LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For any requirements whatever ring up Thomas Rimmer, the cheapest house in town.* There was a record attendance at the local municipal pictures on Saturday night, 723 person paying for admission.

In response to an advertisement a number of ladies attended a meeting in Mr Walls’ rooms on Saturday afternoon to discuss preliminaries in connection with the proposed benedicts ball. Mrs Seabury occupied the chair and explained what had been done and the affair promises to be a successful social function. The Education Board has decided to prohibit the attendance at the schools in the district of ail Maori children, or children living with Maoris, until they produce certificates to show that they have been recently vaccinated. The committee and headteacher of the of the local school have been .instructed to see that the Board’s decision is given effect to. Our customers give us a trial and remain permanently there’s a reason. Walker and Furrie.*

Mrs Christina Callendar, a .recent arrival from New Zealand, was drowned at , Thirroul, near Sydney, where she was staying with a companion. The latter, visiting her bedroom in. the morning, found Mrs Callender missing. The body was discovered on the beach.. Deceased was described as of eccentric habits'., An open verdict was returned. '

A black-edged postcard, addressed in red ink “I the Magistrates and Detectives of Auckland,” and sent from Guildford (Kngland), is regularly received by the chief detective at the end of July. This postcard, which is unsigned, has been coming for a good many successive years, and all it contains is the petition from the Ditany asking that magistrates may be given grace to execute justice and to maintain truth. ; Owing to a local scarcity offish, Mr M. Perreau has made arrangements with the Napier Trawling Co. lor regular supplies of fish, notifies that fish suppers at Per reau’s Buffet will in future be a speciality.* The night porter at a big hotel was astonished to see the figure of a man, scantily dressed, descending the stairs in the early hours of the morning. Tapping him on the shoulder, the porter said, brusquely: “ What are you doing here ?” The man turned and said, in a dazed way: I beg your pardon. I am a somnambulist.” “ Well, sir, you can’t walk about here like that, no matter what your religion is.”

At the Dominion Dairy Show held recently in Hawera, two pupils of the local State school gained prizes for essays on school gardens soil. Baden Barnett secured first prize (a framed diploma and xos 6d), Hope Mackie second (framed diploma). At the dairy show in Palmerston, the second prize for essays on a division of the show —open for schools within a radius of 50 miles of Palmerston North —was won by Arthur Thompson of the local school.

No home should be without the famous Roslyn writing pad, 10 sheets. Pretty picture of New Zealand’s wonderland on the cover. Only 6d and is each from all dealers Ask. for it.*

“ If the smallpox breaks out in Taranaki,” said a medico recently, “it will not spread as in most places.” He explained that this was because a large proportion of the population were engaged in the dairy industry. People coming in close contact with cows became inoculated with smallpox resisting microbes, and for that reason it was a rare thing for a dairyman to be affected by the dreaded disease.

A man of many friends invited four hundred intimates to attend his funeral when he died. The time be fixed for the interment was 8 a.m. Twenty-nine attended, and these were not a little pleased to discover later that the deceased had willed to each lady who attended his funeral ,£340, and to each gentleman .£2OO. The remaining 371 friends are still engaged in reflecting upon the perversity of their departed friend, but fall to appreciate the humour.

It has been estimated that the costs in the great Scott will case, in which ,£1,000,000 was at stake, which ended in favour of Lady Sackville, amounted to ,£25,000. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., Lady Sackville’s leading counsel, received a - retaining lee of 2000 guineas, with a daily fee of 210 guineas. Mr F. E. Smith, K.C., leading counsel for Mr Malcolm Scott, was paid a retaining fee of 1 575 guineas and a daily refresher *57 guineas.

A well-known South Canterbury farmer “fell in” rather badly over the sale of his lambs this year. He sold them as soon as lambing was over, for delivery in January, the price to be paid by the buyer being 12s 6d each. By the time the .date of delivery came round, lambs had gone up considerably. With the result that on the day the buyer took delivery of the lambs at 12s 6d, he resold them for 173 6d. The profit of 5s per head netted him a dear ,£SOO. The lad he loved her dearly, For she billed and cooed so sweetly; And she promised he should have her, In the happy days to be. Blit she qualified it thuswise, That she’d marry him for sure; Unless your cold has been repaired, With Woods;’ Great Peppermint Cure. 3

We sell everything under e. guarantee ; if it’s not satisfactory return it. Walker and Furrie *

George Broderick Corner, a Wellington chemist, accidently and fatally shot himself at Tittle Rakaia on Saturday.

