LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1047, 7 January 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Speirs and Gibbs hope to have their' mill, at the Hemp Process Works, in full going order this week. A combined meeting of the ladies’ and gentlemen’s committees of the Eacey Fund will be held in Perreau’s rooms on Thursday evening next, at 8 o’clock.

The South Africans defeated England at Rugby on Saturday by nine points to three. Forty thousand people witnessed the match.

A meeting of the Foxton Camera Club will be held in the Presbyterian Hall on Thursday evening next, at 8 o’clock. The meeting will take the form of a lecture and demonstration on “development,” which is a subject of much to amateurs.

At Palmerston the other day, a cabman named Alexander Gallagher was presented by the police with a handsome set of carvers and a silver-mounted cigarette holder for going to the assistance of a constable who was fiercely engaged with several assailants. Gallagher’s sense of British fair play and respect for law and order is worthy of commendation, and stands out in marked contrast to the conduct of the hooligan section in large cities who rejoice to see the man in blue being dealt with by law-breakers.

Wanted: 100 new customers to drink Agragelia Tea—the highest grade tea procurable. Cali for free sample. Thomas Rimmer.*

Now that cheap fares are ruling on the railways, a shopping visit to Palmerston Sjprth would well repay. C. M. Ross and Co., of the Bon March, are offering exceptionally good values in all departments. Wanted—The people 9f 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 los.*

Dainties tor the summer season, Table jellies 10 for Is, Symington’s cream 6d, sardines best smoked 4 tins for is, Thomas Rimmer.* “Warner's” Rust-proof Corsets. Styles for all figures, at lowest prices consistent with good quality. “Warner’s” are guaranteed, remember.

There were a large number of visitors at the Beach on Sunday. Mr W. S. Stewart is at present spending a holiday at Te Awamutu.

It is whispered that Mr J. G. Wilson is to be called to the Upper House.

Yesterday morning's rain replenished the house tanks of residents and freshened up the gardens. Inspector Wilson, in charge of the Wanganui Police District, visited Foxtou yesterday on departmental ■ business. Detective Quirke was also in town. News from Dublin says that a cattle dealer named Fitzpatrick died in the fields at Keels, and was taken to the mortuan . His St. Joseph’s cord being cut in the process of laying him out, he recovered. The incident is popularly regarded as a miracle.

An event of considerable interest will take place at Hukanui, Forty Mile Bush, on January 25, when Taipu, second sou of the late King Mahula, will be married to the daughter of the influential Taupo chief, Te Heuheu. A large band of natives is now engaged in the erection of a meetinghouse for the occasion. A sneak thief robbed the meat sale at the Manawatu Hotel last Saturday night week and got away •with the joints for Sunday’s dinner. Since then a man was disturbed on the same premises at a late hour when half-way through a window. The visitor was disturbed by one of the assistants and made off.

The Auckland dredge recently pulled up rather an unusual bucketful from the Waitemata Harbour. It was a large stingaree which made this unwonted journey out of its proper element, and when it fell back into the well of the dredge it was promptly harpooned. The horrid monster measured Bft 3in from snout to tail, and was about 4ft in breadth.

Two divorce cases that had a remarkable sequel were lately tried in Missouri (U.S.) The petitioners were the husbands, two old friends, each of whom sought a dissolution of his marriage on the grounds of his wife’s extravagance. Each was granted a divorce (says a cablegram to the Sydney Sun), and the two men have now startled the community by each marrying the other’s wife.

The ferocity of an eel was demonstrated on Friday evening (says the Southland News), when Mr W. R. Ronald, of Taramoa, who was angling for trout in the New River, hooked a five pound trout. He had got his fish into shallow water, and was about to use the gaff when he observed a large ell, about four feet in length, making for the hooked fish. Mr Ronald struck the intruder a heavy blow with the back of the hook of the gaff, which caused it to plunge, and rearing its head out of the water the ferocious creature emitted a noise which, in some respects, resembled a growl of a dog. After the fish was landed the eel continued to swim round about in the water where the trout was taken from.

A painful accident occurred to Mrs Archie McMaster, of Greytown, when travelling from New Plymouth to the Wairarapa the other day. She was warming some milk for her child, when the spirit lamp exploded in her iace as she was bending over it. Her clothing and hair were set ablaze and the flames were with difficulty extinguished by her husband. The sufferer was unable to get medical assistance until reaching Palmerston. She continued the journey from Palmerston to Masterton although suffering considerably from pain and shock, and from thence completed the journey to Grey town, where she is recovering from the effects of her painful misadventure.

