LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 937, 5 January 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. K. Barnard, solicitor, of Tc Aroha, is spending a few days among Foxlou friends. Walker’s selling good dining chairs 5s each to make room for fresh slock to arrive/ The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. nor watcli, clock or jewellery -epairs go to Pakkks, the jeweller, Main Street. Phosphoi. is an emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites and is the finest nerve, bone, fat and muscle builder known. 5 The Australian Commonwealth look over the administration of the Northern Territory on Monday. The police report that the public were very orderly on Christmas and New Year eves. Nothing serious occurred. According to a contemporary “ Cremation is gaining adherents in New Zealand.” It is to be hoped it will not become a craze. If the holder of a pink cash register ticket, number 3001 will present same at Messrs P. llennessv and Co.’s store a treadle sewing machine will be delivered where required. It is interesting to learn from, the cable columns ol a responsible paper that the new Privy Councillors include the “ Hon. Archdeacon Fischer, South African Minister for Lands.” The vital statistics for b'oxton for the quarter ended December 31st were ;—Births, 17 ; deaths, 3 ; marriages 2. For the month of December 7 births, 2 deaths and 1 marriage were registered. C. li. Holway, the American sprinter, running at the Timaru meeting, established a New Zealand record of 14 3-,5 sf - c ’ n winning the 130 yds handicap, and won the 220yds championship in 22ioSec. Mr H. C. Vincent, an architect, of Ashburton, was lost on the Albury Hills, near Timaru, on Saturday and Sunday, owing to mist and rain. He had been wandering for 36 hours, and was almost exhausted when he met a shepherd. Home papers report Ihe death of Mrs Kipling, mother of Mr Rudyard Kipling, at the Gables, Tisbury, Wiltshire. She was a daughter ol the late Rev. George B. Macdonald, and married Mr John Lockwood Kipling, C.1.E., in 1865.

Cordials is per bottle at Walker’s, raspberry, lemon, pine apple, lime juice.* To-morrow being the Feast of the Lpiphany, there will be a celebration ot the Holy Communion at 7.30 a.m. in All Saints' Church. The local Borough Hand serenaded a number of local residents on New Year's Kve and also discoursed a programme in Main Street. We acknowledge, with thanks, handy wall calendars from Messrs r,evinand Co., local agents for the Victoria Insurance Co., and the Liverpool London and Globe Co. A wrestling match at Dunedin, on Tuesday, between DulTy (Dunedin) and Gardiner (Fnglaud) resulted in a draw, no fall being obtained after 105 minutes. A meeting of the Montoa Drainage Board will be held tomorrow night when business of a general nature will be dealt with and tenders for stop banks considered. Messrs Ross am! 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 tire holidays * The road to the Beach is very badly cut up, but despite this drawback it has been a very busy thoroughfare during the past fortnight. If is expected that the new road will he completed by April next. Mrs Geo. West, of Palmerston, has purchased from Mr S. Messena, ot Koxton, the fonr-year-old mare Wairolo, by Conqueror — Waipunn. The mare has gone into Mr F. Porter’s charge at McKenzie’s stables, Awapmii. Now that we are getting summer weather, an ideal summer garment tor ladies is advertised iu to-day’s issue by Collinson and Cutminghame, the cash diapers, of Palmerston North. This combination is woven throughout; with half sleeves, and the price, as od, should be within the reach ot all. Where sent by post 2d must be added.' - - The weather locally during the Christmas and New Year holidays was perfect. Crowds of visitors made their way to the beach at which locality every available house is occupied. Tents are pitched on vacant allotments and the seaside presents a very animated appearance.

; A little named Thompson, : from Feilding, was lire victim of :■ serious shooting accident at Saudou on Saturday last. A revolver which was being handled ; by another person suddenly ex- : ploded, and the bullet entered the I child’s left breast, penetrating the lung and lodging in the ribs. It | was subsequently extracted at the i Palmerston Hospital, and the ! patient is reported to be progressj iug satisfactorily, | Hyoscinc, the active principle ! of henbane, and the poison used |by Ctippen, the wife murderer, : has been taken by Mr Robin, j President of the Northern Bank ol New York, as a possible means of ending business worries. The bank was closed by the .State, and Robin suffered a mental hreak- ! down. He now lies in the hospital I in a critical condition, though his ; recovery is probable, i Of all tbe kind wishes which ;we have received during the i Christmas season we may be pardoned for quoting the following from an old master: —“May this year be to you: Lpiscions as grapes, fragrant as violets, fair as i a lily, melodious as a blackbird, j joyous as a canary, fresh as the ! sea spray, merry as the lark, | bright as the rising sun, enchantj ing as a shady grove, musical as i rippling waters, glorious as a suu- | set, with an angel’s guiding hand.” i A fatal lire occurred in Wellington in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Wellesley hoardinghouse, Johnston Street, being destroyed and two men hurried to death. One of the men was Kdward Crombic, a wharf labourer, aged about 50 : the identity of the other was established yesterday as that of Patrick Me ban, aged 1 21 years, who had been residing in the house. At the inquest a i verdict of accidental death was returned. j We have been requested to issue' | a warning to those inexperienced in handling boats, of the danger of [ attempting to cross the river at [tire Heads during, low tide. I Several narrow escapes of being [ carried out to sea in open boats have recently occurred. During low tide a swift current runs out over the bar, and great skill is required by boatmen in negotiating the “ cross over." Higher up the river the flow is not so rapid and the risk not so great. Youthful pleasure-seekers at the Heads would do well to remember this warning. The Hon. Mr Millar, Minister for Railways, has informed Mr Newman, M.P., that he finds upon inquiry that the local stationmaster's residence, “ although not of the most approved and up-to-date design, is, generally speaking, in good order and quite sanitary.” Tbe Minister says that the house is quite habitable and will meet the requirements for some years to come. In view of this fact and more urgent and important works at present in band or awaiting funds the Minister cannot see his way to authorise any expenditure in providing a new residence.” So far as the public is concerned we suppose it doesn’t matter two straws whether the stationmaster’s furniture is ruined by the borer or whether the damp and musty smelling habitation is a fit abode for a family man. Anyhow, the dwelling is a disgrace to the Railway Department.

