LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1060, 24 October 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Come and see the Maypole at the Carnival on Friday and Saturday nights next.* Labour Day was observed as a close holiday by the business people in Foxton yesterday. The town was lifeless.

At the meeting of the local Literary and Debating Society tonight, Mr J. Ross will deliver an interesting address on the steam engine, with working models.

A letter from “Wharf-Rat’s daughter*’ will appear in our next issue.

The Maypole aud flower pageant at the Carnival. See the May Queen being drawn in her floral carriage at the Carnival.

Cr. W. K- Barber’s advertisement in connection with the coming Mauawatu County Council election will appear in our next issue.

A meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. to consider matters in connection with the Coronation Town Hall.

The Feilding Jockey Club isjinvitiug Mr J. Hammond, the aviator, who is bringing out a machine, to make his first proposed flight in the Dominion at its next Easter meeting. As a result of the capsizing of a surf boat engaged in loading wool 011 the steamer Fanny from Waugaehu station, at Cape Turnagain, on Saturday, four sailors, A. C. Ross, C. A. Johansen, E. Olsen and J. Jorgensen, members of the ship’s crew, were drowned. Some ten days age Sooo acres of Mr R. D. D. McEean’s Maraekakaho estate were (says the Napier Telegraph) placed on the market, aud all the sections but one have been quitted at prices ranging from ,£l9 per acre and upwards.

The Melbourne Marathon race was won by Lewis, with A. Ryan second and W. Murray third. There were twenty-six starters. Lewis led throughout, won by a mile, and finished strongly. His time was 2hr. 59mm. josec. A meeting of those interested in the Carnival to be held on Friday and Saturday next in the Coronation Hall, will be held this evening at 8 o’clock in the Presbyterian Church.

Representations of the United States flag have been ordered to be removed from the moving picture films in all Ontario theatres. In Ontario consignments of pictures from the United States will be censored in future in order to ensure the removal of the foreign emblem.

A movement is on foot to hold a public ball in the Coronation Hall at an early date, and by advertisement in this issue Mr Peter Robinson convenes a meeting of all interested in the formation of a committee to make all the necessary arrangements, to be held in the Coronation Hall supper room on Thursday evening at 8 odock. All interested are cordially invited to be present.

The Bishop of Wellington will hold a Confirmation in All Saints’ Church to-morrow at 2 p.m. for Maoris. One side ot church will be reserved lor the Maoris and the other for Europeans. The Confirmation will take place at 2 p.m. so as to enable the natives to get back to their homes. The Bishop of Wellington will conduct a Mission in All Saints’ Church tomorrow evening at 7.30 His Lordship wishes to meet all the chuichpeople. The Mission will be for one night only as the Bishop has Confirmations in Wanganui.

Mr P. Robert, whose wife and two children were drowned on Sunday, is one ot the pioneer settlers at the local seaside resort. Although a resident of Palmerston, he has for some years spent a good deal of his time at the seaside, and has erected a very comfortable and commodious residence on the water front. He has spent a considerable sum of money on improvements to his section, and is one of those band of Palmerstoniaus who have done so much to popularise Te Wharaugi. Great sympathy is felt for him in the great calamity which has overtaken him. He is still suffering from shock.

It is expected that the session may end to-morrow. The big Taupo laud and railway proposal is likely to meet with strenuous opposition, but it has been stated that the concession can be made by means of Order-in-Couucil, without introducing a Bill or consulting Parliament in any way. Though the session is not yet at an end, and important business remains to be done, some members ate already leaving for their homes. Mr Jennings—whose Opposition opponent is said to be making good headway—has already left for his constituency. Mr Vernon Reed, the member for the Hay of Islands, also left Wellington on Saturday.

What about the real live Father Christmas at the Caruival on Friday and Saturday nights. Let the children speak to hitu. :::