LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1171, 13 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. and Mrs Adams and family leave Foxtou on Tuesday next, for England sailing from Wellington by the Dorset on Wednesday. A fair number of people watched the arrival of the Tiny Town Company at the station this afternoon. The lea room at the forthcoming Horticultural Show will be under the supervision of Mrs Henderson.

The up river picnic, to have been held yesterday under the auspices of the Manawatu Rowing Club was postponed on account of the threatening state of the weather.

There was a fairly good muster of players on both the bowling and croquet greens yesterday afternoon and some interesting games were played. Afternoon tea was provided by Mrs Woods.

The citizens of Foxton and subscribers are invited to be present at the Council Chambers at three o’clock to-morrow alternoou, when the Mayor will make a presentation to Mr A. D. Clemelt, local postmaster, who has been transferred to Cambridge.

To night in the Masonic Hall at S o’clock, Adjutant Armstrong, on special duty, will conduct an interesting salvation meeting. The Adjutant will be assisted by Envoy Jackson, from Headquarters, Wellington. All are heartily invited. The local Horticultural Society’s Spring Show A'ill be held in the Coronation Town Hall on Thursday and Friday 20th and 21st iust. Entries close on Tuesday night, iSth iust., but late entries will be received up till 10 o’clock of the night before the show. Magnificent trophies and special prizes are to be awarded. Catalogues may be obtained from Mr Patterson, Secretary. A weedy-lookiug individual was holding forth in a thin nasal voice to some workers recently. He was one of those windy characters who know just how to settle industrial troubles, but who, alas and alack, has not yet succeeded in steering his own bark out of the shallows. The special police was his particular grievance. “ Some of you flaxcutters ought to go down to Wellington with your cutters and mow them down,’ he bleated. One of his auditors quietly remarked: “It would be a good thing for you and your family if you took a hook into the swamp and cut flax.’’ The shot completly “ punctured the tyre ’’ ot the embryo labour leader and he collapse:). During tli 3 month of October, the amount ol gas manufactured at the local works was 332,000 ft., which, with the amount in the holder on October Ist, 1,000 ft., makes a total of 333,000 ft. The amount sold to consumers for lighting was 160,700 ft., and for cooking and power 100,300 ft., used in street lamps 300,000 ft., in works and manager’s house 29,000 ft., and there was 4,000 ft. in the holder on November Ist, leaving 9,000 ft. unaccounted for, Thirty tons of coal were carbonised, yielding n,xoo ft. per ton. The actual receipts and expenditure for the month were :—Expenditure : Coal and freight ,£3l 7s rod, wages ,£34 19s 2d, working expenses is Bd, fittings and pipes ,£lB 15s 1 id, plant £S 10s 3d, telephone £2 ros, total 4s rod. Receipts: Gas sales 1 13s rod, tur sales £~j 2s, coke sales £6 12s, filling account £ll os 4d, weighing 6s, coal £2 105 501, casks 12s, total ,£l6O 2S lid. They’re all doing it—all along the line—worrying the post officials ringing up No. ()•* Steel snips, leather punch and drill, pipe grips and holders, foot-rot or tree primers, and pinchers, all in one combined article ; light, strong durable, easy to use. Flaxmillers, engineers, farmers, call in and see one Thomas Rimmer,*