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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7846, 25 May 1904, Page 4

Of the £10,000 Napier Corporation loan offered to the public £8050 has been applied for, Bishop Julius's health remains in about tha same condition, and he is undertaking no work whatever. The Orchestral Society has selected Mrs C. Louisson and Mr E. Buckingham as vocalists for the forthcoming concert Messrs P. "V. Mattsou and Staics will be the instrumental soloists. At the S.M. Court this. mornine before Mr Gascoigne, J.P., ff m ' Wilsod, charged with drunkenness, did not appear and was fined ss, in default the usual alternative. The Whenuakura Dairy Company's creamery at Little Taranaki was burnt down on Thursday. The building and plant were .insured for £200 in the National office, but tbe loss is estimated at £250 above that. Under the will of the late John Findlay, of Invercargill, the Invercargill .Hospital receives the Presbyterian Maori missions £200, the Victoria Hoina [ for Friendless Girls jEIOO, and the Brij tish and Foreign Bible Society £100. i With regard to the libel aotion Cap. tain Seddon v. T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., I defendant declares chat he can prove his t allegation "up to the bib," so some very interesting developments may be | anticipated when the case goes to trial. A recent arrival from Australia, oharged at the B.M. Court this morning with failing to send his children to school tho requisite days per week, was con. victed of the offence, but no fine was impoaed, defendant stating he was quite unaware of the Aot. A large number of .truancy cases fifty) were disposed of at the S.M. Court this morning by Messrs Gascoigne and ■ W. Park, J'bP., parents in the majority of instances being fined for failing to comply with the Act. Costs were imposed in aggravated cases. Some of the fines, with costs, totalled 13s. Mr Graham P. Moore, the distil finished composer and well-known professor of the Boyal College of Music, has been appointed practical examiner for New Zealand in connection with the examination in mnsio tinder the Associated Board o! the Royal College of Musio and the Boyal Academy of Mubio, "I was married young," said Mrs Williamson, of Wanganui, in addressing a meeting of women at Christchnrch, "and the first time I washed and dressed my baby, I took two hours,to do it, and shook all the time. I therefore think that all girls should reoeive auoh instruction that would make them acquainted with the duties of a mother." The secretary of tho Chamber of Commerce, Mt G. Hirsoh, has received a chart illustrating the various proportions of the decimal measures. By means of diagrams the respective values of a metre, litre, and gramme are shown, together with the metrio tables in bold type. With the consent of the Chamber, Mr Hirsch proposes to forward the ohart to .the High School.

In accordance with the condemnatory report from the Health Department and the determination of the .Borough Counoil, based npon the report, notices to pull down and remove buildings, recently condemned, have been served upon owners and lessees interested. In some instances a beginning has already been made to make a clean sweep of the shanties alluded to, and other owners will make an early start. But a few days of the time allowed by the Council have yet elapsed. A pleasing oeremony took place at the Awahuri Dairy Factory when Mr P. Garrity (chairman*, in a few well ohosen words, presented Mr J. Murray (manager), who has been appointed to the position of manager at Cheltenham, with a valuable gold albert and pendant. Mr Garrity, in his remarks, complimented ! Mr Murray with the high olass butter ha had tamed out and, also, with holding one of the highest averages in tb6 colony. Mr Murray suitably replied. It is astonishing that after so niuoh publicity has been given to the provisions of the School Attendance Act and the absolute necessity for parents to ob ■ tain exemption forms if their children do not attend school the required number of timea per week, six half days, that there should be parents still ignorant of their obligations. The fact that exemption certificates must be obtained to Bave an appearance at Court, has been published on innumerable occasions, but the same old question cropped up again at the S.M. Court this morning, and parents had to pay for their ignorance. A request by the Truant Inspector that fines should be increased when parents did not attend Court was refuses, Mr Gaßcoigne, J.P., remarking to the official," I think if you thought 3on oould get off with a 2a fine you would rather stay at home than ride to town on a day like this." Some of the summonses were against residents of Harare and Ldngburn. A quiet wedding, that, nevertheless excited considerable local interest was solemnised at All Saints' Church yesterday afternoon, when Miss May" Keeling, second daughter of MrR.N. Keeling, Town Clerk, was married to Mr Cecil Coy. of Masterton. well known in tennis circles. The Eev. E. Young conducted the ceremony which was choral throughout. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a dress of Oriental satin, with gauged yoke of chiffon. The bodice was draped with duchesse lace, finished with a " true lover's knot" of satin ribbon .and a spray of orange blossoms. She also wore a handsomely embroidered veil and a pearl necklet, the gift of the bridegroom. She was attended by her sister, Miss Phyllis Keeling, dressed in a costume of book muslin and wearing a pendant watch the giffc of the bridegroom, Mr^ W. Cox, brother of the bridegroom,'was best man. After the ceremony the newly wedded couple drove to the residence of the bride's father, in Broad-street, where they received the congratulations of numerous guests, Mr and Mrs Cox left by the afternoon train for Masterton where they will reside. The bride's travelling dress was of light fawn frieze cloth with Bussian coat with white cloth facings, white reveres, creme cuffs, stitched, and creme chiffon vest. A number of friends were at the station to see them off.

