LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1005, 5 October 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

All accounts owing to the Hi*;rai.d to September 30th, 1912, have now been rendered, and the proprietor would esteem as a favour an early settlement of same.*

The services in St. Mary’s Church to-morrow will be conducted at 8.30 a.m. by the Rev. Father Kelly. The All Saints’ Eadies Guild will hold a social and concert in All Saints’ Schoolroom on Tuesday, October 22nd, particulars of which will appear in a later issue. A meeting of the B'oxton Harbour Board will be held at the Council Chambers, Palmerston N., on Thursday, roth inst., at l. p.m. Business: General and important. All the services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev S. G. Compton m. vicar of Eevin. In the afternoon at 3 p.m. there will be a service for men only, to which all men are invited.

The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the minister, Rev J. M. Thomson, m.a., in the morning, and by Mr Chrystall In the evening. The communion of the Lord’s Supper will be dispensed at the morning service.

Work at the Waihi mines, despite threats of the Federation of Labour bosses, is going on satisfactorily. The men employed are subjected to a certain amount of annoyance by the strikers and their female relatives who screech at them as they proceed to and from work. The Federation of Labour has decided to call upon affiliated unions and sympathetic unions to suspend work for twenty-four hours only, to mark their disapproval of the imprisonment of the Waihi men. It is understood the day chosen will be about the end of next week.

In the village of Erl, in the Tyrol, the peasants dress alike, regardless of sex. Both work hard in the fields, and wear canvas or corduroy trousers, heavily nailed boots, and slouch hats. And, as if to carry the deception further, the women coil their hair tightly to their heads, while the men folk for the most part wear “ King Charles ” curls hanging to their shoulders. Erl has been called the happiest village in the world.

One of the most successful farmers in South Canterbury states that owing to the late harvest and the present weather conditions, the area in grain this year will show a material falling off, but that the outlook for the sheep farmer is very bright. In the Geraldine district the lambing is half through, and it is estimated that the increase will in all probability average fully no per cent,, about 30 per cent, better than last year. The clip, too, it is said, will go from ilb. to 2lb. better all round, while the wool is strong, sound in staple, and clean.

The funeral of the late Mrs Thorp took place yesterday afternoon. A short service was conducted in the dwelling portion of the Council Chambers, where deceased resided, by Mr C. Bauckham seur,, of Ashhurst, prior to the cortege leaving for the cemetery. The funeral was attended by a large number of mourners. At the graveside, Mr Bauckham conducted the burial service and delivered a short address basing his remarks on the text: “If there be no resurrection, then is our preaching vain.” A favourite hymn of deceased’s was sung, “What rich, eternal burst of praise, Shall fill you courts, through endless days, When time shall be no more.” The scene at the graveside was a very touching one and will long be remembered by those present. The coffin was covered with a number of flora! tributes. Deceased was a member of the Brethren denomination.

Try PERREAU’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. They are delicious. Fresh daily.* Thomas Rimmer has been ap!| pointed agent for the “Diamond” Fire Extinguisher. Everybody should buy one.* The demand is running strong for Hayle’s Prints, Warner’s Corsets, and Roslyn Unshrinkable Underwear.*

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Mrs Godley’s appeal for funds to encourage shooting amongst the Senior Cadets is meeting with a hearty response all over New Zealand. What is Foxtou doing ? Approximately ,£41,900 has been spent in the erection of Roman Catholic school buildings in and around Auckland during the past 15 or 16 months. The attendance shield at the local State school this week was won by Stds. V,, VI., and VII., with an average attendance of 95.7 per cent.

A nugget weighing qlb. noz. 6cwt. was found in the street at Forbes (N.S.W.) where it had been carted among some road metal. It was flattened by the weight of many cart-wheels. On the application of the Taranaki Law Society, the Appeal Court struck off the rolls Cecil Moore Townsend, on account of misappropriation of trust funds. Defendant did not appear. Ten guineas were allowed. An item in the bill for professional services in a case which was before the Supreme Court at Masterton on Wednesday, was ,£ls 15s for a confinement. “Can one wonder,” said the Chief Justice, “that the cradles are not full, in view of such a charge,” Says the Free Lance : “Mr Bob Semple has one speciality—he runs riot in personal abuse of Mr Massey. One of his stock assumptions is that Mr Massiy has no brains. As Mr Massey has more brains in his boots than you could find in a whole army 01 Red Feds, the Prime Minister needn’t worry.”

A message to the Sydney Sun about the recent railway accident near Liverpool says that one lady who was in the smashed train, but who was uninjured, walked two miles across the fields and knocked at the door of a lahoure’r’s cottage. She was in a dazed state and when the occupants answered her knock she asked them what had happened. She had no idea that she had been in a railway accident.

