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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1026, 5 August 1911, Page 2

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. The local Debating Society intend to hold a mock banquet on Wednesday evening next. A comprehensive toast list has been arranged which should prove very attractive. The meeting is open to the public. A regulation has been framed providing that where addresses of letters on transparent envelopes are not clear, the post office authorities may put them aside till work is less pressing. Where articles in transparent envelopes are so folded that addresses are unreadable, they may be treated as undeliverable.

Do you know that croup can be prevented ? Give Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, and it will prevent the attack. It is a certain cure for croup, and has never been known to fail. For sale everywhere. —Advt

Considerable damage was done to the plaster work of the new fence, erected in front of All Saints’ Church, the other night by some destructive person. During the day the contractor had completed the plaster facing of the fence and portions of this have been scraped off and the work otherwise disfigured. It is hoped the perpetrator of such a wilful piece of mischief will be caught and severely dealt with.

If you want to be up early these dark mornings, buy one of Parke’s alarm clocks. A good selection to choose from *

Patrick Hayden, aged 33, a waggoner, went into a doorway in Cuba Street, Wellington, on Wednesday night, and stabbed himself .in the stomach with a penknife. He collapsed on the foothpath and was carried to a neighbouring doctor’s, and was then removed to the hospital, where he lies in a critical condition. He admitted to the police that the wound was self-inflicted. The almost limitless methods of the poor to earn an honest penny are often interesting. A veteran in Paris seems to have struck out a line for himself distinctly original. He has received permission to stand outside a large establishment in the Rue de Rivoli. He is provided with cards in duplicate, and on his cap is a band on which can be read the words “ Gardien de bicy'dettes.” As soon as a cyclist customer arrives he dismounts, receives a ticket from the old man who places the duplicate on the cycle, and takes charge of the machine, receiving a small honorarium for his services. The customer goes into the shop, knowing his cycle will not be stolen, and when he emerges he hands back his ticket and receives his machine in return. The “ vieillard,” who is described as of a happy obliging nature, is said to make a good living in this way.

The service in the local Roman Catholic Church to-morrow will be conducted at 5.30 a.m. by the Rev. Father Kelly. Ou Wednesday the 16th ot this month the ladies of All Saints’ Guild will hold a social in the schoolroom. Particulars of same will appear iu a later issue. Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P. for Dunedin, has given notice to ask the Minister for Justice to take steps to suppress the operations of Mormon emissaries iu the Dominion.

J. L. Kelly, Ashburton, advises that more than half the lists for the petition for Lionel Terry’s release have not been sent back to him. Those received contain nearly 3000 signatures. Dunedin is first with 782. The Triples Contest instituted by the proprietors ot Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion will close on August 15th. After that date no entries will be accepted. The prize winners will be declared by the end ot August. To-morrow is the Feast of the Transfiguration. The services at All Saints’ Church will be 8 a.m. Holy Communion, 7 p.m. choral Evensong and sermon. The vicar will preach on the Transfiguration of our Lord at the evening service. Italia Garibaldi, a granddaughter of the Liberator, has been chosen by the Italian Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as one of its representatives to the general conference of the denomination, which is to meet at Minneapolis in May of next year. It is understood that Mr H. D. Bedford will contest the Dunedin West seat against the Hon. J. A. Millar, at the general election, as an opponent of the present Government, and that he will receive the support of Labour organisations as well as the Opposition. Mr W. Munro, who contested the seat at the last election, will also be a candidate.

The Shannon correspondent of the L,evin Chronicle says ; —“ The water scheme in Shannon is assuming shape. Mr Moyuihau accompanied Mr Climie (civil engineer and expert) to a place selected for the reservoir. A meeting with the Foxton delegates will be held shortly, when definite arrangements will be made to proceed with the work of obtaining an estimate.”

