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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that a professional mendicant who is “doing” the shows of New Zealand at the present time has a credit in the bank of jQ 12,000. Kight women dressed in men’s attire, tarred and feathered an eighteen-year'M r-;rl on a lonely road near Newark, Ohio, in order to cure her oi flirting.

The Voice of Labour thus hits back : ‘‘There are now two classes of people at Waihi—loafers and ‘scabs.’ A ‘scab’ is a man who works honestly tor his living instead of loafing to get strike pay.”

Gisborne headed the births record for Dominion boroughs in October, the highest figures being : Gisborne 48, Invercargill 46, Palmerston North 36, Timaru 34, Napier and Wanganui 32, The Karl of Raufurly and Lord Roberts have both signed the Irish Peers’ pledge that they will not accept a seat in either House of the Irish Legislature in the event of the passing ot a Home Rule Bill without previous reference to the country. A woman who has been masquerading as a man in Dunedin for some time past was discovered in a boarding-house in an unconscious condition with a dead female child by her side. She was known as Thomas Parker. The woman subsequently died. The Levin gas manager’s report for the past month states that the number of consumers was 240, meters in public use 239. The quantity of gas manufactured was 336,100 feet tor street lighting 34,500 feet ; for house lighting, 117,700 feet ; gas for cooking, 104,600 feet ; quantity of gas produced per ton of coal used 11,900 feet ; total output, 326,600 feet. An amusing postcard has appealed in Switzerland concerning the Kaiser’s visit to that country. It shows the Kaiser interrogating a Swiss militiaman as follows: “You have got 100,000 of these marksmen in Switzerland ? Well, what would happen if I came with 200,000 Prussians ?” “Then each ot us would simply fire twice, your Majesty,” replies the soldier.

Auckland and its suburbs are built on volcanic country, beneath the surface of which many caves exist. The Mount Albert borough had some difficulty in getting rid of its surface drainage. By searching, a cave was found iu a handy position, a hole was bored down into it, and the street drainage is run into the cave, where it is “absorbed.”

The successful competitors in the ait needlework division at the Palmerston Show, for the most points trophy, presented by Messrs Collinson and Cunuinghame, Ltd., (sewing machine, value £g), were: Miss Murdoch (Napier) xS points, Mrs Witchell (Foxton) 14 points, Mrs I. D. Crooke (New Plymouth) and Miss F. Haszard (Hastings) 13 points each.

A novel claim was heard recently at the Ashburton Court, when Mathew Paterson claimed from Patrick Crowe the sum of for damages caused to the plaintiff by the defendant, who was alleged to have cut the hair and beard or the former without his consent. Albert John deposed that he had cut the hair and beard of plaintiff at his request at Blackburn’s camp, and had done the best he could. Judgment was given for defendant. An ingenious method is adopted by the Chicago Telephone Company to lay telephone wires. A rat is loosed in a pipe through which a cable is to be placed. A string is tied to a ferret, which pursues the rat, carrying the string through the pipe. On the small string a larger one is attached, and on that a still larger, until a wire cable is pulled through. A meeting of managers of the local Presbyterian Church was held on Tuesday night. The subject of finance was discussed at length. It was decided to urge members who had not already done so, to adopt the envelope system of giving, so that the finances would be put on a more satisfactory basis. Messrs Ross and Speirs were appointed to ascertain the cost of roofing the church with tiles. Other routine business was discussed. The death occurred at Wanganui on Monday of the Rev John Ross, Presbyterian Minister, at the age of 83 years. In 1866 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Tam (Scotland) to the charge of Waimata, in the Wairarapa. The charge extended over a tract of country 60 miles long by 40 miles vs ide. He was subsequently called to the Turakina charge where he laboured for over 30 years. The deceased gentleman, who was a profound scholar, established a secondary school at Marton, which, in conjunction with his pastoral duties, he conducted with conspicuous success for many years. Mr Ross was always a great enthusiast in educational matters and was one of the first members of the Wanganui Education Board. He is survived by his widow, three sons and six daughters.

We have been appointed local agent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins 2/10, %lb tins 1/6, %lb tins rod. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimmer.*

Mrs Hannah Lang, wife of the custodian of the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, committed suicide by cutting her throat on Tuesday. The Auckland General Labourers Union at a meeting held last Friday, decided, by ' dioc, to reregister under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.

Reports received from V.’oodville to-day advise that the river there has risen three feet. At Moutoa this morning the water was rising fairly rapidly but was not bank high. Taylor, the Westralian, who delivered the fatal blow in a boxing contest with McCarthy, of Victoria, at Melbourne, has been charged with manslaughter, and liberated on bail.

.V draw in No. 1 group of the Starr - Bowkett Building Society was held at Plmerstou on Tuesday night, the successful marble, No. 369, being held by Mrs Marie Hamer, of Foxton. She secures ,£3OO free ot interest. At a boxing contest at Melbourne, between Bob McCarthy, of Victoria, and George Taylor, of Westralia, the former was knocked down in the fifteenth round. He never regained consciousness, and died in a few hours. A six-roomed house at Waihakeke, near Carterton, occupied by Mr Albert Udy, and owned by his mother, was blown up by aolb of gelignite on Tuesday morning. Every board went skywards. There was no one in the house at the time.

