LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 866, 16 July 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a fair attendance at the skating rink last night and a most enjoyable time was spent.

Owing to the recent continued rains the Manawatu river has been in heavy flood, and low-lying land along its banks for miles have been inundated.

Mr W. Dinnie, late Commissioner of Police, is gazetted president of the Tokerau District Maori Panel Board, vice Mr C. D. Pitt (retired), as from July ist.

The usual services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow in the morning by the Rev G. K. Aitken, and in the evening by Mr H. Billens, of Palmerston North. Father Vaughan, preaching at Hythe, said that the decline in the birth-rate among the wealthy was appalling. The cradles were as empty as the churches, so far as the wealthy were concerned, A royal decree censures the Archbishop of Braga for suppressing a religious periodical at the Pope’s instance without the concurrence of the Crown.

Negotiations between Spain and the Vatican have been severed, owing to the recent extension of religious freedom and the recognition of Protestant churches by the Spanish Government. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Messrs Hennessy and Stiles J’s.P., a prohibition order for twelve months was granted against a local resident on his own application.

The services at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. V. Kitcat, Vicar of Marton, and chaplain to the Bishop of Wellington. There will be a celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 p.m. in addition to the other services.

The special hymn books which are to be used during the Anglican Mission in October next have just arrived from England, The Rev G. Y. Woodward has asked Mrs Nye to circulate them, and they may be purchased for one shilling each. The hymn books contain both words and tunes.

Messrs Newth and Carter, of the Awa Downs Dairy, notify the residents of the district that they are still in a position to supply pure clean milk in any quantity. They have just completed the erection of new cowsheds, milkroom, etc., which have been built on the most up-to-date lines. These have concrete floors throughout and their yard has also been concreted, and they claim that they now have the most up-to-date premises in the district. In order that their customers might get the richest milk possible they have added to their already first-class herd by the purchase of a line of Jersey cows, which are recognised as the best breed for dairying purposes. Their price for milk is the same as before, three-pence per quart. To be drunk and disorderly twice in one day is pretty good going, yet a seaman from the scow Echo named Alfred Buruicle, was so charged at the local police court yesterday morning. He was also further charged with resisting the police whilst in the execution of their duty. The man was arrested on Tuesday morning for drunkenness and was lodged in the lock-up, but as the scow was timed to leave port during the day the skipper bailed him out, and took him on board. However, the tide was not good enough and the boat couldn’t leave. Towards evening the man apparently again felt dry and took another jaunt up the street, where he again found trouble, being taken into custody lor the second time. Whilst being guided to the police station, however, he resisted Constable Sweeney and in the struggle the latter’s tunic was considerably damaged. He was brought before Messrs P. Hennessy and G, H. Stiles J’s.P., yesterday morning, and was convicted and fined 5s or 24 hours on the first two charges, and £2 or 12 days on the third. The man did not have “the needful’’ and the master of the scow then asked him, “Will you go to sea or to gaol?” The man preferred the briney to a Government billet, and the skipper said the amount would be paid at one o’clock, but the man was ordered to be kept in durance vile until that time.

For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Qure, is 6d, and 2s 6d.

Messrs Millar and Giorgi advertise special bargains in overcoats.

Tickets are going off very well for the forthcoming juvenile plain and fancy dress ball.

The scow Jane Douglas which was bringing a cargo of coal from Pupouga to Foxton, had to put in at Picton for water. The attendance shield was won at the local State school this week by Standards V., VI., and VII., with an average of 94.3 per cent. On our fourth page appears a letter from Mr B. Harrison, of Burriugbor, N.S. Wales, on the merits of the wonderful Rhodes grass.

The local amateur Dramatic Society are actively rehearsing “ Kleptomania ” in the old schoolhouse. The caste of characters and date of production will appear in next issue.

The services to-morrow in the Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by the Rev- P. J. Mairs, and in the evening, by Mr H. Smith, whose subject will be “Christ’s Command, and its Reward.”

There are nol vessels at the local wharf at present, the Echo having sailed yesterday. The s.s. Queen of the South is expected from Wellington on Sundayevening.

