LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1022, 12 November 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Greytown Borough Council has decided to purchase a tarring and sanding plant. Perhaps it would pay Foxton to make enquiries in this direction. Last year there were 809 deaths from cancer in New Zealand. The causes of cancer and the reasons for its increase are not known, and the Public Health Department are waiting patiently for the reports of the Cancer Research Commission.

There were present at last night’s Council meeting; His Worship the Mayor (A. J. Gibbs Esq.), and Crs. Coley, Richmond, Whibley, Greig, Adams, Speirs, Chrystall and Hannah. An apology for absence was received from Cr Stewart.

Accounts amounting to ,£464 xßs 6d were passed for payment at last night’s Council meeting, allocated as follows; General account £164 2S, gas works account £129 14s, town ball account £l3B 17s 6d, library account £6 9s xod, reserves account £2 5s lid and sanitation account £23 9s 3d. At last night’s Council meeting a letter was read from Mr Percy Lumsdeu, secretary of the Lacey Benefit Fund, asking that the amount paid for hall hire (£3 xos) in connection with the benefit concert to be held on the 18th instant, be refund ed as a donation to the fund.—On the motion of Cr Coley seconded by Cr Speirs the request was granted. “King” Mahuta died atHuntly on Saturday, aged about 60 years. Mahuta was the son of Tawhiao, who was the son of Potatau. Like his father and grandfather before him, Mahuta was chief of the Waikato tribe, and biggest and most important of those which opposed themselves to the pakeha during the Maori war. Mahuta’s title to royalty was shadowy, but amongst the natives of the King Country there was a general recognition of his high rank and of his title to be considered a paramount chief. A great tangi is being held. At last night’s Council meeting a letter was read from the Town Clerk, Masterton, asking for cooperation in trying to get the Minister of Internal Affairs to legalise the sale of coal by municipalities. He pointed out that for the past four or five years the Masterton Borough Council had carried out the sale of coal to its inhabitants, but this year the Auditor-General bad taken exception to it. The Masterton Town Clerk asked that the Council should pass a resolution in connection with the matter. It was decided on the motion of Cr Chrystal, seconded by the Mayor that the Council approach the Minister for Internal Affairs, pointing out the disability that this and other Borough Councils are under in not being able to legally sell coal to its citizens and to ask him to try and get legislation passed enabling Borough Councils to legally deal jn coal, and that a copy of the above resolution be forwarded to the member for this district.

A good meal for the middle of the day is one of Perreau’s steak and kidney pies. Try them.*

Your local draper stocks the Roslyn Writing Pads at 6d and is each. Remarkable value. Try one.

Try Perreau’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. *hey are delicious. Fresh daily-

Inglewood on Monday carried a proposal to raise ,£3,500 tor the erection of a town hall by 131 votes to 107.

At Sydney on Saturday, Jim Hill outpointed Truffler, the French boxer, in a twenty-round contest.

Jack Johnson, the pugilist, has been arrested at New York. Being unable to turnish bail, he was gaoled pending the hearing of the abduction charge. A general meeting ot the local Horticultural Society will be held in the Town Hall supper room on Wednesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. According to the monthly report of the pilot at Patea, the depth on the bar there is 11 feet at high water springs, and 7ft. 6iu. at neap tides. The width is 160 feet. At Waihi a boy named Sorrenseu accidentally shot another boy named Robert Watson with a pearifle on Saturday, the bullet entering the chest. The wound is not serious.

Taihape possesses the highest pressure water supply in the Dominion. The maximum pressure varies from 1701 b to xSolb per square inch, which is much higher than the pressure registered in most towns.

Included among the presents received by a bridal party in the Eketahuua district were a thousand bricks and two sets of flat irons. We should imagine these ideal articles for keeping the “wolf from the door.”

The Miramar ratepayers, at a poll on Wednesday, authorised loans totalling ,£9,000 for drainage and water supply purposes. Lower Hutt ratepayers voted in favour of loans amounting to ,£3500 for similar purposes. As a thing likely to improve the Church’s standing with the man in the street, Bishop Crossley supports free seats at churches for evening services, and the substitution of collection boxes at the door for the handing round of bags and boxes in the congragation. The New Zealand elocutionary and musical competitions commence at Wellington to-morrow and will continue for a fortnight. Competitors will be present from all parts of New Zealand. Mr Hornblow is the only representative from the Foxton district.

Otaki, like Foxton, does not possess a fire prevention scheme and the Mail points out that “if we continue to maintain a masterly inactivity with regard to this question, we may, like Foxton, have the humiliating experience of paying very dearly for our indifference.”

The social afternoon under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild will be held at the residence of Mrs Renton, at Himatangi to-morrow. The ladies propose to journey out and back by train. Given fine weather a most enjoyable time should be spent. Albert John Udy was arrested at Carterton on a charge of destroying a six-roomed house at Waihakeke on November sth, by an explosion of gelignite. He was remanded till Friday next. Bail was allowed, himself in and one surety of Colour-Sergeant Werington, one of the Australian Cadets who recently toured England and Canada, while returning home on the steamer Warilda, was found dead in his cabin, shot through the head. It is supposed the occurrence was accidental.

