LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 970, 23 March 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A hand singer sewing machine is advertised for sale. Situation on a farm is wanted by a lad of 15 years of age. On our back page to-day will be found the following reading matter: "Hobble Skirt,” ‘‘lmpressions of London,” and ‘‘A Lost Civilisation.”

The South Wairarapa River Board aud the Kahautara River Board are in the fortunate position or having collected every penny of their rates.

Saturday being the Feast ot the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Communion will be celebrated in All Saints’ Church at 7.30 a.m. Mr W. M. Signal, who returned this week from a health-recruiting trip to Rotorua aud Te Aroha, says there is a land boom on in the Auckland Province at present.

Messrs Cole and Co. announce elsewhere in this issue the last few days of their monster drapery sale. By Saturday everything must go at absolutely slaughter prices.*

Messrs Ross aud Co., of the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, call attention elsewhere to their stock values in dress goads and serges, which buyers will do well to make a note of.

The thousandth baby was born at St. Helen’s Hospital in Dunedin this week. The hospital was opened five years ago, and only one mother has died in the hospital in that period. The Rev. C. Palmer, who has just arrived from England, I visited Shannon on Monday. He has expressed his intention ol accepting the position of Vicar of Shannon and Tokomaru, and will commence his duties next mouth.

The mission being conducted by Mr and Mrs Cumming in the local Presbyterian Church is attracting good congregations every evening. The juvenile meetings are also well attended every afternoon.

Mr J. A. Scott, m.a., who has supplied the editorial matter for the New Zealand Tablet for the past sixteen months (since Dr. Cleary, now Bishop of Auckland, went abroad!, has accepted the permanent appointment as editor.

A judgment debtor was asked at Eketahuna if it were not true that he had got married since the judgment had been obtained against him. Debtor replied that if he had not got somebody to look after him he would have been compelled to go to a hospital. The Taumaruuui paper says:— “ A Taumarunui man wished to travel by the 7.25 south train the other morning. He just missed it, but he jumped on his bike and rode to Mauunui, where he had to wait 20 minutes till the train came up. There was no breakdown or any other unusual circumstance.” ‘‘ Sunny Napier,” writes a correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay Herald, ‘‘cannot now be challenged by any place in New Zealand. Mr Herbert King has picked several bunches of ripe bananas irom the orchard in Goldsmith road. I have known that banana trees grow in New Zealand, but this is my first acquaintance with ripe bananas grown in the Dominion.”

The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee will be held this evening. The friends of Mr W. Hamer will regret to learn that he is confined to his bed through a serious indisposition. The annual general meeting of the Awahou Football Club is advertised to take place in Whyte’s Hotel on Wednesday evening next.

The adjourned meeting of the Foxtou Harbour Board will be held on Monday next and not the Drainage Board as previously and erroneously stated.

A correspondent at Nireaha, in the Forty-mile Bush, states that that district is still in need' of rain and some of the farmers say tha the dry weather experienced this summer will shorten the milking season by at least six weeks.

According to the Patea Press it is stated that Mr William Brewer, of Waitotara, may contest the Patea seat at the forthcoming general election iu the Opposition interest. So far the only definitely announced candidate is Mr P. O’Dea, m.a., a pronounced Liberal.

Mr George R. Hart, one of the oldest journalists iu New Zealand, died suddenly at his residence, Christchurch, about midday yesterday. Mr Hart arrived in New Zealand with his parents by the Cressy, one of the first four ships, and spent almost the whole of his life in Christchurch. A letter from Masterton received by a Foxtou resident yesterday conveyed the intelligence that the little girl Beryl Gardiner, who was seriously injured iu the recent Fssex-street tragedy, is making satisfactory progress. She is now in possession of complete consciousness, but is not yet permitted to see visitors.

There was a fair attendance at the Presbyterian Mission last night. The song service was particularly attractive. Mr Gumming’s address was on “ confession and profession of Christ.” The mission will be continued to-night at 7.30 o’clock. Lantern lectures will be given on Friday and Saturday evenings. The mission closes to-morrow week.

