LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1098, 25 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The municipal pictures attracted very large audiences during the holidays, and the films were much appreciated. Kensitites entered St. Matthew’s Church at Sheffield and carried off a life-sized figure of the Virgin. They then took train for York, where they delivered the statue at the Archbishop’s palace, demanding him to stop ritualism. A clergyman in Keokuk, lowa, while waiting for a train at a railway station, was accosted by a couple who requested him to marry them. He saw his train approaching, and he married the couple in the following brief manner Do you want one another?” Both replied “Yes.” “Well, then, have one another.” In regard to the Hon. J. A. Millar’s supposed intended resignation, the Gore Ensign recalls a rumour iu current political circles prior to the last general election when it was understood that the management of a large commercial business in Sydney, at a salary believed to be in the neighbourhood of ,£2,000 per annum, was placed at his disposal, ihe paper states that it is almost certaiu that Mr Millar will resign.

The schools throughout the district re-open on Monday next, 29th instant. The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee takes place this evening at 7.30 o’clock. Mr and Mrs L. J. .Currie, ot Wanganui, paid a brief visit to Foxton last week.

At the Druids Sports at Shannon on Monday, E. Alzdorf won the 130 yards handicap off six yards (virtually scratch), and also ran second in the halt mile handicap.

On our fourth page to-day will be found the following interesting reading matter; —“lmpressions of Queensland ” and “ Tripoli Useless.’’ It is somewhat of a coincidence that a trophy presented by the licensed Victuallers’ Association, of Palmerston North, in connection with the Federation Pigeonflying match, should have been won by a bird called “Ginger Ale,’’ belonging to a loft in the “ dry” area of Masterton. It is not generally known that it costs less to entertain the Governor than it does Eady Islington. A Parliamentary return just published shows that the expenses incurred in connection with the reception of Eord Islington were ,£27 5s 6d, and the reception of Eady Islington, ,£lO4 ! The retail price oi butter in Wellington is to be increased one penny per pound. This decision was arrived at by the wholesale merchants and is said to be in sympathy with the high prices ruling in Eondou and Vancouver. It is understood on good authority that Mr Skerrett, K.C., has been retained in connection with the effort that is to be made to test the validity of the recent Maori licensing poll, by which it was decided that liquor is not to be sold to natives in the Horouta district. Unless upset, tfis decision takes effect a month from the date of the declaration, which was made on the 12th inst. Mr Frederick William Koberstein, of Rongotea, died on Sunday, aged 94 years. Arriving in the district in 1876, he was one of the pioneers of the district, and literally carved his home out of the bush- Of a strong constitution, he had never known what sickness was, and it was only three days beiore his death, with old age telling its tale, that he was confined to his bed. He leaves a family of five sous and one daughter. It was, says a writer in the Taranaki News, a Maori race meeting, and the last race of the day. The judge had been breasting the bar all the afternoon, and it was only with difficulty that he kept his position on top of the beer barrel as the noddies rushed up the straight. A white, a bay and a black horse were in a bunch, and flashed past locked together. Henare seemed puzzled. “What won?” roared the crowd. “By cripee !” said Henare, “I thinkish te piebald horse every time !” The highly unpopular Californian thistle is being treated tor ensilage in the south by way of experiment. The experiment is being carried out by Mr Dibble, of the Fields Instruction Staff of the Agricultural Department, on the farm of Mr C- Anderson, at Balclutha. The stack in question is being built entirely of the thistle, which had grown so large and heavy that it was cut with a reaper and binder. Arrangements have been made for several more stacks about the district. In another stack wheat, oats and Californian thistle have been used.

