The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, December 15, 1910.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 931, 15 December 1910, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, December 15, 1910.

The Foxton letter carriers send us a card conveying seasonable greetings which we reciprocate.

Mr Healey directs attention to the famous Florentine Talcum Powder elsewhere in this issue.

Professor Hugo, phrenologist, will deliver an address in the Methodist schoolroom this evening. A very peasant afternoon was spent at Mrs Hornblow’s yesterday under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies Social Guild.

Mr and Mrs Alf. Fraser have donated two handsome volumes as attendance prizes to the local State school.

A public meeting is convened by the Chairman of the Foxton Racecourse Trustees for Wednesday next, December 21st, at 3.30 p.m., to receive the annual report and balance sheet.

The Wellington Farmers’ Meat Co., will open their freezing works at Waingawa, near Mastertou, on the 20th inst. Provision is made to kill roc bullocks per day and between 1500 and 2500 sheep. Messrs P. Kennessy and Co., remind their numerous customers that the first present in connection with the cash register coupons, a valuable treadle sewing machine, will be awarded on January 4th. All local business places are displaying their Christmas goods and judging by the splendid displays there should not be any necessity tor Santa Claus to go outside the town to make his purchases.

Mr Betty, choir-master of All Saints’ Church, is busy preparing the choir for the Christmas festival. There are nearly thirty members belonging to the choir, and a special choral service with carols is to be given on Christmas night. We are in receipt of the Christmas number of the Canterbury Times, which contains some beautiful illustrations. The number is brimful of short Christmas stories, full of interest and we recommend our readers to secure copies. In the British elections the Government so far have secured 293 seats and the Opposition 247. It is almost impossible for the Government to. get a working majority out of the balance yet to be recorded, independent of the Nationalists, O’Brienites, Labourites and Socialists. The Unionist vote is solid.

On Tuesday alteruoon Dr. Kennedy, of Kevin, conducted an examination in first aid at the local school. Instruction on this subject has been given for some time past bv Dr. Mandl, who has also promised prizes to the best boy and girl In the class. The examination on Tuesday was held for the purpose of awarding these prizes with the following results : —Girls : Hope Mackie i, Mary Collins 2 ; boys : Fred Pearce i, George Walsh 2. In almost every neighbourhood you will find someone who, during the summer months, had a severe attack of colic or English cholera and who had been put to the most severe suffering before medicine could be procured or a doctor summoned. A reliable remedy for this complaint should be kept at hand. The risk is too great for anyone to take. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has undoubtedly saved the lives of more people and saved more pain and suffering than any other medicine in use. It can always be depended upon for this ailment. For sale everywhere.— Advt. Walker’s jellies 5 for Is, take some beating. Try them.*

An effort is to be made to form a Y.M.C.A. in Palmerston,

On our fourth page to-day will be found an article entitled “Unclaimed Money.” The first test match between South Africa and Australia played at Sydney, resulted in Australia winning by an innings and 114. runs.

The secretary of the Wanganui Education Board invites tenders for the purchase and removal of the old school building at Foxton. Tenders addressed to Mr A. Fraser, Foxton, close on Saturday next, at 12 noon. Messrs Ross and Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, announce the purchase of a line of 102 ladies’ coloured linen costumes at advantageous prices. See advt.*

A promising young man of Greymoulh, named John Franks, aged twenty-four years, met his death in a singular manner. He was a carpenter, and was employed building a new school at Cobden. A week before his death a wild bee stung him on the upper lip, and blood poisoning ensued, with a fatal result.

At Monday night’s Council meeting, Cr Gibbs asked when the present licenses of billiard saloons expire. On being informed that they must be renewed before the New Year, he said before any renewals were granted be intended to move that the annual license fees be a little more. Cr Coley : “Yes, and the hours a little less !”

Intimation has been received that the following candidates from this district have passed the City and Guilds of London Institute examinations held by the Education Department in June last In Wellington: Plumbers’ work, Harry Proctor (Foxton), grade pass. Plain cooking, Julia C. Slattery (Foxton), Grace Wauklyn (Foxton). Dressmaking, Julia C. Slattery (Foxton), second class.

A new feature of the Post and Telegraph Department administration —the insurance of letters—will come into operation on ist January next. An Order in Council to that effect states that letters addressed to any place in the United Kingdom or in New Zealand may be insured up to a value of ,£4OO, and compensation will be paid subject to certain regulations which are specified.

