The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 27, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 897, 27 September 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 27, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding is going in for a loan of lor a Town Hall. A line of Printed Chambers, 2s each, at Walker’s Red House. Mr W. Nye advertises a good strong spring trap, suitable for a tradesman or farmer, for sale. A reward is offered tor the return of a fur necklet lost between Main Street and Norbiton Road. The annual general meeting of members of the Foxton Athletic Club is advertised to be held in the Council Chamber on Friday evening next. During a bull fight at Darajas, near Madrid, a stand collapsed, and one spectator was killed and many injured. During the excitement a bull killed a matador The inter-island football match was played at Christchurch on Saturday, and resulted in a welldeserved win by the Southerners by 14 points to 10. On account of the number of clients wishing to attend, Mr Sandford, consulting optician, of Napier, has decided to extend his visit till 12 o’clock to-morrow. Open this evening from to 9, at Perreau’s Buildings.* Owing to the extremely high price at present ruling for stock, the local butchers have found it necessary to slightly raise the price of meat, and advertise in this issue a new price-list, which will come into force on the Ist prox. The secretary of the local Bowling Club has received an invitation to members of the local club to be present at the opening of the Shannon green, which takes place on Wednesday, sth October, at 2 p.m.

The Canadian-Pacific Railway Co. is pushing a charge against a brakesman tor chloroforming a lady passenger in a “sleeper” because several similar complaints have been made. The object of the chloroforming is claimed to be robbery. M. Chavez, the aviator, started from Brigue (Switzerland), and crossed the Simplon Pass to Domodossola, Piedmont, Italy, in fifty minutes. A gust of wind caught his machine, which fell. M. Chavez was injured, being pinned beneath the motor.

Burglars have been plying their nefarious callling of late on the West Coast. Recently a jeweller’s shop was broken into at Reelton and worth of stock taken. At Westport last Friday night Mr Floyd’s jewellery establishment was entered and booty taken to the value of 00 - Professor Herescheil Parker failed in his attempted ascent of Mount McKinley recently. He denies that the summit has ever been reached though Dr. Cook, the explorer, who claims to have reached the North Pole before Commander Peary and the Floyd party claim that that they were successful.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d, and 2s 6d . You can get a full size tin of Baking Powder at Walker’s for lOd.

Au advertiser Is prepared to do washing or cleaning by the day. The death has occurred at Southsea, of Mrs Haytnan, the original of “Little Dorritt,” in Dickens’s novel of that name.

Tenders are invited by G. H. Stiles, Esq., for the erection of a church at the Beach. Plans and specifications may be inspected at this office. 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*

The value of principal products passed through the Customs for export during the fortnight ended September :sth is estimated at ,£231,442, compared with 820 for the corresponding period of last year.

On October 3rd four cases of alleged sly-grog selling will be heard at Palmerston against Mrs Dalziell, a boarding-house keeper at Tokomaru. It is alleged that the liquor was supplied to police constables from Wanganui. The remains of the late Mr John Dalton were interred in the Rongotea Cemetery on Saturday afternoon last. The services were taken by the Rev. Father Golden, of Feilding, assisted by the Rev. Father Kelly, of Foxton. The religious sense, said Bishop Julius, at the Anglican General Mission meeting on Sunday, is smaller in many of us than the hind leg ot the whale in the Christchurch Museum, which does not extend beyond the skin. You could hardly find it if you dissected the beast.

“We have any number of patrons of Christianity,” said Bishop Julius, speaking in the Town Hall on Sunday, “ men who are very kind to us and give us a guinea a year. They would patronise God Himself if they had the show.”

Whitebaiters had a good day yesterday, there being an abundance of the little fish in the Manawatu, and some good catches are recorded. By yesterday afternoon’s train 13 tins were consigned, and a further eight tins were sent forward by train this morning. The remains of the late Mrs Hugh Gillies were interred in the Palmerston Cemetery on Sunday. The cortege was an exceedingly large one. The chief mourners were Mr H. Gillies and his three sons, Oswald, Stanley and Leonard, Messrs W. and J. Hume, of Wairarapa, brothers of deceased, and Messrs A. Martin and J. Drummond, brothers-in-law.

The local amateurs have decided to stage the comedy-drama “Blow for Blow,” which has now been in rehearsal for some time, on October 19th. Another rehearsal was held last night and from the interest shown by those taking part this production should be one of the most successful yet staged by the amateurs.

