The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, Judy 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 869, 23 July 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, Judy 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Jonson offers a reward for the recovery of two black and white terriers.

Mr O. E. Austin paid a brief visit to Foxton this week. Mrs Austin is also visiting old friends in Foxton.

Mr J. T. Eevett, proprietor oi the local skating rink, notifies that in future the rink will be conducted under his personal supervision.

The school committee had to abandon its meeting on Thursday night for the want of a quorum. The meeting will take place on Monday evening next. The services at the Presbyterian Church to-m®rrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev G. K. Aitken, and in the evening by Mr Huntley. Mesdaraes Henderson and Cunninghame have received a consignment of oranges suitable for marmalade. They also announce the arrival of a consignment of chocolate confectionery. In connection with the death of Hulme, the schoolteacher who died in the school grounds after an interview with the master, Mr Rodin, the latter has been acquitted on a charge of manslaughter.

At the local Police Court this morning, before Mr Hennessy, J.P., James Moore, charged with drunkenness was convicted and discharged, and on a second charge of resisting the police was fined £2 or seven days’ imprisonment in the Palmerston gaolAt Woodville, this week, an auctioneer for a Danuevirke firm was charged with the use of strong language at an auction sale at Maharahara. The Magistrate regretted to see a respectable man like defendant having to plead guilty to such a charge. He would have to inflict a very severe penalty, and would fine the defendant £5 with cost 7s, in default six weeks imprisonment. Victoria has a very original kind of bullock-driver. He is an old sailor, and he names his bullocks after ships he has slaved and starved in. He does not use ordinary bullock-driver’s language when driving his team, but uses nautical terms, such as “ port,” “ starboard,” “ hard over,” “starn all,” etc. No one else can drive the team.

The youths King and Dean pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Thursday, to a charge of firing a revolver at Chinese gardeners at Paraparaumu and threatening to rob them. They were committed to the Supreme Court foi sentence. The accused said their action was the result of reading Deadwood Dick literature and reports of Powelka’s deeds.

Baldwins Mahatma Company played to a fair house in the Public Hall on Thursday night. The programme consisted of conjuring and other tricks, thoughtreading and some vocal items by a male member of the company. The tricks were not new and at times were performed in a very amateur-fashion. The thoughtreading by “ Mora ” who also as “Koko,” the Japanese lady, gave satisfaction to those who pin their faith to that sort of thing. The entertainment as a whole did not come up to expectations.

In the course of his remarks at the Dunedin Baptist Tabernacle on a recent Sunday night Pastor Hastie spoke upon a “White New Zealand.” He said ht considered the law which had been passed in Australia making Australia what is termed a “White Australia” a good one. While it is true that the Almighty had made of one blood all nations to dwell together on the face of the earth, it was also to be remembered that He had appointed unto them the bounds of their habitation.

The Registration of Barmaids Bill introduced by Mr Ell provided that barmaids may apply to the clerk of a licensing district to be registered before May 31, 1911. The clerk will keep a register, and anyone who claims to be registered and is not so registered has a right to appeal to the licensing committee of the district at the annual meeting. The Bill goes on to make it an offence for any female who is not registered other than the wife or daughter of the licensee, to sell liquor in any bar. It is also made an offence to employ any unregistered female for that purpose.

The order of St. John of Jerusalem has awarded its certificate of honour to Mr William Hayes, railway shunter at Lyttleton, for heroism, says a London cable.

Sister Moody-Bell will conduct the services in the local Methodist Church on Sunday next. The subject in the morning will be “The backsliding Peter,’’ and in the evening, “Peter at Pentecost.”

“It would be a good thing if this credit system were done away with, and a list published every month of those in arrears,” remarked Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., during the hearing of a judgment summons case in Auckland. In the Otaki Court on Wednesday, a Maori youth, August Remi Wallace, pleaded guilty to committing a robbery of money from the local convent. He goes to the Supreme Court for sentence. Fritz Unger, a German expert, who appeared as a witness in a native law-suit at Haefa, in Syria, was shot dead by the adherents of the defeated litigant in the presence of the German Consul and a Turkish magistrate.

