LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Try H. C. Easton for good Meat. Only the best supplied.* If you want to do well, live well, keep well, eat well and look well — eat Perreau’s Bermaline Bread*
To-morrow is Passion Sunday, and the Services in All Saints’ Church will be at 8 a.m., n a.m., and 7 p.m. The Chapman-Alexander mission has commenced in Dunedin, and is meeting with tremendous success. Only the big centres will be visited.
The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee lapsed on Thursday night for want ol a quorum. There were present: Messrs Betty. Hornblow, Hussey and Read. It was decided to hold the meeting next Thursday. “I will not go back to the Home,” remarked an old man at the Hutt Court recently. “The last time I was there I missed some of my property, and the wind was so strong it blew the buttons off my shirt.” It may not be generally known that according to a revised Act it is the duty of any member of a school committee or teacher to report any case of a pupil being mentally defective. A heavy penalty can be imposed if this matter is neglected. Sunday School Anniversary services will be held to-morrow in the Foxton Methodist Church, The Rev T. Coatsworth will preach morning, afternoon and evening, his subjects being, “ Feed my Lambs,” “Banners,” and “Visions.” There will be special singing by the Sunday School children assisted by the choir.
The Woodville Examiner suffered from a spasm of sentimentalism the other day. Referring to the visit of an old friend, it said: “Dear old George, it is nearly forty years ago since the editor of the Examiner first knew him, and he appears to be weathering the trials and tribulations of this life in a’ wonderful manner.’ ’ Robert Wilson, a Pennsylvania schoolboy, made a bet that he had a larger mouth than any of his companions. To prove his assertion he thrust a billiard ball between his jaws. He won the wager, but it two hours’ work on the part of three doctors to remove the ball, and Robert had to sacrifice five front teeth.
The Standard’s lady correspondent, Wellington writes : At present we have with us two first-class croquet players—Dr. Whitaker and Mr Garrett Fisher. The latter is a “ one ’’ and the former a “ minus one” player. Dr. Whitaker is at present the holder of the All-England championship. He has come out with his wife and two young children to settle in New Zealand. He has already taken a house and will practice his profession at Palmerston North.
The following choice paragraph appeared in a Southern journal recently from the pen of a special correspondent: “I believe Dunedin is honoured in being the temporary resting place of two Ministers. How long they will stay I neither know or care. I merely mention, as a piece of gossip, the fact that the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie, Minister of Peep Shows and Mountain Tracks, and the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Snailways, both snored in Dunedin on one and the same night. But they did not snore in the same room, nor even the same hotel, nor, it is whispered, the same street."
Under the statutory powers vested iu him the PostmasterGeneral has prohibited the forwarding through the post of any postal package to any of the following persons, all of Sydney : Mrs Juo. Phillipson, 2001 Ash street; Mrs Fred. Chisrupt, 1122 Chisholm lane ; Alf. Kldenham, 1086 Ash lane ; Mrs Caleb Wiseacres, 132 S Chisholm street ; Mrs Win. Rexoug, 1340 Ash lane ; Mrs Justin Stepharu, 1619 Chisholm street; Mrs Ivy Beechmore, 2120 Ash street; Tonis Beerrang, 2213 Chisholm lane ; B. S. Boddeu, 1603 Ash lane ; Miss Mary Quinland, 208 Ash street; Juo. Brucher, 2615 Chisholm lane ; F. Bossau, 2210 Ash street; Mrs A. H. Hanover, 1436 Ash lane ; Mrs J. Cadar, 1080 Chisholm lane ; Mrs Chas. Alexandrowich, 1322 Ash lane ; F, li. Anchors, 1335 Chisholm street; Jas. Fergusse, 1404 Ash lane.
The Taylor-Carriugtou Company staged the “Laud of the Shamrock” to a moderate house ou Thursday uight. The meagre attendance is possibly accounted for by the fact that pictures are a greater altractiou to local playgoers than drama. In fact, moving picture entertainments have simply killed the third-rate professional dramatic companies which were wont to tour the Dominion. Perhaps this is a blessing at least to a number ot newspaper proprietors and hotelkeepers who were systematically victimised. We must say .that the Taylor-Carriugtou Company were never in this class. Their shows were bright and clean, and their dealings with all men square and above-board. Mr Taylor realises that in order to produce a counter attraction to the moving pictures, very high-class drama must be produced, and to this end he has completed arrangements, at considerable cost, tor the sole production ot one of Bland Holt’s leading plays.
In tn-day’s issue, C. M. Ross and Co., Palmerston North, direct the attention of our readers to their exceptional values in Velveteens. Posted orders will have prompt attention.*
The services in the Roman Catholic Church to-morrow will
be conducted at n a.m. and 7 p.m. by the Rev. Father Kelly. Owing to other meetings, the local Horticultural Society’s committee meeting will not be held until Friday evening o£ next week.
The services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev W. Bawden-Harris, of the Lower Hutt, and in the evening by Mr Smith.
The s.s. Queen of the South arrived early this morning from Wellington laden with general merchandise, and will sail again for Wellington to-morrow morning with a cargo of hemp.