“He kicked me with his boots ” This is one of the statements in a report by a constable who arrested a "drunk” who was subsequently charged with resisting. We wonder whether the arresting “ bobby ” expected the man to kick with his shirt or his pants. The ladies hockey match, Glen Oroua and Oroua Downs was played in the pouring rain at Oroua Downs on Wednesday afternoon and was witnessed by a fair number of spectators. Oroua Downs won by 2 goals to i.

John Mill, of Dunedin, now in the Old Country, writing to a friend says: ‘'l met Captain Scott and offered to coal the Terra Nova free of charge if she took her departure from Port Chalmers. This offer he accepted.

Archbishop Redwood will attend the Eucharistic Congress at Montreal in September, and will leave Auckland on 3rd August, en route to that city. Prior to his departure his Grace will open St. Mary’s Church, Port Ahuriri, on 3ist July. Bishop Neligan has forwarded his resignation to the Primate, stating his continued illness during the last two months has led to this step. He feels, under the circumstances, that he cannot effectively do the work of such a large and important diocese. He expresses his desire to return to England before the close of the year.

Marie Bollrette has been sentenced, at Paris, to penal servitude for life for indirectly causing the death of an innocent man. She left a packet of apparently harmless but really poisonous medicine on the doorstep of one Doudieux’s house. She had formerly refused to marry him, and hoped to poison his wile. Doudieux, thinking the medicine harmless, administered it to Gorard, a prominent tenor, who was his guest. Spenazzino, a member of .the Black Hand, from Sicily, demanded money from and then shot Manzella, an Italian grocer, of New Orleans, dead. Manzella's seventeen - year - old daughter, Josephine, thereupon entered the shop and shot Spenazzio dead as he was fleeing from the premises.

The Rev. C. E. Porter, who has been fifteen years in the Wesleyan Methodist ministry, and who was stationed at Christchurch, Wellington, and other important centres before going to Masterton has resigned from the ministry owing to his being opposed to the itinerant system of the Methodist Church. The death has occurred at Wellington of Mrs T. S. Duncan, one of the early Canterbury pilgrims, aged eighty-two. The deceased was the grand-daughter of the eighth Eord Rollo. Her husband was at one time a prominent barrister in Christchurch, and the founder of the firm of Messrs Duncan, Cotterill, and Stringer ; and he was for a time in partnership with Mr Justice Williams and ex-Justice Mr Martin.

Coloured men are evidently not all lovers of fighting, and excessively proud of having a champion boxer as a compatriot. A Sydney darkey declared to a reporter “I’m not at all proud of this fighting business. I don’t want us to be foremost in brutality. What I would like to see would be that the African negroes had produced an intellectual champion, one as superior to the white men mentally as Johnson has proved himself to be superior physically. That is how we will be recognised and placed on equality with the white races. It is when we produce a great scientist that I will feel proud. Johnson is only where the white man was centuries ago. If he had discovered radium I would think him the greatest black man who ever lived, but I don’t feel elated at his having punched a boiler maktr until he rendered him insensible.”

To be comfortable and healthy one must keep warm, and to keep warm during the cold snaps of winter one must wear suitable clothing. The ladies of Foxton are advised that M. Hamer, of the “Economic,” is now offering a line of flanellette blouses at a very low figure during the Great Re» duction Sale.*

Read Messrs Durward and Co., Ltd., advertisement in this issue. The Dominion Conference of the Farmers’ Union at the closing stage of its session yesterday elected the following officers: — Dominion President, Mr J. G. Wilson (Bulls); vice - president, Mr G. W. Leakley (Wakanui, Ashburton); advisory committee, Messrs J. C. Cooper (Tare), H. J. Richards (Levin), F. F. Hockly (Hunterville), and D. McGregor (Masterton) ; treasurer, Mr W. J. Birch (Marton). A vote of thanks was passed to Mr A. E- Russell, the retiring treasurer, for his services. Mr E. C. Jack, the secretary, was complimented upon the good work done during the year.