LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 900, 4 October 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All accounts owing to the Herald up to the end of September have now been rendered and the proprietor would esteem as a favour an early settlement of same.*

A good general servant is advertised for. Two unfurnished front rooms are advertised to let. The death occurred at Richmond, near Nelson, on Thursday, of Mrs James Bell, a very old colonist, at the age of 86. The vital statistics for Foxton for the quarter ending Sept. 30th, are as follows ;—Births, 32 ; marriages, 3 ; deaths, 6.

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.*

The poll in connection with the proposal to purchase the local gas works will take place on Thursday. It is hoped that every ratepayer will make a point of recording his or her vote.

John Heywood .Ltd., London, publishers, were fined ,£365 for selling objectionable books without imprints. Two thousand copies were destroyed. The defendants, a respectable firm, pleaded inadvertance.

Waitara has turned on its water supply. The main line and reticulation is over 12 miles, and although there are over 2500 joints not one single leakage occurred. The cost to the borough was ,£16,000. Waitara has a smaller population than Foxton, and is very progressive.

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

Mr F. E. Jenks notifies that he undertakes all kinds of gas fitting and plumbing, and guarantees satisfaction.

Mr S. Read, painter, inserts a notice of warning to persons circulating malicious slanders about members of his family. Now is the time to rug horses and cows. You cannot do better than place your orders with me for my famous rugs. W. E. Bullard, saddler and harness maker, Main Street.*

A meeting of members and intending members ot the Foxton Bowling Club will be held in the Conucil Chamber on Thursday evening next, at 8 o’clock, when officers will be elected and general business transacted.

The Mission of Help under the auspices of the Anglican Church was opened at Palmerston and Feilding on Saturday evening last and are drawing large attendances. The Jewish New Year, 5671 A.M., began at sunset yesterday October 3rd, this being the method of starting the days in the Hebrew calendar. The festival is an important one in the Jewish New Year,

Mary Dolan and Thomas McNulty have been sentenced to death at Barrie, Ontario, for the murder of the former’s illegitimate child. The case is unique, as McNulty never saw or touched the child whose death is charged against him. Mr Nodiue, a Wellington litigant who has probably received more patient consideration and leniency from Supreme Court Judges than any other man in Australasia, has been given seven days in which to obey the order of the Court, failing which he will be arrested.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow. The cases set down for hearing include several alleged breaches of the Licensing Act, one case against a flax contractor for an alleged breach of the Flaxmills Award, and a number of debt cases.

The euchre party and dance under the auspices of the Albion Football Club will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow night. All arrangements are well in hand, and from the number of tickets already disposed of, a large attendance is practically assured. The price of admission Is gentlemen as 6d, ladies a basket.

A motor car, belonging to Mr Goring Johnston, collided with a trap near Bulls on Saturday. The chauffer was rendered unconscious, and the front of the car was slightly damaged. The horse vehicle was not badly damaged, and the driver escaped unhurt. The other occupants of the car were uninjured. The story of an elopement and its tragic termination was published by the Madrid papers on September 27. The central figure in the affair was Professor Movedo, of Capuciue College, who was pursued by the uncle of the young lady with whom he was clearing away, and, being overtaken, committed suicide rather than face the consequences of his ill-considered act.

There are boots and boots. Cheap and trashy footwear are the dearest in the long run. The English, American, and Colonial firms from whom I draw my stock have a reputation to maintain and refuse to turn out trashy and cheap goods. I have just opened up four cases of goods for the summer season, including special lines in ladies and gents boots and shoes. Call and inspect them at R. T. Betty’s.*

An autopsy on the body of an old age pensioner named George Cardy, who committed suicide by shooting himself at Wagga (N.S.W.) last week, revealed the fact that the bullet had penetrated 3in. of the brain. Notwithstanding this, Cardy remained conscious, carried on a conversation with attendants, and related his attempts to commit suicide. Cardy lived sixteen hours after firing the bullet into his brain. Mr McMurray, seur., is on a visit to Foxton on business connoted with the West Coast Steamship and Trading Co. It is nineteen years since Mr McMurray previously came here. On that occasion he arrived by steamer from Nelson, en route to his farm in the Wanganui district. Mr McMurray is an old West Coaster, and has a vivid recollection of the “early roaring days’’ on the Coast. Mr McMurray says that Foxton has made very progressive strides since he first visited it.

