LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 850, 9 June 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a roll number of 21 students at the continuation classes conducted by the headmaster of the local school. The students are keen in their work aijd are making excellent progress. The body of the man Phillips, who was buried in the fall of earth at the Miramar cutting on Monday, was recovered on Tuesday. It is considered he was killed immediately when the fall of earth took place. He leaves a widow and three children. We see by this month’s Church Chronicle that the Mission of Help will commence in the Town Hall, Wellington, on September 25th. There will be eighteen missioners working in the Diocese of Wellington during the first two weeks of October. The date of the mission to Foxton is put down from October Bth, to the 12th, and the missioner is to be the Rev, A. H. Colville.

The King and Queen received the bluejackets who drew the gun carriage bearing King Edward’s coffin to Windsor at Marlborough House, and presented the officers with the fourth class of the Victorian Order, and the men with the Victorian medal. The company then formed an open square, and the King after making a short speech, presented the gun carriage to the Navy, Queen Alexandra also reviewed the bluejackets at Buckingham place.

Mrs Hamer has promised to donate to the Foxton Sub-Union a shield for competition. The Moutoa Drainage Board notify the intention to strike and levy a rate. The secretary of the Awahou Football Club acknowledges with thanks a donation of a guinea from Mr W. G. RichardsonMrs Hamer announces that her half-yearly clearance sale commences on Saturday next. Bargains in all lines.*

We direct attention to Messrs C. Smith and Co.’s replace advertisement on the fourth page. It is interesting to the ladies. Read it.*

The Rev G. K. Aitken, of Foxton, was at Tuesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery, held at Marton, unanimously elected Moderator of Presbytery.

Owing to the non-arrival of skates, the promoters of the local skating rink have been compelled to postpone commencing this healthful winter pastime until a date to be announced.

A meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. Business : To strike rates, to receive tenders for concrete kerbing, consideration of petition for culvert under Johnston Street and general. On Monday next Mounsey and Co. will sell, on behalf of Mr M. Todd, the whole of his household furniture and effects on the premises, Clyde Street, near Collins’ store. As Mr Todd is leaving for Gisbourne, everything in the home will be sold absolutely without reserve to the highest bidders at this sale, which commences at one o’clock. The service at Coleraine (Victoria) Presbyterian Church was brought to a sudden close owing to the continuous noise made by laughing jackasses perched on the roof. The preacher stopped his sermon, and the report adds: “When the birds had exhausted themselves the congregation was not in a mood to receive his further exhortation.’ ’

A special line of ladies long coats to be cleared at 14s qd bj' Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd., of Palmerston North. These have just arrived from the Home manufacturers andt are the very latest shapes and materials. Having arrived a little late in the season they have determined to clear them. These include nice tweeds, navy, brown and green cloths, with panel backs and trimmed with buttons. The lengths are, 52, 54 and 56 inches. See Collinson and Cunninghame’s advertisement in to-day’s issue.*