LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 959, 25 February 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cordials Is per bottle at Walker’s, raspberry, lemon, pine apple, lime juice.* Mr Parkes, the locai watchmaker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.* The Japanese, being born in a country of pretty flowers such as the chrysanthemum, it is no wonder that we credit them with such delicate taste of blended colours as we are wont to do. Mrs Hamer is now offering some very attractive Japanese Crepelines at the remarkably low price of lod yard.*

The King will review the fleet at Spithead on June 24, two days after his coronation.

Copious rains are falling throughout this district, and the water tables and creeks present a flooded appearance. The attendance shield at the local State School was won this week by Standard IV. with an average of g 6" 1 percent. Messrs Archer Bros., tailors, of Palmerston North, notify by advertisement that after March Ist they will remove into new premises.

A curious invention by Professor Hill, ot the London Hospital, is an electric globe and a light cup lor holding alcohol, water and oxygen, which are converted into vapour and thus reach the heart with stimulating effect, and much more effectively than by the drinking process. When the Northern Co.’s Daphne was at Matakana Heads on Wednesday, the chief steward, aged 19, named Lawrence Morrigant, went in for a swim. Whether he was seized with cramp or had a heart attack is not known, but he died in the water. In a London bankruptcy recently, debtor, a petticoat manufacturer, pleaded that owing to a change in the fashion his trade had fallen off. “In other words,” remarked the Official Receiver, the ladies gave up wearing petticoats, I suppose.” At which there was a hearty laugh. Mr J. T. Levett, who is leaving Foxton to take up his residence in Wellington, advertises a list of first-class household furniture and effects for private sale elsewhere in this issue. The house will be open to prospective purchasers from 2.30 to 5 p.m. for one week from Wednesday next, Ist iust. Mr lid. Newman, M.P., presented the prizes at the Rangiotu School yesterday, on the occasion of the school's picnic. It was an ideal day tor the outing, and there were a large number of parents and children present. Games and sports were indulged in till a late hour in the evening.

' The Methodist Conference was officially opened at Christchurch on Thursday, when the retiring President, Rev. C. H. Laws, delivered a lengthy and interesting address. On a ballot being taken for the position of President, Rev. G. W. J. Spence (Palmerston North) was elected by a large majority. A serious accident occured yesterday at Fern Flat, Havelock. George Coleus, while mustering, fell down a steep hillside 200 feet deep. He sustained terrible injuries to his back. The base of his skull was fractured and he now lies in hospital in a precarious condition. One of his brothers was accidentally shot in the same place a few years ago. The services in the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. P. J, Mairs. Being the last Sunday in the quarter, it is what is known as Thanksgiving Day or Golden Sunday. The subject for the morning will be “ Divine Quickening,” evening, “ A Call and a Promise.” A solo will be sung at the evening service by Mr J. Chrystall. Bishop Cleary has issued a pastoral, which is to be read in all Roman Catholic churches on Sunday. It says : —“We demand a just proportion of taxation. We ourselves pay for secular education. Our demand is identical in principle with the State system for the reform of inebriates by the Salvation Army. We at least require neither State patronage nor State pay tor our religious dogmas.” At the last meeting of the Manawatu County Council a dis* cussion took place on the proposed area for rating purposes in connection with the Foxton Harbour Board. The general opinion of the Council was that the rating area should include the Manawatu, Horowhenua, Kairanga and Oroua counties, with the Feilding and Palmerston boroughs. The Council did not finally decide to agree to any rating area, but postponed consideration for a month.

A Maori—part owner of some native land under consideration for purchase by the Government —made the Land Board smile the other day. “ I have two objections to selling the land,” he stated through his interpreter. Pressed to state these, he said:— “ I don’t want to sell the land. It belonged to my father and my father’s father, and I want to hand it down to my children.” And the other objection ? queried the Court “The price is not high enough,” replied the Native.

