LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1141, 2 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics for Foxton for the month of August were : Births i2, deaths 3, marriages i.

Another of the series of dances under the auspices of the United Workers Committee will be held in the Coronation Hall on Friday evening next. The usual monthly meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday next, Bth inst., at 7.30 p.m. Business : General. Sam Fangford meets Jack Johnson in. Paris on December 20th in ; a twenty-rounds contest, to be staged in the Cirque de Paris. .

The Rev. G. K. Aitken, erstwhile Presbyterian minister at Foxton, has been re-elected President of the Methven Bowling Club. <

“ You appeared to have been very restless on the night of this fire ?” asked counsel in a Uihtkoroa fire case of a farmer witness. P Yes, I had occasion to be,” affirmed the latter, “ because I had that day lost three bob a head ou a line of sheep !” “Yon hold this Dominion, which is tremendously great in opportunities,” said Mr Will Crooks at the Parliamentary reception. “You own it lor posterity. If yon hold it, soley with the object of £ s d not only the generations of to-day but the generations to come will curse yon. If yon hold it with the single view of elevating and striving and struggling to leave the world a little better than yon louud it, generations unborn will bless you.”

We call for orders and deliver the goods. Best quality goods at lowest prices in town. Try us for a mouth and be convinced. T. Rimmer.*

Perreau’s assorted fruit pies are delicious. Try them.* 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.*

The tea rooms at the Bulb Show on Thursday next will be In charge of Mrs F. Woods.

The Town Clerk notifies that the skating rink will be discontinued as from this date.

The return cribbage tournament between teams representing the local Druids and Oddfellows Dodges will be held to-night, . Entries for the Bulb Show close with the Secretary at 10 o’clock to-night. ,• Date, entries will be received on payment of extra fee up to morning of the show. The Secretary of the local Horticultural Society informs us that entries for Thursday’s Bulb Show are coming in very freely, including a number from outdistricts.

Boys are reminded that now is the time to secure birds’ eggs. The local Horticultural Society is offering 3d per dozen for collections of blackbird, thrush and sparrows’ eggs at the forthcoming Spring Show. In the Divorce Court, Wellington, on Friday, a decree nisi was granted in the Shannon case, Alice May Dailey v. William Nicholas Dailey. The application was made on the grounds ot desertion and misconduct.

A successful aeroplane flight of about a mile was made ou Saturday afternoon at Avondale by a machine owned by an Auckland syndicate. The flight was made at an altitude of about 130(1., and after about a mile had been covered tne biplane, which is ot the Farmau type, came to earth without a mishap. The Wellington correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle says that the branch railway line to Raetihi is to be proceeded with immediately; also that another traffic manager is to be placed in charge ot a new district* between Hamilton and Martou, and will, it is understood, reside at Obakune.

Detectives state that many infants ate murdered in and around Melbourne every year, but in no one case out of a hundred is the culprit discovered. No clue is ever left. The last occasion when a woman was arrested after strangling and abandoning her child was in 1908. The fact that the child had been vaccinated enabled the detective to trace the mother.

After a hearing at Auckland extending over four days, the divorce suit, Wm. Henry Paterson v. Mabel Kathleen Paterson and Gustav Kronfeld, co-respondent, concluded, before His Honour Judge Edwards and a jury of 12, on Friday. The jury, alter a retirement of about an hour and a half, brought in an unanimous verdict for the respondent. The petition was accordingly dismissed, and an order was made against the petitioner for costs.

There are persistent rumours that F. J. Virgin, wanted in connection with the Kaimata tragedy, has been seen alive in Taranaki’s hinterlands. East week Dannevirke had a small sensation of its own in the same connection. A man closely resembling the description of Virgin was seen, but police activity soon ran the matter to a dead end. It was an innocent stranger who had been wrongly suspected. The relatives of Virgin offer a reward of ,£SO to anybody who within one month from date finds his body or gives reliable information as to bis whereabouts. The death is announced from Dunedin of ex-judge D. C. R. Ward, at the age of 86. The deceased was a sou of Sir Henry Ward Tone time Governor ot Madras). He came to New Zealand in 1854 at >d was elected member for the House of Representatives in the folllowing year. In 1857 he was appointed chairman of the Court Sessions for the Wellington province and presiding Judge lor Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, and Wanganui. In later years he held numerous judicial positions, and was offered a permanent judgeship in the Supreme Court in 1897. He was for a time Chairman of the Railway- Board ot Appeal for the South Island, Mr Will Crooks, M. P., who was in Wellington with the British Parliamentary party, disputes the notion that England is decadent, remarking to a Dominion reporter: ‘'She is not decadent by many centuries yet, and the physique of Britons is as good as ever it was in spite of all that may be said to the contrary. Of course, you will Still find there the awful contrasts between wealth and extreme poverty, but that is not confined only to England. There is a general tendency he added, “to make a first class question ot everything that relates to the regulation of child labour, and that is due to the influence of the labour organisations and to the Intellectual improvement of the working classes as a whole.” There' had been such a revolution in English industrial life, he explained, that there was no comparison between what obtained now and fifteen years ago, the change being principally due to belter feeding, improved sanitation and better surroundings.

