LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1243, 9 May 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The services in All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be as usual at S a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. A committee meeting of the Foxton Horticultural Society will be held on Tuesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. A very successful social afternoon, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild, was held at Mrs Perreau’s residence on Wednesday afternoon. . Mr Horblow left Foxton to-day for Christchurch where he will represent the local Masonic Lodge at the annual communication of Grand Lodge, To-morrow afternoon In All Saints’ Church at 2.30 p.m, there will be a men’s service. All men are invited to this service. The preacher will be the vicar of All Saints’. The services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be conducted both morning and evening by the Rev W. G. Maslin. He will also conduct a service at Oroua Downs in the afternoon. In the allocation of riding receipts and expenditure, the Manawatu County Council has decided that hotel, dog and other license fees shall be treated as county receipts, and proportions placed to the credit of the respective ridings. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the minister, Rev J. M. Thomson, M.A. in the morning, and by Mr J, Chrystall in the evening. The children’s portion from “Pilgrim’s Progress’’ will be continued in the morning.

A long-felt want! There is no need for cold feet this winter, as we have just landed a fine assortment of felt slippers for the cold weather, in sizes from baby’s to grandfather's. Avoid colds by keeping your feet dry. Rktter Bros, sell boots which they guarantee will keep the wet out. An inspection is invited. Prices to suit all pockets/' 1 Perreau’s assorted Jfruit pics are delicio us. Try them.*

On being asked his qualifications for the position of tea expert, he proved he had blended Haslemere for years. Rimmer sells it.* Got a cold in the head? Try a fews.niffs from a Nazol Inhaler, and you will feel a marked relief. Repeat this simple treatment several times, and the cold will vanish.

Gentlemen! JMext time you require a “best hat,’’ buy the “R. & G.” make—it will style and comfort give you. Apply local drapers*

We like the R. and G. brand of hats and caps very much, they are so comfortable, light in weight, perfect in style and very durable. Ask your local clothier for the R. and G. brand evervtime.* Having just landed an up-to-date supoly of catering utensils from .England, Mr M. Perreau is now in a position to specialise in catering, which will be undertaken in any p-art of the district.*

A meeting of managers of the local Presbyterian Church was held on Thursday night. The Rev J. M. Thomson presided. The financial position was discussed at length and it wa? decided to make a personal appeal to members for financial assistance in lieu of any special public effort. Mr T. kind, of Shannon, has had the misfortune to lose the sight of his left eye, it is hoped only temporarily. A few days ago he was cutting a box thorn hedge and got a thorn into his eye. He is at present under medical treatment, but it will be some considerable time before he regains the use of the eye. The boxing contest at Hastings on Tuesday between Barney Ireland (Waipawa) and Denny Murphy (Wellington) for a purse of and the middleweight championship of New Zealand (fifteen three-minute rounds) was won, by Murphy on points. A quantity of first-class household furniture is advertised for private sale by Mrs W. Teviotdale, including a splendid piano, chesterfield, saddle bags.chair, oak dining room suite, bedroom suite, etc. A lull list appears in our advertising columns. The furniture will be ou sale at her residence, Purcell Street, on Tuesday, May 12th, from 10 a.m. Professor Prince (of Canada), Captain Nielson (Napier), and Mr H. F. Ayson (Inspector of Fisheries) have left Wellington by the Hinemoa on a trawling cruise round the North Island. All the principal fishing grounds will be visited and experiments will be carried out at various other places. The vessel will go up the east coast, returning to Wellington via the west coast, and will be absent about four weeks.

Daring the last sessionfof Parliament, Mr Okey, member for Taranaki, asked for a return giving the estimate of what would be the cost of providing every man and woman in the Dominion with a pension £26 per year on attaining the age of 65 years. The return, which is now being circulated, states that at the present time the cost would be ,£1,271,400 per annum, being the amount payable to 48,900 people at the age of 65 and over. An influential deputation waited on Mr J. A. Nash, Mayor of Palmerston N., this week, says the Standard, and asked him to become a candidate for the Palmerston seat at the general election of members of the House this year, Mr Nash was invited by the deputation to stand in the Government interest. He promised to give their representations full consideration, and to make an announcement as to his decision in the course of a few days. We have it on good authority that Mr Nash will accede to the request. At a full meeting of the Foxtou Branch of the C.E.M.S. held on Thursday evening, May 7th, it was proposed by Mr A. J. Kellow, seconded by Mr W. Thompson, and carried: "That this meeting heartily congratulates the vicar and parishioners of Palmerston North on the splendid achievement of building such a handsome church, and the magnificent enthusiasm displayed by the people on May 6th, the day of its opening ; and that God will richly bless all their labours and make this house a fitting temple of His, where priests and people may continually glorify His Holy Name.”