In reply to a question by Mr G. M. Thomson, the Prime Minister stated that the Government would probably set up a Commission to enquire into the whole question of the State forests. He said the position did not appear to be satisfactory, and it would be advisable to get practical men to report.

The Dannevirke News says; “A woman, who has not infrequently received State aid, left here last week decked out in the latest style for the show at Palmerston. Her next application for relief will be queried, as, unfortunately for her, a member of the Charitable Aid Board saw her in all her glory.”

Says Saturday’s War Cry: ‘‘Foxton.—Our ‘Baby !’ Sixty lovely sovereigns is their first offering to Self-Denial. Well done ! Hats off to the infant! Captain R. Pike and Ueut. Gudsell are justly proud of their young Army, and right through the appeal souls have been saved. Congratulations all!”

A little boy named Thomas Gordon Hurley, aged nine years, was killed while bird-nesting at Mt. Roskill, Auckland, on Saturday. Deceased while climbing alter a nest fell from a height of fifty feet on to a stone wall, sustaining severe fractures of the skull and laceration of the brain. He died in the public hospital. At the inquest a verdict of death by misadventure was returned.

For some four or five years now the Government has been paying travelling expenses and allowances to members illegally. They have been paid simply on a Cabinet minute. The audit office appears to have found this out only recently, and the present Government have put a charge in the Appropriation Bill to avoid the illegality so far as the present year is concerned.

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

Wanted: 100 new customers to drink Agragella Tea —the highest grade tea procurable. Call tor Iree sample. Thomas Rimmer.*

The Inspector of Nuisances reported at last night’s Council meeting that the borough is in a fair sanitary condition at present.

During last month 16 horses and nine head of cattle were impounded by the ranger, two head of cattle by the police and one cow by a settler. The driving fees amounted to ten shillings.

We regret to record the death of Mrs Ellen Nelson, wife of Mr Charles Nelson, of Union Street, which took place last night. The deceased, who was 76 years of age, had been in indifferent health for some time past. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon leaving her late residence at 2 o’clock for St. Mary’s Church and thence for the Foxtou Cemetery.

A letter was read from Mrs Howe, ot Reeve Street, at last night’s Council meeting asking for compensation on account of having broken her arm through falling into a drain at the junction of Francis and Reeve Streets.—lt was decided on the motion of Cr Greig seconded by Cr Adams, that the Council disclaim any liability in connection with Mrs Howe’s accident.

At last night’s Council meeting a letter was read from Mrs de Bidder pointing out that she had been threatened with a distress warrant in connection with the payment for gas fittings and also with a summons for the amount due for rates, and asking for some consideration. —It was decided on the. motion of Cr Adams seconded by Cr Speirs, that the amounts owing by Mrs de Bidder for gas fittings and rates be held over for three months. The local harbourmaster reported that two casks of tallow were salvaged about three miles north of the Heads. The casks were branded Waipuni in a pennant. The secretary of the Harbour Board reported the matter to the Marine Department, which was making enquiries and the Secretary of the Board has now received advice that the matter has been reported to the Collector of Customs at Wanganui who is receiver of wrecks. The extent to which a school committee is entitled under the Education Act to exercise control over the appointment of teachers will shortly be decided in the Supreme Court. The Auckland City Schools Committee has issued au originating summons to obtain a declaratory judgment upon the requirements of the Act in the matter of the consultation of school committees by the Education Board.

“I am quite satisfied with the session’s work,” remarked the Prime Minister to a Wellington interviewer, “and I am looking forward to next year to carry out the remainder of our programme.” Asked when the Civil Service Commissioners would be appointed, Mr Massey said he expects to be able to make an announcement in the near future, “I don’t know whether the names will be announced before I return from Auckland, but in two or three weeks I expect to make public the appointments.” A meeting was held at the residence ot Mrs Washington Stewart on the sth inst., where the newlyappointed collectors for Barnardo’s Homes met and presented their returns and the total amount collected was forwarded to headquarters, The organising secretary, Mr H. W. Lee, secured the following ladies as collectors, Mesdames James Robinson,

Frankland, Clemett, Bullard, and Misses Coats tforth and Milly

King. These ladies in one fortnight braved the bad weather and equally bad roads, and by their tact and persuasive eloquence obtained the handsome sum of ,£25. The local secretary desires to thank them for their earnest work and trusts that they may be even more successful next year, also thanks the public for so kindly responding to the call. Cr Adams asked at last night’s Council meeting when the balance sheet in connection with the working of the Town Hall tor the twelve months ended last month was to be presented. The Mayor said that the motion to the effect that a balance sheet be presented after the hall had been running lor twelve months had been passed at one meeting, but was rescinded subsequently, and at present there was nothing in the minutes to say that a balance sheet should be presented before the usual time, which was at the end of March. One or two of the Councillors said they were under the impression that there was to be a balance sheet presented after the hall had been running twelve months. Cf Adams asked for information in connection with the takings and the Council went into committee on the matter. Upon resuming business no motion was passed.