LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 981, 20 April 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

T. Rimmer is selling jam 3 tins for is.*

Mr J. E. Walker, of Bulls, advertises for sale totara fencing posts at £s 5 s 011 trucks at Foxton.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., has been informed by the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. Mr Buddo) that the Government will grant the desired subsidy to the Rongotea Town Hall. America is still steadily adding to its discoveries of Unwritten Law. Recorder Carroll, of Paterson, New Jersey, is of opinion that it is not a crime to steal an umbrella on a rainy day, and when Robert McCauley was before him on a charge of taking one from an hotel during a storm he disnvssed the case.

Recovery from wasting and weakening diseases is hastened by the use of Phosphol. Phosphol begins with a “ P.” 3 Mr E. Healey has just landed (ex Ruahine) a splendid line of hot water bottles for the coming winter. They are of the best English make and guaranteed not to leak. Inspection invited."

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 “Della” finish for men, women and children.

Mr F. Gabites has a replace advertisement in this issue. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, Is 6d, 2s 6d. Mr Littlejohn inserts a warning to slanderers elsewhere in this issue.

The Town Clerk invites tenders for the erection of a wash-house at the pouudkeeper's cottage. Tenders close on Monday next.

The fourth page of this issue contains the following interesting articles : —“ The Lnglish Woman —As seen by a Japanese Artist,” ‘‘Execution by Poison,” and 11 News and Notes.”

Where the custom of observing April Ist as “ All Fools’ Day ” first originated is hard to say, but April heralds the approach of winter, and with the approach of winter has arrived a consignment of Tweeds for winter costumes at M. Hamer’s, Foxton.*

All the standing committees of the dioceses of New Zealand have approved the nomination of Rev. T. H. Sprott, vicar of St. Paul’s, Thorndon, to the Bishopric of Wellington. The consecration is fixed lor June 6. Four shipments of frozen mutton and lamb from the new Waiugawa works, Wairarapa, have reached the Old Country. The'whole of the shipments have been sold at satisfactory prices. The price obtained for one shipment was equal to the best Canterbury. At St. Patrick’s Church, Palmerston North, Mr Charles Leslie McMimi, youngest son of the veteran and well-known journalist, Mr Alex. McMiun, was married to Miss Martha Brady, eldest daughter of Mr Patrick Brady, Oroua Downs, by the Rev Father Quealy. On Tuesday afternoon Lord Islington formally opened the new Collegiate School at Wanganui, a magnificent pile of buildings costing, when completed, ,£45,000. There was a large attendance of parents and Irieuds of pupils and other guests. Lord Islington was presented with a silver key suitably inscribed- In the evening the Old Boys’ ball was held in the new school.

A meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday next, 24th instant, at 2.30 p.m., when a visit will be made to Mr F. Spiers’ cess pit and Cook Street A special meeting will also be held at 7.30 p.m., to receive tenders for removal of cottage, to receive tenders for the erection of bathroom, to strike special rale on Beach road of and transact general business.

On the Christchurch magistrate asking a farm labourer, the other uey, why he had broken his prohibition order, the latter replied, “I was under the influence of liquor.” Further questioningelicited the information that the offender applied for and secured the order while intoxicated, and broke it immediately after it was issued. He was fined xos for the breach and a similar sum for drunkenness.

Billtown, in Adams County (U.S.), has a unique distinction just now. It is the only town in the wide world at the present moment where the only voters are women. And it has come about in a novel way. At the last elections the men all sold their votes, and the corruption was so rampant that the Court disfranchised the male voters tor five years ! Under the Constitution of the State the women may vote for school boards, and only women are eligible for school managers. It is to be hoped that the women of Billtown, for the honour ol their sex, will rise to the occasion and vote only for morally clean men. Quite peculiar circumstances arose in connection with one census return which was made up by a resident of Gisborne. The schedule was duly filled up at the specified time, but on Monday morning it was found that the family had iucreased by one, and there was much speculation as to whether the newly-arrived member should be included, The subenumerator, when collecting the returns, was asked for his opinion, and promptly pointed out that the Act provided that travellers who arrived on Monday morning, and were not enumerated elsewhere, would have to be included, and consequently, the little stranger was duly tallied. Who is the oldest person born of European parents in New Zealand ? As far as I can learn (says a writer in the Auckland Herald) that distinction belongs to Mr T. C. Williams, of Auckland, who was born at Paihia, in the Bay of Islands, as far back as 1825. Mr H. Cook, who lives up the Waikari River, near Russell, was born at Stewart Island in 1827, and Mrs S. Bowler (a sister of the late Mrs H. Lethbridge), who resides at Kaeo, near Whangaroa, was born at Te Puna, ih the Bay of Islands, in August, 1828. Next on the list is Mrs Kemp, who was born at Paihia on 23rd February, 1830, and lives at Kerikeri in a house that was built by the missionaries in 18x9, and is the oldest standing in New Zealand. Mr C. B, Stone is the first male child of European parents born in the City of Auckland. He celebrated his seventieth birthday about a fortnight since. Mrs Slator, who is still alive, was the first European child born in Auckland, having preceded Mr Stone by thirteen days. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d

Ask your local draper or storekeeper to show you the copyrighted Roslyx Writing Fad fordd.

Fashion requires that the form shall be slightly curved at the waist and over the hips. For illustration sec Warner’s latest corsets models of all drapers. The Dominion meteorologist advises: Heavy rain, rivers flooded, easterly gales are probable over the North Island,

The Revs. Aitken and Coatsworth had arranged for a picnic to be held on Saturday next for the children attending their classes at the public school, but as it has been discovered that some are away on a holiday, it has been decided to hold the picnic on the following Saturday, the 29th instant.

Rimmer’s for quality and value in everything.*