LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1092, 11 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A pure white sparrow was recently discovered in the Temuka district. The Irieuds of Mrs Saunders sen., of Moutoa, will regret to hear that the old lady is iu a very precarious state of health.

On our fourth page to-day will be found the following reading matter: “News and Notes,” “Mr Churchill’s trip in a Submarine,” and “Borough Finances.” The latest rumour in political circles iu Wellington is that it is the intention of Sir Joseph Ward to retire, and that his seat (Awarua) will be sought for by Mr Robert McNab.

Charged with incurring debts and liabilities with no reasonable expectations of paying, a man was found guilty at Auckland and sentenced to four mouths’ imprisonment.

Good progress is being made by the contractors with additions to the Moutoa school, which is being considerably enlarged. The enlarged school should do away with the necessity for a side school at Walden’s corner. “He is a non-smoker. That means a saving of an hour a day,” remarked a Councillor at the meeting of the Clifton County Council, when discussing qualifications for the important post of surfaceman. The non-smoker got the job. If you want to do well, live well keepwell, eat , well and look well—eat Perreau’s Bermaline Bread.* If in want of Birthday, Wedding or other gifts, go to Parkes’, the jeweller, the shop for presents.*

T. Riramer has a full stock of goods for ’Xmas presents. Call in and we will show you round.* '

The s.s. Queen of the South arrived from Wellington yesterday with a cargo of general merchandise, and left again at one o’clock to-day.

The crops of oats and barley in the. Moutoa district this year are particularly good and furnish another instance of the fertility of the soil in this part of the country. The Rev J. C. Young, who we understand is a candidate for the vacancy in the Foxton charge of the Presbyterian Church, will conduct the morning service locally on Sunday next. A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Town Hall supper room to-night at 8 o’clock, to pass the catalogue lor the autumn show.

A meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday, 15th inst., at 10.30 o’clock. Business : To meet Mr E. G. West at Coronation Town Hall re completion ot same.

It is surprising to what depths some people will fall in order to obtain a lew shillings or a drink. Someone entered the Methodist Church at Palmerston last Monday and stole a bottle of sacramental wine and a number of communion cups.

At Monday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council the Inspector of Police forwarded an account for the burial of a man found in the Manawatu river at Foxton Heads. The Council decided to send the account 10 the Foxton Borough Council. A great anti-Home Rule protest meeting was held at Omagh last week. Twenty thousand filed past. The Marquis of Hamilton and Sir E. Carson made rousing speeches against separation, and threats of violent resistance to Mr Redmond’s yoke.

Considerable surprise appeared on a business man’s face at Whangarei the other morning when a Maori who had made a few purchases, coolly tendered a cheque for for payment. Needless to say the till and shopkeeper’s pockets failed to produce the requisite change. Wellington bank officials report that there are a number of spurious half - sovereigns in circulation which are very apt to deceive the unwary. They are sixpenny pieces well gilded, and with the value on the “reverse” side smoothed so that the word sixpence is obliterated. A young man, John William Wood, single, a native of England, was found dead on Monday in an outbuilding at the rear of where he was staying in Roebuck Road, Gisborne. Wood was until lately accountant for F. Hall and Sons, but since leaving has been out of employment and leading an intemperate life.

A Pahiatua settler who is intimately connected with the dairying industry predicts that with the good prices ruling for dairy produce, there will be a keen demand lur farms in ilie Bush district during next season. He would not be surprised it some of the flats reached per acre* — Pahiatua Herald.

To what extent a family may multiply within the period of a single life time is shown by the case of an oldtime Lady Temple of Stow, who nursed her seven hundredth descendant before she died ; and even more striking is the famous Kentucky family of Webb, of whom three brothers, and as many sisters, all living a few years ago, counted their descendants to the amazing number of 1650. How soon the pleasure of a summer afternoon may be spoiled was fully proved at the East End on Sunday afternoon, says the New Plymouth News. A lady dressed in fashion’s latest style, silk dress picture hat, and summer parasol, was standing upon a log with the waves playing at her feet and making a pretty picture. The scene was suddenly changed by a wave a little bigger than the rest causing the log to roll, and the lady and all that was pretty was mixed with water, sand and log. She Says she. will not forget her visit to New Plymouth.

The Knyvett case may have gone, but it has not been forgotten. Did it ever strike anybody that this cause celebre played a prominent,'if indited, part in the recent elections ? The Hon. George Fowlds, who was a member of the Cabinet that ruthlessly turned Knyvett down, was defeated by a political nonentity in Grey Lynn; while Sir John Findlay, another member of that same Cabinet, received a severe drubbing in Parnell at the hands of J. S. Dickson, who was chairman of the Knyvett Defence Committee ; and public feeling was clearly against Sir Joseph Ward. Of a verity, time brings its revenge.—Observer.