It is stated in the annual reports of 1910, issued by the Wauganui Education Board, that the average ages of pupils of the Dominion State schools in Standards V. and VI. were 13 years and 13 years 11 months respectively, in the year 1909, and in the Wanganui district schools last year 13 and 14 years respectively. Foxton’s average is Standard V. 13 years 5 mouths and Standard VI. 14 years 7 months. His Worship the Mayor of Blenheim (Mr E. H. Penny), interviewed, said that the flood was one which they would never experience again in 50 years. He did not think there would be so much damage as was at first anticipated, and he was of the opinion that in a few days the flood would be forgotten. They had never experienced a flood of the description of this one, and it was improbable that they would again. The Hon. J. A. Millar states that the increase in railway tares which was made some time ago does not affect passengers travelling up to 150 miles. The present revenue did not justify any further concessions in the fares, but the accommodation for secondclass passengers would be improved by replacing the existing longitudinal seats with cross seats for two persons in all cars used on express trains running long distances.

Mr Simmons, of the Foxton Cycle and Motor Company, who has been away for the past two weeks on a combined business and health recruiting trip, informs us that he hopes to complete all arrangements, and to return by the 18th of this month. We understand that Mr Simmons is utilising the off-season of the cycle trade in order to complete the new workshop, and to prepare the business for all demands which the forthcoming season may make upon it.

For any line you may require in crockery or ironmongery, birthday or wedding presents, try Rimmer’s.* Under date Rome, July 4th, a cablegram to Australian papers states: —“All sorts of rumours concerning the health of the Pope continue to be circulated. The sisters of his Holiness, learing the worst, have taken quarters close to the Vatican, with which they are in constant telephonic communication. The Papal physician, Dr. Petacci, has advised the Pope to always have his relatives near at hand, but in previous illnesses his Holiness has forbidden the members of his family to visit him.”

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d. 2s 6d

The Rev. L. M. Isitt, who is contesting the Christchurch N. seat, rendered vacant through the death of Mr T. E. Taylor was at one time a keen athlete. When stationed at Masterton many years ago, he was an enthusiastic cricketer. During the progress of a match one Saturday afternoon a ball struck him under one of his optics. The following morning he ascended the pulpit with one eye in mourning. To tell the truth he didn’t look pretty. When this service was over and as the congregation were leaving the church, much to the consternation of the minister, the choir broke out in the hymn: “ I will Guide Thee with Mine Eye.”

The Cash Trading Company have a change advertisement in to-day’s issue. Read it. Messrs Millar and Giorgi, of Palmerston N., have a replace advertisement in this issue.

The Maori touring team drew with the Wairarapa reps at Carterton ou Thursday. Each side ssored a goal. Taranaki reps defeated the North Island country touring team by 11 points to 6 at New Plymouth ou Thursday. Dr. Thacker has definitely decided not to be a candidate ior the Christchurch North seat at the coming bye-election.

Messrs Mantell and Co,, boot importers of Palmerston North, have a replace advertisement in this issue.

The arrivals last June numbered 1909 and the departures irom the Dominion 3276. In June, 1910, the figures were: arrivals, 1974, departures 2452.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Tuesday next at 7.30 p.m. to consider tenders for the erection of gas engine and dynamo, at the Town Hall.

The Presbyterian Ladies Social Guild met at the residence of Mrs Alex. Speirs, junr., on Thursday afternoon. The flower title competition created keen interest and some of the titles were very original.

The services at the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. T. Coatsworth. The subject in the morning will be “The Green Pastures” and in the evening “ Blessed Assurance.”

Hon. T. McKenzie told a Dunedin Star reporter that there was a tendency among contractors to stiffen prices. As a result the Government had decided to build the bridge over the Taleri at the Taieri mouth by day labour, likewise it would execute extensive alterations at the Hermitage by day labour. A Chinaman named Ah Din was recently arrested in Bathurst, New South Wales, for taking delivery of three tins of opium from the local railway station. He was tried, convicted, and. sentenced to three months’ hard labour. It afterwards transpired that the tins contained treacle, and not opium. Whilst engaged in loading barrels of molasses at the Railway goodshed on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Fred Nye, employed by Mr W. Nye, had the misfortune to get his hand caught between the door and one of the barrels, with the result that two of his fingers were badly crushed, necessitating medical attention. He will be incapacitated lor two or three weeks.

