LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1127, 31 July 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Peter Peterson, seventy years of age, who was employed as a messenger at the Porirua Mental Hospital, was found hanging by his neck in the grounds near the hospital on Tuesday morning. The latest figures regarding the world’s tea-drinkers show that the yearly consumption in Britain totals 295,000,0001 b, in Russia 147.000. in the United States 83,000,0001 b, in Canada 34.000. in Australia 29,000,ooolb, in Holland i2,000,0001b, in Germany 9,000,0001 b, and in New Zealand and Africa 7,000,0001 b. To find the child smoker to-day one should go to Holland (says a London paper ). To the English visitor the parental sanction of such indulgence is one of the most striking features of Dutch life. And it is not the frivolous cigarette that is popular in the nursery. One sees the family cut for its Walk, and the boy of eight walks sedately at his mother’s side pulling at a cigar every bit as big as father’s.

The Smallpox scare is providing a little fun in some parts. From a private letter received from the King Country, it appears that at one boardinghouse (40 boarders of mixed sexes) a notice is attached to the bathroom door, “No one allowed a bath unless vaccinated ; ring for the manager.’’ At a school (not in Foxton) there is a large smile on the faces of the schoolboys. The headmaster’s “cane” arm has been vaccinated, and it has affected his fingers as well!

The robbing of orphans is an offence that even the bloodthirsty pirates of Penzance discountenanced, What will we say, then (asked the Dunedin Star), of a person who would rob orphans ? There is such a person in or about Dunedin. He got into the vestibule of the Hall wherein the Dunedin Orphans’ Club were enjoying themselves, and made off with six hats, an overcoat and a pair of gloves. So the orphans say. They at first thought it a joke, but the matter is now in the hands of the police.

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. But she qualified it thuswise, That she’d marry him for sure; Unless your cold has been repaired, With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 3

Wanted—The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. de Luen, tailor, of Palmerston North, will call on anyone with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4S, Suits from £a 10s.*

For a pound of butter or a ton ol cement, try Thomas Rimmer.*

Th statement that King George is to visit Australia and New Zealand is authoritatively denied. A fire in the city of Mexico this week has destroyed 22,000 bales of hemp, valued at ,£IOO,OOO. The gold medal presented by Mr Hornblow to the Pahiatua Competitions Society, for most points in the ladies elocutionary section, was wen by Miss 1,. Brown. The butchers of Waipawa, Waipukurau and Otane have decided, lor sanitary and other reasons, to stop hawking meat as from August Ist. Meat will only be delivered in future to order.

Cr Chrystall has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Borough Council that a municipal coal depot be opened, to be run in connection with the borough gas works, to sell coal strictly for cash only.

The funeral of the late Mr Edward Page took place on Tuesday afternoon. A short service was held in All Saints’ Church by the Rev. G. Y. Woodward, who also officiated at the graveside. The local Druids’ Dodge, of which the deceased was a member, was well represented and the Druids funeral service was read at the graveside by A.D. Bro. Barber.

Cr Coley mentioned at last night’s Council meeting that when the sandhill in Union. Street is removed, and the fence erected, it will create a particularly sharp and dangeraus corner, and offered to put the fence back some distance provided the Council would put a motion on the minute book to the effect that he should be allowed to again erect the fence in its correct position should he find it necessary to do so. —It was decided on the motion of the Mayor, seconded by Cr Chrystall, that Mr G. Coley’s offer to allow the fence line to be put back a distance to be arranged be accepted without prejudice, he to have the right at a future period to call upon the Council to re-erect it on its old line.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand recently received a letter from Mr J. Sellar, who, it is understood, complained that the British press was not giving him the scope he desired, and, further, that his reply to Mr Mackenzie’s letter in the Daily News was not published. The High .Commissioner wrote to Mr Sellar, and in the course of his letter he said : “So far as we are concerned, you may use the public press as much as you like. We are getting as many.people of grit and stamina as we desire for our country ; and if your correspondence is to have any affect at all it will act in the direction of keeping away the very class we do not desire to have, and leave room for those whom New Zealand wishes to add to its permanent population. If people do not think the country is good enough to fight for, let them stay away.” At an early hour on Tuesday morning a married woman, Florence Kate Eggers, who lived in Ponsonby, was found in the kitchen of her residence with her throat cut. Her husband was aroused about 5.30 a.m. by sounds in the kitchen, and went there to find his wife lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from a deep wound in her throat, beside her being a razor. He went and summoned a constable and Dr Keith. The latter found that though the j gash across the woman’s throat was a severe one, it was not sufficiently deep to have injured the throat* and after dressing the wound he had the patient taken to the hospital. The following letter from a correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury will probably be read with interest just now; “I am willing to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of smallpox cannot be cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure aud failing remedy ; one ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in boiling water, to be drunk, when cold, at short intervals. It can be taken at any time. It is known to have cured 100,000 cases without failure. I have myself restored hundreds by this means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents tedious lingering. If people would only try it and report all cures to you, you would require many columns if you gave them publicity. The cream of tartar remedy is mentioned in Dr. Chase’s well-known medical work as being most efficacious in curing smallpox. It is stated that it was used with entire success in thousands of cases iu the American army.” Owing to a local scarcity offish, Mr M. Perreau has made arrangements with the Napier Trawling Go. lor regular supplies of fish, notifies that fish suppers at Per reau’s Buffet will in future be a speciality. * 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 lid. Others at equally low prices. The whole of their stock of furs to be cleared regardless of usual prices. See advt. on page 3-*

For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, l/6, 2/6.