The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, Jury 28, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 871, 28 July 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, Jury 28, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Wanganui reps, defeated the American footballers by 18 points to 6.

The Misses Neylon left Foxton this morning for a holiday trip to Auckland and Rotorua.

The balance-sheet of the Foxton Borough Council has been printed and copies may be procured from the Town Clerk. We acknowledge with thanks, receipt of a copy of same. The Foxton football “reps” will play their first match this season on Saturday, August 6th, when they will meet Horowhenua at L,evin.

Indications point to a very successful season for vvhitebaiters. At present, however, small catches are being retailed locally at 2s 6d per pint. Mr G. P. Walker, draper, owing to increased business is about to remove into more commodious premises, next to Messrs P. Hennessy and Co.’s store. The first match of the fourth round of the senior football competition will be played on the racecourse on Saturday between Albion and Manawatu.

Henry Threlof, an elderly man of peculiar mind, suddenly attacked his grandson, eight years of age, at Maitland. He hit the child on the head with an iron bar, and the boy died half an hour later. Immediately preceding the attack the pair had been chatting in a friendly manner. A cable from E. S. Pees, now in Birmingham, has just been received by the Nonpareil Cycle Company, Palmerston N., advising them to dispose of their large stock of machines at 20 per cent, reduction to make room for cycles just purchased by him there. See advertisement.

Mr Waldegrave, Under-Secre-tary for Justice, will make an investigation into the alleged alteration of the Police Court records at Christchurch in which Mr Davey, M.P., interfeied. The illness of Inspector Gillies has delayed the matter, and there is considerable difference of testimony regarding the facts between the officers concerned.

Wholesale denudation of our forests is strongly deprecated by the Inspector of Reserves (Mr Turner, in his annual return to the House. If possible, lessons should (he says) be given in the schools explaining the value of bush as a reservoir, for the supply of water for streams, its action in preventing or lessening floods, its climatic influence, etc.

The official report on the results of Mr Glenn H. Curtiss’s recent trials, during which he dropped a number of dummy “bombs” from an aeroplane on to a yacht at Atlantic City, New Jersey, states that firearms able to cope with aerial torpedo craft will be important adjuncts of the world’s naval armaments within five years.

An unusual suit has been entered in America against the directors of an electric railway company. The plaintiffs, the dairy farmers of Elgin, Illinois, are claiming damages against the company on the ground that the flash and roar of the cars on the out-of-town lines have a disturbing effect on the cows at night, with the result that the supply of milk has decreased seriously.

Touching upon the question of smoking, Sir Robert Stout, at a meeting of the Victoria College Couucil, Wellington, said that eminent physicaus agreed that smokitng had increased of late years, had been spent in cigarettes in England last year. Comparing the amout of tobacco consumed per head in England and in New Zealand, it would be found that the people of the Dominion were the heavier smokers. Tobacco smoking was one of the worst habits which the student could acquire if he wished to study.

A figure in white attracted the attention of a policeman at Enmore, near Sydney, about 11.30 the other Sunday night (says the Sydney Morning Herald). It was a lady, and the constable saw that she was walking in her sleep. He had heard it was best not to disturb sleep-walkers, and so quietly followed. She was in front of St. George’s Hall, when a tram rattled past and she awoke. With a startled scream the lady rushed aimlessly across King Street, apparently for the first time realising how hard the wooden blocks were on her bare feet. She was stayed by one of her own sex, who succeeded in quitening her. The policeman borrowed a cloak from a tramway conductor, and with this on, the lady was taken to her home. She lived at Marrickville, half a mile away, yet her absence had not been noticed.

The death occurred of the Hon. Henry Scotland, M.L,.C., at Wellington yesterday The Financial Debate and no confidence motion are being continued in Parliament.

Dr. Mandl, who appropriately addressed the school children on Arbor Day, has signified his intention of donating a guinea prize for the best kept school garden plot. The local Borough Council has kindly acceded to the request of the school committee for a few loads of gravel to fill up some holes in front of the school building where the children assemble. The ladies committee, which organised the recent juvenile ball, have handed a sum of £4 10s to the school committee to be used as a picnic fund for the children. The committee desires to tender its appreciation of the generous gift.

