LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1106, 7 June 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A committee meeting of tbe local Horticultural Society will be held at 7,30 o’clock on Monday evening.

A native named Jacob fell off a waggon at Karamu, near Hamilton, his head being crushed by the wheels. Jack Johnson, the coloured pugilist, has been sentenced at Chicago to a year’s imprisonment and a line of a thousand dollars. An appeal against tbe sentence has been lodged.

The new Methodist Church will be opened on Sunday, June 29th, when the Rev. Samuel Lawry, President of the Methodist Conference, will conduct the services.

The services in connection with the local Methodist Church tomorrow will be held in the supperroom of the Town Hall. The Rev. N. Hyde, of Shannon, will conduct both services. These will be of a farewell character, owing to Mr Hyde leaving the circuit next month. A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all.

Speaking at Auckland, the Premier referred in .confident terms to the strength of the Reform Party. He stated that he did not attach importance to the hints of dissolution during the coming session, but if the election came to-morrow the Government would not be afraid to face it. “I do not say,” he said, ” that we would not lose some seats. You cannot go into a battle without losing soldiers, but I am sure for every seat we would lose, we would gain three.” The Herald Printery is a local institution, tberetore be loyal to your town and support local industry. Our work compares more than favourably—both as to prices and effectiveness —with that supplied by any outside office. Come and have a talk to us about printing. Remember, your support keeps the money in the town.*

PerrEAU’s up-to-date tea room is a popular place for afternoon tea. 1 *

The services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be at 8 a.m., ii a.m. and 7 p.m. The services in the local Catholic Church to-morrow will be conducted at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. by the Rev Father Core.

The attendance shield was won this week by Standard 1., with an average attendance of. 97.3 per cent.

Mr H. T. Ellingham has been re-elected by a large majority to represent the crown tenants on the Wellington Land Board.

The Minister for Railways states definitely that a second daily express between Auckland and Wellington will not be resumed until the spring.

The All Saints’ Ladies Guild have decided to hold the annual children’s plain and fancy dress ball on 17th of July. Particulars of this will appear in a later issue. The vicar offered a prize for the best essay on the “Daj T of Pentecost,” for the children in his bible class at the local school. The prize was won by Arthur Thompson.

Dr. Otto Schmidt claimed before the Cologne Medical Society that he had discovered the cancer parasite and also a curative serum. He requested the Society to appoint a, Commission to investigate his discoveries.

Belfast customs officers seized twelve cases o£ rifles and bayonets consigned irotn Manchester as electrical goods- The Belfast cases were consigned to order. They contained two thousand rifles of modern pattern. Apparently the Ulster anti-Home Rule Parly mean business.

According to an Auckland journeyman builder there is still a good deal of jerry building going on throughout the Dominion, particularly where the speculative builder is the chief agent. He states that he picked up his tools and left one job because the man in charge considered he was doing his work too well! The services at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the minister, Rev J. M. Thomson, M.A. in the morning, and by Mr J. Chrystall in the evening. The communion of the Lord’s Supper will be dispensed fD.V.) at the morning service in Foxton and in the afternoon at Rangiotu. The evening service at Oroua Downs will be as usual. A remarkable confession has been made by one Grange, an ex-British Army man, who surrendered himself to the police at Vancouver recently. Grange was formerly a sergeant in an English regiment. His story is that 20 years ago, while in London, he strangled bis infant son, whose advent into the world at the time was not welcome. The Wretched man declares that in his travels since he left England he had visited India and the Orient, but that wherever he went he was haunted by his dreadful crime.

A rather unusual occurrence in the form of a mild strike took place during the fat lamb sale at the Addington markets this week. Exporters who were operating took exception to the presence of a buyer who they apparently thought was operating on behalf of one of the local agency firms, and they all vacated the pens until this buyer ceased bidding. Things were at a deadlock for a little time until the buyer at last withdrew, as he did not wish to spoil the sale, which would have happened if had continued, and business then went on in the normal manner.

The annual social and prize distribution of the Methodist Sunday School at Oroua Downs was held on Thursday evening in Hammond’s Hall, when there was a splendid audience present. The children rendered their songs in a very creditable manner and a good programme of solos, recitations, duets, etc. was given. The Rev. T. Coatsworth gave a brief address to the children on “ Hands.” At the' conclusion of the programme, refreshments were handed round to which ample justice was done. The prizes were a splendid lot of books, and the number distributed was about forty. Great credit is due to Mrs Bethune and Mrs Scott for training the children in so capable a manner. A hearty vote of thanks to all who had assisted in making the anniversary meetings so successful, was passed with acclamation.

