LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1067, 9 November 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be a meeting of All Saints’ Vestry to-night at 8 o’clock. The annual inspection of the local State school took place today, by, Messrs Milne and Stewart. Mr John Stevens, ex-M.F. lor Mauawatu, is at present on a visit to Foxton. Mr Hall-Jones, one of the speakers at the meeting to be held in the Coronation Hall on Sunday evening, is a son of Sir William Hall-Jones, New Zealand’s High Commissioner; he is the Wellington University candidate lor the Rhodes Scholarship, and is this year's Fluuket medallist tor oratory. The other University students are young men of marked ability and scholarship, and there should be a very large audience to hear them. We arc asked to state that tim meeting is absolutely unseclariau ana mere will be no charge lor admission. For primes! Beef and Mutton and dairy fed Pork, try Cook and Co.* W hen the voter has accepted a bribe, he has dissolved the pearl of independence in the vinegar of obligation. Vote for Byrun Brown.*

At a meeting held last night it was decided to entertain Mr E. Newman, M.P., at a valedictory social at an early date, and a committee was set up to make all the necessary arrangements. An Ulster liberal Unionist manifesto has been issued stating that if Home Rule is imposed without appeal to the electorates the inhabitants would be justified in resisting. If Ulster be plunged into civil war, the responsibility would be with the Premier and Cabinet, who are blindly supporting the measure. A general meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Coronation Hall supper room to-morrow night at 7.30 o’clock. As business of an important nature, in connection with the forthcoming spring show, to be held on the 22nd and 23rd insts. will be discussed, a full "attendance of members is requested.

Sub-Inspector Norwood has received a pathetic inquiry from an old lady in Christchurch, aged 94 years, who is trying to find some trace of her sou, Charles Haughey, whom she wishes to see, so she states, before she dies. Charles Haughey, it appears, was in the Palmerston district last February, but his whereabouts are not at present known.

The new reformatory farm for State prisoners, which is being established at Tokanui, near Kihikihi, in the Waikato, will, it is hoped by the Minister for Justice, Sir John Findlay, be opened and in working order before the general elections come on. Work is progressing satisfactorily, and the results of this reformative institution are expected to be farreaching.

The parent of a child attending a school in the Forty-Mile Bush applied to the Wellington Education Board recently for permission to keep his child from school for one hour in each week, to enable it to take music lessons. The Board decided to inform the parent that it had no power to grant the permission asked for.

Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, speaking at the Non-conformist Unionist Association banquet, in Eondou, declared that the whole plausibility of the administrative argument for Home Rule was based on the experience of Australia and the United States and Canada, but it was a different thing to start from unity and go to the federal system. The Government proposed to give privileges to the Irish which were denied the English and Scotch. If a dependent Parliament were granted it would soon become independent. The Representation Commissioners are to be approached by the Eevin Chamber of Commerce with a request to have the name of the Otaki electorate altered to something better descriptive of the district. It is pointed out that Otaki is at present an unimportant part of the whole, thoughjouce the only town in the district. The Chanuxi suggests calling the electorate tiie Horowhenua electorate, after the County in which four-fifths of the constituency is situated, and suggests the transference ot headquarters to Eevin, which is now the principal town and the most centrally situated one in the electorate.

In his address at Feildiug on Friday night, the Rev R. B. S. Hammond referred to a full page advertisement which appeared in a Wellington paper giving a number of pictures of Mastertou business premises which are represented as being empty as the result of No-Riceuse. Mr Hammond said he had been in Masterton that morning, and he had investigated the matter. He found that in one case the premises had never been closed at all, in another there were two pictures of one building,' taken from different positions to make them appear like two buildings. In another case the photograph of the place was apparently taken while the shutters were up on account of the death of the proprietor. The whole advertisement was so misleading and false that, forgetting he was a parson, he would say the best way to reply to it was to print across it, “The Liquor Party are damned liars!’’ Mr H. McManaway, who was in the audience, afterwards said at the meeting that he had sent the matter tor the advertisement, and he would give £2 5 to the Hospital if what he had sent was found to be untrue. He had not seen the paper. Mr Hammond retorted that if the paper had published something he had not sent he hoped Mr McManaway would prosecute the paper lor libel. As far as the facts were concerned, he would nominate the Alayor of Feildiug —whom he did not know - and Mr McManaway could nominate a man, and let the two investigate. Mr McManaway nominated the Rev G. Budd. Arrangements were leu in the hands 01 these gentlemen.

Perreau’s Milk Loaf is the Loaf of the day. Try it. _ Pariiament needs a few businesslike fellows who can tell the difference between assets and liabilities. Vote for Byron Brown.* Perreau’s Family Cake is the cake for quality. Have you treid one.* The man who has never made a mistake has never made anything eise. Vote for Byron Brown.* To escape criticism; Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Byron Brown will say, do, and be.* You can easily get rid of that cold by taking Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion—from all chemists and stores, is 6d, 2s 6s qd, 6d. 4 If you want to be up early these dark mornings, buy one of Parke’s alarm clocks A good selection to ohoose from *

The receipts of the T. E. Taylor memorial fund total ,£2396 19s Bd, and a further sum of ,£425 is to come from Auckland.

Members of the local Masonic Dodge will entertain Bro. Rev. G. K. Aitkeu at a valedictory social in Mr M. Perreau’s rooms, on Tuesday evening next. A meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday, November 13th, 1911, at 7.30 o’clock. Business : General. The Palmerston North District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board i meets at Palmerston North to-day. Mr Hornblow has beenelected to represent Foxton in place of Mr A. Speirs. A single man named Charles Forbes, 33 years of age, was run over by a truck at the Patutahi quarry, Gisborne, on Tuesday afternoon and died within half an hour.

Haggerston Castle, in Beal, Northumberland, belonging to Mr Christopher Ueyland, J.P., and containing a number of valuable pictures, has been destroyed by lire. The damage is estimated at ,£IOO,OOO.

A man named Gaul, of Paddington, Eoudon, was found dead in a van last month. Earlier in the evening he had made a wager that he would drink thirteen halfpints of beer in less than ten minutes. He won the wager, drinking the beer in seven minutes.

Accordiug to advices received in Sydney, Maggie Papakura’s Maori troupe, at present in England, is in desperate straits. Though they possess return tickets, they have uo means ot earning their living till the steamer sails, on November nth. The Australian syndicate which financed them lost between ,£y,ooo and ,£IO,OOO in the venture-

Mrs Stewart, Chairwoman of the Committee in connection with the Children's Ball has received the following letter from Mr J. A. Nash, Mayor of Palmerston: ‘ ‘ Allow me to thank you and your committee for your thoughtiulness in sending the proceeds of the recent ball for the Children’s Ward at the Hospital. I can assure you the people of Palmerston will keenly appreciate your kindly action. The amount will carry a subsidy of 24s in the £. 1 have also to thank you for your expressions ot sympathy with those who have so recently been bereaved of their loved ones.”

Try Cook and C o. for good Meat. Only the best supplied.* Folks who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do. Vote for Byron Brown.* New Zealand is making headway in spite of its professional politicians ; not because of them. Vote for Byron Brown.*

Bring along your bottle and try our bulk sauce. Best quality of all colonial sauces. Try a bottle and see for yourself, 5s qd per gallon, large bottles is, Thomas Rimmer.*