LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 920, 19 November 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The reflection from the burning Public Hall was distinctly seen at Oroua Bridge and Levin. A meeting of the local School Committee will be held on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock. The N.Z. Shipping Co’s. Ruapehu arrived at Wellington yesterday direct from London.

The Rev- G. K. Aitken returned from Auckland last night, where he had been attending the Presbyterian Assembly. A committee meeting of the local bowling club will be held on Monday evening next at 8 o’clock in the Council Chambers.

Mr A. W. Bradley’s field spaniel, which slept in the ball on the night of the fire, was consumed with the building. Mr H. S. Munro has signified his intention of donating ,£x 10s as a special prize at the local Athletic Club’s forthcoming sports meeting. Twenty-four entries have been received from the Campbell Street and 19 from the Terrace End schools in the school classes for the forthcoming horticultural show.

A -cal resident who heard Dr. Hen: at Palmerston this week, said x striking part about- his addrt ; vas its simplicity which was * marked contrast to the “hea - - sermons so often preached by p* ters.

tawing to the recent inquiry into the conduct and management of the Sydenham Working Men’s Club, and after due consideration by Ministers, the Club’s charter will be cancelled as from December 17th next.

On our fourth page to-day will be found the continuation of Mr P. J. Hennessy’s evidence given before the Railway Committee in support of the petition re the purchase of the local wharf; also “ Microbes as the Devils of Disease,” and “News and N<jtf“? ” Arrangements in connectio .. ith the local Athletic Club’s forthcoming sports meeting are well in hand, and from the support that is already being given by citizens this year’s gathering should be a most successful one. Another meeting of the committee will be held on Monday evening.

King George having recently inquired about the condition of the ponies imprisoned in the collieries, the Mid-Rhonnda strikers have resolved to telegraph to the King that while he inquires as to the condition of the imprisoned horses, he is not making any enquiries respecting their starving wives and children.

The young man who sounded the alarm on the firebell early yesterday morning intended that everyone should know that the Public Hall was being consumed by the firey element. He rang the bell for nearly half an hour the clanging only dying down in order to allow him time to spit on the palms of his hands. It was a great endurance test iu more senses than one.

In an address at the Rongotea show, Mr Newman, M.P., pointed out that societies of this description encouraged cultivation by young people in the community which was highly desirable in an agricultural country like New Zealand. He was a great believer in school gardens and was pleased that Rongotea and other schools in the district possessed them. Should the settlers at any time desire to hear an address on agricultural subjects he would only be too glad to come forward and give some information as to data gathered at Home and abroad.

Mrs Tansley, of Dannevirke, is at present on a holiday visit to Foxton, and is staying with her sister, Mrs George Edwards, Eadies Mile. It is a singular coincidence that Mrs Tansley should be in Foxton at the time when the Public Hall was destroyed, for she was one of the performers that took part in a choral concert to mark the opening of the hall which had then just been erected, some thirty-three or thirty-four years ago. Mrs Tansley attended All Saints’ Bazaar on Thursday night. The destruction by fire of the Public Hall has upset the local dramatic society’s arrangements as to the staging of plays. It was intended to give performances on January 2nd, 21st and 23rd, but these will now have to be abandoned. Two members of the society inspected the Masonic Hall yesterday, to ascertain if it would be possible to put on the performances there, but find that this would be impossible on account of the smallness of the stage. A meeting of management will be held at an early date to discuss the position. Mr Phil Walsh, who sails from Auckland for San Francisco by the s.s, Maitai this afternoon, has forwarded to the local dramatic society the whole of the scenery and Stage properties used by his company. This, together with their present scenery, will put the local amateurs in the position of being better situated in this connection than most travelling dramatic companies. The only draw-back —and a big one too —is that they can’t use it locally on account of their being no hall. In order to keep the members together it has been suggested that one of the plays cast should be rehearsed and staged in Shannon, and no doubt this suggestion will be acted upon by the society’s management committee.

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A gold brooch, lost last Wednesday Is advertised for. Reward.

The attendance shield at the local State School was won last week by Standard 1., with an average attendance -Jf 93.5 per cent.

