LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 860, 2 July 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Nolan, New Plymouth, advertise 240 acres of land for sale. A real bargain. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Hornblow J.P., Frank Coyle, an old offender, was fined 10s or 48 hours for drunkenness.

The Manawatu County Council invite applications for the position of roadmen for the various ridings in the County. Applications will be received up till Wednesday next.

During May last 2470 persons arrived in New Zealand and 3439 departed. In May of last year the arrivals numbered 1320 and the departures 3556.

The vital statistics for Foxton for June is as follows : —Marriages, 4 ; births, 4 ; deaths nil. The returns for the quarter are: Marriages, 7 ; births, 15 ; deaths, 3.

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 a continuation of the Parables, “The Parable of the Talents, ” and the evening, “The Multiplying Touch.” An anthem, “How Beautiful upon the Mountain” (Curwen), will be rendered by the choir.

Mr Field intends to introduce this session a Bill empowering the Government to grant loans on buildings already erected. Though such loans have been granted in respect to workers’ dwellings, it is stated that the Crown Lands Department has now decided that the Act does not permit of the lending of money under such circumstances.

Lawson Webster and Harold Armstrong, were charged at Christchurch on Tuesday with having assaulted and robbed an old man on the night of May 31. The detective stated that Armstrong had admitted participating in the assault, and Lawson had signed a statement admitting that Armstrong’s story was correct, but both accused pleaded not guilty. They were committed for trial.

Now is the time to rug horses and cows. You cannot do better than place your orders with me for my famous rugs. W. E. Bullard, saddler and harness maker, Main Street.*

for watch, dock or jeweller, repairs go to PairkßS, the jeweller Main Street.

Further additions are made to the Himatangi stock sale. Messrs C. Smith, Ltd., of Palmerston North, distribute an inset in this issue.

Wilding, the New Zealander, has won the lawn tennis championship lof England, defeating Gore. The morning service at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev G, K. Aitken.

At the local police court this morning, before Messrs Alf. Fraser and Hornblow J’s.P., a prohibition order was granted against a local resident. Mr Richardson, technical manager of the N.Z. Hemp Process and By-Products Co., desires us to state that the company's works are strictly closed to the public until operations are commenced. The Catholic Mission will close in Foxton to-morrow evening. All the services have been well attended during the week. The Rev Father Hunt’s eloquent discourses have been listened to with pleasure by a number of people outside the Roman Catholic faith.

A meeting of the proposed new meat freezing company for Manawatu and West Coast was held at Palmerston yesterday. Mr J. Balsillie was in the chair, and there was a good attendance of directors. After fully discussing matters, it was resolved to draw up a prospectus for issue among farmers to be submitted to the next meeting of directors, who will in the meantime ascertain as far as possible what support the company is likely to receive. It was decided that the proposed new works shall be erected on a site to be selected somewhere between the Rangitikei and Mauawatu rivers. The local railway station and buildings were lit up last night with coal gas for the first time. The lighting is a vast improvement on the old order of things. Two large arc lamps illuminate the approaches at either end ot the platform, and all the offices and goods shed are well provided with jets. We are informed that the wharf lighting will be proceeded with at once. What is now required from the Department for the convenience of the travelling public is a verandah. No doubt this matter will receive attention in connection with the request for additional storage accommodation for goods.

The nominations for three members of the Wanganui Education Board, close with the returning officer at Wanganui on Monday next. Mr Alf. Fraser the retiring member for the southern ward, and who is standing for re-election, has been nominated by the following Committees: —Ashhurst, Feilding (2), Eongburn, Palmerston North (3), Pohangina, Raumai, Stoney Creek, Cheltenham, Oroua Bridge, Taikorea, Glen Oroua, Moutoa, Taonui, Kimbolton, and Foxton. At a meeting of the provisional committee of the proposed new freezing company for this coast, held at Palmerston on Thursday, Mr J. Balsillie presided, and there was a full discussion of matters bearing on the scheme. It was decided to draw up a prospectus for issue among the farmers, and it will be submitted to the next meeting of directors, who will, in the meantime ascertain what support the company is likely to receive. It is understood that several schemes are before the directors, and one of them is that new works should be erected on a site to be selected somewhere between the Rangitikei and Manawatu rivers.

Modern gaols must be by no means uncomfortable places, and it not infrequently happens that a discharged prisoner is anxious to return to gaol, especially during the winter months, to secure an assured home and regular meals for a certain time. That such a motive actuated James Pomfret was suggested by Sergeant Hadrell to Mr L,. R. Reid, S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth on Saturday. Pomfret was released from gaol—for the fourteenth time—on Saturday morning. He celebrated the occasion by means of alcoholic liquor, and then, perhaps, finding the night was going to be very cold, and that it would be as well to obtain a warm bed at Government expense, he stole a bundle ot shirts, valued at 30s, from a shop. He was arrested and the shirts were recovered. Pomfret pleaded guilty to the charges of drunkenness and theft. Mr Reid sent him back to the New Plymouth gaol for two months, with hard labour, for the theft. Pomfret was pleased with the sentence, after he had been removed from the dock, because it enabled him to spend the worst months of the winter in gaol.