LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 976, 6 April 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Auglo-Japanese treaty of commere has been signed. Ask your local draper or storekeeper to show you the copyrighted Roslyn Writing Pad for 6d. During the past five years Mormons have secured the emigration of 150 Swiss girls annually to Utah. A strong antiMormon agitation has begun. On the fourth page to-day will be found portion of the debate in the House of Commons on the McCann case, taken from the Tablet, and also that journal’s comments on same.

Mr Parkes, the locak watchmaker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.* A first-class cottage property at Levin is advertised for sale. Nicely improved section with almost new 4-roomed house, with all conveniences. A real snip. Full particulars can be obtained from F. D, Whibley. Last evening a shoal of young kawhai entered the river at the Heads and gamboled on the surface of the water. At firsc they were taken for mullet and the fishermen put out with their nets but the meshes were too large. Later in the evening some large hauls were made.

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 tod yard.”'

Southland is having a splendid wheat harvest, the grain being in excellent condition.

If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkks’, the jeweller, the shop for presents.*

The Mastertou sneak thief is no respector of persons. One got away with a policeman’s bicycle on Monday. Mr A. Jonson offers a reward for the return of his two dogs. Anyone retaining same after this date will be prosecuted. We freely admit that the best advertisers of Warner’s Rust - proof Corsets are the wearers of Warner’s.

Mr Charles Hanson, formerly a Government grader of dairy produce in Taranaki, will, it is reported, be a candidate for the Hull seat, as a Labourite. Notwithstanding the phenomenally dry season, the present is said to have been one of the best milk producers yet recorded in the Wairarapa.

Mr C. E. Shortt, census enumerator for the districts of Kairanga and Manawatu, requests any person who has not received a census paper to communicate with him and one will be forwarded. Owners and trainers are reminded that acceptances for the first day’s races at Feilding and entries for the Maiden Scurry close with the secretary at Feilding on Monday next at 8.30 p.m. A sub-enumerator who called at a Mastertou household, asked if there were any live slock. “ What do you mean, sir?” asked the offended mistress. “Do you think I neglect my children ?” Age. A meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday, 10th inst., at 7.30 o’clock. Business : To receive tenders for Coronation Town Hall, annual report and balance sheet, and general. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will hold an unreserved sale of choice dairy stock on behalf of Mr F. S. K. Broad, at the farm, Moutoa, on Monday next, 10th inst., at 1 p.m. The cows to be sold netted an average of 10s last season.

Local drapers and storekeepers now selling direct from the Roslyn Worsted and Woollen Mills (largest in Australasia), the celebrated Roslyn all-wool blankets, rugs, clothing, jerseys, unshrinkable flannel and underwear “Delta” finish or men, women and children. “Work at the flaxmills around Shannon is very brisk,” a hand remarked yesterday (says the Horowhenua Chronicle). “There is always work for a man if he wants it,” he said. The prospects would indicate that up till Faster the mills will be exceptionally busy. The body of a Maori girl, who was recently drowned in the Wairoa river at Frasertown, Hawke’s Bay, has not yet been recovered, although over twenty Maoris have been diving for it. They report having seen what they call a “ tauiwha ” in the river, and suggest that the body will never be found. It is supposed that they saw a shark.

There is a gold rush ot no small dimensions going on near Murchison at present (says the Nelson Mail). It is stated that some excellent finds have been obtained. A trouble to contend with is the lack of water in the vicinity. A wire has been fixed up, and bagfulls of likely-looking earth are sent down. A general average is said to be 5s worth of gold in a sack.

A lady who resides in au Auckland goldfields town sent one of her dresses to the wash last week. After it had been taken out of the copper she recollected that she had placed a £$ bank note in one of the pockets. The note was recovered and dried, and it was then found that the number and some of the colouring remained. It is understood that the bank which issued the note will honour it. The Free Lance remarks as follows :—Lady Islington believes in rational costumes when in the country. So say the Wairarapa people, who used to see her making her way round in very sensible rig. And the report goes that when she was out shooting in the neighbourhood of Featherston, not so very long ago, she was so neatly and suitably attired that a passing farmer took her for a boy, and wanted to know who the “ sporting kid ” was ! Captain Eroia, of the French ship Noemi, which has arrived at Newcastle Irom Monte Video, has on board his vessel a woman whose presence had caused him some trouble and embarrassment. The woman in question joined the ship at Monte Video as an able-bodied seaman, being at the time disguised as a man. It appears that she and her husband signed on as members of the crew, and it was not until the vessel was two days out that the skipper became aware of the presence ol a woman in the forecastle. An intimation of this fact was, however, conveyed to the captain by the woman’s husband. She was immediately removed from the men’s quarters, and was provided with a cabin in another part of the ship. The disguise had been perfect, her hair having been cut short. Captain Broia is uncertain as to what he will do with the woman and her husband.

