LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1066, 20 February 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hoaue Nahoua, a chief of the almost extinct Muopoko tribe, died at Weraroa last Saturday. Patrick O’Connelly was fined and a month’s imprisonment lor sly grog-selling at Gisborne. A Maori named Reihana, aged seventy, was knocked down by a motor car on the road near Taupo. He walked home and subsequently expired. The Moeraki, which arrived at the Bluff on Monday from Hobart, experienced very rough weather, gales and high seas with thick weather all the way.

Granny Chaplin, the oldest woman in England, died on the nth inst., in one of the Birmingham workhouses. She had reached the great age of 111 years.

Damage to the extent of £2OOO was done by fire to Odlin’s timber mill in Taranaki St., Wellington, yesterday morning. There was no insurance.

The railway return fares for the State school excursion to Ashhurst next Wednesday are as follows: Children nd, senior scholars (over 15 years) is 6d, parents 2s. Tickets may be obtained on application to the headteacher.

An old resident of Woodville, Mrs Joseph Barrott, died yesterday, aged 76. Mr and Mrs Barrott came to the Dominion 39 years ago, under engagement to burn lime in the Gorge for the Manchester block corporation.

At the Auckland Police Court yesterday, a widow named Sarah Eliza Skellou, aged 53, was committed for trial on a charge of performing an illegal operation on a girl sixteen years of age. The girl in dangerously ill in the hospital.

Sir Ernest Shackleton has reaffirmed his intention of making another expedition to the Antarctic to engage in scientific exploration. He says human lives are nothing if thereby one can add one iota to the sum of human knowledge. “Warner’s” Rust-proof Corsets. Styles for all figures, at lowest prices consistent with good quality. “Warner’s” are guaranteed, remember.

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Welcome rain fell last night. A meeting oftheFoxton Camera Club will be held this evening at 8 o’clock. A special meeting of the local School Cammittee will be held to-morrow night at 8 o’clock. An artesian well, recently sunk on Mr Tremewan’s property at Shannon, gives a How of 40 gallons a minute from a 2-inch pipe. We are informed that the local Labour Party intend to nominate a full ticket for the forthcoming municipal election in April. Paddon defeated Felton for the sculling championship of Australia on Saturday by 25 lengths. Arnst has challenged Paddon. An interesting event is announced from.the Wellington Zoo, where the lioness has given birth to twins. The mother is much congratulated. The cubs are worth Mr George Coley said he only met with one refusal in his canvass for subscriptions in aid of the State School picnic fund, and that refusal he added iu disgust was from a wealthy man. At the meeting of the Woodville Racing Club yesterday, M. McDonald, the rider of the local horse, Waitoto, was suspended tor six months for careless riding iu the Victoria Handicap. W. Young and C. Jenkins were also cautioned for “crook” riding. With this issue we circularise an 1 inset from C. Smith Ltd., Palmerston N., notifying that their Summer Fair commences on Monday next, February 24th. Intending buyers should not miss this opportunity of securing some of the great bargains which are offered. See inset for further particulars/ 1 '

Some idea of the power of an air brake may be gained from the following facts :—lt takes a powerful locomotive drawing a train ot ten passenger cars a distance of about five miles to reach a speed of sixty miles per hour on a straight and level track. The brakes will stop the same train from a speed of sixty miles per hour in 700 feet. Roughly, it may be stated that a train can be stopped by the brakes In about 3 per cent ot the distance that must be covered to give it its speed.

At Paekakariki on Tuesday, Malcolm, an enginedriver, Pengulley, a fireman, and Ouinnane, a clerk, were fishing Irom a boat about 600 yards off the shore, Suddenly the craft was capsized by a swell. Guinnane and Malcolm managed to cling to the side of the upturned boat, but Pengully went, straight down, and nothing more was seen of him. The boat drifted shorewards with Malcolm and Guinnane still clinging to it. Their plight was observed and they were picked up by another boat.