Dr. Deluca, experimenting with a monoplane at Port Macquarrie, rose successfully to a height of twenty feet, then the machine turned turtle, and fell, being smashed* Dr. Deluca escaped injury.

Messrs Collinson and Son, of Palmerston North, have just landed a very fine range of brass rail fenders, kitchen lenders, and fire brasses. The time occupied in inspection is amply repaid by the large and interesting display. For prices see advertisement in this issue.*

On Sunday evening the vicar will preach on the mission which is to be held in Foxton from the Bth to the 12th ot October. The whole Anglican Church in New Zealand is making great preparations for this mission. Some 2i priests have started from England and will arrive in New Zealand in September. Lord Islington’s household staff, numbering eighteen or more persons, will arrive by the Rimutaka some days before Lady Islington, who is on board the Turakiua. By the Rimutaka is also coming a quantity of Islington gold and silver plate, valued at some of which belongs to the Georgian period. The Rev. G. P. Davys, M.A., vicar of St. Peter’s, Wellington, has resigned his position, and will leave for England in November next. He has laboured in New Zealand for fourteen years, succeeding the Rev. W. C. Waters as vicar of St. Peter’s about eight years ago. Mr Davys intends taking up his permanent residence in the Old Country.

Mr A. Hatrick, of Wellington, received a letter Irom Walter William H’pango, a noted Native chief, signifying his desire to make a free gift to the people of Wanganui ot an area of thirty acres, being part of the beautiful and historic Patakataka Pa, situated about fifteen miles up the river. This land, which makes an ideal picnic ground, is at the the present time worth many pounds per acre, but its future value as a public recreation resort is incalculable. Mr Hatrick, in acknowledging the letter, intimated his grateful acceptance of the generous offer, and undertook to at once convey the same to the Mayor and corporation.

The Government’s scheme for settling retrenched Civil servants on the laud has only been taken advantage of to a limited extent. For this purpose an area of about 13,900 acres lying westerly of Raurimu, Owhango, Kakaho, and Piaka, situated on the North Island Main Trunk railway line, was subdivided into 102 sections, each 200 acres and under. Retrenched Civil servants had a certain amount of preference, but only some 35 applied, while some of those successful declined to take up their sections, and at present there are only four retrenched Civil servants on the settlement.

Referring to the desire evinced by many young men to be associated with explorers, Mr Robert McNab, lecturing on Captain Cook’s voyages on Saturday evening, said that several of the officers who had been associated with Captain Cook had later on achieved fame for themselves. Some of them while serving under Cook had earned no more than is a month. That there is still a keen desire on the part of scoras of men to take part in fame-bringing expeditions was shown by the fact that 8000 applications had been received by Captain Scott from men who wished to take part in the exploration voyage to the South Sea.

Mr Halcombe, of Urenui, Taranaki, told a Dominion representative a few days ago that the first Jersey cow which entered Taranaki was driven through frnm the Rangitikei in 1878. She was bought from Mrs Halcombe, one of the pioneers of the Rangitikei, and the journey to Taranaki occupied about a week. Her name was Jenny, and it is claimed, that she was the foundation of the Jersey herds of Taranaki. She is also said to have had a remarkable butter-fat record, and a successful show career. Mr Hulke, of Bell Block, was the purchaser. Jenny was out of an imported cow by Marquis, and became dam of Granny’s Girl. Mr Hulke was an enthusiast in Jerseys.

End of Sale in sight at G. H. Stiles’, when Bargains in Black Dresses, Furs, Paletots, will astonish all our customers.*

A replace advertisement for Mr E. Ball, hairdresser and tobacconist, will appear in next issue.

The attendance shield at the local school was won this week by Standards V, VI, and VII with an average of 89.7 percent. If the lady who took a pair of ladies boots by mistake from the hall last night will return same to this office she will receive her own.*

The half-yearly general meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union, is advertised to be held in the registered office this evening at 8 o’clock. Ordinary meeting at 7.30 o’clock.

