LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1174, 20 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the local school committee will be held this evening. The friends of our esteemed pioneer settler, Mrs Symons seur., will regret to learn that there is no improvement iu her condition. For using obscene language to a Maori woman at the Otaki railway station, a man named Daniel Fitzpatrick was convicted and sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment at Otaki on Monday.

The following local pupils at the Palmerston High School have been granted free places on their work at the school during the past two years : —Stanley Walter Barber, Henry Berthold and Leonard Harry Daniells. Mr and Mrs A. D- Clemett left Eoxtou yesterday morning for their new home in Cambridge. A number of townspeople were present at the station to bid them au revoir and God-speed.

A large number of farmers and special constables were in Masterton on Saturday night, expecting to hear another address from the soap-box orator of the Red Federation. The latter, however, did not materialise, and a few hundred people were disappointed. —Age.

The Federation of Labour has issued a manifesto which concludes : “Let us close up our ranks and swear eternal Hdelilyl in the cause and in each other, all for each and each (or all. To do this means solidity, absolute and certain victory.”

Ellen Margaret Seymour was brought before Mr Riddell, S.M., at Wellington yesterday, on a charge of murdering her illegitimate child, Thelma Mary Davis, whose dead body was found ou Sunday under a house at Eastbourne, where they had been living. She was remanded till 26th lust.

Some young people were out boating the other evening. A young lady noticed a glove in the bottom of the boat, and (crthwith pulled it up. The glove happened to be the plug. When the glove was removed the water rushed into the boat, but the leak was soon stopped, and the young lady was subjected to some goodnatured chaff.

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

fooi.” . . . But since that time a week has passed, ' The poor chap’s getting well quite

fast i. , m, , ’Twas only with the aid tor sure Of a dose of Woods’ Great Peppermint cure. 4

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Despite the recent stormy weather, which played havoc with the blooms in local fi nver gardens, there is a fine collection of ex hibits in the cut bloom sections at the Spring Show and some magni ficenl flowers are on exhibition. It has been suggested that the Spring Show should be held a week or so earlier than the present dates. A miraculous escape from a serious accident happened to a party ot local motorists on the Turaklna hill on Monday last. The wheel skidded and the car swerved over the embankment and slid down about forty feet falling on its side at the bottom. The brakes were applied when the wheels skidded and this no doubt saved the situation. Beyond a scare to the occupants no damage was done.

Sir Rider Haggard, a member of the Dominions’ Commission, in discussing forestry at the Au hors’ Club, London, said he saw things iu Australia and New Zealand calculated to make the heart of a forester bleed. He instanced the destruction of the kauri and pine lorests iu New Zealand. Evtrywhere the timber was being burned, destroyed and wasted. Unless the world checked the waste ot timber iu the next hall century there would be a timber famine.

Says last night’s Palmerston Standard :—“ Pinned on the wall of the office of the Manawatu Flaxmill Workers’ Union in Palmerston North is a long sheet of paper, on the top of which is written iu big capital letters, the word “ scabs.” Underneath is appended thirty-three names of young men from Palmerston and the neighbouring district, who have given their services to the country at Wellington as special constables. This is the sort ot conduct that earns the contempt of decent people, and the workers who are responsible for it are merely their own enemies- The young men who have gone to Wellington as special constables are a credit to tUemselves and their country, and they can afford to ignore the silly action referred to.”

It is complained by stiike sympathisers {says the Carterton Daily News) that the side of the strikers does not receive the same publicity in the press as that given the other side. Yet every manifesto of the strike committees handed to the press receives just as full and as free publication as the statements of the other side. The speeches and meetings of the strikers have been reported at great length, and at least four columns of every six of addresses on strike matters have been those of strike leaders and sympathisers. If their side has not been fairly put, it cannot be the fault of the press, although newspapers have all through been villified and insulted in the very speeches they have reported and published.

The death occurred at Otaki last week of Mr William Webber, who was the first white child born in Otaki. He was well known all along the coast and was very popular, especially among natives, being their counsellor and friend at all times. For many years he worked as a suveyor with Mr Morgan Carkeek, after which he took up coach driving. He had an unassuming nature, was always obliging, and saw much of the ups-and-downs of early life in the district. Deceased, who was 62 years of age, lived all his life in Otaki, and for many years had been one of of the most prominent and hard working officers of the Otaki Maori Racing Club. For the past three years be has been in indifferent health, and was obliged to enter the Otaki Hospital on account of a cancerous growth in the head. He never recovered, but gradually became worse.

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