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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 960, 28 February 1911, Page 2

Entries for the Himatangi stock sale are advertised iu this issue.

An advertiser wants to buy two or three Maori canoes.

P. Wollermau, Main Street, announces a clean sweep clearing sale.

The Venerable Archdeacon Harper will meet the vestry of All Saints’ Church this evening, at 8 o’clock.

A house, at the Beach, containing live rooms, is advertised to let for the month of March. Rent 15s per week. Mr Parkes, the loca» watchmaker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.* At a meeting of the supporters of Mr D. Buick, M.P. for Palmerston North, a committee was appointed for the forthcoming election. Mr A. K. Bennett was re-elected chairman, and Mr W. McKenzie secretary. A Southend (Eondon) painter named Howard Sterge, who was in a state of destitution, has inherited ,£16,000 by the death of an uncle who lived near Auckland New Zealand,

To-morrow being Ash Wednesday, there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion in All Saints’ Church at 7.30 a.m. In the evening, at 7.30 o’clock, Evensong and part ot the Commination Service will be said. At this service the vicar will give the first of a series of Eenteu addresses. 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 ot print are offering at 5d yard, and all millinery will be disposed of at cut prices to make room for winterstock.*

Mr H. Coley has disposed of his wood and coal yard to Mr W. Nye as from March Ist. Elsewhere in this issue Mr Coley thanks the public for its support, and solicits a continuance of same for his successor. He further notifies the public that outstanding accounts may be paid at the yard. Mr Geo. Parr died on Sunday at his residence at Newbury. Mr Parr built the store and first post office, and the hall at Newbury, hut finally retired entirely to farming. He leaves a wife and two adopted daughters. When a road board was being formed it was called Newbury after Newbury in Berkshire, whence Mr and Mrs Parr came.

At a meeting of the Melbourne Hotelkeepers’ Association, one of. the members strongly condemned the counter lunch. He said that undesirables who mauled the food included opium smokers and consumptives. Even lepers might handle it. It made boys theives. He nightly saw the latter sneaking into hotels after counter lunches. Miss Avis Symons and Mr P. W. Tombs have been engaged to assist the orchestra accompanying the Sheffield Choir throughout their N.Z. tour. This is a distinct compliment to the Hastings Orchestral Society that two of their members should have been selected for the great festival. The instrumentalists chosen in the Dominion to supplement the Sheffield Orchestra will assemble in Auckland to undergo a week’s rehearsal prior to the arrival ot the Choir, A Port Darwin constable was bringing in four natives. The prisoners were chained. When they reached a flooded river the natives swam over, the constable following on horseback. His horse was caught in a whirl, turned over and kicked the rider, rendering him unconscious. One of the prisoners, a boy named Neighbour, jumped in while chained and rescued the constable after a great struggle. He then ran three miles for assistance. The Court liberated Neighbour, and thanked him for his bravery.

Mothers ! Phosphol will make weak children from birth onwards robust and healthy. Sold everywhere in large bottles. x

The next ordinary meeting of the Montoa Drainage Board will be held on Friday, March 3rd, at 7.45p.m. Business; general. In a gale at Bradford, a schoolgirl was caught in a whirlwind in i a playground, carried 20ft in the air, and killed. A Wailara storekeeper has been fined ids and costs tor selling a pea-rifle to a lad, the latter being let oil with a caution for purchasing it. The premiums offered for the best designs for the proposed new Parliamentary Buildings in Wellington are as follows:—’First second third fourth Following a vote in the Manitoba Legislature, opposing reciprocity with the United States, and demanding Imperial preference, the whole House sang the National Anthem.

All teachers of the Wanganui District have been invited as guests to the annual picnic of the Northern Branch of the Educational Institute to be held on the Patea River on Saturday, March 4. It is intended to make the affair an annual re-union of teachers. The head nurse of the children of Lady Chelmsford, wife of the Governor of N.S.W., was accidentally shot in the back in the State Government House by a person cleaning a rifle in an adjoining room. The rifle exploded, the bullet passing through a door. The nurse is in the hospital. “While people keep their windows shut and their blinds down efforts to eradicate tubercular disease will be hindered,” said Dr Brown at a recent meeting of the Preston Town Council. “Sunlight and fresh air are not only great preveutitives of this disease, but also their cure.”

Miss Mary Burton, who resides with her niece at Warrington (England) has just entered her 103rd year. She was born at Kendal in 180 S. She was both physically and mentally alert up to her hundredth birthday anniversary, but latterly she was confined to bed, although she is now much better.