Says the Eltham Argus :—lntense sympathy is felt all over this district for the misfortune that has fallen upon Dr. Harrison. About a week ago he operated upon a child for an acute abscess in the neck. When bandaging the wound he slightly pricked his left thumb with a pin that was being used to fasten the bandages. A few days later pain in the thumb indicated that there was something wrong, and the pain extending to the arm caused the doctor some uneasiness lest he had contracted bloood poisoning. Dr. Cooper did everything in . his power, but the unsatisfactory symptoms increased, and further medical aid was called in, several doctors meeting in consultation. Everything that medical knowledge could devise was tried in order to avoid the last resourceamputation—but on Saturday the symptoms were such that it was no longer safe to defer the operation, and the left arm was taken off above the elbow. East night night Dr. Harrison passed a good night and is slightly better, but his condition is still critical.

Writing about the slaughtermen’s trouble, the Free Dance says: The chief result of the unfortunate strike has been that the strikers have lost some thousands of pounds in wages and their billets as well, and their wives and children suffer in consequence. Even had the men’s utmost demands been conceded, it is estimated they would still have been the losers, owing to the time wasted while they were out on strike. The fact is, strikes never pay ; the striker is always a loser, in the short run or the long. The strike is an obsolete weapon, as well as a reprehensible one. Such industrial troubles as these, every dispute between employer and wage-earner, are far wiselier dealt with in a mutual spirit of give-and-take.

Try Perreau’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. They are delicious. Fresh daily.* Wanted—The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. de Luen, tailor,l of Palmerston North, will call on any* one with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4s, Suits from £4 10s.*

C. M. Ross and Co., The Bon Marche, notify being in the last week of their sale, and genuine bargains are available for buyers in all departments of drapery, clothing, boots and furnishings*

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i A London cablegram announces the death of Mr Louis Becke, the well-known Australian novelist. An expressman named T. Rogers, was accidently killed at Palmerston yesterday, b> fallingoff his express. The rumour that some appointments to the Legislative Council are in prospect was mentioned to the Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey) by a Wellington Post reporter on Saturday. Mr Massey replied that Cabinet has not yet considered the matter, but it will come up for consideration at the next full meeting. John O’Brien, charged with wounding John Peter Smith with intent to do grievous bodily barm by stabbing Smith with a knife in the breast and leg, was sentenced, to three years’ imprisonment at Auckland this week. The Judge remarked that prisoner was fortunate in not being charged with murder. A fellow officer with the late Captain • Oates in the Inniskilleu Dragoons, says that he was the most stalwart man and the best officer he ever knew. He could get more out of men than dozens of the other officers. He was clever beyond the ordinary, and a great geologist.. Nothing was too hard for him to do. At the Auckland Supreme Court a young man named Lewis Weeks Byron, charged with indecently assaulting a small boy, was sentenced to ten. years’ reformative treatment. Judge Edwards referred to a previous sentence of four years' served by prisoner for a similar offence, and said he was the worst possible menace to society. A wild beast would be infinitely less of a menace to society. While travelling in Rome, the Rev. Father- Hayden, of Manly (Sydney), the Rev. Father Walsh, of Wollongong, and the Rev. Father Hayden, of Dulwich Hill, saw the Holy Father (Pope Pius X.). “He makes an impression totally different to that of Leo XIII.,” was the summing-up of Father Hayden, when seen on his return last week. “It would seem that Leo. XIII., might be compared with John the Evangelist, whereas Pius X. might be likened to St. Peter. He is a man of remarkable courage, and highly practical. Men who are competent to judge of his policy consider he did well to break with the French Government, and as a matter of fact, in France, and in Paris itself, qit present, there is a great reaction in favour of religion.” The most attractive shop tor toy of every description is Mrs Hamer s Have von seen the window dis play ?* Wanted: 100 new customers to drink Agragella Tea —the highest grade tea procurable. Cali for free sample. Thomas Rimmer*