Although the last census in France was taken on March 4, igo6, the detailed results have only just been published. Among the interesting facts revealed by the census is the remarkable increase in the excess of females over males. In 1906 census gives the number of males as 19,099,721, and the females as 19,794,932, so that there were 645,211 more females than males. Now in 1901 the difference was only 617,000 in favour of the female sex ; in 1891 only 269,000, while in 18S6, the female sex outnumbered the male by but 130,000, and in ISBI by 32,000 only. The thrifty woman who visits M. Hamer’s will find some remarks able snips to be picked up during the next few weeks. A few lines of print are offering at 5d yard, and all millinery will be disposed of at cut prices to make room for winter stock.*

Mr A. Lazarette advises the arrival of fresh oysters. Levin is about to raise a special loan ot ,£1,200 for the further improvement of the water works schemes. The death is announced of General Brim. French Minister for War. The General expired suddenly in the War Office. Sergt. Cruickshauks, of Napier, who joined the police force in 1579 and was appointed sergeant in 1900, has been promoted to sub-inspector. The pound keeper notifies that unless the bay mare, impounded on the 13st hist, is claimed and all expenses paid it will be sold at noon on Monday next.

There is ample room for several dairy farms at Moutoa and steps should be taken either by the owners or the Government to secure closer settlement in that fertile locality. In St. Mary’s Church, at Foxton to-monow mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Father Kelly. The mission will commence at 7 p.m., continuing throughout the week. One of the most prolific crops of maize we have seen growing in this district may be observed in Messrs Barber Bros.’ farm at Moutoa. The crop is being cut as fodder for the dairy herd. In the Kemp-Welsh divorce case at London, the first trial of which was reported on December 4,1909, a decree nisi was granted, with a ,£IOOO damages against the co-respondent, the Rev. Charles Harabledon Crymbes, During the Neptune’s gunnery trials in the Mediterranean a remarkable broadside from five 12-inch guns tell within a radius of 150 yards of a target at a range of five miles. Experts declare such a broadside could have crippled any battleships afloat.

The victim of the railway accident at Petone on Wednesday night succumbed to his injuries. An inquest was held, but no evidence was forthcoming as to the dead man’s identity. A verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to the railway officers. The Shannon Horticultural Show, under the auspices of che Shannon Presbyterian Toadies’ Guild, will be opened by the Rev. Dr. Gibbs next Friday. Besides the scheduled classes, there will be work and produce stalls, naildriving and weight-guessing competitions, shooting-gallery, artgallery, and an half-hour’s entertainment each evening by “ Professor” Pulemoff. Schedules and entry forms may be obtai ued at this office.

During the recent passage of the Ulimaroa from Sydney to Wellington some good performances in long-distance wireless communication were recorded. When at a distance of x6oo miles, on her way to South America, H.M.S. Challenger was spoken, and several messages were exchanged. The operator nightly kept in touch with Sydney., Messages were also exchanged each evening with H.M.S. Powerful and Encounter. We have received a communication from Mr Chas. Taylor, of the Taylor-Carrington combination, asking whether “ any steps are being taken in the way of getting a new hall in ‘ good old Foxton.’ ” Mr Taylor also states that owing to a demand for musical and farcical comedy, and as that was a form ot amusement he used to present largely in India and the Far East, and are thoroughly at home in, he has formed a company to present this form of amusement to his many New Zealand patrons.

“ Do you think it right that a minister of religion should receive as much as per year ?” Such was the question submitted to Mr Wilson after his address at Runanga on Monday night, says the West Coast Times. Mr Wilson replied by stating that a minister couldn’t live down here and board in Heaven. The amount, he stated, was not too much for any minister worthy of the name, nor indeed for any man whose work was so trying and difficult. The old cry of “down with the classes” should give place lo the newer and better cry, “up with the masses” —a statement which the audience heartily endorsed.

Mr Robert McNab, at the invitation of the Chairman of the local School Committee, visited the local State school yesterday morning and delivered a very instructive and interesting address to the scholars of the upper standards. He referred to tacts concerning the early history of New Zealand prior to the laud becoming a Crown colony, when the coast was exploited for whales and seals. From a map of North America he showed the localities from whence these intrepid whalers came and said it was quite possible that among the children present were descendants of those early whalers. He then pointed out the localities in Western Europe from whence New Zealand had drawn its population, and explained where a large proportion of the people came from who at present migrated to the United States. He told the children of his visits to the public schools in the States and how the children there were taught to reverence the national flag. He then tendered the scholars some sound advice as to their studies. The head teacher thanked Mr McNab for his interesting address and hoped the children would have a further opportunity of hearing him.

Eleven cases of small-pox have occurred at Mile Kind districts ot London.

