LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 873, 2 August 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A companion for a lady is advertised for. See advertisement. The local Druids’ Dodge intend bolding a euchre party and dance on the 17th inst. The vital statistics for Foxton for July wereßirths, I 4; marriages, 1 ; deaths, 3.

Mr and Mrs Hamer have left Foxton for a fortnight’s holiday in the Auckland province. Mr Phil Walsh, who has been suffering from a growth near one of his eyes, was successfully operated on by Dr. Adams and will be fit to again appear before the footlights on Saturday next. The local football “reps” will play in the Albion Club’s colours (green and white), on Saturday. Any of the Albion players not taking part would oblige by lending their jerseys to the selected players. At the local Police Court yesterday a charge of helpless drunkenness was preferred against a local young man against whom there were previous convictions. He was fined 20s or in default 48 hours. Mr Hornblow was the presiding justice. On Thursday next Messrs Hitchings, Hankins and Co. Ltd., will offer by auction on account of Mr W. O’Brien, the whole of his butchery plant including four horses, several sets of harness and large quantity of sundries. The sale will be held in Mr Andresen’s yards, Union Street, and will commence at 1 p.m. For full particulars see advertisement.

For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, is 6d,and 2s 6d.

Sir Joseph Ward laid the foundation stone of the new Post Office at Auckland yesterday. A silver watch, lost between Mr Wright’s shop in Main Street and the railway station on Saturday night, is advertised for. At Cologne, Frau Wefer, in a fit of madness, strangled her daughter, aged thirty-three, and two grandsons, with her hands, and a granddaughter with a cord. She afterwards committed suicide.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow. Among the cases set down for hearing are one criminal case and a number of defended civil cases.

Mr Angus Shaw, the oldest inhabitant of the Wyndham district, died on Friday last, in his ninetysecond year. He was born in Nairnshire, Scotland, in February, 1819.

Archbishop Redwood opened St. Mary’s Church, Port Ahuriri, on Sunday. He left Napier yesterday for Auckland, en route to Montreal, to attend the Eucharistic Conference.

Archbishop Redwood has received a cablegram from Dr Cleary, the newly-appointed Bishop of Auckland, who is now in Dublin, stating that his consecration will take place in Ennlscorthy Cathedral this month.

Mr Rudyard Kipling suggests that airmen should wear air cushion armour, including a helmet of rubber, inflated over the head and collar bones, with especially adequate protection of the spinal cord. Some of our local skaters should also take the hint.

Mr E. J. Nash, of Palmerston N., is the successful tenderer for building a dwelling for Mr A. Saunders at Moutoa, also Mr jackson, of Palmerston N., the bricklaying, and Mr Hopper the plumbing.

A movement for a world-wide celebration in 1914 in the hundredth anniversary of peace among the English-speaking people has taken form and it has been announced that a committee has been selected to carry out preliminary organising work. Messrs Collinson and Sou ask the public’s attention to their splendid stock of wire-woven mattresses. These mattresses have much to recommend them, and the prices being reasonable, purchasing is made easy. Particulars may be seen on page four of this issue.

The mail steamer lonic, which is due at Wellington about next Monday from Eondon and Plymouth, via Capetown and Hobart, is bringing 35S passengers from England to New Zealand. They comprise 4i in the saloon and 3x7 in the third-class.

Mr E. Waldegrave, Undersecretary for Justice, has completed inquiry into the alleged alteration of an official document by a Christchurch police officer. The matter will be gone into on Mr Waldegrave’s return to Wellington in a day or two.

At the Roman Catholic Church Congress at Feeds, the Most Rev Dr, Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, laid emphasis on the progress of Catholicism in England and Wales. There are now 1064 schools, with an attendance of 339,000 children, and 3687 priests in England and Wales.

Dr. Chappie, M.P. for Stirlingshire, cabled to a friend in Wellington on Saturday stating that as the Imperial Parliament was rising until the autumn, he intended leaving at once on a visit to New Zealand, via Vancouver. He should reach Wellington about the middle of September.

We give a final reminder of the social to be held in the Public Hall to-morrow night, under the auspices of the local Catholic Church. The first part of the evening’s programme will be devoted to progressive euchre, after which dancing will be indulged in. Refreshments will be provided and a most enjoyable time is anticipated.

The funeral of the late Mr F. E. Baume took place at Auckland on Sunday, the remains being interred in Waikumate cemetery. The procession, in which members of Masonic lodges took part, was an exceedingly long one. Among those who attended were the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and many other members of Parliament and representatives of public bodies.

The extraordinary thing about Mr Sydney Kidman, the Australian “ cattle king,” is his wonderful methods of management. There is no expensive system in vogue. The generally accepted theory is that no large business can prosper without thoroughness in the accountancy department. The cattle king supplies the successful exception. He manages the great transactions with the aid of a small notebook and his banks. A smart man might manage to thus carry on a business on a small scale, but when the transactions amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds every year it is a horse of another colour. No doubt a set of good managers must be a great help, but even their business with buyers and sellers must be bewildering. For instance while passing to the north the other day he explained that he had at that time over 13,000 head of cattle on the way to market and he could tell where they had started from and where and when they were due. An idea of his transactions may be gained from the fact that he pays the South Australian Government about ,£30,000 a year for railing stock. That is merely an item in a great list of extensive transactions.

Attention is directed to a re place advertisement of Mr W. E Bullard’s on page 3 of this issue.

At a crowded meeting of ratepayers at Palmerston yesterday., it was decided to form a River Board to deal with the erosion of the Manawatu river between the Longburn railway bridge and Manawatu Gorge. Two men, named Frank W. Moore and William Brough, were killed in Ralph’s Mine, Huntly, by a large fall of stone and fireclay yesterday. Moore was about thirty years of age. He leaves a wife and children. Brough was a single man, aged twenty-five years. He has a brother in the Nelson district. In the current issue of the “New Zealaud Primitive Methodist” appears a very interesting article by the Rev P. J. Mairs, of Foxton, under the heading, “ How I Missioned the Waikato.” It tells of Methodist pioneering in that now progressive district which the writer designates “ the Chicago of the North.” Mr Mairs’ work up north is characteristic of the man, and he may be termed the Billy Bray of New Zealand Methodism. Mr and Mrs J. R. Stansell, who are about to leave Shannon to take up their residence in Karorl, Wellington, where Mr Stansell intends to go into business, are to be entertained at a citizens’ farewell social in Shannon on Thursday, August nth. Mr Stansell has many friends in Foxton, where for a number of years he was licensee of Whyte’s Hotel.

The Kaiser will stand godfather to the eighth son of a house decorator named Busch, of Bocholt, who has received .£3, through the local authorities, from His Majesty’s private purse. The action is in accordance with a decision arrived at by the Emperor last year that he would stand godfather to the eighth child in any German family, rich or poor, with a view of stimulating the birth-rate, which had shown signs of decreasing.

To convey any adequate notion of what a million really represents is a difficult task, but Mr Robertson, secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department, essayed it at a social gathering on Saturday evening, when speaking of the expansion of New Zealand postal business. It would take anyone, he said, five or six weeks, working eight hours a day, to set down a million strokes on paper, and by that time the wrist of the writer would be in need of surgical attention. Again, it would take one man ten week to sort a million letters if he sorted thirty per minute, a pretty fair speed. Multiplying this task by 151, one gained some conception of the burden of the work that fell on the men and officers of the Postal Department of New Zealand.