LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1013, 22 October 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Yesterday was the 107th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar.

The London shipping companies have raised the Australian tnirdclass fares to a minimum of Mr James Stubbs, a brother of Mr W. Stubbs, secretary of the Palmerston Hospital Board, died at Palmerston on Friday evening, aged 63 years. The death occurred at Palmerston on Saturday ot Mr Stanley Mowlem, aged 21 years, son ot Mr Fred Mowlem. Death followed an operation for appendicitis. Stone, the American aviator, struck the telegraph wires at Ballarat. He jumped from his plane, and in falling received concussion of the brain. His condition is serious.

Jack Johnson has been arrested at Chicago on a charge of the abduction of a white girl. A charge of smuggling a diamond necklace is also pending.

The Government engineer estimates the cost: of constructing a light tramline from Puketitiri to Hastings at for forty-one miles, allowing three miles lor sidings. This works out at ,£4,200 per mile.

Thomas Erridge, a fisherman ot Carey’s Bay, Port Chalmers, forty-two years of age and married, was knocked down by || grocer’s cart on Saturday evening, and subsequently died from the injuries received. The Edinburgh Courts have annulled the marriage ol Edward Shields, a wealthy Londoner, on the ground that he had previously married a dressmaker by mutual consent, in Scotch form. Jeanette Polack, the second wife, was awarded ,£SOOO damages. A prisoner named Frederick Williams died suddenly at the Terrace Gaol Wellington on Sunday. Williams, who was thirtyeight years ol age, was sentenced at Napier on February 21st, 1911, to five years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering at Napier. At no time had he complained of sickness. He was of a quiet disposition, and was never troublesome.

At a mass meeting held at Wellington ou Sunday, under the auspices of the Federation of Uabour, and addressed by Messrs R. Semple, Howard W. Richards, P. C. Webb and L. Glover, the following motion was carried : “That this mass meeting of Wellington workers congratulate the latest batch of Waihi strikers who have gone to gaol for principle, and calls upon all Unionists to rise to demand the release of Unionist prisoners.”

The Hon, R. Heaton Rhodes (Postmaster - General), iu the course of a brief interview, stated there had been an unprecedented increase in the telephone business, and in the June quarter this increase was 32 per cent., whilst for the September quarter the increase had been phenomenal, amounting to too per cent. The “party” line system of telephonic communication was largely accountable for this very satisfactory increase.

■ Mr J. Robertson, M.P., introduced a deputation from theShan-uon-Foxton district to the Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works at Wellington ou Saturday iu connection with the problem ol the flood waters in the Mauawatu River area. Various suggested routes lor cuts giving relief in times of flood were considered. The deputation received a sympathetic hearing, an assurance being given that the Public Works Department will send officers to examine and report —and the matter will end there.

The meeting to be held to form a cam:ra club locally is advertised to take place in Mr Perreau’s rooms at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening. In consideration of the enjoyment and benefit to be derived by amateurs from an institution of this kind, every person who is interested in camera work in any way should deem it a duty towards himself to become a member. Also, anyone desiring to take up this fascinating work as a hobby should be present at Thursday night’s meeting and add their name to the membership list.

Call and see the stock we have crammed into our temporary pre mises, it will surprise you. Thomas Rimmer.*

Wanted —The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. de Luen, tailor, of Palmerston North, will call on anyone with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4s, Suits from £4 10s.* For chronic chest complaints W o ids’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d. 2s 6d.

John Wilds, aged 84 years, a resident of Titnaru, suicided by drowning yesterday. The temper of the Waihi strikers is growing bitter. They have commenced to hurl missiles at the workers.

A man named McLeod was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment at Wellington yesterday for sly-grog selling. Mr A. McCall ,who has held the position of letter-carrier at Foxton for some years has received notice of his transfer to Wellington, He will leave Foxton to-morrow. A man named E. Marriott, a hairdresser, of Pahiatua, is reported missing. His overcoat and cap has been found on the bank of the river.

At Daunevirke, the S.M. gave judgment for £6 5s gd and 19s costs against a subscriber to the defunct Advocate, who hadstopped the paper, but continued to receive and use it.

Pippies have been phenomenally plentiful at the Heads during the past few weeks, and Maoris have gathered cartloads of them and sent them on to their friends in the interior.

The s.s. Gertie arrived from Wellington on Sunday evening with a cargo of kerosene, and left with cattle for Westport via Picton last night; the Queen arrived from Wellington this morning with a general cargo. The Gertie and Kennedy are expected, t'oal laden, from Westport on Friday. A Maori gave the following replies to counsel in the Masterton S.M. Court; —“What do you live on ?’’ he was asked. “I live on lood,’’ replied the native. “Have you any property?” “Well, py korry, I got a greyhound.” The last sort of property a bailiff would care to chase after.