Mr Benner, postmaster at Patea, has constructed an experimental wireless telegraph station, which can send and receive messages. At the end of the present mouth, Mr T. Patou, the wellknown stationmaster of Dannevirke, retires from the public service, after a long and honourable career.

A New Zealand commodity that commands an extensive sale in South Africa is white pine, used in the manufacture of butter boxes. The demand is likely to increase so long as the supply holds out.

A special meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. Business : To receive tenders for gravel, and general. The Kaiser has issued a degree quashing the dismissal of an officer from the army for attempting suicide. The Kaiser declared that suicide was not a crime for which the perpetrator was responsible to a mundane tribunal, but exclusively to God. Mr Robt. McNab visited Messrs Levin and Co. ’s dumping and grading sheds, and Messrs Wm. Ross and Son’s rope and twine works, and the N.Z. Hemp Process and By-Products Co.’s works yesterday, and expressed surprise at Foxtou’s industrial activity in this connection.

All the services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be taken by the Rev C. J. Smith, vicar of Otaki. On Tuesday the vicar begins a boys’ Bible class at the vicarage. This will commence at 7 p.m., and take the form of a talk. The class is for boys who have left Sunday school, and is open to all.

One dozen cremation urns are to be imported by the Wellington City Council from London. The urns will be of terracotta, and will cost six shillings each. The idea is to procure a dozen as samples to submit to local makers, who will be asked in future to tender for their supply.

A Birkenhead (Auckland) tradesman sent his boy with an account for a small amount during race week. Her ladyship poured volumes of abuse upon the scared head of the boy for daring to come during the sacred week when all cash was needed for the “Sport of Kings.” This is not fiction, but fact, says an exchange. Messsrs Collinsom and Cunninghame are not waiting for winter to come to advise their customers that Horrockses’ new flannelettes have arrived. Nor do they whisper quotations ; these are quoted elsewhere. Their flannelettes, which are guaranteed noninflamable, have been made to their especial order.*

The North Otago Times tells of a man who went to the courthouse to take out a summons. When there he thought he would register his child. Being a day late he was fined ss. When he came out of the courthouse he found his horse and trap in charge of an inspector, and for leaving his wheel unlocked he had to submit to the second indignity of parting with ss. He then went straight home lest a worse thing should befall him.

One phase of the troubles which beset prohibited persons was illustrated at the Hawera Court last week. A man consented to an order being issued against him, and informed the magistrate that, as he had an honest intention of retrieving his position, he intended to give information to the police if any man offered him a drink during the next twelve months. He added that he never on his own account induced people to get drink for him. Mr Kenrick, S.M., said the man was very wise, and other people would be wise, too, if they retrained from giving him drink.

Mr J. J. Meikle, who left for London the other day, took with him full and complete data of his imprisonment, exculpation, and the manner in which his case had been dealt with by the Seddon and Ward Governments, up to the time of the payment of the ,£2500 voted by Parliament last session. Mr Meikle declares that he intends to tell the people of England about what he terms his “ criminal treatment ’ ’ by the Government, and that he will be in London at the Coronation, to confront Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon Dr, Findlay on their arrival. He assures them of a warm welcome, and a hot time in the Old Country.

Foxton possesses a debt collector whose bold professional methods would put commercial agencies, with their top hat and morning coat —to say nothing of button-holes —directors to shame. He does not resort to fine clothes as a covering for his Falstaffian proportions, neither would he sink his dignity or mar the beauty of his ever-beaming countenance beneath a stove-pipe. Likewise he would scorn to intimidate debtors by posting final notices to pay up, printed in legal phraseology and on official blue paper. He of the rotund girth and beaming face is original. Decidedly so. A bicycle is brought into requisition, on which is attached a notice, triangular in shape, and suspended from the front bar, which bears in bold letters the words “debt collector.” The bicycle, when left outside a debtor’s house, becomes a conspicuous and suggestive object. This method of debt collecting may be effective, but its legality is questionable.

Invercargill ratepayers carried a loan proposal yesterday totalling ,£52,000. The following interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page: —“British Politics,” “The Hemp Industry,” “In Divorce,” and the second day’s results of the Woodville J.C. meeting. Charles Watt was fined ,£lO and costs ,£xi 2s 6d, at Masterton yesterday for having given an order for liquor intended for a No-License area, without having given the name and address of the person for whom the liquor was intended.