Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 287, 25 July 1908, Page 5

Local and General.

The Town Band will play selections in the Hospital grounds to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clodk. A collection will me made in aid of the funds of the institution.

In connection with the Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club races on Wednesday next, the Railway Department notifies that all trains, it required, except mail trains, will stop at Hastings racecourse for passengers. In the Tasmanian House of Assembly a Local Option Bill was read a second time on the voices. It provides for a time limit and compensation, and places clubs on the same footing as hotels. Mr E. Bibby, Waipawa, announces that he will commence a winter sale of millinery, clothing, boots, shoes, etc., on Tuesday next. The committee of the Bowling Club have had under consideration for some time the question of holding an annual ball in connection with the club, and it has been decided to hold the first on Wednesday, August sth, in the Town Hall. At a meeting at the Tavistock Hotel on Thursday night it was decided to entertain Mr and Mrs P. H. Jolley at a social gathering at an early Mate, when a presentax tion from the residents will be made. It was decided to hold another meeting on Monday night. At the opening of the West Australian Parliament on Thursday the Governor’s speech was brief. It stated that as the session w’ould be a short one only formal Bills would be submitted. The general election would be arranged for as early a date as possible, and the new parliament summoned to get through the work this year.

Some of the men employed on the gasometer had a narrow escape from a serious accident on Thursday. A plank on which they were standing broke under them, and but for the fortunate circumstance that aSower plank stopped their fall, they would have been precipitated on to the concrete floor of the holder. None of the men was injured.

A curious story of jealousy and revenge was told at the Bradford City Court recently. John Nelson, 22, was charged with breaking into a shop and stealing a quantity of furs and other goods. Maria Allcroft, 27, a mil] hand, of Leeds, was charged with receiving the stolen goods. Nelson, it appeared had formerly lived with the woman, but she had recently left him for another man. Nelson, in a fit of jealous rage, went to the police and told the story of the furs. He said he had broken into the shop fifty times in twelve months, stealing altogether some hundreds of pounds’ worth of property, which the woman had pawned. Both prisoners pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to hard labour, the man fo six months and the woman for one month. For Childrens Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d and 2s 6d.

Leonard Sutherland was fined £3O and costs at Ashburton for sly grog selling. Messrs Lundon, Stewart & Co., at their weekly sale at their mart on Tuesday next, will sell horses, produce, drapery and a lot of second-hand furniture.

Mr Gilbert Bogle, second son of Mr J. K. Bogle, who has resigned his position as under master at Wellington College and is about to leave for Edinburgh to study medicine, paid a visit to Waipukurau ou Thursday night and left yesterday morning for Napier, where he joins the Tomoana. Mr W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has been appointed a director of the London School of Economics and Political Science m connection with the University of London. It is expected that lie will resign the High Commissionership in October.

The weather during the last few days has been variable. During Tuesday the barometer fell from 29.66 to 29.26. Though it is still low, it is now steady. During the last two days 11 points of rain have fallen, and during the last seven days the fall has been 18 points.

According to statements made at a meeting of the Macquanie (New South Wales) Shire Council many rabbits sent to Sydney lor consumption are suffering from hvdatids. A councillor declared that he would sooner take a bottle of strycinine than eat a rabbit at the present time. Mr J. L. Merton, upon whom it was deemed necessary to perform an operation at the beginning of the week, is now making satisfactory progress. Mr Merton’s mother visited Waipukurau this week to see her son, but has returned to Christchurch.

The building of the gasometer is being pushed on, and Mr Booth, the contractor for the work, expects it will be completed in a week’s time. The sides of the holder are finished, and the workmen are now engaged on the top. It is anticipated that within a month of the completion of the gasometer, the works will be in running order.

The death has occurred at Feilding of Mr John Winton, who had been in the railway service on the Napier section for 29 years as porter and guard, and retired under the superannuation scheme four years ago. Mr Winton leaves a family of two daughters and three sons. His wife died about twelve years ago.\

The South Australian Parlialiament was opened on Thursday. The Governor’s Speech congratulated the country on the unexamplied prosperity prevailing. A surplus of £480,000 was expected. This would be devoted to reduction of the public debt. Attention would be given to further closer settlement and progressive land taxation, early closing, and several other social measures.

Mr R. B. Boss, member for Pahiatua, in the House on Friday asked the Minister for Public Works if he would this session include in the railway lines authorised for construction the line proposed via Rakaunui, Pongaroa, Weber and Porangahau. Mr Hall-Jones said the matter would be considered by the Government when the question of the authorisation of new lines was dealt with.

At afire which occurred on the premises of —Messrs Pain and Kershaw, at Martinborough, on Tuesday evening, some men who were helping to quench the outbreak and remove goods were injured. It is stated that 60 cases of kerosene, 20 cases of benzine and several kegs of blasting powder and ammunition formed part of the contents of the stores, and when the flames reached the portion of the building in which these goods were stored an explosion occurred.

« Just for the day I’ll be away,” Eemarked his wife last Saturday, “ If every dog must have his day Then why not every cat her day ? I’ll take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Because that’s indispensable, And ma will go with me, I’m sure You ought to think that’s sensible! (He did!)

The New South Wales Rugby Union have decided that members who signed the League form, but who have not played or received remuneration have not thereby sacrificed their amateur status. Just to hand a nice assortment ef the Nelson Library Books. The great feature in these books is that they are well bound in a size which will conveniently go into the pocket. The type is large, and they contain the largest works of Dickens and Thackeray. Price only Is. A varied supply of school requisites in stock. Picture Framing a speciality. Reed’s Arcade