The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, September 15. 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 892, 15 September 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, September 15. 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Gama, an Indian, and Zbysco, the Galician, had a terrible wrestling match at the Stadium, Loudon, last week. ' It was stopped after a hundred and sixty minutes, no fall having taken place, and will be resumed on the 17th. At Mauaia, on Wednesday, 7th inst., Dr Noonan was fined £lO and £7 14s costs for not having notified the Public Health Department when he had reasonable suspicion of a case under his care being scarlet fever.

The father of the late Michael Quirke, Pahiatua, who was accidentally shot at Terrace End, Palmerston N., during the Powelka scare on April 4th, is petitioning Parliament for an enquiry into the circumstances of his son’s death, with a view to compensation. The late Mr Collier, who was killed in the Otaki Gorge last week, was a native of Greytown North, and has several brothers and sisters. His lather was lost in the bush several years ago, and the body was never found. It is surmised that he was crossing the Tararua ranges to strike Otaki, when he became “ bushed.” A Chinese ran amok at Fountain Head, Port Darwin, last week. He started by firing some thatched houses, including his own residence. The owners rushed in to save their property and the Chinese attacked them with a meat clever. One Chinese was killed, and a black fellow is in a critical condition. The land ballot at Hastings revealed the extent of the land hunger in Hawke’s Bay. For the Matapiro block of 538 acres, ninety-four applications were lodged. Of these the board considered twenty-three ineligible, leaving seventy-one to go to the ballot for one section.

Lord Tennyson, Mr Charles Booth, Mr William Rossetti, Mr Arthur Hughes, and others carried the late Mr Holman Hunt’s ashes in a marble urn on a bier, covered with bay leaves, to the crave. The ashes were deposited fn Painter’s Corner of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

According to figures quoted by the Hon. Dr Findlay in the Legislative Council recently, the maintenance of one particular family in New Zealand has cost the State to date. According to Dr Findlay, two members of this family are still a charge on the State, and would probably be so to the end of their lives. At Melbourne last week Charles Nelson, a labourer employed on the sewer works, knowing an explomou was imminent, went to assist his mate who was rendered helpless by bad air in the shaft. Nine charges of gelignite exploded. Boih men were rescued, but Nelson afterwards died Irom the effects of the gelignite fumes.

Walker’s selling Jellys 5 for is

Father O’Meara’s successor as Parish Priest in Feilding is Father Golden, who has been in charge of Kaikoura for the past ten years. 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.* Weasels are very troublesome at present in the district between Levin and P'oxton, and lately the residents of Levin have lost many head ot poultry through the depredations of these vermin.

The Anglican Conference at Halifax is discussing social problems, The speakers urged that the time had come to proclaim that the Anglican Church was the uncompromising foe of the liquor traffic.

John McClelland, .of Scargill (Canterbury), was seriously injured on Saturday night through his horse slipping on a hillside and rolling over him. He subsequently succumbed to his injuries.

Notice is given that all claims for medals for service in the New Zealand war will be inquired into by Stipendiary Magistrates. Applicants for medals are requested to make application to the nearest Stipendiary Magistrate to lurnish him with proofs of their claims. See advertisement.

The next raeetiug of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held at the Council Chambers, Palmerston North, on Thursday, 22nd inst., at 12 noon. Business : General and Mr Wilson’s notice of motion: “That alternate bi-monthly meetings be held at Foxton and Palmerston North.”

At a meeting of the Timaru Presbytery, on Tuesday, the Rev. Chappie resigned from the ministry. This action was the outcome of the charge that he presided at a meeting of Mr McCabe, the well-known Rationalistic, and that he preached in an Auckland Unitarian church.

An expert in dairy produce matters informs the Stratford Post that already this season Taranaki cheese factories, representing 10,000 tons of cheese, have arranged to consign their output on a guarantee without recourse, which means that these factories take no risk below a certain price, fixed at very nearly the selling price of the cheese.

