Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 22 June 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

.O: Sergeant Baskiville’s friends have decided to assemble in the Oddlellows’ Hall this evening to bid that officer good-bye prior to his leaving for Dunedin next Monday. Mrs Baskiville will be entertained by lady friends before her departure. Mr Gow has sold 6f- acres of suburban land to Mr Skidmore, at £5O per acre. Mr Jones has also disposed of some suburban property to Mr Logan at a long price. Mr Tipping negotiated the latter sale. The Kumara Times, writing of the late Mr Seddon, says: —New Zealand has lost the greatest man it has yet seen, and Westland, and particularly Kumara, has lost its salvation. A long special train, drawn by two engines, went through to Wellington on Wednesday night. The carriages were sparsely occupied, but filled before reaching Masterton. The temperature at 9 a.m. to-day was 40 degrees. There will be a children’s service at the Church of England on Sunday at 10 a.m.; Rev H. O. Hampton preacher. Mr Tipping advertises for sale a number of quarter-acre sec ions. In to-day’s issue there appears an interesting advertisement re red letter days in Waipukurau. Messrs Jones & Son, the well-known auctioneers, draw special attention to the ruthless slaughter of drapery, etc., in the Town Hall, Waipukurau, commemcing 26th June, and will continue for three days. The auctioneer evidently intends to make the sale one to be remembered by those who attend and secure the bargains. The goods are imported direct from the manufacturers, and comprise every-day useful and necessary household requirements and will be slaughtered absolutely without reserve. The public should crowd the building daily. The firm’s motto is “ Don’t block the doorway, but rush right in.” —Advt.

The Railway Department announce excursion fares in connection with Napier Park races. The De Forrest Company claims to have transmitted, on April 18th, 572 words across the Atlantic from Coney Island to Ireland, a distance of 3280 miles, by wireless telegraphy. April 18th marked the maximum achievement of a long series of experiments. Altogether 1000 words were sent, and out of these 428 were lost on the broad Atlantic. Hitherto the longest distance covered by the company is 2100 miles, between Coney Island and Colon, Panama. a The experts of the company hope to ascertain the exact pitch or tune by which Ireland and the Coney Island station are related, and it is believed that commercial wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic only awaits the complete equipment of the Irish stations. Waipawa is evidently Liberal in its views, though for several years it has supported a paper of Tory tone. Immediately the news of the Premier’s death was received, the shops closed up for the day; and yesterday was a whole holiday. No doubt the inhabitants of the neighbouring budding city fully appreciate MrSeddon’s administration.

Russia has the most rapidly increasing population of any country in the world The growth during the last hundred years has been a fraction less than one million annually. The Colonial Marriages Bill has passed the House of Lords. A Birmingham bookmaker has been fined £3OO and costs for using a house for the purposes of betting, Ten thousand betting papers were found in the house. Mr C. HaII,H.H.R., has returned from the North. An American paper says: —What is editorial courtesy ? Why, it is when a newspaper editor is caught stealing chickens at midnight, and his brother editors kindly allude to the matter as “Strange freak of a somnambulist.” Hastings races to-day. Several from this district attending. Mr F. T. Bullen, the author-lec-turer, spoke of the Marine parade, Napier, as the best esplanade of rhe kind he had seen in his travels. In China a man cannot by will dispose of his land in favor of any one person, whether relative or stranger; it must be distributed among his male children.

During the last 14 years there tas only been one prisoner for trial at the South Molton (Devon) Quarter Sessions. In 1900, when the Boer war broke out, Mr Seddon was the first Premier to offer the Mother Country a colonial contingent to serve in South Africa. Tne offer was accepted, and no less than 10 contingents were sent to the war, where they fought side by side with the flower of the Imperial army, and carried themselves with credit to the colony. Mr Seddon was naturally very proud of the contingents, and was warmly complimented at Home in high places upon the prompt action he had taken in the circumstances. Constable Stevens has arrived in Waipukurau and commenced duty. A rather unusual request was made to some racing stewards in America recently, when the bookmakers requested that a jockey named Herman Radtke should be barred from riding, or else that some more good riders should be brought to the meeting. The diminutive Radtke had b en riding with such phenomenal success —he steered 21 winners in a week—that the pen cillers found that the public were backing the jockey and not the horse. The stewards tuok no action in the matter. A gruesome discovery has been made in the bed of the Apihi river, near Temuka, where a human hand thought to have belonged to a middle-aged female, has just been found. There is no clue as to the identity, but the police are making enquiries. The eighth annual meeting of the Lew Zealand Factory Butter and Cheese Makers’ Association was held in Palmerston on Tuesday, Mr H. ?f. Rockell (Dannevirke), the president, was in the chair, and there was an attendance of one hundred and sixty. The annual report stated that in the North Island the financial members numbered 19 , and in the South Island 35 ; a total of 225, as against 191, the previous record. One Wellington licensee stated that the demand for accomodation this week was greater than was experienced at the time of the Royal visit.

A party of Chinamen who have been working at Orcpuki, recently dismantled a long tail race, which had been boarded, and the timber in which had become rotten. As a result of their work they netted <£4oo worth of gold. On Sunday evening, at the Presbyterian Church, Rev J. Pattison., made special and appropriate ref-, erence to the late Premier. Dr Savage (writing in the British Medical Journal) says: —We have women who make accusations against one. I have come to the conclusion that though there are evil men there are more evillyminded, hysterical women, and I have not only to consider ialse accusations, but equally false confessions. I have come across several. By a destructive fire in Auckland last evening, a large block of buildings at the corner of Queen and Victoria streets was destroyedThe little pupil-teacher who is placedin charge of little pupils not many years younger is coming in for more attention nowadays—and none too soon. There are few things more depressing than theordeal some of these unfortunates have to undergo until they outgrow the youth which is the one misfortune everybodv is sure to conquer. The colonial schoolboy is none too reverent at the best, and his attitude towards those unable to exercise proper authority over him is as demoralising to the schools as it must be painful to them. —Exchange: