LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1155, 7 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Foxtou Borough Council will be held in the Council Cham bers on Monday next, 13th inst,, at 7.30 p.m. Business: general.

The road to the Beach is settling down and is now in good order. The county roadmen have greatly improved the narrow stretches by broadening the crown. The funeral of the late Mr G. B. Nicholls took place at Christchurch on Sunday, the cortege was over a mile in length. In the death of Mr Nicholls the Dominion Prohibition Party has lost one of its ardent workers.

After twenty rounds of a vigorous, exciting, and even battle at Sydney on Saturday Pal. Brown, the American, scored a points victory over Hugie Mehegau. The loser was twice floored. A conference of the Reform Party was opened in Wellington by the Premier on Saturday. Delegates were present from nearly every constituency in the Dominion. The proceeding are not open to the press, who, however, are provided -with official items.

The result of the ballot taken by the Wellington General Labourers’ Union on the question of remaining in affiliation with the United Labour Party or joining the United Federation of Labour is announced as follows :—ln favour of remaining in the United Labour Party, 293 votes; in favour of joining the United Federation of Labour, 100. On Wednesday and Saturday of last week the local golf club held a number of competitions among the members of the club, in which a great deal of interest was taken. The winners ot the various events were: Ladies, Mesdames Maudl and Woodward ; gentlemen, Messrs C. Robinson, Fid wards and T. Simpson.

“A woman has her duties to do in her home, but is also entitled to her pleasures,” remaiked Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court. “If she, however, subordinates the home to her own pleasures and excitements theie is going to be a crash and the home will be shattered.” “ Yes,” interjected Mr W. E. Hackett, “ that sort of thing is a greater danger to the nation than all the wars threatened by foreign nations.”

A dispute occurred between two councillors at the last meeting of the Ohakune Borough Council, and the proceedings became very lively. The local paper says bolh councillors indulged iu most unbecoming and violent language, towards each other, and a resort to the settlement of the argument with their fists appeared imminent. The Mayor twice threatened to close the meeting summarily unless the disgraceful proceedings were terminated, and eventually the altercation was stopped.

At Riverton on Saturday, a young man named Morgan Hayes was slabbed with a sickle by an old man named Thomas Lyucb, and now lies in the hospital in a precarious condition. During a heated altercation about cattle trespass, Hayes is alleged to have struck Lynch, and the latter picked up the sickle, with which he made a drive, the point entering Hayes’ chest, Lynch has been arrested, charged with wounding with intent.

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Having just landed an up-to-date supply of catering utensils from England, Mr M. Perreau is now in a position to specialise in catering, be undertaken in any

The Rockefeller Institute at New York claims to have succeeded in artificially cultivating the germ of infantile paralysis. The newspaper Secolo at Rome states that the police frustrated a Mussulman’s plot to assassinate Lord Kitchener, Governor of Egypt, at Venice, en route to Kg ypt, last week. The Kiug ot Italy has pardoned a bootmaker who has served 54 years for stabbing a mate. After a drive round the city in a motor car and witnessing airship flights, the man became bewildered and desired to return to gaol. The secretary of the local Lawn Tenuis Club has received an invitation to members ot the Club to be present at the official opening of the Shannon Club’s courts to-morrow afternoon, and a number of members intend making the trip. The Ford Family, of St. Albans (Christchurch) had tinned fish for tea on Saturday. To-day they are in the hospital recovering from an attack of ptomaine poisoning. The dish that caused the trouble was tinned herrings, of which all the family partook. They are all out of danger.

The charges of contempt ot court against Messrs W. Bloomfield and W. J. Geddis will be beard in the Supreme Court at Wellington to morrow. Mr Blom field has retained Mr T. Cotter, K.C., and Sir John Findlay, K.C., and Mr Skerrett, K.C., will appear for Mr Geddis.

At the labour Day celebrations to be held at Wanganui on the 27th hist., three primary school boys’ championships are provided tor rooyds., 440yds., and 880yds. The first prizes for each event are gold medals, and silver medals for second. Each school has the right to nominate one competitor tor each event. Nominations close on the 25th inst. It is stated that Captain Amundsen’s Erara, bound from the Atlantic via the Pacific and Behring Sea, to the North Pole, will be the first vessel to pass through the Panama Canal. Considering her Arctic records with Nansen and her past ia the South Pole conquest by Amundsen, it is fitting that the Fram should have a tropical record as well. She is the most remarkable ship ot the age.

Larkin, the strike leader, has quarrelled with the Hibernian Order in Dublin, and a campaign of vituperation, unparalleled in the annals of British politics, is proceeding. Larkin interprets the motto ot the order: “Faith and Fatherland,” to mean “Faith in our own ability to secure all jobs in the Fatherland.” The Hibernians describe Larkin as an atheist and anarchist.

The trouble at the Westport Coal Company’s Denniston mines has been short lived. The management’s terms were submitted to the Miners’ Union, and were agreed to. The management made it clear that works must not be stopped over such trivial cases. It is generally believed the company was prepared to shut down the mine for an indefinite term had an amicable agreement not been speedily reached.

