LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1099, 20 May 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The stranded Indrabarah has been reinsured for 45 per cent., instead ot 55 per cent (last week’s rate).

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Sir James Carroll, who has lately been confined to a private hospital, is reported to be now well on the road to recovery.

The Japanese Fair has been proclaimed by all as a great success. To-night. is the hst night, and the admission will be, adults 6d, children 3d. The King gave an audience to Commander Evans, of the Terra Nova, and conferred on him a companionship of the Bath. His Majesty also condoled with him on the loss of his wife.

A serious trap accident occurred at Wakefield, Nelson, yesterday morning, in consequence of a horse bolting and causing the trap to collide with a post. The occupant, Mrs W. H. Brooks, wife of a settler, was thrown out and sustained injuries from which she is not expected to recover.

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For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, l/6, 2/6. Mr Hamer intends to erect staging accommodation at his hall In Clyde Street at an early date. Henry William Smith, aged 60, a recent arrival from Sydney was burnt to death at Auckland in a fire which destroyed a boardinghouse on Sunday.

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The takings at the Japanese Fair yesterday totalled The objective of the Ladies’ Guild is ,£IOO. The funds are to be used for renovating the church. The next ordinary meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 22ndjinst. at 7.45 p.m. Business; Confirmation of rate and general. A general meeting of members of the Foxton Rifle Club will be held in Messrs Walker and Furrie’s premises at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening.

The friends of Mr J. Tennant, late of Rangiotu and now of Palmerston North, will regret to hear that he is seriously ill as the result of a bicycle accident; On the fourth page of this issue will be found the following interesting reading matter:—“The Friedman Cure,” “American Ambassador,” “A Bush Mail Service,” and “Quaint Tourist.” A horse attached to a caq became frightened by a passing motor car in Nelson on Sunday afternoon, and shied. The vehicle capsized and the cabman, Martin Christian, aged about eighteen years, received injuries to which he succumbed.

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The installation ceremony in connection with the local Masonic Dodge will take place to-morrow afternoon. In the evening the brethren will entertain their friends and visitors at a social and dance. The decorations of the interior of the Town Hall for the Japanese Fair, which concludes to-night, are the most artistic yet seen in Foxton. The thirty ladies and gentlemen in Japanese costumes, present a very charming appearance.

Some time ago the China Government requested the churches throughout Christendom to offer up special prayers on behalf of the nation. At All Saints’ on Sunday the vicar offered up special petitions on this behalf as authorised throughout the diocese of Wellington. There is to be a large public meeting at Palmerston N. on Monday next at 2,30 p.m. in connection with the Bible-in-schools movement. Canon Garland, the organising secretary, is to preside, and representatives from most of the churches in the Olaki electorate will be present. Our representative visited several picture theatres when in Auckland last week, and without going into details, we can assure local picture patrons that the Queen City provides no better films, appointments or music. At the Auckland picture entertainments the noise effects are conspicuous by their absence. The manager of the local municipal picture entertainment stopped the sale of tickets for iront chairs at ten minutes to eight, and circle at five to eight, on Saturday night. It was one of the largest Saturday night audiences since the hall has been opened, and the general expression of opinion was that the pictures were the best yet seen here.

When the Maheno was rolling in a mountainous sea on the voyage from Sydney to Auckland, on Thursday, she received a wireless from the Wimmera, bound for Sydney, enquiring for a medical man, and Dr. Scott, of Tasmania, had the novel experience of prescribing for Captain Entwistle, of the ’Wimmera, speeding through a gale miles distant.

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A miraculous escape from being dashed to death happened to a manager at one of the Kaitangata coal-mines a few days ago. He fell down the mine shaft a distance of 550 feet. Fortunately, while falling, he grasped the bell rope with both hands and this served to keep him in a perpendicular position.' He landed in a muddy spot and was thus saved from fatal injuries, although his leg was broken in two places and his hands were jagged to the bone by the rope as he slid down in his rapid descent.

Filty-five applications were received last night for the position of Town Clerk for the borough of Foxton. The applicants for the position are scattered from Tetnuka to Waihi. A number of applications were received from the four chief centres. The special committee set up by the Council to select three names from which the Council will make the final choice to-night, were confronted with a tremendous task. The sorting-out process was completed by xr o’clock.

Quite a number of people from this district visited the stranded Indrabarah on the Rangitikei beach on Sunday.

The type of literature read by the Auckland public is indicated by the figures published in the annual report of the Leys Institute. The number of books issued by the lending library last year was 21,330. This number includes : 4656 magazines, 14,702 volumes of fiction. 1243 of general literature, and 729 volumes of juvenile fiction. The report adds that the percentage of fiction, although high, is not greater than that in other colonial subscription libraries.

The Wellington - Motueka steamer, Manaroa, which was wrecked off D’Urville Island on April 17, has been raised by the ketches Pearl, Kasper, andOrakei, and beached on the island. She will be patched up and towed to Wellington for repairs. At the Supreme Comt, Auckland, yesterday, in the case against Edward Sheehan, who shota companion named George Fyle at Parahekei. the charge was reduced to one of manslaughter. Accused pleaded guilty. The Judge said he would not send the boy to gaol, but to a reformatory, and remand him for sentence till Tuesday.

Despite the fact that there were a number of counter attractions, there was a fair attendance at “The Royal” picture hall last night. The star film was a drama, “Behind the Mask,” by the Messier Company, which occupied the biggest part of the second half. The programme submitted also included a number of other good films.

A municipal fish market willprobably be an accomplished fact in Auckland within a short time. The Mayor and chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board selected a site yesterday morning. The city engineer has been instructed to prepare plans for a building. The scheme requires ratification by the City Council, but if approved will be proceeded with immediately. The system to be followed will be similar to that in vogue in Sydney and other places, the most important feature being the abolition of the restriction at present placed on the size' of fishermen’s catches.

The new picture theatre in Clyde Street, The Royal,” was opened on Saturday night when there was a good attendance. On Saturday morning it was found that the picture projecting machine which had been installed was not satisfactory, and it would be necessary to get another one for the opening entertainment in the evening. Wellington was communicated with by telephone and an Krnamann machine purchased, which was sent by train to Palmerston and conveyed from there to Foxton arriving somewhere about five o’clock. It was immediately installed, and was ready for use when the show commenced at eight o’clock. No ship ever listed in the Royal. Navy has received one-tenth of the visitors that have boarded the New Zealand since she was commissioned barely six months ago (says the Christchurch Press). Hundreds of ships, many as fine as the New Zealand, have passed and will pass, through their whole careers in the Navy without receiving visitors other than officials and the friends of the officers and crew. Nearly four... . hundred thousand have crossed the gangways of the New Zealand in three months, and the ship has only completed half of her Dominion tour, and has yet to cross the Pacific and round two sides of the American continent.