The garden plots at the local State School are being prepared for the spring sowing. With an abundant water supply, the garden plots, both vegetable and flower, should do remarkably well. The rise on the north side of the playground has been planted with shrubs which in the years to come will give that portion of the ground a very attractive appearance.

Much concern is felt in sport and athletic circles in Auckland at the possibility of serious interference with both summer and winter games by compulsory training, on account of half-day and whole-day parades being fixed for statutory half-holidays, the effect being to debar all young men eligible for military training participating in the sports with which they are identified. It will increase the difficulties of clubs and prove detrimental' to all sport, especially summer pastimes. Mr R. Kempster returned to his home in Foxton this week after spending a holiday in Australia. Whilst there Mr Kempster visited both Sydney and Melbourne. He states that at the present time Sydney is particularly busy, the streets are being widened which will make them equal to those of Melbourne, and the slum quarters are being cleared out. Mr Kempster, who by the way, was the first to introduce the Australian terriers into New Zealand, brought back with him another purebred animal of this breed. “I don’t like a man coming before the Board,” said the Commissioner (Mr James McKenzie) at the meeting of the Wellington L,and Board on Thursday last, ‘‘with a view to trafficking in Crown land. You got a section,” he told an applicant for a transfer, ‘‘a year or so ago, and after holding on to it for a few months you sold out at a rise. And now you want to do it again. You propose to take this land and lease it to somebody else. That is not the purpose of the Land Board. There is too little Crown Land for that business nowadays.” The application was refused.

A characteristic anecdote touching the late Mr I. E. Taylor : One dismal wet Sunday afternoon long ago, when Mr Taylor, then a young fellow, was sitting reading in his little cottage home at Addington, Christchurch, not far from the cemetery, he happened to glance out of the window, and saw a coffin being taken to the burial ground followed by two poverty-stricken women. Young Taylor seized his hat and umbrella, caught up with the funeral, and went to the cemetery with the two poor mourners, and, after the service, spoke words of consolation and comfort to the women. He had a tender aad chivalrous heart, for all his (oit-times) biting tongue.

Read Rimmer’s advertisement, and buy a glass jar of honey for I/,*

Masterlon contains an old-age pensioner who has served in three wars, fought in four engagements, reared a family of twelve, and is still hale and hearty. The death occurred at Greymouch on Wednesday of Mr Martin Shannon, one of the oldest contractors of the West Coast, aged 76 years. He leaves four sons and two daughters. At Karangahake, Auckland, yesterday, a child 20 mouths old was playing with a young brother on a swing, and in the temporary absence of the latter, was caught in the rope and strangled.

At a public meeting in Waitara, last night, it was unanimously decided to authorise the Borough Council to call for competitive designs for a town hall to cost about ,£4OOO.

Messrs Mouusey and Co. have received instructions to sell at the Foxton wharf, on Monday, August 14th, at 1 p.m. th» well-known motor launch, Enterprise. For full particulars see advt. A Turkish officer, while conversing in a military club at Constantinople, attributed the murder of Zekki, editor of the newspaper Shera, to the committee of Union and Progress, and threatened to give public utterance to his views. His brother officers thereupon killed him. Two other officers were assassinated. Mr S. Bolton is not satisfied with the decisions of the Reform party in the Pabiatua electorate with regard to their selection of a candidate to run in the Opposition interest at the general election. Mr Bolton informs the press that he will contest the election against all comers as an independent Conservative —unless Mr Massey persuades him to stand down. Attention is called to our third page where C. M. Ross and Co., Palmerston N. intimate further reductions on all goods of passing fashion. The whole stock of fashionable attire has been gone through and marked down to nominal prices, which will ensure a complete clearance before stock-taking. None of these goods must be taken into stock and prices have been made so that buyers will be ffiund.*

The widow of the late Mr F. A. Claude, ui uiahuhu, is petitioning Parliament for a compassionate allowance on the ground that her husband’s death was hastened, if not brought about, by his exertions on the night of April 17, when several carriages ran away from Otahuhu Station, and a collision with the Main Trunk express was averted mainly owing to Mr Claude’s promptitude in pulling them up and warning the driver of the oncoming express.