A London correspondent writes: —Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Mr Edward Newman, M.P., reached London in the last week of March. His visit will extend to three months, which will allow him to get back to New Zealand in time for the opening of Parliament. Mr Newman’s main object is to enquire into the question of agricultural colleges in this country, and to see if there is anything to be learned which would be of use to New Zealand. Mr Newman reported on the Hawkesbury college to the New Zealand Government last year, and now he proposes to visit the principal agricultural institution on this side. On the return journey, which v.'ill be made by way of Canada, Guelp College, the largest of its kind in the world, will be inspected. Mr Newman is hopeful that he may obtain some suggestive information, You are sure to want cartridges give Kelly a chance to supply you.* Perreau'S up-to-date tea rooms popula ar oiace for afternoon tea.* For Influenza take W oods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/6. Haslcmere is absolutely the best value in the tea market. Try a pound. You will like it. Thomas Rimmer.* It is quality that makes a bargain. This will be found in every pair of boots or shoes purchased at Rktter Bros. Ladies, call and see the special line of 6dong welted sole shoes from 13s str. Boots and shoes of all makes and prices stocked. Don’t forget, we sell five tins of Nugget polish for is.* Our bacon comes trom well-fed little country pigs, and is specially cured for us. It’s exceptionally mild, and possesses a flavour that marks it as something better than the ordinary. Have you tried it? Walker & Furrie.* Feed a cold with “NAZOL,” and you’ll starve it out. No cough or cold is proof against this honest remedy. “Nazol” acts like a charm with old and young. Sold everywhere eighteen pence for 60 doses. We have a fine of styles in Warner’s Rust-proof COl- - in order that we may accurately and comfortably fit every woman who comes to our counters lor a corset. Foxton Drapers.

Mr W. H. Ferris, cbief hemp grader, paid an official visit to Foxtou yesterday. Mr James E. Petherick, a theatrical manager, announces thai he will be a Liberal candidate tor Christchurch North, against Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P. Of sixteen Chinese charged on Thursday with being found in a common gaming house in Wellington, two were discharged, two fined £3 each, and the remainder £2 each. The programme of pictures to be screened at the Coronation Hall to-night is quite up to the usual high standard. The star film, “House of Discord,” is 2,100 feet in length. Tickets for the euchre party and dance to be held in the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening under the auspices of the local Band, are selling well, and the function promises to be a pronounced success. The committee have all arrangements well in band. Edward J. Cuckow, a railway guard, while taking part in a hunt at Otautau, was thrown from his horse and sustained concussion of the brain. He died on Thursday morning. Deceased was married and leaves a wife and three children. The death occurred at Auckland on Thursday of Mr John Henson, a well-known resident of Sanson, and a member of the Manawatu County Council. Mr Henson had gone to Auckland on a visit, and whilst there contracted ptomaine poisoning, which terminated fatally.

The of the South with a general cargo from Wellington arrived yesterday and sailed again last night for the same port with a cargo of hemp. The Wootton with general from Lyttelton, Waverley with coal from Greymouth, and Awahou with general from Wellington are all due tomorrow.

A very pleasing little ceremony took place at Mr R. N. Spelts’ timber yard on Friday evening, when Mr D. Drummond, one of the employees, who is to be married shortly, was made the recipient of two presentations. Mr A. Stevenson, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr Drummond with a clock and Mr R. N. Speirs gave him a silver afternoon tea set. Mr Dummond feelingly responded. When the centenary of the Battle of Waterloo is celebrated next year visitors to the famous field will find that it has become a favourite site for the building of country villas. There are no fewer than 50 now on the field where Napoleon met his doom, and many of them are built on the very spots that were occupied by the combatants. The field is an ideal situation for country retreats —excpt for the throngs of tourists in the summer. The completion of good motor roads from Nivelles and Charleroi has done much to stimulate villa building.

The extent of the infection borne by flies was referred to at a meeting in Auckland of the Society for the Protection of the Health of Women and Children by the chairman (Dr. W. McDowell). He observed that a pure milk supply was useless if the milk were not protected in the home. Flies were chiefly responsible for carrying the germs of typhoid fever, and the extent of infantile summer diarrhoea was largely attributable to the infection borne by flies. The Plunket Nurses might well teach the people how to combat the fly evil. Two Southland politicians were much surprised men on Thursday morning last. One had profusely thanked the assembled electors for conferring upon him the high favour of membership of an important public body. A few small returns had still to come in, but, he assured hi* friends, they could not alter the final result. After again thanking them, his enthusiastic supporters showered their congratulations upon him, and there were loud calls for the third, and defeated man, there being two vacancies. Disgusted at the lack of intelligence displayed by| the electors, he had beaten a hasty retreat homewards. Next morning the final returns came to hand and reversed the positions. The elation ot the discomfited one of the night before was great: what the other man said, or might be expected to have said, may be left to the imagination. Hereafter he pins firm faith in the old aphorism, “ Never count your chickens before they are hatched.”