LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1160, 18 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A heavy thunderstorm broke over this district this afternoon, accompanied by torrents of rain. The recent heavy rains are causing the rivers to flood throughout the district. The local Druids and Oddfellows Lodges intend holding a combined up-river picnic on Boxing Day, and a committee has been set up to make all preliminary arrangements in connection with same. A little girl named Avis Surtes, aged eighteen months, who was admitted to the Auckland hospital on Wednesday suffering from scalds, died on Thursday night. The service in the local Catholic Church tc-morrow will be conducted by the Rev Father Dore, at 8.30 a.m. The services at Shannon will be, Mass 11 a.m. and Devotions 7 p.m. Practically all the flaxmills in this district were closed to-day, the occasion being a mass meeting of the Employees Union at Palmerston North. The nine train this morning contained a large number of local flaxmill workers. Perreau’s Berraaline Bread is recommended for indigestion. Try it.* 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 nut rust, •'break or tear. Local drapers.*

New Zealand footballers at Sau Francisco scored 51 points to Stanford University’s nil on Wednesday. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by Mr H. Billens, of Palmerston,

The services in All Saints’ Church to morrow will be at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The Palmerston N. College Street school committee and teaching staff are organising a bazaar in aid of the school funds.

The services in the local Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev W. Rowe, of Ashhurst. A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all. Mr Marshall Whitlatch, in an article in The Century, asserts that golfers do not need brains. We have o.'ten felt that our own have been wasted on this trivial pursuit (says an exchange).

Twelve biiefless barristers in a New York Court volunteered to act as jurymen in a divorce case when it was found that uo jury bad been summoned. Everyone of them put questions to witnesses. The following are the percentages of attendances at the local Stale School for this week :—St. IV., 98.8 per cent. ; St. 1., 97-6 ; St. V'., 95.6; St. 11., 95 ; Primer 111., 93.5 ; St. 111., 93.3 ; Primer 11., 93 ; St., VI. 87.5 ; Ptimer 1., 83-3-

At luveicaigill on Wednesday a two-year-old son oi John Grice, carpenter, died through eating tablets containing poison. The child, aided by a chair, climbed upon a cnpboatd and got possession of the box. He died a few hours afterwards.

la the boxing contest at Maslet ton on Thursday, for the welter weight championship of New Zealand and ,£SO, Denny Murphy (holder) knocked out Pitlo Chapman (America) in the seventh round. The bout was all in favour of the winner. The latest fashion in ladies’ hairdressing consists of a chignon built in pudding-basin shape, and sloping back from the top of the head, the hair being lifted off the forehead and waved backwards. The chiguou at the back of the head being set well forward, no parting cf the hair is visible. The style is most suitable for evening wear. The destruction oi a United Slates flag at Saskatoon, Canada, a few weeks ago was a sensational incident. The Saskatchewan Rifles were marching through the town when an American woman ran into the road and flaunted the Stars and Stripes in front of the regiment. There was a growl of auger from the men and then a bttglar seized the flag, tore it and flung it under the feet of his comrades, who tramped over it. The officer commanding promptly conit marlialled the buglar aud ordered his dismissal from the regiment for having iusulced the flag of a friendly nation. But the man appealed to the Minister ol Defence in Ottawa, aud was reinstated, on the ground that while he had acted hastily he had been “ actuated by a proper sense of the honour and dignity ot his regiment.’ The incident seems to have closed there, but it illustrated oue of the difficulties created by the rapid influx of American settlers into Western Canada. It showed also that the Canadian Minister of Defence, Colonel Sam Hughes, had some backbone. The chain-letter, or “snowball” prayer, to which reference has been made on previous occasions in these columns, is again in circulation in Christchurch. The Ireak religionists who believe that some “ great, blessing” is to be obtained by passing on the chainprayer, in ever increasing numbers, are no doubt perfectly sincere, but they are dreadfully mistaken and a very great nuisance. A writer iu an Knglish paper has lately been applying a mathematical miud to this futile and irritating method of spreading tlfdology, and has made some diverting discoveries. If all who received the chain-letter prayer were to follow out the instructions to send out seven other copies to seven different persons on seven consecutive days, by the tenth step the entire population of the world would have received one application and two-thirds would have received two. Then, at the twentyfifth step, reached in twenty five weeks, the stamps required to post the letters, if placed end to end would reach to the Milky Way, and light, travelling at the rate ot 186,000 miles per second, would take some thousands cf years to dash along the line. “By this time,” says the ingenious calculator, “ the waste-paper would have become so enormous that the whole surface of the land would he covered by paper lightly rammed down, to a depth ot ft.” These alarming facts ought to give the medieval-minded pietists who are responsible for the “snowball” letter food for prayerful thought.

