LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1004, 13 June 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Foxton Harbour Board is meeting in Palmerston to-day.

A meet of the Manawatu Hunt Club will take place at Herrington at 1.30 p.m. on Friday.

The ordinary meeting of the Foxton School Committee will take place on Thursday evening.

Constable Sweeney left Foxton la.-t week for the West Coast, on iris annual leave.

An advertiser wants a contract cook fur about 32 men, to commence on Jul}' Ist. Mr Parkes, the iocai watch maker and jeweller is opening up a splendid assortment of gold, silver and electro-plate goods suitable for presentations. Watch the window displays.*

Wc freely admit 1 that the best advertisers of Warner’s Rustproof Corsets are the wearers of Warner’s.

A lecture ou “ The Temples of Egypt ” will he delivered before the members of the local Masonic Ledge by Bro. R. McNab, this evening.

Whilst a New Plymouth tradesman was unpacking Island oranges on Friday night he found amongst them a centipede fully eight inches long. The reptile has since been preserved in spirits.

We remind our readers of the concert and play to be held tomorrow evening in the Masonic Hall, in aid of All Saints’ Church. The chair will be taken bv W. S. Stewart, Esq., and the programme will commence punctually at 8 p.m. At the animal meeting of the Manawatu Licensing Committee, held at Marion on Thursday, renewals of the licenses ot the Foxton hotels were granted as follows : Post Office Hotel, W. J. Gray ; Whyte’s Hotel, W. J. White; Family Hotel, H. S. Munro; Manawatu Hotel, P. Lumsden. The director ot the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute, Washington, has offered the loan of a complete set of magnetic instruments to the Mawsou Antarctic expedition. The offer is conditional on securing the services of Mr Norman Webb, of Christchurch, or some other competent person. Consideration is given nowadays to usefulness as well as daintiness in the knick knacks of the toilet table. Messrs O’Connor andTydemau, especially emphasise the utility, yet dainty appearance, of their silver mounted, cut glass toilet requisites. In reading their advertisement in to-day’s issue you will be surprised at the modest prices asked. Burglars were at work in Pahiatua on Friday night, two hotels and two business places being visited. The premises of Early, butcher, were entered, and an amount in notes and cash estimated at from to ,£l2 taken, also three cheques of a total value ot £4. or £5, Two cases of whisky were missing on Saturday moruiug from the storeroom of the Commercial Hotel.

Certain improvements are being carried out in the Palmerston railway yards, which will earn the appreciation of the public. The needs created by night shunting are being studied : the lighting arrangements will be augmented, and a shelter is being erected for the night shunting staff. Two hydraulic rams, each capable of lifting twenty tons, will be installed in the engine sheds, and an additional siding has been constructed to provide increased accommodation for rolling stock, A big lire occurred in Welling" ton about i o’clock yesterday morning, the Railway Electrical Maintenance Department’s workshops being destroyed. The brigade were successful in their eiforts to save Easson’s box factory, which was separated from the burning building by a brick party wall. There was no insurance on the railway building, and the Government will be put to considerable inconvenience, as all the electrica appliances for the decorations id connection with the Coronation festivities were being manufactured there. The damage to the railway stores is estimated at between ,£BOOO and ,£IO,OOO. Easson’s contents were insured for ,£SOO in the London and Lancashire, and ,£333 on machinery in the Union.

A fire at Marton on Saturday morning destroyed Mrs D. C. Belt’s Sanfort Boardinghouse, a two-storied building, containing 23 rooms, and S. Amer’s stables. Practically nothing was saved in the boardinghouse. Eleven boarders escaped with a few belongings. The plant at the stables was saved. Lloyd and Co.’s building, on the opposite side of the street, was badly burnt and the stock damaged to the extent of There was no water in the reservoir, and the firemen worked under great difficulties, but chemical engines saved Lloyd’s premises. Insurances: Boardinghouse _£Soo, contents both in the Atlas Office ; Amer’s stables, in the Commercial Union ; Lloyd’s stock, on which the estimated damage is is covered in several offices.

Miss Ava Symons, a young violinist resident in Foxton, and now touring New Zealand with the Sheffield choir, was a performer at a recent concert given by the Hastings Philharmonic Society. Of her number, “ 1 Lombardi ” (Verdi, arranged by Vieuxtemps), the Daily Telegraph says : “ This is particularly trying music, calculated to test the powers of the first class artist, and it must be conceded that she acquitted herself wonderfully well. She was slightly nervous at the start, which rather roughened the opening passages, but she at once lost herself in her work and gave a finished rendering, which evoked thunderous applause and a most imperative encore. She responded with Joseph Weiniawski’s ‘ Legend,’ in which she excelled herself. The piece is a difficult one, but she and her theme were one and she sent her message home to her listeners because she so visibly felt it herself.” At the close of the present tour Miss Symons will proceed to England and the Continent to resume her musical studies.

The " Defiance ” brand of Men’s Hats arc right,out on their own for style, comfort and durability. (Manufactured by the proprietors of the Kostya Woollen Mills.)*

Answers to correspondents, and several other items, are unavoidably crowded out ot this issue. A notice of thanks to sympathising friends is inserted by the relatives of the late Mr W. J. Hopper.

Particulars of new season’s fur goods are advertised in this issue by Messrs W. F. Durward and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, Messrs Colliuson and Sou, of Palmerston North, have an announcement in this issue .which will interest users of lamp glasses and globes. Among the relatives who are left to mourn the demise of Mr W. J. Hopper, who died at Foxton on Wednesday last, is his only surviving brother, Mr John Hopper. This gentleman is an old colonist, having settled in New Zealand about forty-seven years ago, and he is now living in retirement in Christchurch.

Intermittent showers oujSunday were succeeded in the evening by a stiff breeze, which increased to a gale and put the strength of fences and clothes lines to a severe test. As far as can be ascertained no damage was done. The “blow” had spent its force by the early hours of the morning, a heavy rain followed, and smce its cessation the weather has been admirable.

We have just to hand a consignment of very nice bacon. Well fed pigs from a reliable farmer. Martin’s factory cure. T. Riramer.* Every home should keep a supply of the popular Roslyn writing pads Obtainable from local drapers and storekeepers, at fid and is each.*