LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 908, 22 October 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Several weddings are to be celebrated locally at an early date. Mrs Hamer Is making alterations to her business premises in order to display her Christmas novelties. The attendance shield at the local school this week was won by Standard IV., with an average attendance of 91.8 per cent. A sacred solo will be sung by Mr Mac Murray during the offertory at All Saints ’ Church tomorrow evening. The gas committee of the Borough Council and the Town Clerk visited Woodville on Thursday for the purpose of inspecting the municipal gas works in that town. The cricket season will be opened locally on Wednesday next, with a scratch match on the Park pitch. We would suggest that the game be married v. single. We remind all those who enjoy a game of quoits that a meeting for the purpose of resusitating the Foxton Club will be held in the Post Office Hotel on Monday evening next. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance and that as a result a strong club will be formed. The services at the Presbyterian Church, to-morrow will be conducted, in the absence of the Rev. G. K. Aitken, by Mr G. H. Gibb, of Shannon, student evangelist, who will preach both morning and evening. Mr Gibb is a sou of the Rev, Dr. Gibb, of St. John’s, Wellington, and has been stationed at Shannon lor nearly a year, where he has done good work, and is a great favourite with all classes.

Mr Frank Piper, who recently returned to New Zealand from Portugal, where he bad resided for a period of fourteen years as a school teacher, and whose impressions on the revolutionary crisis we re-published from the Timaru Post, is an uncle of Mr Orwin of the local Bank of New Zealand staff.

It is the iuteution of the local amateur dramatic society to stage plays at the local Public Hall on the evening of the annual sports gathering (January 2nd), and on both race nights (January 23rd and 24th). The pieces to be produced will no doubt be decided upon at the annual meeting of the Society, to be held on Tuesday evening.

Mr Balfour, leader of the Opposition, speaking at Glasgow relative to the alleged inferiority of the British Navy, compared with what it was five years back, said that this state of things must be cured immediately—if not out of the finances of each year, then by loans. They must convince the Powers that it was their fixed resolve to devote the last shilling and the last man to the fulfilment of Imperial obligations. At the re-opening service of the Shannon Methodist Church, Sister Moody Bell speaking, of the Sunday school, stated that though the Sunday school had been closed some time ago, it was now numbering 74 scholars on the books, with a staff of excellent teachers in charge. The “ Cradle Roll” numbers 30 infants, who are thus reckoned as belonging in a sense to the Sunday school. Thanks to the good helpers who assisted in various ways, was cordially given by Sister Moody Bell.

“ Houses for the Beach,” is the heading ot a replace advertisement by the West Coast Steamship and Trading Company Ltd- As is well known, asbestos slates for roofs, and asbestos sheets for the ceilings, lining, and outsides of houses are coming more into use every day, especially such places as Hawke’s Bay, where the summers are very hot and dry; for houses built or lined with this material are as cool as the proverbial “cucumber,” even in the very hottest weather. It should, therefore, make an ideal building material for houses at the Beach, and as the bulk is very much less than timber, the item of carriage would not be very great. All sheets being of one size, very little labour is required to build with it, and the first cost also compares more than favourably with that of Umber. We would, therefore, strongly advise anyone contemplating building to see the samples and obtain particulars from the West Coast Steamship and Trading Company, Ltd.*

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

Mr and Mrs P. T. Robinson insert a thanks notice in this issue.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced in this district at about noon yesterday. A five-year-old child at Boolarra (Victoria) weighs eigjit stone, and is gaining two pounds weekly. The doctors are puzzled. Ratepayers will be pleased to know that the gas purchase loan ot has been obtained at a satisfactory rate. The Salvation Army intend to hold services in the Public Hall to-morrow. The Army band will discourse music in Main Street tonight. The Rev Mr Colvile, m.a., who conducted the recent mission in the Anglican Church, hopes to pay a return visit to Foxton some time in Lent. Mangels are being largely grown in the Masterton district this year by dairy farmers, who are commencing to recognise their value as fodder for cows that have come in in the early spring. On Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock, there will be a meeting of all those interested in the coming bazaar, the proceeds from which will be devoted to beautify the grounds ot All Saints’ Church and the painting of the vicarage. The meeting will be held in All Saints’ schoolroom.

There are believed to be only thirty-two suvivors of the rank and file who took part in the historic charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, and of these twenty-two are in necessitous circumstances.

Euigi Luccheui, the Anarchist, who murdered the Kmpress Elizabeth of Austria at Geneva in September, 1898, committed suicide in the padded cell in which he was confined after his recent relapse into insanity. He hanged himself to the grating of his door, using his muffler as a halter.

The Manawatu Flaxmillers’ Association proposes to send a deputation to Wellington next week to wait on the Government with a request that the bonus for improvements in flax - dressing machinery should be re-placed on the Estimates, and that it should be increased to /5000. Mr John Stevens, ex-M.P. for Manawatu, went to Wellington yesterday and interviewed the Hon. D. Buddo and Mr A. Hamilton (Director of , the Dominion Museum), regarding the advisability of-prosecuting a search with a Maori expedition on the western slopes of the Ruahine range for huias. The Minister has authorised Mr Stevens to dispatch the expedition. The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent states that it was noticeable that the last two speeches by the Kaiser were read, the manuscript being ceremoniously handed to the Kaiser by an official. The change is attributed to the recent outcry over the Emperor’s speech at Kouigsberg, in East Prussia, in which his Majesty emphasised the “ Divine rights ” of German Emperors.