We sell everything under a guarantee ; it'it’s not satisfactory return it. Walker and Furrie.* For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/6. For any requirements whatever ring up Thomas Rimmer, the cheapest house in town.* 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.*

Every available seat, upstairs and down, in the Town Hall were occupied at Saturday night’s pic* ture entertainment. The pro gramme was much appreciated.

The Minister for Railways states that the running of the second Main Trunk express will probably be resumed on the Monday immediately following or preceding October ist.

At the Bulb Show to be held in the Masonic Hall on Thursday night, the Borough Band and Ebbett’s orchestra have kindly conseuted to play a number of selections at intervals.

No announcement as to the leadership of the Opposition has yet been made, and doubts are being expressed in some quarters as to whether Sir Joseph Ward after all will not decline the position.

Owing to pressure of Council work, Mr Kent-Johustou was reluctantly compelled to tender his resignation as secretary of the local Bowling Club at last night’s committee meeting. Mr Harvey was elected secretary and treasurer.

On our fourth page to-3ay will be found the following interesting reading matter: “ How we Reached the Frozen Dand,” “The Dast Murphy,” “Heart-eating Society,” “ The Yellow Peril,’ “Harry Dander,” and “America’s Surgical Marvels.”

Commissioner Richards, in charge of the Salvation Army operations in New Zealand, will visit Foxton on Monday next and will be entertained at a welcome tea in the Masonic Hall at 6 p.m. to be followed by a public meeting at 8 p.m. At 3 p.m. in the Council Chambers, he will be accorded a civic welcome by the Mayor and Councillors.

The Land and Labour Bill will probably be introduced this week. A number of important reports will also probably be brought down, including those of the Land and Labour Departments and the first report of the Public Service Commissioners.

A committee meeting . of the local Bowling Club was held last night. Messrs Rimmer, Petrie, D. Whibley and Harvey were appointed a ground committee and Messrs Stunnel, Witchell and Rimmer handicappers. A vote of thanks was accorded to Messrs Hopper and McColl for donation of a trophy. A Times-Sydney Sun cable states that the Japanese Review took a plebiscite of ladies on the question of an ideal husband. The majority described the principal qualities as unmiserly, manly appearance, does not put his face inside the kitchen, does not criticise bis wife's bats* does not drink heavily, and is not fat nor jealous. The duties of a postmaster are known to be of a varied nature (says the Mataura but it is seldom, however, that he is asked to fill the role of fishmonger. The postmaster at Mataura received a letter the other day from a Maori lady at Rangiora with £1 enclosed, for which she desired a sack of kana-kana to be forwarded.

The Queen of the South with a general cargo from Wellington arrived at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, and sailed at 11 o’clock this morning for the same. port. The Waverley with coal from Westport arrived at 10.30 yesterday morning, and sailed at ro o’clock this morning for Havelock to load timber for Foxton. The Awahou also arrived at half past ten yesterday morning from Greymouth via Wanganui, and is due to sail to-night for Greymouth. The Kennedy with coal from Westport is due to-morrow. A travelling photographer called at a butcher’s shop in Paris, complimented the proprietor on the. show of meat, and suggested that he take a photograph of the family group in front of the shop. The butcher consented and the man took a quarter of an hour in posing the group. When the butcher returned to the shop he found that it was ransacked and stripped of the meat. The camera was left in the street and was found to be merely a cardboard box covered with black cloth.

A number of Wellington wharf labourers engaged for salvage work on the Devon declined to begin operations unless the shipping companies paid them 5s per hour and overtime, their contention being that it was special work and outside the limits of the harbour. The companies offered 2s per hour for day work and' 3s overtime and special consideration in the case of wet cargo, but this was not considered enough, and the salvaging is now being carried on by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s stevedores. While gathering firewood at Paparangi point, between Fetone and Ngahauranga, two men observed a submerged case floating near the surface of the water, close to the shore. When the incoming tide carried the case near enough to allow of its being hauled on to tha beach, it was found that the case contained chairs. The spoil was divided, and each man enriched his home with eight chairs, little the worse for their voyage upon the waters of the harbour. In all probability the chairs have been washed off the Devon and driven across the harbour by the south wind and sea.

Ask us to show you a “Dominion’s spade. O thers connot compare wit h them. Walker & Furrie.*

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 49, Suits from £4 10s.*