LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1007, 15 February 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fOl incoming Bowling Club carnival and art union promises to be one ol Inc most successlul events yet held in Foxtou. The ladies’ committee are working like Trojans to make the affair a gigantic financial success.

Mr Thomas Jenkins, an old Auekland citizen, passed away at his Herne Bay residence on Salurday, He came out to New Zealand by me snip Portland in 1864. The Rev. 11. C. Rosher, Vicar ol Palmerston North, will be the special preacher in All Saints’ Church on Sunday evening. On that day the Harvest Festival will he liela.

Every gas consumer should use a p.uciil gas lighter. Saves time and m.uehes. On exiiiuition at I. Riminers.*

T. Rimmer has a, full stock oi goods lor ’Xmas presents. Call in and we will show you round.*

The sum of was subscribed by Patea residents towards a fund for the improvement of the local school grounds. Mr J. C. McKillop, of Te Ore Ore, Masterton, has just threshed a crop of nine acres of oats, which yielded 96 bushels to the acre. The straw pressed two ton to the acre. This is considered to be a record for the district. The seed was obtained from a neighbour, who recently imported it from the Old Country.

Lord Lister, the discoverer of the antiseptic treatment in surgery, is dead. He passed away at Walmer on Saturday from pneumonia, after four days’ illness. His end was painless. Upon the request of the Royal Society, the Dean of Westminster offered the honour of burial in the Abbey conditional on cremation, but Lord Lister had expressed a desire to be buried at Hamstead with his wife. The first part of the service was held at the Abbey. During his recent visit to the Marlborough borough council, Dr. L. Cockayne rediscovered a native plant, which was found only once previously, 60 years ago. The plant is Helichrysum Sinclairie, named in honour of the original discover, Captain Sinclar, R.N., who was drowned in the Rangitata river. Dr. Cockayne found it growing on rocks on the Laugridge station, in the Upper Awatere, at a height of about 3,000 ft, It has ” everlasting ” flowers, and some day it may he an important garden plant. The Defence Department has still some trouble in disciplining the cadets, reports a Sydney journal. One officer has adopted a very effective method of dealing with recalcitrants. When the lads misbehave, he orders them to fall out and go home. They receive the order with delight, but their pleasure is immediately dampened by the statement that their attendance will not be counted, and that they will have to attend an additional paradejto make up for the one that has been summarily stopped. The mosquito is more numerous in the Arctic zone, reports the American Consul at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada, than in the tropics, though there is no laud too cold or too hot lor its habitation, and the only places where it is not found are localities where there is little or no moisture. There is no country where the mosquitoes are so large and so numerous as they are in the Klondike, and it is impossible to destroy them, as they propagate in the heavy moss that grows there, which contains moisture almost equal to swamp lands. A telegram was read from Mr Braik, chief inspector, at Tuesday night’s School Committee meeting, asking whether the Committee would like to be represented at the conference in respect to the proposed aided school near Walden’s corner, and which takes place today. The feeling of the committee on lhe matter was that ificiu was no necessity for the Board to incur expenditure by starting a school in the locality, as the Mouloa school had now be< i. enlarged to provide for increased accommodation, and that it would, be more economical for the Board lo convey pupils from the locality either to the Moutoa or Foxton school. Mr Read was authorised to accompany the inspector and convey the committee's opinion to him.

Mr J. W. Thompson, Levin, has received the following letter from Mr Percy Robinson, secretary of the Mauawatu Flaxmills Industrial Union of Workers: — “ I am instructed by my union to convey to you and and the other business people of Levin who joined in your offer of the and inst., our hearty thanks for placing premises at our disposal. The feeling of the meeting was strongly against Levin as headquarters, but even had we decided upon shifting there we could not have availed ourselves of your offer, which, however, was much appreciated. It speaks well lor the progressive spirit ot the town that such an offer should be made." There was a full attendance of members of the local school committee at a special meeting held on Thursday night to report progress in connection with the school excursion and picnic to be held in the Ashhurst Domain on Monday next. The tender of Mr M. Perreau, for catering, was accepted. Mr Procter reported that the subscription lists were filling well and the money collected up to the date of the meeting was handed in. The sale of the tickets was left in the bauds of Mr Jackson up to 6 p.m. on Friday, after which tickets may be procured from Messrs Betty and Alex. Speirs up to 7.15 on Monday morning, when the sale of same closes. The headteacher and Mr Coley were authorised to purchase prizes, up to a limited amount, for races, etc. It was decided to make a donation to the Ashhurst Domain Board forjuse ot grounds.

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On the fourth page of this issue will be found the following interesting reading matter: — “Manawatu County Council,” “Canada's Immigrants,” “A Curate Attacked.”

