LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 910, 27 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.*

Italy is considering plans for the construction of four Dreadnoughts. The monthly meeting of the local school committee will be held this evening. The annual Board inspection of the local State school is taking place to-day. The Anglican missions being conducted at Christchurch and Timaru are drawing large attendances.

A number of local bowling enthusiasts visited the Shannon green yesterday and spent a most enjoyable time. Messrs P. Hennessy and Co., have in stock some bowls which they are disposing of at Wellington prices. The bowls are on exhibition in the firm’s window.

Two men named Jack Muir, a widower, and Jim Bowers, single, were killed by a fall of earth at the Westport Coal Company’s coal mine at Denniston yesterday.

A Chinaman armed with twm revolvers and a sheath knife ran amok at Surrey Hills, Sydney, on Tuesday. He fired four shots, and wounded a countryman, before he was arrested.

James Girdwood McKenzie, charged at the Christchurch Supreme Court with the theft of money from the State Fire Office, was sentenced to six months hard labour.

Captain Scott, the leader of the Antarctic expedition, arrrived at Wellington from Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday, and was accorded a civic welcome. He will go to Christchurch on Saturday next.

The Wellington Education Board has purchased two acres of land at Kelbourne for where it is intended to build a new teachers’ training college. The building at Thorndou now used as a training college will revert back to a primary school. Mr Johu Barr, orchardist, at Havelock, informs the Hastings Standard that last week’s frost did absolutely no damage to the fruit trees on the Havelock hills. He says that the delegates to the fruitgrowers conference in spreading the “ damage story ” all over the Dominion did far more damage than the frost.

We have to admit that No-Ei-cense is not an unqualified success in Invercargill, but we do object to the insinuation that the town is by Act of Parliament honeycombed with illicit drinking shops, and overrun with young men seeking refreshment for which they wonld never have yearned had the hotels not been closed. —Southland News.

A.t Shannon on Monday, the Rev, Aitken joined in matrimony Elsie May, second eldest daughter of Mr H. Butt, to Charles Ernest, third sou of W. J. Peters, the bridesmaids being two sisters of the bride and two of the bridegroom. The breakfast was held at the charming residence of the bride’s parents, and a social evening was held in the Druids Hall. The happy couple subsequently left on a motor tour.

By invitation from the members of the Shannon Amateur Dramatic Society, about a dozen of our local amateurs visited Shannon last night for the purpose of witnessing the production of the three-act comedy “Our Boys,” which was staged by the Shannon Society at the Druids’ Hall last night. This was the first production by the newly-formed Shannon Society, and the members of that body are to be congratulated on the success that attended their first performance. The Shannon people turned out en masse, the hall being literally packed, and from the manner in which the large audience received the production, is ample proof that the efforts of those taking part were appreciated. This production was a benefit one, being for the purpose of purchasing an invalid’s chair for a small Shannon boy who Is suffering from a spinal complaint. The door takings amounted to ,£ls, so that after paying all expenses there should be a sufficiently large surplus for the purpose for which the production was organised. After the entertainment the Foxton visitors were most hospitably entertained at supper by the Shannon amateurs, and returned home, arriving at about one o’clock, greatly pleased with the hospitality of the members of the Shannon Society.

The Vatican's Embassy to Portugal has been reduced to the status of a legation. A beer strike recently took place at Broken Hill, and in order to placate the thirsty ones, the publicans have reduced the price of beer from 6d to 4d per pint. A young man named Ernest Edmond Thompson, charged with attempting to supply a noxious thing to a female at Shannon, for illegal purposes, will be brought before the Magistrate, at Levin today. At St. James Church, Sydney, the licensee of the Rev. Mr Pitt, the assistant minister, has been revoked. It is understood that this step has been taken as a result of wearing vestments and observing other ritualistic practices which are opposed to the views of Archbishop Wright. Giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, in London, this week, Dr Clouston, lecturer on mental diseases at the Edinburgh University, urged that criminal lunatics should be divorced, also that where insanity was incurable a patient should be regarded as legally dead. Dr Jones, medical superintendent of Claybury Asylum, was also emphatic in favour of divorce of incurables and patients suffering from alcoholic insanity. There were, he said, 70,000 married people confined in asylums. Referring to Dr. Henry’s contradiction in reference to what he was reported to have said at the close of his mission at Waihi, the Waihi Daily Telegraph says : “Dr. Henry’s {explanation does not improve the position, and is rather against himself. The terra “ skulking,” assuming he used it is worse even than “ skunking,” as it implies hiding or getting out of the way in a sneaking manner. His reference to the heathen Chinamen practically endorses the summarised report which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, and shows that there was no distortion.”

Two prominent residents intend to interview the flax and saw millers in the Manawatu District with reference to the late Mr Hayes’s report on the scheme for utilising the waters of the Maungamahau for electric power. It is their intention to call a public meeting and ask the Government to give the scheme thei r consideration. A scheme of this sort ought to prove a boon to the whole of the Manawatu, because it would mean cheap motive power and would probably have the effect of turning many of the smaller townships into towns of a considerable size ; consequently it should receive the undivided support of everyone from Palmerston to Otaki; or even further south, especially flax millers.