LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1049, 11 January 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr and Mrs Alex, Ross are on a motoring trip to Rotorua and Auckland.'

Mr Donald Green and his father motored through to New Plymouth yesterday. The Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A., returned from a. holiday visit to Taranaki and Wanganui yesterday.

The services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be held to-morrow in the supper room of the Coronation Hall. The morning service will be conducted by the Rev. T. Coatsworth and the evening service by Mr W. Hart. Services at the Beach will be conducted at 2,30 and 7 p.m. A hearty welcome to these services is extended to all. Dainties tor the summer season, Table jellies 10 for is, Symington’s cream 6d, sardines best smoked 4 jins for is. Thomas Riminer.*

Call and see the stock we have crammed into our temporary pre mises, it will surprise you. Thomas Rimmer.*

James Watlie, a one time famous New Zealand horseman, died at Auckland on Wednesday, aged 55 years. The oil iauch Taniora will leave the wharf steps on Sunday at xo a.m. and 1.30 p.m. for the Heads, making the return trip at 5 P“-

We are informed that stingarees are numerous in the river and along the beach. The fishermen at the heads have caught several of them in their nets. Bathers should watch out.

There is at present on view in Messrs Colder and Son’s window, a whip, suitably inscribed, which is to be presented to the jockey riding the winner of the Foxton Cup. The whip was donated by Mrs Freeman.

The services at the Presbyterian Church to morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A., in the morning and Mr Billeus in the evening. Mr Chrystall will conduct the evening service at Oroua Downs.

At the inquest touching the death of John Young killed at a railway crossing in a collision between a motor car and an engine, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a recommendation that engine drivers should give more warning when approaching crossings. Ader, a coach painter, of Bordeaux, invited some of his friends to a so-called death supper. At the end of the meal he produced a revolver and asked for a cartridge. A friend, believing it to be a jest, gave him a cartridge, and Ader thereupon loaded the revolver, clinked glasses, and blew out bis brains.

Arnst, tbe sculler, contemplates endeavouring to recover the championship. He has received an offer ot free passages around the "World for himself and his wife providing he rows several matches in America, and subsequently challenges the winner of the Pearce-Barry contest. Arnst will probably accept. A man named Jack Brady, aged about 49, a well known contractor, fell off the river steamer at Kaiwhaiki, Wanganui, and was drowned. The boat was travelling fast against a strong current, and Brady was carried a long way astern and sank belore assistance could rdach him. The body has not been recovered.

It may not be generally known (says the Wanganui Chronicle) by the public that it is illegal to stick bills and posters on fences, etc., on street frontages, but it is quite legal to do so on private property in from the street frontages. The interesting fact was elicited at the Borough Council meeting recently, when the matter was under discussion.

The Chronicle hears that a contract has been let for bushfelling and roadforming on Seifert’s bush, lately the property of the Shannon Sawmill Company. Later on the laud will be cut up into grazing areas. We hear also that Mr E. Levien, who has bought the Kingston road block, has begun the erection of an up-to-date flaxmill on the laud.

Jack Johnson’s wife has been prevented from going into cafes frequented only by whites. On one occasion she was ordered out with Johnson’s manager (a white), who was accompanying her. The manager of the restaurant said sneeriugly to Mrs Johnson: “A few more incidents like this will make you understand why Johnson’s other wife committed suicide.”

The death occurred on Tuesday last of Mr James Stevens, of Belvedere, Carterton. The deceased was a very old settler, landing in Wellington by the sailing vessel “Indian Queen” in 1857. He resided at the Hutt for 23 years, leaving there to take up farming property at Belvedere, where he had resided ever since. At the timi of his death, he had reached the age of 92 years. Mylius (the Egyptian writer, who on landing at Ellis Island, New York, was ordered to be deported as an undesirable alien, having been convicted for libelling King George) has appealed to Mr Nagel, Secretary for Commerce, who has decided to hear Mr James, of the Liberator, who is about to arrive in the steamer La Provence, before coming to a final decision regarding Mylius* s deportation,

The number of motor cars aud motor cycles registered by the Palmerston Borough Council since' the regulation came into force locally, on May 23rd, 1911, 13463. Of this number 288 were registered during the past year. The figures represent the amount of traffic over a fairly wide district, extending as tar as Foxton in one direction and including several outlying towns, together with the intervening country.

Some years ago, when the motor omnibuses had just made their appearance in the streets of London, a very shabby looking pirate horse omnibus was standing by the kerb when a motor omnibus drew up behind. It was about to pass, when the conductor observed an old lady hesitating, as if doubtful which to enter. As she seemed about, to favour the horse-drawn vehicle, the conductor of the motor called out: “ ’Kre, don’t you go in there, lady ; that’s the waiting room.”

People with weak digestive organs should not fail to take Perreau’s Bermaline Bread. 1 *

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Lord Roberts’s second daughter, Edwina, is betrothed to Major H. J. Lewin. His Excellency, the Governor, took part in a cricket match at ; Wellington, on Thursday, and knocked up eight runs. The services in St. ' Church to-morrow will be conducted at it a.m. and 7 p.m. by the Rev. Father Kelly.

