LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1019, 20 July 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The quarterly and half-yearly accounts owing to the Herald up to June 30th have now been rendered, an early settlement of same would be appreciated.

Johnson and Bombardier Wells have signed a contract for a fight ot twenty rounds foi a purse ot The fight is to take place on or before September 30. Figures show a remarkable increase in insanity in Victoria. In 1905 there were 780 admissions to asylums. Fast year the number was eleven hundred and thirty. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., advertise particulars of a sale of freehold property situate in the borough of Foxton, also one 16 h.p. engine and 30 h.p. boiler. The sale is being held under contract ol the Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The harem skirt has proved a ‘ ‘ frost in Melbourne. One draper has a hundred dozen of them on his hands, but hopes that after a little alteration has been made they may be disposed of in the mercery department as a new line of peg-top pyjamas for fastidious gentlemen.

Asked if he favoured the clergy taking an active part in politics, Mr D. Buick, M.F., caused roars of laughter at his meeting at Palmerston by saying, “ Oh, I think they are jogging along very nicely as they are. Still, I’ve no objection to their having a say in •politics, or standing lor Parliament lor that matter.” A couple of serious accidents occurred during the football match Waimate v. Kaponga, at Manaia last Saturday. One player, A. King, of the Kaponga team, had his jaw broken, and another Kaponga player had his knee-cap badly smashed, the sound of the crack being heard on the grandstand at the other end ot the field. Both players were removed to the hospital. His Coronatian must have cost King George a big sum out of his own purse. A cablegram in an Australian paper states that the King and Queen entertained no fewer than 100,000 children at Crystal Palace. Each child received a memento of the occasion in the shape ot a mug, tastefully embellished with a portrait of the King in admiral’s uniform, with another of the Queen, and bearing the Royal autographs.

He kissed her with might and with main, She pleaded, “Don’t do it again— For i have a cold, and I’ve often been told That people with colds should refrain.” He chortled in frolicsome vein, “Those blessed old microbes again! A remedy sure’s Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,” So he kissed her and missed the last train. 7

An advertiser wants two furnished rooms with use of kitchen.

The ordinary meeting of the local State school committee will be held this evening. At the local police court yesterday morning a first offending inebriate was fined 5s or the usual alternative.

The annual stock-taking sale at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, is now in full swing. Genuine bargains to be found in eyery department.

The ordinary meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held to-morrow night at 7.45 o’clock. Business :to strike rates and settle balance-sheet.

The general half-yearly meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union is advertised to take place in the registered office, Palmerston North, on Saturday, July 22nd, at 3.30 p.m. The local Presbyterians have decided to hold a big carnival in October for the purpose of liquidating a debt on the building fund. A special meeting will be held of all willing to assist on Wednesday evening next. A good rubbing of the chest and back with Rocky’s Eucalyptus Oil and a few drops sprinkled on your pillow will relieve a cold. Ask for Australia’s best “Rocke’s.” 4 The Review of Reviews for July has as its character sketch “The Imperial Conference: its Premiers and its Problems.” It is a splendid contribution to the literature of the times. There is also a character sketch of Mr Harry Britain, who really undertook the work of getting the editor’s conference together. An article on “ The Festival of Empire” deals with the exhibition and pageant at the Crystal Palace, Eondon. The books of the month are “ The Eife of Eord Goschen,” and Ellen Key’s “Eove and Marriage.” The remainder of the Review is given up to a survey of the affairs of the world as mirrored in the current magazines. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, is 6d, 2s 6d.

Under the heading “ What is a Wowser ” the Age says there is a section ol the Mastertou community which uses the term “ wowser ” with impunity. Ic is evident that it does not know the meaning of the word. A ‘.‘wowser” is a Chinese expression. In the laud of Confucius it signifies an individual of high standing, integrity and probity of character. The “ anti-wowser ” element in China is the low, uneducated ignorant criminal class. The Mastertou young man who uses the expression glibly should remember, therefore, that he not only pays a compliment to the person he calls a ” wowser,” but Ue places himself in the category of the low-type Chinaman. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d, 2s 6d

The engagement is announced of Captain Anthony H. Rassara, New Zealand Staff Corps, Wellington, late of the Borough Regiment (ling.), only son ol the. late Sir Hormuzd Rassam, archaeologist and explorer, Brighton, to Miss Gladys Jardiue, daughter of Mr J. F. Jardine, of Lincoln road, Napier. It is interesting to recall that Hormzh Rassam was sent as Special British Envoy in 1864 to King Theodore of Abyssinia, who kept him in chains for nearly two years. He conducted the Assyrian explorations in 1876-82, and during the Turko-Russian war was sent by the British Foreign Office on a special mission to AsiaMinor, Armenia and Kurdistan, to enquire into the communities. His two volumes on “British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, with notices of the Country Traversed from Massawah through the Soudan, the Amhara and back to Aunessly Bay from Magdal, were published in 1869. He died last year.

