LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1076, 30 November 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The many friends of Mr S. H. Baker, late of Foxtou, will regret to learn of the death of his mother which took place at Eketahuua on Tuesday. The funeral took place at Foxtou to-day. A kitchen tea in honour of Miss Mairs was given by Mrs Bullard yesterday afternoon. There was a large number present at the gathering and the gifts were numerous and useful. A very pleasant time was spent.

The support accorded the Saturday afternoon matinees in connection with the Municipal Pictures has not come up to expectations, and the manager has decided to discontinue them for the present. It is probable they will be given another trial later on. Mr Stanley Wauklyu, who has been transferred from the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand to the Palmerston branch, was entertained by a number of friends at a social in the Masonic Hall last night. He was also the recipient of a travelling rug from a number of townspeople. Mr Wauklyu asks us to express his thanks to the promoters for their mark of esteem and good wishes. The Kuglish correspondent of the Guardian, who saw Sir James Mills at Plymouth on October 18, on the occasion of the Tahiti’s departure on her initial trip to New Zealand stales that it is understood that the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand intends utilising the Panama Canal for a New Zealand-Uoudou passenger route, and is getting ready accordingly. The ’P'risco boats are likely to be utilised for the Canal trade. July 13, 1913, is the dale now named lor the completion of the great work, and the new route will bring New Zealand much nearer Loudon — that is an all-sea route without transhipment. It has been stated that the new San Francisco mail service, which is to be conducted by the Spreckels’s liners, will not include Auckland as a port of call. Mr Percy Hunter, director of the New South Wales Immigration and Tourist Bureau, who is a through passenger from Vancouver to Sydney on the Zealaudia, is, however, of opinion that the steamers will call at Auckland. “ While in San Francisco,” said Mr Hunter to a Herald reporter, “I saw the John D. Spreckeis people with reference to the project oi re-establishing their line from San Francisco to Sydney. There is every prospect of the line being put on again. I should think the steamers will call at Auckland, in spite of what has been said to the contrary, and do the trip from San Francisco to Sydney in twenty days. I xnow the Spreckeis people are anxious to include Auckland.” Byron Brown talked a Civil Service Board six years ago. He is still harping on the same string.* If you want the best meat at lowest possible prices, tell Cook and Co. to call. Customers waited on daily.*

Byron Brown believes in the equality of natural ©pportunity, and he would give it to every child.*

All Saints’ Garden Fete has been postponed till the middle of January. We have received, and desire to acknowledge, a.voluntary donation of ros towards the State school prize fund from an anonymous dlouor. The manager requests all ladies occupying seats in the dress circle at picture shows to kindly leave their hats in the dressing room provided for that purpose as persons sitting behind them are quite unable to see anything of the pictures. At the conclusion of a candidate’s address in a Taranaki wayback district, one of those present said ha knew a man who had taken up land seventeen years ago. After that time, and alter living on his section for that number of years, he got married, and when he brought his wife home he had to tie her to a pack saddle, and then, as he neared home and the road got steeper and steeper, she became so frightened he bad to blindfold her.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning James Rogers, a witness in the charge of alleged bieach of the Licensing Act heard at the previous sitting, asked the Magistrate if he was entitled to witness’ expenses for that day. Constable Woods said that the statement made by Rogers when first interviewed, and his evidence in the box were entirely different and the sub-inspector had consequently refused to allow him expenses. The Magistrate told Rogers that it was a police matter, and if he desired to prosecute it further he could write to the Commissioner of Police in Wellington. Parliament needs a few businesslike fellows who can tell the difference between assets and liabilities. Vote for Byron Brown.*