LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 898, 29 September 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A furnished cottage up the Avenue is advertised to let. Further additions are made to the Himitangi stock sale list. Mr E. Wauklyu adds several good properties to his sale list appearing elsewhere. We acknowledge receipt of a complimentary ticket for the Hockey Club’s plain and fancy dress ball to be held at Oroua Downs, on October yth.

Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston N., announce the completeness of tneir stock in the Dress Department, and their Dressmaking facilities.*

The Foxton Racing Club invite applicatious for the position of secretary. Applicants must reside in or near Foxton ; salary per year. Applicatious close on Monday, October 10th.

The Arbitration Court will sit at Palmerston North to-morrow. Among the cases set down for bearing is an application by the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees Union to add seven additional parties to the Award. The secretary of the local bowling club has received an invitation to members to be present at the opening ot the Otaki green on Wednesday next. Unfortunately the date clashes with the opening day of the Shannon green. We have been shown a prodigious “soft” egg by a Montoa settler, which we were informed was laid by a brown leghorn hen. In size it resembles a goose egg, and without the shell about the same weight. On breaking it open it contained another ordinary sized egg. A very interesting croquet tournament was played on Dr Adams’ lawn yesterday afternoon. Several teams competed, and the finals are to be played at a later date. Afternoon tea was dispensed by Mrs Adams, and much appreciated by the players. Mr Chrystall has secured a fine flow of water on the local bowling green at a depth of 49 feet. The Club intend to proceed immediately with the erection of a windmill. The water has not been obtained too soon as the grass is in need of water as it is exposed a great deal to the sun’s rays. Sir John Eogan Campbell has donated ,£IOOO to the Auckland Children’s Home, Richmond road, to enable enlarging of the building. He has made it a condition that the public of Auckland contribute another ,£IOOO, but is so confident of this eventuating that he has handed his cheque to the trustees.

Dogs are not the only fourfooted animals that have been killing sheep at Akura (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). Recently two local residents witnessed a young stallion there picking up hoggets in its mouth and dashing about the paddocks with them. Several were killed, and the legs of others broken. All those interested in the formation of a rifle club are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Council Chamber this evening for that purpose. At one time Foxton boasted of a volunteer corps and later the Foxton Rifle Club had a good membership so that there should be no trouble in getting enough rifle shots at the present time to form a fairly strong club. The meeting to-night will commence at 8 o’clock.

The weekly meeting of the local Christian Endeavour Society was held last night. The essayist was Miss Eilla Rimmer who delivered a clever and carefully studied paper on “ The Gift of Thought.” A discussion on the paper ensued, and Miss Rimmer was heartily congratulated for her very instructive essay. Here are are a few sentences from the paper:— “Good thoughts lead to good living ” ; “ Wicked thoughts lead to a bad life ” ; “Good thoughts produce a noble countenance.” In summing up, the leader, Mr J. Chrystall, referred to the creation of man’s mind, his thinking and reasoning power, as one of the greatest and noblest works of God.

The Chinese crew of the steamer Empire worked off a joke on the Williamstown (Victoria) Customs officers , last week (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). The Empire was proceeding down the bay to Geelong, where she was to call prior to proceeding on to Sydney and Hong Kong, and by order of the Collector of Customs, the launch at Williamstown followed her for some miles, in order to prevent any attempt at opium smuggling by dropping overboard tins of the drug attached to buoys so that confederates on shore might pick them up at a convenient opportunity. When the Chinese on board the Empire observed the Customs launch steaming in their wake, they became very busy dropping parcels overboard, and soon over a dozen of them were picked up, but on slitting open the tea-chest matting covering of each, the launch’s crew were disappointed and exasperated at finding only deck sweepings and refuse. The result as regards opium was nil. 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.* If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkes’, he jeweller, the shop for presents,* For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d, and 2s 6d.

There will be a special Mission preparation service in All Saints Church to-morrow night, at 7 o’clock. Rev. J. D, Russell, Vicar of Petone for the past thirteen years, has accepted the charge of the parish of Masterton. A Canadian named Leach went through the whirlpool rapids on the Niagara Falls in a barrel. He got off with a few scratches and bruises. Kaufmanu fought Kubiak, of Michigan, for six rounds, at Baltimore. No decision was given, though Kaufmanu outclassed his opponent. The police refused to interfere. Paris newspapers state thatM. Chavez, who flew over the Simplon Pass, and who broke both his legs in a fall, will receive ,£3OOO, though he did not reach Milan. This was one of the stipulations of the flight. [The unfortunate aviator has since died.] Because he was suspected of misappropriating philanthropic funds, Arndt, a Town Councillor of Burussischstargard, his wife, an adult son and daughter, asphyxiated themselves. Arndt and the daughter died, and the others are in a precarious condition. The workmen owning the Cornish Salvage Company have made a profit of ,£IO,OOO out of the warship Montague, wrecked at Lundy Island in May, 1906. The work is in nowise completed. The company has now discovered a valuable Spanish wreck, which foundered at Lundy Island in IS6O, ‘ ‘ South Africa would not be a bad place, if it were not for the food,’" said Dr. Thacker, who has just returned from the Zambesi, to a Post reporter the other day. “The food is simply wretched. You can't get good food even in the best hotels —even Johannesburg and Capetown. It was so bad at the Zambesi that Arust gave up the hotel and lived largely on guinea-fowl he shot himself, and what his friends sent him from Rhodesia. The beef and mutton are dreadful, and people live a good deal on tinned stuff, as they are frightened of the beef. So many cattle fall sick, that you never know whether the meat you are eating is off a diseased animal or not. There should be a good market for New Zealand products, if they can only get in.”