LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 883, 25 August 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A comfortable cottage property is advertised for sale.

Mr W. H. Ferries has been appointed chief hemp expert to the Agricultural Department. Mr Colvin, M.P. for Duller, has been elected Chairman of Committees in the House.

A meeting of the Mauawatu No-Eicense Council was held yesterday at Foxton and important business was transacted. Mr Rockel presided. The death is announced ot the Very Rev Father Walsh, who had laboured in the Otago diocese for a period ot thirty-seven years. He was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death.

A very interesting and instructive address was delivered by Wor. Bro. M. Cohen to the Masonic brethren in the local Masonic Hall on Tuesday night. Visiting brethren were present from the surrounding districts.

The death of the Rev Father O’Meara, Parish Priest of Feeding, took place at the Mater Misericordias Hospital, Auckland, on Sunday night. The reverend gentleman had been iu ill-health for some years, suffering from heart trouble. The interment took place at Feilding to-day. Mothers of young babies will be interested in an announcement by Messrs Colliuson and Cunninghame iu another column. It refers to good values in wool honeycombe shawls for babies. These are very suitable for wrapping round the child when out in the go-cart.

Mr Newman M.P. presented a petition to the House of Representatives from the Foxton Harbour Board, asking that the Board be granted the right to the wharf and its revenue as in the case of Wanganui and Patea, or iu the alternative that the Board be allowed to purchase the wharf from the Government at its present value as a structure, and in the meantime that the Railway Department grant the Board a substantial subsidy to enable it to improve the navigation of the harbour.

Regarding the challenge seat by Harry Pearce, Australian champion sculler, to W. Webb, for a race on the Paramatta for £2OO a-side, a reply has been sent on behalf of Webb, stating that the Wanganui sculler cannot visit Australia to row Pearce, but, if the latter wants a match, Webb is willing to accommodate him on any river in New Zealand, allowing Pearce /50 expenses if the latter is beaten. Webb states that his business will not allow him to spare the time to visit Australia, otherwise&he would be willing to meet Pearce on the Paramatta.

Says the Wanganui Herald : “The present position of matters in connection with Parliament is, to say the least, decidely singular. Parliament has been in session for eight weeks, and it has done pratically nothing of importance. It has wasted three weeks of that time debating the Budget and saying things which do not matter and many of which will probably ba said over and over again as the political days go by. As each political day costs something like it can easily be seen that, from the taxpayers’ point of view, Parliament is a somewhat expensive luxury.’’ For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, is 6d,and 2s 6d,

The death is recorded at Greytown of Mrs W. O. Williams, a very old Wairarapa settler, at the age of 89 years.

Sufferers from rheumatism will be interested in a replace advertisement from Messrs O’Connor and Tydemau, published elsewhere in this issue.

Judge Gayuor, Mayor of New York, who was shot by a dismissed municipal labourer when leaving on a trip to Eugland, is progressing favourably.

Selby Carson, who had his right hand torn off, and his right leg very severely crushed, as the result of an accident at Irvine’s sawmill, Turangarere (JWanganui), on Friday last, died in the Wanganui Hospital on Monday night. Francois Gellet, who was arrested for theft in Paris on July 8, confessed that he was an escaped convict, and that his only desire was to return to the prison he had foolishly deserted some time ago. In the Dunedin Supreme Court on Monday, a case was commenced in which Louisa Mary Aitcheson, school teacher, sought to recover damages from James Martin Samson, auctioneer, as the outcome of a motor car accident on April Bth, on which date plaintiff, who was riding a bicycle, was knocked down by the car and sustained a broken breastbone and three broken ribs, besides bruises. At the Supreme Court Palmerston North yesterday, the divorce action, H. R. Gaisford v. Ethel Louise Gaisford on the ground of alleged adultery was heard. The co-respondent was Sam Bunny, of Mastertou. After the petitioner’s side had been heard his Honour directed the jury to find that the charge put forward against the respondent and co-respondent had not been proved. The petition was then dismissed with costs on the highest scale.

It is reported that in reply to a suggestion from the Wellington Presbytery, the Wellington Trades and labour Council has decided by 17 votes to 12, to appoint six of its members to discuss with six members ot the Presbyterian body, the quesiou of a closer relationship between the church and labour. In connection with this decision on labour’s part, it is interesting to note that some few years no answer was received by the church to a similar proposal made to the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council.

In the House of Representatives on Friday the Hon. A. T. Ngata stated that arrangements were being made for ninety thousand acres of land on the eastern side of the Waimana Valley, thirty miles from Maugapohu'.a, in the Urewera Country, to be opened for settlement. It was hoped that arrangements would be completed with the native owners by the middle of next month. Last week the Government had received offers that four blocks of land in the Whakataue Valley should be opened for settlement.