The-Sydney Sun says : Mr John Norton, who came in by the Orvieto this morning, alter a long holiday abroad, consolidated his remarks to interviewers into a couple of sentences. He said: “I was fifteen months away. I spent a third of my time in a lunatic asylum, a third in gaol, and the remainder I was unconscious. That’s the sort of holiday 1 had !”

The exports during the quarter ended September last totalled compared with .£2,719,024 in the corresponding quarter of rgr 1. The imports last quarter were .£4,968,412, and for the September quarter last year i )667- The gold exported during the last quarter was 80,102 ounces, value compared with 25,531 ounces, value ,£500,358, in the September quarter of 1911.

It is simply marvellous the state of excitement some people can work themselves up to over things that do not matter- For instance we read in the dailies of great outpourings of virtuous indignation by sundry males in different cities of the world over the slim kind of dresses that women choose to wear. We are gravely informed that in Chicago, the city of tinned dog, and the headquarters of every known and unknown swindle and villiany on earth, a league has been formed to regulate women s dress in the interests of morality—the morality of Chicago ! In the same city a number ot girls were burned to death in a factory the other week for lack of fire escapes to get out. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone to start a league to compel legislation making fire escapes compulsory.

The splendid work of the mill hands employed at Messrs A. and L. Seifert's Mirauui flaxmill was the chief feature of a lire which occurred there on Saturday. Tue outbreak was discovered at about 11 a.m. in the fibre at one of the bay- - in the big scutching shed. The men immediately set about overcoming the fire with the appliances available, and after a fierce, brief battle, succeeded in subduing the flames. The damage to the building is estimated at and there were six or seven tons of fibre destroyed also. Flax fibre is very inflammable, and but for the splendid work of the men the whole building would have been destroyed. As a result of the fire, two scutching machines are put temporarily out of use, representing three tons a day output.

Everyone must have noticed that in moving pictures the wheels of carriages and automobiles often seem to be turning backward instead of tor ward. One puzzled person wrote to the Scientific American asking why, and this is that paper’s answer: In taking a moving picture there are, perhaps, 16 exposures made each second. If now the spokes ol the wheel of a carriage move with a speed so that the spokes are in the same position at each exposure, that wheel will seem to stand still m the picture. It the wheel is rnoviug slower, then the spokes will be seen turther backward in the successive views and the wheel will seem to turn backward, while it will seem to turn forward wheu the spokes move fast enough to occupy positions further forward in each exposure. It is a matter of the interruption lor the exposure and the motion of the wheel. If there are 16 exposures and the wheel turns through the space between two spokes iu onesixteenth of a second, the wheel would be in the same position at each successive exposure, and so would not seem to move at all.

People with weak digestive organs should not fail to take PERREAU’S Bermaline Bread.*

Dainties for the summer season Table jellies 10 for Is, Symington’s cream fid, sardines best smoked 4 tins for is. Thomas Runmer. 71

There was a full house at the municipal pictures on Saturday night. A specially attractive programme was screened to mark the first anniversary of the opening.

A large . number of visitors arrived at the local seaside resort per motor car on Sunday last. If is anticipated that there will be a record number of visitors to the Beach this summer.

A dinner is to be held in the Manawatu Hotel to-morrow at 8 p.m., when the Hall Shield will be presented to the Foxton Cricket Club, last year’s winner of the trophy.

Mr Arnold, editor of the Burmah Critic, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for defamation of the District Magistrate at Mergui. The editor accused the Magistrate of wrongly acquitting a British officer charged with the abduction of a native girl.

The Flaxmill Employees Union took a ballot on the question of taking a holiday as an expression of sympathy with the “ gaoled ” Waihi strikers on Saturday. An agent of the Federation of Labour from Tokomaru had paid a visit to Shannon and had fomented matters. The proposal to slop work for a day for the purpose of “demonstrating” was rejected. A tragedy is reported at Boongooudoo station near Brisbane. It is stated that Young, the manager, informed his wife that he was going to visit the other property. She went to the kitchen to wrap her husband’s lunch. It is alleged that Young followed and shot his wife twice in the head with a revolver. Later three shots were heard, and Young’s body was found hall a mile away with the throat cut and two bullet wounds in the bead, The wife’s condition is serious.

“ I have seen heathen women sold ior fish and beasts of the field,” said the Rev. P. T, Williams at a mass meeting ol girls in St. Andrew’s Hall, Auckland. Continuing, he said that it was this absence of responsibility which caused the awful horrors of to-day. The homes of the world were what the women of the world made them. He was shocked when he saw women in the streets of Auckland wearing heels jin high, with lueir skirts gathered round them like the draping of a vase, and hats on their heads which were ridiculous. If these women only knew the contempt which all true men had lor them they would never wear such things again.

