LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 936, 31 December 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Walker’s selling good dining chairs 5s each to make room for fresh stock to arrive.* A Marlborough farmer, after he had put in what he believed to be carrots, found that he had sowed carraway seeds. The latter did not germinate. A 2year-old bullock which was killed at the municipal abattoirs at Timaru turned the scales at looolb. It was the biggest bullock of its age ever killed there. New Annuals, Chums, Boys’ and Girls’ Annuals, Little Folks, Australian Boys’ and Girls’ Annual Sunday, etc. Prize and presentation books at Park’s ’Xmas Bazaar, Palmerston N.* The services at the local Roman Catholic Church to-morrow, will be conducted by the Rev. Father Schaefer, of Welllingtou. Mass will be celebrated at 8.30 a.m., and Devotions at 7 p.m. A Hawke’s Bay dealer and cabinetmaker, who is also an undertaker, heads his advertisement “Homes Made Happy,” and just above the heading he has a beautiful picture of a hearse ! In place of the usual Christmas calendars, as gifts to customers, Mr R. T. Betty has decided to offer to the public during the festive season something more useful and substantial. Two lines of ladies button shoes will be offered at 9s fid and 13s fid per pair, which for quality and price are guaranteed unequalled in any part of the Dominion. Call and inspect them.*

The Salvation Army Band from Levin will play a selection of carols in Main Street to-night. The Holiday Association notify that close holidays will be observed on Monday and Tuesday next. The Town Clerk has asked us to remind residents that the period for which the roads were thrown open expires to-day, and in future all stock found grazing on the roads will be impounded. There was only one foreigner in the large number of passengers by the lonic from Loudon, which arrived in Wellington on Thursday. This was a German, and he passed satisfactorily the test imposed by the Customs regulations. Mr Leslie Charles, of Wellington, will join the Cash Trading Company, Foxtou, at the commencement of the New Year. Mr Charles has a thorough knowledge of the grocery trade, having been connected with the well-known Wellington grocery firm, Messrs David Anderson and Co., lor the past ten years. The services in All Saints Church to-morrow will be taken by the Rev A. S. Innes Jones, vicar of Feildiug. As the carols were much appreciated on Christmas night, the choir will sing another selection to-morrow evening for the New Year. Carol books will be supplied to the congregation. The Foxtou police intend to strictly enforce the law which prohibits the letting off of fireworks in the streets in celebration of the New Year. The clause in the Police Offences Act dealing with the fireworks nuisance is a very drastic and comprehensive one. It prohibits any person letting off fireworks in a public place or sufficiently near thereto as “to endanger, frighten, or annoy passersby.”

The December issue of the Journal of Agriculture is to hand, and contains, as usual, a large amount of valuable information. An article on “ Horse Shoeing,’’ by a Government veterinarian, Mr J. Clayton, M.R.C.V.S., is of great interest, and is accompanied by special illustrations. There are articles on “herd testing,” “regrassing experiments,” “ rani breeding,” “poultry breeding,” “bee-keeping,” “breeding pigs for pork,” “feeding calves,” etc. The annual subscription to this journal is only 2s 6d, and it is worth its price many times over to any intelligent farmer. 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. A correspondent draws attention to the necessity for exercising care when approachiug the railway crossing in the Lady's Mile, a particularly frequented road at this time of the year. While a cyclist was approaching the crossing a day or two ago the Saudon engine with one carriage attached was moving rapidly and noiselessly towards it, and the two were timed to just about meet at the crossing, when a warning whistle from the engine caused the cyclist to look up and hastily dismount —just in time to avoid what might have been a very serious accident if it had not been for the driver’s whistle. We would recommend residents to keep a look-out when passing this crossing.

In pursuance of its policy against the aggregation of Crown laud holdings, the Wellington Land Board recently set its face firmly against several applications for transfers of sections. In one particular case, members were averse to assenting to a proposed change of ownership. It concerned a block of laud between 200 and 300 acres in area, which applicant wished to transfer to another individual whose bona tides as a settler, in the true spirit of the Act, the Commissioner questioned, “ As the proposed transferee already holds four allotments in a township, in addition to lots g, 10, 11, and section twenty-four hi a certain village settlemeut, on which he has failed to reside, as required by his lease,” the Board was not disposed, explained Mr Mackenzie, to fall in with the request. Proposed transteree was, he stated, a minister of religion. It would be a different thing if the applicant had any intention of wielding an axe or handling the plough himself, but the speaker had little doubt that if the proposed transferee were offered in advance of his price he would sell out to-morrow. Accordingly, it was resolved in this case (and one or two other instances) to decline the request, with, however, a qualification that the transfer would be approved to any eligible landless person.” —Feilding Star. Large and beautiful selection of Xmas and New Year cards, postcards, calendars, diaries, children’s tricycles, barrows, go-carts, prams, etc., at Park’s ’Xmas Bazaar, Palmerston N.* Gold and silver-mounted fountain pens for presentations, Bibles, Prayer and Hymns, Church Praise, Catholic Prayer Books, etc., at Park’s ’Xmas Bazaar, Palmerston N - * Phosphoe is an emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites and is the finest nerve, bone, fat and muscle builder known. 5

