The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 15, 1911.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1030, 15 August 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 15, 1911.

The dead body of a married woman named Mrs Andrews, was found in a creek at Takapuna, Auckland, last Saturday. At Ashburton on Saturday, a single man, aged 27 years, named Thomas Mummery, committed suicide by shooting himself. The ordinary meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Friday, 18th inst., at 7.45 p.m. Business: General. We remind the public of the social and dance to be held in the Masonic Hall, to-morrow evening, under the auspices of St. Mary’s Church.

Liberal members of the British Parliament are arranging a Home Rule campaign with a view to an organisation under the control of the Whips. The weekly meeting of the Literary and Debating Society will be held this evening. The subject of debate will be ; “Should capital punishment be abolished.” The fight between Jack Johnson, world’s champion, and Bombardier Wells is to take place at Earl’s Court, London, ou October 2nd. The arena there holds 100,000 people.

Again the deadly pea rifle. A boy named Brock, at Owhango, Auckland, was accidentally shot by his brother, .vith a loaded pea rifle that had been left in a corner of the house. Death was instantaneous.

The Waimate Gas Company, at its annual meeting, held last week, declared a dividend of seven per cent, as well as carrying forward. The manufacture of gas last year totalled over four million feet. There were 282 consumers, including 24 street lamps and 12 engines. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, is 6d, 2s 6d.

During last month 244,000 ft of gas was manufactured at the local gas works. Of this amount 177,00011 was sold to consumers, and the balance was used at the works and in street lighting, etc.

Some of the laud on the Siberia Estate (Woodville) ou Saturday brought as much as per acre. It is not many years ago that Mr John Cotter sold the estate to Mr Harding for ,£l3 per acre. Last month the local Borough Council put up something of a record in the way of special meetings, no less than five being held in addition to two trips to Palmerston in connection with the purchase of an engine for the Town Hall.

There are no further developments in regard to the mysterious disappearance at Mastertou of the young man James Kingdom Neither the local police nor the two visiting detectives have been able to secure the slightest clue which will enable them to unravel the mystery.

The London newspaper “ John Bull” has published a confession by one Vernon, who alleges that he was acquitted ou a charge ot the murder of a man named Neil at Doondi station, Queensland. He requested the editor not to publish it for a week. The same day Vernon committed suicide by shooting himself at Victoria station.

Says the Evening Post : “That Mr Massey blundered in making the suggestion that the Government went out of its way to favour a syndicate o£ which the ex-Minister lor Eands was the chairman may now be accepted as certain. Mr M’Nab had no interest in the estate until long after the Government had decided to authorise the sale of the freehold by the natives.’ ’ “ Would you accept a baronetcy ?” was a question put to Mr Massey in Mastertou on Saturday evening. At first the Leader of the Opposition replied with assumed sadness that no one had offered him a baronetcy. Then he stated seriously that he saw no harm in a man accepting a title for the term of his life as reward for meritorious public service, but he drew the line at that. He did not believe in hereditary titles. A wireless message received by Sir James Carroll, acting-Prime Minister, on Saturday afternoon, from Sir Joseph Ward, outward bound from London by the Ruapehu, stated that owing to the vessel having encountered heavy weather, her arrival at Wellington would be delayed three or four days. It is now probable that the Ruapehu will not reach Wellington before Saturday, 2t>th inst.

The Review of Reviews for August contains a most interesting article on “ Aeroplanes, Past, Present, and to Be.’’ Its Character Sketch is “ The English Ideal of a King.” The Number also has a capital explanation of Mr Lloyd George’s National Insurance Scheme. There is also a synopsis of a remarkable article on King George V. by “ An Old Courtier.” A similarly interesting one is that on “ The First Year of King George.” The section devoted to a review of the leading magazines of the mouth, is as usual very complete. The Legislative Council properly rejected, by 15 to 9, the Field Divorce Empowering Bill. The measure sought to enable Arthur Henry Field, of Ashburton, to petition the Court for divorce on the ground that his wife has been a hopeless lunatic for sixteen years, though only six years in the lunatic asylum. The law required ten years. Mr Field had his wife maintained at a private institution for years previous, and the Hon. Jones urged that under the circumstances Mr Field should be permitted to apply for divorce.

The following will take part in the programme at the social to be held in All Saints’ Schoolroom to-morrow at 8 p.m. Overture, the Misses Collins ; song, Mr Richards ; song, Miss Hilda Barber ; recitation, Miss Anderson; song, Mr Collins; song, Mrs Boyes ; song, Mr Stevens ; recitation, Mr Hornblow ; song, Miss Jenks; duet, Mesdames Clemett and Greig ; song Mr Yates ; song, Miss McDonald ; song, Mr King ; song, Mrs J. Robinson ; song, Mr A. Jenks ; recitation, Mrs Stephenson. During the partaking of refreshments, selections will be given by Madame Clara Butt, Messrs Dan Reno, Harry Lauder, and other great singers. There is a curious plant that grows in Arabia and is known by the name of “laughing plant.” The name comes from the fact that anyone who eats its seeds cannot control their laughter. The natives of the district dry the seeds, and reduce them to powder. A small dose of this powder makes those who eat it act very much like foolish people. The soberest person will dance, shout, and laugh like a madman, and rush about, cutting the most ridiculous capers for an hour, At the end of this time the reaction comes. The dancer is exhausted, and a deep sleep comes over him. After a nap of several hours he awakes with no recollection of the antics he has performed.

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