LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1031, 26 November 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One or two cases of scarlet fever are reported locally. Mr O'Biien, District Health Officer, visited Foxtou yesterday. The following are the latest additions to the telephone:--61, F. K. Jenks ; 82, Manger gas works.

Ice creams may be procured at M. Perreau’s tea rooms, Mr Perreau has installed a first-class plant for the production of this cooling delicacy. Mr James Henderson, of Dunsandel, died at the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday as a result of injuries sustained in a motor car accident at Birdliug’s Flat on Tuesday night. We have received, per Miss Moffalt, of Oroua Downs, the sum of £4 4s 6d, the result of a social in aid of the Lacey Fund. The money has been handed to the secretary of the fund, Mr P. Lumsdeu.

The funeral of Father Venning took place at Wellington on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by very large crowds of people. Father Venning was accorded military honours, be having been chaplain to the Fifth (Wellington) Regiment.

The flagship Drake uovv at Auckland, will probably leave on December 2 with the Torch for Wellington, Piclou, and Milford Sound, Whilst at Wellington, the warships will probably be joined by the Cambrian. Rear-Admiral King-Hall is on his flagship. A boy at Preston, in Lancashire, who, for the edification of some of his juvenile friends, undertook to imitate the feats of the fire-eater, has just paid dearly for his foolhardiness. Taking a mouthful of benzine, the lad applied a match to his lips and Ignited the liquid, He suffered the most intense agony, and died shortly afterwards from the effects of his terrible burns. Call and see the stock we have crammed into our temporary pre mises, it will surpriseyou. 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 R>s.*

Duriug a thunderstorm in Sydney on Saturday, a man named Parks was struck by lightning and killed. The tollowing is taken from an Australian paper: A deposit of £5 has been forwarded to the editor of the Referee by Eddie Larsen, on behalf of Miss Alma Larsen (Broadwater, Richmond river) to row Miss Fern Kemp for the Australian Women’s Sculling Championship (best - and - best boats) for ,£SO aside. The challenger asks for ,£lO expenses if the race is rowed on the Parramatta river. Marion borough recently carried a proposal to rate on the unimproved value. Great interest was taken in-the poll. Prior to the poll, “how to vote” papers were circulated by those in favour of the proposal. After the battle the opponents lodged a petition to upset the poll on the grounds that “how to vote” papers were illegal. The Magistrate on Saturday dismissed the petition.

It is rumoured that at a certain country school in .this district the children were herded up by the master to have their heads examined. One parent objected to her child undergoing a public combing process, although not averse to a private examination. The child stated the parent’s objection to the teacher and as a result was expelled. The rumour stales that the matter has been referred to the Board.

The charge that the Reform Party is the party of landed interests was reluted by Mr David Jones, Reform League organiser, at a meeting in Sydenham. “Mr Massey,” he said, ‘‘got bis first big lift in Taranaki, the home of Ihe small farmer. Coming to Canterbury, where the biggest lauded interests ore, jon have got practically the whole of the province voting Liberalism. That shows that the large interests are behind the party that has gone out of power.” The Rev Mr Rosher, of Palmerston North, was nearly half-an-hour behind time in arriving at All Saints’ Church on Sunday afternoon, where he was to conduct a men’s service. In apologising for his late arrival he explained that the motor car which was conveying him met with a mishap about four miles from Foxtou. He managed to secure a push bike to complete the journey, arriving when those present had given him up. The difficulties he had to overcome did not lessen his enthusiasm for the cause he has so much at heart —the C.F.M.S., and his stirring address made a great impression upon the men who attended the service.

There was a large attendance at the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday night when the pulpit was occupied by the Rev G. K. Aitkeu, erstwhile minister of the charge. At a suitable opportunity the rev gentleman expressed his pleasure at once more addressing them. He referred to the recent disastrous fires and was pleased to note that the townspeople were not undaunted by the losses sustained. He hoped that in spiritual as in material things they would continue to prosper. He preached a most eloquent and forcful sermon on the necessity of the Bible as the guiding force of individual and national life. Mr and Mrs Aitken intend to spend the week in visiting old friends throughout the charge.