Says the Southland Times ; “ Parliament is shackled to the party system, and instead of working quietly and industriously as a national assembly with no other interests than the country’s welfare should work, both sides are busy playing the game of politics, the contest between the “outs” and the “ins.” Party shifts and tricks, party prejudices, party abuses and arbitrary party usages are the causes of waste of time, and so long as the party system exists the country may prepare itself to see days and weeks ol each session frittered away in futile talk and unseemly dissension.”

The word “ summer ” always seems synonymous of smart and showy dresses and millinery, and this season is a period when ladies seem specially interested in the purchase of their dresses. Mrs M. Hamer, of the “ Economic,” has lavishly provided for the tastes of Foxton ladies, in smart Linen Costumes, fashionable Millinery, Ties, Gloves, and all apparel necessary for the coming summer season. See window display.* A line of Printed Chambers, 2s each, at Walker’s Red House.

An advertiser wants to rent two furnished rooms.

Mrs Hockley, of Napier, inserts a thanks notice elsewhere in this issue.

Sale for one month only at R. M. Parkes, big reductions to make room for new stock.*

The tender of Mr Alex. Speirs has been accepted for the erection of the church at the Beach. The cost of erection Is being borne by Mr G. H. Stiles.

Mr Alex. Speirs has completed a nice dwelling for Miss Duncan in the Lady’s Mile, and Mr Rimmer has done a like work for Mr Chrystall in the same locality. Warm spring rains fell throughout this district and to-day which fact is greatly appreciated by the farming community. The Special Committee of the House of Representatives set up to investigate the charges of “ Tammanyism ” made by Mr Hine, will hold its first sitting at n o’clock to-morrow.

Mr Angus Keith, whose resignation as secretary of the Foxton Racing Club has been accepted, has been engaged as starter by a number of clubs throughout the Dominion.

Parliament has now completed its fourteenth week of the session and members on both sides of the House realise that very little progress has been made with the serious business of the country.

Mrs Nye, the local stationer, has just opened up a varied assortment of mechanical toys, including model flying machines, walking dolls, etc. Prices right and inspection invited. Members and intending member 8 of the Foxton Athletic Club are notified by advertisement in this issue that the annual meeting of the Club will be held in the Council Chamber on Friday evening next. It is hoped that every member will make a point of being present.

Messrs Collinson and Son of Cheapside, Palmerston North, desire those interested in fishing to call and inspect their 1910-11 season stock of fishing tackle. This tackle is fresh and straight from the best English factories. Particulars of the advertisement appear on page 3 of this issue.* “I hope you don’t put your big potatoes all at the top of the sack to deceive purchasers,” a parson is reported to have said to a farmer among his flock. “No, indeed,” was the reply ; “folk are getting so cunning that they now open the sacks at the bottom, so I put the best samples there.”

lu another column of this issue will be found the services for the Anglican Mission which commences at All Saints’ Church on Saturday next at 7.30 p.m. The Mission will begin on Saturday, October Bth, and close on Friday morning the 14th October. The Missiouer is the Rev. A. H. Colvile, of the Diocese of Hereford, England. There is no place in the world where there are more sudden and extreme changes in temperature than in Australasia. We often experience a climate of three different seasons in one day, and the result is that numbers of people contract a cold in the stomach and bowels, which causes great pain and suffering. There is nothing that will relieve this suffering so quickly as Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This is the best remedy in the world to cure bowel complaint in all its forms. It is a sure cure for Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Colic, and has never been known to fail. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

Mr J. P. Duke has been informed by the Prime Minister that from now onwards rifles will be supplied to the Defence Rifle Clubs on purchase, on the following conditions: payment to be made in three equal instalments, the first on application, and the remainder in two annual payments thereafter. This mformatin should be of interest to the proposed local club.