The attendances at the Municipal Picture Shows continue good, and during the holidays the seating accommodation of the hall was well taxed. The programmes screened have included a pleasing variety of dramatic, scenic, industrial, topical and comedy films, which met with the full approval of the audiences. On New Y ear’s Night an attractive star drama, “The Two Orphans,” was shown, a powerful production by the Selig Company, which contained many dramatic incidents in attractive settings, with a contrast of the home and surroundings of the wealthy and poor, and revealed a pathetic story of the life oi two girls, one of which was blind, disowned temporarily by their mother, a woman of high birth, but who were subsequently restored to their parent after passing through many vicissitudes. Saturday’s star film failed to reach the standard of quality and length usually attached to such pictures, but was supported fay a good programme of other films.

Call and see the stock we have crammed into our temporary pre mises, it will surprise you. Thomas Rimmer.*

Try Perreau’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. They are delicious. Fresh daily.* People with weak digestive organs should not fail to take Perreau’s Bermaline Bread.*

TWO DOSES A COMPLETE CURE.

“I am subject to bowel troubles which cause pain and inconveni ence,” writes Mr Alfred Wane, 185 Auburn Road, Auburn, Vic., but have always found two doses of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy effect a complete cure. I am pleased to know there is such a safe and certain remedy as Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, and always keep a bottle handy/’ For sale everywhere.--? Advt.

A howling westerly gale sprang up last night. To-day the weather is fine. . Numbers of hedgehogs have been discovered in different parts of Gisborne recently. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., occupied the Bench for the first time in Palmerston North yesterday. He will be officially welcomed today.

It was resolved at the Teachers’ Conference that the publication of inspectors' reports, critical and confidential reports boards and committees, be made illegal. Mr John Robertson, M.P., is at present suffering from a nervous breakdown and has been ordered a change by his medical adviser. He left for the Auckland district yesterday and expects to be absent until the end of the month. By a majority of 42 votes to seven, the Educational Institute rejected a proposal to submit the Bible-iu-Schools question to a referendum. The Institute is opposed to Bible instruction‘in State schools. The Prime Minister on Saturday received the following wireless message from the Hon. James Allen, aboard the R.M.S. Orama: "All on Orama delighted at Sir Walter Buchanan’s honour, Please inform bis constituents. All well.”

On Christmas Day the wedding took place of Mr W- F. Moorman and Miss Ida Helen Brewer. After the ceremony, a short service was held at the Gospel Hall, and subsequently Mr and Mrs Moorman left for Wanganui. Mr and Mrs Moorman will take up their residence in Foxton.

A remarkable surgical operation has been performed at Hamilton,

Ontario, A youth had his hand shattered in a mill. A bone was taken from a freshly slaughtered sheep and grafted into the hand. It is expected that the operation will be a complete success. Thomas Henry Johnson, who* was shot in the leg at Waihi during the riot when Constable Wade was shot, escaped from Avondale Asylum ou Saturday, and has not yet been re-captured. He had been in the institution three weeks, and was much depressed after a visit from his, wife a fortnight ago. The well-known Rangitaue chief, Tamati, passed away on Thursday night at Parewanui, near Bulls. Tamati, who was highly respected by all the settlers of the district, was a member of the Mormon Church, and leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter. A taugi will be held by deceased’s relatives.

Some person or persons, possessing a queer notion of what constitutes a practical joke, turned off the Hastings town water supply at the Havelock reservoir late on New Year’s Eve or early on New Year’s morning. The foolish trick was discovered early .onM Wednesday morning, and the

pumps at the powerhouse were quickly put into action.

The lact that the term of the fourteen members of the Upper House appointed by Sir Joseph Ward in 1906 will expire in January next is evidently being considered by those concerned, and already they have obtained work in the avenue which they had followed before having the transitory title of honourable bestowed upon them, telegraphs the Dunedin correspondent of the Southland Times. The death is announced from Gore of Michael McCarthy, aged 101. He was well known on the Otago gold-fields for many years and participated in the Tuapeka jubilee celebrations last year. He arrived in Tasmania in 1840, and came to New Zealand in the early ’so’s. Subsequently he proceeded to the miners’rush at Dunbarton Rocks and later opened a hotel there, and subsequently he took a farm at Duurobin residing there for many years and rearing a large family. He came to Gore a few years ago and remained there until his decease.

Particulars of the fatal accident to the 13-year-old son of Mr McFarlane, of Pahiatua, set forth that the boy was standing up in the milk cart, and the reins became entangled in his feet before he left the factory yard. He was tugging at the reins trying to free them from his feet, when the axle box of the cart struck one of the gate posts. The result was that young McFarlane was thrown forward and fell under the cart. The wheels of the vehicle passed over the side of his head and neck killing him instantaneously.