Mr D. B. Harris left London oa April 11 and is expected to arrive in this distnot shortly. . -; It is stated that the Brnoa" Licensing. Committee will decline to grant renewals of license* despite the deciaion of '■ the Privy Ooun eil. The booking returns for two performances by WUlwmao.n'a Comic Opera A<s7G 14a. ■- ■ MBoeufve, whj succeeds Count de New 7 aS, GTUl^en^ l for S ' " .JNew Zealand, arrived in Wellington resterday by the Corinthic. He will tale up Ins residenco at Auckland. Of the sis: "Russian thar, a species of mountain goat, presented to the Tourist Department by the Duke of Bedford five arrived in Wellington by the White otar liner Athenic yesterday. They will, after a period of quarantine be liberated near Mount Cook. The first of a series of indoor garne3 between ■ the Druids and Palmerston North Eifles, will take place to-morrow night, at the Drill Shed. The games will oonsist of cards, quoits, shooting and Bkittles. Befreshmants will b9 provided by the Druids. . . . The servant difficulty still confronts many ladies in and around Christchurch, and good domestics are in creat demand. One lady, the Lyttelton Tikes remarks, has been forced to seek a house in the city, because she couia not prevail upon any girl to stay at her seaside residence. *. c taPO'tation °f De^er-Kerry cattle by the Government ia regarded with satisfaction in Taranaki. The breed fa specially adapted for rough couatry and us introduction will in time do away with one of the great drawbacks to dairying m way-back Taraoaki— loss o[ stock from falling into gullies. Speaking at a meeting of women at Chrutchurch last Friday Mm Page said that the children of the unfit must either be failed off at birth, or eociety should do its level best to minimise the diifi on bie3 such ohildreD had to contend with, in order that they might be given as good a chance as any other child. Keports received from Kawau state that the health of the Premier continues to improve. On Monday M* Seddon ana a party of friends went on a fishing exooreiou m the yacht Hex, and yesterday a party with the Premier went over ■'the Island shooting wallaby. Dr. Valintine advises the Premier to remain at the island for another week, whioh he will probably do. • An Invercargill livery-stable keeper was last week fined 10a and costs for permitting horses to be at large on the railway line. The animals had been nut into an adjoining reserve. It was a stormy night, and the gate m som« way go. open. Two horses valued at L65 were tilled and four worth LIOO were rD^?r6<^ t and .havo since been sold for L 24. The animals ran before the early morning train till they came to a bridge. The quantity of wool Bhipped from New Zealand for the year eading March 31,1904. was 307,754 balea-as compared with 338,107 for the year ending March 31, 1903. The total quantity of wool sold withm the colony, at auction, waß 108,567 and 116,093 balei for the yeul ending Maroh 1904 and 1903 respectively. Thus it appears that last year's clip was 37,779 bales less than durinn the previous year. But as quantities have gone to the New Zealand woollsn mills direct lrom the farmer it is difficult to caloulate what the actual shortage is. The many Palmerston friends of Mr and Mrs F. Bryant wdl be pleased to • hear of the continued success of their two sons at school at Tunbridge Wells England. They have been attending Skinners' School there, and the programme of the proceedings at the celebration of "Skinners' Day" oh April 12th, shows that Master Bert Bryant took the form prizes ftunior local) in both French and Latin and the special prizes given for Divinity and for Honours in the Cambridge local. The prizes were distributed by the Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Master Bryant also toot a leading part in the representation of. .three scenes . from Shakespeare's Henry TV. Extract from Hawera Star:—A case has been brought under our notice which Beems to show arbitrary action to say the least, on the part of the Land and Income Tax Deparsment. A resident received the ordinary demand for payment of income tax, bus it arrived after the time fixad for payment, and therefore involved the taxpayer in the 10 per cent penalty. He at bnce wrote a civil note to the department, enclosing cheque for ordinary tax, saying that . 1 evidently there had been some unasaal delay, and that as the notice had reached him late he ought noi to ba tnuloted in the penalty. With this letter he forwarded the envelope in which he had received the deimnd, so that fey the^~~ post-mark the department should hava confirmation of his statement. The ' reply, however, was just a statement that the amount reoeivea had been phced to his credit, and if he did not pay_the 10 per cent fine he would be • Bued. Which appears pretty |C rough." '

