LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1131, 9 August 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The services iu All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be at 8 a.m., ii a.m. and 7 p.m.

Mr Brown’s Education Amendment Bill, a private measure, was talked out In the House on Thursday. Messrs Suggate and Metcalf, civil engineers, visited Foxton this week iu connection with the proposed Shannon water scheme estimate.

The name of Miss Duncan, as Vice-President of the Presbyterian Ladies Guild, was inadvertently omitted from the list of officers published in our last issue.

The friends of Mrs F. W. Franklaud, of Foxton, who has been very ill in a private hospital in Palmerston, will be pleased to hear that she is well on the road to recovery.

Last night’s Bowling Club euchre party and dance was voted the most successful social function held so lar this year, which reflects great credit upon the energetic committee responsible for the details. The services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be conducted to-morrow by the Rev T. Coatsworth. The morning subject will be, “A Revival,” and the evening subject, ‘‘Christ’s Invitation Accepted.” A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all.

Cyril Mackay, a reporter on the Patea Press, and a male companion were visiting the Waverley Domain on Wednesday night. A shot was fired and the companion fled. Mackay was caught by two men, who, alter gagging him, bound him with rope, left him on the ground, and then decamped. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the minister, Rev J. M. Thomson, M.A., in the morning, and by Mr E. H. Crabb, of Palmerston North, in the evening. The children’s portion will be continued as usual in the morning from “Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.”

Th: local school committee have spent a large sum of money in levelling portions of the playground, and a contract to complete the work has been let to Mr Just. When the work is finished the ground will be an ideal area for all classes of athletic games. So lav the committee has not called upon the Board for a grant in aid of this work.

Adjutant Carmachiel delivered a very interesting lecture in the Masonic Hall on Thursday night on the life of the late General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. The lecture was illustrated with appropriate lantern slides and interspersed with suitable hymns. The lecture was much appreciated and should prove stimulating 4o members of the army. An evangelistic mission will be held in the local Methodist Church during the next few days. The missioner will be the Rev J. J. Lewis, ot Petone. The visiting minister is au enthusiastic evangelist and one of the best preachers in connection with New Zealand Methodism. Much good is expected to be accomplished by the mission. An invitation to these services is earnestly extended to all. The meetings will commence each evening next week at 7.30.

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

Mr G. H. Stiles announces in a replace advt. on our leader page, that he has extended his winter sale for another 14 days. All goods are marked at half-sale prices, and these 14 days will be the biggest and busiest of the sale, so anyone who requires tip-top bargains should not fail to visit this well-known establishment. *

Whitebait is making its appearance in the river and already some fair nettings are recorded. A cribbage tournament between teams from the local Oddfellows and Druids Lodges, will be held on Tuesday evening next.

The services in the local Catholic Church to-morrow will be conducted at n a.tn. and 7 p.m. by the Rev. Father Dore. Mass will also be celebrated at 8.30 a.m. at Shannon.

There was nearly a riot at Hurunui Orangi pa at Gladstone on Thursday, when the Natives objected to a post-mortem examination of the body of Pita Kawana, who died suddenly on Tuesday night. There were two factions, one willing to allow the examination, and the other against. Finally the counsels of Purakau Maika and Ngatuere prevailed, and after a meeting lasting three hours it was decided to allow the post-mortem examination to proceed.

The Federation of Labour has ssued a balance-sheet of the receipts and expenditure in connection with the Waihi strike, from which it appears that the total amount subscribed was £35.964- Of that, £22,770 was spent in Waihi strike pay ; salaries, expenses, and allowances to officials and organisers totalled £1579; and the balance in hand (£4244) was handed over to the general fund. A young man named Sydney Oscar Thomas was admitted to probation and ordered to pay £5 towards the cost of prosecution for theft of a postal package at Woodville. Accused, a post office employee, had out of curiosity, 1 opened a parcel containing pigs’ tusks. Finding that he could not put the tusks back into the package he placed them in his pocket, intending to get rid of them. The tusks were valued at from is 6d to 2s.