A beautiful assortment of electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at Farkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.* Says the Dunedin Evening Star :—Housewives who are complaining about the price of butter may be to some extent consoled by the assurance of a gentleman who knows all the particulars of the New Zealand dairying industry, and is intimately acquainted with profits and losses, that the high price now asked for butter is the outcome of natural causes. The cows are starved in the autumn, owing to the drought, and the stocks are exhausted, whilst very little is being made. We are referring to fresh butter. There is any amount of good salt butter in the country at reasonable values, but the people will not eat it. Our informant declares with positiveness that there is no ring m the South. Up Wellington way a ring is in existence, but there is no stock to control, so that the ring is as much floored as everybody else. But the present tightness of the butter market is not likely to last. For this cheering information we are indebted to Mr J. R. Scott, secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, who says that up North the cows are coming in earlier than usual, and that by the end of this month the people around Palmerston North and other districts will be making plenty of butter, so that there is reason to hope tor a fall in price by August. Mr Scotc adds that winter dairying is becoming less and less payable for the arduous work.

A line of splendid flavoured hams pigs dairy and gram fed. For price inquire at Thomas Rimmer’sT

The Rev. Mr Wilson, vicar of the Rougotea Anglican parish, and late of Foxton, has been appointed in charge of the parish at Khandalla. Messrs Coker and Co. notify, by advertisement, that any person found trespassing with dog or gun on their property, after this date, 1 will be prosecuted. On our back page to-day will be found the following interesting reading matter: “Mysterious Theft,” “Mars,” “How Far a Sovereign Goes,” and “Shot Through the Heart.” The local debating society intend to entertain the ladies at a social next Tuesday night. A meeting will be held to night to make final arrangements in connection with same. ' The attendance was not large at the Eiterary and Debating Society’s meeting on Tuesday night. The subject of debate was: “ Has civilisation increased human happiness?” Mr Chrystall took the affirmative and Mr Claris the negative. Several speakers voiced their opinions for and against, and on a vote being taken the negative issue was carried by a majority of three. The Rev. G. K. Aitken occupied the chair. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is fid and 2s fid. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Messrs Henuessy and Hornblow, J’s.P., two young men named Gibson and Brown, whose face and head respectively bore evidence of being badly knocked about, were charged by the police with common assault, to which they pleaded guilty and guilty under provocation respectively. It appeared from the evidence that the trouble arose over a game of billiards in Hennah’s billiard room. Gibson struck Brown over the head with a billiard cue, inflicting a nasty wound, and Brown retaliated by severely punishing Gibson. Both accused were fined £1 in default seven days’ imprisonment. They were allowed until Saturday to pay the fines.

Stilton cheese! Stilton cheese procurable at Thos. Rimmer’s. Loose tea at 11- per lb—best in town.*

The sneak thief has made his presence felt to some purpose in Foxlon lor some time past. Such trifles as the disappearance of a bicycle, wood and coal, horse feed, pilfering from the railway station, etc., are on record. Apart from the above, two business premises have been entered but fortunately the visitors were unable to obtain what they were after—ready cash. Two more thefts were added to the list last night. While a meeting was in progress in the Presbyterian Church, a macintosh coat, hanging in the porch, was stolen and a motor bicycle lamp taken from a bicycle left outside the church. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police who have been, and are now endeavouring to get on to the tracks of these undesirables. It is hoped their efforts will prove successful and that these * ‘ gentry ’ ’ will meet with the reward they so richly merit.

The recent weather probably gave you something to remember in the way of a cough or cold on the lunglA You are not the only one. Dozens of people are in the same position, but they are not dreading it with Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in the house. Nothing that we could think of will give you the relief that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives. One bottle will cure you of the worst cough you ever had. For sale everywhere.—Advt.