Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
‘‘Mind ibe Paint, Girl." —Ailvt, Win. S. Hurt in “The Toll Gate," al the Town Hall shortly. —Advt. The ordinary meeting of the Borough 'Council will be held on IVTonday next, at 7.30 j>.m. Mr D. W. Robertson has donated 51b. of tea to the winner of the married women's race a.t the school picnic to-morrow.
We are asked to slate that the school children will be well catered for at to-morrow’s picnic in the way of refreshments and fruit. Parents will lie supplied with hot water and milk.
The Rev. Mr Harding has been appointed to take charge of the Pahiatua Methodist circuit by Conference, and will leave Foxtail towards the end of next month. The Rev. Mr Minilie, of Pahiatua, will be Mr Harding's successor. Harvest Thanksgiving services will be held in the Methodist Church next Sunday, to be followed by a >ale of gifts on the following Wednesday, Hith in-i., in the Masonic Hall. Particulars will be advertised in next issue.
There were three drowning fatalities at Wanganui during the weekend, the victims being a boy named Alfred Edward Waterhouse, Alfred Edward Booth, 20 years of age, and a Maori boy named Patrick Paid.
A Waitaki High School hoy named Herbert Eric Richardson, son of Mr Richardson of Tinerotc, Gisborne, while attempting to get aboard a motor 'lnis at Oamaru on Saturday, fell under the wheel and was killed.
Critics of art and pictures proclaim “The Dragon Painter” to rank with the most, beautiful productions ever screened. The superb presentation of this wonderfully beautiful legend of old Japan is a delight to the senses. To be shown at The Koval on Friday next. —Advt,
“Bring out the buck, junipers!" was a request made in a ...nitrous voice by. an apparently inebriated individual at Barton’s Circus on Saturday night. The audience gazed upon a somewhat bedraggledlooking individual. A well-worn overcoat covered his ragged clothes, and his top gear was a panama hat. The assistants attempted to quiet the obstreperous one, and hustled him out, followed by our two sturdy minions of the law. In less than no time lie slipped under the rent and stumbled into the ring. A wellknown local identity gallantly went forward to save him from being trampled on by the horse. The ring keeper decided to give him a mount, and, swaying from side to side, he managed to keep on the horse’s back. Suddenly lie stood up oil the mount as it was going, and after discarding overcoat, a number of waistcoats, trousers, etc., he stood forth in iiis ring costume a master horseman, amidst the applause and astonishment of the audience and (he surprise of those who essayed to do him a good turn. It was a remarkable feat of horsemanship. Get rid of that stubborn cold. Take NAZOL,” the penetrating, prompt and pure remedy. 1/C buys 60 doses.
‘ For the first time in several years a bankruptcy meeting is to be held in Feilding this week. Owing to the high cost of paper in the United States, American boot manufacturers, it is stated, have now decided to use leather. Government offices will be closed on Thursday, March»l7th (St. PatTick’s Day) .and on Friday to Monday,’March 25th to 28th, for The Easter holidays. - “What you say it would cost to repair this house?” a witness was asked in the Supreme Court in Wellington. “A boy of matches and £1,000!” was the striking reply.
Mr A. S. Adams, at present Crown Solicitor at Dunedin, will be appointed to fill the vacancy which will arise* a 1 the end of this month through the resignation of Air Jusffee Cooper.
In the final reading of stations at the Methodist conference, the following new appointments were made: —X. Turner to Woodville, A. Harding to Pahiatua, and A. L. Minifie to Foxton. / Blackberries have been plentiful this year, and large quantities have been gathered by local residents and converted into jam, etc. We are informed that ibis “noxious weed” is spreading rapidly in several of the adjacent swamps.
In sentencing several men at Auckland Supreme Court on Saturday to reformative treatment for extensive frauds by cashing valueless cheque*, Air Justice Stringer said: “I am certainly not going to take any steps to protect people who display such criminal carelessness.”
All arrangements are in hand for the school excursion and picnic to be held in the Ashhurst Domain tomorrow. The local business people will observe a whole holiday, and, given a fine day, there should be a record attendance. The children will be catered for free, and parents will be supplied with hot wafer and milk. The return railway fares are: School children Is (id, senior scholars 2s adults 3s.
The Palmerston Times reports the theft of £SOO worth of woollen stockings from The Palmerston railwav yards. Owing to the lack of space in the railway yards, a number of trucks were shunted to the siding at Awapuni, and left there for the night. One of the trucks was a box wagon which contained tlivin' large cases of stockings manufactured by a local firm. When I lie railway tuen arrived nexi day to take the trucks they found that the seal of the box wagon had been broken. and that the three eases bad disappeared, it would have required two or more men to move the cases, and the thieves must have operated late at night with a horse and cart to take away their ill-got-ten boolv.
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