The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, Junk 4, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 848, 4 June 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, Junk 4, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged at the local Police Court yesterday. The attendance shield at the local school this week was won by St. 11. with an average attendance of 92 per cent. The Secretary of the Awahou Football Club desires to publicly acknowledge receipt of a donation of £\ is from Mr G. H. Stiles. The Secretary of the Albion Football Club desires to publicly acknowledge receipt of donations of £1 is each from Messrs G. H. Stiles and O. Robinson. The services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. G. K. Aitkeu, and in the evening by Mr D. W. Fow, m.a., of Palmerston North. The Manawatu Hunt Club held a meet at Himatangi this afternoon. The drag was laid through Messrs Farmer and George Coley’s property. The “ kill ” took place on the latter’s homestead. The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. P. J. Mairs. The subject for the morning will be the 33rd Psalm, and in the evening, “ The Dead Egyptians.”

The first anniversary of King George’s Birthday as the reigning sovereign, took place yesterday. Locally, there were no celebrations, and all the shops were closed. A number of people took advantage of the cheap railway excursion fares and local sports attended the race meeting at Kevin. To-morrow in all churches of the Anglican Communion a special collection is being made on behalf of the Maori Mission. The Vicar of All Saints made an appeal last Sunday, and it is hoped that the church in this district will be alive to the need of the Mission—an enthusiasm for Mission is an enthusiasm for Christ.*

Speaking at Whaugarei, the Minister for Justice said that the Government was at present negotiating for the purchase of Maori laud in the following districts :—Wairarapa, 20,000 acres ; Hawke’s Bay, 20,000 acres ; Wairoa and East Coast, 30,000 acres ; Taupo, 20,000 acres; Bay of Plenty, 100,000 acres ; King Country. Waikato, and Tauranga, to, ooo acres ; Bay of Islands and Hokianga, 70,000 acres.

While proceeding home along Johnston Street last evening a local resident and his wife, the former wheeling a perambulator, bad a narrow escape from a serious collision with a vehicle which was being driven without lights at the intersection of Johnson and Union Streets. Some action should be taken by the police to make an example of persons driving without lights. The exportation of horses to Australia still goes on apace, says the Southland Times. Yesterday twenty-one were forwarded by the s.s. Moeraki. Of this number seveu were shipped from Southland, and the balance from the North. No doubt the fancy prices realised at the Sydney sale has attracted small owners on this side, as most of the shipments now are composed of small numbers, as against the larger consignments going forward some little time ago.

Dr. Heury, visiting evangelist, told an Auckland reporter that he was “wonderfully impressed with New Zealand and with the loyal support with which your hospitable people have accorded us since our arrival from America a month ago. So far,” he said, “I have found New Zealand much more like America than England. And do you know, I think that your Dominion is about the only young country to which the United States is willing to ‘take its hat off to,’ so to speak, because of her successful legislation, which in some respects is regarded as even better than that of America.”

Even in the world of aviators there are few men who have had a more romantic career than that of M. Paulhan. M. Paulhan, now one of the world’s leading flying men, not so very long ago was earning something less than four pounds a week as an ordinary mechanic in an aeroplane factory. He began life as a performer in a travelling circus, touring round the smaller towns and villages in France. His lot, as he puts it, “was one long, dreadful line of routine labour, performing during the day and travelling at night.’’ M. Paulhan combined the work of a general engineer and that of a performer. He was a bare-backed rider and an expert tight-rope dancer. In the latter capacity, he remarked recently, he first learnt the art of balancing, which has proved of the utmost value to him since.

Mr Henry Burling, the Waikanae centenarian, has been highly honoured, having just received a letter from Queen Alexandra, through her secretary, congratulating him on having celebrated his 109th birthday. The Rev. Joseph Clark has declined to stand as Opposition candidate for Auckland East, and the following will therefore go to the poll: —Messrs A. M. Myers, Independent ; W. Richardson, Prohibitionist and Protectionist ; and McKnight, Eabour.

John Trembath, who at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, at Christchurch, just concluded, was sentenced to 18 months for forgery at Christchurch, and two years for horse-stealing at Ashburton, was being brought from Timaru to Christchurch, when he jumped off the train near Rakaia, and has not been seen since.