The services to-morrow iu All Saints’ Church will be at-8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m, All the services-will be taken by the Rev. C. Palmer.

A fence that was erected in Masterton half a century ago was pulled down the other day. The posts, which were of totara, were as sound as the day they were put in.

The Rev. Nehemiah Curnock, editor of the Methodist Recorder, has discovered and deciphered iu Wesley’s last account book a shorthand diary of the last decade of his life. *

During November, 4308 persons • arrived in the Dominion as against 5248 for the corresponding month y of 1911. The departures numbered 2055, as compared with 2054 i Q November 1911.

During the year ended December 31st, 1912, the imports at Patea wharf were: —Generations tons au d coal 700 tons ; wharfage, dumping and tonnage dues, 2ißoß, and number of boats in and out 250. Patrick Ferguson, 50 years of age, a fireman, was found dead iu a train shelter shed at Wellington on Thursday. There was a bullet wound iu his right temple and a revolver, one chamber of which - had been discharged, was lying at the man’s feet.

We are in receipt from Messrs Levin and Co., local agents for the N.Z. Express Co., of a Simplex perpetual calendar. By a simple contrivance the calendar gives the day and date required as far back as the year 1600.

In connection with the recent outbreak of ptomaine poisoning at Wanganui, the local health inspector says that he still has eighty cases under observation, but all are doing well. Samples of the ice cream which caused the trouble have been sent to Wellington for analysis. > -

One of the Siamese papers recently publshed the folio wig advertisement of the merits of its wares (says the Daily Mail) : The news of English we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most earliest. Do a murder get commit, we bear and tell of it. Do a mighty chief die, we bublish it, and in borders of sombre. Staff has each one beeu college, and writ like the Kipling and the Dickens, We circulate every town and extortionate not for advertisements. Buy it. Buy it. A meeting of the Foxton Camera Club was held in tbe Presbyterian Hall on Thursday evening, when an address and demonstration on the development of photographic plates was given by Mr Saville. Two plates were subjected to treatment with the reducing agent during the evening, and the proceedings were of an instructive nature. The subject for the next meeting of tbe Club has been selected as “chemicals” —as applied to photography—and will be dealt with by Mr E. Huntley.

At the inquest on Patrick Ferguson, who was found with a bullet wound in his head in the tram wailing-shed at Oriental Bay, Wellington, a verdict was returned that deceased died from a wound self-inflicted whilst temporarily insane. A witness stated that he had received the following note from Ferguson: “ Dear old friend, Tom, —I am going to change my medicine. It will be hard to take, but I think it will cure all complaints. Some people might say I am all wrong, but I think it is the only move on the board. Will say good-b} T e. Prosperous New Year : Paddy.” A meeting of the Lacey Betefit Committed was held on Thursday evening for the purpose of finally deciding as to the disposal of the funds collected. The Secretary reported that the amount in hand was 17s, and the Secretary of the Flaxmills Employees’ Union, who was present, said that the Union had collected the sum of odd for the benefit of the widow and family. It was decided that the two funds be amalgamated and that the house in Union Street, in which Mrs Lacey is living, be purchased. The agent for the Public Trustee at Palmerston North had stated that an amount of handed to him could be so invested that the balance now owing on the house would be paid off in accordance with the agreement under which Mrs Lacey held the house. It was decided that this course be adopted, and Messrs Lumsden and Robinson were appointed to make the final arrangements with the Public Trustee. The balance of the fund is to be handed to Mrs Eacey, We have been appointed local agent for Star No. 1 Cocoa, I lb tins 2/10, %lb tins 1/6, %lb tins lod. We can recommend this. Thomas Rimmer.* TWO DOSES A COMPLETE ‘ CURE. “I am subject to bowel troubles which cause pain and inconveni ence,” writes Mr Alfred Wane, 185 Auburn Road, Auburn, Vic., but i have always found two doses of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy effect a complete cure. I am pleased to know there is such a safe and certain remedy as Cham- \ y berlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea ! - Remedy, and always keep a bottle ' handy.’’ For sale everywh Advt. ' vfe

The Commissioners appointed to report on the working of the Public Trust Office held their first business sitting yesterday; Weather permitting the Borough Band will render a programme of music at the Beach at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Members are requested to meet at the practice room at r o’clock sharp. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, announced that the Home Rule Bill would come up for the third reading on Wednesday or Thursday nest.

Mr J. W. Harding, of “Siberia,” shipped ten stud Romney rams to the Argentine by the Ruapehu. Five were from “Siberia” and five from the Mt. Vernou estate, Hawke’s Bay. These are the first Mauawatu sheep which have gone to South America.

Owing to lack of interest on the part of the members of the Foxton Cricket Club it has been lound necessary to withdraw from the Horowhenua Cricket Association’s competition. At the beginning of the season the prospects for cricket locally appeared very bright, but after playing two games the local “knights of the willow” were apparently attacked with the tired feeling aud on the date of the third fixture a team could not be raised to make the trip, aud the match was forfeited. Since then the members have displayed no enthusiasm aud it was therefore decided to withdraw from the competition.

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