Mr W. H, Field’s party endeavoured to cross from Otaki via Hector, Alpha, and Reeves to Greytown on Saturday. They reached nearly to the Alpha, when fog set in, necessitating the party’s return to Otaki. Mr Maxton’s party from Greytown went to Mount Reeves on Sunday to meet Mr Field’s, but stayed too long and had to camp on the range. They reached Greytown on Monday morning. A quiet wedding was celebrated at All Saint’s Church this morning by the Rev. G. Woodward, when Mr John Edwin Tollinsou was united to Miss Laura Elizabeth Parker. The bride, who was given away by Mr J. Wyeth, was attended by her sister, Miss Ivy Parker, as bridesmaid, while Mr Stanley Parker officiated as groomsman. Mr and Mrs Tollinson left by this morning’s train for Auckland, which is to be their place of residence. According to the San Francisco Call there is a Chinese aviator competing in the Tanforan Aviation meeting being held near San Francisco —Fong Guey, of Berkley, who has invented a modified biplane and constructed it himself at a cost of 7,000 dollars, has entered the lists, Fong is one of the best known and perhaps the most picturesque of the aviators around the bay and is the first man ot the Chinese race with a record of successful flights to his credit.

A startling theory was advanced at the inquest, held at Finchley recently, on a musician named Edward Wesley Woolhouse, of Battersea, who fell dead in the street while on his way to play at a ball given at the Manor House, the residence of Mr A. W. Gamage. He drank a bottle of stone giugerbeer on his way, it was stated, and died shortly afterwards, and a doctor declared that there were traces of prussic acid or some similar poison In the body.

Preaching at Carterton on Sunday, the Rev. Mr Standage spoke of the splendid productivity of New Zealand. He paid a tribute to those who had come here in the early days aud had prepared the way for the after advancement; “but,” he added, “they did not bring the land with them. They found it there; God gave this country a great producing power, a climate excelled by no country, and a productive power which was unequalled in any part of the world save one small block in Europe. The people of New Zealand had a goodly heiitage, and assuredly it was a. good land to live in.”

“No Humbug” writes in a Southland exchange: “His Lordship Bishop Julius is reported to have said at the Methodist Conference that he wished that body would take over half of his church people and improve the quality of the other half. I should like to inform his Lordship that a good many of his people in this diocese are quite ready to leave the Church of England for some other body of worshippers now that he and his clergy are forcing on them in the mother Church of Canterbury a ritualistic service at 10 a.m. which is neither flesh, fowl, nor good red herring, but simply a play-acting seance,”

Nature’s embrocation. Rockb's Eucalyptus Oil. The finest that Australia produces. There’s “something ” distinctive about “Rockb’s.” 6

The Corinthic, which will leave Wellington at 3 o’clock this afternoon for London, will take 261 passengers —6x first saloon, 80 second saloon, and 120 in the steerage. Many of the above are Homeward bound to attend the Coronation. The vessel is due at Plymouth about May 4th and at London on the following day.

A South African pigmy, who calls himself Andrew Jacobs, but who is well known all over New Zealand as “Aboo,” was charged at the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston, yesterday, with being drunk. When in the box he started jabbering, the gist of his remarks being that he wanted to be naturalised and to get the old age pension. Alter hearing the police evidence he was convicted and discharged.

“Pelorus Jack,” the strange great fish that accompanies every steamer on every passage through the French Pass, on the NelsouMarlborough Coast, was reported dead 011 Tuesday. A lish resembling it in size, shape and colour, was washed up at D’Urville Island, and it appeared to have been ten days dead. Later information telegraphed to the Marine Department states that “Jack,” friskier than ever, accompanied the steamer Pateena on Monday night ; so he now forms one more in the long list of beings who have survived their obituary notices.

Speaking ol the trials of the pioneer settlers of Otago at the reunion of Taieri pioneers last week, the Hon. T. Mackenzie said the self-denial and pluck of their forefathers in facing difficulties could never be surpassed by any people who might live in the country. With all present grievances and imaginary drawbacks there was no country that offered such advantages as New Zealand to those who would work as the early settlers worked. His father had worked in a cutting and got 5s a day for it ; they had to make it go a long way. Mr Donald Reid : “ I got is od.”

I A number of local cricketers were brought lace to face with Death at the local Park yesterday. We are pleased to report that they came off more victorious than they can hope to do when called upon to lace the bowling ot the ancient prototype in the last great match they will be called upon to play. The Death they were yesterday called upon to face was a sturdy, athletic young lellow with a keen eye and strong arm, whose bowlling is as deadly on the wicket as the aged old boy is with the scythe and hour glass on frail humanity.