A Lithgow (N.S.W.) townsman recently lost a garden iork and advertised that he would like to address a few “cursory” remarks to the thief. It would seem as if the old adage of “Conscience makes cowards of us all” would apply in this case, for on the following morning he found four forks lying in his garden. His fork was not among the number. —Sydney Daily Telegraph. At the Church Congress, the Rev. Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxlord, counselled churchmen to support trade unions and encourage agricultural labourers to obtain improved conditions. The Archbishop of York, Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, attributed much of the present industrial unrest to the idle rich, whose selfishness and luxury were more responsible for bitterness and discontent than were the agitators, at whom they sneered.

The Mayor ot a little commune iu the Pyreuuees has issued the following decree: “Whereas the young people of the commune are wont to meet and dance every Sunday after mass, and the noise they make frightens the cocks, hens and other animals of the village, and whereas the result is prejudicial to agriculture, we hereby prohibit dancing within the bounds of the commune during the hours iu which the domestic animals take their repose.’’

A newspaper having offered a prize tor the most impossible item of local news, the competition was won by a wildly imaginative genius, who sent the following brief story ; —A cabman and bus driver came into collision in the street with their vehicles, so that their wheels were locked. “ My dear sir,” said the cabman, “ I’m very sorry tor this accident. Will you kindly excuse me?” “ Pray, do not mention it, my dear sir,” replied the bus driver ; “ the fault was mine rather than yours.” And after getting clear of each other they bowed politely and proceeded about their business with a pleasant “Good day.” If asked to name the strongest animal, most persons begin with the largest, the elephant, and continue with oxen, horses, etc. This is, of course, correct iu so far as their total horse-power is concerned ; but for real strength, proportioned to the size and weight of the animal, one must go to the insect world. Compared with insects, the strength of almost any large animal, and especially man, is absurd. A man is considered strong if he can drag a mass weighing three or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 50® times his own weight. If a man were placed under a wooden box with five times his weight on top to hold it down, he would remain there indefinitely : but (says the Animals’ Friend) to retain a stag beetle prisoner in the same way, one must pile on top of the box at least 18000 times its weight.

Labour unrest has had its direct influence on the drapery trade of New Zealand, as all shipments of summer goods are about a montn late, caused by the London dockers strike, C. M. Ross and Co., The Bon Marche, Palmerston North, advertise to-day, however, that every department ie now full of novelties for the season, and draw the special attention of ladies to the tact that the season being shortened thus tar, Millinery and Dressmaking orders should be placed at once to save certain disappointment if this is not done. The difficulty of getting work put through in time is becoming increasingly difficult every year—this year it will be doubly so.*

Bombardier Wells will cover Mehegan’s challenger after the fight for the Lonsdale belt on November nth.

The wettest place in New Zealand during the month of August was the Hermitage, Mount Cook, where nearly 21 inches of rain were recorded. At the Levin S.M. Court yesterday, Walter Fawcett, for having supplied liquor to Thomas Edwards, a prohibited person, was fined ,£3 and costs. The wedding took place at Levin on Wednesday of Mr T. Johnson and Miss Mary Tuohy. The Rev Father Cognet pertormed the ceremony. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford unveiled a statue of Captain Cook at Whitby, where it was learned the vessels in which Captain Cook sailed had been built.

At the annual meeting of the Flaxmillers’ Association, held at Palmerston on Thursday, the retiring chairman (Mr E. L. Broad) paid a tribute to the assistance rendered for many years by Mr Jas. Tennant, and the meeting unanimously elected Mr Tennant a life member of the Association. The flood waters of the Manawatu occasionally bring down the carcases of drowned animals which are cast up on the beach and create a nuisance. Several are now rotting out at the Heads and we would suggest that the Harbour Board instruct the pilot 10 deal with such cases as was done when the Marine Department controlled the port.

The services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be held i» the supper-room of the Town Hall. The Rev T. Coatsworth will conduct both services. The evening subject will be, “With Christ at Sea.” A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all; strangers cordially welcome.

Mr James H. Foster and his daughter met with a serious trap accident at Blenheim on Thursday. The horse bolted and collided with another vehicle. Miss Foster sustained a fracture of the skull in two places, and her condition is hopeless. Foster received a severe scalp wound and an injured nose. Hopes are entertained for his recovery.

The style of architecture for dwellings has made a distinct change in recent years, and a reporter was informed last week that “Christchurch people would now have nothing but houses of the bungalow pattern. In all parts of the city and suburbs bungalows are now being erected, and so popular are these houses as residential quarters that there is now a very keen demand for bungalows in all parts of Christchurch. On Labour Day, 28th inst., the Foxton millers have decided to give their employees, together with their wives and children, a river picnic. The millers will provide the means of locomotion and hot water and the picnicers will take the refreshments. The industrial outlook would be always bright if similar social outings could be arranged to bring employers and employees into closer touch the one with the other. We hope a good time will be spent by all.

