LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1134, 16 August 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For any requirements whatever ring up Thomas Rimmer, the cheapest house in town * The services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be at 8 a.m., ii a.m. and 7 p.m. The meeting ot the Moutou Drainage Board to have been held on Thursday evening, lapsed for the want of a quorum.

Mr J. H. Brooks will take up relieving duty at the local school on Monday next, vice Mr Taylor, transferred to Bulls. The secretary of the District Hospital acknowledges with thauks ios from Mr W. E. Barber (6s of which was from Mr T. Bowe’s collection box).

At the local police court this morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., John Spelraan was fined £i tor drunkenness in default 48 hours.

We sell everything under a guarantee; if it’s not satisfactory return jt. Walker and Furrie* A mass meeting, of the Mauawatu Flaxmill Employees Union will be held in the Masonic Halon Monday evening at 7.3° o’clock, when important business will be transacted.

The services iu the local Catholic Church to-morrovy will be : Mass 8.30, conducted by the Rev. Father Dore. Services will be conducted at Shannon at u a.m. and 7 p.m.

Two business people have promised to donate the cost of two uniforms to the band. The secretary informs us that he will be pleased to receive any furtter donations towards the uniform fund.

A 14ft. boat was washed ashore at the mouth of the Hokio stream, near Levin. Nothing is known in the vicinity of any missing boat. Feilding Borough Council has decided to take a poll on a loan proposal of £IO,OOO for borough electric lighting. On the fourth page of this issue will be found the reports read at the annual Presbyterian congregational meeting held on Wednesday evening last; also “News and Notes.”

For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6.

The annual Archidiaconal visitation will take place in All Saints’ parish on October 14th. On the evening of that day there will be a social evening in order that parishioners may meet the Archdeacon.

The following are the percentages of attendances at the local State School for this week : Standard VI., 97 '8 per cent; Sf IV., 967 ; St. V. 96'6; Primer 111., 94'4 ; St. HI., 931 ; St. 11., 93 ; St. 1., 92 ; Primer 11., 88 2 ; Primer 1., 96'2.

At a meeting of the works committee of the Borough Council held yesterday morning, it was decided to recommend that three inches of metal be put on the footpath recently formed in the Avenue and to tar same when the metalling is completed. 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 Perreau’s Buffet will in future be a speciality.* William Edward Arthur Clemens and Elizabeth Ireland were charged at the Dannevirke S.M. Court on Thursday with the attempted murder of Frederick Charles Ireland. Both accused were committed for trial. Bail was refused.

The Borough Baud will play a programme of music in Main Street, weather permitting, this evening, when a collection will be taken up in aid of the band uniform lund, A special selection, “Gospel Trumpet,” by Linter, will be played in front of the Town Hall.

The attention of those interested in elocution is drawn to the notice in our advertising columns, re the Palmerston North Technical School Annual Elocutionary Competitions. The competitions take place in September, and entries close August 30th. Books of words may be had on application to the Director, Mr F. D. Opie. 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.*

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 H, Billens in the evening. “ Hill Difficulty and the Lions in the Way ” form the interesting portion for the children in the morning. The RevJ. M. Thomson conducts the afternoon service at Rangiotu and the evening service at Oroua Downs.

It is reported that Sir Joseph Ward will not accept the leadership of the Opposition unless in taking it he is promised the loyal and undivided support of the party. The trouble appears to be that while a dominant section of the party regard Sir Joseph Ward as their proper leader, there is a smaller section of members who are opposed to his election.

The most attractive shop tor toys of every description is Mrs Hamer s, Have you seen the window dis play ?*

Count Zeppelin and his technical staff at Friedrichshafen are convinced that a modern dirigible can cross the Atlantic, and it is probable that a voyage from Germany to New York will be undertaken this summer. Great improvements have been made recently in the Zeppelin type of airship, both as regards speed and stability. Count Zeppelin believes that the voyage would, in the event of good weather, last not more than three days. He has been in communication with the German Government, who are disposed to regard his plan favourably. In the event of the voyage being made, several German warships will be stationed in the Atlantic to render assistance if necessary.

The mission services now being conducted in the Methodist Church by the Rev. J. J* Lewis, will be continued to-morrow. The subject at the morning service will be “Weighed and Found Wanting.” In the afternoon at 3 o’clock a special service for young men and women will be held, when the subject dealt with will be “The Gospel appeal to the Young.” A hearty invitation to attend this service is extended to all. At the evening service the missiouer will deal with the subject “ The World Transforming Sight.” Large attendances are expected throughout the day. Mr Lewis is a forceful and eloquent preacher, and much good is being accomplished as the result of these special services. Sankey’s hymns will Le used at all services- Come and bring a friend with you.*

If you’re living in the country, If you’re living in the town; Or if you’ve got just eighteen pence, Or even half-a-crown; For if you have, and winter’s chill, Attacks you till you’re very ill; That little “stocking” will procure, A bottle of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 2

At Mangaweka, yesterday, C. J. Bolstad was fined £2O and costs for practising as a land agent unlicensed.

The main drain recently completed by the Moutoa Drainage Board at c. cost ol something over £6,000, is proving of great value to the ratepayers concerned. Members of the Board have told Mr T. Ward, the engineer under whose supervision the work was carried out, that since the completion of the drain the flood and surface water, which had always been a source of trouble tb the property owners, got away very quickly.

Speaking in the House of Representatives on Thursday night, in the financial debate, Mr A. M. Myers, Auckland, said that for bis part he would sooner go out of Parliament than not associate himself with the remarks made by the Minister for Defence on the question of national service. He would still make the same remarks before a crowd of West Coasters, and he would not consider himself a loyal subject of the King if he withdrew one word of what He had said in favour of national service. He admitted that it would be traitorous to treat naval defence as a party matter, but he suggested that the Minister should take the House into his confidence to some extent by the setting rip of a Defence Committee, to which the Leader of the Opposition could be admitted.