The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 6, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 888, 6 September 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 6, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death is announced of Mr John Frame Mcßeth, of Wanganui. Deceased entered the postal service in 1864, and was connected with it till some three or four years ago, when be resigned, after a long and honourable official career.

Maggie Papakura, the wellknown Maori guide, has just completed the business preliminaries for a world’s tour of Maoris. A party of natives, consisting of 22 men and 18 women, will set out from Auckland on September 26.

A New Zealander named Peter McCallttm, who was a student at Canterbury College, has during the last summer examination at the Edinburgh University, gained the very highest honours for his knowledge of botany another victory for this little Dominion. The returns of immigration and emigration for the month of July show the total number of arrivals as 2060, and of departures as 2380. For the corresponding period of last year, the figures were 2232 and 2839. The number who landed at Wellington last July was 1018 and the departures totalled 1204. There are a hundred ways in which, with the ever enlarging sphere of State action, the need for further borrowing may develop ; and it would be ridiculous to build any practical conclusion upon the assumption that the next generation will not find as many good excuses for living on credit as any of its predecessors.— Wellington Post. A father of a family told a Southland Times representative on Saturday that the raids being made by travelling ticket examiners on the trains on parents for half-fares for infants, whose ages just exceeded three years, were not consistent with the Government appeal to the people of New Zealand ‘‘to keep your cradles full.” He suggested that the Railway Department might easily discover other means of adding to the railway returns without disturbing the past policy of allowing a little latitude to heads of families. Jellys 5 for is at Walker’s Red House.*

Mr Alex. Saunders hopes to start flaxmilling on the 19th Inst. The s.s. Queen of the South is expected from Wellington to-day and the s.s. Gertie on Thursday. A hockey player named R. Speight had his leg broken while playing in a third-grade match at Auckland on Saturday. Flaxoutting on the Moutoa Estate re-commenced on Thursday last and practically all the local mills have now started stripping. Harry Pettit, 22 years of age, and a resident of Seatoun, sustained a broken leg while playing in Association football at Wellington on Saturday. The s.s. Himatangi sailed last night for D’Urville Island with a cargo of 850 sheep, consigned by Messrs Ualgety and Co., Ltd., to Messrs Wall and Lord, Patuki, D’Urville Island. The s.s. Wootton arrived at the wharf at halt-past twelve last night after having to lighter 400 sacks of wheat during yesterday afternoon on account of grounding opposite the fishermen’s huts whilst coming up the river. Mrs Collins, senr., received a cable from London this morning announcing the arrival of Mr and Mrs Holt, after a splendid trip. Mr and Mrs Holt left Foxtou on July 15th and sailed from Sydney in the P. and O. liner Orsova on July 23rd. A private practice of the Grand March will be held at the skating rink to-night, at 8 o’clock sharp. All those who intend taking part in the march at the carnival next week are invited to attend this practice, in order that each couple may become thoroughly proficient in the execution of the various figures.

A poll of ratepayers was taken at Woodville on Saturday on a proposal for borrowing ,£12,000 for the purpose of establing a drainage system throughout the borough. The proposal was carried by the small majoriy of 25 votes, the voting being : For the proposal 141, against 116. There was great excitement in the town all day over the business.

Three hundred milliners’ hands struck work at Paris, last week, aud then paraded in the streets. They wrecked a shop in the Rue Reaumur, and a fierce struggle took place with a party of gendarmes. The girls were armed with hatpins, scissors, aud waistbelts, and consequently in the scuffle the gendarmes got their faces and uniforms torn. At last the police threatened to turn the fire-hose on the rioting women, and then they dispersed. One hundred of the rioters were , arrested.

A discovery of gruesome interest was made at Te Aroha on Thursday. A resident of the town, Mr Belcher, was digging on the edge of the river, preparatory to plantiug a willow-tree, when he turned up a door key, and a little later unearthed a complete human skeleton, the skull being only about 6in. from the surface. The remains are of a good age, but the teeth are well preserved, so that the skeleton is evidently that of a young man. It is surmised that the man met his death in the early days, when engaged in the river trade, as there used to be a lauding near the spot. The bones were removed to the Courthouse, and the police will make investigations with a view to throwing light on the subject.

