LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1073, 23 July 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Try H. C. Easton for good Meat Only the best supplied.* Perreau’s tea rooms are admittedly the best on this coast.* The Mikado of japan is seriously ill.

A meeting of the committee of the Foxton Literary and Debating Society will be held in the Presbyterian Hall to-night, at 8 o’clock. The cricket match, Australia v. Leicester, has been abandoned owing to heavy rains. The South African-Kent match resulted in a draw.

The Orange Congress in London has received resolutions from Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, and New Zealand condemning Home Rule.

The caretaker ot the Coronation Town Hall has a number of caps and hats in his possession, which have been left in the hall from time to time. Owners can have by calling lor them. An anonymous doner has presented All Saints’ Church with a large and magnificently bound Prayer Book for the use of the officiatiug priest. The vicar, at the evening service last Sunday suitably thanked the unknown giver.

At Anderson’s foundry on Saturday, Charles Muschamp, while putting a belt on a pulley became entangled with a key on the shaft. He was torn from the ladder and carried over the shaft. The engine was stopped as soon as possible, but Muschamp was dead. He was aged 35, and leaves a widow and two children.

The Government has purchased the Tunauui* Estate in Hawke’s Bay for closer settlement. The property has an area of two thousand acres and adjoins the larger Sherenden Estate, which was purchased last week. The same reading scheme will apply to both estates and they were obtained at the same price per acre. In announcing the acquisition of the 3hereuden Estate Mr Massey stated that So per cent, of the land was ploughable. In the case of Tunanui he cousilet's that the proportion of ploughable land is somewhat greater.

“ All’s fair in love and war ” is an old saying which by long usage has come to be accepted — whether rightly or wrongly —as a a truism, says the Dunedin Times. And this serves to introduce a little story which is now going the rounds in our City of Dunedin. It is said that a gentleman who is well known in local athletic circles, and a lady who hails from an Otago country town, were quietly married by the Registrar one morning last week, and that on the very same afternoon another gentleman waited on the Registrar and applied for a marriage license, naming the lady who had been wedded in the morning as his bride-to-be. Of course under the circumstances no license was issued.

Try Perreau’s standard bread, For excellence it is unsurpassed.*

Police-Inspector Wilson visited Foxton jesterday.

The Brunner Miners’ Union, by 48 to 20, decided to withdraw from the Federation of Labour.

Auckland rugby representatives defeated the South Island country reps at Auckland on Saturday by 29 points to 3.

Mr K- D, Hobeu gives up control of the Palmerston Times atfe| the end of September, whet Drew takes over the paper on lease from Mr Smith.

In the Hokiauga district there are 200,000 acres of Crown and Native laud yet to be thrown open for settlement. Most of it is tapped by a magnificent waterway. A big future is ahead of the district.

A young womau named Nellie King attempted suicide at Auckland on Saturday by drinking lysol. She was removed from a boardinghouse to the Hospital and is recovering.

Neisou cabmen are said to be the most polite in the Dominion (remarks the Mail). The other day a well-known jehu, who was receiving a message through the telephone from a lady, politely raised his hat on ringing off. Thank you, inarm ! At the local police court yesterday morning, Johu Harris pleaded guilty to having committed a grossly indecent actiu Main St. on Saturday night and was fined £ 2. Messrs Heunessy and ' Hornblow were the presiding justices and Constable Woods conducted the prosecution on behalf of the police.

As Maoris are in the habit of collecting vast quantities of duck and swan eggs—for eating—the Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference is being asked to take this matter into consideration, and if feasible, to make representations to the Government against such a practice.

A Feildiug butcher, in order to convince the public that he sells only prime meat, advertises the slaughterings at the abbatoir. His meat did not include cows or ewes —although these beasts were the greatest number slaughtered. It would be a good idea for the local authorities to publish monthly lists ol slaughterings.

A correspondent writes in the Bluff Press of a public nuisance to wit, a heu house which abuts on the footpath in Barrow Street. He continues: “Passing on Sunday I was nearly overcome with the effluvium. Is theie not a by-law, Mr Editor, which is intended to prohibit !owl runs abutting on the public street ? Perhaps the Town Clerk will investigate next time he goes home to lunch.”

During an address at Napier on “Heredity,” Sir Robert Stout, the Chief Justice, said he was much taken up with the want of seriousness in their lives and at the amount of money spent in liquor, tabacco, racing and gambling. He, however, was an optimist, believing that the golden age lay in front, not behind. If they wanted the country to be great, there would require to be a radical change in their habits.

A broken thigh-bone at the advanced age of 92 years calls for fortitude on the part ol the patient. Mrs Benge, senr., of Greytovvn, had the misfortune to slip at her back door, breaking her thighbone near the high joint. The old lady bore her misfortune with great courage and patience, and is now, thanks to the care and skill of her medical attendant, well on the way to recovery. The doctor hopes to have her walking about shortly.

Foremost among the King Country districts which are making rapid strides in the march of primary development is that ot Te Avvamutu. Au Auckland Star reporter was informed by Mr A. Schmitt, secretary of the Farmers’ Union, that the district is opening up splendidly, and that the cattle are looking well. The staple industry, dairying, is increasing in dimensions, and a good season is anticipated. Under these conditions it is not surprising that the population is also growing rapidly. Mr Schmitt predicts a good future for the district.