LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1210, 19 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Victoria College Council, by seven votes to three, refused to allow Sunday tennis on the college courts.

Another pakapoo raid took place in Wellington’s Chinese quarters last night, and several arrests were effected.

George Sutherland, town clerk of Taihape, has been arrested on a charge of stealing the funds of the Council. A sum of £3OO is involved.

The jury at Wellington Supreme Court returned a verdic: of not guilty in the case oi Ellen Margaret Seymour, charged with 'the murder of her illegitimate child. A married man named Claude Woodcock, of Mosstown, Wanganui, had his chest seriously crushed while working in the freezing chamber at Castlecliff yesterday. He was removed to the Hospital. Mr Frank H. Christie, aged 70, farmer, from Wanganui, who was knocked down by a tramcar in Cuba Street, Wellington, on Tuesday and removed to the Hospital, suffering from serious injuries to the head, died last evening. At the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court, Lilian Hansen, barmaid, sued William Veitch, of Wellington, farmer, for the return of a gold bracelet or its value, £lO, and, in addition, damages for its detention. After hearing evidence as to the value of the bangle, Mr Poynton, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff for £lO the value of the article, £5 damages for its detention, and costs £2 17s. Defendant did not appear, nor was he represented.

What we tell you of our stock and of ourselves we honestly believe — that’s why we are getting on. Walker and Furrie *

Clearing Sale ! Clearing Sale All the year round—selling off old stock getting in new, Thomas Rimmer.* Gentlemen! Next time you require a ‘‘best hat,” buy the “R. & G.” make—it will style and comfort give you. Apply local drapers.*

The ordinary meeting of the local State school committee will be held this evening. The Queen of the South, with a cargo of general merchandise from Wellington, is due to-morrow morning.

The Rev. William Hay, recently pastor of the Baptist Church at Dunedin, has received a call to Winnepeg. Mounsey and Co. will continue the selling of Mrs Hamer’s drapery stock on Monday next at the picture hall. Everything will be sold without reserve. We have been asked to warn youths in the habit of bathing in the river, near the boat shed, that they are committing an offence if not clothed in the regulation bathing suit.

Dr. Beddoes, of London, has issued a warning to the effect that parrots are transmitters of parrot diseases. He quotes many cases, one-third of which he declares prove fatal.

A plentiful supply of potatoes reached- the Dunedin market last week. As they were not in keeping condition the sales had to be forced. Early in the week £7 a ton was obtained, but on Saturday the price touched £4. Mr R. T. Betty has received a consignment of the famous Marlow and Bostock bools and shoes for both sexes. Inspection is invited, when patrons will be convinced that quality, prices and selection are unsurpassed.*

The Merry Widow Company finished a two-night’s season in Foxton on Tuesday evening, when the “ Quaker Girl ” was staged to a good and keenly appreciative audience. The Company intends to include Foxton in its tutnre tours of New Zealand.

The Queeu has written to the Salvation Army congratulating them on the Mothers’ Hospital at Claptou, and the Maternity Home at Stoke-Newington. The Army is preparing for an international congress in June. Delegates from all parts of the world will be attending in native costume.

Elsewhere iu this issue the supervisor of the local Technical School notifies particulars iu connection with the resumption of classes. The classes include arithmetic and English, drawing, painting and dressmaking. Should sufficient inducement oiler a class for bookkeeping will be formed.

“ The primal right of mankind wherever he lives is the right to work. If that is denied him, then he is living in a stale of serfdom,” remarked His Honour the Chief [ustice, Sir Robert Stout, in the Supreme Court, in his summingup in the trial of Henry Holland on charges ol having used seditious words.

A good joke is being told against a visitor to Stratford during the recent earthquake. He 'accompanied his friends to church, though he announced that his reappearance in the sacred edifice after an absence of so many years would probably bring the church down. When the earth trembled and the building rocked, he remembered his jest and wondered.

Boots, shoes, slippers, etc., to suit all from baby to great-grand-lather. All the leading makes, including Bostocks and Crockett and Jones. If you do not see what you require in the window, walk into the shop and ask for it. We have just what you want, and guarantee satisfaction. Better Bros,, Main Street.*

A Frenchwoman was captured | bv Moors in May last, and they assigned the captive to the harem of a fierce brigand. A baby was born two months after the capture, and the other women of the harem threatened to gouge out the eyes of the captive and her child. The two first chiefs with whom the woman was associated were killed, and she was accused of having the evil eye. Finally, the chief out of pity, returned her to the Spaniards. A klugfish with what is so far the record weight was caught by Mr A. D. Campbell off Peercy Island, Russell, on Saturday (says an Auckland correspondent). The length of the fish was sft., its girth was 36in., and it weighed 9ilb. The weight beat that of the next largest fish known to have been caught (one taken by Mr Barry, of Waihi) by The fish showed great fight, and had Mr Campbell quite exhausted by the time he lauded it. The operation took 85 minutes. Application for the recognition of an act of bravery performed by Robert Merrett, an employee of the Gisborne Borough Council, has been received by the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand. On January 26, Merrett heard cries of children who were on Waikanae beach, and he was told that Florence Marden, aged years, had been swept out to sea. He went into the water fully clothed, and after swimming 200 yards through the surf, managed to get her ashore, another man rendering help in the surf.

Perreau's up-to-date tearoom? popula ar niace for afternoon tea.*

If you look Irom 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 *

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

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