LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1336, 15 December 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An earthquake was experienced locally at about 6.20 this morning. Accounts amounting to ,£633 os 4d were passed tor payment at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council. During the mouth of November, ten head of cattle were impounded by the ranger, the driving fees amounting to four shillings. Farmers in the Himatangi district are being troubled with sheep worrying dogs. A night or two ago one farmer lost no less than sixteen sheep in this way. A meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 17th inst., at 7.45 p.m. Business: To discuss deferential rating and general. The breaking-up and pri/.e distributing ceremony in connection with the local State school will take place next Friday afternoon. The public are invited to be present at the ceremony.

There were present at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council; The Mayor (Mr G. H. Stiles) and Crs. Coley, Whibley, Kempster, Freeman, Speirs, Barber, Chrystall, Henderson and Read.

The senior girls at the local State school have issued invitations to the committee and others to be present at the school tennis court to-morrow, at 2 p.m., on the occasion of the formal opening of the court, and to partake of afternoon tea.

Several local patients are in the district hospital. Mr P. Pererson who recently underwent an operation, is in a very critical condition; Mrs Thomas had her leg amputated, and is making satisfactory progress ; Mr 1,. Burstou, operated on for appendicitis is progressing favourably and a nephew of Mr Patterson was also operated on tor appendicitis and is doing fine.

It was decided at last night’s Council meeting on the motion of Crs Speirs and Chrystall, that the tax on all dogs other than working dogs be reduced to five lings per dog on those registered before January 31st, working dogs 2s 6d, after which date the full fee of ten shillings per dog to be collected in every case. A cricket match has been arranged for to-morrow afternoon between the local club and a school team. All club members who are able to play are requested to be on the Park ground at 3 o’clock. The following will represent the school:—Burgess, Gabites, Parlane, Kruse, McAllister. Lawton, M. Robinson, 'W. Langley, Wallbutton, Morgan, Findlay; emergencies, Bullard, Walls.

Several complaints have been made of late of vases being removed from graves in the local cemetery. No doubt the removal of the vases is the work of thoughtless children, and in order to guard against a recurrence, the Council decided at last night’s meeting, on the motion of Crs Barber and Chrystall, that a notice board be erected at the cemetery notifying children unless accompanied by adults, are prohibited from entering.

Buy at J. M. Kelly’s for Cash Packet Magic Soap, equal to Sunlight, I/- pkt.

A silver and enamel brooch awaits an owner at this office. Advice was received this afternoon that the Dresden had succeeded in eluding her pursuers ; also that a Turkish cruiser had been sunk by a British submarine in the Dardanelles.

The death occurred at the Palmerston North Hospital on Thursday of Mr John Spelman of Pohaunga, and formerly of Foxtou. Deceased was 57 years of age.

The Queen of the South, with general merchandise from Wellington, arrived this morning. She will sail again to-morrow morning for Wellington with hemp. The programme screened at the Municipal Pictures on Saturday night was one of the finest that has ever been shown there. Every item was well worth the moury paid to go in. The picture which was received with most eulogistic remarks and prolonged applause was “War Dogs of To-day.” The sight of the different classes of battleships of our Allies as well as the various types of their and our own troops called forth prolonged and well earned cheers. Messrs Holben aud Kirk have an announcement in their advertising space of particular interest to farmers. They are agents for one-horse mowers, which are built on the same lines as the two-horse machined. By procuring one of these machines, farmers will not have to depend on contractors to cut their crops. The price of the machine is ,£l3 xos at the Palmerston railway station, and Messrs Holben and Kirk will gladly supply catalogues and full particulars on request.

Pilot Lawton is a reliable man in piloting vessels across a treacherous bar, but during Sunday afternoon’s storm his services were requisitioned to steer a fractious horse which was conveying a party of ladies and children along the beach. The pilot soon mastered the animal, and, further, removed his oilskin for the occupants’ protection against the driving rain. We are asked to acknowledge the pilot’s act of kindness, which was keenly appreciated by those concerned. The manager of the gas works recommended at last night’s Council meeting that where large meters are installed for power as a stand-by supply, and where less than 500 ft. is used in any one month, that a rental of 5s be charged. He also recommended, in view of the increase in the number of cookers being installed, that an expert be engaged to demonstrate the proper and most effective system of gas cooking.— On the motion of Crs Coley and Whibley, the recommendations were approved.

Mr Fisher would seem to be in in no way depressed by his defeat at the polls if we are to judge by his readiness to joke over his own misfortune, as witness the following ; During the heat of the last session of Parliament Mr Atmore, member for Nelson, declared that Mr Fisher, at the coming elections, would be served by his constituents with a writ of ejection. Mr Fisher remembered this prophetic pronouncement, and telegraphed Mr Atmore as lollows ; “ Writ of ejection received last night, apparently prepared in duplicate. Understood you received the other copy.” Mr Atmore, apparently, is not in a jocular mood, for no reply has yet come to hand.—Dominion.