LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1276, 25 July 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As usual a good programme of pictures will be screened at the Coronation Hall to-night.

The services in counection with the Methodist Church will be conducted to-morrow, both morning and evening, by the Rev. W. G. Maslin.

A Russian Finn named John West, aged 60, fell from the schooner Greyhound off Kawau Island, Auckland, , and was drowned. The mate of the vessel, Davies, jumped .overboard, but before he could get to West the latter sank. ■

Births registered in the various boroughs of the Dominion during June were as follows : —Gisborne 63, TimarusS, New Plymouth 34, Invercargill 32, Wanganui 28, Palmerston North 21, Nelson 20, Napier 19, Greymouth 14, Masterton 11, and Petone 10 —Well done Gisborne !

There was a very satisfactory attendance at the social and dance held in the Coronation Hall last night, under the auspices of the Catholic Church. The management was, as usual, first class, and those present sp;nt a most enjoyable evening. The music was supplied by Mr Small, and during the evening a number of vocal items were rendered. The supper was provided by the ladies of the parish in their usual lavish style. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, in the affiliation case, Wrigley v. W. E. Cook, defendant was adjudged the putative father of the child and ordered to pay seven shillings and sixpence per week towards future maintenance and £lO towards expenses of confinement. Also ordered to pay for past maintenance from January 17th, 1914, at the rate of ten shillings per week and solicitor’s costs, £2 2S. It was noticeable at the Opunake Court last week, that there was a distinct difference in the types of native witnesses (says the Taranaki Herald’s correspondent). They were all very intelligent, but differently mannered. One witness was an example to all with his “No, sir,” “ Yes, sir.” Another spoke nicely, but without polish. The third spoke of his father as “my old man,” and addressed his counsel as “ Mac.” Harriet Martineau, that woman of parts, willed herself away—in parts, James Payn, for instance, tells how she announced her intention of leaving Mr Toynbee, the aurist, her ears. “But, my dear madam, you can’t do that,” observed her doctor, “it would make your other legacy worthless.” She had, in fact, already willed away her head to the Phrenological Society, and bad left the doctor in her codicil for cutting it off. A visit to the Academy sets one wondering if public taste has really changed. The public would turn Irom this year’s pictures to —what? In 1546 Haydon exhibited two of his works—“ The Burning of Rome” and “The Banishment of Aristides at the Egyptian Hall, and in another part of the building Tom Thumb was on view in all his glory. The first week saw 12,000 people pay to see the American dwarf, and (the halt being a little girl) view Haydou’s pictures. It broke the artist’s heart. “ The grotesque bitterness of the antagonism was too much for Haydon,” wrote Miss Milford— I “the dwarf slew the giant.”

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The attendance shield at the local State school was won by Standard V., with an average attendance ot 97.6 per cent.

The death is announced of Mr W. G. Geddes, aged 94, of Dunedin. He was a prominent Oddfellow.

The services at All Saints’ tomorrow will be conducted at ix a-m, (Holy Communion) by the Rev. Mr Grove of Palmerston North, and at 7 p.m. by Mr Alf. Fraser.

At a meeting of the Imperia, Council of the Research Fundi Dr. Bashford, the General Superintendent, discussing the subject of cancer in houses, emphatically affirmed that there was no risk of infection because cases occurred in them.

There passed away on Thursday at Levin one of the fast diminishing band of early pioneers, in the person of Mr William MeNickle, who landed at Melbourne in 1861, and soon made his way to the Otago goldfields.

The Victorian Director of Quarantine sounds a warning note of the danger of a revisitatipn of bubonic plague unless strong measures are taken to destroy the rapidly-increasing number of rats. He urges the need lor creating a rat free zone around all the more important ports. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the minister, Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A. The children’s portion in the morning from Pilgrims Progress is “ The Hill Lucre and The Silver Mine.” “ I,” said the temperance man, “ strongly object to the custom ot christening ships with champagne.” “I don’t,” replied the other man. “ I think there’s a temperance lesson in it.” “ How can that be?” “Well, immediately after the first bottle of wine the ship takes to water, and sticks to it ever after.”

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