LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1079, 6 August 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was another good attendance at the Municipal Pictures on Saturday night and the films screened were very much appreciated.

We are informed that the Salvation Army authorities are taking steps to procure a site tor the erection of local barracks. At present the services are held in the Masonic Hall.

A candid professional confession was made by Dr. Truby King when he said during a recent address : Many people die and we do not know what they die from. What did people die of 20 years ago? Something else. There are all kinds of things we don’t know. We protest that we know but we do not. We know something, but not all.

A very pleasing little ceremony took place at the residence of Mr and Mrs Harold Osborne last night, when the members of the local Brass Band, in which Mr Osborne is a player, took the opportunity of presenting them with a silver mounted biscuit barrel, and wishing them happiness and prosperity in their married life. The presentation Was made by the bandmaster, Mr J. Colder and Mr Osborne suitably responded.

A considerable demand for New Zealand plants has arisen in England, where enthusiasts who have visited the Dominion have touud that plants from this country, altogether different in character from those of other countries, thrive there very successtully, especially in the southern counties. Mauy people at Home are now evincing a desire to secure collections of shrubs and Alpine plants from New Zealand, and it is expected that soon the trade will assume larger proportions. A letter received in Auckland from a business man in Sydney stales that spurious half crowns and florins are very plentiful there, most ot the imitations being remarkably good. The coins are. made ot white metal, and some oi them ring perfectly true. Florins have been made in moulds, having a number of different dates for ißy4 up to 1907. The police believe that several coining plauts are at work. A number of spurious half-sovereigns have been passed, and business men have to examine the coins they receive very closely. The Sydney tramways have, been taken in pretty badly by these spurious coins. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Messrs Alf. Fraser aud Homblow J’s.P., a young man named John Henry Morgan, a flaxmill employee, was charged by the police that on 31st July at Gibbs’ mill Moutoa, he did unlawfully steal two suits of clothes valued at £ 5, the property of W. Dowme. The accused pleaded guilty aud asked to be dealt with summarily. Constable Woods outlined the case and asked that a substantial fine should be imposed. Accused was intormed of the seriousness of the offence by the Bench and fined £s, costs £l, damage to goods £2 10s in default one month’s imprisonment. The goods were ordered to be restored to the owner.

It is rumoured that Lord Islington’s successor will be Lord Liverpool, who is the fifth holder of the Havvkesbury and Kirkham and of Mansfield. He was born in -1870, and was educated at Etou and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was appointed Rifle Brigade captain in 1897, au d sta ft captain of the Dublin district trom 1900 to ryor, served in the South African war (1901-2). and was appointed a major in 1907. Lord Liverpool, who was State Steward and Chamberlain to the Karl Oi Aberdeen, Lord Steward of Ireland, trom 1906 to 1908, owns extensive estates in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. He is married, but has no family, his heir being his half-brother.

Spendthrift Maoris were briefly considered at the Farmers’ Union Conference on Wednesday, Mr Ewan Campbell said he had lived in a Maori country, and knew what the people were. He instanced Maoris who had received thousands of pounds fcr their land, only to squander it all in a few mouths. They frittered away their mouey derived from lands. Ultimately, unless the Public Trustee had the proceeds of the laud handed over to him for investment in their interests, the Maoris would become paupers, and would have to be supported by the whites, and by whites who would uot get any benefit from the sale of the lands. Natives wasted their money on finery and motor cars. Major Lusk remarked that the only salvation for the Maori was hard work. It was a very serious thing to place large sums ol money into his hands at one time.

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

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.*

The fragrance of the blushing rose, Of luscious fruit the taste ; All for our pleasure God bestows, Whose wisdom may be traced ; So with the good and beautiful, Our health maintained and right ; With Peppermint Cure to make more sure. Is cause for our delight. I

The financial statement will be presented to the House to-night.

A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held this evening, at 7.30 o’clock. Miss Marion Moore has been appointed relieviug teacher at the local State school pending the appointment of a successor to Miss Smith.

Flaxcuttiug in connection with the Whitaunui mill has commenced, and it is expected that work in all branches will be in full swing by the end of the week. The meeting of the local Literary and Debating Society will be held on Thursday evening, when impromptu speakiug will occupy the time of members. Langford defeated McVea on points in twenty rounds at Sydney on Saturday. It was a good fight. The winner had the advantage all through, and earned the verdict by a substantial margin.

The “roadless north” is still too truly descriptive of parts of the Auckland provincial district. During 135 days of last year, a road 12 miles to the north of Wbangarei was flooded to a depth of from a tew inches to 10 feet.

The Hon. George Fowlds states that he has no intention of contesting the Egmout seat at the bye-election, but would assist a Labour candidate. He suggests Mr Wake as the man having the best claim on Progressive Liberals.

It is reported that a lady in Stirlingshire who remained unwed has been bequeathed an annuity of £2 per week, by a former admirer, who left England a good many yeais ago and died a wealthy man in America. He also remained single to the end of his days.

The abolition of all pain resulting from the injury caused by surgical operations is promised it a new anaesthetic process described in the Eancet fulfils the claim of its discoverer, Dr Forbes Ross. The new preparation is quite harmless, and us action is to put the affected part to which it is applied to sleep —a condition that lasts for periods varying trom 24 hours to a fortnight.

Clarauce Danow, the famous American lawyer, seems to have struck a whole pile of trouble vvheu Ue undertook the defence of the McNamaras iu the famous Eos Augelos dynamiting case. The McNamaras as everybody knows, cut short auy chauce of Darrow showing his torensic abilities, oy coutessiug to the crimes, aud then Darrow’s troubles started. He was charged with having tried to bribe witnesses aud jurymen to favour the McNamaras. This charge seems to have eventually petered out. But the prosecution has now got back with the charge that he tried to hypnotise them. If this lads it will be interesting to see what he will be next charged with having tried to do to them.

A rather good story comes from a rural district in Taranaki says the Auckland star. A professional man owned a cow, whose milk supply was unaccountably deficient. Various experts were consulted, and the best and most abundant fodder provided, yet still less and less milk was the result. The owner’s wife had ideas of her own on the subject, and speedily put the.a into practice. Early one morning, armed with a kodak, she secreted herselt in the milking shed. She had not long to wait. Soon Molly was in the bail, and, wneu milking had been well started, click went the camera, and the cause was no longer in doubt. The picture which the kodak revealed, showed Molly in process of being milked, and the milker was a near-by neighbour of the owner. The police have the picture in their possession, and turther developments are likely. Meantime the lady is the recipient of many congratulations on the success of the clever little scheme.

Try Perreau’s standard bread For excellence it is unsurpassed.* Thomas Rimmer has been ap pointed Foxton agent for “Red Oil,” the celebrated winter spray for fruit trees.*

C. M. Ross and Co., the Bon Marche, Palmerston North, advertise their annual winter clearance, to commence on Saturday, July 13th. and this firm advise us that their premises will be closed all day on Wednesday to complete the marking down of stock, and make complete arrangements for a crowd of eager buyers on Saturday morning.