Mr Phil Walsh, whose company will stage "All for Gold” at the Public Hall on Saturday night, has kindly consented to put the local amateurs through several rehearsals during his stay here.

At All Saints’ Church, yesterday morning, the Rev. G. Y. Woodward united Mr Jonathan Beeby, of Hawera, Taranaki, and Miss Adeline Ruby Swan, of Palmerston North, in holy wedlock. A number of visitors witnessed the ceremony.

Numerous congratulatory remarks have been passed by visitors and townspeole on the beautification of the local State School grounds. The children, under the able supervision of the head teacher, have laid out a number of garden plots and these have been planted with flowers, etc. Shrubs and trees have also been planted in suitable localities. Plots have also been prepared for vegetables and for experimental purposes.

A Bathurst (N.S.W.) jeweller has invented a telephone which will automatically register the number of calls, the call will be limited to three minutes each and half a minute before the expiration of this period a warning bell will ring to enable the user to insert another penny in the slot should he desite to extend his conversation. It is also claimed that the telephone will automatically connect and disconnect subscribers, and that it is much mors private than those at present in use. Negotiations are in progress with the Commonwealth Postmaster General for a trial of the invention.

The Venerable Archdeacon Charles Coleridge Harper, well known as Vicar of Palmerston North and Archdeacon of Rangitikei, has accepted the position of Vicar of St. Peter’s parish, Wellington, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George Paul Davys, M.A., who leaves for England in November next. Archdeacon Harper is grandson of the late Bishop of Christchurch, was educated at Keeble College, Oxford, taking B. A. and M.A. degrees, ordained deacon in 1890 and priest in 1901 by the Bishop of Ripon. He held the assistant curacy of Chapel Allerton, Yorkshire, from 1890 to 1893, was Vicar of Patea from tßg4 to 1900, and since then has held his present position at Palmerston North. He has a reputation as a preacher and organiser, and has taken a prominent part in the debates of both diocesan and general synods.

Lecturing at the University at

Sydney a week ago, Professor

David mentioned two or three generally unknown incidents of

intense interest that occurred during the Shackleton expedition. The incidents speak for themselves. The first is a story that should become famous: —Extract

from the diary of Mr Wild, petty officer, R.N., who accompanied Shackleton farthest south (it occurred, Professor David said, during the return, at a time when the rations were terribly short, the party at its last gasp, and Wild himself extremely weak and ill): “Shackleton,” Mr Wild wrote, “ found that I was getting so weak as to be able scarcely to walk along. He privately forced upon me to-day his one breakfast biscuit, and would have given me another biscuit again to-night had I allowed it. I don’t suppose that anyone else in the world can thoroughly realise how much generosity and sympathy was shown by this. I do, and, I shall

never forget it. One thousand pounds would not have bought that one biscuit.”

Mr A. W. Rutherford, of Atnuri, Canterbury, who is now abroad, writes of his visit to France :—“ I had been under the illusion that all French women were sylph-like, eighteen-inch waists, No, 2 boots, daintily dressed, walking ' with mincing steps, but the Marseilles type is the reverse to this. They are all stout—many of them immensely so; and they don’t walk, they waddle. Most of the poorer class go bareheaded, not because of their poverty, which isn’t apparent, but for the purpose of showing off their grand heads of hair. They have fine eyes, and are good looking in a Maori girl sort of way, and they

don’t paint, as the sylphs, whom I subsequently saw in Nice and Monte Carlo do. There is a large

number of soldiers stationed in Marseilles, and they must be of many regiments, judging by the

different uniforms to be seen in numbers in the street. The French foot soldier is a dirty, untidy, slouchy animal, altogether interior in appearance to our volunteers; but many of the officers are smart, well set-up fellows. I saw some smart cavalry, with good horses, in Paris.”

Final Bargain Clearance at the Bon Marche Bargain Boom this coming week. The entire balance of fashionable and winter drapery must go, and prices are made to secure this end. Buyers should take a note of this.*

A very successful meeting of the Methodist Christian Endeavour Society was held last night. Miss N. Cooper (leader) presided. A very able and instructive paper on "Recreation” was read by Sister Moody-Bell which was subsequently discussed by members. Mr J. Chrystall rendered a solo during the evening. The next meeting is "Consecration Night” by the President when all members are urged to be present.