An English writer has been atattling Great Britain by describing the actual conditions that exist in the large chiea amongst the poorest people of jbe Blums He has shown that the rooms in which' thonßands of people live&ra as filthy and orowdea as pigsties. "I visited acores of houses in Manchester," he says, " and found that in all of them the father, mother, and children sleep on a single mattress and cover themselves with rags. The comforts, even the bare decencies of life, are entirely lacking in these homes Many of the children are never washed. The mothers do not wash themselves. In a number of the house 3 I found the women with bruised faces and blackened eyes. In one place I found the mother drunk, and sleeping in the coal-hole with a baby ia her arms." DrYanSlyke, eye, ear, throat, and nose specialist, may be consulted at the Club Hotel, Palmerston, on May 26th.* Thacker hard to beat for best value in boots and shoes.* New Tweeds for 8-guinea suits just arrived Victoria House, cut" and made on the premises.* r - ■ " Discount of 33 in £1 off stylish rain. coat3.—O. Smith's. One week only.* ? Your time is now. For boots and shoes at Payne's.—A3 vt.*' Cycles. £12, guaranteed for 12 months Dayton Depot.* 50 seoond-hand maohines, 30s up. wards; no reasonable offer refused. Day. ton Depot.* Pair boots wholesale prices Johansen's. Cheapest and best cycle sundries at the Dayton Depot.* Town talk. Tuacker's removal sale of boots and shoes.*

On page 2 : Sporting, telegraphic, cables. On page 8: War news. On page 6.: Short story. On page 7 : Cable news, football, telegrams.

Mr J. A. Thorpa, a well known BurvejoraDd highly respected resident of Wanganui, died at Hastings yesterday. A branch of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, was opened at Mataroa (Main Trunk Line) on I'riday evening. • • ' Up to tho time of going to press all trains running into Palmerston had arrived on time. Danger from slips in •the Gorge is apprehended if the heavy rain continues. The building trade is reported to be brisk in the Auckland districts. Contractors in the country are offering 11s per day to carpenters, and expenses paid to and frbm the job. They find it very hard even then to get men. The Lyttelton Times state's that a cow belonging to Mr Startin Ashby, of Balearn, has given birth to ten calves within four years. In the first year she nad. four, m the second one, in the third two, and in the fourth three. ■ Six of the progeny have been reared. " I see," said a creditor to the bankrupt, at a recent meeting at Stratford, "all that. is of value belongs to your wife," and " all that's useless Lfolongs to you." " Just what we might have expected.'"

c?« M'«' jackets, 12s <6d, 15s fad, 19s 6d, and 25s 6d, at The Bon Marche and all higher, price goods subject to 4s in the £ 'discount for prompt cash for this week. Beautitul selection of superior goods to choose from. G. M. Ross and Co.*

Ladies Kaiapoi macintoshes, newest styles, reliable goods, and firstclass value, now offered at 4s in the £ discount at The Bon Marche Beantiful selection to choose from. Money saved is money eatned.i' C. M. Ross and Co., Di-apery Importers.*

Mr R. Edwards has just received a pair of pigeons from the Royal bandrmgham lofts. The pigeons will be exhibited at the Manawatu A. and P. Show, where fanciers will. nave an opportunity of seeing them. As Mr Edwards is leaving Palmerston shortly on a holiday trip lio wiJJbe unable to exhibit the pigeons at the poultry show in this town.