A correspondent, “ Watchful,” writes to the Wairarapa Daily News:—‘‘How curiously time brings about changes, and how unexpectedly and unanticipated these changes occur, is shown in the matter of the admission of the Lord’s Prayer to the State schools. For the past thirty years the clergy have tried their utmost to effect this (the very kernel of Christ’s teaching), yet it has been left to a Freethinker, and the most uncompromising opponent ot the present numerous Sectarian Churches (Mr Coleman Phillips, with the aid of the Carterton School Committee) to bring this reform about, the Education Board having given permission for the prayer to be hung upon the walls of the school class rooms. Mr Phillips, as is well known, advocates one school, one church for one people. Mr Phillips’ efforts for unity appear to be bearing fruit in Carterton,” A Dunedin druggist while heartily in sympathy with any proposals for dealing with the spread of contagious diseases, fails to see how Dr. Findlay’s proposals could prove practicable. All cases, he said, of contagious diseases did not come under the notice of the doctor or druggist. Far from it. There were men on the street, and people, who were not established as druggists, who had prescriptions, and who communicated them to people suffering from contagious diseases. Then, again, a person might enter a druggist’s shop, and simply purchase varying quantities of required ingredients for a prescription, and as such ingredients could be used for other complaints besides contagious diseases, how was the druggist to know that the purchaser was a person who came under the provisions of the Act ? While quite at one with the principle of the proposals, he could not see how Dr. Findlay’s ideas could work out in practice. What was wanted, and what could be done, was to educate the people on the subject. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d,and 2s 6d. A beautiful assortment of electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.*

At the local police court yesterday morning Sergeant Willis gave the following definition of drunkenness : Under the influence of intoxicating liquor to such an extent as to have lost the normal control of one’s bodily and mental faculties, and commonly to evince a disposition to violence, quarrelsomness and bestiality.

In the Auckland Supreme Court on Saturday the Chief Justice sentenced Arthur Winter Sudgreen to two years’ imprisonment on eight charges of theft and false pretences. Thomas A. Baxter, for embezzlement, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, and John Cecil Pascoe, for indecent assault at Taurauga, to twelve months’.

The King’s death occurring just at the beginning of the summer season at Home caused the manufacturers of coloured goods to be left with large stocks as practically all England went into mourning. Collinson and Cunninghame’s buyers in London took advantage of this misfortune and have bought all colured goods for this season at marvellously reduced prices. They are now showing them in every department of their business.*

The finals of the Australasian Amateur Boxing Championships took place at Auckland on Saturday. King, of New South Wales, won the bantam weight; Read (N.S.W.), the feather-weight; Lacy (N.S.W.), annexed the lightweight ; Watchorn (N.Z.), the Welter; Matthewson (N.Z.), mid-dle-weight ; and Pooley (N.Z ), the heavy-weight. The official decision of the judge for the race between Arnst and Barry for the world’s sculling championship was: “Arnst, by seven lengths.” The time for the course of miles was aomin 3*ssec. There was very little interest in the victory of Arnst in London, excepting among the Putney rowing clubs, and there was but little or no surprise at Barry’s defeat. The belief is that Arnst will prove easily superior to Edward Uurnan, the Canadian, who wants to row the champion at London.