The Rev. Father Molloy, who has been in charge of the Marton parish for over four years, has received notice of his transfer to Waipawa. He leaves to take up his new charge about the 20th of this month. The Rev. Father Connolly, of Palmerston North, has been appointed to succeed him.

The Gore Standard reports that the boarders seated round the tea table at one of the boardinghouses received a scare the other evening. A slight argument had arisen, when one of the combatants produced a revolver and placed it in a direct line with an adversary’s face, saying, “I think it is.” The argument was not resumed. Is a fall in the price of mutton probable ? A runholder this week remarked to a representative of the Southland Times that he anticipated a decline in price. He based his surmise upon the possibility of the English markets being overstocked through the New Zealand aud Australian freezing works turning out such vast quantities of carcases of mutton at the present time.

Mr A. W. Hall, the New Zealand fiaxmill manager, who has been engaged for the past three years in establishing the milling of New Zealand hemp at St. Helena, has returned to the Dominion. Mr Hall speaks in gratifying terms of his treatment by the island authorities and of his life at St. Helena. He had the unique experience of sleeping for three nights in Napoleon’s library at Longwood. Mr Hall left Wellington for his home in Southland on Tuesday.

A few days ago (.says the Temnka Deader) a two-year-old girl—the daughter of Mr Edwin Bull, of Peel Forest —was playing near a sheep dip when she fell in and her cries brought her young brother, aged seven, who at the risk of his own life managed by leaning over into the dip to reach his sister and drag her out. There was 4 Yi feet of water in the dip, and the girl was sinking for the second time when her brother saved her.

A somewhat amusing complication arose the other day at Christchurch, between an importer of books, etc., and the Customs authorities. The former imported a large quantity of religious tracts, and was informed that he must pay a duty of 3d per lb on them, as “advertising matter.” In reply the importer asked to be informed whose and what goods he was advertising. He has not up to the present received any answer to his enquiry.

The Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, which is attended by Mr Rockefeller, raised at the morning’s collection on April 10th, the sum of ,£64,800. A special appeal for a new church was made, and the collection consisted almost exclusively of cheques, notes and gold coin. Mr Rockefeller waited for the announcement of the total, which was given as ,£32,400, and then wrote out a cheque for an equal amount.

Dr. W. A. Chappie, M.P., of New Zealand, was one of the eleven Liberals who voted in the House of Commons in favour of introducing a bill to give official recognition in the Old Country to Empire Day. The great bulk of the Liberals and all the Irish voted against the proposal, which was defeated by a large majority. Sir A. Spicer, a recent visitor to New Zealand, voted with the minority in favour of bringing in the bill, and the two brothers Wason, Cathcart and Eugene voted against it.

“This is sheer insolence.” That is how the Napier Daily Telegraph characterises the decision of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to exclude the press from the meetings of committees. The Telegraph continues : “So insensible, however, are some elected persons to the sorry figures they cut as pinchbeck tyrants and prunella absolutists that the reason given for rejecting the last proposition was that ‘it would leave loopholes for the leaking out of other information.’ The whole business is so prepostrous, so insolently prepostrous, that one is at a loss how to further describe it without offending against the canons of good taste. It is persons of this class who are the true enemies of the people. They have not learned even the elements of democratic rule, and in consequence have been able to persuade themselves that they, as elected administrators of a State institution, are its proprietors.

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Messrs Pyne and Co., auctioneers, Christchurch, advertise sale of purebred stud flock to be held at the Addington Yards on June 24th.

Tamihana, a well-known Oroua Bridge chiet, left lor Salt Lake City by the Auckland express yesterday to join the Mormons there. His family went with him. A large number of Maoris and other Mormons gave him a sendoff.

In the case against Henry James Hausen, charged with attempting to murder his son at Ngunguru in April last, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the first count, and found him guilty of shooting with intent to do actual bodily harm. He was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

A candid personal confession was made by the Hon. Mr Millar, at Dunedin recently, that the economic and social problems awaiting solution were increasing in importance every day, not only here, but all over the world, and he sometimes thought younger and fresher brains should be brought to the task. Experience, of course, was a valuable asset, and it was that consideration which sometimes made it appear a duty for him to remain longer. He would say perfectly honestly that he had no desire to die in harness. With five more years of public life, he would have given to the public about 25 years of strenuous toil, and he though! that after that a man was entitled to a year or two of quiet before he left this earth. That was what he was looking forward to.