LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Jao Almeida, a Royalist, has been sentenced at Lisbon to six years’ solitary confinement for the prominent pa:l heyook in the late rebel':"--, and thereafter to ten ye;:.
portation, or alternatively to twenty years’ in a fortress. A feature of the balloon race at Kansas City last week to decide the contestants in Lire International Contest in Germany, was the marriage in mid-air of Doctor Hartman to Miss Violet Davis. The parties arc a well-known society couple. Manures for fanners and gardeners. Give your plants a good stait by using Superphosphate. Also a line of Fowl-feed Oats, 2s 6d per bushel. Orders booked at Nye’s Coal Yard.*
Rimraer is selling: 3 tins jam I/-, 4 tins sardines 1/-, 3 bottles sauce I/-, loose tea I/-, factory butter l/2 *
The Municipal Conference opened in,Wellington yesterday. The Loudon dock, strike has been officially declared at an end. Reform delegates from all parts of the Dominion meet in conference at Wellington on August sth. The Mikado is still in a precarious stale of health. Enormous crowds are praying in front of the palace for his Majesty’s recovery. Harry Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire, whose case created world-wide interest m 1906, has been declared insane.
There was another good house at the Municipal pictures on Saturday night and the pictures screened were much appreciated.
Frederick Stevens was fined or two months’ imprisonment, for street betting at Gisborne last week.
The Auckland Union of Hotel and Restaurant employees by ISI to 54 decided not to join the Federation of Labour.
A municipal fish market is being built ou Jervois Quay, Wellington, The structure is to be divided into stalls which can be hired by the day or week. The secretary of the local Horticultural Society acknowledges with thanks points prizes for the forthcoming show trom Mr C. H. Symons, Mrs Hamer, and Messrs F. Cooper, Ltd.
We remind our readers of the social and concert to be held in All Saints’ schoolroom tonight, at S o’clock. The programme is ol an attractive character, and includes new singers to Foxton. A well-known and respected farmer of Dnbbo, N.S.W., named Herbert 'i'horby, had a quarrel with an an employee named McCarthy. The latter attacked Thorby with a tomahawk and Thorby shot his assailant. Thorby gave himself up to the police. The appointment of the tenth member of the Executive, which has been hung up lor some time, is due to a doubt having arisen as to the legality of any such appointment. The Crown L,aw Officers have now advised that legislation will be necessary.
Those in a position to judge state that in a few years the Auckland province will out-distance Taranaki in output of dairy produce. All available land is being steadily taken up, and the area used for dairying purposes is increasing by leaps and bounds. The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow before Mr A. D. Thomson, 3. M. Among the cases set down lor hearing are two cases of alleged breaches of the licensing Act in which a licensee of one of the local hotels is charged with supplying liquor to a Maori woman for consumption both on and off the premises. At the Takaka Court, recently, a child aged nine years was charged with assault, on the information of the father ot the child, who alleged that he had been assaulted. The Magistrate, Mr Evans, S. M., characterised the laying of such an information as scandalous. It was disgraceful that a mere children’s quarrel should be so magnified. Tfie information was withdrawn.
The Australian cricketers played a drawn game with Sussex. The visitors scored 398 and 338 for seven wickets. Macartney was in good form, notching over a century in eacn innings. Sussex scored 389 and 101 for two wickets. Raujiisrnjhi, who made uis re-appear-ance in English cricket this season alter an absence ot some years in India, played a masterful innings of 125, and was then run out.
The directors ol the Waihi Company, in a circular to the shareholders detailing the circumstances of the strike, say they have decided not to make a new agreement with the Miners' Union till it is registered under the Arbitration Act. Hence it is impossible to say how long it will be before the work will be resumed. Though paying a dividend of two shillings per share in September, the directors point out that further distribution cannot be made until the strike ends, and even then its subsequent events are likely to affect the dividends. For the last two or three weeks the hemp market has shown a decided upward tendency and yesterday’s cable from the High Commissioner reported a further rise ol £1 5s per ton in the price of good fair. Eocal millers, particulaily those drawing their supplies from the Moutoa Estate, are in a lather awkward position, as the royalty they pay on the green leaf is on such a basis that they cannot afford to make contracts ahead for fear that the prices may advance, and the royalty would consequently also materially increase. Tbe royalty is on a sliding scale based on the High Commissioner’s report on the first Monday in each month, which practically ties the miller down to selling irom mouth to month only.
