LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1146, 16 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual geueral meeting of Foxtou Cricket Club will be held in the Manawatu Hotel on Monday evening next at 8 o'clock. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested. 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.*

Henry Spencer, aged 65, banged himself at Christchurch on Sunday. Deceased was a married man.

The annual installation and investiture of officers of Lodge Horowhenua (Levin) takes place to-morrow night. The second inquiry into the wreck of the s.s. Devon commenced at Wellington to day. Unfortunately early last eventhe sky became clouded and long before the hour of the eclipse the moon was completely hidden. At 10.23 o’clock the moon entered the shadow of the earth and the total eclipse began at 11.31, from which time until 1.5 a.m. complete darkness reigned.

The chairman of the school committee waited on the teaching staff at the State school yesterday and asked for their assistance in the organising of a school concert in aid of the school funds. The staff, after considering the request, decided that they would assist the committee by providing the first half of the programme, and suggested that the concert be held at the end of next month. The matter will be definitely fixed at Thursday’s committee meeting.

The Coronation Hall was comfortably filled last night on the occasion of the benefit entertainment for Mrs B. Robinson and family. In addition to a programme of pictures Mr J. Chrystall contributed a song and Mr G. Jeffries amused the audience in his entertaining turn “ Hypnotism up-to-date.” Mr Charles Green, employed on the Himalangi Estate, met with a very painful accident this morning resulting in a compound fracture of the nose. He was riding on horseback across the run, when the horse fell through getting its hoof in a rabbit burrow, and kicked Mr Green in the face inflicting injuries as above. The sufferer was brought into Foxton tor medical treatment.

Sweet pea growers will be interested in the following paragraph appearing in the London Daily Mail:—A new sort of sweet pea has aroused the sort of excitement produced by the appearance of a new prima donna or dancer. For the first time a double flower true to heredity has been raised, and the rage for it is such tha,t the growers cannot spare a single flower for exhibition so precious is the seed. A number of sweet peas, especially the cream Clara Curtis and all the Foster group, ate apt to produce double flowers, and very splendid they are, but Dobbie’s “double frilled pink,” which looks as if it has wings and standard crimped, does not depend on cultivation. It is inherently double, and introduces a new sort of flower.

Shooting in the Wellington Miniature Rifle Association’s competitiou, the .Clarkson Club put up a world’s record. Fight men firing to shots at 25 yards put on 399 points out of a possible 400. The previous world’s record (395) was made by an Fuglish team, which, however, used optical sights. These are barred in the present competition, in which the next best score is 395, compiled by the Harbour Board team.

The services in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday last were of a special character, Flower Services being held morning and evening. The main portion of both the morning and evening worship consisted of anthems and hymns by the Sunday school children, the harmonious rendering of which was splendid. The Rev J. ‘M. Thomson, M.A., conducted both services, and delivered short and appropriate sermons. At;the evening service Mr Jas. Bugles sang as a solo “Consider the lilies.” The attendances of the congregation were very good. Mesdames Pattersen and Claris deserve praise for the efficient training of the children. The floral decorations of the church interior were very pretty. At Auckland, on Saturday, two young engineers, Messrs Sandford and Miller, made a , successful flight with a flying machine they bad constructed. The engine was set in motion, and with a short preliminary run across the small field the biplane left the ground and soared gracefully, into the air. There was an exciting moment for the airman and for the spectators when the machine rose to negotiate a line of tall trees which enclosed the ground. It meant a quick ascent, and was a critical test lor the machine, but the obstacle was successfully .cleared, and after that it, was all plain sailing. Rising to a height cf 300 feet, Sandford turned his machine right round until he faced his destination (Avondale). Then he soared back over the heads of the waiting crowd at the starting place. The airman made a straight flight for the racecourse, and the three-mile journey was negotiated in as many minutes, and. volplaning easily and gracefully, the machine was brought to earth without trouble of any kind.

