LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1172, 15 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be as usual at S a.m., n a.m. and 7 p.m. The proficiency examinations will be held on Monday, Dec. Ist. The chairman of the school committee will supervise the local examination.

The tea room in connection with the local Horticultural Society’s Spring Show next week will be supervised by Mrs Henderson. The secretary invites members’ wives to contribute refreshments as in previous years.

The Mayor invites the citizens to meet at the Council Chambers on Monday afternoon next at 3 o’clock, when a presentation will be made to Dr. Adams, who is leaving for the Old Country on Tuesday morning.

The services to-morrow will be conducted by Knvoy Jackson of Palmerston N., at 3 p.m. The Envoy will speak ou his tour through the Marlborough District in connection with Self-denial. All are welcome.

The Tiny Town Company gave two performances in the Coronation Hall on Thursday, there being fairly good audiences on both occasions. The little people proved themselves to be very talented and the different items were deservedly applauded. The following are the percentages of attendances at the local Slate School lor this week : St. 1., 99.7 per cent; St. VI., 99.5 ; St. 11., 98.2: St. IV. 97.7 ; Primer 111., 97.2 ; St. 111., 96 8 ; Primer 11., 95.4 ; St. V., 91.8 ; Primer 1., 76.4. The services in the local Methodist Church will he conducted by the Rev J. Crawford (Shannon), who will lake for his subject at the morning service, “Unrecognised Values,” and at the evening service, “Life’s Greatest Consideration-” A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all.

The Loudou Telegraph states that Ben Tillet’s telegraph staling that London dockers will refuse to discharge the Athenic is altogether premature. The matter was never officially considered in Loudon, and not a few representative dockers consider that the present would be an infelicitous time to raise the issue. In any case, Tillelt is unable to speak for the dockers.

A Pahiatua citizen, who had tried to incite sympathy in the district for the strike, and of whom it was suspected that he had been supplying the Red Federation with information as lo the movements of the special constables, etc., was given 24 hours notice to clear over the horizon. The alternative was a tar and feather ceremony in which he was lo play the leading role.

The Federation of Labour is a cancerous growth which has been eating into the vitals of legitimate labour unionism as well as threatening the healthy development of the industries and trade of the country. Those unions which are assisting it in its present wanton attack on the public are merely assisting that evil growth which if not checked must eventually end in the succumbing to its malign influence. —Dominion. State schools in the Wanganui district will close for the Christmas vacation as from the afternoon of Thursday, rStb December. Schools which were closed during the weeks of the Palmerston North or Hawera winter shows will, in accordance with the decision of the Board, reopen on Monday, 26th January, 1914. Other schools, except those at which the holidays are being curtailed for various reasons, will reopen on Monday, 2nd February, 1914. A well assorted supply of English and colonial confectionery at Perreau’s.*

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The strike has been a very bad thing for Nelson. Early strawberries, early peas, early produce of other sorts, ready for shipment to Wellington, has largely gone to waste, and the loss to the honest folks concerned with the industry has been proportionately severe. All this because tbe men who won’t work interfere with the men who will. It is all very well and very necessary to break eggs if you want custard ; but to break eggs and fling them away for the perverse pleasure of breaking them —this is folly absolute, says the Auckland Observer,

“Children’s Day” will be celebrated at the Presbyterian Church to morrow, when the service as arranged by the Youth of the Church Committee will be used. Leaflets with the special hymns will be available lor all, and the children will take a prominent part in the service. The minister, Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A., will conduct the service both morning and evening when he will deal with different aspects of the life cf Daniel. Owing to these services there will be no Sabbath School tor the children in the afternoon.

A very pleasing little ceremony took place at the local post office last night, when the postmaster, Mr A. D. Clemett, who had been transferred to Cambridge, was presented by tbe staff with a silver mounted cigar case. The presentation was made by Mr Hodgson who expressed pleasure at Mr Cleraett’s promotion, but said the staff regretted very much that they were going to lose him. He referred to the good feeling that had always existed between Mr Clemett and the members ot the staff and wished him every success in his new position. Mr Clemett feelingly responded. They’re all doing it —all along the line —worrying the post officials ringing up No. Q.* 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. Flaxtnillers, engineers, farmers, call in and see one Thomas Rimmer.*