The Hou. Jas. Allen says the Bleriot monoplane presented to the Dominion is equipped with 80 horse-power Gnome engines. “Just before I left,” said Mr Allen, “they had been trying the machine to see whether it was satisfactory, and Hamel, a very daring and skiliul aviator, flew with it over the Channel to France.” It is a military machine, and needed competent and careful handling. The Government would not be justified in allowing it to be used for training purposes, aud its proper utilisation might involve the appointment of an aviation expert, though that was rather a matter for decision by the Commandant. One officer had been sent Home to be attached to the Aviation School, but so far as Mr Allen knew* he had not yet done much in this direction. ,In order successfully to work the machine, the aviator would need to understand the engines properly, as well as air-currents and the behaviour of the atmosphere.

The most attractive shop for toys of every description is Mrs Hamer s, Have you seen the window dis play ?* For bedsteads, kapoc mattresses, flax mattresses, pillows, kapoc, etc.) ry Thomas Riminer,* 1

The Scott fund has reached ,£59,000, exclusive ot ,£7OOO from Australia and ,£3OOO from Canada. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and party will leave London for New Zealand on June 20th. Lieutenant M. Glover has been appointed to the Foxton Salvation f: Army Corps. ' Jonquil blooms are being sold in Wellington for is 6d per dozen. These spring flowers have been raised in forcing beds. The Rev J. D. Shaw, at one time in charge of the Foxton district Presbyterian Church, has received and accepted a. call from the Te Awamutu Church. He is at present in Lumsden., A meeting of footballers will be held iu Mr Perreau’s rooms at 7.30 o’clock on Tuesday evening. As important business is to be transacted, a full attendance is requested.

Dr Davies, of Levin, will leave for England at the end of this month, partly for' a holiday and partly to attend the London Hospital, in Whitechapel road, E. The number of sheep and lambs slaughtered at the Waingawa Freezing Works for this season, up till the end of May, was 243,000. The total for the same period last year was 189,70 k). The next move to be taken to get possession of Foxton wharf for the Foxton Harbour' Board was discussed by the Palmerston Borough Council last evening. The meeting requested the Mayor to select two Concillors to accompany him on the deputation to the Minister.

The sale is repotted of the Flaxmi'l estate, of 30,000 acres, three miles from Dargaville, at a price in the vicinity of ,£60,000, from Mr B. E. Williams to Mr R. H. Abbott, of Auckland, who has formed a company to subdivide, road, and make it available for settlement.

Speaking of the coming session, the Hon. H. D. Bell said in Christchurch yesterday that he was preparing several measures which would be submitted to Parliament. One dealt with immigration and another with local government. The latter would be specially interesting to the general public, as it affected the peopled interest directly, but he could not at present discuss the proposals in public. Amongst some of the amusing stories at a smoke concert in Dannevirke, one told by a wellknown farmer in the locality was notable for its originality. One day a Territorial called at his bouse and engaged him in conversation for some minutes. “1 subsequently discovered," said the speaker, “ that while he so engaged me some of his mates made a raid on my fowl-house, and bagged the whole poultry run. In consideration of the farmer’s generosity in sayingnoth-. ing about the matter, the delinquents, on their return home, had their photograph taken ahd forwarded one to the farmer apparently to remind him of their happy visit. “It was very good and kind of them,” said the farmer, “and in order to show my deep appreciation ot their thoughtfulness and sportsmanlike action, I have had the photograph framed and hung it in the fowlhouse! ”

One Runanga youth who, having once been an anti-militarist, attended the recent military camp and became a convert to the Defence system, is experiencing a pretty unenviable lime at the hands ot some of the people in the State Collieries district (says a Greymouth correspondent). Wherever he goes vile epithets are hurled at him, the women and children being particularly prominent. It is said that some women even go the length to spitting on him. The feud with the supporters of the scheme is an old one at Runanga, where social gatherings have come to a sudden conclusion through the refusal of Territorials, who are looked upon with the same reprehension as a “ scab,” to leave when requested to do so. This condition of affairs is becoming so pronounced that the people who generally remain silent are getting disgusted and will yet act in a manner which will not only cause a revulsion of feeling against the malignant aotfe militarists, but will also be a trite disconcerting to those prosecuting: the present cruel campaign.

Speaking at the blessing of. a new Roman Catholic Church in New South Wales, Archiblshop Kelly said that trade unionists should work for the general good of the community. They should not try to lift themselves up by pulling others down. On the other baud, capitalists should not try to exalt themselves by taking the life-blood out of labour. “I stand,” said Archbishop Kelly, “with labour and the worker against all oppression, Workefa would be depraved if they followed badly-governed unions. Suppose the case of a corn merchant, who sought to develop his business, and saw the prospect of a good haul by chartering a ship. Ordinarily it would take five dr six days to load the ship. Some ot the workers delayed the loading by demanding, say, izsdd a day extra, with the strike altemar tive. If the demand is refused the merchant is a heavy loser, and!, if it is conceded what will become of the extra pay ? Will the women or the family get it ?Nd will be spent in public-houses.” -That was Archbishop Kelly’s experience of what happened in Ireland.

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