LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1147, 18 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Barclay, a well-known Shannon resident and a prominent worker iu the temperance cause, died iu Nurse Robey’s Hospital at Palmerston on Monday morning.

A committee meeting of the local Bowling Club was held on Tuesday. It was decided to officially open the green on the Bth of next month- Mr F. Woods was elected a vice-president of ‘ the Club.

Whitebait catches this year have been very poor. The New Zealand Trawling Company at Napier state that the biggest catch brought to them this year amounted to only 25lbs.

Three women caused a sensation In Pittsburg by parading the streets in latticed skirts slit to the knee revealing flesh coloured stockings. The police dispersed the crowd and assisted the women to escape in a taxi.

It is surprising how often trifles grow out of all proportion to be veritable mountains of worry. The Soutli Canterbury Education Board has realised this over the famous 85 memorial mugs of the battleship’s visit. They discussed how best to distribute them some time ago and failed to find a solution, and the chairman has now suggested that the crockery should be, balloted for. The secretary was instructed to prepare a ballot for next meeting of the Board.

Dr. Walsh, speaking at the London Theistic Church, advocated the elimination of the word Hell Irom the Bible. He said American revisers had already expunged it from the Old Testament, and British revisers explained that it didn’t mean a place of torment. Of twenty-three cases in the New Testament ten represented a mistranslation of the word Hades. If future revisers refused to translate the Greek word Gehenna as Hell a hideous word would be swept out of the Bible.

Mr Parry, organiser for the Flaxmills Employees’ Union, contradicts the statement made by our Shannon correspondent in our last issue in reference to the open-air meeting, addressed by himself and Mr Stove at Shannon on Saturday night. He says that he never heard the interjections recorded by our correspondent. A man, under the influence of liquor, caused a disturbance and there would have been trouble had he (Mr Parry) not interfered. Mr Parry states that the meeting was largely attended and the speakers were accorded a good hearing. The man who rode into the ring was also under the influence of liquor.

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SAVED HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN.

“My sons, Charles and John, are subject to colds,” says Mrs C. Carter, 33 Market St., South Melbourne, Vic. “Some lime back I would have lost both of them with croup but for the timely advice of Mrs Snowden, who recommended me to give them Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. 'I tried it, and saw the change for the better in them right away, and they were both soon well again. I have seen the lives of hundreds of children saved by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

The Ora Flaxmilling Company have disposed of iheir Makerua flax property and mills to a syndicate consisting of Messrs K. P. Leveiu, C. A. Loughuan and W. Dalziell.

The Queen of the South, with a general cargo from Wellington, and the Waverley from Westport with coal, arrived to-day. The Kennedy is due from Westport tomorrow, and Awahou from Wellington on Saturday.

A man named Booth, who had been employed at flaxmills in this district, was last Thursday removed to the Palmerston Hospital suffering from pneumonia, and died in that institution on Saturday morning. We are informed that there is a scarcity of work in the flaxmilling industry in this district at present and that the Union’s officers are unable to place numbers of applicants for flaxmill work. The labour outlook is not very promising.

A shipment of oranges by the Tahiti, condemned on account of being infected with the fruit-fly, has been destroyed at Wellington.The shipment comprised some 2000 cases.

TheGisborneSupreme Court was engaged all day yesterday hearing a charge against William O’Leary, Frank Duggan, and Angus Lament, of assault with intent upon a married woman at Matwai, Gisborne, on August 9. the case was not concluded when the Court rose. The Rev. D. C. Bates wires today as follows: —Northerly strong winds to gale prevailing with westerly tendency ; the weather will probably prove squally and changeable ; rain probable ; barometer unsteady but with a falling tendency ; sea considerable ; tides moderate.

Four smallpox patients have been discharged from the Waikato Hospital. Only two now remain, and they are convalescent. The Waikato district has been disinfected from end to end, and with the exception of a few isolated cases, in outlying districts, it is free from the epidemic.

We regret to have to record the death of Mrs Claude Pearce which took place at Makino at midday on Tuesday. The deceased was a granddaughter of the late Mrs Edwards, of Moutoa, and of Mrs Howe, of Foxton. She was for some time in charge of the Post Office at Moutoa. The body was brought to Foxton and the funeral took place this afternoon, the Rev G. Y. Woodward conducting the service at the graveside.

A number of brethren of the local Masonic Lodge proceeded to Levin last night and were present at the installation of Wor. Bro. Blenkhotn as W.M. of Lodge Horowhenua and investiture of officers. The ceremony was conducted by R. Wor. Bro. Peterkin, Prov. G.M. Subsequently the brethren were entertained at a banquet. While ploughing a field on Mr F. Robinson’s property, Lady’s Mile, this week, a Maori flint axe was unearthed. It is more than likely that the locality at one time was the scene of an inter-tribal battle. If the little instrument could only speak what grim tales of daring and bloody deeds on the part of its owner it could reveal!