A man in New South Wales who played the part of a good Samaritan thirty years ago has just been rewarded. The Sydney Daily Telegraph stales that Mr P. S. Hanslow, ot Cudgebegong, has been informed by a hrm of solicitors that a man named Whitehead recently died in Victoria and left him the whole of his property, valued at about ,£2,000. It seems that in 1882 Mr Hanslow found Whitehead, who was a tramp at the time, lying seriously ill at the side oi the road. He conveyed him to an hotel, where he paid his board, and also paid for medical advise. When Whitehead got better, Hanslow gave him 10s in cash to help him on his way. He had entirely forgotten the occurrence till he received this letter.

Even the preachers are not averse to a joke that lies in the line of the professional funny man. One of them not long ago told the following when he was invited to speak:—A traveller discovered a man lying on the ground one warm day within a foot or two of the shade of a tree. “Why don’t you lie in the shade ?” he inquired. “I did,” replied the man, “but it has moved away from me, and I can’t afford to follow it.” “Well, if you are not the best specimen of a lazy man I have seen yet 1 Make me another remark on a par with that, and I’ll give you a quarter.” The man said, “Put the quarter into my pocxet.” He got it.

Now is the time lor spraying you trees. Use ‘'Red Oil,” acknowledged to be the best spray. Thos. Rimmer, Foxton agent.*

Laches who wish to see the new styles in one-piece dresses are invited to call at the White House where a fine range of these garments are on display. Further particulars will be found in Mr G. H. Stiles’ replace advertisement.

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Good progress is being made by the builders with the erection of business premises in Main Street.

Mr William Mathew Kirk, an old Poverty Bay iudentity and Maori war veteran died at Gisborne on Thursday. The s.s. Queen of the South is expected from Wellington tomorrow or Monday morning, and the s.s. Wakatu, from Lyttelton on Tuesday.

Henry Daniel Gudsell was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court in Christchurch at Ashburton yesterday, on a charge of committing an indecent assault on a fourteen-year-old girl at Tinwald on September 7th. Bail was fixed at A child, aged 6, named Elsie Lenning, was killed at Blenheim on Thursday through a kick from a horse. There were no witnesses of the accident, and it is presumed that she was playing round the horse, which lashed out and broke the child’s neck Dr. William Ettles, the famous London oculist, declares that ladies’s veils are bad for the eyes. He points out that the closely woven network hinders proper ventilation of the eyes, and the skin of the face, and is the frequent cause of watering of the eyes. He also says that veils cause red noses.

A man was charged at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court with failing to make provision for the maintenance of his wife. The man’s brother-in-law had laid the information, and defendant’s wife appeared and asked for the charge to be withdrawn. She said she had had her husband arrested because she did not wish him to go away. The Magistrate remarked that that was a pretty cool thing to do, and concluded by saying, “ All right, take him away, and much good may he do you.” Thus Mr J. Thomas, sen., at the annual meeting of the Ngaere Co-operative Dniry Company summed up the requirements necessary in his opinion, for the man who, under present circumstances, “whacks out the whey” to suppliers : 11 He must be as meek as Moses, and patient as Job; the wisdom ot oolomon must be his ; he needs the politeness ot George Washington, and the nerve of Cromwell; while the fighting ability of Napoleon, Lord Nelson and Jack Johnson —all put together —must top him off !”

“ How many people in New Zealand,” asked Sir Robert Stout in an address at New Plymouth, “ are thrifty ? I sometimes think it would be a good thing if we in this colony were made poor, so as to learn what thrift means. You have to learn what thrift is. What a different country New Zealand would be if we were all thrifty, if we lived our lives simply, were simple In our food, our clothes, our pleasure, and if we did not run after amusements as if the one aim in life was to be amused. The savings bank account is the passport for young men in New Zealand.

An amusing incident happened in one of the principal squares at Zurich. A well-dressed young woman, wearing high-heeled boots, was crossing the street when her heel became caught in a tramway line where several branch lines cross. A crowd collected round the struggling girl, and tram-cars stopped while a gendarme vainly tried to free the boot, which the girl indignantly refused to take off. As more tram cars were delayed and the crowd incraased a gendarme cut the bootlace and pulled out the little toot, and then the crowd became hilarious —the silk stocking was full of holes!

The practice of “following up” resulted, it appears, in at least one humorous incident. According to a visitor to Waihi, who narrates his experiences in the ‘ New Zealand Herald.’ Some local humourist arranged that uue of the engine drivers, the objects of the Federation’s hostility, should walk up and down the street until, as usual, a crowd of strikers began to follow on his heels Then the humourist and a friend joined him, and the three struck off for the country at a good pace, with the strikers still “ following up.” They tramped in this fashion for some six miles, until the strikers began to realise that they were out of training. Then, at a bend of the road, the engine-driver and his two friends were overtaken by a buggy from Waihi. They got into it, and as it turned back to town they opened up a nice little lunch—sandwiches and bottled beer, and so on—and began to enjoy themselves alter their warm walk. The feelings of the strikers when they realised that they were six miles from home, and would have to walk back, while their quarry was driving back at his ease, were expressed with extreme freedom.— Press.