LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1000, 30 January 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Moutoa Drainage Board will meet on Friday next, at 7,45 p.m, Business: general,

We remind our readers of the Garden Fete to be held at All damis’ vicarage to-morrow aiternoon and evening. The tele will be opened by His Worship the Mayor at 3 o’clock. During the afternoon there will be sports and various competitions, and in the evening a grand concert will be given, at which the Motuiti Maori choir will assist. The local orass band will be in attendance. Price of admission, one shilling.

A movement Is afoot to form a local branch of the Hibernian Society. The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow.

The friends of Mr O. F. Cook will regret to leam that he is at present confined to his bed with an attack ot appendicitis.

The Canadian Government has decided not to deal with the Ne Temere question in Parliament, but will instead take a case to the highest court.

A youth named Morgan, while bathing in Dane Cove River, Sydney, was seized by a shark. Two companions of the youth beat the monster off. Morgan, was fearfully mangled, however, and died. The local baud has been invited to tender for playing at the forthcoming sports meeting at Palmerston next month. The music provided by the band at the local race meeting was highly commented upon by visitors. The body of an infant was found in a creek at White Rock Christchurch, on Saturday. It had been nailed in a small box. Medical evidence at the inquest showed chat the child had been born two mouths previously and probably had never breathed. The potato crops in and around Foxton this year are particularly good and some very heavy crops are reported. Mr Andrew Jonson has a splendid show of Up-to-Dates, averaging, he says, about iSib of tubers to the root. Arthur Thomas Reid and George Armitage, who escaped from the prison gang at Mount Cook on Anniversary Day, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington last week. Armitage, who is 18 years old, is serving a sentence of three years’ reformative treatment for breaking and entering, was simply convicted, and Reid (.32) is serving two years' on 14 charges of breaking and entering, was ordered to be kept on bread and water for two days, and to forfeit one mouth’s good conduct marks.

At the Palmerston North 3.M. Court yesterday, two youths named Pearson and McSherry were charged with the theft of wiue from the Mission Hall and St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Pearson was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence‘on Saturday next while McSherry is to be placed in an industrial school. Leonard Harold Robinson, charged with receiving the stolen wine was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence next Saturday.

A progressive Liberal League is about to be formed in Levin. In February the electors will be called together, aud the general secretary has promised to come up from Wellington and put the league in operation. It will also have the support of Mr Field, who has promised to be present at the initial meeting. It is hoped the Liberal electors will take an interest in the meetings, lor no doubt as well as being interesting politically they will also be ot an instructive character.

Archbishop Carr, speaking at Warrnambool, said that a great crisis was approaching threatening the social, moral and religious interests of the people of every land, There was a socialism which tended to uplift the workingman. He ardentlv supported that. There was also the extreme Socialism which was largely identified with Anarchism, which acknowledged no law, morality or God. To that he was desperately opposed, A plaintiff in the Magistrate’s Court in Auckland asked for an adjournment of her case to enable her to get a solicitor. She seemed to regard it as a matter of much difficulty. “ I don't know any solicitors,” she said. “Oh,” said Mr Kettle, S.M., “if that’s all the trouble I can give you a list of them ; they’re plentiful enough in Auckland, goodness knows. I think there’s about 175 of them, and there are two sitting at the table now, either of whom will, no doubt, take up your case. In band contests, one professional player is allowed each competing band and Mr John Golder, local bandmaster, was asked to play solo cornet for the Gisborne band in the North Island Brass Bands annual contest to be held at Gisborne next month. Owing to some misunderstanding between the postal department and Mr Golder re the sending of a telegram, Mr Golder’s acceptance of the position, which he informs us he looked upon as a distinct honour, did not reach the Gisborne band committee, and Mr Berryman, ol Palmerston North, has been appointed in his stead.

Ask persistently for the Rosiyn Writing Tablets.* For priraest Beef and Mutton and dairy fed Fork, try Cook and Co.*

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

The most attractive. shop for toys of every description is Mrs Hamer’s. Have you seen the window display ?*

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

On our back page to-day will be found the following interesting reading matter; “Romance of a Fortune,” “The Insurance Act,” and “ Two Murders in Five Hours.”

