LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1096, 20 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Peter Campbell was the victim of an accident at Owaka, Dunedin, on Thursday, which resulted in one of his hands being torn off. Tee Salvation Army will conduct services in the Masonic Hall to-morrow at 11 a.m, 3 and 7 p.m. Each service will be preceded by an open air meeting. To-morrow the services in All Saints’ Church will be: 8 a.m. Holy Communion, 11 a.m. matins and sermon, 7 p.m. evensong and sermon.

The fortune-telling business must be booming in Auckland. An Auckland paper last week contained advertisements from nine of these pretenders who profit by the credulity of the public.

There is a considerable demand at present in the South Island for Holstein cattle, and a buyer is now in the Manawatu district making purchases. “ The year just ended is the first during the last 20 years in which a boat has not gone ashore.” This was a paragraph from the report submitted by the pilot of the Patea Harbour Board at its last meeting. Mr R. McLennan, of Waituna, has sold his fleeces, just shorn, to an American buyer at nd per lb. There are about 150 bales of splendid Romney wool in the clip, full of yolk and beautifully serrated.

Alfred Ivery, aged 36 years, a farmer at Fairview, near Timaru, was found dead ou the road yesterday morning. The previous night he went out riding a young horse and was thrown and dragged some distance. When found he had been dead some hours.

The inquest at Thames ou a Chinaman named Ah Ken aged 30 years, who shot himself in the mouth with a revolver, showed that deceased had been in bad health for some time, and his relatives had decided to send him back to China. The night before he killed himself he was heard walking on the verandah outside the house muttering all night. Harry Field, aged 45 years, a single man, a carter employed by the Public Works Department, met with a serious accident at Rakauroa, near Gisborne, ou Thursday. Field was driving an empty dray along a narrow road when the horse shied and precipitated the vehicle over a cliff, and all tell 70 feet; to the bottom. The man was thrown clear of the dray, but received serious injury to his back, and was badly bruised.' The services at the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev T. Coatsworth, and in the evening by the Rev P. J. Mairs. No doubt many of Mr Mairs’ old friends will be pleased of the opportunity to once again hear him. The Rev T. Coatsworth will conduct service at Himatangi at 2.30 p.m., and at Foxton Beach at 7 p.m.

The weather is overcast ior the opening day of the Foxton meeting and there is a keen westerly wind blowing. The stewards have left no stone unturned to make the meeting a success, and there is a great improvement in the public appointments. All the hotel and boardinghouse accommodation is taxed to its utmost and the special train brought hundreds of visitors. The course is in first-class order and some excellent racing should be witnessed.

’Xmas Hams! ’Xmas Hams. Factory cured, from 9s 6d to lis 6d per ham. Buy one before they are ail sold, T. Rimmer.*

The Rev. Mr Fiadlayson will conduct the services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow.

Messrs Barton, Bros?’ Circus, comprising over 40 people, will show in Foxton early in February.

Of the 6 1 /2 million persons who voted at the last general election in Great Britain, 41,710 were unable to read.

Mass will be celebrated in the local Roman Catholic Church at 8.30 a.m. to-morrow by the Rev, Father Kelly.

It is understood that the Masterton labour Party intend to run candidates at the next Borough Council election, and also in the Mayoral contest. It is estimated that fully 50,000 acres of bush have been felled in the King Countay during the past year. The weather, however, has made early burns impossible.

Good table chickens and ducklings are being retailed in Christchurch at the present time at from 10s to 12s per pair, reports an exchange. This is said to be a record price for the Dominion.

We would remind our readers of the splendid holiday picture programmes at the Coronation Town Hall, both to-night and Monday night. Entire change of films each night. Mr Edward Newman M.P., will be amongst those who will deliver addresses at the meeting to be held by the Reform Party in the Town Hall Auckland, on January 24th. A company with a capital of £2,500,000 has beeu formed in England to acquire the patents of the Perrautit system of softening and purifying water, and the Lumiuator patents for preventing scale in pipes and boilers. Burglars have been busy in Auckland of late, and several successful and unsuccessful attempts to deprive citizens of property have been made. In one instance a tailor’s shop was broken into and suits valued at between £3O and £4O were taken. A report on the Bendigo (Victoria) cemetery reveals a shockingly insanitary state of affairs. Vaults full of water overflowed into a creek supplying residents with drinking water. Paupers’ coffins were found within sixteen inches of the surface, and so flimsy as to be unable to bear the weight of the covering of earth.

Mrs Shaw’s brother, Mr Joe Lee, of Sydney, died last week and left her the sum of ,£9OOO and an estate of 23,000 acres of land. Mr and Mrs Shaw and family are leaving Feilding early in March for Sydney to look over their property, says the Star. All sorts! of votes are passed now-a-days by local bodies. The latest is recorded by the Marlborough Express, which states that the felicitations of the Wairau Hospital Board were tendered to Mr J. J. White by the chairman in connection with his recent marriage and were recorded on rhe minute book.

Mr Arthur Way, of Marton, has been presented by Mr Edward Newman, for whom he acted as secretary during the election campaign for the Raugitikei seat, with a gold watch inscribed as follows : —“ To Arthur Way, as a mark of appreciation for services rendered at General Election, Rangitikei, N.Z., Bth December, 1911, from Edward Newman.”

It is probable that Jack Johnson will fight a 10-rouud bout with some second-rater before May. “I think,” said Johnson, “that it would be good practice for me to mix it with some fighter before I meet Jim Flynn. The work would be easy, and I would get for my trouble.” Flynn has left for Toronto where he will meet AI Kubiak on January 17th,

A well-known farmer in the Temuka district in a conversation with a newspaper representative, said that he heard that a very severe blight was overtaking the Californian thistle, and was spreading very rapidly throughout th<s Dominion. No doubt farmers will be glad to hear this, as the Californian thistle has been a source of much trouble to them for some years past. Landlords always find reason to grumble at the want of care in the treatment oi their premises by tenants, but perhaps a case which is reported locally is unique in its facts (says the Eltham Argus). This tenant hud a mania for shooting minabs, and with a pea rifle he popped away at them whenever the birds settled on the roof ot the dwelling. The result is best expressed by the landlord himself when he got up through the manhole in the ceiling looking for the cause of the leak. “I’m hanged,” he said, “if it wasn’t riddled like a pepper-pot.” And as if to add insult to injury the culprit left and didn’t even pay the rent.

Fanners are a quite contented class at present, says the Balclutha Free Press. Crops, although later than last year, are looking really splendid, and a big harvest is anticipated. Oats and wheat crops are hedge high, and are filling well. Turnips sown ten days ago are reported to be doing wellbetter than those sown in the dry spring. Grass, , which a few weeks back was very much retarded, is coming away well, and there is abundant feed. In fact the appearance of the country generally just now gives one the impression of spring in place of summer.

For primest Beef and Mutton and dairy fed Pork, try Cook and Co.

Roslyn Blankets, Rugs, Tweeds, Worsteds, Suits, Hosiery, Unshrinkable Flannel and Underwear, “Delta” finish. The best that money can buy.*

A sevea teen-year-old schoolboy at the Grammar School at Suezaiva, in Hungary, fired four shots, fatally wounding M. Mokranski, mathematical master, whose severity had angered the class. The boy immediately committed suicide with a revolver.