LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1164, 28 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr M, K. Perreau, of Foxtou, has been appointed judge of the cookery classes at the Wanganui A, and P. Show, to be held next month. This is a feather in the cap of our local caterer. Mr T. Young, secretary of the Seamen’s Union, during the course of an inflammatory speech at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, on Sunday said; “If police were utilised to quell the strike, and if the authorities employed the Permanent Artillery in support of the employers, he would undertake to march on Wellington with 10,000 or 15,000 armed men ! ‘lf a police constable used his baton, give it him back —and make it a double header !’ urged Mr Young. ‘lf you’re going down, go down in style. You will very easily have from xo.ooo to 15,000 men to support you against the batons of the police.' Messrs Hickey, Holland, Scott Bennett and Professor Mills also spoke in an inflammatory strain. Some of the remarks of certain of the speakers, says the Dominion, cannot, in the interests of decency, be published. Victoria University College has nominated Mr F. E. McKenzie as its Rhodes scholar. Mr F. E. McKenzie, 8.A., is 22 years of age, and is the sou of Mr Kenneth McKenzie, farmer, ot Mangarimu. He received his primary school education at Mangarimu, gaining a Junior Board Scholarship at the age of 12 years. He then worked through the Wanganui Colleghte School, passing the matriculation and solicitors’ general knowledge examinations in 1907. He was successively a farmer and a teacher until, in 1909, he passed first year University terms. In 1910 he passed the first section of the B.A. and LL.B. degree. In 1911 he obtained the Teacher’s B Certificate, and in 1912 he gained the B. degree, winning the Senior University Scholarship in jurisprudence, English history. He also passed a section of the LL.B. the result of which will be available before the election of. the Rhodes Scholar for 1913-14- H . e is also sitting for honours in political science.

A well assorted supply_ of English and colonial confectionery at Perrean’s.*

Having just landed an up-to-date supply of catering utensils trom England. Mr M. Perreau is now m a position to specialise in catering, which will be undertaken in any part of the district.*

The New Zealand footballers defeated the University of California on Saturday by 37 to 3.

The Main Trunk Hue is now clear, and trains are running as usual.

Eabour Day passed off very quietly yesterday. All the local business premises remained open. The Hon, James Allen has been indisposed since Saturday, and is confined to his bed.

Inglewood’s new Municipal Hall was opened last week. The building cost and will accommodate 375 adults. The Wellington waterside workers’ strike is causing a period of enforced idleness to those who find casual work on the local wharf.

The Kennedy arrived this morning with coal from Weslport via Nelson and will sail again tonight. On the fourth page of this issue will be found the following interesting reading matter :—“Waterside Workers’ Strike,” “Racing,” “Eccentricity Defined,” “Famous Sayings of Great Men,” and “Millions In Movies.”

Mr A. D. Clemett, our local esteemed postmaster, received official intimation yesterday of his transfer to Cambridge. It is not yet known when Mr Clemett will take his departure. Mr Clemett’s successor is Mr A. Hawke, at present in the Marton office. A substantial penalty was inflicted on a defendant of the inappropriate name of Heaven of Papatoetoe, at Auckland, the other day for selling milk containing at least 15.3 per cent, of water, the fine being ,£lO and the costs £?> 5 s - The body of John King, .a retired Government auditor, was found in the Maitai River, Nelson, on Saturday afternoon. An inquest was held when a verdict was returned that deceased died from syncope following the effects of shock caused by falling into the water.

A meeting of newspaper proprietors in the Wellington district on Friday formed a Wellington Provincial Newspaper Propiietors’ Association. Mr Pirani, of Feeding, was elected president. Rules were adopted, and it was decided to register under the Arbitration Act.

Dr. and Mrs Adams and family are due to leave Wellington for the Old Country by the Ulimora leaving on November 21st, connecting with the Dorset iu Sydney. Owing to the strike, however, it is possible that the doctor may be able to connect with his ship at Wellington.

The Timaru to Christchurch road race 011 Saturday resulted : P. O’Shea, Christchurch, scr, actual time riding shrs i4min ,SBsec 1 ; F. Shalders, Oamaru, iqmiu, shrs 28min 58 2-5860 2; W. T. Kerr, Hornsby, lomiu, sbrs 25mm 59sec 3 ; G. Wallace, Mataura, romin, s'ars 25tnin sosec 4; W. T. Kerr obtained the second fastest time.

Do dreams come true ? The following has reached the Napier Telegraph in connection with the unfortunate accident that took place at the Show. Arrangements had been made between the deceased and a friend about riding the horse, and the friend was proceeding to the show and would have been prepared to ride the horse, but was met by his fiancee, who persuaded him not to do so as she dreamed there would be an accident.

A fireman on a ship at Jervois Quay, Wellington, was held up by strikers and questioned as to what be was doing and intended to do with regard to work on They began handling him, but being a powerful man and able to use his hands, he bowled over several of his noisier interlocutors, aud having cleared a ring for himself, walked through the crowd quietly, and went on board his ship.

As tar as the local mills are concerned the flood iu the river will not have any very serious effect, not much water having found its way into the Moutoa swamp, from which the majority of mills draw their supplies of green leaf. It is anticipated that cutting operations will only be suspended for a day or two, so that the mills will lose practically no time at all and in the immediate district no mill will be stopped for more than a week at the most. The district that has suffered most is Kairanga, where the breaking of the bank of the Oroua river resulted ia the flooding of the adjacent lands. Several of the farmers in that locality lost a large number of sheep and hundreds of acres were nothing but a sheet of water.