A cold is quite a paradox, Because P makes you hot; It makes your nose red as a rose, And head boil line a pot. But ere it readies boiling point, If you use it’s subduer It soon will fly, assisted by Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 8
I'he Roslyn Worsted and Woollen Mills ate sorely taxed at present to cope with the enormous demand for the people’s favourite Roslyn Allwool Blankets, Rugs, Tweeds, Worsted Football Jerseys, Suits, Socks, Stockings. Flannels, Plaidings, Yarns, Lad nd Gents’, fine Unshrinkable. Underwear “Delta’ finish.*
Try Perreau’s standard bread. For excellence it is unsurpassed.*
A. special meeting of the Borough Council will b: held on Friday evening to .deal” with file prevention matters and general. The programme of the, Tiakitabuna Orchestral concert to be held in the Masonic Hali next Friday will appear in our next issue. Twenty performers will take part iu the concert. The Queen of the South arm with a general cargo .t'ron W lington this morning. Awahou, coal-laden from V mouth, Waverly with cement Terakohe, and Kaitoa crvh.L., Irom Greymouth, are e,. d to-morrow. ■ At the Presbyterian Cb< Sunday evening last M Billens, of Palmerston N. t ■> Jude’s setting of the “Better L The singer possesses a rich well-trained contralto and sympathetic interpretation very fine. On Thursday a special mer ag for men to discuss the forming of a C.E-M.S. branch will be held i ■ All Saints’ schoolroom at 8 This meeting is of great P t ance, and the luturc C.E.M.S. branch will pend on the enthusiasm s,, Thursday. Mr Freeman, who delivered an address on socialism in Foxtou of Friday night, spoke in the air at Palmerston on Sato evening, at the conclusion of - J a number of young men toi and heckled him. . ~ • bug to • the Standard act was anything but
A musical tre n *ore for the Foxton music . . , ablic in the Masonic Hall next Friday night, when the Tiakitahuna Orchestral Society, assisted by Palmerston and district vocal talent will submit a programme ot vocal and instrument?' items which should attract a bumper house. The price of admission is is, children half-p" *
Sub-Inspecto- who has been promo: position of chief Uetecti., .a Auckto take charge ot the Palmerston police district, took up his new duties on Thursday. He will arrive in Foxton to-night for the purpose of prosecuting on behalf ot the police in the cases of alleged breaches ot the -Licensing Act to be heard at the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow. *
The handsome silver rose howl, presented to the local Horticultural Society for competition in the rose classes at the Spring Show by Mr Witchell, is on view in M r Patterson’s shop window. The conditions are; Three roses, named, two blossoms of each, rc be grown by the exhibitor, who must reside within nine miles of the Foxton Post Office. No labour to be employed by the grower except to dig the ground. Mrs Vera Grimwald, wife of well-known Olcu Oroua settler committed suicide by drinking lysol at her home on Friday night. For the past two years Mrs Grimwald had been a great suff'-rer, and recently was an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, t,he medical staff of which informed her that they could do nothing for her. She was taken home Ire . that institution on Thursday. She leaves a husband and one son.
A Real farmer informed us yesterday that he had a number of sheep and lamos worried by dogs, one evening last week. He managed to capture one of the dogs which, fortunately for the owner, was not wearing a collar. Damage to the extent of several pounds was dune and a number ot iambs were crippled through being badly bitten on the legs. He says his neighbour’s sheep have also been worried. There is trouble ,u store for some one.
Mr S. Messeua, who has been on a health recruiting trip in l.e Auckland province, returned 1 Eoxton yesterday much impror
iu health. Acting on theadvn.e of his doctor, Mr Messena has decided to take up his residence at Hamilton, where he has leased a property. He will leave again tor the north to-morrow. Since leaving Foxtou Mr Messena has resided at Cambridge, Te Arohaand Hamilton. He is greatly improved iu health, and is now out of the doctor’s hands. He is taking the two-year-old Waitomo to Hamilton, where he will put it in work. Genuine Salvage Sale, commencing Thursday, August Ist. Mr and Mrs Parkes have removed to temporary premises on the old site today. As their stock saved from the fire was slightly damaged, they intend clearing the whole lot extraordinarily cheap. Mrs Parkes has all the school requisites and an up-to-date selection of stationery in stock.*
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