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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. Rimnien*

The meeting of the Salvation Army to-morrow will be conducted by Staff-Captain and Mrs Newbold fiom Wellington. Tbe morning meeting will take the form ot an Altar Service.

The Queen of the South lor Wellington and the Kennedy for Wanganui sailed this morning. The Mangapapa arrived this morning from Wellington to load cattle, and the Awahou is due to-morrow from Wellington with a general cargo.

To night is the second anniversary of the opming of the Coronation Hall, and to commemorate the event a special picture programme has been secured. One of tbe star dramas “The Sun God,” a Patbe coloured, is said to be one of the best yet released by this well-known company. The whole programme is of exceptional merit and worthy of a bumper house. Before the Rev H. G. Rosher gives his address on Tuesday evening on the Bible-iu-Schools question there will be a few musical items- These will be given by Mr Betty’s Glee Paity and local vocalists. In the absence of the Mayor Mr Hornblow will lake the chair at S p.m. in the Masonic Hall, The meeting is open to both sympathisers and opponents of the Bible-iu Schools League. A young married woman named Alice Elizabeth Randle, wile of a creamery manager, near Rongolea who was admitted to the Palmerston Hospital last Saturday suffering from the effects ot poisoning, which was alleged to be selfadministered, died yesterday. She was 24 years of age and leaves besides her husband, three young children, the youngest of whom is quite a baby. Lady Meux launched the Queen Elizabeth, the most powerful Dreadnought in the world, at Portsmouth on Wednesday. She will be the first battleship entirely driven by oil. She is armed with eight 15 inch guns and sixteen 5-inch, also a battery of 3 inch gnus designed for use against aircraft. She is expected to attaiu a speed of thirty knots. She will carry four thousand tons of oil, which will be sufficient for a voyage round the world. An old Palmerston resident, Claus Peter Mie, aged 79 years, dropped dead on the Burke Street footpath on Thursday. Deceased, who was suffering from an acute form of heart trouble, bad been on a visit to Dr. Putnam, and was near his home when be was seen by a telegraph messenger to stumble and fall, death being instantaneous. Deceased had only been married a few mouths and leaves a widow and grown-up step family. As the doctor certified to to the cause of death no inquest will be held.

Mr Arthur Cleghorn, of Pahiatua, who is health-recruiting at the local seaside, found the following message in a bottle on the beach yesterday. It was written on a leaf tern from a small note book. That the message is a hoax goes without saying: “Message. Hoping this will reach civilisation. On board the Waritah, 222 —2 '9/oS; She turned turtle in mid-ocean, all bands lost except a few that took to the boats before she turned. Fault due to two South African convicts who, on being taken aboard, swore that they would never reach their destination. (Signed) First Male, 2/9/08.” An aggtieved settler, writing to a local body in a North Island district concerning expenditure on roads, concluded his epistle thus ; —“But thanks be unto our God, there is a day of justice coming, and I trust it will not be long when we shall receive according to our deeds. I am looking forward for that day, and I would advise you also to prepare yourselves how to answer the great Judge for all you have done in your life. Thank God He has provided a Saviour who can, and will, put you right if you only go to Him. May the Lord bless you all and make you what you ought to be in His sight; this is my prayer for you all. Amen. P.S. —I object to the road overseer and county clerk reading my letter before the council sees them.”

A dying jockey (says The National), commending his sou to the gods that govern racing, added as a parting motion ; “Never talk, my boy ! I talked once too often. I was riding a match with J , and we were neck and neck. ‘You needn’t ride so hard,’ I said, T’m not going to win.' ‘Oh, aren’t you ?’ he said. Whereupon he fell off his horse, and I had to win.”

One of the most interesting fearures of the Mental Hospitals report is a table giving the principal assigned causes of insanity. Alcohol figures largely (S2 males and ry females), and syphillis was responsible for 32 males and 4 females. Auckland supplied one case due to a love affair, and also one (the only one iu the Dominion) due to “occultism.” The solitary life claimed six victims—tour males and two females. Sixty males and 65 males succumbed to heredity, and 30 males and 25 females to congenital mental deficiency, and it is a significant sign of the times that prolonged mental stress was the cause iu the case of 169 males and 30 females.

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

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