LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 824, 9 April 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All accounts owing to the Herai,d up to March, 31st, have now been rendered, and an early settlement of same would be much appreciated by the proprietor. The dead body of an infant, newly born, was found on the beach at Onehunga on Thursday evening.

Mrs Capamagiau, an elderly widow, was found dead on a footpath in Dunedin on Thursday night. The secretary of the Albion Football Club desires to publicly acknowledge receipt of a donation of jQi is from Mr Fred Hadfield. We acknowledge receipt of a copy of the Municipal Handbook for 1909. It is a useful publication, containing a great deal of information concerning all the boroughs in the Dominion. During a bull-fight at Zacatecas, Mexico, a bull attempted to leap the barrier. This caused a panic among the spectators, twelve of whom were killed and seventeen injured. The services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by Mr D. W. Dow. M.A., of Palmerston North. Mr Aitken takes the special harvest thanksgiving services at 11 a.in., and 7 p.m,, at Tiakitahuna.

Bandits entered the Victor Banking Company’s offices at M’Lee Rocks, a village in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, and after shooting the manager, the cashier, and three clerks, decamped with live thousand dollars.

Loudou Punch has the following : —“German measles come into this country absolutely free. Is this fair ? A teu per cent, tax on every imported measle would give the home article a chance. Vote for Tariff Reform and British Measles !

Mary Kelliher was acquitted at Boston, Massachusetts, on a charge of poisoning her husband, three children, and two other relatives. She was exonerated by the discovery of arsenic hi the hair of a mattress on which the victims had successively slept. Reports were current recently that Australian butter boxes were being bought up in London and refilled with margarine, which was sold as Australian produce. From the latest mail advices it appears that no definite information of such misuse has been obtained. A solicitor was, however, still making investigations. The Sunday evening service at All Saints Church will be kept as a “thanksgiving service’’ for God’s blessings to the parish during the past year. The parochial year ended on the 31st March, and the general meeting of parishioners will be held during this mouth. The vicar hopes that his parishioners will join in making this a real thanksgiving service, and also an occasion for further blessings for the coming year.

A “ Times” special correspondent writes; —What I am inclined to think was an unusual thing, happened in the Kapuni river (Taranaki), about six weeks ago. Several Maori youths were bathing and catching eels at the same time. The mode of catching the eel by the Maori is to fix a strong hook at the end of a stick and jag into the fish. One young Maori harpooned an eel, but the fish was too strong, and broke the stick in two and came straight for the young fellow, and bit him on the thigh. The mark was an ugly one, and will take a good while to go away. The lad was so knocked out that he had to be carried home to the pah. The captain of the steamer Queen of the South, which arrived in Wellington on Tuesday, reports that during his recent voyage from Foxtou to Wellington, after passing Cape Terawhiti, the steamer ran into a large number of dead fish floating on the water. These dead fish were off Karori rock in thousands, and the vessel steamed through them for four miles. They extended in all directions, and appeared to consist mostly of ling. Dead fish have frequently been seen in the Strait. The presumption is that they are killed by some outbreak of thermal action.

Mr Foster Fraser’s slap-dash way of “ writing up” whole continents in a few newspaper articles and dismissing the entire population of a country, manners and customs, institutions, industries, virtues and vices, good points and bad, with a few strokes of the pen is distinctly reminiscent (says the Lyttelton Times) of the method adopted by Count Smorltork, the distinguished foreigner who was introduced by Mrs Leo Hunter to Mr Pickwick on the memorable occasion of that gentleman’s visit to “ the Den, Eateuswill,” “ I want,” said Mrs Leo Hunter, “to introduce two clever people to each other. Mr Pickwick, I introduce you to Count Smorltork, the famous foreigner, who is gathering materials for his great work on England.” “Have you been long in England ? ” enquired Mr Pickwick. “Long—ver long time fortnight more.” ‘‘ Do you stay here long?” “One week.” “You will have enough to do,” said Mr Pickwick, smiling, “to gather all the materials you want in. that time.” “They are gathered/’ said the Count,

Mr \V. G. Tozer advertises good grazing for dry stock over roo of good country.

Attention is directed to a replace advertisement appearing in this issue from Messrs Durward and Co., of Palmerston North.

There are at present eight warships for toreign Governments under construction in private yards in the United Kingdom. Mr J. Craigie, M.P,, who has been Mayor of Timaru for the past eight years, has been asked to stand for election for the ninth year.

The cricket match, Foxton v. Shannon to have been played at Shannon to-day had to be abandoned on account of Foxton being unable to raise a team.

Capt. Dickson, an English Army officer, while aeroplaniug with a passenger at Chalons, France, met a monoplane in midair and only averted a catastrophe by a sudden dive, passing within a foot of the other machine.

At the Magistrate’s Court Wellington, on Thursday, Chin Ah Eeoug was fined for having opium suitable for smoking in his possession, and £1 for smoking opium.

Detective Abbott, of Wellington, left for Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday, to bring over a man named Robert Anderson on a charge of criminal assault alleged to have been committed at Wellington.

The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted iu the morning by Messrs H. Smith and A. Rimmer, and in the evening by Mr J. Chrystall. Prayer meeting 7 a.m., Sunday school 2.30 p.m. At a meeting of the (Waterside Workers’ Union, at Napier, on Thursday, a resolution was carried in favour of severing Hawke’s Bay from the Wellington Industrial District, and urging the formation of Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay into a separate district.

At Cable aud Co’s foundry at Kaiwarrawarra on Thursday an engineer named Roy Robertson, aged 21, went up a ladder to place a belt on a pulley. His right hand and arm became entangled in the belt, and his arm was broken and a thumb torn off. He also sustained a great shock. A bogus heir—a Sydney fitter named Arthur Marshall, who represented himself in Dunedin as the heir of a rich uncle in Scotland, and ordered a champagne supper at Paris House for forty of his Scotch friends, to celebrate his accession to wealth —was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labour. Sittings of the Court of Appeal have been adjourned until Wednesday next, when the case of his Majesty the King versus Henry Stephen Coburn, manager of a newspaper called New Zealand Truth, will be heard. A point in this case, which was tried at the last criminal sittings in Wellington, was reserved by Mr Justice Chapman for argument before the Court of Appeal. The local postmaster has asked ns to remind telephone subscribers that their telephone connections will be cut off if the subscriptions due are not paid by Monday next. The department have adopted a new method —a good one too —of giving subscribers a final notice before cutting off their connections but this apparently does not seem to have the desired effect. At the local Police Court on Thursday afternoon, the lad Ellis, who was arrested on Wednesday night on a charge of obtaining goods by means of false pretences, pleaded guilty to the charge, aud was convicted and ordered to come up lor sentence when called upon. Messrs Fraser and Stiles were the presiding justices. Ellis was rearrested this morning on a charge of theft of a bicycle at Bulls aud brought before Mr Stiles, J.P., and remanded to appear at Wanganui on the 12th instant.