, who was a passenger on the Waratah. It appeared that she left Tipperary twenty years ago, and went to Australia, where she married Patrick Connolly in 1892. She came home in 1901, and remained until 1909, when she went to South Africa. Her husband had been killed in the mines there in 1908. He made no will, and his wife was his only next of kin. Last July Mrs Connolly wrote to her friends that she was returning to Ireland from Durban in the Waratah, and she sent a sum of to the Bank of South Africa in Loudon. She was bringing the body of her husband to Ireland.”

Surrounded by guinea pigs, rats and mice, nearly all suffering from deadly tropical diseases, a young Cumberland mining prospector is undergoing an experimental “refrigerator cure” for sleeping sickness at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The treatment of the disease, which was contracted in Northern Rhodesia, about six months ago, consists of passing five or six hours every day in a room at a temperature of aodeg. Fahr. The cause of sleeping sickness is a microscopic organism which gains access to the blood stream through the tsetse fly. In a neat little white painted room, devoid of carpet, but made comfortable with a table, a deck chair, and electric light, the patient sits for hours at a time, reading or watching the animals in the dozen cages surrounding him. His chief effort is to keep awake and to forget the temperature is xodeg. below freezing point. The room, about 12ft by 9ft has double wooden walls, the space between being packed with silicated cotton to keep in the cold. An electric motor in an adjoining room supplies the motive force for an ammonia evaporation air-cooling machine. Icy cold air, continuously forced by fans through a series of air shafts in the walls, keeps the temperature between aodeg. and 22deg. Fahr.

Further additions are nlade to the Himatangi stock sale list.

The Knyvett Committee at Auckland have decided to hold public meetings at Palmerston North, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

A party of 100 Mormons from the North Island, and including several missionaries from Utah and Maori disciples, are attending a conference at Greytown where representatives of 5000 Mormons will gather. The steamer Koi (53 tons net) capsized half a mile westward of Nelson entrance at about three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The crew clung to the side of the vessel and were rescued by an oil launch.

A five-roomed dwelling at Napier, owned by Mr M. Lascelles and occupied by Mr W. J. Sandford was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, the flames being fanned by a heavy southerly gale. Everything was burned and the inmates had a narrow escape.