The heaviest ship afloat is the Rotterdam, a new Holland American liner. Her gross tonnage is 25,000 ; she has 11 decks, and can accommodate 4015 persons, prssengers and crew. Her speed is 17 knots. More than ,£4,800,000 was received in transit dues by the Suez Canal Company during the past financial year. It was stated at the company’s general meeting in Paris recently that the year was the most prosperous in the history of the canal.

At the Himatangi sale yards on Monday Messrs Dalgely and Co., hi conjunction with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile will offer the whole of Messrs Lowe Bros, first-class dairy herd, horses, implements and sundries. The sale will commence at 11.30 a.m., and everything will be offered without reserve.

Mr W. S. Rogers notifies elsewhere in this that he has erected a sawmill at Whirokino, alongside the Levin-Fbxton road in white pine and Pukatea bush and is prepared to execute orders for timber at lowest rates. Delivery at Foxton or river bank as required. Tram rails cut to any length.

No one reading the two following extracts from speeches on the gambling evil would take them to be the utterances of men who have always opposed the betting tendency of the age. “ I have not had much to do with the bookmaker in a direct way, but I have a good deal to do with them in an indirect way,” remarked Mr Hal Goodacre, the retiring president of the Employers’ Association, at New Plymouth, and he went on to show that he had noticed the effect of gambling upon people } with whom he was acquainted. “I’m poorer to-day by a certain amount of hard-earned cash, reason of the act of some boolW^

or other, and I’m out after his blood. “ I want to see the bookie go under.” These were the remarks of Mr C. E. Bake ? the pre-sident-elect. What he meant was that a man who had owed him money had been betting heavily, and lost, then fled the country to avoid paying up his liabilities.

Another pioneer settler has passed away in Mr Chas. Tricklebank, who died at Palmerston on Thursday, aged 81 years. Deceased arrived in the colony in the year 1856 in the ship Oliver Dang on her first trip to this country. He took up residence at Johnsonville, where he remained for three or four years, and afterwards went to Foxton with his wife and young family. In 1866 Mr Tricklebank then decided to remove to Palmerston North. In those days Palmerston was but a wilderness, and Mr Tricklebank, with others, set himself the task of laying the foundation of a town. He became established as a brick and pipe manufacturer in Palmerston, carrying on business until 1888, when he went to Melbourne, returning here again iii 1894. From there he went to Waipawa, and commenced business with his son, Charles, as a brickmaker, retiring from business about nine years ago. He took up his residence in Palmerston once more, about two years ago. Some time ago Mr Tricklebank was knocked down by a cyclist, and the shock was so great that he never really recovered from it. Deceased leaves a wife, 10 daughters, two sons, 87 grandchildren and 3i great-grand-children.

Stories —true and otherwise—of the experiences of persons crossing the flooded roads to Shannon and Devin are many, but this one has been given to us as absolutely correct. A visitor from Wellington was anxious to get from Moutoa to the train at Shannon and approached several of the farmers with the request that they should drive him over the flooded portion of the road. The water on the road at this time was very deep—in in fact it was dangerous for a vehicle to attempt to cross —and the wouldbe traveller met with many refusals before a kindhearted settler agreed to make the trip. The spring cart was got ready and the Wellingtonian and his benefactor, together with members of the latter’s 1 family took their seats. The horse tow) to the water like a duck and all went well until they got through about half way when they got off the track. The water at this point was very deep and the force of the rushing torrent caused the cart to roll like a ship in a heavy sea. This was a new experience for the man from the “windy city” and his face was a study as he looked around him and saw water to the right of him, water to the left of him, water in front of him and also water behind him. Visions of a watery grave confronted him wherever he looked, and the only words he could utter were j “Does anyone know how to pray ? Can anyone pray ?” At this stage the vehicle again struck the road and aUvjji well, the man from heaving a great sigh of boarded the train.