LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1048, 26 September 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion Day was celebrated at the local State School yesterday by carrying out the programme laid down by the Education Board. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the novelist, greatly influenced by the success of South Africa, announces his conversion to Irish Home Rule.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has associated himself with the agitation to stop the JohnsonWells fight, and has written to Mr Winston Churchill on the subject.

Messrs Harford (Feilding) and Nash (Palmerston) have been requested by the Foxtou Harbour Board to give evidence before the Parliamentary Bills Committee in Wellington this week on the Foxton Harbour Bill (rating area).

The active propaganda now being carried on by the Mormons at Lyons, France, is the subject of a Diocesan Note just issued by Cardinal Couillie, Archbishop of Lyons, The Archbishop condemns Mormon teaching, which, he says, is spreading like an epidemic at Lyon.;, and rL.flares that it is absolutely imposed to the Roman Catholic iailU,

Alfred Buruecle, alias Pearce, alias Baruicle, convicted of assault and robbery at the Gisborne Supreme Court last week, _ and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment and there after to four years’ detention for reformative treatment, and who escaped from the new Gisborne gaol has been recaptured. The prisoner was arrested twice in one day at Foxtou, some time back, for drunkenness.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Flaxmillers’ Association held at Palmerston yesterday, the chairman (Mr Eonis Seifert) announced that a bonus had now been granted by the Government to induce machinery and scientific inventors to bring forward inventions for the betterment of the hemp industry. A deputation to the Minister ot Agriculture has made representations on the subject, and the auuual meeting had been delayed on account of a desire to complete the negotiations. The amount of the bonus was ,£12,000, and it would practically be uuder the management of the Association, subject to the conditions being confirmed by the Government expert. Mr R. McNab had rendered the Association valuable assistance in its dealings with the Government.

During the course of his sermou at All Saints’ on Sunday morning, the vicar, Rev. G. Y. Woodward, said

“la referring to Archbishop Clark’s proposal for re-union we must remember, much as we desire the peace and oneness of Christendom, that there is a vital cord we cannot and dare not cut, and that is the Apostolical Succession. By our Prayer Book we believe historically and spiritually in the validity of Anglican Orders, and only in submission to this doctrine could there be any possibility of re-union. At present, in spite of the Bishop of Durham’s recent words on party spirit, there is a friendliness between all religious bodies, but if any part of the Church of England violated the teaching of the Ordinal, there would be immediately a split, which would lead to the gravest consequences.” Better far than gold or silver

In a time of dreadful pain; Is the cure that’s always handy And which proves so great a gain. If you feel that you are feverish, if your cough is harsh and hollow; It is best to heed the warning, And Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure to swallow.

The reason the goddess of justice is blindfolded is so she cannot see what the Government is doing. Byron Brown would remove the kerchief.*

- A committee meeting of the local bowling club will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday. A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Council Chamber on Thursday evening next. On our fomth page to-day will be found the first day’s results of gjjjj the Otaki Racing Club’s spring meeting ; also “Johnson v. Wells,” “Football,” and “Shortage of Labour. ’’ During his speech at the Masonic Hall last night, Mr McGregor said, touching the moral aspect of No-License in Mastertou, that the questions put to the tradespeople on the moral effect of No-License re-, suited : Good effect in, bad 2. This was the straight tip from the Mastertou tradespeople. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Flaxmillers’ Association yesterday, the following officers were elected :—President, Mr J. Liggins ; vice-president, Mr E. L. Broad ; treasurer, Mr M. Cohen ; executive, Messrs J. Wg- T gins, J. Tennant, R. McNab, L. and H. Seifert, H. Jarvis and C. Higgiusou. The Christchurch Press states that the Hou. Sir Johu Findlay has written a book on his recent visit to England and the Imperial Conference. It is understood that it will contain pen sketches of some of the principal members of the Conference and other leading public men, while some of the deeper Constitutional questions arising out of the Conference will be dealt with. The Daunevirke Advocate has the following:—“ We understand that dummyism is alleged in connection with the ownership of a block of laud in the Pahiatua County, and the farmers in the vicinity of the block in question are taking the matter up very warmly. The case is to come before the Wellington Land Board at its next meeting.”

All arrangements in connection! with the social and dance under the auspices of the local Catholic Church, to be held in the new hall, Johnston Street, are well in hand, and given fine weather there should be a record attendance. The M’s.C, are Messrs Dr. Adams, Dudsou and Perreau. Vocal items will be contributed as follows : Mesdames Boyes, McKenzie, Whincop, Miss King, Messrs Horublow, Hooker, Knewstubs, Lenihan, Smith and Golder.

“Vague allusions to a damaging report, it carefully retailed at a nice “at home,” get far afield, and are indeed never stopped. The unbridled tongue is a pestilence that has swept the world since the days of Moses, but at no time has the unbridled tongue wagged more freely and venomously than in these Christian days, when it is wrong to smite the liar, the perjurer and the scandalmonger, but quite right to smite his pocket.”—Taranaki News.

An historic London residence, Carnwath House, is to be sold by auction with the Broom House Estate, Fullham. In its garden the late Mr Gladstone proposed tOj Mrs Gladstone, and in the days' when Eady Shelley gave her “ strawberry parties ” on Saturday afternoon it used to be said that more matrimonial matches had been made on the lawns of Carnwath House thau at any other house in England. An older tradition is attached to the ferry that used to ply from the river side of the estate. It is said that during the Civil War King Charles I. came over the ferry to reach the Surrey shore. A cowardly and brutal assault was, it is alleged, committed upon a ycuug woman at Auckland on Saturday evening by a man who, aspired to be her lover. It is alleged that for many months past the man has been pestering the woman with proposals of marriage, and has been continually following her about by tram and train, and had even gone as far as to follow her to Hamilton on one occasion. The woman went about in constant fear of her would-be lover, for he was evidently not one of the sort that would take “ No ” for an answer. Matters, it is stated, reached a climax on Saturday evening. The woman was quietly walking along with her young niece. When she was accosted by the man it is alleged that he once more made his proposals of marriage, and she firmly informed him that she would not marry him. This seemed to infuriate the man, who struck the woman on the nose and on the forehead. The woman fell to the ground in an unconscious condition. By this time a large crowd had gathered, and the man disappeared from sight.