A well assorted supply of English and colonial confectionery at Perreau’s.*

We call for orders and deliver the goods. Best quality goods at lowest prices in town. Try us for a month and be convinced. T. Rimmer.* GAVE THEM A TRIAL. “I suffered many a day and night with biliousness, sick headache, and pains in the kidneys,” writes Mrs Edith Wall, storekeeper, Clermont. Q. “I saw in the paper that Chamberlain’s tablets were a sure cure for biliousness, and thought 1 would give them a trial. The result of a course of Chamberlain’s Tablets is that lam now a new woman.” For sale everywhere.—Advt.

We are informed that the bandmaster of the Borough band has resigned, and that he contemplates forming a new baud.

The cement workers at Wilson’s Portland cement works in Auckland have gone out on strike for higher wages. In all about 250 men will be effected. A tram conductor named Francis Breeden, fell off a tram at Wellington on Saturday and fractured his skull. He died in the hospital.

The Kapiti sailed last night and the Queen of the South this morning, both bound for Wellington with hemp, and the Kennedy sailed this morning for Westport. A conference at Christchurch of representatives of commercial travellers’ and warehousemen’s clubs, practically decided to form a New Zealand Federation of Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen.

The Rev. Robert Inglis, M.A., during the course of a sermon at Auckland on Sunday night said : “ There is springing up, anew type ot woman, whose aim is apparently to be as man-like as possible. They are hardened and made self-conscious by the love of pleasure, and evidently have not any higher object in life than to have a good time. Such a woman as the late Queen Victoria was would, in their eyes, be entirely out of fashion. These women belong to the smart set, to the loud set, to the money set.” The preacher went on to make it clear that his remarks referred to only one regrettable class. American tailors, meeting at Sandasky, Ohio, on Saturday, August 2, discussed the prospects of slit trousers for men during the next summer season. The convention did not decide the point finally, but admitted that the same arguments which had been used in favour of slit skirts for women might be claimed, from the sarloriol standpoint, for either sex, if serge or flannel legs, which were slit outside and inside to a point about midway between the ankle and the knee, were worn with hosiery of a delicate hue. In debating the slit trousers, one delegate raised an uproar by declaring that the convention was being made the stalking horse of the hosiery trust, and for that reason, and no other, American men next summer were being asked to “dress as ridiculously and immodestly as many American women.”

At Saturday’s meeting of the Horowbenua County Council a letter was received from the Manawatu County Council, stating that the Council did not anticipate, when agreeing to this Council’s proposal to arbitrate the Shan-nou-Foxton road matter, that any but a professional man would be appointed by either parly, and they could not agree that Mr Gardener should be one ot the arbitrators; and that Council would agree to any disinterested engineer holding the position.— The chairman stated that the matter was not one for an engineer necessarily, but for a business man. This Council accepted the Manawatu Council’s arbitrator without comment, and he thought that body should reconsider its objection. There was already an engineer appointed as arbitrator, and one ought to be enough.—A motion asking the Manawatu Council to reconsider its objection was passed.

The bravery displayed by two members of the crew of the Indrabarah, when the vessel was ashore on the Rangitikei beach, has been brought under the notice. of the Liverpool Shipwreck and .Humane Society, and according to latest advice from Home the men are to receive recognition of their gallantry. To Mr Adcock (second officer) for life saving, the society has forwarded one of its silver medals, a pair of binoculars and an address of thanks engrossed on vellum, while Mr Earle, a seaman, is tp receive a similar silver medal and an address of thanks. The nature of the incident for which the awards have been made was to the effect that in order to establish communication between the vessel and the shore, seaman Earle volunteed to try to take a line ashore. A boat was lowered, and, although a heavy sea was running at thle time, Mr Earle started for the shore. When as near to the shore as possible he jumped from the boat and began to swim, but after a time the undercurrent carried him back and he was tossed about like a cork. Those on board gave him up for lost, but Mr Adcock, the second officer, who was a member of the shore party, seeing the man’s plight, went to his assistance. After an heroic struggle he succeeded in bringing his exhausted shipmate to land, both men being practically in a state of collapse. Ask us to show you a “Dominion” spade. Others connot compare with them. Walker & Furrie.* Prrrkau’s assorted fruit pies are delicious. Try them.*