LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 889, 8 September 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next rehearsal by the local amateurs of the comedy-drama, “ Blow for Blow,” will be held to-morrrow night. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is fid, 3s fid.

An advertiser wants board and lodgings in a private family. Jellys 5 for is at Walker’s Red House.* The Rev. T. Porritt paid a brief visit to Foxtou to-day on Masonic business. The attendance at the local school shows an increase since the recent holidays. The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Waratah takes placa in London in October. Mr Parkes, jeweller, has just opened up a fine selection of Vases, also Peggy Bags, in various shades.* The many friends of Mrs McMillan, in this district, will regret to learn that she is lying dangerously ill at her daughter's residence in Napier. A special meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union is advertised to be held in the registered office on Saturday evening next. Members of [the Chamber of Commerce are reminded that the annual general meeting will be held in the Council Chamber tonight. All members are urgently requested to be present. Mr R. O. Jarrett, well-known locally as a physical culture expert, has gone in for poultry farming on a large scale in Masterton and already his stock of birds -is attracting notice in different parts of the Dominion. We have been shown the plans for the church to be erected at the Beach by Mr Stiles for the Methodist connection and other denominations. It will have a very neat and compact appearance. General Booth, replying at Battersea to certain attacks, said he had never taken a shilling from the Salvation Army’s coffers for his own support. He further stated I hat the Army’s accounts were in the hands of one of the first firms of accountants in the city. The driver of the Molesworth coach informed a Marlborough Express reporter the other day that the last fall of snow experienced in the Molesworth district reached almost to the footboards of the coach, and in places shovels had to be used in order to enable the gates across the roads en route to Molesworth to be opened. Eor watch, clock or jewellery -epairs go to Parkes, the jeweller, Main Street.

The King has approved of the appointment of Colonel Godley as Commandant of the New Zealand Defence Forces with the rank of Major-General. His salary will be a year with a house allowance of He will take the place of the four officers who have been receiving a year each. The term of his appointment is for live years. Some people are not aware of the seriousness, and penalties that may be imposed for making false declarations of birth. At Napier Supreme Court this week, a man pleaded guilty to a charge of altering a birth certificate in order to obtain employment in the Railway Department, and was fined also being ordered to pay £5 towards the costs of the prosecution.

Father Bernard Vaughan (Loudon), preaching at Montreal, where he is attending the Eucharist Congress, uttered a strong denunciation of the worship of the Golden Calf. He declared that the social organism was being undermined by the microbe of riches, hence the everlasting crop of bubble companies, lying advertisements, and exorbitant usurers. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Care. Never fails, is fid,and 2s fid. We are informed that several boys are in the habit of playing practical jokes up the avenue. Last night a wire was stretched across the footpath in that locality. Such foolish acts may have a serious ending. A seat was also removed from Mr Jouson’s premises and deposited in the drain some distance away. We hope this warning will have the necessary effect of putting a stop to such foolish acts. Replying to a query as to whether the demand for dairy land was as keen in New South Wales as in New Zealand, a Stratford resident, who has just returned from a trip to Sydney, said that land suitable for dairying cattle was very hard to buy in the favoured districts. One section, containing 200 acres in the Illawarra district, without any buildings on it, was sold for £36 per acre, during his visit, and it was no better than the Stratford land, and, of course, the seasons were not so sure.

This is the weather when good waterproof boots are appreciated. There is nothing so uncomfortable as wet feet, yet how many people are willing to take risks by buying cheap, trashy footwear when lor a little extra the celebrated and guaranteed Marlow waterproof can be obtained locally. A layer of rubber between the soles keeps the feet perfectly dry. Besides, we know our goods, and are prepared to stand behind the name “Marlow. 1 ' An English shipment just in. Call and inspect. R. T. Betty, Main Street.* THIS WILL INTEREST MOTHERS. Chamberlain’s Tablets are the id«al medicine for children. No more nasty medicines that you have to coax the child to take. After they have once taken Chamberlaia’s Tablets and realise how easy they are to take they will be ready ifor them again. They are perfectly safe for the youngest child, and their use will not result in constipation. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

Mr A. Eazarette has just received another consignment of crayfish. Messrs Millar and Giorgi, of Palmerston North, have a replace advertisement in this issue. Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston N., announce the opening up of new goods for all departments, the special feature of this week’s display is millinery.* Facenda, an Italian confectioner resident in Glasgow, spent the week-end at Paris, searching for his runaway wife. He failed to discover her, but when returning to Scotland unexpectedly met her in a waiting room at the Northern Railway Station, Paris. He immediately fatally shot his wife’s Italian lover, and seriously wounded the wife. Facenda has been arrested. One of the Anglican missiouers, the Rev. K. D. Evans, speaking at Auckland last Sunday on man’s relationship to the Church, referred to the lack of fellowship in the Church of England, and he fully confessed himself much impressed with the manner in which their Nonconformist brethren gripped and got to the heart at once. “We have,” he said, “got some awfully respectable folk. We have not got our coach and four and a footman, but we have a little bit of smallness that freezes up the heart, and turns the current ot love and brotherliness. They should not be ashamed of their Church. Stand up for it ! Their poor Church of England at Home was at the mercy of the deadheads. During the hearing of a case at Masterton against an orchardist for failing to take steps to eradicate plant disease, the Magistrate, Mr C. Graham, stated that he had received a letter from his son, now at Colombo, who stated that there were no such thing as fruit pests there. A few years ago they were very bad indeed, but the authorities had insisted on the most stringent measures being carried out. Orchardists received very little warning, and if they did not comply with the law, the trees were cut down. The result was that there were now no pests in the district. Continuing, his Worship stated that it seemed to him that it would be a good thing if the authorities were a little more stringent in New Zealand. During the past ten weeks (.says the Post) many members as well as their constituents, have been waiting for something to turn up. They are not particular about the brand, provided it is something exciting. For the past tew days they have been wondering about the l and Bill, and whether a new Minister will be appointed soon to bring the Cabinet up to its former strength (before Mr Hogg retired so meteorically). When this wonderment has faded away, there will be another wonderment, fresh feasts of anticipation. During the recess members wonder when the session will begin, and when it has begun they wonder when and how it will end. The minds of some have progressed beyond the end of the session, and next session, and are speculating about the next general election. “ Waiting for something to turn up ” is one of the commonest political attitudes to-day. For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d, and 2s 6d.