LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1177, 27 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Strike matters are quiet at Lyttelton and Dunedin, and the wharves are being worked.

The trams have resumed running at Auckland, and the hotels have re opened.

The Public Works Statement was brought down in the House yesterday.

The amount of ,£250 appears on the estimates for deepening the river at Foxtou Harbour.

The repeal of the Second Ballot passed the Lower House yesterday by 33 votes to 19. James Henderson Thompson, a bogus doctor, was sentenced to twelve mouths at Auckland yesterday.

The Borough Council has received Mr Suggate’s report re water and drainage, which will be dealt with at an early date. The new Arbitration Waterside Workers’ Union at Wellington now totals 1,500, members and 1,300 men were at work on the wharves yesterday. The Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill has been agreed to by the Committee, but two clauses have been postponed at the instance of the Minister.

Margaret Ellen Seymour, a single woman, was remanded at Wellington till December 3rd on a charge of murdering her illegitimate child.

A great upheaval is feared , in Sydney, and vessels are held up, causing great inconvenience and hardship to passengers for New Zealand.

Two young bachelors who indulged in some preserved pineapple at Wanganui on Sunday evening were stricken with ptomaine poisoning. At latest advices they were progressing favourably. Parlianent will probably adjourn from its rising on Friday till Tuesday evening, to enable members to attend the opening of the Auckland exhibition on Monday. Members will leave on Saturday, and return from Auckland on Monday night. Mr P. Wollerman, cabinetmaker and furnisher, is now offering an exceptional opportunity to the residents of this district to secure house furnishings at slaughter sale prices. Some lines below cost. An early call will secure the best of the bargains.* Tenders for a jetty at the Beach were dealt with by the local committee of the Foxtou Harbour Board, and ranged from ,£ll4 to ,£1,275. The tender at £l l4 was provisionally accepted, it being deemed advisable to use jarrah or hardwood for stringers and braces in preference to rimu, as specified, if satisfactory arrangements can be made.

Mr Geo. Hawke, of the postal service, is on a visit to his brother, Mr A. Hawke, our local postmaster. Mr Hawke is now stationed at Waihi. He is not a stranger to Foxtou, for this was his first promotion from Greytown 23 years ago. Mr Hawke notices a wonderful change in the town since he was on duty here under Mr Curtis, though many once familiar faces are missing. The uns.-lfishuess of Mr J. Maudl, the well-known brewer of Hokitika, is just now the theme of public comment —and highly complimentary comment at that. Since the industrial upheaval began he has been appealed to by various West Coast breweries for supplies ol malt, any price demanded being freely offered. He bas supplied quantities as far north as Westport, and even a rival brewery in his own town, and refuses payment, merely asking that the amount he has lent be returned as soon as opportunity offers, as his stock has been considerably reduced by his generous action. —Westport Times. The Christchurch Evening News, in referring to Mr Fox, ‘‘the farmer from Pahiatua,” who moved a resolution at the mass meeting of strikers in Wellington the previous day, stated : ‘‘The Mr Fox, ‘farmer,’ referred to above, is a well-kuowu Euglish Labour and Socialist agitator. He was formerly a clergyman, but his views were incompatible with that office, and after coming to New Zealand he was wont to travel the Mauawatu districts addressing the flaxworkers and others on the virtues ot syndicalism. He went to England and figured there as an advocate of the strikers. On returning to New Zealand Ire took a small dairy farm at Pahiatua. His views are ol the extreme ‘‘red type.”

English fenders m great variety just from the manufacturer. Pick yours now and save disappointment. Walker and Fume.*

Steel snips, leather punch and drill, pipe grips and holders, foot-rot or tree pruaers, and pinchers, all in one combined article; light, strong durable, easy to use. Flaxraillers, engineers, farmers, call in and see one Thomas Rimmer.*

Wanted—The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. de Luen, tailor, of Palmerston North, will call on anyone with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4s, Suits from £4 10s.*

The latest riddle from Wellington is: “Why is a little baby like a strike leader “Because it is Red, Fed, Young and Semple ! - ’ No fewer than 173 children were killed and 5,075 injured during the year in Doudon streets, chiefly by stealing rides cu vehicles. The Dondou County Council is considering whether it is possible for school teachers to punish children so caught.

