LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1029, 11 April 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday, April 15th, 1912, at 7.30 o’clock. Business: To receive annual report and balance sheet and general. Are you troubled with flies ? If so you can clear your house in a very short time by using “ Nyal’s Death to Flies.” Obtainable at Healey’s Pharmacy.*

General Booth attained his 83rd birthday yesterday.

“The bookmakers are supposed to be abolished,” said a cosmopolitan pressman who attended the Feildiug races, “but I counted seven in Feilding during the races.’’

“Everybody who goes into a library needs watching,” remarked Mr C. Wilson, Parliamentary Librarian, at the Libraries’ Conference in Wellington on Tuesday. “In fact,” he added, “some of the most respectable people are the most dangerous.”

At the residence of Mr A. Coley, Palmerston North, yesterday, his daughter, Miss F. M. Coley, was married by the Rev. T. T. Thomas to Mr F. McKenzie. The parties are wellknown to many in this district, the bride being a a niece of Messrs G. and H. Coley, of Foxton. The Bucharest correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes : Miss Tacanesco, a lady lion-tamer, of Jassy fßoumania), fainted in the cage at a moment when the animals were perfectly quiet. She was removed before they did more than show signs of restlessness, and ou recovering consciousness exclaimed ; “Until the beetle crawling on one of the bars is taken off, X am not going in again !”

Pahiatua shopkeepers are not unanimous in respect to holiday closing. A number decided to close their premises at 9 p.m. on Thursday, and to re-open at 8 o’clock ou Tuesday morning. Others closed their premises at 6 p.m. ou Thursday and opened all day Saturday. Those who kept open on Thursday night are to be prosecuted.

The Mormon mission, which came to New Zealand about thirty-five years ago, have sent over 500 leaders from Salt Lake city to work among the Maoris of whom 6000 are now adherents. It has established various institutions in the Dominion, and is building a large Maori Agricultural College near Hastings, to cost ,£IO,OOO, for which 130 acres have been obtained. The cost of the coal strike in England is ,£50,000,000, including ,£6,000,000 in miners’ wages, ,£2,000,000 in strike funds, ,£8,000,000 in wages of workers in industries paralysed by the coal famine. This huge amount of ,£50,000,000 presumably covers only the cost to date. The general scheme of British industry has been so shaken that a serious loss must continue to the country as a whole, for some time.

Conferences have been the order of the day—and night—in Wellington, Since the Easter holidays began no fewer than nine of those gatherings have been opened there, viz. : The Trades and Labour Conference, Unity Conference, Labour Party fereuce, Libraries Conference, Socialists Conference, Presbyterian Conference, Bible • Class Union Conference, Church of Christ ference and Timber Conference.

Referring to the new Cabinet, the Farmers' Union Advocate says ; —“From the farmers’ point of view, the outlook is not cheering, our representatives in the Cabinet are in a hopeless minority, and although we accede to Mr Mackenzie’s desire that the new Cabinet should not be prejudged, it is certain that unless some miraculous conversions take place, we are not likely to have a freehold measure from the new Executive.”

Mr P. H. Hickey, of the Federation of Labour, and another Socialist speaker, met a heckler at an open air meeting at Wellington on Monday evening. The interjector rallied Mr Hickey on breaking an agreement with the employers. Mr Hickey said he would repudiate ten thousand agreements if it would help the workers. After rebuking Mr Hickey for his point ot view, the questioner said, “And yet you call upon God.” Mr Hickey : “I do not believe such a person exists.”

The Review of Reviews for April contains an article on the Gaekwar of Baroda, who is popularly supposed to have slighted King George at the Durbar celebrations. This article puts quite a different aspect upon the matter. The survey is continued of the twenty greatest men the world has produced. The Book of the Month is “The Life of Cardinal Newman.” The rest of the magazine is taken up with the usual excellent review of the leading articles in the magazines of the world. A Warner’s Rust-proof Corset will do more for a woman’s figure than any other corset made. Every pair guaranteed by local drapers.* For children’s hacking cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d. 2s 6d. The call of the costume is being heard throughout the length and breadth of the land. Petone costumes are again to the fore in many handsome designs. Mr Geo. H. Stiles has an interesting announcement on this subject in another column.

PAHI HOTELKEEPER BAD WITH COLIC. Mr Joseph Ryan, Hotelkeeper of Pahi, N.Z., was very bad with Colic and tried many remedies, without results. Then the Honourable Mrs Scotland advised his wife to give him Chamberlain’s Colic & Diarrhoea Remedy. He says:—“l was sceptical and refused to take it, I reckoned such things were no good. At last I got so bad that ray wife prevailed upon me to try it. After two doses I was right and have been so ever since. I was in a bad way, I can tell you, but now I swear by Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and always keep it handy.” For sale everywhere.—Advt.