Hearing groans and a sound of thumping from the grave of a man who had been buried the day before, some inhabitants of a village in Roumania, took to their heels. Later an exhumation was ordered, and the doctors found that the man had been buried alive, and had died of heart failure just before the grave was opened. Speaking at Hastings last week, Mr Hugo Gorlitz said that it had been his privilege to hear the playing of Miss Avis Symons, of Hastings, and late of Foxtou, on the violin, and he had no hesitation in saying that in all his 52 years’ experience in the musical world he had not heard such an artistic performance, not excepting Mane Hall. Mr Gorlitz predicted a brilliant career for Miss Symons, whose bowing showed excellent tuition.

“I thought a prohibition order only applied to the electorate in which it was taken out,” said a youug mau to Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Lyttelton Police Court. “Do you read the newspapers ?” asked the Magistrate. The young man replied that he had no time for newspapers, and Mr Bishop continued; “If you read the newspapers you would quickly discover that a prohibition order applies to the whole of the Dominion.”

Speaking at Christchurch last week, the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for .Education, briefly discussed the question of State aid to denominational schools. Mr Fowlds said that he had referred to the question at some length in his Grey Lynn speech. In that speech he stated the policy of the Government, which for years had not altered in any shape or form. That policy was against any interference with the national system of free, secular, and compulsory education.

Mr Percy Smith and Dr. Newman for some time past have been working at the origin cf the Maori. The former believed that the race came from India. During his stay in England, Dr. Newman visited many museums in pursuit of his subject, and met many learned men. He also read a paper before the British Association, and at the Anthropological Society, In India and Java he prosecuted research, and met learned men there also. He found many things confirmatory of the view that the Maoris came from India. He hopes shortly to publish a book on the subject.

There was an epidemic of weddings at Gisborne the other day, no fewer than seven of these interesting functions taking place. This unusual rush to get married was nearly responsible for a serious matrimonial tangle. Two of the weddings were appointed for one particular church, one being set down for 2.30 and the other for three o’clock. In the first instance the bride was somewhat late, and the second bride arrived on the scene before the first wedding had been performed. There was some confusion and as a result bride No. 2 was very nearly married co bridegroom No. 1. Happily the error was dicovered in good time to avoid possible complications, and the ceremonies proceeded without further hitch.

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 Crepeiines at the remarkably low price of lOd yard.*

The whole of the district is beginning to freshen up after the recent rains.

Mr F. D. Whibley notifies, by advertisement, that he is prepared to undertake all kinds of commission and accountancy work. Harding (boxing) and Champion (swimming) have been selected to represent New Zealand at the Festival of Umpire Games to be held in Loudon. Mousouda. the “human pincushion,” will give exhibitions in the Masonic Hall on Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4. Full particulars will appear in next issue.

Suuday’s rainstorm was the heaviest experienced for many years in Wellington and storm water did much damage in various part of the city. A big washout took place in the Karori tramway.

A prolonged shock of earthquake was experienced in this district at about 3.45 on Sunday morning. Seasiders state that the shock was accompanied by a loud roaring of the sea. In one local orchard nearly all the apples were shaken off the trees.

Mr Chrystall has completed the bore for the State: School water supply. The well is down 37ft. Before reaching this depth a gravel lied 14ft through was penetrated. The water will be lifted by a windmill to tanks and utilised for the gardens and other requirements.

Last week’s Gazette gives particulars of flax in Wellington Laud District for sale by public auction. The area comprises about 142 acres and is situated about three miles from Karioi railway station. The flax is estimated to contain about 420 tons and the upset price for the right of cutting is about ,£126. Mrs W. Salisbury, a resident of Rongotea for about twenty years, and formerly a resident of Feildiug, died on Saturday morning at the age of S 4 years. Mrs Salisbury and her husband were amongst the earliest settlers of the Feildiug district, having arrived there about 37 years ago, and she was much esteemed by those who knew her. Mr Salisbury survives his wife. A German magistrate who sought relief from the married tie explained to the court that his wife, in order to wear a hobble skirt with grace, had taken strenuous measures to reduce her weight. She lost 31 lbs in three months, and in doing so, he maintained, “She rained her complexion, her digestion and her temper.” The application was granted on the ground that the wife’s deterioration had come about by her disobedience.

