LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1033, 22 August 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.

Impromptu speaking is the order of the evening at the Debating Society’s meeting tonight. The meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board, convened tor the 18th, lapsed for want of a quorumThe next meeting has been fixed for Tuesday, 29th inst. at 7.45 p-m. Business: general. A number of local residents were present at Palmerston yesterday to hear Sousa’s famous band. They were delighted with the great musical entertainment We acknowledge from Mr W. H Field, M.P., a copy of Mr Cockayne’s report on the duneareas of New' Zealand, their geology, botany and reclamation. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d and 2s 6d.

The death has occurred at Loudon of Lord James Heresford.

Do not send out of town for it. Try T. Rimmer’s spirit lamps from is each.*

The Chief Justice dismissed the commission case appeal Gurr v. Gebbie, with costs.

Lieutenant Ridge, of the London Balloon Corps, lost control of his biplane at Faruborough. He fell 40 feet and was killed. The Royal assent to the Parliament Bill was announced in the House of Lords amid subdued cheers. A large number of members of the House of Commons attended to hear the announcement.

On the fourth page of this issue will be found a report of the senior football match, Foxton v. LevinWanderers, played on the local racecourse on Saturday last; also an article, “ The late Cardinal Moran.” The claims of the west coast of the North Island to representation in the Legislative Council are urged upon the Government by Mr Newman, who points out that there is no member or the Legislative Council resident between Wellington and Hawera. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild are to hold a gift social iu connection with the forthcoming carnival, in the Sunday School Hall on Thursday evening. Among other attractions a musical competition will be held.

The death is announced of Mt Alex. Guthrie, of Feildiug, at the age of 66 years. Deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1874 and was greatly esteemed. He is survived by a widow, four sons and three daughters. Thomas Oakes, a single man, aged thirty-nine, who had been suffering from swollen glands, died at the Auckland Hospital on Saturday. Chloroform was being administered previous to an operation, but the doctors found the patient could not stand it and desisted. Oakes died an hour and a half later.

“In the abolition of the bookmaker,” said Mr D. Buick in Parliament recently, ‘‘ the House has done something that will entitle it to the gratitude of the generations to come. I hope that individual will never again be let loose on the innocent population of New Zealand. He was a parasite on the racing community.” A special meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Friday, 25th August, 1911, at 7.30 o'clock. Business : To meet Shannon delegates re water scheme. The Reserves and Public Works Committee will also meet at 3.30 same afternoon in Avenue, re trees, and afterwards in Norbitou Road re drains.

The Otaki correspondent of the Evening Post states that Mr Byron Brown is retiring from storekeepiug to follow stock dealing. His Otaki store has been taken over by his assistants, Messrs Moore, Carpenter and Bills; the Ohau branch by Messrs Thomas and Sheargold ; the Manakau branch by Mr J. Howard Andrew ; and the Waikanae business by Mr E. Brown, all assistants of Mr Byron Brown. The firms will have no connection with each other.

Says the Palmerston Standard : “A concession which is the subject of some comment has been made by the Foxton Borough Council, which has granted an application to connect the new Town Hall by wire with an hotel a short distance away, which permits an electric alarm to be sounded before the rise of the curtain. As this implies an inducement to half-time refreshment seekers, it can be seen that in some rural districts local enterprise is by no means dead.”

According to the Otaki Mail it was generally thought that the Labour candidates lor the Otaki seat —Messrs Robertson (Palmerston) and Murdoch (Shannon) — are relying largely for support on those engaged in the flaxmilling industry, bat will get little support, With the inclusion of Foxton in the electorate, quidnuncs are beginning to alter their opinion, and it is impossible to say how this will affect the three candidates who are generally thought to have the best prospects of winning the seat—Messrs Field, Brown and Monckton, but the Mail concludes : “One thing seems certain —that the contest is going to be the most exciting we have ever had in the district.”

An Invercargill boy (says the News), no more than eight years of age, showed considerable presence of mind the other night, and his father, who is naturally proud of him, has communicated the fact that the youngster and a sister, two years older, were left in their home while the parents visited a neighbour. They occupied different rooms, and the girl, who had occasion to strike a match, by some means set fire to the kapoc mattress. She went .to sleep again, and after a short time was aroused by unaccustomed heat. Crying out to the brother they both made an examination, and discovered the cause. The boy used a small supply of water that was in the room, but it did not quench the flames which by this time had arisen, and, seizing the mattress, he dragged it out into the backyard. When the parents returned home they found the mattress completely destroyed, indicating that but for the prompt action of the urchin serious damage would probably have resulted.

Wanted 150 flax cutters to use a new patent flax hook, best on the market, sold by Thomas Rimmer * For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, is fid, 2s fid.

His Grace Archbishop Redwood will hold a confirmation service at St. Mary’s Church next month. The Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, will arrive in Wellington on Friday afternoon. Sir James Carroll was tendered a complimentary social at Wellington last night, on the occasion of his 54th birthday. Messrs Mouusey and Co. yesterday offered for sale by auction two cottages in Frances street, on account of Mr G. Brewer, hut failed to get a bid. Max Schultz, described as a doctor of philosophy, also as a Lieutenant of Hussars of Frankfort, has been remanded on a charge of espionage at Plymouth. Numerous documents were seized. To-morrow evening the annual tea and public meeting in connection wilh the local Methodist Church will be held. Tea will be on the tables from 6 p.m. The public meeting will commence at 8 o’clock. A good programme, consisting of anthems by the choir, solos, addresses, etc., will be given. Admission one shilling. Messrs Mouusey and Co. held a very successful sale on account of Mr Jas. Puti yesterday, practically everything offered being disposed of under the hammer. The 15-20 h.p. Enfield motor car was purchased by Mr W. Apraima for The sale of sundries and furniture held at the conclusion of Mr Puti’s sale was also well attended, and everything submitted found purchasers at satisfactory prices. Smith had an uncle —very ill— Expressed a wish to make his will, “Leave everything to you, ray boy.” Smith struggled to conceal his joy 1 Just to reduce his temperature. They gave him Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Poor Smith 1 His dreams of wealth were vain, His uncle’s up and out again 1 I