LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 924, 29 November 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The headmaster’s examination at the local school is taking place this week.

Get Book Gift Tea at Walker’s, and by saving Coupons obtain a library of good, useful books.* A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced this morning shortly before 10 o'clock.

Attention is directed to the replace advertisement from the Gaudin Motor Company which appears on our fourth page. The Terra Nova, with the Antarctic expedition aboard, leaves Port Chalmers to-day. A great send-off is taking place. The wife of H. D. Adams, of Adelaide Road, Wellington, died under an anaesthetic whilst undergoing an operation- A verdict of death from heart failure was returned.

On our fourth page to-day will be found the following articles : “The Hine Charges,” “Medical Practitioners’ Bill,” and “Fire in a New York Factory.” A reward is offered for information that will lead to the recovery of a black gelding ; white spot on forehead, and small white spot on near side of wither.

The s.s. Himatangi, coal laden from Greymouth, entered the river this morning but stuck just this side of Hartley’s bend, where she still remains. It is expected she will float off by to-night’s tide. A case of ptomaine poisoning occurred at Motuiti yesterday. A native partook of sardines which had been kept in an open tin since the previous day. The usual emetics were administered, and the patient is doing - well. A meeting of ladies is convened by Mrs H. Mowlem, of Palmerston N., for Thursday next, at 3 p.m., in the Masonic Hall for the purpose of forming a local branch of the W.C.T.U. It is hoped that the meeting will be well attended.

To-morrow the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., will offer by auction on account of Mr H. S. Thyuue, the whole of his fine dairy herd. This sale will afford those requiring dairy cows a good opportunity of securing animals that have been tested. The sale will be held at the farm and will commence at 12 noon.

A meeting of the Te Wharangi Hall trustees was held at Dawick’s Hotel, Palmerston North, on Friday last. It was decided that owing to lack of interest shown by subscribers, and money promised not forthcoming, that money already paid be refunded, and the section be re-transferred to the former owner.

Mrs Nye notifies, per advertisement, that she has opened up one of the finest assortments of silver and electro-plaie goods suitable for the Christmas season yet seen in Foxton. The stock also includes a great variety of mechanical and other toys and novelties, also dolls of every description. The latest books and periodicals and Christmas numbers and annuals.

In the late Count Tolstoy’s last article, written in the monastery in which he took retuge, the writer declared that the only purpose of capital punishment was to increase the hangman’s wages. Its horrors were useless as a deterrent to crime. The only remedy was to instil into men’s minds a knowledge of their destiny, and the need of justifying their acts.

A peggy bag awaits an owner at this office.

It is expected that Parliament will close to-morrow.

At Buffalo, New York, George Hackenschmidt, the wrestler, failed to throw Zhysco, the Galician, twice in an hour. It was a handicap match.

The Chief of Police at Berlin has issued an edict stating that unless hatpins are abolished or sheaths attached to them, he will take actiou.

An Otaki settler recently picked up something which he estimated as worth anything up to ,£9OO. He exhibited it with pride, but later ascertained It was not worth a cent. It was not ambergris. Messrs C. Smith, Ltd-, of the Mail Order House, Palmerston N., insert an advertisement on page 1 of this issue re their Great ’Xmas Fair of toys and articles suitable for Yuletide gifts.* At the National Liberal Conference, Mr Ellis'Griffiths, M.P. for Anglessey, in moving a resolution denouncing the Lords’ own proposed reforms as a sham, said the move was due to panic. The Lords not only represented blueblood, but blue-funk. The Canadian Senate adopted a motion for the production of correspondence regarding the matter of a guard oi honour not being furnished Cardinal Vanuutelli, the Papal Legate, at the Eucharistic Congress in September last. The Government has been criticised by French Canadians for not thus honouring the Pope’s representative.

