NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 995, 23 May 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

(Jiving evidence IB tt licensing case at Lower Hutfc, iu which two men were charged with being on licensed premises when the same were directed to be closed, the police stated that they tried to gain admission ou the day in question, but all the doors wore locked. They waited about for some time before "a door was opened, and when they got inside everything was cleared up and in order. This led Dr .McArthur to make the following remarks;—"l think all hotelkeepers should be hound to keep a door unfastened always, so that till' police could at any time enter the premises to ascertain whether the law was being broken or not. On Ihe passage to the Chatham.-; the (rawJei- Nora Niven very nearly ran on top of a. large whale, which was ap(.areally asleep on the surface. Thu vessel’s helm was quickly put hard over, and us the steamer slewed away the whale • .sounded.” The cetacean came to the surface again within 200 ft of the vessel. Those on the bridge wore pleased when lhe whale was left, behind. Apiti farmers seem to lie expecting a very hard winter this year, owing to the scarcity of feed. The sheep in some parts urn beginning to sillier already, so that it will go very hard with them later on. There chain not seem lo bo much olmnce of the grass growing now. an frosts are very heavy.

During the last lew years Mr dames Trounson, a timber merchant and farmer ol Dargaville, with extensive land interests in the Tallin Valley, has experimented with stum country with a view to bringing it into profitable occupation. He told the Railway Commission at Auckland recently that ho had successtuly broken in a large area of stum lain I of a sandy description, and where previously it had an unpromising appearance last year ho took bOOO head of sheep off not more than JFiIM) acres. The pipe clay gum land was hopeless. Mr Trounson. estimated that gum land could be got ready lor turnip-cropping at a- cost The now Alayor of Auckland is apparently going to make things boom in the northern city. He was only installed a fortnight when he brought forward proposals for the raising of £250.~ 000 for street, improvements, £150.000 for water works, £15,000 for baths, £3,000 for a brunch library, and a further proposition for the ptipose of a park at Shelly Beach. At the last meeting ol the City Council all these proposals, with a few minor alterations, were adopted, and it is now announced that they will be submitted to a vote of the ratepayers liefore the, ond of next month. The proposals, exclusive of the funds required for the [inrcha.se of the park, involve the raising of loans to the amount of over £400,000. It is understood, that the Council' came to the conclusion that the wltol e,scheme can. bo financed without increasing the present, rates. A nnananous public feeling on the .subject ie assured, and a favourable decision on the part of the ratepayers is almost a foregone conclusion.

A marked characteristic of ins Jtxeelloucy Lord Islington a« a public speaker was commented on by Bishop C'rosslcy in Auckland, at the annual meeting of the Orphon Homo Trust board. With hie Excellency, said bishop C'rosslcy, the matter oi presiding at public meetings was no lormal matter, as it too frequently was will) Governors. Lord Islington's thoughtful words showed that by careful preparation he endeavoured to make himself familiar with the problems, work, and prospects of the bodies with which he, as a speaker, identified himself. This trait m the Governor has been always fully recognised by people throughout the Dominion. .V very painful accident befcl Air Archibald Park, of Awaputd, on Saturday evening. Li e was tor Icing out hay to his cattle after milking time when he slipped, injuring his shoulder. Air Park waa admitted to the Palmerston Hospital, where it was found he had fractured his collar-bone. According to advice received in Auckland from Canada there is a movement aloof, to have the status of that country nosed from Dominion to that of Kingdom. and io have King George crowned ul in law a next year as King of Canada. .\ficr his crowning K is proposed that the King of Canada, should visit, Washington. lien; is a terrible warning to parents who are lu the hahit. of going fo places of amusement and leaving their children locked up m the house. Mrs T. While, a resident of Perth, W.A., went, to the theatre leaving her three children asleep m bed. On returning, she found 1-hut, the youngest boy, aged 17 months, hud been choired to death through slipping feet formost out of his cot, anil lieitig caught by the chin by the iron bar 01. tin* lied. Writes a London correspondent,;—“(dipfain A. \V. -VlacarUiur-Unslow, who is going out to -N’t'W Zealand presently, lias sold all Ids stud ot hunters and polo ponies. Uno of the former realised VU guineas, and an especially smart polo pony was bought in 95 guineas, two ol tiers selling at 4b and 45 guineas respectively.” What, appears like a record is the reelect ion for the thirty-ninth year in suc-ees-Mon of Air ,1. h. (.ox as a chtiichwimlfii of St. John’s Church, r'eathcrston. When Mr Chatwin was reelected to a simitar position at St. Alurk’a Church, Wellington, for the thirty-third year, it was generally thought at. the last annual meeting ot that, church that he had then secured a record. Act so, however, as Mr (.'ox’s ro-eleiAJou shows

During the running o) the Ngaturinga Handicap at 'I akaputta. on Saturday Count-tee 1011, bringing down Jolho Fillc and Falchion. U'Bboa. the rider ol Uouutrce, sustained a fracture cl the frontal hone of tho skull and was taken to a private hospital. A .Sydney paper remarks sarcastically that .Australia tuts a surplus of quite a number of things which Canada, might si ami in need of, such for instance as prickly peur, tea. canvassers, ,suburban alderman, Domain orators, influenza, and persons wjio are prevented by conscientious t-cruples from wishing to defeud i Heir country. Our contemporary wonders if Canada would give Australia anything in exchange lor (hosts valuable comiimdititi*. A Hawke s Ray couch passenger bad an unenviable experience during the reeenr phenomenal rainfall. The horses came m a slandsijll in a. ereek, and the passenger had In alight, the water being up to ids chest. fl.be horses were lilierated but were swept down the stream. Tho coach remained iu the creek, and tho passenger bad to walk into Napier. A Lepperton (Taranaki) farmer has been trying the experiment of placing goats in a small area iu order Jo cope with blackberry. Un a. paddock of about twenty acres it was not possible twelve mouths ago for any person to see many yards in trout of him, so dense was the growth of blackberry. Now tne whole ground is level rigid over, little olse being left but stalks. He found that the goats require special fencing, much more so than sheep. One juror who asked, to be excused from service, at the Supreme Court at Christchurch on Monday last stated that he was a photographer of ships at Lyttelton. and urged that at present there were many ships in the harbour, fo that his absence from the port would moan a loss to him. There were times when there were no ships, and he had to take advantage of the presence of vessels in port. “Then this is your time of harvest,” said his Honor, and when tho man replied in tho affirmative added, “Then we will treat you as a husbandman in the middle of his harvest and excuse you.” The City of Christchurch at present spends £24,000 a year on the construction and maintenance of ite streets and £3500 for watering. Tho new Mayor, Mr T. E. Taylor, proposes to reconstruct all the extensively-used streets, a total length of about forty miles, with tarred metal, leaving a distance of about 100 miles in their existing condition, there being only light traffic on the latter. The Mayor proposes to raise a I loan of £IOO,OOO for the purpose indi- ] cated. and estimates that after .ntorest j and sinking fund had boon provided, the 1 city would save many thousands of pounds every year through reduced maintenance charges.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and 2s 6d.