LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1075, 27 July 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

PERREAU’S refreshment room is the ideal place for fish suppers, etc.* Rimmer is selling: 3 tins jam I/-, 4 tins sardines I/-, 3 bottles sauce I/-, loose tea 1/-, factory butter 1/2.* The services iu All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be at 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Mr Henry Scott McKellar, an ex-Palmerston resident, died at Wellington on Thursday, aged 78 years.

James Allen, a painter, aged fifty years, died suddenly while at work at Hastings on Thursday.

Messrs C. Golder and Sous, have secured temporary premises in Mr Baukham’s shop, and have now re-opened with a large stock of jewellery, etc. The services to-morrow in the Roman Catholic Church will be : Mass 11 a.m., Devotions 7 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Father Kelly. The social and concert to be held iu All Saints’ Schoolroom on Tuesday next promises to be very attractive. The object is to collect funds for a sewing machine for the Ladies’ Guild.

A deputation of young men wearing red ties and red badges waited ou the Christchurch City Council on Monday and asked that the Boer “ pompom ” be removed from the Square, on the ground that it had “ takeu part in murder.” The request was retused.

According to Bishop White, of Carpentaria, the aborigines there, when swimming the rivers, always place the women at the end of the line, and the oldest women last of all. They have found by experience, they told him, that in these swimming processions the alligators always attack the hind-most members of the party. Flax-cutting on Mr Akers’ property will re-commence on Monday, and mills drawing their supplies of green leaf from this source will again be in full swing within the next lew days. The local mills will commence as soon as the cutters can get into the Moutoa swamp, which is at present too wet for a start to be made.

On Thursday, Arthur Somerville, a young man from Middlemarch, jumped from the Dunedin wharf, having previously loaded his pockets with stones. He was rescued by boatmen. He said he could not sleep, had lost his will power, and his religion. He was remanded for a week for medical observation.

Theodore Rigg who, as reported by cable from London, has been awarded an ISSI exhibition scholarship in science (chemistry) of the value of a year tenable for two years, is a son of Mr John Rigg, of John Rigg and Co., Wellington. He leaves on August 17th to enter Cambridge University.

An Ashburton constable noticed a man emerging with a bottle oi methylated spirits from a chemist’s shop. When asked by the constable what he intended doing with the stuff the man replied to the effect that he had been drinking, and was. going to use it as a “ reviver,” whereupon the officer promptly “ arrested ” the bottle. The annual congregational meeting of the Foxtou Presbyterian Church will be held on Tuesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. The tri-eunial Presbyterial visitation will take place on the same date. The Presbytery’s representatives will be the Revs. McKay and Rauderson and Mr Rockel (elder,). Annual reports and balance sheet will be presented for adoption and the committee of managers elected. Another big batch of Justices of the Peace is gazetted —the first by the present Ministry. It includes Austin Burcham and James Fraser, Halcombe; Davis Canning, Waipukurau; Maxwell W. Carter, Taihape ; James Georgetti, Mangavveka ; John Grant, Woodville ; Richard D. Hauion, Wellington ; Hans P. Henrickseu, Balfour; William Charles Kensington, Marton; David McFarlaue, Ormoudville; James T. Muir, Wanganui; John Severinsen and John D. Stenberg, Makaretu.

A London drapery firm was recently fined ,£4O with 5s costs for applying a false description to and selling a lady’s coat, which, instead ol being *• colonial silk,” as described, was an artificial vegetable fabric containing no silk at all. Chemical science, it appears, has produced uu article which has all the appearance ol silk to the experienced eye, but has none of its wearing qualities. A very simple test may, however, be applied, it a light is set to the material it will break out into flame aud bum like cotton, for it is very inflammable, while real silk will only lizzie with a small flame like burnt animal matter.

A meeting 01 the management committee of the local Presbyterian Church was held on Thursday evening. Present: Rev. Mr Thomson (moderator), Messrs Claris, Gibbs, Henderson, Ilorublovv, Jno, Boss, Alex. Speirs and McCall. Votes of thanks were passed to those who assisted to prevent the Church being destroyed by fire during the recent conflagration, and the secretary was instructed to convey same in writing. It was decided to plant a belt of shelter trees at the manse. It was decided to confer with the Rev. Mr Comrie in respect to repairing the damage to the Church building caused by the recent fire.

Manures _ for farmers and gardeners. Give your plants a good start by using Superphosphate. Also a line of Fowl-feed Oats, 2s 6d per bushel.' Orders booked at Nye’s Coal Yard*

Try Perreau’s standard bread, For excellence it is unsurpassed.* For children’s hacking cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, is 6d. 2s 6d.

It is practically a certainty that the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie, late Prime Minister, will be appointed High Commissioner.

The attendance shield at the local State school was won this week by St. 1., with an average attendance of 95 per cent. *

The Maoris at Motuiti are evincing the keenest interest in the tohunga case to be heard at the Supreme Court sittings at Palmerston N. next month.

A prisoner, named Andrew Hutchison, about 29, died in the ambulance while being conveyed from, the gaol at Auckland to the hospital this week. He was a consumptive.