Endurance piano playing is evidently a big attraction to the public, Godfrey Copley, a Wanganui man started at the Opera House at three o’clock on Thursday morning and played continuously for 68hrs somlns, when he was stopped by his committee, who considered that having broken the record by four hours he had done sufficient. As Copley finished, just before midnight, he was loudly cheered. This record has since been broken by Edward Travis at Feilding, who played for hours. In the presence of a large congregation Bishop Julius, at Christchurch, on Sunday, inducted the Rev. H. Darwin Burton to the charge of St. Michael’s rendered vacant by the elevation of Archdeacon Averill to the Bishopric of Waiapu. In the course of his sermon Bishop Julius made a well expressed reference to Mr Burton’s high church views and to his expressed intention to use certain vestments, not usually worn by Anglican ministers of that diocese, and regarding which there has been considerable controversy recently. It was a very gay attire in which one of the overnight arrests ” appeared in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning, says the Dominion. He was a very small and very old man, and, according to the account, he left home on Friday evening determined to carry off the honours among the amateur performers at the Theatre Royal, but he called in at a hotel, and after imbibing rather freely, finished in the lock-up. When he came before Mr Haselden, S.M., on Saturday, the would-be vaudeville artist was dressed in a dark-green coat, clasped at the neck with a gold badge, white waistcoat, pink and green striped silk knickers, white stockings, and green shoes a regular Barnaby Rudge, without the headgear or stick. When he had pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, the Magistrate inquired if he had been locked up all night, and received an answer in the affirmative. “In that dress ? ” inquired the magrstrate. The answer was again in the affirmative, and accused was convicted and discharged. Call at the “ Economic,” Foxton, for ladies’ and children’s spring millinery. A large consignment just arrived, and now offering at reasonable prices. Call and inspect,*

Mr W. Pegden, furniture manufactures, Palmerston North, has a replace advertisement in this issue. On page 4 appears football news, results of Horowhenua races and other interesting reading matter. Tram arrangements in counecttion with the Rangitlkei Races are advertised in this issue. Mr John Newth, Mayor of Walhi, was a visitor to Foxton last week. The annual general meeting of the local Lawn Tennis Club will be held to-night. At Auckland last week Charles Gilbert and Charles Westbrook, bookmakers, charged with street betting were convicted, each being fined £2O. Attention is called to an advertisement in another column, notifying that Mr J, Hillary, Coley Street, has sittings of eggs now for sale. The strains include white Leghorns, black Minorcas, silver laced Wyandottes, and Indian Runner ducks. A Reefton young man was fined the other day £i and 16s 6d costs for assaulting a Chinaman. The latter went to a local hotel and asked for a bed, when defendant, who was a boarder, strongly resented the intrusion of the alien, and assaulted him.

At last night’s meeting of the Mauawatu Rugby Union, a protest was received from the Foxton Sub-Union in connection with the Albion Club playing G- Dunn in a match with Awahou. —It was decided to hold the matter over for a week to enable the secretary to secure a copy of the Foxton SubUnion Club contest rules. The will of the late Mr Neill Walter Black, a passenger by the ill-fated Waratah, has been filed at Melbourne for probate. The estate is valued at ,£231,967. The bequests include .£5750 to the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, ,£IOOO each to home and foreign mission funds, ,£IOOO to the Melbourne Hospital, and ,£2OO to the University. To each child of his cousin, Mr Peter Laurie Black, of New Zealand, he leaves ,£SOO. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 23 6d. A subscriber sends us the following : —“Reading in your paper recently a paragraph about weasels and eggs I thought I would relate my own experience. For weeks and weeks I was missing eggs—dozens of them—from hens’ nests. Some were taken from a loft so I knew the thief was not a dog. For some time I blamed rats and set a trap in the vicinity baited with cheese, but caught my best hen. I began to blame weasels, the work was done so neatly. Having a sicure enclosure with a narrow doorway, I set a trap in the narrow opening and caught the culprit—a large weasel—as he walked over it. When despatched he measured 14 inches from the tip of nose to tip of tail. No eggs have disappeared since, though I lost many dozens before. Many of the eggs have since been found deposited in the long grass in the orchard.’’

The old politician lay “speechless” in bed; His cold was so bad that he got no repose. He scarcely could think how to “act,” it is said, To follow the “ayes,” or to run with the “noes.” “That cough I’d “unseat,” and the illness “defeat,” With no “want of confidence’ sure!” And the “speaker,” true friend, his health did “amend,” With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 2 Visk Walker’s Red House and pick up a few of the snips offering for spot cash.*