At the Mangaweka Magistrate’s court recently a man named Joseph Pittam was charged with killing and selling imported and native game without taking out a license. There were six separate charges, dating between 2nd and 19th July, and in this time accused had supplied a Wellington dealer with two pheasants, twenty hares, seventy-live quail, and 176 native pigeons. The Magistrate commented strongly on this wholesale and illegal slaughter ol game, and inflicted fines totalling ,£ll 4s. Still they come! Mr W. Thompson, of Linton, is the latest aspirant to the Otaki seat. Mr Thompson is well-known throughout New Zealand, and was at one time in charge of St, Andrew’s Church, at Palmerston North. Of late he has been lecturing throughout the Dominion in the interests of the Licensed Victuallers Association. He is standing as independent supporter of the Opposition, and addressed his first meeting at Linton the other night.

Something to warm you these cold nights! What’s that ? Why, good dry matai or State coal. A ring on ’phone 35, or a note left at Nye's coal yard will bring it to your door.*

Mr Stuuell, manager of the local gasworks, who is making a canvass for new consumers, has met with marked success up to present, 45 new consumers having been obtained, and as he has yet to call on a large number ol residents there is every probability that this number will be added to considerably. As a result of his canvass a large number of consumers have also agreed to instal gas cookers. In this connection it might be pointed out that the cost of gas for cooking purposes in Foxton is very little in advance of what is charged in Palmerston North, the difference being only one penny per 100 ft., the charge being uinepence in Foxton as against eightpence in Palmerston, and when the extra consumption in the later place is taken into consideration it will be seen that the Foxton charge, in comparison, is very reasonable indeed. The 45 consumers above referred to can be connected from the present mains and by the extension of the mains a very large number more could be obtained. The local works are up-to-date in every particular and capable of producing double the quantity mauufacured at present, and this increased consumption is all that is required to make them a paying concern. Local residents should bear in mind that the works are the property of the people and it is in their own interests to support them. At the present lime special inducements are being given for people to connect up or to instal cookers and they should not let the opportunity slip. Recovery from wasting and weakening diseases is hastened by the use of Phosphoi.. Phosphol begins with a “ P.” 3 A beautiful assortment ot electroplate goods, brooches, engagement rings, etc., at. Parkes’ jewellery establishment, Main St.*

The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev. Geo. K. Aitken.

The attendance shield at the local State school was won this week by Primer HI., with an average attendance of 98.6 per cent.

The Invercargill City Council has decided to take a poll on a proposal to raise ,£98,000 lor the instalment of a gravitation water supply. Peter Smith, an old Manakau resident, has been missing since Sunday, and his whereabouts are unknown. His disappearance has caused some sensation.

Final payments have been made for The Rover in the Grand National Hurdles and the Winter Cup. The Winter Cup is set down for decision on Tuesday and the Hurdles on Thursday. The Rover’s weights are, Cup 9.13 and and Hurdles xo.n.

At the Eevin Court yesterday, George Ransbotham was charged with assaulting Alexander Corson. Defendant admitted striking complainant but pleaded provocation, stating that Corson had stated that he (Ramsbotham) “ had a rat.” His Worship decided that the use of the above words did not justify defendant in striking Corson, and inflicted a fine of £l, half of which is to go to complainant.

Smith had an uncle —very ill — Expressed a wish to make his will, “Leave everything to you, my boy.” Smith struggled to conceal his joy! Just to reduce his temperature,

They gave him Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Poor Smith ! His dreams of wealth were vain, His uncle’s up and out again ! I