Fourteeen years ago a Hastings business man gave a client a receipt for ten shillings in advance of payment, as she explained that it would convenience her in some way. When he subsequently requested the money, the woman barefacedly relused to pay, saying that she held his acquittal. The trader simply wrote the debt off his book as bad, and thought no more about it. The woman recently died, and the busines man was amazed to receive a letter from her executors last week enclosing ten shillings as conscience money, as a result ot instructions under her will.

The Rimutaka, which arrived on Sunday morning at the Queen’s Wharf, Wellington, brought 49 saloon and 326 third-class passengers from London. There were 42 “assisted” imifligranls—32 adults and 10 children. Six adults and six children were nominated by relatives in New Zealand, and the High Commissioner approved of 26 adults and four children. The new arrivals include 17 farm labourers and to domestic servants. The latter ate under charge of Miss Moynau, as matron. There is also a farmer who has come out to settle on the land. The batch appeared to be a healthy lot, and were all passed by the Port Health Officer.

A social and conceit under the auspices of the Ladies Guild, is to be held in All Saints Schoolroom this evening. A first-class programme has been arranged, at the conclusion,of which refreshments will be handed round. Songs will be contributed by Mesdames Robertson, Guilder and Hall, Misses King and McDonald, and Messrs Rimmer, Buglass, Prosser, Collins, Cook and Longworth. Messrs Whibley and Yates will contribute recitations, Mr Hornblow a musical monologue, and Mr Simmons a violin solo. There will also be several glees by Mr Betty’s party, and a wand exhibition by Mr Longworth. The price of admission is one shilling.

With a view to improving the Foxton-Shannon road, the Manawatu County Council have had the road grader over it, but on account of the continued wet weather, the result has been far from satistactory. The bad places in the road were crowned up, but the recent rains converted them into a quagmire. Last week a motor car got stuck iu the mud, and the driver had to get a horse to pull the machine out. It is to be hoped that the proposed conference between representatives of the HOiX-wheuua and Manawatu County Councils will result iu a mutual agreement being arrived at in connection with the maintenance of the road, and that the necessary repairs will be put in band immediately.

Wanted: 100 new customers to drink Agragelia Tea —the highest grade tea procurable. Call for free sample. Thomas Rimraer.*

Xmas numbers of the Graphic, Weekly Press, Auckland Weekly, Otago Witness can be had at R. M. Parkes, stationer and jeweller, arrived to- Jay * A good meal for the middle of the day is one of Perreau’s steak and kidney pies. Try them.*

“ The old colonists who pioneered and laid the foundations of the Dominion were not labour agitators,” said the Rev. J. Cocker at the reunion in the Auckland Town Hall. Continuing, he remarked that if a man 50 years ago bad requested another to down tools he would probably have received a merited rebuke if not physical chastisement. ‘‘ Pickets,” in his opinion, would not build a loyal and effective race. Pluck, independence, and faith were infinitely better qualities than the demoralising influences of present day labour propaganda. And he called on the youth of today to emulate the characteristics of the fine old men and women who had made Auckland and New Zealand what they were today.

It will be remembered that a few weeks ago a son of Mr R. Edwards, of Palmerston North, heroically rescued a schoolmate named Henry Berthold from drowning at the local wharf. We suggested at the time that steps Should be taken to bring Edwards’ courageous act under the notice of the Royal Humane Society. Both lads are pupils of the Palmerston High Sctiool, aud the rector aud Board ol Governors heartily congratulated the lad and were of opinion that such bravery was worthy of suitable recognition. The Mayor of Palmerston North, (J. A. Nash Esq)., has taken the matter in hand and we have received a document whica has to be filled in by eye witnesses of the incident to be fui warded 10 the society’s headquarters. We shali be pleased to lake the statements of any witnesses in order 'that the document may be forwarded without loss of lime.

From the editor of The Weekly Press (Christchurch) the Herald is in receipt ot "New Zealand 11* lustrated,’' being the Christmas annual of the Weekly Press. One of its leading features concerns Maori life. New Zealand scenery is treated pictorially, and the farming industry is well illustrated. Accompanying the annual are a couple of splendidly executed plates in colour. In “Kapai ie Koura,” by w. a. Bowring, a laughing, ..iuori lad enjoys his toothsome teed of crayfish. A smile of satisiaction is spread over nis face, and almost one hears him exclaim, ‘‘Kapai i'e Koura. The other supplement is a beautiful reach on the tar-tamed Wanganui river, by C. H. Howorth. There is an atmosphere about the picture which naturally suggests the tamous river, and the development of the great natural transtormation scenes with which the gorgeous reaches abound, Each of these supplements is a replica of the original picture, as regards colouring and general g ;t up, and will assuredly nnd,a on many walls in New Zealand.

We have been appointed local agent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins 2/10, tins 1/6, l A\b tins iOd. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimmer.* •