The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 19TH., 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1086, 19 April 1913, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 19TH., 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Hospital Board will be held on Thursday next.

The services in All Saints’ Church to morrow will be at 8. a.m., 11 a.m., and 7 p.m.

The service in the local Catholic Church v to-morrow will be conducted at 830 a.m., by the Rev Father Dore.

The attendance shield at the local State school was won this week by Standard VI., with an average attendance of 95.2 per cent.

Mr F. E. Jeuks, whose local public record of upwards of 25 years needs no further recommendation from us, notifies by advertisement his candidature for a seat on the local Harbour Board. . Mr W. Gray, who recently left for a trip to Australia, writes from Sydney: “Just got over the railway strike, so cau get about the country a bit more. Having splendid weather.” Mr W. Bock has given a large cricket net to the local school, which will be a marked improvement on the unsightly scrim stf utcture at present in use. The committee and head teacher desire to acknowledge Mr Bock’s thoughtfulness and generosity.

The local school committee desire to thank the following gentlemen for donations towards purchasing refreshments for the children who made the trip to Wellington to-day : Messrs G. H. Stiles j£i, W. Bock ss, H. Coley 53, and Mr R. J. Thompson 401 b. of apples. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the Minister, Rev J. M. Thomson, M. A. The children’s addresses' on Pilgrim’s Progress will be continued in the morning. The evening service at Oroua Downs will be conducted by Mr J. Chrystall. It is stated that if the origiual arrangements for the Palmerston school children’s excursion to the battleship had been adhered to, there would not have been any muddle in keeping the children waiting about. But Palmerston agitated and succeeded in altering the time of starting and hence upset things.

Mr G. H. Stiles notifies that he has secured the services of Miss Fletcher, who has now taken charge of his dressmaking department, Miss Fletcher has had several years’ experience in a number of the leading costume houses in Christchurch, soFoxton ladies, can rely on entire satisfaction.

The Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) will leave on Tuesday next for sthe King Country, where he will spend four or five days in inspecting settlement areas (including some of the special settlements) in his capacity as Minister for Agriculture. Afterwards Mr Massey will spend a few days in Auckland before returning to Wellington. He expects to reach Auckland on April 28.

The Chairman of the local School Committee, in order to guard against any possible mix-up of arrangements in conveying the local children from the wharf to the battleship today, sent a further telegram to Mr Wilson, of the Tourist Department, yesterday, and received the following reply last night: “Hinemoa and Tutanekae will leave at one p.m. to-morrow to carry Foxton children. Arrangements made will be entirely satisfactory.” A previous message said they were to leave at 1.30 p.m.

Now the short days, and consequent late mornings, are rapidly approaching, those persons who have to rise early to attend to their daily duties may find it necessary to depend on some mechanical means of ensuring their wakefulness at the required hour, and to those who find this so there is nothing more reliable than a Big Ben alarm clock, as advertised by Mr R. M. Parkes. Ansonia watches, a well-known and dependable make, are also offered by this watchmaker and jeweller at an attractive price,* A return furnished by the Government Statistician shows that during last year the arrivals in the Dominion numbered 46,892, and the departures 34.935—a gain of 11,957, as compared with 5,892 for the previous year. The gain from Australia was 6, and from the United Kingdom 11,685. Assisted immigrants numbered 3,4sl—domestic servants, 1,008 ; farmers and farm labourers, 929 ; wives coming out to join husbands in New Zealand, 534; children, 980.

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A man named Charles Gome was found dead in an outhouse at Matawai. Gisboiue, on Thursday night.

The Queen of the South and Putiki sailed yesterday morning, and the Awahou is due to-morrow with a general cargo from Wellington. A meeting of those interested in the formation of junior and third class football teams, will be held in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.

The number of vessels that entered the local port during the year ended December 31st, 1912 was 231, the total tonnage being 26967. The previous year’s figures were 201 and 23434 tons. At Thursday’s meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board, it was decided that the thanks of the members of the Board to the Chairman for his courtesy and excellent work in the interests of the Board, be recorded on the minutes. The Chairman of the Foxton Harbour Board mentioned at Thursday’s meeting that the annual revenue at the present time was double the amount received when the Board was first formed.

The Rev. D. C. Bates wires today as follows : —South moderate to strong winds generally at times; weather probably cool and changeable; the night will probably be very cold with frosts inland ; barometer unsteady but little movement; sea and tides moderate. Dr. Adams iulorms us that as he has been troubled to a great extent by stock damaging his garden, and as the Council is apparently unable to adequately deal with the wandering stock nuisance, he has decided to put damages on any stock that he finds on his property in the future.

As a result of injuries received in a fight between two men on the Auckland Harbour Board’s pile driving pontoon on Thursday afternoon one of them, Manuel Santos is dead. Tbe-other mao, Harold Gearston Brown is in custody, charged with wilful murder.

The services in connection with the local Methodist Church tomorrow will be held in the supperroom of the Coronation Hall. The Rev. T. Coatsworth will preach at both services. The morning subject will be “Humility Rewarded," and the evening subject the words of Jesus, “lam the Way." A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all.

Sportsmen will be pleased to learn that it has been definitely decided to allow a month’s shooting of ducks and swans in the Wellington district, to commence on June Ist. An open season for pukaki in the restricted area locally, as granted last year, has been recommended, but a final reply has not yet been received from headquarters. Mr Ernest Havilland Hiley, of Newcastle, divisional goods manager ■on the North Eastern Railways, England, has been appointed General Manager ot the the New Zealand Railways. There were eighty-two applicants for the position, including a few from Australia and Canada. The New Zealand applicants numbered about a dozen. *