Surely the burglar who visited a house in a Melbourne suburb one day last week made the easiest coup on record. He found a note pinned on the door telling him where the key was, and then —what matter that the doors and windows were all locked! .Of course, the note was written by the mistress of the house, who was out, for her husband, who was expected to come home. Meantime Bill Sykes happened to pass that way. He collected £lO worth of jewellery, and annexed some land deeds, and put the .key back under the stone mentioned in the note. -i

GIVES INSTANT, RELIEF.

“For six years I have been a J| sufferer from Colic,” writes Mr C. Philps, Dutton, S.A., “but now when I get these attacks I take ■ : Chamberlain’s Colic and diarrhoea Remedy, and find that it gives me 'll immediate relief. I can confidently $ recommend it for colic or other i stomach complaints; two or three doses will give instant relief.” For 19 §ale everywhere—Advt. a

A fiue specimen of the confectioner's art iu the shape of a twodecker wedding cake is at present on ■ view in Mr M. Perreau's window.

The Palmerston High School re-opens on Tuesday, Feb. 41b. Classical, commercial and agricultural courses, Prospectus for warded on application. To what base uses! The Gothic priory of Rochefoucauld, France, dating from the year 1000 a.d.. has been acquired by a butcher, who will use it as a pig-breeding establishment. Mr W. Waters, of Mangaweka, while riding a motor-cycle with a passenger iu a side-car during the Christmas holidays ran into a swarm of bees. The swarm settled on them and rode along for three quarters of a mile, but evidently satisfied with the experience, the unwelcome guests departed without even leaving a sting behind.

The New Zealand Educational Institute negatived the following remit from Southland : ‘‘That the Institute strongly protests against the holding of school concerts as being detrimental to the scholastic progress of the pupils, and is of opinion that sufficient funds should be provided - by the Government to meet all the regular expenses of school committees.” It looks as if the ferry service between Wellington and Lyttelton will be tied up for some time on account of the firemen refusing to go to work on the Maori until an apology is made through the press for a statement to the effect that the firemen refused to work on a holiday excursion run unless they received 30s per day. Hundreds of passengers desiring of going south are stranded in Wellington. The matter is very serious, A man named Frank Carter mysteriously disappeared from Petone., While Carter’s father was locking up the house on Saturday night a man approached him iu a threatening attitude. He called for his son who gave chase and neither he or the supposed burglar has since been seen. [A message last night states that Carter has turned up. He was sparsely clad and in a famishing condition. He was found onGear Island.]

The number of Federationists in Waihi continues to dwindle, and of those remaining several intend to leave the district very early. As a result of the exodus, there are numerous unoccupied houses in and about the town, and no doubt some of them will be tenanted when the mining companies start working a second shift, which will probably be about the end of,March next. Says the Feilding Star“ A large brick building, comprising a town hall and municipal offices, is

in course of erection at Patea, and would be a handsome addition to the architecture of any town. It will cost about £SOOO, and as the population ot the borough is only 890, the enterprise of the residents is evident. With towns like Foxton, Taihape, and Patea in possession of fine municipal theatres, Feilding should bow its head in shame.”

An interesting return- has been compiled showing how the territorial defence scheme has worked and ’how the provisions of the Act have been observed. Up to November 30 last, in the whole of New Zealand, there have been only 362 refusals to take the oath, and there have been, out of the

large army of men enrolled, only n6r absentees from drill in both the senior cadets and territorials

recorded since the Act came into force. For derelection of duty 904 territorials and 154 senior cadets

have been convicted and only 68

people have been imprisoned. On May 31 last 61,797 senior cadets and territorials had registered. A secret ballot of the members ot all slaughtermen’s unions throughout New Zealand is being taken on the question of whether the rates of wages recently offered by the companies are to be accepted or not. The terms were submitted to delegates of the federation some days ago. but then the delegates rejected the terms until they bad had time to take the opinion of the members of the unions. This is being done by a ballot, and the ballot papers are returnable at the end ot this week. Until the result of that ballot is known it is unlikely that any move will be made by either the meat companies or the unions in the matter of the dispute which has arisen.

People in the backblocks have other things to contend with besides bad roads. In one locality there is a rough narrow track skirting round a wild looking bush-clad hill. At times, in just about the narrowest place, a highwayman pig, a gigantic black boar with gleaming tusks, holds up the unfortunate traveller. For days the brute will not be seen, and then when least expected or wanted he grimly appears. There is only one instance so far where he has actually attacked a man on horseback, but several have been blocked for a time. Efforts have been made to meet the pig by men armed, but so far the callers upon His Highness have not been received. ,

The most attractive shop for toy of every description is Mrs Hamer s Have you seen the window display ?* * Ask to see the new low bust, longskirted models in “Warner’s” Rustproof Corsets. Every pair guaranteed. Local drapers. nOWe have been . appointed local agent for Star No. I Cocoa, lib tins 2/10, %lb tins 1/6,_Mlb tins lod. We can recommend this, Thomas Rimfljer.*