LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1105, 5 June 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics for Foxton for last month were : —Marriages 2, births 9, deaths 3.

A very pleasant social afternoon was spent by the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild at the residence of Mrs Alex. Speirs senr., yesterday afternoon.

Everything is in readiness for the attempt to refloat the stranded Indrabarah to-day. The sea has moderated and the weather conditions are favourable.

Mr P. J. Hennessy was the Foxton delegate on the Diocesion Council of the Catholic Federation, which met at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr J. F. Raini, who was relieving at the local branch of the Bank of N.Z. during Mr Dixon’s holiday leave, has been transferred to Grey town.

The dejtth has occurred at Wanganui of Mr George Snow, an old resident of Nelson and Upper Hutt, at the age of 78 years.

King George and Queen Mary gave Princess Louise a diamond diadem, and King George gave Prince Ernest an English motor car, as wedding presents. Guard Crowe was operated on for appendicitis at the district hospital yesterday. We are pleased to report that he is progressing satisfactorily.

It is expected that 300 delegates representing the entire trades union movement in New Zealand, will be present at the conference to be held in Wellington next month.

The remaining members of Maggie Papakura’s touting company of Maori entertainers, who went to England in 1910, were passengers to Wellington by the steamer Paparoa, which arrived from Home on Saturday night. There has been great slaughter among the ducks in this district since the opening of the shooting season. Sportsmen state that the birds are in excellent condition, which we can verify if a brace left with us by a local sport is any criterion.

Mr F. E. Jenks notifies elsewhere in this issue that he has disposed of his business to Mr Admore, and takes the opportunity of thanking the public tor the support accorded him during his long business connection in Foxton,

The Awahou arrived in poit at 9.30 last night from Wanganui and leaves to-night with a cargo of hemp for Wellington., The Queen arrived with a general cargo from Wellington this morning and will leave to-morrow with a cargo of hemp. At a meeting of All Saints’ Vestry, held on Tuesday last, it was decided ro paint and renovate the church with the funds collected for that purpose at the recent Japanese Fair. The Vestry considered it was advisable to wait until the spring for the painting, and will call tenders in September next.

Mr R. J. McLennan, who was known throughout the Bush, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, and Manawatu districts, died at Pahiatua on Sunday. He was fifty-three years old. For a long period he was connected with the stock auctioneering business, and was formerly manager of the Pahiatua branch of Dalgety and Company.

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There are now 28 farmers in Parliament in New Zealand.

The first Salvation Army Congress held in New Zealand, opened at Wellington yesterday. Bishop Crossly, of Auckland, is suffering from a serious nervous breakdown and has been ordered a prolonged rest.

Parliament has been further prorogued until Thursday, the 26th inst., when both houses will meet for the dispatch of business. Automatic telephones have been installed in Wellington and Auckland. It will be some years before the automatic use of-the telephone is in general use. The railway authorities inform us that they are proceeding against the individual responsible for the disturbance on the PalmerstonFoxton train on the evening of the 20th ult.

New patients to the number of 73 entered the Palmerston hospital during May. During the month 71 were discharged cured and five died. The month began with 60 patients and ended with 57. Sir Mr MacNaghten, of Scotland Yard, interviewed on his retirement, said he had a clear idea of Jack the Ripper's identity, one of the most fascinating of criminals. He suicided in the latter part of 1888. Sir M. MacNaghten declined to reveal his secret,

It is understood on good authority (says the Eketahuna Express) that one immediate result of the petition presented to the Borough Council concerning one of its officers will be a number of actions for slander brought against the signatories. . The Shannon competitions will be held again this year, in August next, on a much bigger scale than in previous years. Mr Temple White, conductor of the Feilding choir, will act as judge of the musical items, and Mr Byron .Brown for the elocutionary section. At Auckland this week, His Honour Mr Justice Edwards dismissed the claim by the Remuera Road Board for two years’ rates on the Sacred Heart College and grounds, stating that the college was conducted by a religious order exclusively for teaching and without any personal interest in the property.

A mean and contemptible theft was. perpetrated at Hunterville last week. While a local footballer was playing in a match, someone went through his clothes and appropriated five shillings from his purse ; and also a set of false teeth from the pocket of his coat. The player in question considers this the limit of contemptibility. The Duke of Argyll, speaking at the opening of a new tuberculosis dispensary at Stepney Green, London, said that in the case of tuberculosis children much good could be done by rubbing with hot sweet oil. “ When this is not always on tap,” he added, “ you can always get some good hot fat. There are many simple country cures which are not to be despised.” Says the Post: Mr Newman is not a great orator, nor even a great debater, but he is a man who is conspicuous for his sterling common sense, his knowledge of business, and his grasp of principle —qualities which, after all, touch the essence of statesmanship, and inevitably command the respect of the public, even though more showy qualities are sometimes more successful in commanding its votes.

