LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1071, 4 March 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thei newly-formed Auckland General labourers’ Union, totalling 400 members, has seceded from the Federation of Labour. Mr S. R. Collins terms for teaching the pianoforte and singing, are £1 xos per quarter not per annum, as stated in last issue. On our back page to-day will be found the following : “Sandon Tram Extension,” “Correspondence,” and “Business Notices-” There will be a meeting of the C.E.M.S. to-night in All Saints’ Schoolroom, when Mr Longworth will read his paper on Physical Culture, and other business will follow. An Auckland baker was fined £2 and costs on Tuesday for selling bread ot short weight. Some of the loaves were half an ounce to four and a half ounces under the correct weight. Defendant attributed the shortage to a slow oven.

A farmer who made £l7 5s per cow out of a herd of twenty-two last year, expects this season to make £2O per cow'at the factory alone. The farm, which is situated near Stratford, is a 43-acre one, so that it is stocked with practically a cow to two acres.— Stratford Post. On the Palmerston Show grounds on Easter Monday, the tenth annual sports meeting under the auspices of the Manawatu Caledonian Society will be held. The programme includes running and cycling races, pipe music, dancing, wrestling, etc., full particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns. Nelson is always given credit for possessing a remarkably healthy climate, aud a recent issue of the Nelson Colonist, though it records no fewer than fifteen deaths during the course of a few days, supports this claim. Two of the deceased persons were 84 years of age, three were over seventy, and seven were sixty or over. In one case the age was not given, and there was but one death which might be termed premature, the age being 48. The following sections in the Sherenden estates were balloted tor at Napier on Wednesday nightSection 5, block 7, 696 acres, Jack Baker, Wairoa ; section 1, block 8, 382 acres, Michael Connor, Hastings; section 2. block 8, 492 acres, Richard E. Simpson (no appearance), subsequently allotted to A. E. Porter, Shannon; section 3, block 8, 527 acres, W. George Wall, Maraekakaho.

To cheer up those who are not pleased with their auburn locks, says the Kltham Argus, let us remind them that Sylla, Cato, Columbus, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Johnson, Bayard, Wolfe and Oliver Cromwell all possessed red hair, while even Shakespeare inclined that way. Swinburne was very proud of his red hair. The red-haired people are in excellent company.

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A prisoner at Auckland named Joseph Edger has flatly refused to work. His case is causing the gaol authorities some anxiety. A large meeting of New Plymouth ratepayers enthusiastically supported the Borough Council's proposal to borrow ,£97,000 for tramways and street improvements.

James McGuigan was kicked in the abdomen by a horse at Kahanau station, Gisborne, on Saturday, his injuries terminating fatally.

A big maritime strike is threatened. The engineers of the U.S.S. Co. have come to loggerheads with the Company, and unless their demands are acceded to within 24 hours, will leave the vessels.

Further earth tremors were felt at Westport on Sunday morning. An unauthenticated report is current of a bubbling mud spring at Tauranga Bay, some ten miles south-west of Westport, and in the direction in which the earth tremors appear to have originated. A story is told by a London paper of a Dutchman who arrived in the United States on Decoration Day, and, noticing the flags flying and the people going to the cemetery with large bunches of flowers, he asked what it meant. “ Why, this is Decoration Day,” said one. “ Don’t you know what that is ?” The' Dutchman confessed that he didn't. The man then explained it. “Isn’t there someone at rest in the cemetery whose grave you would like to decorate with flowers ?” asked the, man. The Dutchman shook his bead and replied : “Doze peebles vat graves I like to degorate are not dead yet.”

The direct loss to the community through condemnation ot cattle and pigs for tuberculosis last year amounted to according to the figures supplied by the Stock Department in its annual report which adds: “if every factory and creamery in the country pasteurised its by-pro-ducts, the total annual cost involved by the process would be a mere detail in comparison with these figures. We are doing all we can to keep the disease Under control under existing conditions ; but, if only as a business proposition, it ought to be got better in band, and this unnecessary and avoidable annual loss, reduced to the lowest possible minimum.”

“ Is the Boss in ?” said a wellknown Union secretary as he entered a Wellington soft-goods shop one day recently. “ There is no Boss in this establishment ” was the reply. “ Well, is in?” giving the, name of the proprietor.” “Yes, he is, I happen to' be that individual.” “ Well, you’re the Boss, aren’t you?” said the secretary. “ Oh, dear no. I’m not the Boss. I’m only the fellow who has to find the wages on Saturday night. I am not allowed to be Boss in my own shop, l am only permitted to pay the wages. Fellows like you are the real Bosses, and the sooner I get out of business the. better it will be for me.”

On Sunday last the vicar of All Saints’Church made a strong appeal on behalf of the Melanesian Mission. There was a splendid congregation at the evening service, and the Mission hymns were sung with zeal. The vicar traced the growth of the Mission as founded by Bishop Selwyn to the present time, and gave several illustration, of those who laid down their lives for Christ and Him crucified. He explained how last year they had sent to help on this noble work in a beautiful but heathen laud, and be earnestly begged his congregation to do their very best, and help the Bishop and his staff in their where there was so much danger, isolation, and loneliness. The result was that the effort realised the sum of £lO 12s 3d, which the churchwardens will forward to the Diocesan Office. We congratulate the parish of All Saints’ for the object is one that needs the keenest sympathy. Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets. Every pair guaranteed not to rust * break, or tear. Your draper stoc 1 ' •‘Warner’s.’’*

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