LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

Mr McDermott, one time local postmaster, is on a brief visit to Foxton.

The ordinary meeting of the local school committee will be held this evening. The new opera house to be erected in Wellington will cost A meeting of All Saints’ parishioners will be held this evening to discuss the holding of an old English fair. A medical comereuce, called by the Health Department, to plan a campaign against the spread of consumption opened in the Parliamentary Buildings yesterday.

Camera enthusiasts are reminded of the meeting to be held in Perrtau’s rooms at 8 o’clock this evening to discuss matters in connection with the formation of a camera club in Foxton.

Mr Woodroofe’s butcher shop, to replace tbe one destroyed by fire in Main Street, is nearly completed. The interior, with its tyled walls and up-to-date appointments, will be one of the best equipped from every point ot view in the district.

The s.s. Queen of the South sailed last night for Wellington with a cargo of hemp. The Gertie is expected with a cargo of coal from Westport to-morrow, and the Kennedy on Saturday. The Queen is expected from Wellington to-morrow. A labourer named John Leany, and a barber named Arthur Widdes quarrelled at a house in Martin Street, Wellington, last night. Leahy received several slashes in the face with a razor. He lost a good deal of blood, and was taken to the hospital. Widdes was arrested.

A public meeting, to which ladies are cordially invited, will be held in Perreau’s rooms to-morrow night for the purpose of taking steps to provide funds for the relief of the widow and family of the late Mr Lacey, It is hoped there will be a good attendance of practical sympalhisers with this deserving case.

The Royal Minstrels and Vaudeville Company, under the direction of Mr Leo. Brandon, will appear at the Coronation Hall on Monday evening next. The company includes the four Etudes, Norman Knight, Collins and Collingwood patter comedians, Bert Trelawney and others. Popular prices of admission will be charged. Mr Edmund Osborne, draper, of Palmerston, whose replace advt. appears elsewhere in this issue, pays the following tribute to the Herald as an advertising medium: “Yesterday a customer cleared out a line that he saw I advertised in the Manawatu Heraed, We are always glad to know which papers are most profitable to advertise in.”

A very pleasing ceremony took place in the postmaster’s room at the local post office on Tuesday night, when the staff assembled to bid farewell to Mr McCall who has been transferred to Wellington, and to make him a presentation. On behalf of the staff Mr Clemett presented Mr McCall with a complete toilet outfit and referred to the recipient’s long and honourable connection with the office. He referred to his courteous and gentlemanly conduct to the public and his alround efficiency in the office, and wished him success in the future. Mr Hodgson endorsed the remarks made by the postmaster. Mr McCall suitably and feelingly replied.

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

A woman wearing a Warner’s Corset feels almost “uncorsetted,” so light is the garment, so comfortable does it fit, and beautifully shaped.* Iry Perreau’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. They are delicious. Fresh daily.*

Ask local drapers to show you the famous Roslyn Writing Pads,, 6d and is each.*

The New Zealand cadets have arrived back from Canada and were given a great welcome at ‘ uci; ’ „ i • V..c .vi.Kcis of Wanganui, by a combined ctioit, have arranged a very hue programme of sports to be held on Labour Day. Mr Booker Washington, the eminent negro scholar and orator, is asking all negroes to repudiate Jack Johnson, in consequence of the latter’s conduct.

The Hon. James Allen will at the request of the Government pay a visit to London early in the year in connection with Dominion finance. He will also look into matters ot defence and education.

The area acquired for closer settlement in Hawke’s Bay this year, says the Danuevirke News, will accommodate about 50 settlers. The total acreage is about 25,000 acres. A Wairarapa settler has disposed of the whole of his lambs for the coming season to a southern buyer at 14s per head. This is a record price for the district.

There was a good attendance at the Municipal picture entertainment last night. The pictures screened were very interesting, particularly the film depicting the construction of an aeroplane. At the Auckland Anglican Synod, the Rev. Mr Cleary, of Waihi, said the miners there had no time whatever for the church. During the strike, not sixty out of 1500 strikers could be seen inside the churches of the town.

The whaling steamer Zealandia, arrived at Wellington yesterday from Larvlk, Norway. She is owned by the Antarctic Whaling Company, of Christiana, and intends to examine the N.Z. whaling fisheries.

The death occurred at Pahiatua yesterday of Mr W. W. McCardle, Mayor of Pahiatua, aged 44 years. Deceased was a sou of the Hon. W. W. McCardle, M.L.C. Deceased leaves a widow and family of seven.

A very enjoyable up-river picnic was held by certain members of the local rowing club and their lady friends last night. The party left about 5 p.m. and returned about 10 p.m. These outings were very popular a few years ago.

A poll is to be taken at Devin next month on the question of rating on the unimproved value. Columns of correspondence both for and against have appeared in the local paper so that ratepayers should be well informed on the subject. The lineman, Mr Ingram, informs us that the accident which befell the man, Mr Dowell, whereby a small bone in his arm was fractured, did not occur whilst he was employed on the work in connection with the raising of the telegraph wires. A “gallop-in” and gift tree will lie held by the Salvation Army in the Masonic Hal! this evening. For the benefit of the uninitiated the “gallop-in” refers to the publication of the results of the SelfDenial Collections. A musical programme will be submitted. Those possessing tickets are entitled to gifts.

The annual session ot the Congregational Union in Eondou, discussed the attitude o£ the church to the Eabour movement. The conflict between organised labour and capital was deplored, and the united effort by the churches to discover the remedy was advocated. One reverend speaker advocated nationalisation.

The Napier police have been informed that a man named Peter Butdon has been found dead on the road near Waikare. Deceased, who was employed as a flaxmill hand at Tuturu, purchased a supply of whisky before leaving a Waikare hotel for his camp yesterday, When found he was lying face downwards in the mud, and it is believed that he fell and was suffocated.

In connection witn the cattle dealing case at Waihi, Ernest Richard Worth v. Joseph Snell, In which plaintiff sought to recover being the cost of eleven head of cattle bought on behalf ot defendant, and which were drowned in the course of delivery, the Magistrate (Mr F. V. Fraser) gave his reserved decision- The evidence, the Magistrate said, was in lavour of the plaintiff. Judgment for the amount claimed, with costs was given.