The progressive and enterprising “paragraph writer” in the Otaki paper has the following : “Mr Archie Smith, of Otaki, has purchased a hearse, thus filling a long-felt want to the town and district!” a A Moscow student, who wantedflHf to commit suicide, took a dose of \ \ poison, then stood on the sill of a third storey window, and simultaneously shot himself with a revolver, and threw himself down. He managed it all right. The directors of the Wellington Opera House Co., have appointed the Hon. W. Pitt, of Melbourne, architect for the new Opera House to be erected in Wellington. The building will be the most up-to-date in the Dominion.

It has been stated that pyrethum grown at the foot of fruit trees is a sure cure for the codlin moth. The moth still seems to thrive in spite of numberless efforts to destroy it. The experiment should therefore be worth while trying. A London doctor, giving evidence at a Police Court, said within the last few years the standard of new-born children had increased both in weight and height. Children born during the last two years were undoubtedly . larger and longer than hitherto. A striking example of the value of advertising was furnished by the experience of a Stratford man. “Yesterday,” he told the reporter of the local paper, “I advertised in your paper for a pair of gold-mounted spectacles, and this morning I found them in my pocket. The use of profane language becomes a perfect habit with some men, and every second word is an oath. A few day ago (reports a Wairarapa paper) three men were talking within easy hearing of an accountant who was working on his books. He noticed the reiteration ot an oatu, and for curiosity sake put a mark on the wall each time the one particular oath was used. He kept tally for twenty minutes and then totalled up the list—seventy-six oaths. A striking tribute to the value of the press publicity was paid by Mr C. L. Conacher, traffic manager of the Cambrian Railways, when he presided ia?t month over the annual meeting of the Cambrian Resorts Association at Barmouth. “Newspaper advertising,” he said, “affords the best medium for bringing claims before the public. Advertising in the press is a sound, commercial investment. The public are impressed by its systematic, persistent appeal.” Our representative had the pleasure of inspecting the State school swimming baths at Glen Oroua yesterday afternoon. The baths are constructed of concrete, " and an artesion bore supplies an abundance of water, which can be regulated as to depth, etc. The baths are supplied with neat dressing sheds for boys and girls, the whole being enclosed with an iron fence. The cost of the baths was a little over half of which was obtained as a Coronation subsidy from the Government. Swimming lessons are given to the boys and girls on alternate days, and the youngsters look tor ward to a dip with pleasure. The late Mr John Sanson and Mr Ross were responsible for the erection of the baths, and the parents of the children subscribed liberally towards the object. It is hoped that Foxton will not be long in lollowmg Glen Oroua’s example. Once again we would remind our readers that to-morrow the 6th annual show of the Horowhenua A. and P. Association will be held at Levin. Holiday excursion fares will be granted, and with the large entries the show of 19x2 will be a record one. Over 250 horses ate competing, and the boys’ pony races are of great interest to the public. The jumping events will be represented by 50 horses, and in the ladies’ and gents.’ driving competitions over 30 ladies and gents, have entered. The finest lot of sheep ever yarded on the coast will be shown, and 200 pens will be competing, representing over 500 sheep. In dairy cattle 12 are competing lor the honour of the best cow, and altogether in the cattle classes 70 entries have been received. To those in want ot a good day’s outing and sport should not miss attending at Levin to-morrow.

If we kuovv but little about the Chinese they know less about us. Mr Hwang used to tell a good story against himself when he was in Wellington. When the Chinese Government decided that - alter all tue sons of Han in this tar laud should have some sort of representation, they sent Mr Hwang. He was at the legation in .London. ■' When I was ordered to New Zealand,” he used to say ” i asked, where is New Zealand? No one could tell me at the Legation. I looked all over the map of the world for New Zealand. 1 saw the United States (where I graduated as 8.A.), found Germany, Mexico, India, but no New Zealand. Then I went to the Lucyclopaedia Bntannica. That -• told me. Back to the map of the , I world again. Yes, there was New ' Zealand, sure enough, in the corner. I had overlooked it it was so small. But it was a revelation to me when I came a busy, prosperous, educated, warmhearted, intelligent people; a I lovely and a fertile country.’ It i was hard to find, and I am glad I found it. 6

Two Wellington milkmen were fined yesterday for having sold adulterated milk.

