LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1083, 8 April 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier will be tendered a civic welcome at Palmerston this evening.

Miss Evelyn Edith Coombes, 28 years of age, died at Christchurch Hospital from injuries received through stepping off a moving tram.

Counterfeit coins are in circulation in Dunedin.

Harvest-thanksgiving services were held in the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches on Sunday, The returning officers in connection with the election of members for the Foxton and Wellington Harbour Board notify that nominations close on the 15th instant. Speaking in Taranaki last week the Premier stated that he hoped to be able to announce within a few weeks a very substantial surplus, though not quite so substantial as last surplus. Cr Geo. Goley, in notifying the electors that he will be a candidate at the forthcoming Council election, hopes that his past services will be a sufficient recommendation for a continuance ot their confidence.

Charles Edwin King, aged 28 years, was killed at Purakanui, near Dunedin, on Saturday night, as the result of a trap accident. King fell under the cart and received injuries that caused immediate death.

For calling a man “a scat,” Joseph Meagher was fined £1 and costs £1 6s 4d at the Paeroa S.M. Court last week. The Magistrate informed Meagher that he was liable to imprisonment for two months or a fine of £io. Mr W. H, Hawkins, ex-M.P. for Pahiatua, who is now farming at Tataraimaka. near New Plymouth, will (says the Daily News) be a candidate for the Taranaki seat at the next election in opposition to the sitting member (Mr Okey).

Skatists will notice an alteration to Rink advertisement in another column. The Wednesday afternoon is for ladies only, not learners only as was previously announced. We draw attention to the alteration to save any possible disappointment.

Mr Massey, speaking at New Plymouth, intimated that one of the best engineers of the Public Works Department, now in Europe, has been instructed to visit Belgium and lurnish a report on the light railways of that country.

Drivers of vehicles through alleyways should be careful to make their exist from and entrance to the main thoroughfare at a walking pace. Two very narrow escapes have happened to pedestrians during the past few days in Main Street owing to the carelessness of drivers.

Mr E. Ball, hairdresser and tobacconist, is now located in his new shop in Main street, where he will be pleased to welcome old and new customers. The hairdressing saloon has been fitted up with a view to the convenience and comfort of customers, and is thoroughly up-to-date in every particular.

In a case at the Invercargill S.M. Court, a parent was ordered to pay £5 per week towards the upkeep of both of his two children. The evidence went to show that the boys had not been washed for a considerable time, and were running wild in the bush at Winton, feeding on raw rabbits’ flesh, which they found ! !

This is an open season for imported game—hares, quail, and pheasants—all of which are reported to be fairly plentiful. The council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society has recommended that June shall be an open season for ducks and swans, and that the shooting of pukeko shall be allowed in a specified area in the Foxton district, where they are plentiful.

Mr M. Cohen, who has held a position on the Wellington Harbour Board for the past six years, announces that he is again a candidate for election as representative for Manawatu on the Board. Mr Cohen received hearty support from this district last election and we cannot see any reason why the electors should not vote him a renewal of that confidence at the forthcoming election.

The Eoudon shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand at a meeting to be held next Tuesday will consider resolutions requesting the Board to pay off one million pounds’ worth of debentures maturing in 1914 from its own resources ; also the shareholders claim to have the control of the bank restored to them, the Government to have a minority on the Board, but retaining the appointment of auditor and its present veto, which would equalise the control. The shareholders are prepared, when the Board has reconstructed, to furnish the two millions of capital as required for further development.

The electrical disturbance, on Saturday night was a magnificent spectacle. For a considerable time during the early part of the evening intermittent flashes of lightning lit up the western sky, and preceded the coming of the storm cloud. Then followed great streaks of forked lightning and deep thunder. No damage was done locally, but at Shannon the lightning fused the wires con-, nected to the test cabinet in the post office. AH the wires were burnt out. Since the storm the weather has been very cold.

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Mr Chisholm, our oue time highly-esteemed bank manager, paid a flying visit to Foxton today.

This year 11,839,989 passengers were carried on the New Zealand railways, as compared with 10,946,777 in i9i2, an increase of 893,2x2.

On the fourth page this issue will be found a descriptive article dealing with the historic city of Adrianople. The recent happenirgs in the East make this article of more than passing interest.

T. Stuart, a painter, an old resident of Reefton, in the hospital yesterday. Owing •to certain bruises, a medical certificate was refused. Stuart fell down in a fit at the hotel where he was staying. A post-mortem examination is to be made.

A boy named Edward Sheehan, 15 years of age, quarrelled at Whangarei yesterday with, a 12-year-old boy named George Fyffe, aud shot him with a pea rifle. Fyffe’s life is despaired of, and his depositions have been taken. Sheehan is under arrest.

The Queen of the South and Awahou, from Wellington, with general cargoes arrived on Sun-, djiy. The Awahou left at nine o’clock last night for Westport to load coal for Foxton, and the Queen ot the South left at 10.30 o'clock this morning with a cargo of hemp for Wellington. The Kennedy from Greymouth and the Putiki from Westport, both coal laden, are expected to-morrow. ‘T am glad to see that the managers ot this Institute are not so mealy-mouthed as some people,” said his Honour Mr Justice Cooper at the annual meeting of the Boys’ Institute, at Wellington. “I notice that boxing is included in the list of athletic exercises taught and promoted. We all detest prizefighting, but boxing is a useful exercise to learn. It teaches a man to take care of himsilf.”

The prospects for football locally are very promising this year. Practically the whole of those who have taken part in the game in the past have signified their intention of again donning the jersey, and as there are a number of prominent players from other parts of the Dominion who have taken up their residence in Foxton recently, the local club should be able to put a very strong team in the field. The adjourned meeting will be held in the Manawatu Hotel on Thursday evening, when a record attendance is anticipated. The fact that primary school committees are not allowed subsidies on private subscriptions was one of the points raised by Mr F. P. Corkill in speaking on behalf of a deputation which waited on the Prime Minister at New Plymouth last week. Seeing that High Schools were subsidised in this connection, he thought that the primary schools should be entitled to the same consideration. Mr Massey said that there was a good deal in Mr Corklll’s contention. Though it would require a special Act of Parliament, he was in favour of the concession being granted.

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