The residence of Mr P. T. Robinson in Norbiton Road, narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire on Thursday afternoon. Both Mr and Mrs Robinson were away, and upon the children arriving home from school one of them lit a fire in the range in the kitchen. The child apparently omitted to close the door of the range with the result that the fire caught some clothing which was hanging in front of the stove. The little girl immediately ran to a neighbour’s house (Mr Signal) and gave the alarm. There were only the two Misses Signal and Mairs at home at the time, and when they reached the house the fire had a good hold round the mantlepiece. They at once got to work with buckets, and with the assistance of Mrs W. Spring, who arrived shortly afterwards, soon got the flames under control, and eventually extinguished the fire. Had it not been for the prompt actions of the Misses Signal, the house must have been destroyed. The damage done was not extensive. In another column Mr and Mrs Robinson insert a notice of thanks to those who assisted to extinguish the fire.

During the annual congregational meeting of the Presbyterian Church on Thursday night, a person who had been imbibing not wisely but too well, attracted no doubt by the light, entered the porch door and gazed wonderingly upon those assembled. He expressed a desire to come in, and sat well to the front. His breathing was very audible, and on one or two occasions he “chipped in” with an appreciative “hear, hear.” Finally, his head bent forward and he went off into the land of dreams. His slumber was accompanied by a sonorous noise. Apparently he had a mate, for another step was heard at the church door, and there stood a man of shorter stature, blinking at the light and trying to take in the situation. He finally decided to come inside, and occupied a seat behind the “sleeping beauty.” Hearing his friend’s heavy breathing, he leaned forward and grabbed him by the shoulder and shook him from his sub-conscious condltiou, at the same time growling his disapproval of such conduct—which, in the opinion of some good folk, is only permissable when a sermon is prosy and laboured and the weather sultry. The visitors tried very hard to get a grip of the proceedings, judging by occasional mumblings. However, they behaved themselves very well, and sat the meeting out.

The erection of the windmill at the local bowling green is completed, and there should now be an abundance of water to help the grass along. Andy Marslaud, a boundary rider, quarrelled with Dawson, a storekeeper, near Mackiulay, Brisbane, over a dog, and shot him dead. He then suicided.

A sad tragedy occurred at Murngall, near Hamilton (Victoria). Mrs Miller drowned herself and her two children in a dam while suffering from despondency.

It is stated that a Mataura horsedealer cleared between and £7OO on his last consignment of horses for the Melbourne market. On one mare alone he realised a profit ot The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by the Rev P. J. Mairs, and in the evenby Mr J. Chrystall. The subject will be, “ Question, Profit and Loss.”

The House has adopted the recommendations of the Hine Committee to refer the charges, brought against certain legislators and exlegislators by Mr Hine. M.P., to Supreme Court Judges for investigation.

Father Bernard Vaughan, when attending the Eucharistic Congress at Montreal, Canada, declared in a sermon at St. Patrick’s Church that Protestantism in England is divided, half drifting to agnosticism and half creeping back to Catholicism.

At a meeting of the Palmerston North Hairdressers and Tobacconists’ Association held last night it was resolved that unless the local hotelkeepers agreed to abandon altogether the sale of tobacconists’ goods those present pledged themselves to work in the interests of prohibition. At the inquest at Christchurch concerning the death of Hilda Pegley, aged 15 years, a verdict was returned that the cause of death was due to peritonitis, caused by tuberculosis. The medical evidence suggested that the tuberculosis was due to the girl drinking infected milk.

From present appearances the forthcoming horticultural show should be the most successful in the history of the Society. At the general meeting held last night there were about 40 members present, which speaks volumes for the interest members are taking in the affairs of the Society.

The insurances on the Hukarere Maori girls’ school, destroyed on Thursday, was ,£IBOO on the buildings and ,£4OO on the furniture, both in the National office. The girls lost everything. The cause of the outbreak is at present a mystery.

A bold attempt to ring the changes was made at the North Otago races this week. A young man handed a postal note for 20s, folded so as to show the “ 20, ” in a ticket box of the saddling paddock, saying it was for and asked for £l9 10s in change. The attendant gave it to him, but soon discovered his mistake. Daniel Connor was charged with the offence, and was remanded.

Representations have recently been made by Mr Field respecting the granting of a stopping place or places for the Auckland express between Wellington and Palmerston North. The Minister, however, says that he has given the question of stopping the Wellington Auckland express trains at intermediate stations the fullest consideration, and regrets that he cannot comply with any request; having for its object the increasing of the number of stops now made by these trains.

i<or watch, clock or jewellery -epairs go to Parkes, the jeweller, Main Street.

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.