Mrs Cheyne, wife of Mr A. S. Cheyne, draper, of Mosgiel, was found dead in bed on Wednesday morning. Her husband was at Catlius. She was found by her brother-in-law, who was staying in the house. The cause of death is supposed to be heart failure. At the Danuevirke Magistrate’s Court this week, Frederick Butterfield, licensee of the Wimbledon Hotel, was fined £\o and costs, £22 Bs, and his license was endorsed for permitting drunkenness on the premises. The case arose out of the suicide of a halfcaste some weeks ago.
A native who was sued for a debt amounting to ,£23, at Taumarunui, said he had no land, no rental, no timber rights, no property. He would like the Pakeha to give him work, as “be was always mindful of the debt.” He was advised to get employment on a sewerage contract in the town, and promised to consider the suggestion, The State Guaranteed Advances Department has had a record year’s business. It had loans totalling nearly ten millions sterling distributed among its private and public clients,, settlers, workers and local bodies on January 31. The financial year ends on March 31, so that definite figures are not yet available, though it is already clear that a record will be established.
A non-political deputation waited upon the editor of the N.Z. Times on Thursday night, and suggested that Sir Joseph Ward should be asked to offer himself as a candidate lor the Wellington mayoralty. They asked that their suggestion saould receive publicity with a view to subsequently ascertaining 11 there was any likelihood of its being favourably received. Mrs T. E. Taylor, who is President ot the House.wives’ Union of New Zealand, in the course of an address to women, appealing for unity in a common purpose, said : “While a child is ill-treated, while a mother is forced to leave her children and earn daily bread for them, while we have slum houses in our cities, and so long as a mother is left untrained in her calling, our work is never finished. We don’t want now to finish it, but want now to begin it. Eet us begin at once.’’
Tne Dean of Newcastle, N.S.W. (Rev Golding Bird), in the course >t a sermon recently said that a continuance of industrial unrest ia Australia must sooner or later cripple the Commonwealth. “Men in one class of life fight for increased pay, sometimes with apparent reason, sometimes without," said the preacher. “They do not seem to realise that with bigger wages come the bigger cost of living, with the result that they are often poorer thau when they receive a smaller wage.” There are 1360 foreigners in the Wellington provincial district who have become naturalised British subjocts, and 3195 foreigners who still continue allegiance to their native countries. The Auckland district has 1589 naturalised foreigners, and 4237 not naturalised. Canterbury has 655 naturalised foreigners and 839 not naturalised. Iu Otago there are 415 naturalised subjects and 1x47 not naturalised. In the whole Dominion one person and a traction —iu every 100 —is a foreigner. A “Fellow Borderer" sends the following item of Hawick news from the Kelso “Chronicle,” of January sth, 1912 ; —“ ‘Coals for the poor,’ Mr James Glenny Wilson, of Bulls, New Zealand, whose thoughts at the festive season always turn to the Homeland, has again sent money to the relief of the poor of his native town, increasing his contribution this year to the handsome sum of 22 guineas. By adding this to their own quota, the Parish Council has been able to distribute as many as 533 bags of coal, which have come as a most acceptable gilt to many grateful recipients."
The Christchurch Press directs attention to two precedents in New Zealand Parliamentaryhistory, which, it says, stand in striking contrast to the result ot the recent no-confidence debate, lu 1862 a motion adverse to the Fox Government was defeated by the casting vote of the Speaker; but although technically victorious, Sir William Fox resigned. In 1865 a resolution adverse to the Fox Government, moved by Mr F. Weld, was defeated by the casting vote of the Speaker, but the Government resigned. In neither case had the Prime Minister given a previous promise to resign, nor was his majority, narrow as it was, made up by the help of any broken pledges. Perreau’s Milk Loaf is the Loaf of the day. Try it; Be sure and get the famous Roslyn Writing Tablets 6d or is each from local drapers and storekeepers.*
For primest Beef and Mutton and dairy fed Pork, try H. C. Easton* Read Rimmer’s advertisement, Buy a pound of bulk tea at is 4d equal to a 2s tea.* A Warner’s Rust-proot Corset will do more for a woman’s figure than any other corset made. Every pair guaranteed by local drapers.* -Invitations have been issued by the Government to heads of all local governing bodies and other leading citizens to be present at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Parliamentary Buildings at Wellington. A congregational meeting will be held in the local Presbyterian Church next Tuesday evening, for the purpose of ascertaining the mind of the congregation with a view of calling a minister. Representatives will be present from all parts of the district. Says the Greytown Standard : “It is always pleasant to know that previous residents of this town still take an interest in its welfare. Yesterday the local Fire Brigade received a bulky parcel from Mrs W. Mitchell, of Foxtou, ‘Just to help along your bazaar’— a tangible token of esteem highly appreciated.” Two apes being shown in Loudon can dress themselves, play whist and bagatelle, and use a typewriter, besides underatauding simple phrases in four languages. Compared with the average Johnnie, the apes seem thus to be their typewriting ability to the good. _______
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