A gang of burglars are at work in Auckland. A tremendous anti-Home Rule demonstration was held at Belfast this week. Milk vendors have been substantially fined in Auckland for adulterating milk. A successful Reform rally was held at Methven last night where Mr C. A. C. Hardy, ex-M.P. was entertained at a banquet. The Minister for Defence informed a deputation at Wellington yesterday, that the law in respect to military training would be enforced. Major Carmichael, Provincial Commander of the Salvation Army, is paying a visit to Foxton to-night and will be holding a meeting in the Masonic Hall. The Major will be assisted by Adjutant Melksham, of Palmerston North and Adjutant Cook, of Levin. A hearty invitation is extended to residents of Foxton to attend this meeting which will commence at eight o’clock. Early on Sunday morning John Farrell, a settler Irom Raugitoto block, was discovered dead in Solomon’s yard, Otorohangi. The inquest opened on Monday and was adjourned for a week. The evidence showed that deceased got liquor upon the train on Saturday. Deceased and others had taken liqtror to Solomon’s and consumed a considerable quantity. The witnesses’ recollection of further events is hazy. The Westport Coal Company received a demand yesterday from the Engine-drivers’ Union at Denuiston for an assistant |to be placed with the drivers in charge of the engines driving the fans at the mines, but refused the demand. The Miners’ Union thereupon notified the company that they would take to-morrow off to consider the position. Consequently the Dennistou section of the company’s mines will be idle to-morrow. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Horublovv, J.P., a first offending inebriate was convicted and o; dered to pay costs of cab hiit. tvu. t.iule Woods stated that the person charged was helplessly drunk on the train which arrived from Palmerston last night. In reply to a question, the constable said the railway officials had not lodged any complaint against the offender. The J.P. pointed out that it was time steps were taken by the Railway Department to prohibit men travelling on this line whilst under the influence of liquor. It was scandalous that women and children travelling on the train should be compelled to witness the conduct and listen to the language used by such persons. He would communicate with the strtionmaster on the subject. Says the Taranaki News: “It . is admitted that in the present state of politics the small Labour Party in the House is blessed with an importance far beyond its proper numerical proportion, but, even allowing for this, it is difficult to conceive Mr Payne as being a typical representative of the average working man. A person who is prepared to become anything from a Mohammedan to a Hairy Ainu, is too much of a universal hedonist to ever make a permanent mark in politics, and it is only Mr Payne’s frankness in running amok that makes him interesting. Already his constituents have expressed their emphatic disapproval of his attitude, and whilst, tor matters of temporary expediency, his vote may be angled for by the leaders of both parties, his meteoric career will never stand a second appeal to the people. A spendthrift in promises and a miser in performance, he will undoubtedly sell his life dearly.” An unusual happening, not without its humorous side, occurred in connection with a wedding which was to have taken place at Woodville the other dayAll was ready—but the would-be-bridegroom was minus that allimportant document, the marriage license, and the event had to be postponed till the following day. It is stated that the bridegroom, who hails from Wanganui, fully complied with the provisions of the law by residing in the town the necessary three clear days, but owing presumably to the holidays, the Registrar was not available on Saturday, and on Monday it transpired he had gone to the Feilding races. There was no help lor it but to adjourn the nuptial ceremony. The guests, however, were not to be denied their little outing. The marriage feast was partaken of, the customary speeches made, and congratulations and sympathy in consequence of the unexpected happening were extended to the bride-elect and bridegroom. Try H, C. Easton for good Meat. Only the best supplied.* Always ask for defiance butter, you’ll get the best. Thomas RimmerWe stock it and the price is right. Thomas Rimmer.* Yemen Sheik coffee, is per tin. 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The police raided certain premises in Auckland this week and arrested 80 persons who were charged with being found in a common gaming house;

Mr J. Pinkerton, who has been a resident of Palmerston North for the oast twenty-two years, died on Saturday, aged seventyfive years. At St. Mary’s Church on Piaster Monday, Miss Mary Bowe, daughter of Mr Thomas Bowe, of Moutoa, was married to Mr William Callisen. A full report of the ceremony will appear in Saturday’s issue. A message received from Manakau yesterday afternoon states that Stanley J. Beattie, who went ont on the hills on Saturday to look for cattle, has not returned, although he was expected back on Sunday. A search party of Manakau residents left yesterday afternoon. Beattie had a dog and gun with him, but practically no food.

A popular fallacy is thus disposed of by the Nelson Colonist ; There is a general impression throughout the Dominion that in Nelson there are about three single girls to every bachelor. This idea is exploited by a table published in the latest issue of the Gazette, which shows that in Nelson there are 7561 bachelors at the age of 20 years and upwards, and only 4932 spinsters of the age of 15 years and upwards, or an average of 153 bachelors to every 100 spinsters. Another table shows that there are altogether 26,958 males in the district, and 21,505 females, of all ages. The unmarried male persons total 17,814, and the unmarried females 12,388. For influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Js fid, 2s 6d. The most attractive shop for toys of every description is Mrs Hamer’s. Have von seen the window display ?*

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