The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, June 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 856, 23 June 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, June 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A bill providing that ministers should receive a minimum stipend ot ,£250 with house, or without house, was passed by the Otago Anglican Synod.

It is stated that the Deuniston Miners’ Union contributed no less a sum than to the Newcastle strike fund.

Probably says a Sydney writer, there never was a time when such general prosperity was enjoyed tor sojlong by wool-growers. Further the outlook is promising. Mr J. G. Wilson, the Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, is suffering the results of overwork. He is endeavouring to secure rest at present.

Now that Halley’s Comet has passed us all interest in it is beginning to wane, and all the previous eagerness for information concerning this mysterious visitor has disappeared. The latest event of widespread public interest is the Great Half-yearly Sale at M. Hamer’s, the “ Economic,” Foxton ,* Poverty is no sin, but there is no excuse for people to go about in dilapidated apparel when clothing of all description is to be had at M. Hamer’s Great Half-yearly Sale for a mere song. Genuine and startling reductions in all lines of goods at the “Economic,” Foxton.*

A good idea of the size of the Mental Hospital at Porirua can be gathered from the amount of bread eaten there in a day. The great bakehouse turns out eighteen hundred 4.1 b loaves a week. The consumption is about rooolb a day.

The balance sheet of the Australian Eleven’s English tour presented to the Cricket Association showed the receipts ,£13,228 and the expenditure .£5868, including the Board of Control’s dividend of ,£IOO3. The balance will be divided among sixteen members of the team and give each ,£460.

In the course of a recent sermon a Mastertou clergyman made pointed references to the fact that whilst dozens of people could get out of bed at five and six o’clock on a wet morning to book seats for an opera, only five could be found in church at seven o’clock on a fine Sunday to worship God.

It is stated that an American engineer is coming to the Ross district from San Francisco to inspect the Mikonui River and vicinity, with a view to mining development, and there are .-anguine expectations as to the outcome of his visit, —Greymouth Star. As the result of the Commission of Enquiry into matters relating to the administration of the Taxation Department, Mr Peter Heyes (Commissioner of Taxes and Valuer-General), and Mr J. P. Dugdale (Inspecting Valuer) have been asked to resign from the Service.

The New South Wales Department of Agriculture proposes, to experiment m connection with the potato blight. With a view to obtaining clean seed, a quantity of seed potatoes has been obtained from China. This will be distributed in several countryj centres, where experiments will be conducted under strict supervision. Doctors still differ, says the Eyttelton Times, A doctor in attendance on a patient who died suddenly in Christchurch, stated that death was due to cancer. Another doctor, who conducted a post mortem examination, stated that the body contained absolutely no sign of cancer, and that death was the result of Bright’s disease. In connection with the projected marriage of Taipu, the third son of “King” Mahuta, with the daughter of Te Heu Heu Tukino, it is of interest to note (says the New Zealand Herald) that neither of the two has seen each other, and that, following the custom which regulates the matrimonial affairs of royalty, the union was the mutual arrangemfnt of the two parents.

The departure of the party of Oroua Bridge Maoris to Salt Take City (U.S.A.) has been attended by a sad sequel. Among their number was a particularly bright Maori maiden, about eighteen years of age, Adelaide Thompson (Tamihana) by name. She was a splendid specimen of her race, and was the adopted daughter of Mr Tamihana, who had her educated at the Presbyterian Maori Girls’ College at Turakina. Word was received from Fiji on Mondav morning that Miss Thompson had died on the steamer. The sad news has caused great grief among the Oroua Bridge Maoris, who were very proud of the deceased young lady. It is probable Mr Tamihana -will return immediately from Fiji.

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Yesterday afternoon a team of local school girls, defeated the old girls at rounders. Mr Alex. Ross, of the firm of Messrs VVm. Ross and Son, Ltd., returned last, night from a business trip to England.

Messrs Durward and Co. Ltd., of Palmerston North notify that their sixth great end-of-season sale commences on Saturday. A few of the bargains are advertised in this issue.

General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, speaking at Pietermartizburg, Natal, reiterated his intention to do his utmost to kill race feeling in South Africa. The promoter of the KaufmannLangford fight (Mr Blot), which was to have taken place in San Francisco on Saturday, has announced that the contest has been cancelled.

The action T. H. Lowry v. the New Zealand Times Company, in which damages was claimed for alleged libel, has been settled by the publication in the newspaper in question of an apology and the payment of Lowry’s costs. A general meeting of members of the local Amateur Dramatic Society will be held in the Council Chambers to-night. As some very important matters are to be discussed, a full attendance is requested.

“New Zealand is so far ahead of us in her political economics that we cannot catch up to her insuch anti-strike legislation in less than half a century.”—Extract from a recent editorial article in an American paper. A live centipede, said to be of a particularly dangerous kind, was found in a case of Island oranges, opened at a Dunedin store on Tuesday. The oranges were part of a shipment brought by the Mokoia. The centipede, still alive, has been handed over to the Health Officer.

On Monday night a cribbage tournament was held between players representing the local Druids Dodge and the Railway Employees. The result was a win for the Druids by 56 games to 43. The local players are endeavouring to arrange a tournament with the Sanson Card Club at an early date. A lady smoking a pipe was to be observed in Invercargill on Wednesday afternoon, states the News. Incredulous as it may seem, nevertheless it was a fact, and it was no toy affair, nor was the lady a Maori. She was a handsomely-dressed “ pakeha,” and the pipe was a substantial one, and no myth. One hears ot ladies in Europe becoming addicted to cigarettes and even cigars, but to the pipe—never. And that makes the case in question all the more unique, to say the least.

An interesting case will come before the Masterton Magistrate’s Conit shortly, when a local Chinaman will be charged with having sold horse-chestnuts to a boy. The boy who purchased the chestnuts is alleged to have become very ill after eating them, and a complaint made to the police by the father of the boy led to the prosecution. Perhaps it is not generally known that horsechestnuts have been declared by the Government to be unfit for human consumption. The unusual sight of trucks of timber covered with snow was to be seen on Monday’s Wanganui train. The trucks had come up from the Main Trunk line, where it has been snowing during the past few days. The timber had two or three inches of snow lying on it when the trucks were coupled to the train at Marton, but at Turakina most of it was removed by the small fry for snowballing purposes, and by the time Wanganui was reached there was only a few traces left to show that it had been there.

The biggest pumpkin controversy appears to have died a natural death, says the Sydney Daily Telegraph, but the memory and imagination of the rural population is now likely to find a new and fruitful subject upon which to build up records. According to our Ifithgow correspondent, Mr J. A. Tambert, of Oberon, has grown a carrot 72 inches long, and the local solution of this mystery is that it must have followed a tree root down in its growth. Whatever induced the production of this mammoth, other districts will be hard put to it to wrest the carrot-growing championship from Oberon.