LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1000, 3 June 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Tom. L. Mills, editor of the Feilding Star, is a visitor to Foxton to-day.

The attendance shield at the local school was won this week by Standard 11., with an average attendance of per cent. Recovery from wasting and weakening diseases is hastened by the use of Phosphol. Phosphol begins with a “ P.” 3 The local business places will be closed on Monday iu lieu of today (King’s Eirthday), and as a result the local State school will also be closed. The services in the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by Mr H. Smith, and in the evening by the Rev T. Coatsworth. In the March of Fashions rough tweeds lead. Mr Geo. Stiles, in his new announcement, tells of the advance of the army of new dress stuffs. They will be found in full force at the White House, where you are invited to inspect the array of lovely materials.*

Messrs P. Hennessy and Co. notify that as Mr Hennessy will be frequently away from the business for some time, Mr H. Haslett has been appointed to a similar position to that held by him during Mr Hennessy’s absence in the Home laud.

The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. G. K. Aitken, and in the evening by Mr H. Billeus of Palmerston N. At the morning service the quarterly observance of the Lord's Supper will be held. A number of people have informed us that they have been victims of the sneak thief or thieves who are at present operating in this neighbourhood. More clothes lines have been robbed, and provision safes visited and joints of meat, etc., removed. As we previously mentioned the most serious thefts have taken place in the railway yard, where bags ol sugar and other goods have been in transit.

Judgment was given by the Chief Justice at Welliugtou ou Thursday in the Mokau estate, an application for leave to issue a summons for service ou persons resident in England or upon their attorney in New Zealand. His Honour said it would be improper for him to grant the leave asked, even if there were jurisdiction, of which he was doubtful, for the Supreme Court of New Zealand to entertain a question about a contract executed in England, and apparently to be performed in England. A man named Badcock is at present an inmate of the Wanganui hospital suffering from serious injuries as the results of an alleged assault committed at Mataroa township, on the Main Trunk line, by three men. It appears that ou the 13th of last month there was a disturbance in the township, and Badcock was severely knocked about in a fight. He was able, subsequently to make his way to his whare, where he was found in a deplorable state. All his teeth had been knocked out and his jaw broken, and a piece of the jawbone smashed off. Three men have been remanded for eight days. During May 255 deceased persons’ estates were certified by the Commissioner of Stamps. The principal are as follow -Wellington estates : Christina Higgie, John Glasgow, ,667 19 ; Wickham Flower, ,66048 ; Jon Gaukrodger, : George Mclllvride, ,64343 ; Samuel H. Amou, ,64004 ; Andrew Dang, .62949; Richard Clough. ,62604; Eliza Roscoe, ,62291 ; Robert Nichol, ,62232 ; Jorgen Voss, ,62140 ; John Mutter, ,62017 ; John Riordau, ; Maurice R. Pearce, ,61648; Thomas Blatchford, .61616 ; Ellen Macdonald, £1566 ; Janet Renner, ,61473; James Holmes, ,61286 ; Michael Dwyer, £1260; James Guscott, ,61127 ; George Chapman, ,61056; John Fitzgerald, ,61018 ; Thomas S. Briscoe, ,6959 ; Mary E. Widdop, ; James O’Brien ,6862 ; Archibald C. Reid, ,6814 : Harry Webb, ,6784 ; Thomas Henry, ,6677; Frederick A. Neilson, ,6632 ; Bethia Jack, £6oo ; Mary A. Cook, ,6560; Ferdinand T. Wahren, £524. If you want to be up early these dark mornings, buy one of Parkes’ alarm clocks. A good selection ot choose from.*

Every home should keep a supply of the popular Roslyn writing pads Obtainable from local drapers and storekeepers, at 6d and is each*.*

Mass will be celebrated in St. Mary’s Church at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow by the Rev. Father Kelly. If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Pakkes’, the jeweller, the shop lor presents.* Thos. Rimmer is selling loose tea at is per lb—best value in town. Try a pound and see.* Another enjoyable “afternoon,” under the auspices ot the Presbyterian Ladies Guild, was held at the residence of Mrs Alex. Ross, on Thursday. Toby Rausfield, for having got upon a train while in motion at Levin railway station, on the 10th May last, was fined 10s and costs at the Levin S.M. Court. 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.*

The conference between the Foxton Borough Council and Shannon residents in respect to a combined water supply scheme and inspection of the source of supply will probably take place at Shannon next Friday. On account of the holiday, the special meeting of the Borough Council, to have been held on Monday, will not take place. The business to have been dealt with will stand over till the ordinary meeting.