To-morrow being St. Andrew’s Day, there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion at All Saints’ Church at 7.30 a.m. The Bishop has ordered that the day shall be kept as a day of intercessions for Foreign Missions, and a special service will be held at 7.30 in the evening, when intercessions will be offered up.

An interesting position is created by Section 42 of the new licensing Act, which raises the age at which a youth may be supplied with liquor from 18 to 21 years. By this section not only does the licensee commit an offence but also the person supplied, and the latter is liable to a fine of ,£lO. Thus a youth under 21, if arrested for drunkenness, instead of escaping with a nominal fine, may possibly be penalised to the extent of a tenpound note.

The articles governing the Pearce-Webb sculling match on Boxing Day were signed by the principals on Saturday. A clause was included, prohibiting any assistance in steering being given to either man by their backers or trainers. This was inserted in view of what occurred in the Arnst-Webb race, when the former was materially assisted in his steering by Fogwell (Pearce’s pacer for the present match), who climbed to the top of a derrick on one of the following steamers, and signalled the course to Arnst. Webb has just finished a new boat for hiraselt, and will probably use it for the race.

The clause in the new Licensing Act prohibiting the consumption of liquor on hotel premises by youths and young men under the age of twenty-one years is already being enforced. In Wellington, according to the Times, on Saturday the clause was put to the test, and barmaids refused to serve in cases where they thought the applicant was under the prohibited age. It is however, not altogether easy to distinguish ages between twenty-one and twenty-three, and some of the refusals on Saturday night, it is said, caused not a little friction on the part of those who experienced the operation of the new law.

The Chief Justice at Wellington gave judgment on Saturday in the case Carey v. Black, claim for alleged libel published in the Socialist Reader. His Honour said that defendant had utterly failed to show the statements were true or the comment boua fide. It was only charitable to suppose that the writer was unaware of the meaning of the English language, for he used words entirely unwarranted by any facts brought out. Plaintiff was entitled to recover. His Honour did not know if the full damages claimed would be too much to give under the circumstances, but to give excessive damages against a man of no means was no use. Damages would be fixed at ,£7O with costs. An old and respected settler of Stouey Creek passed away on Sunday in the person of Mrs ■McKenzie, of Greenhaugh. Mrs McKenzie was born at Roxburgh, Scotland, in 1534, and with her husband and five children she came to New Zealand in 1859 and in 1874 settled at Greenhaugh. Of that generation there still survive: Mr Wm. Waugh, of Stoney Creek, three brothers at Kimbolton, and a sister in Scotland. Mr McKenzie himself died on April 1908. There survive nine sons and seven daughters of the marriage. Besides the sixteen sous and daughters Mrs McKenzie leaves 32 grand children and 13 great grandchildren so that there are 61 living descendants of this sturdy pioneer.

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,*

In conversation with a reporter at Christchurch yesterday, Dick Arust, the world’s champion sculler, said that he was leaving for Sydney by Thursday night’s boat. He intended to compete in a handicap sculling race vhich is to be held there about the end of February. Nothing has as yet been definitely arranged as to any future championship match, but Dick says that the first man who comes along for the race can have it; if he complies with the conditions.

In the Government’s “ Wash-ing-up ” Bill at present before Parliament, the construction of a road from Foxton to Manwatu Heads is to be authorised, and an agreement is included by which the tenants of such portions of the Foxton Harbour Board endowment, as benefit from the road will pay not less than 10s nor more than 15s each annually towards the cost of the work and upkeep. The Foxton Borough Council and Manawatu County Council are to jointly construct the road at a cost not exceeding ,£2,500. A local farmer had a particularly good return from his dairy herd lor the month ot October. He is a supplier of one of the Shannon Dairy Company’s creameries, and during the mouth was milking 38 cows, and his cheque for milk supplied amounted to over ,£7O. Practically £2 per cow lor a month for butterfat only is a very good return, and when pigs, calves, etc., are taken into consideration it will be seen that dairy farming is not the unremunerative calling that a number of those following it would have one believe.