We regret to state that theSH dilion of Mr Then. causing his family grave anx^^^ff Mrs Diulson, having removed into commodious premises opposite the railway station, has. vacancies lor a number ot boarders. About six oil launches and a number of rowing and sailing boats, laden with sea-siders, went up to Paiaxa yesterday, where a picnic was held. The remains of Mr Tom Donnelly, ol Masterton, the prospector who was lost near Mount Holdffworth last April, were discovered yesterday afternoon by a party camped-in the ranges. Apparently Donnelly broke a leg and died from exposure. The silver leathers, to be competed for by members of the local Bowling Club, are on view In Mrs Nye’s window. The design is very pretty, and consists ot two ferns, surmounted with the Club’s initials and beneath by a shield. } Messrs and Co. have been instructed Ivy Mr C. A\ Wallace, who is leaving for Waikato, to sell by public auction on Wednesday, iSth inst., his;, choice dairy farm at Montoa. together with certain stock. Particulars appear in our advertising columns. There are now quite a numbe; of motor launches on the river and plying between the Heads and the wharf. The latest and by far ihe best equipped has just been landed from America by Mr Alf. Fraser, whom we understand has been appointed New Zealand ageni for the builders. We have received a let!ei Loin Mr Chas. Taylor, of the Tavlo:Carrington Company, in which In expresses regret that the inr::-' Public Hall has been destroyed by tire. Mr Taylor hopes it wont be long before another hall is erected and concludes by stating T.at “ Foxton is such a sound town tons show people.” Mr Justice Cooper gave judgment for plaintiffs with cost- arr allowances, yesterday, ii th-: cases in which the Whitro-H Instate Company arid the Wand-' nauga Estate Company claimed from the Commissioner of Taxes refunds respectively of .£2650 and 25 1 t s, income lax overpaid on the profits made by the sales of the estates. On Tuesday last the steamers Himatangi and Kiatoa unloaded their cargoes ol coal into the Wei: Coast Steamship and Trading Co.’s Ivins. These are the firsi steamers which have transfer red their cargoes into the bins, and contrary to expectations, the un loading was carried out far mor. expeditiously than by transfer!ii the coal into trucks. The unloading operations were entirely .successful The. Kiatoa’s cargo was unloaded at night time. A cricket match between Wairarapa and Nelson was played ur Masterton on Tuesday and Wednesday, and won by the home team by five wickets. Wairavap-i put together 30S iu the firsy innings and Nelson scored 14b in the first and 197 in the second the local men lost five wickets 11. compiling the 36 required to win. Beechey made 112 for Wairarap.; in the first innings. Fan , bowling for Nelson, collared Fuc,for 60 and lour for six. Two men, John McCanlnfc. labourer, and William Snell, retired farmer, were killed on the railway at Temuka on Monday afternoon. They were in a spring dray, while the mail train Iron

Invercargill was approaching; The locomotive caught thewhccof the dray and smashed it L. pieces. The men became entangled in the debris, and were carried two or three chains to the passen - ger platform, where the buclewere dropped. Both men wen killed outright. The Circle Magazine has tic following : —A doctor related tlu following story ; “ 1 had a patient who was very ill and who ought to have gone to a warmer climate, but whose means were insufficient, so 1 resolved to try what hypnotism would do for him. I had large sun painted on the ceiling A his room and by suggestion induced him to think it was the sun which would cure him. The r use succeeded and he was getting better rapidly, when one day o. my arrival I kmiu! he was dead.* “ Did it fail, after ' .11, then asked the doctor’s hearers “No,” replied the doctor: “he: died of sunstroke ! ” A fierce fight between the poll < reinforced by troops, and a num of anarchists occurred in Condor on Tuesday. The scene of tb ■ affair was a building in Commercial road, which the police had surrounded with the idea of capturing men “wanted” in connection with the Houndsditch outrage. A - fierce fusilade took place, and several officers were severley wounded. After the siege had been in progress for some time, the building took fire, and the murderers were driven into the attic. The desperadoes continued shooting until they tell victims to the flames. The remains of six anarchists were discovered in the ruins. The police are satisfied that the two wanted for the Houudsditch affair have perished. The Hon. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, visited the locality while the fight was proceeding.