At the Housing Inquiry in Dublin, a member of the corporation gave evidence That it,426 persons lived seven to twelve in one room. Father Costello said there were many cases where there was only one bed for an entire family. He added that Dublin suffered from lack of employers. A warrant was recently issued (says au Invercargill telegram) for the arrest of James Geddes McDonald, manager at Clinton for the New Zealand Doan and Mercantile Agency Company for alleged embezzlement. McDonald was traced to Clifdeu by Constable McCilchy, of Otautau, and from there to Dake Hauroto, where he was arrested on Tuesday.

Writing to the Taranaki Herald, Mr Geo. Doveridge, a member of the “All Black” team now in California, says: “Americans always refer to us as the Australians, aud we don’t hesitate to correct them. A large majority of the people here seem to think that New Zealand adjoins the Commonwealth, aud show great surprise when informed that New Zealand is about 1,200 miles from Australia. The Americans seem to be too busy to study geography.” Chief Inspector Braik to-day completed an inspection of the local State school. From what we could gather from a conversation with this expert educationalist, the Foxton people have no cause for complaint against the school staff, equipment and environment. The inspector was more than delighted with the gardens, which he characterised as a marvel of practical horticultural and agricultural science. He compared the once arid waste laud to the present charming vegetable and garden plots, which provided not only an object lesson to the pupils, but to the residents.

Before the Athenic left Wellington, a medal was struck in commemoration of her loading in strike lime. It is a pretty ornament, silver with blue enamel scrolls, and a flag with the “S.S. Athenic” on it. Special constables who were guarding workers engaged in loading the liner —as well as some of the workers themselves —already possess these, so their wives, sisters or sweethearts will have an ornament in luture years to remind them that hubby or brother once was a hero in the eyes of all Wellington maidens. The thoughtful action of some of the mounted specials in Wellington should act as a set-off to the abuse which the strike leaders are so loud of heaping upon them. Some of them who have been acting as carters for one of the firms whose men went on strike, handed over the whole amount earned between them on behalf of the wives and families of the men whose vacancies they had filled. The generosity was prompted by the fact that the firm’s carters had come out much against their will, but felt that they could not “turn down” their fellow unionists.

Devin tradespeople are complaining bitterly about the failure of several farmers in meeting their bills. In some instances these have been owing for long periods, and the tradesmen take it amiss (after the record sum of nearly having been paid out by the Dairy Factory last week) that the town should be suffering still from scarcity of money. A tradesman who called in at The Chronicle office to make this complaint said he was of opinion that some farmers had been so scared by the strike that they were afraid to spend the money now they had it. This, he said, was most unfair to tradespeople who have been reckoning on using the November payments for liquidation of their own accounts, due to warehousemen and their fellow tradespeople. The Wellington Evening Post recalls that during the great maritime strike of 1890 the steamer Pateeua, which the Union Company afterwards purchased from the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, had the unique experience of making the voyage from Melbourne to Dauucestou with a crew which consisted only of the captain, chief officer, and the first and second engineers. The Pateena carried four passengers on that memorable voyage, and there were also several stewards, who all assisted in the stoking, and the steamer arrived in port without a mishap of any kind. Captain Hood, now maritime surveyor in Auckland, and formerly harbourmaster at New Plymouth, was then in the service of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, and was chief officer of the ’ Pateena in 1890, when she made the voyage without any regular seamen.

Entries are advertised for the Himatangi stock sale. When about to make > a presenta tion or give a trophy, visit the Red House. A great variety of suitable goods to select from. Thomas Rimmer.* Warner’s Corset comfort is realno expanse is spared in securing the finest soft fabrics, flexible boning, rubber button hose supporters and dainty trimmings for their construction. We always recommend Warner’s. Local drapers. PERREAU’S up-to-date tea room is popula ar place lor afternoon tea.*

The death occurred at Wellington yesterday morning of the wife of Mr Ed. Barber.

During the past few days the weather has been very stormy along this coast. High winds, accompanied by heavy downpours ot rain and hail aud thunder storms have been experienced. The elements appear to be in keeping with the times.

Perreau’s assorted fruit pies are delicious. Trv them.*

If you look from outside you have no idea of our stock. Come inside and look round, see our furniture and enquire about our special cash proposition—you will be surprised. Walker and Furrie.*