LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1057, 15 June 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Read Rimmer’s advertisement*. Perreau’s tea rooms are admittedly the best on this coast.* The road grader, is at work on the borough roads crowning them up.

Good progress being made with the laying of gas mains in the kady’s Mile. The service in St. Mary’s tomorrow will be;—Mass 5.30 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Father Kelly. The following vessels are within wireless range ot New Zealand: Mohena, Ulimaroa, Maunganui, Victoria, Navua, Tainui and Arawa.

The services.at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev J. M. Thomson, M.A., and in the evening by Mr Huntley.

The services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be at 8 a.m., ii a.tn. and 7 p.m. This Sunday is the nearest to the anniversary of last year’s Confirmation. The vicar would be pleased to see all those who were confirmed last at 8 a.m. Holy Communion.

Several thefts from premises have been reported locally. Mr Alex. Speirs’ store was recently entered and certain articles stolen, including a coil of rubber tubing used for connecting gas rings. Indications point to the fact that a skeleton key is being used. The police are investigating.

For chronic chest complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d.

The attendance shield at the local State school was won this week by Standard 111., with a percentage of 97.1 The Union Company’s new Vancouver boat of 13,500 tons, is to be named the Sicamous, and will be launched on August 14. On the fourth page of this issue will be found the following interesting reading matter: —“How the Australians deal with Strikes,” “Seventy-five Marries Nineteen,” “Father Hyacinthe on Immortality.” Mr K. Healey, chemist, has reopened in Hopper’s building, next to the Herald Office, with a complete stock of drugs and other goods essential to a well-equipped pharmacy. Mr Healey returned from Auckland last night. “ The constable who caught me had no light on his bicycle,” said a young man who was charged at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court the other morning with driving a lorry at night without a light. “ We’re dealing with your case, and not with the constable’s,” retorted the Magistrate. Mr F. C. Berthold held a very enjoyable Cinderella dance in the Masonic Hall last night. The attendance was sufficient to comfortably fill the hall, and everyone being in a sociable mood, the dance was voted as good as any yet held this season. The floor was in good trim, and Mr Berthold supplier the music. Refreshments were provided.

Entries for the Esviu elocutionary and musical competitions have proved most satisfactory, totalling iSo There will be .good competition in nearly every class, there being from five to nine entries in most sections, and no less than 21 for the children’s recitation under 12 years. Competitors hail from all parts between Wellington and Palmerston North.

In connection with the National Dairy Show is being held the Mauawatu Poultry Association’s Annual Show, and every indication points to there being a magnificent array of poultry—in fact probably the finest exhibition ever yet seen in Palmerston, as several very valuable birds will be shown. Over six hundred exhibits have been entered. A splendid show is guaranteed, aud one that will be well worth visiting.

The Palmerston N. Chamber of Commerce is requesting the Hon. G. Ell, Postmaster General, to receive a deputation at Palmerston North shortly with a view to obtaining extended postal and telephone facilities throughout the district. In order to make the deputation a thoroughly representative one, invitations have been sent to prominent men residing in the localities surrounding Palmerston.

“ Had you any liquor that day?” was a question put by counsel during the cross-examina-tion of a somewhat valuable and excitable witness at the Auckland Supreme Court civil sittings on Monday. ” Only the usual few ‘ tots, ” came ihe answer. 11 How many is that?” interrogated counsel. “ About twenty glasses,” was witness’s reply without demur. Witness heatedly denied any suggestion that he was under the influence as the result of his fe« tots-

While a carpenter was at work on the erection of a house at Newton the other day, he left his watch hanging on a nail inside. An inquisitive boy came along, and presently he disappeared, just after which it was found that the watch had gone also. The boy went home with, the watch and sold it to a bigger brother for a penny, and the bigger boy, in wearing it to show off, lost it. Thus came two lads before the Auckland Magistrate on Monday for stealing and receiving, and it was ordered that their father should cane them, in addition to paying the cost of the watch to its owner.

The “Review of Reviews’’ lor June is an interesting number, if only on account of its containing the last journalistic work of Mr W. T. Stead. The articles by him were written just before his departure for America, and it is probable that the June issue ot the “Review” will be kept as a remembrance of him by many ot his admirers. The chief article deals with the coal strike, under the head ot “Two Dethroned Sovereigns : John Bull and Old King Coal.” There is also a very interesting article on “An Empire Governed by Scots. ’ ’ Both of these articles have been written by Mr Stead. The survey of the world’s magazines is very full and illuminating. Under the heading ot “The Fair Sex: Psychical and Political,” several hooks dealing with the subject are reviewed. .