The Pall Mall Gazette says, “It looks as if the Premier will soon be able to paper his house with the family’s University diplomas. His younger sou, Mr Cyril Asquith has followed the lead of his father and his brother by endowing himself with lustre at Oxford. Having won the Craven two years ago as his father and brother done before him, he has now imitated their example to the extent of a First Class in Classical Greats. It now only remains to complete the triple analogy by securing a Fellowship and scoring a success at the Bar. Say what we may of the Premier and some of his associates he commands our respect for the soundness of his qualities, inherent and transmitted. In days when there is overmuch prating of Irishmen, Scots, and Welshmen, he stands out as a great Englishman.” A tragic and very pathetic sequel to a happy marriage occurred yesterday. A few days ago a young couple well-known on the West Coast, Mr and Mrs Gerald Diedrich, of Hokitika, arrived in this district en route to Australia on their honeymoon. They had not then been married three weeks, and were visiting friends in this district before going on to catch the Sydney boat. On Saturday however, Mr Diedrich took ill while in Foxtou visiting bis cousin, Mr F. W. Gardes, and was sent back to Palmerston, where he was on Monday operated on for acute appendicitis, and appeared to be doing well, but in the early hours of yesterday morning he failed to weather the crisis, and passed away. Yesterday would have completed the third week of the young couple’s married life. Mr Gardes made arrangements for the embalming of the body to day, which will be transferred to Hokitika for interment.

IT STRENGTHENED MV THROAT “I had a weak throat,” writes Mr C. V; H. Stallard, 10 Bunbury St., Footscray, Vic. “The slightest change in the weather would affect it, and I would have to go home from work feeling tit for nothing. My sister swears by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, so I thought I would try it. I did so, and can honestly say that it has worked wonders, for my throat is now quite strong.” For sale everywhere.— Advt.

The ordinary meeting of the local State school committee will be held this evening. The s.s. Ruapehu arrived in Wellington from London this morning..

In the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Championship final at Napier yesterday, Mrs Guy Williams beat Miss Robieson, 6 up and 3 to pl£y. The Arawa is sailing fi r New Zealand on - October 9 with 150 emigrants —larm bands and domestics. The Mamara is specially chartered for November 13 to take 400, including 55 farm boys. At the British Association, Dr Leonard Hill said that the vital qualities of nature’s foods, called vitamines, were destroyed by modern methods of sterilisation and milling. White bread contained no vitamines. and the consequences were serious to the health of the working classes, who were unable to supplement their diet with more nutritive food. Girls iu the factories of Ulster ate bread and jam. Jam was to be cpndemned. A little, sugar was an excellent thing, but to make it a food by consuming large quantities of sweets was a most mischevious practice.

Another pioneer passed away this morning, after a lingering illness, in the person of Mr James Leask, aged 73 years. Mr Leask was born in Ely, Scotland, and came to New Zealand’ in iB6O. He spent some time on the goldfields in the South Island, and subsequently followed his trade as a storeman in Lyttelton and Christchurch. Leaving Canterbury, he purchased a larm in the North Auckland district, but misfortune dogged his footsteps. He came to this district about eight years ago. Mr Leask is survived by his widow, to whom we extend our deepest sympathy. The funeral will leave the late Mr Leask’s residence, Union Street, for the Foxton cemetery, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday. A friend of a patient who was lying ill in the Dunedin Hospital received word one day last .week that the patient had died there, and shortly after rang up a firm of undertakers to instruct them to make the arrangements for the funeral. He then telephoned to the Hospital to inform the authorities there of the name of the firm of undertakers, but on two occasions found the end engaged. It was about two hours later, declares the Otago Daily Times, before he got into communication with the Hospital, and said, “Ob, about So-and-so——” “Yes,” came back the reply, “he is very ill.” “Is he?” ejaculated the surprised friend. “ Seriously ill ? ” “ Yes ; he is very bad, “ was the answer, “ Do you think there is any chance of his recovery ? ” asked the enquiring friend. “ Oh, well, it is hard to say that; but while there’s life there’s hope, you know.” “ I suppose there is,” dryly replied the friend. “ Perhaps, however, it may interest. you to know that the patient died two hours ago ! ” An exclamation, “ Wait a minute! ” the verification ot the death, and a hurried explanation followed in rapid sucession. Stereotyped replies .to questions as to the health of patients at any hospital are apparently calculated at times to be misleading.

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