A beautiful assortment ot electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.* Fashion requires that the form shall be slightly curved at the waist and over the hips. For illustration see Warner’s latest corsets models of all drapers.

Typhoid fever has broken out at Taumaiunui.

A circus visited Foxton last night, and was very well patronised. Elsewhere in this issue Mr Rntvvistle publishes a warning to slanderers.

A severe thunder storm passed over this district on Tuesday night last, accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain. Adjutant Hayward, of the Palmerston Salvation Army, visited Foxton to-day with a view of terming a local corps and holding regular meetings. The Moutoa Drainage Board invites tenders for the straightening and repairing of chains of stop bank at Moutoa. Tenders close on Thursday, April 13th, Mr James Gear, one of the best known of the early pioneer settlers of Wellington, died at his residence, Porirua, at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, in his seventy-fifth year.

As the result of an official enquiry into the affairs of the Russian State railway in Siberia, it has been established that “graft” and peculations have robbed the Government of ,£2,000,000. Mr Massey, Leader of the Opposition, delivered a political address at Nelson on Tuesday, to a crowded audience on the lines of speeches made at other places on his tour. In the afternoon Mr Massey was accorded a civic welcome and was entertained by a drive around the district.

The Hydrabad wreck, which rests on the coast about eight miles south of the Heads, still stands the buffeting of the waves. Periodically visitors cycle or walk along the coast, and visit the iron hull. One of the masts still stands intact.

The number of gas consumers in Levin is now two hundred and eight, with two hundred meters in public use. The coal in stock is twenty-four tons, coal carbonised during the month was twenty-two tons. The number of street lamps is thirty-eight. During the month of March, 261,200 feet of gas were manufactured, and the total output was 257,300 feet. On Sunday evening next at All Saints’ Church the Rev. A. O. Williams, head of the Maori mission in the diocese of Wellington, will be the special preacher. In the morning he will conduct a Maori service at Matakarapa. It is nearly two years since Mr Williams paid Foxtou a visit, but many still remember the eloquent address he gave us. A man named Alexander Cairey, aged 42 died suddenly at Christchurch this week. At the iuqest the evidence showed that deceased was a remittance man and a chronic drunkard. He had been at Pakatoa, but leading an exemplary existence was released on probation, ,£l5O remittance money accumulated in the meantime and this he spent in drink in a comparatively brief period. During last week 50,575 sacks of grain were carried over the railways of Southland, as compared with 37,956 sacks carried during the corresponding week last year. Since the beginning of this year 151,260 sacks of grain have (says the Invercargill correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) been railed—an increase of 24,667 sacks over the amount last year. The solar eclipse which will occur next mouth will not be total so far as Hew Zealand is concerned. From the eastern States of Australia and from New Zealand, the eclipse will be seen as a partial one on the morning of Saturday, April 29. In Wellington the eclipse will appear to commence at yh. 27.50161. a.m,, and the greatest phase will be attained at Bh. 25.4 m., and the sun will shine forth uuobscured at qh. 72.9 m.

Tennyson Blump in his Teuton Limericks, in the Free Lance, says : —“There was a young lady of Greytown (which is not an especially gay town), went out harem-skirted, they say that she flirted. Such nonsense ! How could she? Bad Greytown !” The Standard says: This is a libel on our little town. For the last three weeks we have been gay, and moreover happenings in or near the town have furnished “copy” for nearly every newspaper in the Dominion during that time.

King George, when a boy had a very exclusive school career. He only attended lectures at Kton under the strict supervision of his tutor, and he was allowed few playfellows to share his amusements and help him spend his leisure hours. What few he had were carefully selected. Now the heir to the throne is educated very much in the same way as any other boy. At Dartmouth the Princes mix to their hearts’ content with their companions in the college. They have few, if any privileges by reason of their rank, and they have to face the hardships and difficulties of a sailor’s training like the rest.

A meeting of managers of the local Presbyterian Church was held on Tuesday evening. Present: Messrs Rev. Aitken, Parkes, Speirs, Henderson and Claris. It was decided to hold a bulb show in the Spring in aid of the Sunday school room funds and a committee was set up to make all the necessary arrangements. It was also decided to erect a gas lamp over the entrance to the school room and a notice board ot services in front of the church. Messrs Speirs and Parkes were appointed to attend to the lighting of the school room. Several accounts were passed for payment and the meeting rose.

