LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1124, 22 July 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Nominations for stewards of the Foxtou Racing Club will be received by the secretary up to Friday, the 25th iust. The recent warm rains brought down a flood in the Mauawatu, which is now running very high. A howling westerly gale blew all day yesterday and last night. The following are the percentages of attendances at the local State school for last week: — Primer 1., 78.7 per cent. ; Primer 11., 80.5; Primer 111., 93.7; St. 1., 95 ; St. 11., 92.7 ; St. 111., 91.4 ; St. IV., 93.2 ; St. V., 95; St. VI., 97.

Professor Braemar concluded a two nights performance, in conjunction with Hayward’s Pictures, at the Royal last night before a fair audience. The hypnotic subjects went through a number of imaginary performances, to the great amusement of the audience. The police have not yet been able to find a clue to the burglary at the Cash Trading store. A number of petty thefts have also been reported, not the least of which was a quantity of wall paper stolen from a building iu the course of erection.

It is anticipated that the Police Force Bill will give rise to a considerable discussion, as the debate will open the way to further criticism of the action ot the Government in connection with the Waihi strike, the Police Association and the transfer of constables who took a prominent part iu connection with the formation of the Association irom Auckland to other parts of the Dominion.

On Saturday the arrivals at the local port were, Waverley, from Terakohe, with cement, Kapiti, from Puponga, with coal, and Moa, from Westport, with coal. The Waverley sailed at 8 o’clock the same evening for Nelson, the Queen of the South at 10 o’clock for Wellington, and the Moa at r 0.30 for Westport. The Kapiti sailed at xo o’clock on Sunday morning for Puponga, and the Awahou, with coal from Westport, arrived at 10.45 o’clock on Sunday morning. The Kaitoa arrived outside the bar this morning, but was unable to cross on account ot the heavy swell, and was ordered on to Wanganui.

In the course of his speech in the House last week Mr Mander referred to the Waihi strike and its termination in unequivocal terms. “ Had it not been for the firm hand the Government used and the generalship of the Minister and Commissioner of Police there would have been much more trouble at Waihi,” declared the member for Matsden. “I am perfectly satisfied,” he went on, “ that it was one of the best things that ever happened in this country—the settling of the Waihi strike. The Government settled it. It was a strike not between capital and labour but between two sections ot the working party, and it says much for the arbitrationsits that they stood the strain of persecution so manfully for those four or five months. It would be a good thing for the country if the inflammatory language of foreign agitators was put down by Act of Parliament.”

PERREAu’sdate scones are a very popular dish for afternoon tea. Fresh daily*

The schools under the jurisdiction of the Wanganui Education Board, will be closed for the term holidays on Sept. ist. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers to-night at 7,30 p.m. Business: To strike rates and general. A five-roomed house at Terrace End was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. It was the property of Mr H, Robinson. Douglas Watt, aged 36 years, a well-known horse trainer and cross country rider, suicided at Hastings on Friday night. A man named Richard Hamlin Gidley fatally shot himself with a revolver at the Family Hotel, Palmerston, on Saturday night. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned. At the Devin competitions, Miss D. Signal, of Foxtou, won the contralto solo test as well as second prize in the sacred solo class. We congratulate this young lady on her success, and hope she will enter for honours further afield.

Father Bernard Vaughan told a good story at Liverpool last month. He said that while in Paris a Suffragette rushed at him screaming, “ Tell Bobs the Army will never be right till you give women more liberty.” “ Tell mothers,” replied Father Vaughan, “that the Army will never be right till they give us more inlant’ry.” A salutary fine was inflicted upon Alfred Coy, a Shannon resident, at the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday for using obscene language in a public place. The accused was fined £2O and costs, his Worship adding that only for the fact that he had not been before the Court previously he would have been sent to gaol. A very good story, which caused much laughter, was told by Mr E. C. Brownell, the newly-ap-pointed secretary of the Christchurch Y.M.C.A., at his public reception. A little girl, he said, asked her mother if there were any men in Heaven. “Why?” asked the mother. “Because,” replied the little daughter, “in all the pictures of angels I have looked at, I have never seen one with whiskers.” The mother paused for a moment, and then replied: “There are men in Heaven, but none with whiskers ; they can only get there by a close shave.”

East Saturday the Foxton State School boys journed to Palmerston N. to try conclusions with the Terrace End School in a game of football. Foxton, playing with excellent combination, defeated their opponents by 30 points to nil. Tries were scored by Wm. Kruse (4), Walter Walker (2), Robert Andrews, Maurice Robinson, William Langley, Clarence Coley. Mr Thompson, first assistant Terrace End School, refereed. The visitors were hospitably entertained, and spent a most enjoyable cay. Mathematicians hard up for new problems on the theory of probabilities might tackle one suggested by a letter in the “ English Mechanic,” In 1880 the writer tried a new steel name punch on a penny. In the ordinary course he paid the penny away and forgot all about it. That was in the North of England. Twenty years later his son, then in business in London, received the same penny as part of his change in one of Lyson’s tea-shops.

At about ten o’clock on Saturday night, a man named J. B Love, cook on the Kapiti, while stepping from the vessel to the wharf missed his footing and fell into the water, striking his back on one of the stringers of the wharf. He was got on board again and medical aid summoned, and it was found that he had sustained three broken ribs and injuries to his kidneys. He was removed to the Palmerston Hospital yesterday.

The new premises in Moutoa Building, occupied by Mr J. Walls, baker and confectioner, are most up-to-date in every particular. The tearoom is large and the appointments in same have been fitted up with a view to the comfort of patrons, and portion of it has been screened off as a semi-private tearoom for the use of ladies and parties. Upstairs there are lavatories for the convenience of the public. The premises are very convenient, the shop, tearoom, kitchen and bakehouse being on the ground floor, and the living rooms and store rooms are upstairs. Mr Walls is now in a position to cater for any kind of social function and his diningroom is large enough to accommodate a very large dinner party. The Foxton School boys who visited Palmerston N. on Saturday last, were somewhat disheartened as the train left the station to find that their captain, Arthur Thompson, had not putin an appearance. Just as the boys were about to take the field at 11.30, Thomson came upon the scene. The lad (who by the way has a considerable amount of work to do before he can leave home in the morning) had arrived at the station to find the train under way. Rather than disappoint his schoolmates he borrowed a bicycle, and made the somewhat strenuous trip to Palmerston N. by this means. Needless to say the boy’s sports-man-like action greatly pleased his schoolmates and teachers, —Well done, Thompson !

Right prices, .good goods and prompt delivery have made our store what it is. Walker and Furrie.*

Tenders close on Thursday for the erection of a dwelling in Thynne Street.

The N.Z.S. Co’s Ruahine arrived at Wellington at 9 o’clock this morning from London. It is anticipated that the Financial Statement will be delivered in the House next week. The Chief Health Officer wires us to-day that there are tremendous demands on lymph, and that he will send a local supply as soon as possible. The Mayor also looked into the matter while in Wellington yesterday.

At the land ballot at Fabiatua on Friday for sections in the Mangataiuoka Block, section number 20, 48 acres 2 roods, for which there were 143 applicants, was drawn by Mrs Eleanor B. Bryant, of Foxton, and F. S. K. Broad, until some little time ago a farmer at Moutoa, v/as successful out of 68 applicants for section number i4t, 65 acres.