During July 2681 persons arrived in the Dominion from overseas, and 1847 took their departure, as compared with 2483 arrivals and 2643 departures in July ot 1912. The estimated population (exclusive of Maoris) at the end of June was 1,065,718. and the estimated total population was 1,1 iS, 160. The net increase for the June quarter was 3970. The excess of births over deaths was 4376, and the excess of departures over arrivals was 397.

Mr Wilford M.P. stated in the House recently that bookmakers made their living by “ double ” betting and not by single betting. If a “double” totalisator were put on the racecourse the bookmakers’ occupation would be gone. Mr Wilford added that the “double” machine had been done away with because outsiders who knew nothing about it thought that it increased betting. Instead it had curtailed betting. He believed that the racing clubs had done away with the “ double ” machine in order to get more revenue.

The motor lorry is now being used to convey loads ot furniture etc., to Palmerston from Wellington. It takes only a few hours to make the journey, and the goods are delivered right to the door without the delay of transhipment at either end of the journey. The time may not be far distant says our Palmerston morning contemporary when firms in this town may find it to their advantage to utilise this form of conveyance, and if the Foxton Harbour is improved it would certainly be more advantageous to have a motor lorry service to Palmerston than to suffer the delays of the railway. Hon. T. Mackenzie, New Zealand High Commissioner,'in a spirited letter to sixty-eight newspapers, replied to letters warning immigrants. He recalled the fact that the defence scheme was approved at three elections. New Zealand was not far from Asia, whence trouble may come. It was improper to rely on Britain for an emergency. More immigrants were applying than could be taken, and New Zealand would be well rid of immigrants who created disturbances and were without the manliness to help in defending the women and children.

A remarkable case of ambidexterity has been brought under the notice of the South Australian education authorities, who have reproduced in the July number ot the Education Gazette, issued in that State, two specimens of handwriting by a little girl who is a pupil at the North Adelaide public school. The girl is left-handed, and has developed the power to write with her left hand to such a degree that she can produce work equal to the best done in the public schools. She can do more than that, for she can write with the right hand as creditably as with the left. Recently when one of the masters asked her to try with the right hand she astounded him by taking a pen in each hand and writing two copies of dictation simultaneously. The formatiou of the letters was almost identical in the two copies, and the specimen is one ot the best examples of the value of ambidexterity it would be possible to point to.

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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 any requirements whatever ring up Thomas Rimraer, the cheapest house In town.*

A match has been arranged by the secretary of the Horowhenua Rugby Uunion between Marlborough and Horowhenua which will take place at Levin, on Wednesday, 20th August. Wilfred Edward Harper, the young man who was arrested at Lyttelton in connection with the shooting of Acting-Detective Carney, was committed for trial at \

Christchurch yesterday. The football match between a team representating the Druids’ Lodge and the Foxton juniors to have taken place this afternoon, has been postponed until next Saturday, on account of a difficulty in getting the teams together. The Kennedy arrived from Greymouth yesterday at 1.30 a.m. and sailed last night for Terakohe. The Queen sailed at midnight on Thursday for Wellington and is expected with a general cargo on Monday. The Greytown borough gas works have 169 meters in use. Last month 321,000 cubic feet of gas was manufactured. The receipts for the month were £l2l 9s 7d and expenditure including interest and sinking fund £94 17s 6d, leaving a credit balance of £26 I2S id.

At Wellington on Thursday the body of John Bentley, an old age pensioner, was found floating in the harbour. The deceased’s coat, hat, and walkingstick were on the wharf, and in the coat pocket was an envelope, on which was pen-

cilled : “Good-bye. . . . No flowers nor black.”

Last week of the great clean sweep sale at C. M. Ross and Co., The Bon Marche, Palmerston N. Magnificent lot of bargains for final days. See great window display.*

A “Warner’s” is the most economical corset a woman can wear —it can be kept sweet and fresh by washing. We guarantee Warner’s to wear well and not rust, break or tear. Local drapers.* Be fair to your corns —order “Antoor” the perfect safety corn shaver, from your local dealer to-day. Only 2s 6d. Immediate comfort guaranteed or your money back.*