Ladies’ Black Leather Handbags from 2/- to 20/'. Call in and let us show you one. Thomas Rimmer.*

We sell everything under a guarantee ; if it’s not satisfactory return it Walker and Furrie*

Perreau’s Bermaline Bread is recommended for indigestion. Try it.*

No home should be without the famous Roslyn writing pad, 100 sheets. Pretty picture of New Zealand’s wonderland on the cover. Only 6d and is each from all dealers Ask for it.* FIRST DOSE RELIEVED. “I suffered badly from indigestion and constipation,” writes Mrs Alice A. Powell, Cressy, Tas. “After trying several medicines without deriving any benefit, I got a bottle of Chamberlain’s Tablets, and the result was wonderful. Even after the first dose I felt better, and they have completely cured me of my constipation.” For sale everywhere. —Advt.

The Secretary of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, desires to thankfully acknowledge the receipt of 15s in aid of the funds from “Two or Three of Us.”

We have beeu requested by the Town Clerk to remind ratepayers who have not yet paid their rates, that Friday is the last day of grace after which date summonses will be taken out and there will be the extra expense of Court costs to be paid.

During the sermon at a certain church, a baby began to cry, and its mother immediately picked it up and began to carry it towards the door. “Stop,” the minister exclaimed. “Don’t go away. The baby is not disturbing me.” The mother continued her way to the door, with the very audible remark : “ Oh, ’e ain’t, ain’t ’e? But you’re a-disturbing of Mm !”

The public of Wellington are m no temper to tolerate the strikers' impudence, says the Manawatu Times. Many young fellows are offering as special constables. Their blood is up because of the slurring things said of them by the strikers. It they are called upon the wharf labourers will require to make good their words against clerks and shopkeepers. A circular letter of protest by teachers-against the Government’s action in adding to the duties of teachers by requiring them to medically inspect the school children under their charge, was the subject of discussion at the Wanganui Education Board’s meeting last week. The Board passed the following motion bearing bn the matter: “That head teachers be informed that the Board is not responsible for any instructions given in regard to the medical inspection of children, and that they are not expected to carry out such work if it interferes with their school duties.”

Referring to the Wellington Waterside Workers strike, our Feildiug contemporary has something to say in respect to the paid agitator, and adds : —These men always foment labour troubles, they bring misery to the workers and loss to the community, the while they are waxing fat on the results, like the vulture on the carrion Which comes from starvation and disease. We are sure that very little would be heard of labour troubles if the punishment these men merit were fitted to the crime, for they are of no real use to any section of the. community. As a rule they are men who have proved a failure as workers and find that a glib tongue brings ever so much more gain to them than the reward of honest toil. For the worker is wonderfully credulous and never seems able to measure the trustworthiness of those who pose as his real friends.” There is something of the old Viking spirit in a man who can camly go about the ordering of his own funeral. Yet such was actually done a few weeks ago by the late Mr Peckover, of Gisborne (says the local Times). Some three weeks before his death, Mr Peckover called upou a local firm of undertakers, and gave an order for a complete funeral, specifying the class of coffin to be used and the particular plot of ground iu the cemetery. So quiet and matter ot fact was the demeanor of the octogenarian that the undertaker had not the slightest idea that he was ordering his own funeral. It was only after his death that the Sparton spirit was made manifest. To show the methodical manner iu which the deceased prepared for his end, it may be mentioned that he recently made his will, which provided for the disposition of his affairs, even down to the inscription which was to appear on his own tombstone.

Older residents of Foxton will learn with deep regret of the death of Mrs Eouisa Honore, relict of the late Rev. A. Honore, the sad event taking place in Denmark on September 12. Mr Honore was a missionary to the Maoris of Foxton in the early days, and also at Martou, and be laboured in these two places for many years, his wife bearing with him the many privations which the early settlers had to contend with. Mr Honore arrived in New Zealand in 1848, coming out under the direction of the North German Missionary Society. The late Mrs Honore was the second wife of Mr Honore, to whom she was marrfe'd in the year 1884, while he was on a trip to Denmark. Subsequently Mr aud Mrs Honore returned to Foxton, and during the ten years of their sojourn there, up to Mr Honore’s death in 1894, she accompanied her husband on all his visits amongst the Maoris and Europeans. She was of a homely and kindly disposition, and many were the friends she made during that period when she first learned to speak aud write the English language. After Mr Honore's death, in 1894, Mrs Honore returned to her native land, and lived in the town of Ringe. There are three step children, all of whom reside in New Zealand—Mr A. Honore, a well-known farmer of Fitzherbert; Mr J. Honore, schoolmaster at Otakeho ; and Mrs J. A. Dearlove, formerly of this district, and now of Te Aroha.—-Palmerston Standard.

Ask us to show you a “Dominion” spade. Others connot compare with them. Walker & Furrie.*

Perreau’s up-to-date tea room is popula ar place for afternoon tea.*

They’re all doing it—all along the line—worrying the post officials ringing up No. 9.*

Be fair to your corns —order “Antoor” the perfect safety corn shaver, from your local dealer to-day. Only 2s fid. Immediate comfort guarair teed or your money back,*