Taranaki reps, defeated the South Island country reps, at Stratford on Thursday by 31 points to 3. Canterbury defeated the North Island country reps, at Christchurch by 12 points to 11. Mt T. Rimmer has secured the contract for the erection of a shop and dwelling in Main Street, for Mr Alf. Fraser. The building is to be of reinforced concrete, and like Mr Healey’s building, will be practically fire-proof. i

The services iu connection with the local Methodist Church will be couducted in the morning by the Rev T. Coatsvvorth and in the evening by Mr J. Chrystall, who will preach ou “The Great Physician.” An open-air service will be held at 8.30 p.m. Motuiti Maoris deny that they subscribed towards the fine and costs of Mrs Campbell who was recently fined at the Palmerston Police Court tor supplying Hingawaka Tuparoo with liquor at Whyte’s Hotel, Foxton, for consumption off the premises as stated by one ot our Palmerston contemporaries. They admit that some of the East Coast natives may have done so.

On October 23, 1575, the S rs locomotive arrived at Palmerston Irom Foxtou. The engine took two days to cover the 24 miles. The Palmerston Times struck off its first issue on that date and contained the following comment on the arrival of the iron horse: “Looking at the wretched conditions of the wooden rails upon which it travelled, its arrival must be looked upon as a masterly performance and a proof oi engineering skill.”

This week’s Free Lance has a caricature of Foxton’s recent conflagration. A block of buildings is depicted in flames and in the roadway are to be seen men running with buckets to and from a pump. A portly old dame is making lor the water supply with a jug in her hand. On the road is also seen a heap of salvage. Above the picture is written : “No Fire Brigade. No Water Supply,” and underneath: “Foxton’s monthly entertainment —Free.” Indications point to a further rise in hemp at an early date, and a number of millers have retrained from entering into contracts in consequence. At the present time the price is something like £5 above that ruling a few weeks back, and those in a position to know, anticipate that good prices will continue to rule —at least for eight or nine months to come. The cause of the rise is said to be on account of American buyers operating in the market. Justice is sometimes kindly in America, In order that the publication of a newspaper may not be suspended, Mr H. G. Roe, editor of the Washington Enterprise, has been allowed by the Supreme Court to serve out at night a thirty days’ sentence for perjury. Roe, who was convicted of perjury in a case charging his father with accepting a bribe,’is released from gaol each morning, works on the jAper all day, and returns to the gaol to be locked up each night.

The Salvation Army is making great headway in Foxton. A few months ago two young lassies were ordered to try and capture Foxtou, which up to to that time had held out against the Army. They soon commanded a hearing, aud their meetings were attended by a number oi young fellows who rarely darkened a church door. And what is more some of these young men are now to be seen 'i taking part in the open-air meetings. The corps has increased in numbers and the meetings are well attended. On Sunday, Major Carmichael, of Wellington, assisted by Staff-Captain Newbold, will conduct the services.

Johnny Hayes, the winner of tb* Marathon at the Olympic Games in 190 S, supplies a sensational account of the great race in Stockholm on July 14, this year. In a cable message to the United Press, the well-known American runner says:—“ln such terrific heat as that of Sunday, the Marathon is a disgrace to civilisation. Seventyfive men drove themselves int® a state of insanity, and only 35 were able to finish, most of them demented. The temperature was nearly roodeg. The stories of the sufferings of many of the runners and what they did in their delerium are too gruesome to be related. One man is dead and another is dying from the heat. Lazaro died in a terrible delirium, shouting, ‘ 1 am the winner 1' The doctors say he was sunstruck. Slavik, a Bohemian, was also in a very bad state. The American runners* stamina almost surpassed belief. There is a general demand among trainers and officials to abandon the Marathon altogether as an Olympic feature, or else to subject it to such restraints that fatalities may be avoided.

Ask for the popular “Roslyn’ Writing Pads at 6d and is each *

Perreau’s tea rooms are admittedly the best on this coast.* The death is announced from Christchurch, ot Canon Francis Augustus Hare, of Christ College.

The Vacuum Oil Co.’s safe was broken into at Wellington on Thursday night and stolen. A person suspected of the burglary has been arrested.

Nominations for the vacancy on the local Borough Council closed at noon to-day, when the only nomination received was that of Mr G. S. Whibley, who was declared duly elected.

The services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. J. M, Thornp-'n:!, M.A., and in the evening by Mr R. Billens. During the evening service Mrs Billens will sing a sacred solo.

Parliament will re-assemble next Wednesday. Recent Ministerial utterances in public have suggested that the Financial Statement, in which the policy of the Government is to be outlined, will be brought down next week.

The s.s. Awahou arrived from Wanganui this morning, with 100 tons of coal. She sails at 9 o’clock this evening with cattle for Greymouth. The s.s. Queen of the South and s.s. Gertie are expected from Wellington to-morrow with cargoes of general merchandise. The half yearly meeting of members of the Manawatu Flaxmill Employees Union is being held at Palmerston to-day. A number of local flaxmill employees left by the morning train in order to be present. A very interesting portion of the meeting is a proposal to take a ballot on the question of seceding from the Federation of Labour. From what we can gather it is practically certain that there will be a substantial majority in favour of “ pulling out ” of the Federation, if a ballot is taken. When the ballot on the question of affiliating with this body was taken, there was a large majority in favour of it, but members now claim that at that time the policy of the Ivdct..non was misrepresented, auu tue true position been known the flaxmill employees would never have joined. The result of to-day’s meeting will be awaited with interest by members of the Union.