LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1068, 25 February 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a very large attendance at the municipal pictures on Saturday night. Saturday next is St, David’s Day. The Welsh folk in Wellington will hold a social evening to celebrate their patron saint. On Wednesday (to-morrow), the letter carriers will make one complete delivery only, leaving the office at 8 a.m.

The next ordinary meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Friday, 28th inst., at 7,45p.m. Business: General. The Rev Father Dore, who succeeds the Rev Father Kelly as parish priest in this district, conducted his first service at StMary's Church on Sunday. Constable R. Murray, of the Gonville police force, has been appointed resident constable at Shannon, vice the late Constable Doyle.

At the Waitaia Beach on Thursday, Mrs Chas. Holdsworth received a bite from a katipo spider. She was attended to by Dr. Ramage, and is now progressing favourably.

The school committee desire to acknowledge a sovereign from Mr H. Coley as a prize in the school championship race, to be run at the picnic to-morrow, also Mrs Cleland for gift of toys. At the local police court yesterday, before Mr Hornblow J.P., Tera Tekani, arrested on Saturday night for drunkenness, and who was subsequently bailed out, but who did not appear to answer the charge, was convicted and had bis bail 1 os, estreated. At a largely attended meeting in Feilding last week, it was decided to petition the Borough Council to take a poll on the question of declaring Saturday afternoon the universal half holiday in the borough. A Saturday Half Holiday Teague was formed. Those parents who desire to attend the State school excursion and picnic at Ashhurst to-morrow and who have not yet obtained tickets, may do so by making application to Mr Alex Speirs at the railway station at 7.30 to-morrow morning.

A thunderstorm passed over Foxton on Sunday afternoon, followed by an abnormal hail shower. Heavy rain fell again during the night. From Himatangi the storm passing over Foxton on Sunday afternoon could be seen distinctly, but that district appeared to be out of the storm area.

At last night’s Council meeting it was decided on the motion of Cr Coley, seconded by the Mayor, that the water tables in Main Street be cleaned out once a week. Cr Coley mentioned that he had brought the motion forward at the request of some of the shopkeepers in Main Street, who were troubled with _ the dust nuisance. The cleaning of the water tables weekly would go a long way towards abating the nuisance.

At last night's Council meeting Cr Richmond drew attention to the growth of noxious weeds in the borough, and asked whose duty it was to see that they were cleared. It was pointed out that Inspectors were appointed by the Government to see that the weeds are cleared, and it was decided on the motion of Cr Coley, seconded by the Mayor, that the attention of the Noxious Weeds Inspector be called to the amount ot weeds growing in the borough. .Try Perreau’s steak and kidney pies, baked in dishes. They are delicious. Fresh daily.*

Ask to see the new low bust, longskirted models in “Warner's” Rustproof Corsets. Every pair guar anteed. Local drapers.

The annual Medical Conference opened at Wanganui last evening. Sir H. Rider Haggard, one of thelmperialTrade Commissioners, arrived at the Bluff from Melbourne yesterday. According to the Waimate Witness £BO an acre has been offered and refused for a farm near Manaia, the owner demanding &sThe Waihi Daily Telegraph states that the population of the town, which had decreased considerably during the industrial trouble, is now fast recovering. The late Mrs Barrott, whose death at Woodville we chronicled in our last issue, was the mother of Mrs H. Bradcock, of Ohakune, late of Foxton, and grandmother of Mrs William Robinson of this town.

The Balclutha police report that George Kirk, an old age pensioner, aged 92 years, was burnt to death at Puerua some time between Thursday night and Sunday afternoon. Apparently he lived alone.

The Waitara Harbour Board at its last meeting passed a resolution of sympathy in connection with the Polar disaster. Captain Thompson, Harbourmaster at Waitara, spoke in highly appreciative terms of the late Captain Scott, under whom he had served as cadet. A conference of Commissioners of Crown Lands will open in Wellington on 3rd March. The conference has been convened by the Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister for Lands, to discuss various matters relating to the administration of the Land Act. A scene was created outside Mr Littlejohn’s shop in Main Street on Saturday night as picture patrons were passing along, and a crowd soon gathered in the vicinity. It appears that a person under the influence of liquor had misbehaved himself in the shop and had to be ejected. Another person, under the influence, desired to defend the ejected one and trouble was commencing when the police arrived and made an arrest. It is rumoured that the coronation of the Mikado will take place in November. The royal households in Tokyo and Kyoto are already making active preparations. The Jiji Shimpo (Tokio) learns from private authoritative sources that after the coronation the Emperor Yoshihito will visit Europe in fulfilment of a long cherished wish. He will make use of a warship. Amateur photographers are reminded that entries in the photographic class at the forthcoming Horticultural Show close with the Society’s secretary, Mr H. C. Patterson, to-morrow. Prints must accompany entries, in order that they may be forwarded to Palmerston N. to be judged and returned in time for the opening of the Show.

A municipal church parade was held at Christchurch on Sunday at the Anglican Cathedral. It was attended by between fitly and sixty ot those connected with the municipality in addition to the Mayor and a number of city councillors, and heads of Departments and employees. The Mayors of Sumner, Riccarton, and Spreydon were also present. Bishop Julius preached an interesting sermon on the duties of citizenship and extended a welcome to the Mayors and councillors. The death occurred at Feilding yesterday of Mr Willian Henry Gardiner, at the ripe old age of 84 years. Mr Gardiner was one of the pioneers of the Rongotea district, having taken up a farm there nearly 40 years ago. He carried on agricultural work for 30 years, and then retired to Feilding, where he had been living for the past seven years. Mrs Gardiner survives her husband, and there are two sons and two daughters. The sons are; William (Hastings), and Henry (Taihape) ; the daughters : Mrs Thos. Fraser (Petone) and Mrs Hobbs (Bulls).