Tho necessary steam powor at the fortbcomiDc Winter Show will be provided by Messrs Eggleton, of Bunnythorpe, and M^nds end Stewart of Awahuri. The former will unpply a sixhorse power engine, equal to a pressure of 140'hB of steam, and the-latter firm, two traction eneiaes, one of six-horan power, fqual to 1401bs of steam, ana the other eight-horse power, equal to 1601bs of steam. The total nominal power develop?d will bo equal to 50-horse power. Two of the ongiaes will supply steim to 100 ft of shafting and the other will drive turbine separators, &c. • •

Messrs Hosking Bros., have just iittei up some elaborate new machinery at their foundry. Main-street. The machinery was ordered by Mr A. Hosting while in England recently, and comprises art improved lathe with patent speed and feeding attachement, a machine capable of drilling up to two inches and boring from 8 to 10 inches deep, and another apparatus for cutting keywaysin castings. These additions •will-enable the firm to turn out in a more expeditious manner the work entrusted to them. As agents for Dove-.las.-and Co. the firm has received ■samples of a concentric pump, which ;will be worth the inspection cf those nteresfced. Messrs Hosking - Bros, intend keeping pace with the progress of the town by erecting a large workshop and business premises shortly,

Inspector Perry ,• yesterday, reported to the Public Health Department on the state of the Foxton public school. According- to the report all the floors are worn through, the piles are ratten, as is the rest of the underwork of the building. The school is badly ventilated, in the orthodox sense, but the draughty linings, some of them stuffed with rags and pap.er, permit the ingress of draugjhts of air whTch are ■ more harmful ;than beneficial. Sanitation •generally is bad, and, in the Inspector's opinion, the school is ofgrcrowded. It requires a th'oroii|fc overhauling, or still, the inspector says, a new building, the renovations that are necessary being hardly less expensive than a new building. Judging by the Inspector's report a disgraceful state of affairs exists, and tlie sooner the Education Board takes action the better for all concerned,

Mr Knowlee, proprieror of the Daily Telegraph, Napier, arrived in PalmerstoQ yesterday. Me Kaowies, proceeded to New Plymouth to-day.

Twelve Maoris, headed by Wi Puncan, leave Hastiags shortly to join Williamsjn's Comeuy Co. in Auckland in the production of tlie n*ttv o ojeru, '• Tapu," lo be staged iv that cily. _Mr Jofferson, representing a largo iirin of army contractors, is at present'in Dunedin enquiring into matters connected with New Zealand and South African trade. Ah Hoy was fined £20 at Lawrence for having opium in his possession. In another case, against Cow Wab, judgment was reserved. The concert in connection with the Broad-street Methodist Band of Hope, which was to have been held to-night, has had to be postponed owing to the weather. The date will be advertised in a later issue. ihe Dunedm correspondent of the loverly x.ay Hernia" telegraphs: —■ 1 understand-that lha Bunk of aev Zealand has had a phenomenal year,' and that a proho of *3uu,oUo will bo uiaolowd on the twelve moaia. rnuisaoiiGii, wiudi is several thousands in advance of last year's ».rotit." The. Hey. I\, H, Spence will lecture on the work of the British and foreign Jiibla Society in the Baptist Church to-night at 7.30 o'clock A.s ! the bociety represents all the Piotestant Ciurciies it i s fc oped th(?re will be a large attendance: The Rev • 1. J.olly will preside. ■ ■> ' The Minister for' Eaihvays has given authority for railway iire brigades to be allowed to compote in lire brigade competitions and demonstrations. .The matter was brought before Sir Joseph Ward when he was last in Dunedin. The Minister has also authorised railway fire brigades being supplied with up-to-date lire appliances. It is reported at .Nelson That a certain farmer, who is a oacbjlor, had threatened to pop the question to the first girl he caught" picking blackberries on his farm. He has ]U_st had to put up a new b.".rbed wire fence to keep them out.