11 1 away to-day, we come back to-night,” was the somewhat startling notice pinned to the door of a local Chinese laundry one day this week. Looks as if “John” went away on matrimony bent. The old favourites, TaylorCarrington Co., make their reappearance before a Foxton audience this evening in the Town Hall. No doubt they will be welcomed by a bumper house. At the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday, James Gibbons, charged with the attempted murder of Mrs Elizabeth MacKenzie, at Sydenham, on December 18th was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Mr Braik, chief inspector of schools, under the Wanganui Board, was in Foxton to-day, and, accompanied by Mr Fraser, proceeded to Moritiri, Walden’s corner, to interview the settlers in respect to the opening of a school in that locality.

The Rev. P. B. Fraser, superintendent of the Presbyterian Home Mission and aided charges is at present visiting Foxton, and last night conferred with the managers of the local Presbyterian Church in respect to financial matters, and filling the vacancy caused by the removal of the Rev. Mr Aitken.

Parents requiring railway excursion tickets for the State school picnic to be held at Ashhurst on Monday next, may obtain same on application to the local head teacher. The prices of the tickets are, adults, return 2s, children nd and senioi scholars up to 23 years is 6d.

At a conference of the English Non-conformists in Ecndon to discuss Heme Rule, Sir Edward Carson said Home Rule meant the extinction of Protestantism in Ireland. It was impossible that the so-called guarantees could prevent it. He was confident that English Nonconformists would not desert their co-:eligiouEts. In last week’s Mercantile Gazette, under the heading of ''Companies Registered,’’ appears the following ; —The New Zealand Flax Machines Experimental Co., Etd. Registered as a private company on Feb. .3. Office, Palmerston North. Capital —,£SOOO into 500 shares of each. Subscribers —F. V, Raymond, 150 ; \V. O. Beere, 130 ; J. E. Rough, SO ; J. R. MacEenuau, 110; M. A. Conway, 20; 11. W. Hole, 10. Objects—To acquire certain inventions for the improvements of flax-dressing machines. —Bell.

John McCarthy, a blind man with a very bad record, was charged at the Palmerston Police Court yesterday with being drunk and disorderly, resisting the police and wilfully damaging a cab window to the extent of 7s 6d. East week in Wellington the accused was fined £5 and costs for using obscene language, resisting the police, and damaging a uniform. There have been upwards of a dozen convictions against him since 1902, the first of which involved a sentence of two months for cruelty to a horse. Other offences for which he w T as convicted were vagrancy, begging, and wilful damage; in 1908 he served three mouths for obscene language ; m 1910 was sentenced to twelve months’ lor assault, causing bodily’ harm. He came prominently under notice a year or two ago for wilfully destroying his own eyesight by the use of lime. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment a nd ordered to pay the damage he had caused. In view of the alarming prevalence of the Canadian thistle in many districts of Otago, much interest is attached to an experiment which gives promise of revealing means of successfully dealing with this obstinate pest. The story of such an experiment comes now tiom the Clutha district. East year, in a paddock in which the thistles stood as thick as a crop of oats, just before they began to bloom, a Clutha larmer tried the plan of sowing agricultural salt by a lime-spreader, lightly on the thistles. He then put. the sheep ou them. Attracted by the salt, the sheep attacked the thistles, aud, appearing to lose their dread ot the thorns, ate them right down to the ground. When they were aitervvards sold off the paddock, the meat company ’s buyer declared them to be the fattest sheep he had bought in the district that season. If mis experiment proves to work out as successluliy in other cases, it is evident that a most i-iseiul discovery has been made.

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

F. Gabites’ great summer sale is now proceeding when goods will be submitted at reduced prices. He has only one sale per season, and it is known to be genuine. Price does not matter as the goods must be disposed oi. i'he goods to submitted are of a wide variety and of the latest fashion, consequently everybody will be sure to unu something to suit their taste. For prices see window.*

KEEP HIM IN PERFECT ORDER

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Heavy rain fell throughout this district last night and this morning.

The Queen of the South arrived yesterday with a cargo of kerosene and left for Wellington this morning.

The Rev. P. B. Fraser will conduct the morning and evening services at the local Presbyterian Church next Sunday. Mr Tasman Bradley was in town yesterday, making arrangements for the visit of Messrs Barton Bros, circus on Saturday, February 24th. Sam Bangford, the coloured pugilist, defeated Jim Barry, the American heavy-weight, on points, at Sydney on Tuesday, after twenty rounds of stubborn fighting.

One of the judges of the Dominion has, (says the New Zealand Times) received from a critic a letter commenting upon a sentence passed upon a criminal. The critic’s advice to the judge, given in very confident terms, runs thus : “Do you believe in planetary influence ? If not, you are ignorant of one of the main causes of affairs that goes away with mankind. I would advise you to get Raphael’s or Zadkiel’s Almanack of last year on this. If you have the patience, with your judicial training, I guess the contents of these almanacs, which foretold the past and present unrest all over the world many mouths in advance of their occurrency may astonish you.” He considerately adds a postcript: '* P.S.—lf I knew you was a man of the world, viz., broadminded towards others, I would put my full name and address to this.”

Ask persistently for the Roslyn Writing Tablets.*

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