LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2019, 23 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Masons intend to entertain their lady friends at a conversazione in the Masonic Hall next Friday evening.

The Foxton Motor and Engineering Co’s, new garage is nearing completion. • ■ The Secretary to the Treasury announces a donation of £7 as "conscience money,” forwarded to the Minister of Finance through the Commissioner of Taxes.

The preacher .at All Saints’ Church , to-morrow evening will be the Rev. W. G. Williams, the assistant superintendent of the Maori Mission,

The annual general meeting of members of the Foxton Bowling Club will be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Wednesday next, at 8 p.m. A full attendance is requested.

A great deal of interest was taken by local residents in the Court proceedings,yesterday, the accommodation of the Court House being taxed to its limit, it being a case of. “standing room only.” Mr Yuc H. Jackson, secretary of the Chinese. Consulate at Wellington, acted as interpreter in the cases of theft from the Chinamen’s gardens, at yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court.

At yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, -in the judgment summons G. H. McGregor v. W, H. Honiara, judgment debtor was ordered to pay. £39 3s (id within one month, in default two months’ imprisonment. f

The animal general meeting of members of the Foxton Lawn Tennis Club will be held in- the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening next, at 8 o’clock. Business: To receive anipwl report and balance-sheet, election of officers, and general. A full attendance of members is requested.

Mrs J. Desmond nolilies that she has purchased the sweets and confectionery business recently carried on by Mr A, Grant, and hopes to merit a share of public patronage. AH the sweeps will be manufactured on the'premises, and as only the purest ingredients will be used, customers can rely on getting only the purest and most wholesome sweetmeats..

A tragically sudden death occurred at Detune . last Tuesday. Mrs E. M. Pudney, who returned to Petone on Friday, after spending a honeymoon trip in Christchurch, passed away after a brief illness. Deceased was well known at Shannon, and was a, sister of Mr Jas. Bichardson, of Shannon, and Mr Lionel Richardson, of Foxtun.

Says last night’s Post: —“‘The Liberal Party,’ says Sir Joseph Wafil, ‘from a political point of vie\y, had everything to gain by remaining out of a National Government.’ We cannot accept his statement, ‘ We believe that the Liberal Party gained •almost as much as the nation from its acceptance of the coalition. It is, however, clear that Sir Joseph Ward now considers that the party has everything to gain by breaking up the coalition?*and that neither its interests nor those of the nation will suffer from the process. On the contrary, we see in the step which he lias taken a serious menace to the national interests.”