At a presentation social to the Rev Father Smiers at Wangarei, last week, the local Presbyterian minister, Rev J. D. Pattullo, was one of the prominent speakers, and in wishing Father Smiers God-speed in his new field of labour, spoke of the good feelingexisting between himself and the departing priest, which, he said, “ was very different to the feeling between Roman Catholics and Presbyterians which he read of in ancient history.”,., The New Plymouth News, commenting on Mr Mine’s charges, says: “ Politically, at the present moment, Mr Mine is a weariness of the flesh and an unnecessary expense to the people of New Zealand. When he threw down the gauntlet and charged the Government with “Tammanyism” the Government was aware that Mr Mine did not know what the term meant, but the House spent some hundreds of pounds in discussing the matter —for Parliament is a very expensive institution. The careful man who examines Mr Mine’s statements feels, after such an examination, that Mr Mine ‘ didn’t know they were loaded.’ . . , . Mr Mine’s possible idea in making his charges against members or ex-members of Parliament was that he was attacking an evil, repetitions of which should not be permitted. This was simplicity itself, but Mr Mine hesitated at the open door, and remains at the threshold now, very probably ' sorry he spoke.’”

If In want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkes’, he jeweller, the shop for presents.*

At the Marine Court inquiry atf^ 1 Melbourne, Captain Griffiths, masler of the barque Carnarvon Bay, wrecked near King Island, attributed the wreck to the vessel striking an uncharted rock. The compasses had been properly adjusted before she left Liverpool, and he was following the corrected Admiralty charts at the time of the disaster. “Fine feathers make fine birds,” is an old and trite saying, but nevertheless true. Neat and attractive clothing is always a decided acquisition to one’s personal appearance, and to look stylish and up-to-date is always an advantage. Mrs Hamer has now a stock of the latest in Gents’ Boater Hats, with up-to-date coloured bands, for the coming summer Also silk ties from is upwards.*

A hemp buyer, representing Messrs Wright, Stevenson and Co,, Ltd., was in Foxtou yesterday endeavouring .to enter into contracts with the local millers for the purchase of hemp. This is the first occasion on which this firm have sent their representative to Foxtou. and his visit at the present time indicates that the firm in question are quite satisfied with the future prospects of the hemp market. According to the N.Z. Times, the admission of the press to the inquiry into Mr Hiue’s charges is expected to lengthen, the sittings interminably, as there will probably be endless cross-examination of all witnesses by members of the committee. It is now confidently stated that if the House had to vote again on the question the decision to admit the press would be reversed by a large majority. A meeting of the committee of the Foxton Cricket Club was held in the Family Hotel last night, when the secretary presented a statement on last year’s working. Taking everything into consideration the financial statement disclosed- a fairly satisfactory state of affairs. Prospects for the coming season are good, fully twenty having signified their intention of becoming members. The annual general meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 12th. Some rather amusing incidents are - related by Dr. Thaker to show the different ideas that prevail iu the Old Country and in other parts of the Empire. Barry and other Englishmen interested in the championship race on the Zambesi noted the fact that in Rhodesia they were not expected to treat men iu higher grades of social life with the same marks of deference as are exacted in England. This was noticeably the case with Mr Williams, the judge of the race, who was once president of the Cambridge University Boating Club, and who occupies a position in South Africa. At the Zambesi, Barry, who is a lighterman by trade, met him as man to man; iu London he would be expected to raise his hat when he greeted him, and to always call him “sir.” The Englishmen remarked on the total absence of that kind of thing amongst the New Zealanders who had assembled to see the race.

The member for Rlccarton (Mr A Witty) recently moved for a return showing the number of transfers of leases of land for settlements land since the Act came into force, and the goodwill paid by incoming tenants. The return, which has just been furnished, will provide important material for those interested in the land question. During the first three years of the operation of the system there were no transfers. In 1896 there were four transfers, covering an area of 585 acres, the goodwill received being £ 2 . The number of transfers continued to increase until 1908, when high water mark was reached. In that year the transfers numbered 379, the acreage being 86,417 and the goodwill .£258,464, in 1909 the respective figures were 329 transfers, 84,289 acres, ,£232,600 goodwill. In 1909 there were 272 transfers, £55,570 acres, £179,168 goodwill. The totals are 2,274 transfers, 503,339 acres, £1,005,758 goodwill.