Complaint is made by a correspondent to our Palmerston evening contemporary of illegal duck shooting in the Tokomaru district. The same complaint has been made to us of the indiscriminate shooting of ducks out of season in this district. The Acclimatisation Society should take measures to put a stop to this unsportsmanlike practice.

Devin Borough Council has decided not to adopt clocks for lighting and extinguishing street lamps. We should say, so far as Foxton is concerned, that they are not a success. Street lamps that should be extinguished at midnight burn merrily till morning, and other lamps go out when they should be alight. What is wanted are pressure controllers.

We remind our readers of the euchre party and dance to be held in the Public Hall to-morrow night, under the auspices of the local Catholic Church. All arrangements for same are in the hands of a capable committee and everything points to a most successful function. The prices of admission are : gentlemen 2s 6d, ladies is 6d.

A jibbing horse created a little excitement on Sunday last. The animal was being driven down the Avenue, and when near Mr Tevett’s house commenced to back. Despite coaxing and punishing, the experienced driver failed to arrest its backing career, and the animal proceeded to go astern until it backed the trap and itself into the drain near the windmill, No damage was done to either horse or vehicle.

Dominion Day was celebrated locally yesterday by the Post Office closing within certain hours and bunting was flown over a number of business premises. The Borough Band played several spirited selections in the Triangle during the evening. Business people were disappointed at having their mails held back and many are of opinion that the Prime Minister should cease to attempt to force the anniversary of this day on to the public as a holiday. 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 Never hesitate about giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to children. It contains no narcotic of any description, and can be given with confidence. As a quick cure for coughs and colds to which children are susceptible, it is unsurpassed. For sale everywhere.*

Walker’s Jellies at 5 for is are selling well.

To-day Mr Chrystal made a start with the boring of an artesian well which the local Bowling Club has decided to have sunk at the green.

Mr Parkes, the locai watchmaker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.* On page 4 will be found the continuation of the debate in the House on the Saudon tramway extension proposal and an interview with an old colonist who was in Foxton in the early sixties. The body of an unknown man was found in the river Darling, near Bourke. It was sewn in a calico bag, and then in a canvas tent, and was wearing a necklace of cartridges. The flesh was badly decomposed, and the man had apparently been in the water a fortnight. The skull was fractured, and there were cuts on the head and hands.

During the mission at All Saints Church in October there will be a special service for children and parents on Sunday, October 9th, at 2.30 p.m. The missiouer, the Rev A. A. Colvile, M.A., is particularly good with children, and can keep their attention for a considerable time. This is to be a mass meeting of children and parents and any others who wish to be present. The vicar hopes that parents and other adults will take a special interest in this service, so as to give the little ones a chance of benefiting by the mission.

Mr Roosevelt has declined to make a statement with regard to the publication by Mrs Bellamy Stoier, wife of a former United States Ambassador to AustriaHungary, of copies ot private letters from Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, Minnesota, to show that Mr Roosevelt, when President, authorised the Ambassador to interview the Pope, and ask for a Cardinalate for Archbishop Ireland, as a personal favour to Mr Roosevelt. Mr Roosevelt says the official letters must speak for themselves.

Mr T. E. Taylor paid a warm tribute to the Premier’s courtesy in the House last Friday evening. He declared that Sir Joseph Ward’s attempts to expedite business and meet the convenience of members were not appreciated by the membeis of the Opposition. The result was that consideration of important political issues would be crowded into the last few weeks ol the session. The only declaration of policy by the Opposition this session was its desire to steal nine million acres of national endowment lands and convert them into cash.

Speaking at the opening of the Anglican Mission at Wellington, on Sunday, Bishop Julius said, owing to the materialistic self-sufficiency of Colonials, religion had been crushed out of their lives. Some might say this was due to education, and the growth and development of science, but no true enlightenment was opposed to true religion. By way of instilling into the people of the Colony a true sense of their responsibilities to the Church and God it had been found necessary to bring a band of missioners from England to help in the work because the clergymen out here were a “ very poor lot.” Mr Hogg is a staunch patriot who believes with Mr T. E. Taylor that national safety would be best consummated by teaching the use of the rifle and evolving a better British breed by seeing to the housing problem and others. At the same time he has great faith in “the Bulldog breed.” “ Why should we be frightened of Germany?” he said. “Has she ever produced an Arnst or Switzerland a Wilding ? An Englishman’s house is his castle, but why should he be miserable inside it always, because he thinks he is in a state of siege ? What have we to fear here ? Are we pigeon-hearted? The “scaremonger,” he concluded, “is a dangerous nuisance.”