The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 24, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 945, 24 January 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, January 24, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 | Sunil has been rather prevalent I in some of the oat crops in the i Mastertou district this season. I nor watch, clock or jewellery ; •'■epairs go to PAKKiiS, the jeweller, | Main Street. There are lo be round at M. j Hamer's, ladies’ dresses and cosi tumes, fur boas and sunshades all at reduced prices for one month*. Owing to the prevalence of plague in Manchuria, business is , at a standstill at Shangairan and j other towns in the interior. ; A peculiarity about the grass | seeci bar vest down south this year i is ball t’ne crop is in seed and the ; other half in flower, the late rains : having brought on a second ! growth. | It is recorded by the I. a hour Department's journal that during I December 5500 men were em- ; ployed by the Government on coi operative works. Of these, 3433 were employed on various sections of railway and 21.17 on road works. I At Folkestone Police Court re- | cently a wealthy lady, a Mrs I Torwood, was charged with throwing chestnuts at the congregation | during service at Folkestone Parish I Church, and was bound over to I keep the peace. j M•• Aves, who visited the Dolin in: c ; a vear or two ago to i Impure inn oar labour laws, on ! belie If of . e Hoard of Trade, ! noted that n the whole series ol j awards tb.ee had been only one j insignificant case where wages had i been reduced and two where hours | had been increased. | Mr Henry George, son ol the j famous author of “Progress and j Poverty,'’ was elected to Congress i for one of the New York seats in | the recent American elections. Mr George, who has already gained I some note as an author and 1 publicist, is an enthusiastic ex- { puiieut of the principles with I which his father's name is ixlenti- . lied. i The Rev Mr Ho yd, the New 1 Hebrides missionary, declares that I the condition of the natives is worse to-day than when he first went to the islands, sixteen years ago. He attributes this to the recruiting of natives for labour and to sly grog-selling, regarding which he repeats his charges against the French settlers. He says the Condominioin has failed to bring better administration. I A girl on receiving an offer of marriage determined to visit her four married sisters before giving an answer. She fonu done, formerly | a belle, who did all her own work, : with three children to keep her in i the house ; another was support- | ing her husband ; the third didn’t I dare say her life washer own, ami I the fourth was divorced. She ! went home and told the young | man she would be ready tor the j ceremony in a mouth. | The R.M.S. Athenic, due at | Wellington on Wednesday, has on j board 151 assisted passengers, 68 I nominated passengers (37 adults I and 31 children), and 80 adults I and three children approved by the High Commissioner, besides the ; 50 boys brought out under Mr | Sedgwick’s scheme. There are i pi; domestics, 24 farm labourers, j eight farmers, and 20 wives re- ; joining their husbands. The : capital of the approved passengers ; ranges from to ,£360.

Cordials is per bottle at Walker’s, raspberry, lemon, pine apple, lime | i iu ice.* | i Parents are reminded that the | 1 local State school re-opens on i i Wednesday, February ist. j t A local resident olfers £i re- | ward to the finder of a note | lost on Saturday. ! ' A general meeting of members ; f of the Foxton Rifle Club is ad- ; t vertised to lake place in the Conn- : l cil Chamber on Th.usday evening 1 1 next. At the present lime the local ; ; bar and river are in splendid con- 1 dilion for shipping and steamers , experience no difficulty in making ( the port. Past night the Albion Hotel at Shannon was broken into, the safe ; broken open, and the contents, , < something over ,£l3, stolen. The . police are investigating. j 1 On our fourth page to-day will 1 be found the following articles; “.Sentimental Burglar,’’ “Number- 1 ing the People,” and “ British j 1 Politics. ’’ ; On Saturday night some sneak ' 1 thieves raided the meat sate at the : Post Office Hotel, cutting the ! side out ot the safe and taking the ! whole of the contents. I The police raided a Chinaman's i shop at Wairoa on Saturday, and j 1 found a quantity of liquor. It is probable a charge of illicit trading ; will be brought against the ■, Chinese. 1 Foxton’s accommodation was ! taxed to Us utmost Irora Saturday ! until last night on account ol the | number of visitors remaining in | town for the races. Taken all ; through the crowd conducted themselves well. A middle-aged man named i Francis John Sparks, a remittance j man, dropped dead in his garden j at Nelson yesterday morning, j following an epileptic stroke a j week ago. \ Arthur John Blackhouse, a j young man, was bathing with two j others in a creek at Taupaki, | Auckland, yesterday, when he | suddenly sank. The body was re- ! covered, but life was extinct. j To-morrow being the Feast of j Conversion of St. Paul, the Holy | Communion will be celebrated in | All Saints’ Church at 7.30 a.in. j lu the eveniug there will he an 1 opeu-air service at the Beach at \ 7 o’clock. There is a fresh outbreak of typhoid fever among the Maoris at Scarrots, Dargaville, and two more cases are reported. Dr. Macgill, Health Inspector, is due to arrive this evening to make investigations into the matter. Mr W. D. Lysuar, Mayor of Gisborne, who recently returned from Fugland, left tor Christ- j church