A farmer in one of the upper districts of the Ashburton County computes his loss as a result of the destruction wrought by the grass grubs this season at over The pests have actually devoured close on 1000 acres of newly-laid down grass pasture, which was sown at considerable expense. “ Your remarks about big shoots with their driven bird,” writes a correspondent to an English contemporary, “ are aptly designated wholesale poultering rather than sport, and remind me of a certain magnate’s order to his butler: 1 Serve the champagne in earthenware mugs, Jenkins ; my guests at these shoots like to rough it a bit.’ ”

A dancing assembly will be held in the Masonic Hall on Thursday next and each succeeding week at 8 p.m. Instructions to beginners at 7.30 p.m. Subscriptions for twelve assemblies has been fixed at 15s 6d. Those desirous of attending are requested by advertisement to communicate with the Misses Collins, Hurston Farm, on or before the 12th iust. To-morrow is Whit Sunday, the Festival of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The services at All Saints’ will be in keeping with the great festival. At 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., there will be celebrations of the Holy Communion and the evening service at 7 o’clock will be fully choral. In the Anglican Communion Whitsunday is one of the three great festivals when all communicmts should be present at the Altar.

While speaking in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the other night, Mr Perry said : “I was born as a Protestant —■ that was an accident. Cardinal Moran was born of Catholic parents. If he had been born in the North o( Ireland he would have been an Orangeman. If I had been born in the South of Ireland I might have been a Cardinal.” When the laughter died down a member said ; “ And a good one, too, Mr Perry.” Mr Perry agreed, and added: “I’d have been a good man, no matter what I was born.”

“ Another Working Man’s Wife ” has forwarded us a letter for publication in respect to the necessity for a footpath in Coley street. Our correspondent says “ that if some of our city fathers had to wheel the family go cart along this rough and stoney way they would have little breath or energy left for the Council.” We would remind our correspondent that in future her name must be enclosed with correspondence, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith.

The special committee set up at the last meeting of the Literary and Debating Society to draw up a syllabus for the first session, met last night. A syllabus was drawn up and will be submitted to a general meeting for adoption. The first session will occupy three months, meetings to be held weekly. Debates will be held every fortnight, and the off nights will be occupied by social evenings, impromptu speeches, mock council meeting's etc. The first debate will take place on Tuesday evening next.

A protest against the use of protruding hatpins has been raised in Christchurch. A tramway conductor told a Press reporter recently that ladies travelling on the Christchurch cars were frequently noticed to have unprotected hatpins protruding from their hats, and that the practice of using such pins was especially dangerous when there was an extra crush on the cars. The conductor said he noticed a young girl the other day with as many as three long pins sticking out of her hat. Even when girls were wearing small hats they apparently used the same long hatpins that they were accustomed to use to keep on the big hats that were so fashionable a short time ago.

A beautiful assortment ot electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Parkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.*

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.*

For oilskins, horse covers, cow covers, etc., ring up Thos. Rimmer.*

For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, Is 6d, 2s 6d.

We freely adrait'that the best advertisers of Warner’s Rustproof Corsets are the wearers of Warner’s.

Next Tuesday a meeting of historic interest to Methodists of New Zealand will be held in Wellington. It will be a gathering of the delegates chosen by the Methodist Conference and the Primitive Methodist Conference to consider the bases of union of those two churches, for submission to the annual conferences next year. G. H. Stiles, vice-president ot the Primitive Methodist Conference, will be one of the P.M. delegates.

Speaking of “marrying well” at Feilding the other night, the Rev. Colville said that it was claimed for this evil that it had the sanction of the King of Heaven, that it was righteous, and that it was moral. To each of the claims he gave the lie. Marrying for wealth, for position, was a sin against the bodies and souls alike of the people. They all knew that any nation having lax laws about divorce fell to pieces, because such laws were a blow at the home, the children, and the whole fabric of society to the nation. Lie thought the Church of England, though she had certainly raised her voice against easy divorce laws, had not spoken often enough nor strongly enough on the subject. Thus the Mastertou Age deals editorially with Wellington’s “ Naional ” League: “The National League, which recently came into existence in Wellington, has issued its platform. The chief end of this remarkable organisation appears to be to prevent the bare majority being applied to the liquor traffic. This, it considers, would be a deliberate interference with the liberty of the subject. Of course it would. So are the Police Offences Act, the Borough bylaws, and many other things. But the bare majority is democratic, and the National League, by the same token, is not. Quite a lot of people are asking what it really is. And nobody seems to know.” Four Maoris from Ohau (respectively named Tofci Hone, Buku Wilson, Bob Rore and Warena Kerini) were charged at Levin S.M. Court on Thursday with having killed one sheep, the property of Mr G. H. Stiles. They were defended by Mr W. S. Park, who raised the defence that they were away from home and hungry, and had shot the sheep for food without criminal intent. After hearing evidence, Mr Thomson, S.M., intimated that he believed it probable defendants did not realise the seriousness of their act. At the same time he explained to the accused that even if they actually were in a position where they were lacking food, and shot the sheep to keep them from starving, it would be their duty to notify the owner of the sheep at once, and to pay him the value o £ it. All four defendants in the present case would be fined los each and costs, and ordered to pay Mr Stiles £1 for the value of the sheep. The penalty and costs and levy aggregated 17s 6d for each defendant.