LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1165, 30 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mayor arrived from Wellington last night, and returned this afternoon. -

The tender of Mr A. E- Admore has teen accepted for carrying out repairs and painting at Victoria Park.

The local Borough Council has decided to engage a surveyor and have a proper survey made of the cemetery.

Mr M. Perreau’s tender for the right to sell sweets in the Coronation Hall has been accepted. The Salvation Array’s selfdenial campaign this year resulted in ,£17,100 being collected as against ,£15,961 for 1912. Local storekeepers are already feeling the pinch ol the strike, and a shortage ot flour aud sugar is reported.

A patent hat-fasteuer is being put on the market by a Hawera inventor. The contrivance, it is claimed, will do away with the necessity for wearing hat pins. The tender of Mr Speirs has beeu accepted by the managers of the local Presbyterian Church for roofing the church building with asbestos tiles. The building is also to be re painted. An expert gardener told an Age representative recently that he did not think there would be half-a-tou of stone fruit in the whole of the Mastertou orchards this season. The frost of a week or two back worked havoc in the orchards. On Sunday next the Patroual Festival of All Saints’ Church will be kept, Saturday being All Saints’ Day. Special services will be held, and there will be two celebrations of the Holy Communion, This will be the 37th dedication festival, the church being consecrated as All Saints’ in 1876. We remind ratepayers that after to-morrow all unpaid rates are to be sued for. In this connection, the Town Clerk states that if the necessity for suing arises, it is his intention to issue summonses against every ratepayer who has failed to pay up, atfd thus make one job of the whole business.

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

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

The Napier Borough Couucil has decided lo ask lor a loan of ,£16,000 to purchase two new traiucars, erect tram shelters, etc. The service is proving a great success.

The Ne.v Plymouth Borough Couucil has concluded arrangements with the Bank of New Zealand for underwriting the tramways loan of ,£55,000, and a streets and water loan of ,£42,000 at par. The interest on the loan will be 5 per cent, and the Bank will receive a brokerage fee of per cent.

The Wanganui watersiders have no sympathy with the Wellington strike, being sturdy upholders of the Arbitration Act, but nevertheless they are feeling the effect of it, coastal shipping being tied up. They are at present without work, and the wharves are almost deserted both by ships and men. Many of the men are finding temporary employment elsewhere. Twenty-eight horses were railed from the Wairarapa to Wellington on Tuesday for the use of the police, and scores of others are under offer. A Mastcrtou correspondent states that there is great indignation throughout the district at the prolongation of the strike, which is calculated to seriously affect the butter industry. Men are being enrolled to proceed to Wellington as free labourers, and it is expected that two or three hundred will be available at once. The wile of Dr. F. Elliott Meade was killed instantaneously on the Avondale road, Blenheim on Tuesday. A motor car, driven by Dr, Meade, had reached the top of a steep incline. With a sharp turn the strain of the brake and steering gear caused the two wheels to break and the car rolled down the hillside. The doctor was only slightly injured, but his wife fractured the base of her skull. Two young children are bereaved. A demonstration ol gum chewing, a 1’ Americaiue, was afforded by two visitors to the town who were present throughout the hearing of the Havelock circus episode in the Magistrate’s Court. They chewed steadily for hours, and hours, their jaws working with clock-work regularity and with hardly a moment s interval. It was the nearest approach to perpetual motion that has ever been seeu in the local hall of justice.—Marlborough Press.

Mr Parry, of Waihi strike notoriety, and at present organiser for the Mauawatu Flaxmills Workers Union, was among the soap box orators at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr Parry said that the real positiou was that they were fighting for majority rule in industrial matters, just as there was majority rule in politics. There were so many good fish that they should not pollute the harbour by throwing scabs into it. The only way to win this fight was by an organised campaign against the scabs.

A married man turned Theodore August Rabe, a saddler by occupation, aged 46 years, and residing at Springfield Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington, committed suicide by hanging and shooting on Monday night. The body of deceased was found suspended by a thick cord from a rafter in a lavatory. There was a bullet wound in the right temple, and a five-chambered revolver, with four chambers loaded, clasped in deceased’s hand. The following note was found by the polioe fastened by a safety-pin to deceased’s pyjamas : —“God has sent me a message to prepare the people that the end of the world is coming. Strikes. Rumours of wars. Pestilence. Seek yet the Lord while He may yet be found.”

“Granted that it is to the interests of this country that Labour should be well organised, and well paid, and that it should be properly represented in Parliament and in the government of the community; granted that the “worker” (so-called) should receive his full share of recognition and the full value of the labour he performs for and on behalf of bis fellows. Is the class to which he specifically belongs the only class that is entitled to a say in determining things ? Is his will to prevail against that of every other section of the community ? Is he to be allowed to break agreements which he deliberately enters into at his own sweet will and pleasure, irrespective of the trouble aud inconvenience which may be occasioned to the general public as the result of his action ? And, when he has done all this, is he to be allowed to threaten the general community with civil war if it dares to uphold and vindicate the law against him ? These are questions which will occur to all of us, and which will have to be faced and answered by the authorities before many days pass over our heads. We certainly cannot tolerate mob law aud mob rule in New Zealand.” Palmerston Standard.

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

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.*

This chap, he was a perfect wreck, His cough was something awful; His sneezes shook the very roof, His friends, they murmured pool

fool.” . ... But since that time a week has

passed, . „ The poor chap’s getting well quite

fast; ’Twas only with the aid tor sure Of a dose of Woods’ Great Pepper mint cure. *

Messrs Payne and Robertson, M’s.P., have relumed from a visit to Huntly where the miners are on strike.

At the local Police Court yesterterday before Mr Hornblow, J.P., an euebriate was convicted and fined ios.

The postponed annual general meeting of the Manawatu Rowing Club will be held in the Coronation Hall supper-room this evening, at 8 o’clock. All members and intending members are requested to be in attendance. The Club has a fairly good plant, and also a credit balance at the Bank, and all that is required to make it a thoroughly successful institution is formerabers to evince some interest in its welfare. Mr Hickey made some jeering remarks about farmers sons during one of his characteristic utterances to the strikers at Wellington on Tuesday. He was referring to free labour an I said ; “I have heard a lot of talk about the Farmers’ Union flooding the Wellington wharves with farmers’ sous. I don't think they will come, but the papers say they will, and sometimes the papers say by chance that which is true. These scabs have to be taught a lesson. How to do it circumstances may have to determine. In America, where I spent part of my life, they were knocked on the head with a piece of wood. ... I venture to say that in Wellington that will not be necessary, and that a slight tap on the hand, and ‘You naughty fellow,’ will be all that is necessary.” It may yet be Mr Hickey’s misfortune to meet some of these athletic young men —and then—well Mr Hickey may wish he had never left America. English fenders in great variety just from the manufacturer. Pick yours now and save disappointment. Walker and Furrie.* For Influenza take Woods’ Grea Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2 16. Pekreau’s date scones are a very popular dish for afternoon tea. Fresh daily.*