Probably the most extraordinary case on record of a man who wished to be executed is that of a Quebec citizen who passed himself off as a murderer for whom the police were searching. When the matter was investigated it was found that the self-accused man had nothing whatever to do with the crime. “ No,” he said, “you’re right. lam not the murderer, but my wife leads me such a miserable life at home that I thought 1 would escape from matrimonial wretchedness by getting the Government to hang me.

The Greymouth correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphs that some phenomenal gold discoveries are reported in the Central Buller. In one case one man, working twenty-four hours, panning, got gold to the value of and another found the wash yielded 35s a day. One claim is described as being a veritable jeweller's shop. The country for miles around has been pegged out by the original discoverers of the gold and their friends during the last five weeks. The following sentences were imposed at the Napier Supreme Court yesterday: James Lucas, theft of £5 from a customer, lour months’ imprisonment at Invercargill ; Alexander Strachan, discharging firearms with intent to commit wilful murder, reformatory treatment; Frederick Williams, attempted rape and burglary, five years; A Morrison, found by night in a dwelling with intent to commit a crime, twelve months. The Probation Court was occupied yesterday with the second trial of Donald Morrison, charged with sheep stealing, the first jury having failed to agree.

Last week’s Gazette contains the warrant authorising the Manawatu County Council to construct Beach Road, between the Borough of Foxton and the Manawatu Heads, and apportioning the cost —viz. : The Manawatu County Council to bear fifty per centum of such cost and the Foxton Borough Council to bear fifty per centum of such cost respectively. The notice directs “ that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Foxton Borough Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed out ef the funds of the said Council within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the County of Manawatu, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Manawatu County Council for and on account of such Borough Council. Schedule: All the road in the Manawatu County, Wellington Land District, known as Beach Road, running from the western boundaryof the Borough of Foxton to the Manawatu Heads ; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 27920, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

The Manawatu County Council invite tenders for clearing 80 chains of drain near Himatangi. The new convent at Wanganui will practically cost something near ,£20,000 before it is completed.

Mrs Nye has just received a large stock of paper editions of latest novels, also model aeroplanes and winter games. The condition of the girl Beryl Gardner, the victim of the recent Masterton tragedy, shows no improvement, She has lain unconscious at the Hospital ever since Monday night week, and is still in that state. The condition of the boy is about the same. At a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery held at Palmerston yesterday, a call from the Levin congregation to the Rev. Mr Randersou, was sustained. The call was forwarded to Auckland where Mr Randersou is at present residing. The induction was fixed for Wednesday, 15th March, at 7.30 p.m. The Rev. A Doull will preside and induct, and the Rev. J. Mackie, of Bulls, will preach and the Rev. Mr Aitkeu will address the congregation. Messrs Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., electrical engineers, of Wellington, have been entrusted with the contract for a complete electric lighting and pumping scheme for Taihape Borough Council. The power will be obtained from the Hautapu River by means of two turbines of 100 horse power each, and after being converted into electrical energy will be transmitted by overhead lines to the centre of the town, and also to a pumping station in the upper reaches of the river, from whence the town’s water will be pumped to a large reservoir estimated to hold more than a mouth’s supply. In the course of a speech at New Plymouth, Mr T. E. Taylor quoted a few very striking figures which all should be acquainted with. Our drink bill for 1908 was ,£3,751,000, and the value of all the lamb, mutton and beef exported for the same year was ,£3,472,000, or ,£300,000 less than was spent‘in a dangerous and hurtful beverage. The total valued butler and cheese for 1908 was £, 1,000,000 less than was spent on alcohol. The total value of the manufactures from the woollen mills and boot factories for that year was ,£900,000. For the year ,£4,400,000 was paid in wages, giving employment to 53,000 men, women and children. The liquor bill was only £,'670,000 less than was paid to the whole of these.

The Rev. James McKenzie, for some time Presbyterian home mission agent at Shannon, returned to New Zealand from an extended trip through Canada, the United States and Britain. Replying to a newspaper reporter’s question as to how the Presbyterian ministers of those great countries compare, as far as preaching was concerned, with those ot New Zealand, Mr McKenzie said: “For breadth of view, intellectuality ot thought, and spiriutalitly of mind, I never met any preachers as good as the Rev. Mr Gordon, of Marton, the late Rev. Mr Duncan, of Foxton, and other old ministers ot the Presbyterian Church whom I sat under. lam speaking, oi course, of the Presbyterian Church here and abroad. There seemed to me to be something superficial about the American preachers.”