After having been placed in a laundry steam drier because he tormented a Japanese, Samuel Hoffman, the eight-year-old son of a wealthy rancher, is dying at Martinez, California. According to the story told by the police the boy was accused by the Oriental of having taken a dollar from the laundry till. The Japanese placed the lad in the drier until he became unconscious, then took him out and revived him with dashes of water, and placed him in the drier again, repeating the process several times. The citizens of Martinez were aroused and precautions had to be taken against the possible lynching of the prisoner.

“The loss of Mr Shand’s Moriori dictionary (destroyed in the fire which accounted for the life of its compiler at Chatham Islands),” says Mr A. Hamiltoni, curator of the Dominion Museum, “ means that the world has lost a language and in the death of Mr Shand we have lost the only person whose information about the Moriori was genuinely valuable. Under pressure from Mr Percy Smith and others, including myself, Mr Shand had contributed papers to the Polynesian Society on the Morioris at the Chathams, and these are practically all we will have to go on. The language, save for a few words, is lost—a great pity. Only by the last mail Mr Shand wrote to me stating that he had been working on the dictionary, and that it was now compiled and ready for publication. Its loss is very unfortunate indeed, and the death of Mr Shand is to be deeply deplored.” While the Press of Japan scorns the suggestion of a war with America, prominent Americans are constantly predicting a conflict in the next few years (writes a San Francisco correspondent), War will probably come before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, in the opinion of Judge Gantenbein, a United Federal judge stationed at Portland, Oregon. He points out that Japan has a transport fleet capable of carrying 200,000 on a single expedition. “ With a force like that it would be necessary for the Japanese to enter our fortified seaports,” declared the judge in a recent interview. “They could land at one of the small harbours, occupy the coast and subjugate it before we could rush enough troops over the Rockies to fight them.” Closing Sale at G. H. Stiles’. All previous bargains to be completely eclipsed by those to come. Come and prove our words,* for watch, clock or jewellery -epairs go to Parkes, the jeweller, Main Street.

The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee will be held this evening. Administration of the estate of Ellen Robinson, late of Foxton, widow, with will annexed, was granted to Messrs C. E., J. W., and O. R. Robinson, on the motion of Mr W. L. Fitzherbert, of Hankins and Lockhart Fitzherbert, solicitors, by His Honour Sir Robert Stout on the 17th day of August.

Thomas Finnerty, a young man who broke the window of Mr Grady’s jewellery shop at Wellington and grabbed a lot of rings valued at and ran away, but was caught by fome civilians, was yesterday committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a statement to the police Finnerty who was not drunk at the time, said the diamonds looked too tempting. During the coming week, Sister Moody Bell, late of Kumara, and now resident at Shannon, is to take services at Beaconsfield on the 28th iust,, and at Halcombe on September 4th. During the week between these dates she will deliver several “ talks ” with the young people on “ Sweethearts at Beaconsfield and Halcombe, These popular lectures, given in many parts of the Dominion, have proved very attractive as well as useful, being delivered in a racy and humorous fashion. Sister Bell is hoping to hold these lectures in various townships in the district from time to time as opportunity occurs.

Mr J. P. limes, counsel for defendant in the Foxton case of Charles Thos. Easton v. Bernard Gapper Gower, a claim for damages for alleged malicious prosecution, applied on Tuesday morning for an adjournment on the ground that his client was not well enough to go through the case. Dr O’Brien gave evidence as to Mr Gower’s condition, stating that he had ordered him to Rotorua for a month, alter which time he should be well again. Mr H. R. Cooper, for plaintiff, opposed the application, and pointed out that defendant was well enough to give evidence in a case against plaintiff a couple of weeks back. Counsel contended that the excuse for adjournment was not sincere. His Honour saw no reason for no£ granting the adjournment, but said defendant would have to pay costs ot same. The Rev. C. E. Skafer, a wellknown temperance advocate, whtf% is now stationed at Mallala, South Australia, asked by a representative of the Daily Telegraph what he thought of Sydney, said:— “ Well, as I have repeatedly said, Sydney is a drink-cursed city. I was informed that 90 per cent, of the hotels there are tied houses. Most of the fish shops and many ot the fruit shops hold wine licenses. The city Is bathed in drink. There is no need for Mr Rockfeller to swim in whisky. Sydney people can do that, without it being telegraphed all over the world. At the same time, Sydney is a wonderful place, and I see nothing to prevent it becoming the London of Australia. The New South Wales Alliance expects No-License to be carried in several electorates, while reduction is certain in a large number. I confidently expect No-License to be carried in Broken Hill at the next elections.”