It is rumoured that Mr G. J. Bangley, the well-known caterer, intends erecting a two-storeyed hoarding house at the Foxton Beach, having already secured a section for the purpose. The Presbyterian Assembly of New Zealand concluded its sittings at Auckland on Thursday, the business being mostly of a formal character. It was resolved that the next Assembly be held at Dunedin in November 1911.

Rev. Bates wires as follows : —Moderate to strong southeasterly winds prevailing, and probably squally at times ; expect unsettled and cloudy weather; rain probable ; glass fall. Tides good ; sea moderate.

Mr Newman, M.P., in his address at the opening of the Rongotea show on Wednesday, said he was sure that the next election would see the Opposition return to power and several movements beneficial to the Rongotea district started.

Mr A. G. Brebner, who was well-known as a stationmaster in various parts of the Dominion, including Napier, died at St. Clair, Dunedin, last week. He joined the railway service soon after the Dunedin-Port Chalmers line was opened.

The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by Mr J. Chrystall, aud in the evening by the Rev P. J. Mairs, The subject will be, “ Love to God and its Revelations.” An anthem will be rendered by the choir. Prayer meeting at 6.30. The sister of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, has announced her intention to found a home for nurses in Winnipeg. Miss Shackleton declares that if Captain Scott is unsuccessful in his attempt to discover the South Pole her brother will make another attempt to reach ’the great Antarctic goal.

The loss ot bazaar goods unsold, and which were destroyed at the recent fire, is not so great as was at first supposed. The Rev Mr Woodward informs us that the total loss would not exceed Mr Woodward received a telegram from Mr Newman, expressing regret at the conflagration aud trusting the loss was not so great as reported. You frequently hear of cases of chronic constipation—cases that have existed for years. In nine cases out of ten the trouble has become chronic through improper treatment. The patient has formed the habit of taking strong purga tives and has so weakened the bowels that they will not act naturally. Chamberlain’s Tablets cure constipation and cure it permanently, because, instead of doing the work of the bowels for them, Chamberlain’s Tablets simply stimulate them to perform their own functions. For sale everywhere.— AdVT. The services at the local Presbyterian Church will be conducted to-morrow morning by the Rev G. K. Aitken, Mr Aitken has j ust returned from the General Assembly in Auckland, and will speak about the Assembly’s work. In the evening the service will be conducted by Mr D. N. McKenzie, from Knox College, Dunedin. Mr McKenzie is well-known in this district, having some years ago worked as Home Missionary here when the district was much more sparsely populated than at present. Old friends will be pleased to see Mr McKenzie again.

A presentation was made to Miss Furrie yesterday afternoon by a committee of ladies, on behalf (»f the Presbyterian Church, in honour of her approaching wedding. It had previously been arranged to publicly entertain Miss Furrie, whose services as organist during a period of years is keenly appreciated by the church, but the sad bereavement in the family precluded this. The presentation ■took the form of a handsome tea and coffee service suitably inscribed. The ladies who made the presentation were Miss Duncan and Mesdames Parkes and Wrigley. Miss Furrie suitably acknowledged the gift. A new treatment of dipsomania is announced by a medical paper. A patient who has been cured was an apparently hopeless case. The doctor who reports the case then prescribed a “drug,” to be taken in minute doses to begin with. It is a violent poison, he told the patient, and can be absorbed only gradually. In time the system became used to it. It must be mixed with the patient’s wine or spirits at the rate of one drop the first day, two the second, and so on until the system is able to assimilate a whole glass of it. The drug will discolour the wine. The dipsomaniac dutifully followed these directions and noticed that, as the doctor had said, the colour of his wine grew paler as he added more of the “drug.” He observed also that he became accustomed to drinking less and less wine as he increased the proportion of the drug. At last he drank with pleasure a glassful of the drug with only a dash of wine in it. He is now absolutely cured, and feels no craving whatever tor wine or spirits. He went to thank his doctor, and said: “Now, doctor, tell me what that marvellous drug was which has made another man of me?” “Water,” said the doctor.

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