LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1017, 31 October 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

The inclusion in the industrial section at the Palmerston Show of a class for hemp was a good idea, and the response demonstrates that this encouragement of a staple industry of the district is appreciated by its supporters.

Napier means to get busy. At a public meetiug it was decided to form a ‘‘Thirty Thousand Club,” having for its immediate object the advancement of Napier, and for its ultimate aim the bringing up of the population to 30,000.

To-morrow is All Saints’ Day and the Holy Communion will be celebrated at 7.30 a.m. in All Saints’ Church. On Sunday, which is in the Octave of All Saints’ and the Patroual Festival of the Parish, there will be special services in the church.

“I feel like Jacob of old,” said a member of a deputation which waited on the Auckland education Board to protest against the proposal to close the Baillie street school at Thames. “I feel that I want to take you by the hip and wrestle with you.” (Laughter.) An old identity passed away at Wanganui last week, in the person of Mrs George Snow, who was the first white woman to land in Nelson. The deceased lady came out to Nelson in 1841 by the barque Martha Ridgeway. She leaves a husband, four sous, two daughters, and numerous grandchildren.

A typhoid fever case has been admitted to the local hospital, says the Otaki Mail, a lad from one of the mills in the vicinity of Shannon being the patient. It is a coincidence that the father, mother and other members of the same family have also now been admitted to another hospital, and are being treated for ptomaine poisoning. In the art and needlework classes at the Palmerston Show, Mrs H. Witchell obtained third place for .fancy work, third for needle painting, first for embroidered blouse, second for ribbon work, third for fancy needlework piece, and second for buttonholes. Miss N. Ross secured second award for Hedebo embroidery. The exhibits were from all parts of the North Island, and the local exhibitors are to be congratulated upon their success. A pathetic message attached to a will was discovered in the 700 ft level at Mount Lyell after last week’s disaster. It was that of an Italian, Valentine Bianchi. He was an elderly man, and was found dead in the 700 ft level, near Joe McCarthy, who also left a pathetic farewell note. It appears, the searchers say, as if, when the smoke was coming towards the two men, they descended into a depression, which gave them air enough to write in. Valentine Bianchi's will is as follows: “ 12/10/12. Please give to Fratella Bianchi. (An address in the Tyrol follows) (Signed) Valentine Bianchi. Witness: Joe McCarthy.” In the corner are these Italian words : “ Carissima parent!, pregate for me; addio, addio” which has been interpreted, ” Dear parents, pray for me; good-bye, good-bye.” The writing is very shaky. The following passage is taken from a letter recently inserted in the Wanganui Hefald by I. Antonoff: “In conclusion, I should like to say that, with all due respect and reasonable tolerance to every man’s thoughts, the modern Jew asks but one great favour of his Christian Brethren, and that is, to leave him alone ; for as long as some people will make of him an angel, an idol, and a king, there will always be found another class who will make of him a devil, and a fiend, and a beggar. That even the Jew of old knew how much his future knighthood costs him, this characteristic little prayer in Yiddish will give some illustration : ‘O Lord, we beseech Thee that Thou shall guard and shield us against our friends, and we shall manage out enemies ourselves.’ ” The remarkable feature of onepiece frocks advertised by C. M. Ross and Co., in this issue, is their style and exceptional reasonableness ; they are wonderful values, we are sure ladies inspecting these garments will be delighted with the variety and pleased at the price." Wanted—The people of Fox ton 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 Irotu £4 4s, Suits from £4 ids.*

Dainties for the summer season Table jellies 10 for is, Symington’s cream 6d, sardines best smoked 4 tins for is. Thomas Rimraer.*

For chrome chest complaints W oxls’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d» 25 6cl,

A seafaiiug man named Angus Garden was killed in the Auckland railway goods yards on Tuesday night. Messrs McLean (of Turakina) and Beard (ot Marton) have imported two motor ten-furrow ploughs.

A number of local residents visited the show to day, but the majority intend going to-morrow, People's Day. All local business premises will observe a holiday to-morrow, People’s Day at the Palmerston Show. A motor-car owner stated at Marton Court recently, that he make a week with his motor in plying for hire, and sometimes he made £2O a week.

Auckland strawberries were sold at from 2s to 2s nd per lb at Wellington on Saturday, and green peas at is 7d to is 6d per peck. The Minister of Finance (Hon. Jas. Allen) will leave for London on December 13th. He will travel by the Orient steamer Orama, arriving in Loudon about February Ist.

The Roman Catholic authorities in Palmerston are anxious to get a new church, and at a meeting of male members of the congregation on Sunday £ISOO was promised in cash towards that object. The death has occurred at Woodville, of Mr William Bliss, a very old resident. Deceased had been in business in Woodville since 1883. He leaves a family of five, all of whom are married. Dennis Taylor, aged sixteen years, was crossing the Mataura river on Monday in a dray, when he got into deep water and was carried down by the current. Both Taylor and the horse were drowned.

Our Moutoa correspondent, in his reply to E. G. Martin, inserted the initial “J” instead of “G,” which has brought forth a disclaimer from the said E. J. Martin, who is a separate and distinct personage to E. G. Martin. Our humble apologies to “E. J.’' Colonel Rooseve’t is planning the final meeting of his campaign in Madison Square gardens. A thousand policemen have been told off to guard him. Precautions are also being taken to guard the other candidates.