on Saturday, where he will address several meetings regarding j his investigations of the coudi- | tions of the frozen meat trade. I Trade between Wellington and ; the local port lias so increased of < late that it lias been found im- ■ possible for the s.s. Queen of the j South to cope with it and in order ! to gel the cargo through the s.s. j Gertie is making two trips between these ports this week. Mr F. C. Raphael, hnn. secre- 1 tary of the New Zealand Cricket j Council, lias received a cable from 1 Mr Fitzgerald (manager of the i South African cricket team), [ that he regrets that it is impossible j to arrange for the South Africans to visit New r Zealand. On account of the increased attendance at the local State school for the past year, Foxton has been raised a grade, ami in future will have the services of an additional teacher. Mr Wilson, of Hawera, j lias been appointed to the position. | and will commence his duties as j fourth assistant witli the re-open-! ing of the school. i A steerage passenger by the j Warrimoo named A. Rush, who j joined the steamer at Hobart, was found on arrival at the Bluff on Monday, lu he in a slate ol collapse. He had taken no food on the voyage, and was too far gone to give an account of himself, i Before he could be taken to the I hospital at Invercargill he died. The s.s. Gertie arrived this j morning with general cargo from i Wellington. She is at present dis- j charging and will leave to-night 1 with a cargo of hemp for Wellington. It is expected she will make j another trip this week. The Queen j ol the South is also expected on ] ■ Thursday from Wellington and ! will sari again the same night i ; laden with hemp. : The new regulations in respect > to school attendance will come 1 into force with the re-opening of the school on the first proximo, i These regulations provide that ; children of school age must attend ; every time the school is open, 1 otherwise the parents will be proceeded against. A truant officer f has been appointed for the Wanga- : nui education 'district, and he will j commence his duties on February t ist. The usual exemptions can , still lie obtained in cases of sick--1 uess, etc. The Christchurch police were inL formed yesterday afternoon that I Mr Arthur Calcott, who lias been ; for some years an officer ol the ; Agricultural Department, and who i has recently been actiug as chief clerk of the Christchurch office of t the Departmeut, had died suddeuly at his residence, Durham Street, , St. Albans, under circumstances ! suggesting suicide. Dr Goul- ! burn Gibson was called in by Mr 1 Calcott’s family, but could do no- ; thing, Mr Calcott expiring shortly ; alter the doctor’s arrival. An inquest was held last evening, when ; a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkks’, the jeweller, the shop for .presents.*

At the Invercargill wool sales yesterday crossbred woil formed the greater pari, ol l<’e catalogue. , Prices showed an average drop oi ; id per lb compared with last sale, and were 3d per lb less than in January of last year. The annual picnic in connection , with the local Methodist Sunday School was held in Mr O. Robinson’s grounds, Lady’s Mile, yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance and an enjoyable time was spent. Ac a special meeting of the M>. '•■nwatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union held on Saturday night, i ' was decided to shilt the headquarters of the Union to Palmerston North. It is understood that Mr A. 11. Rollo, who was announced as one of the candidates for the Otaki seat at the next general election, has decided not to contest the seal, but to support Mr C. A. W. Monckton, who, it is staled, Iras been accepted as the Opposition candidate. The lion G. Fowlds, Minister o( Kducation, who represented New Zealand at the celebrations held in connection with the South African Union, returned to Wellington last evening by the Main Trunk express. He was welcomed on his return by the Prime Minister and members of life Cabinet. A fatality occurred on the Marine Parade Beach, Napier, last evening, when a married man, a tailor's cutter, named S. M. Clapham, went in to bathe. lie was in the water not more than three minutes when it was seen that he was incapacitated. An incoming wave brought the unconscious man ashore before his would-be rescuers had time to reach the surf. Restorative measures were applied immediately, and continued for four hours with the aid of ambulance workers and two doctors without consciousness returning. It is supposed that death was partly due to heart failure. Many enquiries are being made | at the office of the Labour Departi ment regarding the coming into i operation of the provisions of the i Workers’ Dwellings Act AmeudI ment Act, of last session, under I which a worker on depositing /jio ■ can have a house erected in any ! part of the city he chooses, subject, 1 of course, to the Department beingsatisfied on certain essential points. So far, the regulations under the amending Act have not been Gazetted, but it is expected that this will be done soon. It is understood that the administration of the amending Act will be under the sole control of the Labour Department. In place of the usual Christmas calendars, as gifts to customers, Mr ! R. T. Betty has decided to oiler to j the public during the festive season | something more useful and subj stantial. Two lines of ladies button | shoes will be offered at 9s 6d and 13s ; 6d per pair, which for quality and , price are guaranteed unequalled in ■ any part of the Dominion. Call and : inspect them.*