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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1089, 29 August 1912, Page 3

The Egmont by-election will take place on September 17th. William Powell was yesterday fined £25 for betting on the racecourse at the Hunt Club races at Gisborne.

A Nelson employer was fined £1 and costs for preventing an employee from rendering military service.

A large area ol laud is being sown in maize in the Masterton and Wairarapa districts just now. Maize is regarded now as an essential as a summer and autumn food lor cows.

At the Inquest on the body of an infant found in a milk pan at Henderson, Auckland, the jury found that death was due to exposure consequent on neglect by the mother, a single woman, named Rose Herd, who has been arrested on a charge ot manslaughter.

Prior to leaving Foxtou Mr S. Messena disposed of the three-year-old Waiolapu (St. AmbroseWaipuna) to Mr Smith. The price paid we understand, was something over £ SO. Waiolapu is being trained by Mr Smith, and will be first seen under silk at the forthcoming Otaki meeting. An elderly man named George Henry Hayward has been committed for trial at Napier on a charge of bigamy. The evidence showed that he married Julia Ellen Traiuor at Invercargill in 1877, and in 1894 went through the form of marriage at the Registry Office, Invercargill, with Catherine Jane Carson. A Masterton settler informed a Wairarapa Age representative in Friday that during the last winter he had fed about a hundred men, but he could uot induce them to work. On one day last week he gave tea, bed and breaklast to five men. He offered them all work at a shilling an hour, but only two out of the five could be induced to take the job, which was scrub cutting.

Foxton drapers defy competition in general drapery, Roslyn Clothing, Blankets, Rugs, Flannels, Unshrinkable Underwear “Delta” finish and Warner’s famous Rust-proof Corsets*

The most attractive shop tor toys of every description is Mrs Hamer’s. Have you seen the window display ?*

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