LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1097, 23 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

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

The local Racing Club entertained a number of race-horse owners on Sunday by a trip to the heads in Mr Daniells’ motor launch.

Steady progress is being made by the contractor with the Beach road. Most of the culverts have been constructed, and the formation and metalling is well forward, “Going to the races?” remarked a resident to a local tradesman on Saturday. “ No,” replied the business man, “but my money will be well represented there, as I noticed quite a number of my creditors going that way.’’ A large number of people visited the seaside on Sunday and yesterday, and numbers of people of both sexes indulged in a dip in the briny. One visitor remarked that it is the finest beach for bathing purposes he has yet visited. According to the Nelson Mail, Mr H. Atmore, M.P. for Nelson, has received an invitation to attend the Reform Party demonstration at the Auckland Town Hall on the 24th instant, and to take a seat on the platform and address the meeting. Our contemporary states that Mr Atmore has replied declining the invitation to attend and speak from the Reform Party platform as a party man.

A run 011 the bank is generally associated with a financial crisis or panic. Neither of these causes were responsible for the run on the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand on Saturday morning last. The oublic lined up at the counter several deep, and the teller was kept extremely busy converting cheques into coin of the realm and notes. The money in most cases was apparently required for totalisator investments. There were no marked increases, however, in three-penny pieces and sixpences at the church collections on Sunday. Great alterations and additions have been made to the Himatangi railway station. The goods shed has been moved to a more convenient position, and a new loading bank erected, while the cattle yards have been increased, and the loading conveniences improved, and the station brought generally up-to-date, so as to be in keeping with the increased importance of the district. These improvements are the result of an agitation on the part of a number of Himatangi settlers who subsequently laid the matter before Mr Newman M.P., who had the work done without unnecessary loss of time.

The rats examined during last year by the New South Wales Bureau of Microbiology with a view to delecting in them any reappearance of plague and tor observations upon flea prevalence — also important in relation to plague —have furnished another specimen suffering from what is known as “ rat leprosy.” This condition in the rat is very closely resemblant to leprosy in human beings, both as regards the signs of the disease and the microbe which is the presumtive cause; but at the pre- sent moment it is impossible to make any definite pronouncement as to the identity of the in the two classes of animals. The disease, at all events, in an obvious form, must be very rare among rats, since, notwithstanding an examination which could scarcely fail to detect it, only three animals suffering from it have been found amongst 236,506 rats which have passsed under Ihe scruting during the last ten years. The disease has also been recorded in Victoria.

Try Cook and Co. for good Meat Only the best supplied.*

Perreau’s Family Cake is the cake for quality. Have you tried one.*

If you want to do well, live well keep well, eat well and look well — eat Perreau’s Bermaline Bread.*

The s.s. Queen of the South and s.s. Gertie are expected to arrive to-morrow with cargoes of general merchandise from Wellington, and the Kennedy with coal from Westport,

Hubener, formerly employed at the Austrian Embassy in Loudon, and suspec.ed of a jewel robbery at the Embassy, was lound in a Congregational Church in Volmer Square. The police attempted to arrest him, whereupon he committed suicide with a revolver.

The Reform party’s rally, to be held in the Auckland Town Hall to-morrow, promises to be the largest political gathering of the kind ever held in the Dominion. Sixteen members of Parliament, at least, will be present, the principal speaker being Mr Massey. A very large number of tickets have already been issued, and demands for more are coming from all parts ol New Zealand. Tommy Burns, interviewed at Auckland, prior to his departure by the Marama, stated that he was in light training. His injured leg is gaining strength, and he hopes be quite fit shortly. He will return from Calgary, Canada, where he has business, in four months. If McVea beats Barry Burns will challenge him. He does not think there is any “White Hope” on the horizon, but he strongly praised the Australian lightweights. Regarding the Bible in Schools question, the Primitive Methodist Conference sitting at Christchurch has decided: “That this Conference of the Primitive Methodist Church while declaring its emphatic and uncompromising opposition to any form ot sectarian teaching in our State schools, refers the whole question of Bible iustiuction therein to the Public Questions Committee, to draw up a report to be submitted to the ensuing District Synod for their consideration, and that a report on the matter be submitted to the next Conference.

At the inquiry into the May Queen mining tatality at the Thames, a verdict was returned that no blame was attachable to anyone, and that the part played by Crowley and James was deserving oi high recognition by the Humane Society. The Coroner also added a rider that the stopping and re-starting ot the Roots blower, used to ventilate the deep levels, should be notified to all mines connected therewith. Steps are being taken to secure for Crowley the King Edward medal. At the Hokitika Borough Council meeting last week, tenders were received for the erection of a sexton’s cottage. There were four tenders, and the lowest was that of a councillor. A discussion then arose as to the legal position, and the tenderer was informed by the Mayor that if his tender were accepted he, as a councillor, would become liable under the Act, which prohibits members of public bodies from participating in contracts, The councillor then handed in his resignation. The tenders} (the lowest of which was were referred to the Mayor and the chairman of the Works Committee, so that the legal position could be ascertained before any definite action was decided upon. A correspondent writes to the Condon Times, under date 23rd November:—“ln your obituary columns this morning there will be found what must be nearly a record. Five persons attained to age's between 80 and 90, and five more to ages between 90 and 100. The aggregate of these ten pelsous amounted to 880 years, giving an average of 88 years apiece. Curiously enough, nine out of the ten were ladies.” Commenting on the letter, The Times remarks; “In our obituary notices to-day (November 24th) there are those ot eight persons whose ages make a total of 692 years, and whose average age is 86 years.”