A big Opposition rally was held at Hamilton on Tuesday night. Niue members of Parliament were present. Mr Massey was unable to attend. Messsrs Herries, Newman and xMalcolm expressed faith in Mr Massey as a leader, and while believing that he would be Premier, yet the position of the Reform Party in Parliament would at first be precarious, and progress would of necessity be slow. They urged the party and followers to stick logetner and, in view of the fact that there might soon be another election, to organise, which should be their motto. Some of the evidence that is being given before the Totalisaior Commission is highly interesting and amusing. The remarks about the honesty of the sport are exceedingly edifying, but mainly humbug. The sport of horseracing is rotten from the rhind to the core—and everybody knows it. When a man goes on to a racecourse he has simply to take his chances of being swindled. If he escapes being victimised he is lucky. If he is victimised he must grin and bear it. It is his own fault if he ran into danger.— Eltham Argus. The food value of walnuts, says the Rancet, is very high ; they are very rich in fat, containing as much as 63 per cent., while proteins amount to nearly x 6 per cent. It has been calculated that thirty large walnut kernels contain as much fat as alb. of lean beef, and yet the walnut is used as a supplement to a square meal, added to this the glass of port, say 2 fluid ounces, contains, besides 180 grains of alcohol. 70 grains of grape sugar. In the combination, therefore, we have all the elements which make for a complete dish, namely fat, protein, carbohydrate, to which may be added mineral salts. Port and walnuts after a meal, are, therefore, from a nutritive point of view, “ridiculous excess.”

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Mr Jack Arnst, the well-known cyclist, and brother of Mr Richard Arnst, the world’s champion sculler, was a passenger from England by the Tainui, which arrived in Wellington yesterday. Official notice of the resignation of Bishop Mules from the see of Nelson was conveyed to the Primate of New Zealand, Bishop Nevill, on his arrival in New Zealand by the Tainui yesterday, Mr C. A. Pownall, barrister and solicitor, oi Masterton, and several times Mayor of the town, died yesterday afternoon after a long illness, at the age of forty-seven. The late Mr Pownall was very popular throughout the Wairarapa. His funeral will take place to-morrow. Mrs Pownall died about a year ago.

At Wellington, yesterday afternoon, a wharf labourer named Robert White committed suicide at his lodgings. White was a single man, forty years of age. He was to have been married at the end of this month, but his fiancee broke off the engagement about a fortnight ago, and since that time the deceased had been very despondent. Yesterday he went to his bedroom and cut bis throat with a pen-knife.

Considerable interest attached to the fact that the police in a case of robbery at Greymouth called a boy, aged seven, to give evidence against his father. Counsel for accused contended that such a course was utterly without precedent. The police, however, insisted on the boy giving bis evidence, and the Magistrate consented to taking the lad’s evidence lor what it was worth. It is not often that a swarm of bees is to be seen in a main thoroughfare. A few mornings ago a swarm landed on a post near a tobacconist shop in a New Zealand town, and passers-by seemed to prefer the pavement on the opposite side of the street. A gentleman who was pacing in a car suddenly got off, went to the nearest shop, purchased a box, then quietly walked up to the bees, lifted the swarm in his hands, and dropped them in his rough hive, caught the next car, and went on his way rejoicing.

The grizzly bear, which severely mauled his trainer in Christchurch the other day during a performance at Wirth’s Circus, has been purchased for the Wellington Zoo tfor and is to reside now at Newtown Park. A considerable portion of the purchase mo aey was collected by public subscription. Every month further additions are being made to the zoo, which attracts hundreds of visitors to Wellington. The park has been beautified during the past few years almost out of recognition and it is now one of Wellington’s special attractions.

Early rising was insisted on in the will of John Sergeant, a wealthy merchant of Eeicested. He left his fortune to his nephews, requiring them, if they wished to retain it, to prove to his executors that they had riisen at 5 a.m. in summer and had employed t hemselves either in open-air exercise, study, or business till 8 a.m. and at 7 a.m. in winter, occupying themselyes in like manner till 9 a.m. Illness alone was to excuse them, and in that case the missing days were to be made up by instalments, adding a halfhour to each day after they recovered. The bequests were in the form of annuities, so that they could be withheld if any infringement of the conditions was shown.

It would appear that race meetings are good places for persons wanted by the police to keep away from. At the local meeting, two men for whom warrants were out were arrested by Detective Sweeney. Both men were taken to Palmerston North and brought before the Magistrate there on Tuesday. Frank Bliss was charged that about August 15th, 1911, at Christchurch, he did obtain from Charles Edward Good the sum of £1 4s 6d by false pretences. On the application of the police he was remanded to appear at Christchurch to-day. A charge was preferred against the other man arrested, William Hilbury, of having failed to provide for his illegitimate child at Timaru. Accused was remanded to appear at Timaru on January 26th.

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