Fred Jones, editor of the Oamaru Mail, was charged with publishing the investments on the totalisator at a recent trotting meeting. The plea was that the figures got into the paper by mistake. The Magistrate convicted, but imposed no penalty. A meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. Business :W. H. Climie’s report on water and drainage ; Mastertou Borough Council re sale of coal ; Coley and Bock re surplus coke ; Eva S. de Bidder re gas account; and general. , Palmerston North borough area is 4595 acres and the rateable value (unimproved) is ,£1,074,355, or slightly over ,£212 per acre. Feilding’sarea, 2300 acres, and the rateable value (unimproved) is ,£451,089, or slightly over ,£l9l 10s per acre.

A bad road was under discussion at the Manawatu County Council meeting, and the chairman (Cr. R. B. McKenzie) asked the Overseer what was the best thing for the road. “Some dry weather,’' replied Mr Hickford, “is about the only thing the road wants,”

The Red Fed. stands condemned as an organisation based upon dangerous illusion—its own dogmas betray its uselessness for anything but the destruction of order, and it is hoped that the decline of the Federation in Waihi is the beginning of its extinction, without hope of resurrection in this country.—Auckland Observer,

His curiosity had led him to visit one of the largest mental asylums. He became deeply interested in one of the patients, who was evidently a highly educated man and apparently very intelligent. The visitor began to think it a scandal he should be detained. ‘‘Sit down,” hesaid, ‘‘and we will talk your case over.’ ’ The inmate continued to stand. “Why don’t you sit down ?” the visitor asked. ‘‘l can’t sit down —there isn’t any toast,” replied the other. “Not any toast,” echoed the visitor in astonishment. ‘‘No. You see, I’m a poached egg,” was the reply.

Two properties near Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay—Mr Pitcaithley’s estate of 459 acres, and Mr H. Harris’ of 650 acres —have been offered to the Government for closer settlement. The Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr R. T. Sadd) told a Napier Daily Telegraph reporter that there were a number of properties being offered in this locality, and if the Government acquired them they would form a very desirable little settlement. He was well satisfied with them, and had recommended the Government to have a valuation made. He has made a similar recommendation with regard to 5000 acres offered to the Government by Mr G. H. Hardy, of Tikokino. “It is stated,” says the Daily Telegraph, “that the land is pastoral country, but that parts are In a rather neglected state, being covered with fern and manuka.”

A Brisbane cable last week reported the disappearance from a coastal steamer of Mr Roseby, son of a well-known Australian Congregational minister. The latter is at present in Dunedin, and in thanking a large audience that filled the Congregational Church there for the kindness that had been extended to him during his visit to Dunedin, the Rev. Dr. Roseby referred in touching words to the death of his son. “He was,” said Dr. Roseby, “ the best scholar of all my boys. He never travelled or went anywhere without his Greek Testament in his pocket, and none was more worthy of his parents’ love. Yet he gave up any thought of a profession or special calling, and, largely as a result of his thinking and the influence of Tolstoi, he became a plain working audience listened in pained silence whilst the doctor said: “I shall not be in Dunedin again. This is ‘ Farewell.’ ”

Xmas numbers of the Graphic, Weekly Press, Auckland Weekly, Otago Witness can be had at R. M. Parkes, stationer and jeweller, arrived to-day.* ;

Mr J. Jillett, who has been an inmate of the Palmerston Hospital for some weeks past, suffering from typhoid lever has so far recovered to be able to leave that institution. He returned to Foxton yesterday. The two other typhoid patients who have been in the Hospital were also discharged yesterday.

Jeffrey Carmichael, a young man, who is secretary to a benefit society, was arrested at Auckland this week on a charge that on August 23rd he received ,£l3 17s 6d on terms requiring him to account for the same to Mrs Turcell, and that he converted the money to bis own use. He will come before the Court at Auckland tomorrow.

“If I had the power I would settle the Waihi strike right away,” said Mr A. W. Hogg at the Single Taxers’ dinner last night. “ And I will tell you how I would do it. I would put every one of those men and every one of those women on a nice little section of laud and give them a few cows to milk. Then they would not want to go back and work underground in the mines.’' Amateur photographers are reminded of the address to be delivered by Dr Adams at the meeting of the Camera Club to be held in Perreau’s rooms this evening, at 8 o’clock. The address will consist of a description of cameras and apparatus more generally used in amateur work, and the necessity and use of the various movements attached thereto. It will also reveal the actual way in which the camera, lens, and plate combine in allowing the reproduction of any image or view. This address, while of interest to all, is ol special value to beginners. Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., yesterday morning, in the course 0! a decision given respecting a young man who was charged with failing to render personal service under the Defence Act, stated his opinion that young men who refused to take the oath of allegiance could not be compelled to do so except by the statutory steps prescribed by the Act, They had to be drafted into the general training section, where the oath was not legally compulsory, and theu transferred to the Territorial force. General training did not exist, and till it existed young men who refused to lake the oath could not, under the present Act, be compelled to do so.

Wanted; too new customers to drink Agragella Tea —the highest grade tea procurable. Call for free sample. Thomas Rimmer.* The remarkable feature of on piece 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.*

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 2

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