Messrs P. J. Hennessy (chairman), aud J. A. Nash, of the Foxton Harbour Board, left today to attend the Harbour Boards’ coherence in Wellington.

The majority of the Maoris in this district have now been vaccinated and with very few exceptions the operation has been entirely satislactory, only in one or two cases has the vaccine been ineffective.

Joseph Martin Chapman, warder at the Sunnyside Mental Hospital, aged 36, has been arrested on a charge of having murdered Charles Thomas McMeekin, an inmate ot the institution. Chapman’s arrest has created a sensation.

Dr. Paton declares that the smallpox has taken a decided turn for the worse in Sydney. Saturday’s cases show that it is becoming more virulent. Vaccination is the only safeguard. He appeals to all to undergo the operation. Everyone uuvaccinated is a danger to himself aud a serious menace to the community.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, i/6, 2/6. Mr Roosevelt is said to have been asked by the President of Chiua to undertake the office ot councillor to the republic. “ With a view to restoring to Chiua liberty and progress consonant with the vital interests of the country.” American newspapers say that Mr Roosevelt has replied that he is willing to accept the post offered to him.

C, M. Ross and Co.’s Clean Sweep Sale still continues, and to-day they are quoting a line of Sealette Fur Sets at 5s I id. Others at equally low prices. The whole of their stock of furs to be cleared regardless of usual prices. See advt. on page 3-*

The event of the week has been, of course, the Grey by-election, of which so much has been'said and written that much more comment would be superfluous. Sir Arthur Guinness is succeeded by Mr “ Paddy ” Webb, and the “Great Liberal Party” which once dominated the West Coast,, and aspired to absorb the Labour Party, is now merely a joint in the tail of the Red Fed. organisation.—Christchurch News.

The Hon. J. Duthie has given notice to ask the Government, in the Legislative Council, whether in view of the 122 fires recorded in New Zealand during April last, and the regrettable excessive number usually occurring they will cause a coroner’s inquiry to be held into the circumstances of all future fires. Further, recognF sing that this abnormal excess of fires is suggestive of incendiarism, will the coroner be instructed to call upon the underwriters interested for evidence as to the value of the risk in question which they held covered ?

Perreau’s up-to-date tea room is a popular place for afternoon tea,*

A special meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board was held in tire Borough Council Chambers, Palmerston North, yesterday, and a report was .received from the Mayor as to the result of the deputation which waited on the Ministers in regard to the proposed acquisition of the Foxton wharf by the Board from the Railway Department. It was decided to prepare a petition to Parliament for the hearing of evidence before a committee of the House, and the chairman (Mr P. J, Hennessy) and the Mayor were empowered to take any further steps which are necessary on behalf of the Board.

Massaging the heart is a risky expedient, but it saved a man’s life a few days ago (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Sun). An appendicitis patient was being operated on in the Melbourne Hospital, and while under the anaesthetic he collapsed. The doctors resorted to the usual methods for the restoration of animation, but they were unsuccessful and it seemed as if nothing could be done. One surgeon, ' more daring than his colleagues, decided upon a bold course. He opened the man’s chest and inserting his finger gently massaged the heart until its pulse became stronger. The Wound was stitched and except for the effects of shock the patient doing well.

%-ERREAU’s assorted fruit pies are delicious. Try them.*

A medical inspector of schools recently bemoaned the decline in the consumption of porridge, says the Medical Press. “Nothing,” it says, “is more governed by fashion and custom than the choice ot food. Were porridge eating to come into fashion there would be no need to preach its virtues to any class of society, it would, in a trice, become popular as tea and tobacco from the humble cottage to the lordly palace. So far as eugenics are concerned, the general introduction of porridge one of the most valuable of foodstuffs would in a single generation do more to improve our race than a hundred years of popular agitation.” Why not begin, asks our contemporary, with the school children ?

Thomas Rimmer has a good sample of Early Seed Potatoes. Have a look at them before buying elsewhere.*

For a pound of butter or a ton ot cement, try Thomas Riramer.* The dancing assemblies in the Royal will in luture be held on Tuesday evening instead of Tfaurs-, day. -S

From enquiries made to-day we learn that the condition of Mrs Frankland, who is an inmate of a private hospital in Palmerston N., remains much about the same. “ The honourable gentleman threw the apple of discord right on to the floor of the House, ’* said Mr G. W. Russell in the House of Representatives, alluding to the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher. “And yon got the pip,” was the instant rejoiner of that Minister.