LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1071, 18 July 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Try H. C. Easton for good Meal Only the best supplied.* Perreau’s tea rooms are admittedly the best on this coast.* For chronic chest complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d, 2s 6d. Thomas Rimraer has been ap pointed Foxton agent for "Red Oil,” the celebrated winter spray for fruit trees.*

The monthly meeting of the school committee lakes place this evening. s

The Marlon district has produced from 20,000 to 25,000 tous of chaff this season, about 4000 tons being held for spring cutting. The Rev Decimus Dolamoe, the oldest Baptist minister in the Dominion, and senior minister of the Baptist denomination in Australasia, died in Christchurch on Tuesday, at the age <A 92.

The police are making an investigation into a ghost scare at Kiugsland, Auckland. Several women and girls have encountered a horrible figure in white and making strange noises. Nervous persons are afraid to leave their homes after dark.

Bargains in shoes—ladies’ and maids’ —at Betty’s. Shoes worth from 12/6 to 15/- per pair now offered at 7/6 and 8/6. A shell full of them. Call and inspect. The finest bargains in footwear ever offered in Foxton.*

Try Perkeau’S standard bread, For exsellence it is unsurpassed.*

For influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Ctire. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d.

Now is the time lor spraying your trees. Use “Red Oil,” acknowledged to be the best spray. Thos. Rimmer, Foxton agent.*

Mr H. S. Munro has disposed of his interest in the Family Hotel to Mr H. Feilder, of Blenheim. The latter took possession last week. The Salvation Army is making good headway in Foxton. The local officers find it necessary to engage the Masonic Hall for an extra night (Tuesdays) per week, as the cottage meetings are crowded out.

Commissioner and Mrs Richards, who have been appointed to command the Salvation Army in New Zealand, were officially welcomed to Palmerston yesterday afternoon by the Mayor and Mr Buick M.P. They were entertained at a banquet last night.

The Laud Purchase Board has reported favourably regarding the purchase of the Mount Nessing estate in South Canterbury, and the Government will acquire it for closer settlement. The estate consists of 6000 acres of freehold and 30,000 acres of grazing country. • The Rongotea Horticultural Society’s annual balance-sheet discloses that a debit balance of at the beginning of the year had been turned into a credit balance of The gross income of the society for the year amounted to

It is feared that Lionel Field, aged 21, son ot the station master at Waiwera South, has been drowned in the Pomahaka river. About two months’ ago another of Mr Field’s sons was killed through a motor car accident at Longburn near Palmerston North.

Mrs Rose Hutchins, the wife of an American millionaire, has promised that she will try and manage with ,£SOO a mouth for household expenses and pinmoney, though she really doesn’t see how she is going to ! Her husband has been allowing her a month only, which, she says, doesn’t even pay for absolute necessaries.

The monthly report of the Levin gasworks manager disclosed the following facts : Number of consumers 235, meters in public use 237, street lamps 41, stoves iu use 57, quantity ot gas tor street lighting 47,000 teet, for house lighting 159,800 feet, for cooking 122,700 feet, for power 47,200 feet, total output tor the month 414,900 feet.

A firm at Palmerston North has its owu idea of how to encourage maternity. A local paper announced the other day that ‘‘Messrs Barraud and Abraham have decided to close their premises and keep next Wednesday aiternoon a half-holiday to celebrate the lact that three of the staff have had their families increased by baby girls during the past week, the happy fathers being one of the managing directors’ and two members of the staff.”

At the inquest at Napier on Tuesday, on Ernest Tut pin, who was killed on May 10th through a traction engine crashing through a bridge near Havelock, the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider that it should be made unlawful for a local body to build a heavy traffic bridge without first submitting the plans and specifications to the Public Works Department, and such bridge must be passed by the engineer.

A cordial iuvitatiou is extended to the public to attend the lecture on the subject of proportional representation to be delivered by R. McNab Esq., in the Town Hall supper room to-morrow night, at if o’clock. The subject is of interest to electors in view of the fact that in future members of Parliament may be elected on this system. The lecture is held under the auspices ot the Foxton Literary and Debating Society. A mock ballot will be taken after the lecture.

Palmerston'S municipal willowgrowing industry, which is rather unique in New Zealand, came under notice before the Borough Council on Tuesday night, says the Standard. Tenders were received from two firms willing to purchase the season’s crop for basket-making at ,£3 5s qd per ton, and £2 7s 6d. The Council accepted the bigger price, a councilor remarking that these willows were becoming a welcome source of revenue.

A reduction in the charge for long distance telephone has been authorised by the late PostmasterGeneral (Hon. H. G. Ell). Up till now when the special attendances of the switchboard or bureau attendant has been required out of ordinary hours to make a connection with a long distance telephone communication a fee of 2S 6d has been collected in addition to the charge for communication. The charge has now been reduced to one shilling, the amount charged for re opening a telegraph office. At the inquest at Wellington touching the death ot Mrs Ada Love, Dr. Fyffe said death resulted from hemorrhage oi the brain, consequent on granular kidney. There were strong symptons of alcohol. Evidence was given by deceased’s husband. In returning a verdict that death was due to hemorrhage ot the brain, as a result of alcohol, Dr. M'Athur said he could not allow the examination to pass without expressing his utmost disgust at the callous treatment of -the husband of deceased, when he found out the condition in which she was, and went to bed leaving her on the floor.

Perreau’S refreshment room is the ideal place for fish suppers, etc.*

Tenders are invited for the erection of business premises in Main Street, for Alf. Fraser, Esq. The waterside workers at Greymouth, by xo2 to 6i, decided to break away from the Federation of Labour.

The petrol shortage, which a few weeks ago caused a certain amount of perturbation amongst motorists, has been brought to an end by the arrival of several shipments of benzine.

Another of the enjoyable socials, held under the auspices of the local Catholic Church, is advertised to take place in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next. A most enjoyable evening’s amusement is anticipated. The Rev. J. Dawson, secretary of the N.Z. Alliance, giving evidence before the Education Commission, said the Alliance urged the necessity of compulsory scientific instruction in the public schools regarding the effects of alcohol. Temperance wall sheets alone did not meet the case.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday next, at 10.30 a.m. to meet the Superintendent of the Palmerston N. Fire Brigade re fire prevention matters. On Tuesday evening a further meeting will be held to consider the superintendent’s suggestions. Heavy floods are reported in the Wairarapa, and wash-outs aud slips on the railways have interfered with the railway traffic. A drowning fatality is recuided Irom the Eower Valley—n young married man named Fletcher, employed on Mr Elgar’s station being the victim.