Edmond Maryatt, hairdresser, of Pahiatua, who was reported a few days ago as having mysteriously disappeared, was arrested in Gisborne on Tuesday by Sergeant Hutton and Detective Mitchell on a charge of wife desertion. He was working in a local hairdressing saloon. He was remanded to Pahiatua.

Pickpockets are busy about Wellington just now, and they have extended their patronage to the Masterton and Wellington race meetings. At the Trentham racecourse on Monday a visitor had stolen, and another discovered that ,£lO had been taken from him at the Lambton railway station. A well-known Wellington resident, who bad £B9 in the inside pocket of a coat when he left Wellington on Saturday, was minus this amount by the time he reached the course.

The solemn rites gone through by superstitious people iu carrying out their code of charms and omens .are frequently irritating (says the Gisborne Times). Picture the feelings of a well known carter in Gladstone Road on Friday afternoon when a lady crossing the street seized upon a horse shoe and threw it over her shoulder with the result that it struck the hitherto disinterested carter on the head.

The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Stratford Progressive liberal League last week : “ That this meeting of Liberals urges upon Sir Joseph Ward the desirability of again taking the leadership of the Liberal Party, recognising that his ability as a statesman and politician warrants the party throughout this Dominion leaving no stone unturned in securing Sir Joseph Ward as its leader/’

The Appeal Court has delivered judgment iu the Merchants’ Association of New Zealand v. The King. The main controvesrsy was as to the right of the Crown to inspect the Association's minute book on matters referring to other commodoties than sugar. The Court was of opinion that this inspection should be allowed, and the appeal dismissed. Costs were allowed on the middle scale. Leave to appeal to the Privy Council was refused on the ground that the matter was not of great importance. At yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court before Mr A. D. Thomson S.M., judgment for plaintiffs by default was entered up in the following civil cases : E. Osborne v. Andrew Hunter, claim £1 9s Sd, costs 15s ; and Ceylon Tea Company v. Mrs Jackson, 13s costs only. In the judgment summons, M. H. Walker v. Reaston Baker, judgment debtor was examined by Mr Moore as to his earnings, after hearing which the Magistrate ordered him to pay 1 os forthwith, iu default seven days’ imprisonment in Palmerston prison, order to be suspended if £1 a fortnight is paid. Xmas numbers of the Graphic, Weekly Press, Auckland Weekly, Otago Witness can be had at R. M. Parkes, stationer and jeweller, arrived to-day * People with weak digestive organs should not fail, to take PERREAU’s Bermaline Bread/ We have been appointed local agent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins 2/ 10, %lb tins 1/6, j/jlb tins lOcl. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimmer.* I

The Canadian cadets will arrive at Palmerston on November Bth. Dr. Mandl returned to Foxton on Tuesday night after spending an enjoyable holiday on the West Coast.

A Government Gazette has been issued, proclaiming the neutrality of New Zealand in regard to the war in the Balkans.

It is predicted that before new potatoes come on to the market to any appreciable extent, the price of potatoes will have reached £l4 per ton in Dunedin. By the s.s. Kennedy, which arrived in port yesterday, Mr R. N. Speirs, local timber merchant, received a consignment of 70,000 ft. of rimu from Blackball. This is the largest consignment of timber from the South which has yet come through the local port. The building erected by the Seventh Day Adventists near Hastings at a cost of ,£12,000. for a Maori agricultural college, has been completed. The college is situated about six miles from Hastings, stands on an area of 130 acres, which has a frontage to the Maraekakahb road, and gives an uninterrupted view of the whole of the Hawke’s Bay plains, A better position would have been hard to choose.

A Woodville resident recently purchased a farm of 700 acres in the Hawke’s Bay district, and paid a deposit of £SO, Before he paid any more money down, or took possession, he was ottered £3 per acre on his bargain. He is at present inspecting the property with a friend, with the object of making up his mind whether he will work the farm himself or accept the £I2OO. “ If we have not fought for our freedom to drink what we like with sword and pistol,” said Mr O. T. J, Alpers at the Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s smoke concert at Christchurch, “we have fought for it with motor cars on polling day. If we have not bled tor it, we have certainly been bled for it.”

An Indian journal, which was disguised as a religious organ, but which was really used for propagating a revolutionary policy, has just been suppressed in Tokio, where it had been published for the last twelve months. In a recent issue an article appeared criticising the British policy in India. The Japanese authorities caused enquiries to be made, and having satisfied themselves as to the character of the paper, issued orders prohibiting its further publication.

The machinery of the War Office in Whitehall may work smoothly and surely, but the proof that it does not always work swiftly is afforded by Mr A, Matheson, of Dunedin, who received a communication from it by the English mail last week intimating that the South African was medal, which should have been awarded to his late son, will be forwarded to him upon application in the prescribed form (says the Otago Daily Times). Trooper Matheson, who was a member of the Johannesburg Mounted Riffes, died in active service in May, 1902 —over ten years ago ! Your local draper stocks the Roslyn Writing Pads at 6d and is each. Remarkable value. Try one.*