Mr A. E. Admore, who has bought Mr F. E- Jonhs’ old established painting and paperhanging business, comes to Foxton with first-class trade credentials. Mr Admore has had a wide experience in Australia and New Zealand and hopes to merit a share of the trade throughout the district. Mr Admore was also highly esteemed as a citizen in those districts in which he has settled. His business announcement appears elsewhere in this issue.

“ The school does much,” said the New South Wales Minister for Education (Mr Carmichael) the other week, “ but its work is small in comparison with the work that remains for the parent to do when our best has been done.” In reply to questions concerning religious instruction in schools, the Minister went on to say that there could hardly be two opinions that the foundations of any lasting national existence must be built deep and solid on those great ethical doctrines that underline all religions with any claim to greatness, and especially the Christian faith. This could never be successfully delegated by parents altogether to any body of professionals, whether teachers or clergy. If he were a Pressman he would hammer this into the people. A parent's duties were not completed by bringing a child into the world, feeding and clothing it, and handing the rest oyer to the State. Evidences were very apparent of want of control. The day when the child had to have it “ belted into him ” had fortunately gone, but unfortunately the pendulum had swung right into the opposite extreme.

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The result of the Federal elections so far are Liberals 38, S Labour 37. ' Fire last night practically destroyed the Aramohc School, one of the oldest schools in the - 4 Wanganui district. - 'n

His Majesty has acknowledged birthday congratulations forwarded on behalf of the people of the Dominion by his Excellency the Governor.

At Petone yesterday a mild' sensation was caused at the nonarrival of the bridegroom at a wedding ceremony. At the last minute the bridegroom cancelled the marriage license.

Whitauuui Ltd. have informed the Manawatu County Council that they intend to use the river service for the carriage of their hemp instead pf carting it on the Foxton-Sbaunon road.

Yesterday morning Mr Charles Collis, chairman' of the Kairanga County Council, the Aorangi Land Drainage Board, and the Kairanga Dairy Company, and a member of the Manawatu Drainage Board, died at his resi-] dence, Longburn, aged 76 years. He had been laid up for the past month with bronchitis.

“Even scientific men have fallen into the error,”. Mr M’Cabe remarked in a lecture at Wellington “of crediting women with a lower intelligence than man, because her brain weighs five and a half ounces less.” 'He went on to explain that mere size of head and brain counted for little. It was the proportionate weight of the brain to the rest of the body that had to be taken into account. On this basis woman’s brain would compare favourably with that of man, and leaving “ dead ” tissue, fat, and so forth, out of account, woman might show even a greater brain capacity than man. An association in London, in its report for 1912, paid a striking tribute to the value of newspaper advertising. “ There is no doubt,” it was stated, “that the newspaper advertisements have paid us handsomely, and we have again proved the wisdom of continuous advertising, as there has not been a single day in the whole year but we have had applications for our guides. The association, which spent considerably more •ou newspaper advertising than on any other form of publicity intends to extend its campaign this year.” Discussing the Japanese-Ameri-can trouble, the London Daily Mail, in a leading article, says: —"lt seems unlikely that Japan will force a rupture with so potent an adversary, but the Webb law treats Japanese as if they were only semi-barbarians. The aspersion that they are Asiatic undesirables arouses them to fury, and in anger they may drive the Government to perilous lengths. The gravity of the situation baa a close personal interest to ourselves. It would be distressing to find our American kinsmen in serious conflict with our Japanese allies upon an issue in which the Americans would command the sympathies of Western Canada. It may be taken for granted that Sir Edward Grey will use legitimate British influence to bring about an understanding.”

While lecturing in Dunedin on the “Romance of Australasia,” Mr McCabe (says the Otago Daily Times) referred to the supposed original home of the .Maoris. He said that the life history of the Maori was a source of much inter* estto scientific men in England and Europe, and that some of the leading scientists in those countries are of the opinion that the Maoris are descended from a white race that inhabited a country adjacent to the Caucasus. In the course of time, the race multiplied greatly and at length split into two bodies, one going westward and establishing itself in Germany, Austria and Greece, while the other set out eastward, and spread through the Indian Ocean and the Islands of the Pacific, some of the tribe ultimately finding its way to New Zealand. Mr McCabe pointed out that the .Maori, therefore, if the researches of the scientists referred to were correct, was a cousin to the white races of to-day.

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