A sawmill is about to be erected on the Paungata Laud Company's property at Otaki Gorge, and in this connection at the last meeting of the Horowhenua County Council a letter was received from Mr L. Laugesen, stating that he would like the Council to hurry on the completion of the approaches to the Taungata bridge, so that they would be ready directly the bridge was completed. He anticipated to have his plant up by the second week in January.—The letter was noted.

At Monday night’s Council meeting, Cr Speirs said that some work which it had been decided at previous meetings to have done had not yet been carried out. This included the formation of footpaths, etc. The Town Clerk mentioned that certain work had been held over on account of the shortness of funds. Cr Coley said the town had had a good supply ot money for footpaths, etc., and some money should now be spent on the outlying roads, particularly Howan Street. The ratepayers in that vicinity paid high rates, and practically no money had been spent on the road for some considerable time past. This should receive attention before any more money was expended on footpaths.

The Review of Reviews for December is crowded with useful and interesting articles. One of the first deals with the World’s Parliament of Races. “The North Atlantic Fishery Award ” is dealt with in a trenchant fashion. But the article which will be read with greatest interest is one on “ The Hinterland of Surgery.” It is daring and suggestive. In all probability it will not meet with the unqualified approval of the medical profession, but nevertheless it makes interesting reading. It deals with manipulative surgery, and with the successes of Mr H. A. Barker, of England, in connection with it. The section devoted to the review of the leading magazines ot the month is exceptionally interesting. The book of the month deals with Dr Albert Shaw’s recent work on Roosevelt in caricature. Dr Shaw is the editor of the American Review of Reviews, and is a personal friend of Mr Roosevelt, and the delineation of Mr Roosevelt’s character is very fine. Walker’s selling good dining chairs 5s each to make room for fresh stock to arrive.* The School Committee desire to acknowledge the following donations on behalf of the school funds, collected by Messrs Coley and Horn blow :—Messrs G. H. Stiles ios 6d, W. Bock ros, Barber and Ross ros, A. Batten is, Hart 2s, Walton 2s 6d, J. Gillespie 2s 6d, Lazarette 2s 6d, Fowler 2S 6d, M. Perreau ss, A. R. Osborne ss, G. T. Woodroofe ss, Geo. Langley 3s, E. Healey 2s 6d, Kere is, Munro ss, R. Speirs 2s 6d, Podmore 2s 6d, J. W. ss, Chung Wah 55, A. Jonson is 6d, M. H. Walker ss, H. Coley ss, Redgrave is 6d, Robinson 2s, Ball 2s 6d, R. Moore 2s 6d, Littlejohn 2s, O. Cook 2s, F. E. Hardwick 2s, J, Bayliss is. Tuohy is, W. Clingberg is, McMurray 2s, Levin and Co., Ltd., los 6d, C. H. Collins 2S 6d, F. W. Hopper 2s 6d, Lumsden ss, Hood is, Whyte’s ss, F, S. Easton 2s 6d, W. Howan 2s, 84 2s, M. Sweeney 2s, J. Gavey 2s, J. Furrie is, Ross and Son, Ltd., los 6d, C. T. Easton 2s, T. Cook is, B. Withers is, W. Harper 2s fid.

The first holidays to be effected by the new Statute will be Xmas Day and ist January next. It is enacted that whenever these days are provided for as holidays in any Act or in any award or industrial agreement, and they happen to fall on a Sunday, they must be observed ou the following day (Monday). A very fashionable wedding took place at Palmerston North yesterday, when Mr A. Barraud, only son of Mr and Mrs E. N. Barraud, of Palmerston, was married to Miss Marjorie Abraham, daughter of Mr and Mrs R, S. Abraham, of Palmerston. The ceremony was conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon Harper. Au unusual incident occurred in connection with a wedding which had been arranged to take place at Timaru yesterday. Numerous friends attended at the chinch, but the principals failed to put in an appearance. It transpired later that they had left the town the previous day, unknown to their friends.

The trawler Nora Niven, which returned to Wellington on Saturday night from Owenga, Chatham Islands, passed through a great “school” of whales about 130 miles westward of the Chathams, Captain Goudie, who has had many years’ experience at sea, stated that he has never previously seen so many whales together, and they ranged up to au unusual size. They were of the “ right ” species, and would have proved a rich find to a Whaler.

Four special prizes will be given to the children of the Rev G. Y. Woodward’s Bible instruction class at the local State school to-morrow morning. There has been a roll of a hundred children attending this Bible instruction class, and there has been keen competition for the prizes. There is one prize for proficiency, and three for best attendance. The names of the successful children will be read out at the class to-morrow morning, and the prizes will be given by the chairman of the School Committee.