When Sir James Carroll was seen entering the pa at Porirua on the occasion of Mrs Prosser’s funeral, there were set up long wails of welcome. An orator, a tall, handsome, well-built man, after reverent references to her whose body lay close by, and greetings to the visitors, remarked, looking towards Sir James : —“ You have withstood the opprobrium hurled upon you. That came not from us, your Maori friends, but from our opponents. Why had you to bear this ? It was because you boldly stood between them and us. Now our only hope lies in Te Rangihiroa (Dr. Buck). The word “taihoa” is a term of opprobrium with the pakeha, but it is a very cherished word with us, because it means the prevention of danger by actions which may be too rashly undertaken. The atmosphere is dark, and we do not know what may happen.”

For influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint C ure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d. The most attractive shop for toys of every description is Mrs Hamer’s. Have von seen the window display ?* During v a strike riot in a city a few miles from New York, one man was fatally shot and others wounded. A young man named Charles Biooks escaped from custody at Auckland yesterday and has not yet been rcaptured. A Maori tohunga was fined and costs at Whaugarei He had been treating a Maori girl who subsequently died. Mr Ten. Freeman, who has conducted Mahara House, Waikanae, for the past three years, entered into possession of Whyte's ■ Hotel as from Monday last.

The services in the supperroom of the Town Hall to-morrow morning and evening will be conducted by the Rev N. Hyde (Shannon Methodist Church). An open-air service will be held about 8.15 p.m. The Premier narrowly escaped a serious accident on the Auckland wharf yesterday. A sling of goods from the Zealaudia missed him by inches. As it was his hat was knocked off and his shoulder was struck.

The Queen of the South with a general cargo, arrived from Wellington this morning and the Waverley. from Westport, coalladen. Both vessels will leave again this evening for Wellington and Westport respectively. On Tuesday evening there will be a special meeting of All Saints’ vestry to arrange for a mass meeting of men to consider the possibility of forming a branch of the C.E.M.S. in Foxton. The meeting will take place at the residence of Mr F. W. Frankland.

Flaxcutliug in connection with Mr E. Porter’s mill at Koputaroa ceased this week, aud will not be resumed tor about two months. There is a good deal of fibre in the paddocks aud it is anticipated that by the time it is all scutched up, flaxcutting will have again commenced.

The Minister for Railways, Hon. Mr Myers, has signified his intention to meet members of the Foxton Harbour Board at Foxton at an early date, to discuss the wharfage question. The Minister’s visit should provide an opportunity to wait upon him in reference to an improved railway service between Foxton and Palmerston.

Mrs Nye, bookseller and stationer, has now re-opened in temporary premises, next to Miss Wanklyn's fruit shop, with an entirely new stock of books, stationery, school requisites, etc. All the leading newspapers, periodicals, etc., are stocked. A very large assortment of the latest post cards to select from.

In the course of hearing a land case at the Supreme Court in Timaru (says the Timaru his Honour, Mr Justice Denniston remarked on the importance of buyers consulting their solicitors before signing any agreement to buy. It they did this their interests would be protected. In the case before the court the solicitors had only been consulted after the agreement had been entered into, when it was too late to avoid trouble.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Iriki Hoara was sentenced on three cases ot theft: (i) June 6, one tie clip, razor strop, razor,, brush, pocket knife, two packets cigarettes, two studs, fork, knife and paunikan, 3s 6d in money, the property of J. Thewans, of Waikano.—Sentenced to 14 days’ hard labour ; (2J June 7, at Shannon, stealing a bicycle valued at property of John Jensen. —14 days’ hard labour ; (3) May 25, stealing bicycle value from Maurice Jacob, Maranui, Shannon. —14 days’ hard labour. Property to be returned. Bicycle to be returned on payment of sum paid by second-hand dealer.

In the Supreme Court at Palmerston yesterday, Mr Justice Chapman upheld the appeal of the police against the decision in the recent bookmaking case against Matthew Connolly. The magistrate found that Connolly was a bookmaker, but dismissed the information on the ground that jt was not proved he had committed the offence of betting as a bookmaker. In the course of an interesting judgment, his Honour said that it had been argued that the magistrate’s decision found as a fact that no bet had been made after the respondent had acquired a status quo as a bookmaker. His Honour did not think the magistrate had found any such fact; he had expressed an opinion to that effect as a matter of law, with which his Honocr was unable to agree. The magistrate had, however, found all the facts upon which a conviction ought to ensue. For this reason the appeal must be allowed.