Mrs Carroll, Montoa, advertises plums for sale in any quantity. It is said that the hay crop is phenomenal at Shannon. Beekeepers in the Shannon district report a good honey season, and expect big yields. Cordials Is per bottle at Walker’s, raspberry, lemon, pine apple, lime juice." A man named Ham took five first and two second prizes in the pig class at a Southern show. por watch, clock or jewellery -•epairs go to Pa kicks, the jeweller, Main Street. On our fourth page to-day will be found samples of speeches delivered in the recent British Elections. Wool is rolling into Wellington from the Wairarapa at the rate of hundreds ol bales daily. The clip has exceeded expectations. In order to give our stall the benefit ol the New Year holidays the Hkkau) will not be published on Tuesday. A fire at Mangaweka on Thursday night destroyed three buildings near the post office. One was a boardinghouse in which a Maori was burned to death in his bed. 1 Kdward Myles has been arrested for secliliou at Loudon, for selling the Liberator, published in Paris, containing attacks on the King. Mr Justice Evans is hearing the case privately. Toys of all description—Soldiers, drums, teddy bears, dolls, animals, lea sets, puzzle boxes, wooden toys, buckets, engines, swings, etc., at Park’s ’Xmas Bazaar, Palmerston j N * i There have been serious fights : in the Cason mine, Johannesburg. I One native has been beaten to palp and seventy wounded. Fighting was renewed on Thursday, one being killed and several fatally injured. The elder of a Lutheran Church at Peterhoff, St. Petersburg, on Thursday last, by mistake poured a mixture of sulphuric acid and chromate of potassium into a chalice of 32 partakers of the Eucharist. All are ill, and three have died. Dick Arnst, the world’s champion sculler, announces in the Sydney Releree that he and his sawing mate, Jack Donnelly, are willing to take on any two men in New South Wales for the doublehanded sawing championship of the State. The Town Clerk notifies, by advertisement, that Mr E. J. Martin has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances and Registrar lof Dogs. The registration fee for dogs is 1 os, but a reduction of 5s will he made on all fees paid before January 31. Messrs Ross and Co., of “The Bon Marche,” Palmerston N., announce in our advertising columns special attractions in all departments for ’Xmas week, of which they invite the inspection of country settlers visiting Palmerston during the holidays " Up till Monday last, the opening day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s ” Exhibition ” meeting in [906 held the lolalisator record, so far as the Dominion is concerned, with ,£29,121. The opening day of the Auckland Racing Club’s Summer Meeting saw .£29.5d 2 i put through the machine. At this time ot the year kindly seasonable greetings are exchanged on every side, and presents, too, are freely given. Mrs Hamer, while wishing you the compliments of the season, wishes to draw the public’s attention to the stock of sideboard runners, supper cloths, tray cloths, cushions, etc., she is now showing. See window display." The travelling public to the Bulls races on Monday and Tuesday next, per tram, will be pleased to learu that the tram stops threequarters of an hour at Sanson on the return journey, which will give passengers ample time for refreshments which may be had at the Junction Hotel, which place is noted for satisfying the hungry.* The services to-morrow in the local Methodist Church will be conducted in the morning by Mr G. Huntley, and in the evening by the Rev P. J. Mairs, who will take for his subject il The Purpose of Years.” Hymns suitable to the time of the year will be sung. A prayer meeting will be held at 6.30 p.m,, which endeavonrers are urged to attend. At Kopuaranga (Wairarapa) 011 Wednesday moriug, the wife of a settler named J. J. Donovan became demented, and, procuring, a pea-rifle, shoe her husband in the head. Donovan was brought to Mastertou and medically attended to. The bullet has not yet been extracted, but serious complications are not likely to arise. The unfortunate woman was committed to a mental hospital. Mr Alfred William Pearce, ‘‘Cockney Alf” of this district (says the Westland News) is in luck’s way. His mother, who died 4c years ago, left him ,£3OOO, which, with interest and compound interest, now totals about £ 20,000. His claim was discovered through an advertisement published some time ago, and the necessary papers have now been forwarded to London to establish that claim. A young couple, with relatives and invited guests, attended at Knox Church, Dunedin, a couple of days ago When the Rev. Davies put the usual formal question, the bride, who had made all the arrangements for the ceremony, said she declined to accept the bridegroom as her wedded husband, and as appeals of tbe parties to the ceremony, extending over an hour, failed to alter her resolve, the interrupted ceremony had to be abandoned.

Ladies’ and gent’s fitted dressingcases, pocket books, purses, Icttek raises, collar boxes, music cases, writing desks, folios, glove boxes, schoolbags, etc., at Park’s ’Xmas Bazaar. Palmerston N.* Messrs P. Hennessy and Co., advise that the number of the winning ticket for the sewing machine to be given away by that firm will be posted up in their window immediately after the bank opens on Wednesday next. It is the custom for many people to growl at every form of New Zealand Legislation ; yet. when they come down to bedrock facts and learn what is being done in other countries they find, on comparison, that our own legislation is not so oppressive after all. There was a bit of a squeal last session about increases in the death duties, but the Legislature of the State of New York has raised the maximum of the death duties from 5 per cent, to 25 per cent. This will interest those British capitalists who, to save a six per cent, income tax, have deposited their securities in New York banks. The tendency right through the world is to make rich people contribute more to direct taxation than they have done in the past. Neglected Colds undermine the strength and lead to consumption. Rebuild the strength,by taking Tnssicura Wild Cherry Balm, the King of all Cough Cures.