Mr Lomas, the Chief Inspector of Factories, says that there is likely to be considerable activity displayed by the Government in the erection of additional workmen’s dwellings, a large number of applications having been received for them all over the Dominion.

“ We eat too much sugar,” declares Dr Thacker, of Christchurch. “ A tremendous amount of sugar is sold in this city, and if Sir Joseph Ward would put 6d per pound on the price of it he would do a good thing for New Zealand. Two-thirds of the shops in Christchurch sell sugar in some form or other, and in beer sugar does as much harm as alcohol.”

Referring to the “harem” skirt, the North Auckland Times says : “ The above kind of skirt should be adopted by the ladies of DargaviHe in the winter time. Trousers are much better than petticoats where our roads are concerned. The roads were bad enough last winter, but they will be 50 per cent, worse during the coming winter.” A rather touching little manifestation of self-denial which deserves to be placed on record was witnessed at the Christchurch Industrial School. As the Rev. Vincent King, chaplain of the Dunedin Men’s Mission House, was about to take his departure from the school after giving his class their usual lesson, each little girl came forward and handed him a penny. The girls had heard of the Men’s Mission, and out of the trifling dole they received wished to give something, as they expressed it, “ to provide meals for poor men.”

There are many young ladies in Auckland who are willing to risk a great deal for the sum of ,£3O (says the Herald). Since the rumour gained currency that a leading drapery firm would pay that amount to any two ladies who would consent to wear the harem skirt in Queen Street, many of the large city drapery firms have had numerous Inquiries from intending candidates for notoriety as to the identity of the enterprising business house. But, alas, each and every shop disclaims any knowledge of the offer. “Gipsy” Smith, the well-known evangelist, has been missioning in Paris, and some of his remarks have caused sensation, and called forth the indignation of Parisians. He declares to day that the missioning societies would do more good by sending their emissaries to Paris than by sending them to heathen lauds. “I have never,” he said, “found a city where the people are so indifferent to all the things that matter. It is a godless, and immoral place.” Some of the Parisian newspapers have severely castigated Smith, while one journal talks of “the vaporing of of a religious fanatic, who sees only the bad side of everything.” An exciting adventure is reported from the Chathams. Captain Eastick, of the trawler Nora Niven, states that as two men from the Chatham Islands Pishing Company’s station, at Ovveugo, were fishing about three miles off shore one day last week an enormous shark, which they assert was between twenty and thirty feet long, made its appearance and attacked their boat. The monster bit a big piece out of the port side of the little craft, and it was found necessary to resort to bailing to prevent the boat from sinking. The shark was beaten off with a boat-hook and an oar, and as soon as it bail ceased its unwelcome attentions the fishermen returned to shore with the greatest possible speed. Captain Eastick saw the boat before he left for Wellington, and says that marks of the shark's teeth are plainly visible on the gunwale. The potato grub, according to the advice given by the Agricultural Department, may be killed by soaking the affected potatoes in water for two or three days (says the Oamaru Mail). Any form of animal life that needs two or three days to drown must be to a certain extent amphibious. That no perfunctory immersion will suffice to drive the spark of life from the wriggling body of Gelechia operculella, was fully demonstrated at the Kfa Ora School the other day, when the scholars experimented with potatoes from the school garden. The affected tubers were immersed in water, aud left for 24 hours. At the end of that time, the water was strained off. aud a number of grubs, apparently lifeless, were left on a sack. In half an hour, the grubs were moving, and the potatoes that had been immersed were again covered with life that days’ soaking had not been sufficient not exterminate.

A sharp lesson was recently taught by two Milanese girls in Naples to an impudent man who attempted to speak to them, though a perfect stranger, without a preliminary introduction. No sooner had they observed the insult than they turned on the man angrily. Taken thus by surprise, the fellow fled along the street, but was swiftly pursued by the two girls. Being hard pressed to escape, he dashed into a railway station, but he was too late. The girls were on his heels, and shortly had him in their custody. They then bound his hands behind his back with the leather straps of their skates, and hauled their prisoner to the nearest police station. All the way they were followed by an admiring crowd, who cheered the “ lady police ” loudly. At the station the police were profuse with their compliments. The man was kept in custody. It is interesting to note that the girls are described as having been brought up on English principles.”

The challenge cup, presented by Mr M. E. Perreau to the local Rifle Club, is on view in Mr Fowler’s shop window.