A peculiarly sad feature of the death of Sydney Charlton at the Recreation Ground recently (says the Napier Telegraph) was that he had promised his parents never to play football again. He was his father’s right-hand man, and had resolved, in accordance with his parents’ wishes, to concentrate his attention on the dairy, and give up the game. It was loyalty to the team, owing to their high position in the competition, that brought him out on Saturday.

A reasouable amount of preparation work for school children to do at home is favoured by Mr H. Poland, M.P. Speaking in the House on Saturday morning Mr Poland gave it as his opinion that the reason that children were now being sent out of the schools with less education than formerly was that they did not get home work. A little preparatory work in the evenings did a child good, and was much better for him than “ larrikinising ” about the streets. The same speaker believed that free-place and scholarship pupils did good work, and he quoted the opinion of the headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School to the effect that they did better work than the paying pupils.

At the public meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Mastertou, last week, Mrs Tai Te Tau, in speaking on the effect of No-Eicense in Masterton, said that it was uplifting her people and giving them a fresh start. In her work amongst them in Masterton she had seen much to be thankful for. She was continually seeking further evidence of the difference the closing of the bars had made to the home life of the Maori. Where before they lived in squalor and filth, they now lived in comfort and were well dressed, and, as many had informed her, ” had money of their own.” Mrs Te Tau said she was very thankful for the way the people of Masterton had exercised their vote at the ballot box. It meant the uplifting of her race, and she hoped the time would soon come when the licensed bar would be swept out of the Dominion.

When the domesticated fowl wishes to establish a happy home and start housekeeping —in other words, to sit —that fowl will try all sorts of tricks to prevent her eggs from being taken and converted into omelettes instead of chickens (says the North Otago Times), but an Oamaru hen, no doubt of superior intelligence, hit upon a dodge that beats all the 999 dodges practised hitherto. How it came about is not known, but the hen laid three eggs in a thrush’s nest, which had been built at the top of a six-foot macrocarpa hedge. Evidently the original owner was evicted by this overgrown Leghorn cuckoo, for the nest, when found, contained, in addition to the three hen’s eggs, one little blue and speckled thrush’s egg. The incoming tenant, who was actually caught on the nest, had enlarged it to suit herself by flattening down the edges and scratching the straw out of the inner lining. 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.*

A four-roomed cottage is advertised to let in Hall street.

A large No-License demonstration was held at Wellington last night.

The catalogues for the forthcoming horticultural show will be ready for distribution this week.

A rehearsal of the comedy" drama, "Blow for Blow,’’ be held in the old school to-night.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d.

There will be no service at All Saiuts’ to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock, but the choir practice will be as usual at 7.30 p.m. The vicar hopes all members will be present. The s.s. Queen of the South is at present stuck in the river at Duncan’s bend. She has been there since yesterday morning but it is expected she will gel off by to-nights tide. Miss I. Vibert, dressmaker, of Hall street, notifies Foxtou ladies that she will change her address from Hall street to Purcell street, and will reside in the house known as “ Mowat’s,” as from Monday next.

The death occurred at a private hospital, at Palmerston North, on Monday, of Mrs G. Malmo, of Bunuythorpe. The deceased lady, who was a sister of Mr McPhee, of Foxton, leaves a husband and six young children to mourn their loss. Members of the Chamber of Commerce are reminded that the twice-adjourned annual general meeting is to be held in the Council Chamber to-night. It is to be hoped that every member will make a point of being present as among other business will be the election of officers for the ensuing year.

The death occurred at Wellington, 3'esterday, of Mr Richard Barber, an old and at one time well-known resident of Wellington. The deceased was a brother of the late Messrs James H. and Fdward Barber, who carried on a large butchery business in Wellington for many years. Mr Barber, who leaves a widow and grown-up family, was 70 years of age. A little Kuropeau girl, adopted by the Maoris, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday. She was playing alongside the steps by the railway wharf when she fell into the water and must have lost her life had it not been lor the prompt action of Toroa, a well-known local native, who rescued her. The little girl on being taken out ol the water was apparently none the worse for her emersion.