A service ot admission of members and associates of the recently formed branch ot the C.E.M:S. was held in All Saints’ Church on Sunday afternoon. There was a fair number of men present and about twenty members were admitted. The Rev H. G. Rosher, m.a., vicar of Palmerston Noitb, prior to admitting the vicar to membership, conveyed fraternal greetings from the Palmerston branch. He delivered a very inspiring address to those present basing his remarks on Ephesians v., 15 —20. He spoke of the need of such a society iu order to cope with godlessuess and present day moral slackness and urged the members to prayer and humility. The vicar then admitted 19 candidates to membership. The vicar also delivered an address and appropriate hymns were sung.

At a Melbourne suburban school a lady teacher sent a small boy with a very large jug for some water. In some way—a boy can manage these things without an effort—the large jug slipped over the small boy’s head, but neither force nor ingenuity could get it back again. The alarmed teacher sent for the boy’s mother, and as they were afraid to break the jug < or fear of injuring the boy, they harried him off in a tram to the Melbourne Hospital. In the meantime the mother s remarks to the teacher w«e tinged_ with acidity. When the bead m the jug bumped against a tram window, smashed It, and the conductor insisted upou the payment of half a-crown, the mother’s temper rose many degrees Fahrenheit. But all this was nothing as compared with her observations when, the hospital doctors having removed the jug, she discovered that the captive was not her boy.

In an advertisement' on page 3, C. M. Ross and Co. advertise to-day that they are offering splendid value in lap crepes, now greatly in demand for summer frocks and children’s dresses,*

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

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

Pearce accepts Barry’s offer of and expenses to row for the world’s championship. He starts for Loudon about March and expects to row at the end of July.

The new Roman Catholic Church at Hamilton, Our Lady of the Rosary, was opened on Sunday, three bishops participating. The collection at the two services totalled over

Five members of the Wanganui Education Board —Messrs G. H. Bennett, Alf. Fraser, F. Purnell, J. P. Aldridge and Fred. Piraui—left Martou yesterday morning for Taihape by motor-car and will inspect all the school buildings eu route.

For some weeks past a stag, with a very fine head, has been located in the flax near the Shannon Bridge. Last week he was seen making his way across country with a dog in hot pursuit and he has not been seen or heard in the vicinity since. Mr Gower has asked us to correct a misstatement that appeared in a recent issue, in which it was staled that all the meat sold by Mr Woodroofe was supplied by Mr Gower. The meat that was on exhibition at the opening of the new shop was supplied by Mr Gower and this was all that the paragraph was intended to convey. A correspondent desires to know whether the borough streets have been thrown open for stock grazing purposes, as a number of horses and cows are being turned out on the long acre. He is desirous of allowing his stock to participate in the free grazing. The Council has not yet thrown the roads open for such purposes. The Eltham (Municipal) gas manager’s monthly report states that dotons 6cwt. of coal were carbonised, producing 350,000 cubic feet of gas, or about 11,540 c.f. per ton of coal used. 270,800 c.f. of gas were sold, an increase of 4800 c.f. over the previous month, and an increase of 87,800 c.f. over the corresponding mouth last year.

A member of the Moutoa School Committee recently asked the Hon. W. F, Massey, Prime Minister, for a tree, to be planted in the Moutoa School grounds and to be called the “Massey” tree. The tree, a Cupressus Lawsoniana, was duly forwarded and was planted by the children in the school gardens. Not a bad way ot impressing an event on the minds of the scholars : to plant a tree at each change of government. By means of a method of taping on the spine, Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, claims to have discovered a cure both for tuberculosis, in its early stages, and for appendicitis. Dr. Abrams asserts that the function of the spleen is to regulate the number of white corpuscles, which are nature’s great germ destroyers. To increase these corpuscles concussion at the eleventh dorsal vertebrae is necessary, while to reduce them concussion is applied at the second lumbar vertebra. It is rumoured that a farmer in the Raugiolu district intends proceeding agaiust certain flaxmillers for allowing the refuse from their mills to flow into the Oroua river, thus polluting the water. Since the previous litigation in connection with the pollution of water in that district Parliament has passed a Bill to further protect the flaxmillers in this connection, making it necessary ior the plaintiff to prove specific damage, which shall be recovered from the miller, but no injunction can be obtained to compel the miller to cease operations.

