LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1012, 27 February 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Friday, March Ist, at 7.45 p.m. Business, general.

The results of the teachers’ examination to hand state that Miss Wanklyn passed in two subjects for C.

Barton Bros, circus played to a full tent in Foxton on Saturday night. The programme was thoroughly enjoyed. An old resident oi Timaru, John A. Cowan, draper, who had been in business there for forty years, died on Saturday morning, aged 69 years. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Horublow J.P., John Kinley, who did not appear, on second charge was convicted aud fined Li for drunkenness.

The following interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page of this issue : —“Big Industries Closing Down,” “ A Millionaire’s Feat,” “Cleric aud Cabbie.’’ The conference between the Flaxmillers’ Association and the Flaxmills Employees’ Union with respect to the swamp hands’ demands will be held at Palmerston to-day. Mr Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, will preside. It is expected that a settlement, agreeable to both sides, will be arrived at.

An acknowledgment of 2s 6d fiom Mr Littlejohn was omitted from the list handed us for publication in connection with the school picnic fund; also Mr WGray's subscription should have read ros 6d, not 3s, A local institution also contributed two guineas.

“ I rose with the object ot telling the member for Grey Lynn my opinion ot him,” said Mr Harris, in the House last week. I think very little ot him. He pledged himself to his electors to vote the Ministry out of power, and has shown himself a man who can sink his principles and lower his manhood. It were better that a millstone were hanged around that gentleman’s neck aud he were cast into the middle of the sea.” (Applause.) In the Dauuevirke Magistrate’s Court the Registrar of Old Age Pensions proceeded against a female applicant for an old age pension tor fraudulently altering the dale of her birth in her marriage certificate tor the purpose of securing a pension. The Magistrate, in convicting her, remarked that this was the second case of the kind in the district, aud he emphasised the fact that persons practicing this form ot deceit rendered themselves liable to six months’ imprisonment. “Three Labour members, who hold the balance ot power, hold their positions by virtue of the support accorded them by the Reform Party. That support was given on the distinct understanding that the Labour members would assist to put out the present Administration. There was no questions of splitting hairs as to ihe difference between the Ward Administration aud the Government. The Reform support was given to oust the present Government. It was given against Government candidates left in the second ballots, aud the Labour members must k£ow that any attempt to distinguish between Sir Joseph Ward and the Government is a glaring evasion of the pledges given.” —Mauawatu Standard. Commenting on Mr Payne’s attitude in going back on his platform pledges, the Lyttelton Times, a Liberal journal, says:— “ The new member for Grey Lynn holds his seat in the House of Representatives under very embarrassing circumstances. He originally entered the election campaign under the auspices of the Labour Party as a champion of all the revolutionary reforms lor which the party stands, but when the Opposition candidate was defeated at the first ballot, aud be was left to go to the poll again with Mr Fowlds, the Relormers rallied to his standard and gave him their votes lor the purpose of ousting a man whom they regarded as a still more determined enemy of Conservatism. It is said that the price he paid for tnese votes was a promise to vote against the Government on a motion of uo-coufi-dence, aud if he made this compact he must observe it now.”

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

Don’t forget the Bowling Club carnival and art union next Wednesday. The event of the year.*

RELIEF AFTER FIF i'EEN YEARS.

“ p'or fifteen years i suffered from constipation, and 1 could get no relief,” writes Mr Frederick Fuller, Saddler, New Canterbury Road, Petersham, N.S.W. “ Then 1 saw Chamberlain’s Tablets advertised and taking them according to directions, found they relieved me after the first dose or two. At one time I was completely doubled in two with wind in my stomach, but I do not know what that is now, for Chamberlain’s Tablets have completely cured me.” For sale everywhere. —Advt.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held to-morrow. There are only a few civil cases set down for hearing. A carrier pigeon, no doubt blown out of its course, has found shelter at Mr Muuro’s hotel. The inscription on the ring is as follows : —“81, T.F.C., 1911,” and on the rubber ring “ 86, B.” Mrs Tang aud her two daughters Rickards of Wellington and Miss La ing) are spending a holiday in Foxtou and looking up old friends. Mr and Mrs Laing intend to t-ake up their residence in Inglewood at an early date.