“ I shot my husband because I thought he was a burglar, and I would do it again under similar circumstances. Men who stay out late at night should answer promptly when their wives call ‘ Who’s there ?’ I am sorry I shot my husband, but 1 carried out his instructions. I did as he told me, and he is glad that I did.” This is what Mrs J. T. Burns said at Pittsburg a few weeks ago about shooting her husband in the arm at their home on M’Phersou Boulevard on the previous night mistaking him for a burglar. The husband was in the hospital, and unless blood poisoning set in, was expected to be out in three or four days. A delicious exemplification of the bliss of ignorance whizzed through the principal streets of Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. Tooting along the thoroughfares went a powerful motor car, carrying an unsuspicious-looking couple, a man and a woman. There was an unusual rag and clatter immediately behind, which caused people to turn their eyes in the direction of the vehicle. The dragging, clattering equipment was an assortment of discarded footwear, and to anyone who understands the language of the old boot, and knows its necessary inseparability from courtships and marriages, explanation was needless. By way of interpretation, howevet, a very large sign, bearing the following inscription, was appended to the car ; “ We were only married this morning.” “Do you want to marry the man?” asked Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., of a girl in an affiliation case at Ryttelton. “ I've no objection,” she replied. “You seem to take matters in a pretty calm way,” said Mr Bishop; “do you want to marry him?” “Yes,” replied the girl. Turning to the prisoner, a youth of twenty, the Magistrate asked whether he wished to marry the girl. After some hesitation he replied that he did. “It takes you a long time to say so,” said Mr Bishop. The girl explained that they would have to get the consent of the lad’s father, and Mr Bishop adjourned the case, remarking that he had no sympathy with such marriages, as they were merely conveniences to evade responsibility of paying for maintenance.

Messrs Bowrou Bros,, of Christchurch, have been convicted on three farther charges of falsifying their income returns. The death occurred at the Wanganui Hospital on Tuesday, of Mr William P. Palmer, senior railway guard on the Wanganui section. The immediate cause of death was appendicitis, and although be had been on the sick list for some time the attack to which he succumbed was quite unexpected. The late Mr Palmer was many years ago a resident of Foxtou, during which time he held the position of guard on the Foxtou-Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Railways, g At the local police court this morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., Aboo, an African pigmy, was charged with drunkenness by the police. He pleaded guilty, and asked for a chance. He stated that he had asked for bread and had been given intoxicating drink. This had brought him within the reach of the law and he had also lost his swag, but had two-pence in his pocket. He pleaded to being a hundred years old and bared his leg in proof of a weak support. He was convicted and ordered to leave the town. Aboo presented a pitiful sight as he hobbled out of court and Palmerstonwards. Constable Woods stuffed his pockets with refreshments, and he was given some small coin to help him on the road.

The cantata, “ Soot and the Fairies,” in character by about 30 children, organised by Mrs Saunders, of Moutoa, in aid of the funds of the Methodist Church, Shannon, was held in the Druids’ Hall last night and as a result the funds oi the church will benefit to the extent of about ,£BO. The cantata was supplemented by vocal talent from Foxton. Mrs Swaunell, Miss Signal and Messrs Jeuks and A. Rimmer rendering several items which were greatly appreciated, Miss Jenks officiating as accompanist. The cantata, which was so well received, and the production of which has entailed a considerable amount of labour will be repeated in the local Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening next. In addition to the cantata talent entirely new to Foxton will be introduced and a first-class evening’s entertainment is promised.

The Foxton Borough Baud will perform the following programme in the Main Street on Saturday evening next (weather permitting), commencing at 7.30 sharp, A collection will be taken up in aid of the band funds : —Quick march, “ British Valour,” (Fdward Newton) ; schotlische, “Frivolity” (Carl Albert) ; waltz, “ Right and Shade ” (H. Round) ; barn-dance, “Mermaids” (Carl Albert); inter mizzo, “Hypatia” (J. Ord Hume) ; march, “ No Surrender” (G. Harrison) ; selection, “ The Stranger ” (Belliue) ; waltz, “June Roses ” (W. T. Harrison); march, “Commodore” (T. Allsopp) ; waltz, “ The Rittle Flirt ” (T. H. Wright); march, “Full Dress Parade ” (R. B. Hall) ; National Anthem.