A Chinese storekeeper was fined at Wellington yesterday for selling bad tomatoes.

A footpad snatched a hand-bag from a lady at Masterton the other evening. Two other ladies were similarly treated. Mr J. Robertson. M.P., leaves Palmerston shortly for Levin, where he intends to take up his residence.

Mr laia te Whaiti, a wellknown Wairarapa chief, and Mrs Alice Mahupuku, wife of the late Tamahau Mahupuku, are on a visit to Foxton.

Mr Plermann Lewis has purchased 24,000 acres of pastoral country near the proposed route ot the East Coast railway at 30s per acre.

A final reminder is given of the auction sale of dairying land at Moutoa, to be held in the Coronation Hall by Messrs Hitchings, Hankins and Co., at 2 p.m. on Thursday.

The position in regard to the Wellington Tramway trouble remains the same. Two meetings of the union executive are to be held to-day. Public sympathy is dead against the union in its altitude.

The Wanganui Garrison Baud, which won the South Island championship at the Christchurch band contest, arrived home last evening, and received a warm welcome from several thousands of citizens.

There is a keen demand in Masterton lor tradesmen of all classes. Labour agents there are receiving requests from Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui and New Plymouth to supply men.

The local State school reopened yesterday after the mid-summer vacation with an attendance of 285, The attendance for the corresponding day of last year was 293. Twenty new pupils were admitted yesterday as against eventeen last year.

Brigauicr Glover, of Wellington, will conduct Salvation Army meetings at Foxton next Saturday, Sunday and Monday, both in the open air and in the Masonic Hall, On Monday evening, in the Masonic Hall, Brigadier Glover will deliver an address on the social work of the Army. Admission will be free. The Mayor will preside.

We believe Mr Veitchis a good, solid, practical man, but judging from the report of his Masterton speech, his friends might in all kindness advise him to speak very little and read and think a great deal for the next few months about the principles of constitutional government, for there is something more required in a member of Parliament and a Labour representative than being merely a member of the Labour Party.—Wairarapa News.

Two interesting personalities on the Petone bowling green recently were Mr William Udy and Mr Sam Haigh, both oi Grey town, says the New Zealand Times. Both, still hale and hearty, were identified with the pioneering days of the Wairarapa—and they play bowls well, too. Mr Udy with his parents, arrived in Wellington in 1840 by the Duke of Roxburgh, one of the emigrant ships of the New Zealand Company. Mr Sam Haigh was born in Wellington 68 years ago. Dike Mr Udy, he settled in Greytown. Both are excouncillors ot the Greytown borough. Yesterday they received congratulations Irom their fellow bowlers, with expressions of goodwill that they may live to see many more birthdays.

Tarro Miyaki, a Japanese jiujitsu wrestler, and Jack Madden, an instructor in jiu-jitsu at the Portsmouth Gunnery School, were the central figures in an exciting scene at the Empire Palace Musichall, Portsmouth. At the second house, Madden was offered minute up to twenty that he stayed against Miyaki in a match with the strangle hold barred. Madden lasted the twenty minutes, and was paid out in gold and notes. Words were afterwards exchanged on the manner in which the contest had been conducted, and Madden pointed to scratch marks on his throat. Suddenly Miyaki flew at Madden, but was repulsed by a blow on the jaw from the hand which still grasped the money. Miyaki, however, got hold of Madden, and threw him with a neck hold, Madden still holding on to his In an instant the house was in uproar, and bluejackets swarmed on the stage. The curtain was lowered, and the struggling wrestlers were separated by the bluejackets and the theatre staff.