The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, October 13, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 439, 13 October 1908, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, October 13, 1908. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lost brooch is advertised for, Mr Stevens, M.P., hopes to visit Foxton in the course of a few days.

Correspondence and other reading matter is unavoidably crowded out of this issue.

The annual meeting of the Rowing Club will be held in Perreau’s rooms to-morrow night.

Mr John Stevens, M.P., arrived at Bulls to day. He has now started on his political campaign.

We remind the public of the Biograph Company and Variety Entertainment in the Public Hall to-morrow night. The Secretary of the Foxtou Athletic Club desires to acknowledge receipt of a donation from Mr R. H. Baillie. Mr A. Lazarette has donated one guinea as a prize for the best collection of cut flowers, at the local Horticultural Society’s forthcoming show. Intending exhibitors at the Foxton Horticultural Society's Show can obtain entry forms on application to the secretary (Mr Rae-Howard).

The last session of the late Parliament closed at midnight last Saturday, and most of the members have returned to their constituencies.

Mr, Byron Brown, a candidate for the Otaki seat, will address the electors at Shannon on Thursday next, and at the schoolhouse, Moutoa, on Wednesday, 20th inst.

Mr Stevens’ supporters will meet at Oroua Downs (old school house) to-morrow (Wednesday) at 7.30 p.m., Oroua Bridge Hall on Thursday 15th at 7.30 p.m. The meeting of Mr John Stevens’ supporters convened for last night, is postponed till Friday evening, in the Masonic Hall at 7.30 o’clock, when a committee will be formed and other details discussed.

The Rev. Mr Palmer will speak in the open air in Main Street on the No-License question to-morrow and Thursday evenings prior to the meetings in All Saints’ schoolroom and the Masonic Hall.

We have received a telegram from MrStevens, M.P. pointing out that in our article dealing with the Harbour Board Bill in Saturday’s issue we omitted pilotage and harbour dues from the list of endowments. We will publish Mr Stevens’ letter, received by the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, explaining the position in our next issue.

For neglecting to affix and cancel in the manner required by the Beer Duty Act of 1880 a stamp on a two-gallon keg of beer, a Feilding brewer named W, H. Redwood was recently fined E 5 a nd costs, gs ; on a second charge of failing to affix stamps to three casks of beer, the same defendant was fined Ed and costs, E 3 3s. On a third charge of failing to have his name legibly branded on the outside of a two-gallon keg of beer, Redwood was fined another E 5 and costs, E 3 3 s * Three other charges against him were withdrawn by the Customs Department. The New York newspapers state that by the administration of strychnine, combined with artificial respiration, a man who three minutes previously had been pronounced dead was on August 17 restored to life at the Brooklyn Hospital. The heart had ceased to beat, and there appeared not the smallest doubt that the patient was dead, but the doctor in charge of the case, anxious to test a theory of his own, determined to experiment with the energetic poison mentioned. Strychnine, of course, isfrequenty used in a case of paralysis, and in this instance a dose large enough to kill a score of men had the effect of setting the heart into action once more.

At the close of an interesting trip, the party on board the steamer Tutanekai on Saturday, when the submarine cable was laid from the Great Barrier to the mainland, saw an unusual sight, which apparently has hitherto escaped notice (says the Auckland Herald). This was an uncharted rock at a little distance from Port Charles, and, seen from a certain aspect, it bore a remarkable resemblance to a man’s face. The profile was that of an elderly man, with features of the severe Roman type, and the chin just rested on the water. Each huge granite feature was clearly chiselled and the image was rendered more lifelike by a closed eye and ringed eyebrow, which gave the rock the semblance of a sleeping giant. It might have served Dore for a model of Gargantua, but some of those on board were inclined to trace a strong resemblance between the rock and portraits of the Duke of Wellington. Seen from another aspect, the rock bore a distint likeness to the Sphinx. Mrs S. H., Walker, 230 Humlfray Street, Ballarat, Yic.‘, writes: “ Have used Chamberlain's Cbtigh Remedy for four years, and know it is excellent, Have found it most beneficial. Can recommend it to anyone. In fact have done so many times, and it has accomplished good results in every case,' 1 For sale everywhere.

We would again remind crib players of the meeting to-night at the Family Hotel to select the team for the return match at Sandon on Wednesday ' week. Nineteen players have signified their intention to go, but twentyfive will be required to meet the guarantee charge for the Sandon Tram.

The returning Officer will issue the writs for the general election within ten days after the dissolution of Parliament, which took place last Saturday. The election takes place fourteen days after the issue of the writs, which means, of course, three weeks after the dissolution of Parliament; and it is not the rule to dissolve Parliament immediately on the rising of the Houses, but to allow an interval to enable sitting members to get to their electorates. The elections will take place probably at the end of next mouth or early in December.

There was a very successful meeting at the Newbury Public Hall last evening, presided over by Mr. P. Garrity and convened by Mr. Nicholas, Organising Secretary, to form a committee to further the candidature of Mr. John Stevens, M.P., for Manawatu. The following committee was elected ; —Messrs, J. Small, senior, M. Knight, J. Nicoll, F. Good, H. Henderson, A. Mitchell, H. Morris, T. Gore, E. Clarke, J. Gore, J. Small, junior (hon. sec.), A. Wiggins, E. Henderson, T. Small, D. Wiggins, R. Henderson, A. Howell, and E. Lovelock. It was resolved to hold the first committee meeting on the 20th instant.