Lighting arrangements at the Winter Show will be more in the nature ot illuminations than ordinary light. One firm exhibiting intends erecting a dynamo to. generate electric light' all over its space ; the Palmers ton JNorth Gas Company will rise io the occasion in lighting the machinery, poultry, and dairy produce halls, and in the tea room, a spacious apartment measuring 40ft by GOft, Messrs Holb'en and ivirk will. inatal a " Newlyte" apparatus. In addition, the Association will attend to the lighting of-the entrances, etc., as was done last year.

■On a recent visit to Yokohama (writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) I required some jewellery repaired, and on asking an English resident where I could get .it done -was told to tak o it to 'Whisky Boy," and that every rickshaw knew the address. I accordingly bailed a man who could not speak English, and said " Whisky Boy." He *ook mo to a shop where I was surprised to find the sign "Whisky Boy, jeweller," over the door. The name appears to have been given to a Japanese who was servant to' an Englishman in the early ~ days of the Concession. He became • too fond of whisky, hence the name. ->A neat, illustration of the Shakesperian dictum, " The evil that men do lives after them."

Ihe Dannevarke Advocate states that Messrs G. A. Gam-nan *r«d Co with their accustomed .l« siness acumen, intend establishing at their Otanga property a Morton chying lain, > one of the latest approved American methods of drying- timber. Ihe kiln in course of "construction f i4i° fllon^ 20ft bro'ld> a»d w.ll hold 20,000 feet of one inch timberstacked on special oars. It is expected that an average of 4000 feet of timber will be dried oaca day. The drying is done !\v hot air derived from steam pip'us, hoated by either live or exhaust steam, un'd the building is so connu-ucteJ that a natural circulation is caused -which takes off the moist i-.ir ami brings in dry air. The circulation is s-.Vw, but it has proved itself to be unequalled for timber drying. It is expected that the kiln will b«'completed by the end of liv's week, pnd that the first truck of dricj 1 ".cck will be turned out early next week Ari interesting' event took place in Taihape on May, 15th. when Captain and Mrs Charles Batt celebrated their silver wedding. A few friends gathered to congratulate them on the occasion, and to: wish them long! life and prosperity. Twenty-five years ago the. marriage of Captain Batt and Miss'J. Ycates took place at Karere, six miles from Palmerston North, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. F. C. Dewslviry, of the.Wesloyan Methodist Church. The .bride was onsy a few months out from Worcester, England, and was staying with Mrs Garret Brennau until her marriage. Captain Batt had followed the sea Ip-rior to that, and had owned and commanded vessels on the coast. Ho ba:d been in tlie China' and East India trade in the positions of chief mate and master, arid at o»e time was chief officer of the " England," and many Palmerston and Stoney Creole residonts will recall these tirros. After settling on shore, he was the fiist railway guard on the Paiiii'jrstcnFoxtpn line, 'and a month ni'.or was appointed stationmaster and ■wharffinger at Foxton. Jlc afterwards •took charge of the Wanganui.wharves, and after 15 or 16 years' residence there, retired oh compensation. Captain and Mrs Batt h.iv.j resided some .years past in Taihape. A PERFECT POWDER. • Inexperienced cooks shrink from the task of baking—of making cakes and scones and pastry—because they fancy they never can achieve success. This is qtuite a mistake, for baking, to a very large extent, depends on the-powder used. It's all in the baking powder, and it is worth noting that most of th# sunsicpful professional cooks give; the prtference to Sharland's Baking Powder (Moa brand). It -is a tierfecj powder ; the whole of the ingredients used in its composition are of the highest grade procurable, and are thoroughly well mixed. Tie most experienced cook could scarcely fail to achieve success with ordinary care. In every shilling tin of Sharland's Baking Powder there is.a Cook Book

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