LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 844, 26 May 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reward is offered lor the recovery of a lost Swan fountain pen.

Colonel Kirkpatrick, the new Inspector -General of the Commonwealth Forces, has arrived at Freemantle.

In the Supreme Court, Auckland, Arnold Hare, for demanding payment of money by threats, got twelve months’ hard labour. Mr Donald Buchanan, brother of Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., died at Hawera on Friday evening, aged 79 years. Mr Buchanan was one of the oldest of Hawera’s settlers, his residence dating back to about 1576-7. The Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, intends to join the Admiralty yacht Enchantress to complete his holiday in the Mediterranean, which was interrupted by the death of King Edward.

Ali Me Murray, manager of the West Coast Steamship and Trading Company, intends to take up his residence in Foxton at an early date. Tenders for deepening and widening three hundred chains of drain connections tor the Moutoa Drainage Board close at noon tomorrow.

The Rev. Mr Woodward has received an anonymous donation of a sovereign to be given to the choir boy who makes the best attendance at church services up to Christmas.

Mr G. Laurenson, M.P., for Lyttelton, has retired from his position as Government Whip, having handed to the Premier his resignation of that office. Mr Laurenson is suffering from heart affection.

Dick Arust, the champion sculler of the world, was entertained at Sydney prior to his departure for Africa, where he is to row Ernest Barry, of London, for the sculling championship of the world on the Zambesi river.

Ismael de Lesseps (brother of the monopianist who recently flew across the Channel from Calais to Dover) was severely wounded in the thigh whilst duelling with Count Poligny in Paris. They exchanged shots at a distance of 16 metres (17 to 18 yards.)

At the local Police Court yesterday, before MrHornblow, J.P., bid ward McNaulty was chaged by the police with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Defendant, who was allowed out on bail the night previous, did not appear and was fined £i. Mr R. Hogg, the general secretary of the Socialist Party in New Zealand, will deliver an address on socialism in the Masonic Hall next Monday night. There will be no charge for admission and questions and discussion are invited. The Mayor will preside.

Our readers are reminded of the social to be held in the Masonic Hall to-night under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. A first class concert programme will be submitted and light refreshments provided. The price of admission is one shilling. Owing to expiry of his lease, Mr C. H. Collins, of the Universal Supply Stores, will remove the grocery department into what is known as the ironmongery department. Alterations and improvements are now being made to facilitate the removal.

We have received miniature copies of the Sydney Morning Herald, S}'dney Daily Telegraph, and Sydney Evening News, containing news of the King’s death. They are excellent mementos of the sad event.

The Clerk of the local Harbour Board received a reply from the New Plymouth Harbour Board today in reference to a request as to whether the former would hire a dredge to the local Board, stating that they had no dredge available, but they had a new one coming out from Home and when that arrives they will offer for sale the one now is use.

A queer accident is reported to have happened to Mrs Hemi, a Maori woman living at Canvas; town, the other afternoon, says the Marlborough Press. A pig got under the house and in stooping to drive it out her pipe fell on a stray dynamite cap, which exploded and blew two fingers off one of her hands.

Hemp graded for export during the month of April amounted to 14,528 bales, of which 37.65 per cent, was “good fair’’ and 52.85 per cent, “fair” grade. The largest contributors were : Wellington, 4763 bales ; Auckland, 3751 ; Foxton, 3623 ; Bluff, 1012. The tow graded amounted to 4515 bales, chiefly second grade. There were 37 bales of flax and 158 bales of tow condemned. Cork is divided into hostile camps, one being Mr O’Brien’s “All for Ireland’’ Eeague and the other Mr Redmond’s United Irish party. The disturbances continue. One faction, armed with “ hurleys” and stout sticks, invades the other’s territory and a fight follows. Many heads were broken and thirty injured in the last encounter. The police had to charge the rioters with batons. The priests are endeavouring to restore harmony.

Cables in the Australian press state : The following excerpt from a New York paper is a reflex of the American press reference to the King’s death : “ The heart of America is touched. King Edward was the guardian of a democratising monarchy. At home he was a King among all men ; in his travels abroad he was a statesman among Kings.” Noth withstanding official denials, the belief that the King’s death was hastened by cancer will never be dislodged from the minds of the people.