A short time ago a little boy, six years of age, returning from school, in one of the towns up Hamilton way, had the misfortune to be knocked down by a railway truck that was being shunted across the road over a railway siding. The result was that the poor little fellow fell with both hands across the line and the wheels of the truck cut them nearly off. He was sent to the hospital where they were both amputated. As a result of this distressing accident the whole of the scholars attending schools in the Dominion have been asked to subscribe a penny each towards the purchase of artificial hands for the boy. The matter has been heartily taken up by the children with • the result that already a fairly large sum Is forthcoming.

It is told of Sir George Reid that during the Australian High Commissioner’s visit to New York, a negro preacher in a Ninth avenue Mission, speaking of the growing power of the negroes iu politics, said : “Yes, bredreu, de cullud community do have much tu be proud of. Look at Booker Washington. And go beyuud de shores of dis great and glorious country, look at de High Cockolorum from the South Seas who am now being entertained by de best in de land. When the white folks do honour to a great chief from one of dem cauuibal islands der am great hope for de cullud citizens ot de Cubed States, sure.”

\\'e have been appointed local H'-ent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins NlO, %lb tins 1/6, %lb tins lOd. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimme* Warner’s Rust - proof Corsets Roslyn Unshrinkable Underwear and Hoyle’s Prints in strong demand.* The most attractive shop for toys of every description is Mrs Hamer 3. Have you seen the window display ?*

We know Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets to be thoroughly reliable as regards shape, comfort and service —in fact we are prepared to guarantee every pair not to rust, break or tear.—Local drapers.*

la to day’s N.Z. Times Mr John Robertson M.P., publishes his impressions of the industrial unrest at VVaihi and Huutly.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held before Mr A. D. Thomson S.M., to-morrow.

The programme of events at the Foxton Racing Club’s forthcoming meeting will appear in Thursday’s issue.

Au inquiry is being held at Auckland touching the gruesome find of a newly-born child locked in a brief bag. The parcel was found ou some steps at the waterfront.

At the Auckland Supreme Court, Alfred Trickeu was convicted of an indecent assault ou a little girl aud sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, and four years’ reformative treatment.

Buyers of New Zealaud butter in London are inserting a stringent clause into their contracts concerning the percentage of water in all imported butter. Butter exporters in New Zealand derive great benefit from the close watch kept by the Government produce grader to detect over-moisture in butter for export. Iu this way contracts are saved from repudiation. One exporter recently lost over ,£3OO on a contract, his butter containing a very slight excess percentage of water. — Auckland Herald.

The Taranaki News of yesterday reports one of life's poignant tragedies. A couple of weeks ago a young man, resident of New Plymouth, went south to claim his bride. Past Monday the newly-married couple arrived in New Plymouth, the wife being in somewhat poor health. She steadily grew worse, and on Saturday passed away. This morning the young fellow has the mournful duty of conveying the corpse of his bride to the home of her people in the south. So much that is tragic and pathetic can happen in a fortnight.

The aftermath of the strike (says the Auckland Star’s Waihi correspondent) is now commencing to .be felt. Some of the women are experiencing a return to Sanit3 7 and express regret at what has occurred. They state that they were urged on to yell out “scab” and boo the workers under an assurance that victory was certain. They and some of the men also now admit that the Federation leaders never at any time had anything tangible to support their statement that victory was assured. “ The whole thing is a bad mistake,” said one striker’s wife, “and I admit that we are getting a little of our own back now.”

Mr W. Ah Kelt, a well-known Chinese barrrister, of Melbourne, has been chosen to attend the conference of delegates from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, living in foreign countries, to be held at Pekin in December, in connection with the assembly of the Chinese Parliament next year. The duty of the conference is to select six delegates to represent to the Chinese Parliament the interests of the Chinese living outside China. Mr Ah. Kelt left Melbourne last week for Sydney eu route to China, but prior to his departure his marriage with Miss Bullock, of Kew, will take place.

The case of a family ia the Gouville (Waugamii) district is surely unique of its kiud. Six pairs oi twins ! A fairly heavy quiver, if not a quiverful. On Saturday when urging the claims of Gonville to the special consideration of the Minister of Education the chairman of the Gouville School Committee instanced the case of the family in the district in which the sixth pair cf twins had been born. The Minister acknowledged that that was a fairly strong argument in favour of providing additional accommodation at the school, and enquired whether the parents had been granted the Queen’s Bounty. The chairman suggested that the Minister might use his influence in that direction.