LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1040, 17 December 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Indian named Di was drowned in the Auckland harbour on Sunday.

Cr Stevenson ,vas elected chairman of the Morowhenua County Council at the meeting held on Saturday last. Ernest Butler, aged 49, was found dead at Auckland on Sunday with an empty bottle of lysol beside him.

The business people of Woodvilla have notified the public that they have discontinued the making of Christmas gifts to customers.

Mi A. 1,. Beattie, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railway Department, has decided to retire on superannuation at the end of March next.

In order to protect the fruit from the ravages ot small birds, Mr Alt. Fraser has wire-netted his orchard, about an eighth of an acre in extent.

Clouds of starlings can be seen eveiy night at 13aiues.se coming from the direction of Otaki to shelter in the vast area of lupins in that locality.

It is anticipated that the new Bank ot New Zealand premises being erected in Main Street, vs ill not be ready lor occupation before the end of March or beginning of April next.

There is to be seen in the Lady’s Mile, a prolific crop of oats growing on Messrs Robinson Bros.’ properly —an evidence of what light soil will produce backed up by sufficient shelter. In order not to unduly prolong the school conceit on Thursday night, the Chairman of the Kducation Board will read over the list of piize winners, and the prizes will be distributed at the school ou Friday afternoon.

Naval Lieutenant Park and a passenger, Hardwick, manager of the ilanley Page monoplane works, were Hying from Heudou to Oxford last week when the machine dived to the earth at Wembley. Both were killed.

Al the Auckland police Court on Saturday, F. McGuire, a plumber pleaded guilty to a charge ot failing to keep proper books prior to bis recent bankruptcy, and was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour. There should not be any necessity fur the local public to go outside the town for their Christmas supplies as all the local tradespeople have opened up special lines in great variety for the Christmas trade, which for quality and cheapness defy outside competition. A Taranaki resident who was recently in the Hastings district was shown over a small fruit farm. The owner showed him his returns for last season. They amounted 10/j'ifjoo, orat the rate of an acre —the farm being ten acres in extent. The fruit grown was mostly peaches. The New Plymouth News asks: “How about dairying after this?”

In a sermon in St. Paul’s Anglican Church, at Auckland, on Sunday, the Rev. Cecil Watson made special reference to the use of the Kucharislic vestments. He expressed his determination to continue their use as long as be remained vicar, maintaining that he was justified by the teachings of the Church, both la the Prayer Book and Rubric. As a result of the vicar’s determiualiou, a split has taken place among the members.

Yesterday afternoon Messrs Mouusey and Co. submitted three local properties for sale, all of which were purchased by Mr J. G. Speirs. A section in Union Street containing 20 perches brought and a section of a similar size together with a tworoomed cottage in the same locality realised ,£lOl. The Hall Street properly of 12. 4 perches, with dwelling house, was purchased for X'o<x).

The Ruapehu arrived at Wellington on Saturday from London with just over 400 passengers, of whom 206 in the third class are immigrants. Fifty were assisted by lire Government. These include 20 fanners or farm labourers, re domestic servants and five women rejoining husbands, already settled in the Dominion. The Ruapehu also brought the household staff of about 40 io and two polo ponies, for Lord Liverpool.

Wanted—The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. cle Luen, tailor, of Palmerston North, will call on anyone with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4s, Suits from £4 40s.*

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

An almost perfect skeleton of a moa, ten feet liigb, has been unearthed at Motueka, Mr J. W. Poyutou will commence bis Magisterial duties on January ist in the Manawatu circuit.

The Johnsou-Weils fight has been definitely arranged, and will probably take place iu Paris on the Saturday before the Grand Prix is run.

The C.K.M.S. meeting vvhicfi was arranged for Thursday has been postponed till Monday, 30th of December, on account of the school concert falling on the same evening.

The following local State school pupils successfully passed the proficiency examination : —Donovan Mackie, Hazel Pearson, Bessie Lumsden, Kathleen Barber and liettie Bauckham.

A wedding of local interest is to be celebrated to-morrow when Mr George Fowler will be united to Miss Elsie, daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Cook, of Foxtou. The ceremony takes place iu All Saints’ Church at 8.30 a.m. The meeting of the Foxton Camera Club this evening should be well attended, the subject of the lecture to be given by Mr Teviotdale being the most important of all matters, “Exposure.” The speaker’s remarks will be illustrated by photographs. A white Leghorn hen belonging to Mr A. Chamberlain, Ellesmere, deserted a single chicken which she hatched out, aud is mothering a family of six little black kittens instead. Naturally, the real and the foster mother are not upon the best of terms.

Despite the severe weather for several mouths during the past year and au epidemic of measles and mumps, the attendance of pupils at the local State school has been excellent, and as a result the school will go up a grade. We hope parents will help to assist in maintaining the grade just reached. “New Zealand,” said Miss M’Leau, principal of the Wellington Girls’ College, in her annual report, “is sometimes said to be enthusiastic over education ; occasionally it talks as it it were, but who ever hears of sacrifices for education amongst parents or of generosity among donors ? It is so rare as to cause hysterics when it does happen.”

The death occurred at Palmerston on Sunday of Mr Andrew McDowall, aged 72 years. The deceased came to Palmerston in 1872. He was born in Petone in 1841. The late Mr McDowall was well-known and highly respecced throughout the district. He leaves a widow and one sou and one daughter. The British Antarctic Expedition’s ship, Terra Nova, left Lyttelton on Saturday, at live o’clock, for Captain Scott’s base in the Antarctic. There was a small crowd on the wharf to see the vessel and the officers and crew off ; and a cheer from those ashore when the Terra Nova cast off was heartily answered by those on the ship.

Two hundred lives were imperilled by a fire in a large residential building on the north side of the business district of Pittsburg. Policemen rescued fourteen women, dragging them to safety from the rear rooms, where they had been overpowered by the smoke. A fireman was caught by a falling wall and seriously injured. It is believed that no lives were lost. Miss Woodford and Mr Shane will be transferred Irom the local teaching staff .as irom the end of the current year. One of the new teachers, Miss McHardie, will come Irom the training college. Both Miss Woodford and Mr Shane have been very popular with the scholars during their connection with the school, and will carry away with them the best wishes of the little ones.

It is reported that a native ruuanga on a very large scale is to be held at Parawanui, near Bulls, on Christmas Day, to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. All the tribes in the North Island and some from the South are to be represented, and it is anticipated that about 4000 Maoris will be present at the gathering. The Hon. J. Carroll, Dr Pomare, and a Cabinet Minister will be present. The meeting will be of a religious nature. The death occurred at the Masferton Hospital on Saturday week of Mr Peter Coster, an old resident of the Rketahuna district. The deceased, who had reached the ripe age of ya years, was a native of Fraukfortou-Main, Germany, and arrived in New Zealand about 50 years ago, settling first in Akaroa, where he helped to build the light house. Deceased was a man of immense physique, standing close on 7ft, and being proportionately built. In his younger days he served his full time m the German Array, and was in the Franco-Prussian war, but being of a roving disposition he migrated to T-ingland, where he was drafted into the Royal Rife Guards. For the last 30 years deceased had lived in the Wellington province. He was employed as a workman in constructing the railway from Wellington to Petoue and also that from Pictou to Blenheim.

We have been appointed local agent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins 2/10, %lb tins 1,'6, J4lb tins lOd. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimmer *

What about Chrismas and New Year greeting cards ? The Herald Priutery can run you off the latest ideas conveying your own sentiments/* 5