At the inquest at Dunedin on Margaret Mary Donnelly, a spinster aged twenty-six years, and a book-keeper belonging to Invercargill, who died suddenly on Friday in a boardinghouse, the evidence showed there had been a miscarriage. Dr Fleming expressed the opinion that the probab'e cause of death was tokaemia of pregnancy, a very rare disease and quite distinct from the usual cause of death in such cases. The contents of the deceased’s stomach have been forwarded to the Government analyst, and the inquest has been adjourned.

Last night a successful start was made with the dressmaking class iu connection with the Foxton Technical School and thirteen students were enrolled. Should this class meet with the very fine support given to Miss McGrath’s classes iu other districts, it should go far to helping the Foxton Technical School to make good progress. Unlortunately the cooking class, owing to insufficiency of numbers, has had to be abandoned. Several new students have enrolled for the drawing and painting class, the hours of which are changed to Tuesday afternoon from 3 p.m. to 5 p.ra.

About 27 years ago an elderly French lady, who was a resident of the Bright district of Victoria, imported a few seeds of a plant precious to her by reason of its alleged medicinal properties. The seeds were carefully sown in a box, and, when germinated, transplanted into the old lady’s garden. Like all other weeds, these plants grew apace, and to-day the St. John’s Wort, for that was the illstarred curative plant, has taken possession of extensive districts in that State. It is estimated that its eradication will ultimately cost the Government upwards of ,£1,000,000, while the havoc wrought by the plant annually, both on Crown lands and private property, is enormous.

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Opposition Parliamentarians are to visit Palmerston and deliver speeches at an early date. The Wellington Hospital is full at the present time, and none but the most urgent and acute cases can be admitted for treatment.

Two minor earthquake shocks were experienced locally at 7.30 a.m. yesterday. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 9th iust., at 7.45 p.m. Business: general. The Queen of the South with a cargo ot general merchandise from Wellington, is due to-morrow afternoon.

The foundation stone of All Saints’ Church at Palmerston N. is to be laid by His Exelleucy the Governor on November 7th. On the fourth page of this issue will be found an interesting article entitled, “Consider Appearances, For They Count,” also the results of the Napier Racing Club’s meeting.

Tne Government has acquired for settlement two blocks ol laud at Onga Ouga, Hawke’s Bay, having a combined area of 4,500 acres. The land is said to be of good quality, suitable tor agriculture, and will cut up into small areas.

A football match between the Horowheuua and Taranaki Maoris will be played at Havvera tomorrow. The Horowhenue team, which includes Reihana, of Foxton, left for Hawera to-day in charge of Mr Hone McMillan, of Koputaroa. A fairly well-known fanner, Mr Hugh McDonnell, who lived at Wvnganni East, was missed from his residence last Saturday. Yesterday morning the police received word that the body of a man was floating in the river at Eanguard Bluff, and upon investigation it was found to be that of McDonnell.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, lecturing on “Human Misfits,” in Loudon, advocated the State eliminating the feeble minded from the community when young. They would cost no more than the present maintenance of the insane, while the reduction thereby of the number of paupers and criminal classes would be incalculable.

A Japanese Fair, in aid of the Self denial Fund, will be held under the auspices of the local corps of the Salvation Army on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, in the Masonic Hall. The function will be opened by the Mayor on Wednesday afternoon, and for both evenings good programmes have been arranged.

In the House last ulght the Wanganui Harbour Board Bill, to authorise a loan of ,£150,000 for harbour improvements, came up for consideration. The Bill was allowed to pass through Committee, but its further progress was stayed until the House has been given an opportunity of dealing with the Patea Harbour Bill and readjusting boundaries if so desired. “If we want to do the best for the children, we want the best teachers in the best positions,” said Mr H. G. Cousins, headmaster of the Normal School, at the quarterly meeting ot the Auckland District Educational Institute. Proceeding, Mr Cousins said that teachers should be picked by merit. It would be unfortunate if any Minister for Education listened to those who advocated making promotion automatic. If no special effort was necessary on the part of the teachers the school would not be so efficient. As regards payment of teachers on attendance, Mr Cousms thought it wise provided there were safeguards, < All the fences enclosing publiic reserves in Christchurch are beiufg removed, in accordance with -a policy adopted by the City Couracil about three years ago. Whem the suggestion was first made;, some members of the council beared that the reserves would Be injured, but an experiment showed that the appearance oi open spaces was greatly improved by th;e removal of the fencing, and that the public fully appreciated the duty of caring for the common property. Now nearly all the “squares” in the city are open on all sides, and the live and other fences are being removed from the street boundaries of the river banks.

The local fishermen held a meeting last week for the purpose of discussing the best means of disposing of the whitebait caught by them. In the past the practice has been to sell the bait to middlemen, who in turn sold to the merchants in Wellington and elsewhere. The fishermen considered that it would be advantageous to them to sell direct, and it was decided to form an association through which all the bait will be sent. A man has been appointed locally who will lake delivery of all the bait caught, and will consign it on to Wellington, where it will be taken delivery of by an agent of the association, who will dispose of it to the best advantage.

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