LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 841, 19 May 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An advertiser wants a good general servant. The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee takes place at 7.30 o’clock this evening. The Presbyterian social programme appears elsewhere in this issue. A funeral service will take place in commemoration of our late King in All Saints’ Church tomorrow at 11 o’clock a.m. The Foxton Holiday Association notify that all business premises will be closed all day tomorrow. A very severe frost was experienced throughout this district yesterday morning and the Tararuas was covered with a mantle of snow. Mr Rimmer is erecting a dwell-ing-house for Mr J. Gillespie in the Avenue and Mr Alex Speirs is doing a like work for Mr Rose in Robinson Street. The Moutoa Drainage Board invites tenders for deepening and widening 300 chains of drain in three contracts. Tenders close at noon on the 27th inst. A report of the discussion at yesterday’s Harbour Board meeting on the beach road question is unavoidably crowded out of this issue and will appear on Saturday. The coursing meeting to be held at Palmerston North under the auspices of the Palmerstoh North Coursing Club will take place on Wednesday, May 25th, not Tuesday as previously advertised.

Mrs Rose Murray, who obtained a divorce from her husband in Glasgow on March 26th, said she married him the day after she first met him, and they quarrelled after the first week, A resident who has been watching events closely since the advent of No-license, states that there has not been nearly so many accidents in Masterton since it came into force as there were previously. — Dominion.

Mr Harrison is making a splendid job of the local bowling green. He says that when completed it should prove one of the fastest greens he has put down. Mr Harrison says that the future of the green will depend to a large extent upon the person engaged in keeping it in order. Thousands of Danes, including a number of high officials, have started for Eoudon, and thousands of-Danish women have signed an address of sympathy to Queen Alexandra. The inhabitants of Denmark are sending a gold wreath and shield weighing nine pounds.

The King gave President Roosevelt an audience for an hour at Marlborough House on Monday. The ex-President also visited the Queen Mother at Buckingham Palace and the Throne room, where also. 350 members of the various Royal Households and diplomatic corps witnessed the laying-in state.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Harbour Board a telegram was received from Mr E. Newman, M.P., apologising for his absence which was caused through a misunderstanding as to the date, Mr Newman being under the impression the meeting was to be held to-day. He said he would be glad to co-operate with the Board on all matters. Since the constitution of the Board Mr Newman has always evinced the greatest interest in its welfare and his assistance has been greatly appreciated by members.

It has been known for some time umongst bis friends that Mr George Laurenson, M.P., has not of late been enjoying the best of health. The information is now public property, and it is recognised that Mr Eaureuson has now to take a little more care of himself and take a less active part in Parliamentary struggles than he has done in the past. He will find it hard to do this, for he is an active-brained man with a full knowledge of politics and ready at any moment for an oral encounter in the House. It seems as though he will have to vacate the position of Government Whip, for that post involves a great strain upon the occupant of the position.