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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9066, 9 November 1909, Page 4

The meeting of the Terrace End School Committee to have been held to-night has been postponed till Friday owing to the holiday. A coach that has been running .continuously since 1885 between'' Gisborne and Ormond is to be pensioned off. It has travelled during' that time 179,129 miles. The cultivation of the poppy in China and the use of opium are to cease in 1916, the cultivation being reduced by one-tenth yearly. Those who still retain the habit at the end of this period are to be banished. It is stated that if Parliament deals with the licensing question this year a Bill will be introduced embodying the principle of no-license no-liquor. The weight of the licensed victuallers' associations will be behind the measure. A well-known Otaki native known as "Blind Billy," who resided at Foxton many years ago, is to be placed in the Ohiro Home. The poor fellow is blind, and almost deaf, and only recently missed bein;r run over by a train. P.C. Bro. Rolfe presided at the meeting of Court Manawatu last night when visitors present included District Secretary Bro. Turibridge and' Sisters Tunbridge and Payne, who each described the progress of Forestery. in' Taranaki. Sympathetic reference was made to the death of Bro. C. S. Mines, of Court Brooklyn, who had intended transferring \ to Court Manawatu. The attendance at I the meeting was not very large, and several proposed amendments to the | rules were held over for discussion till the next meeting. Two hundred domestic servants coujd bo placed in Auckland at present. One hopeful damsel of 30 got a situation as a plain cook, but did not keep it long. She went to the Government Labour Bureau to complain that the family she was with had porridge for breakfast and used a plate and spoon, each, and tea for breakfast, and used a cup, saucer and spoon, besides a small plate and knife each, and were generally guilty of dirtying dishes extravagantly. When the agent remonstrated, and said that .the damsel had not justified-her undertaking that she was'a' good plain cook, she replied, in a surprised tone, "Why 1 can brew tea."

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It ie undorstood that Mr E. H. Snow, of Rangataua, is occupied in the completion of a direct tourist track from Rangataua to the summit of Mount Ruapqhu, from the end of the- Mangateto road via the Mangahuahua glacier. It ie expected that the track will be ready tHis month, when Mr Snow is to guide a large party in the ascent. ;it is understood that a slander action, of some political significance is coming on for hearing at the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Timaru. Messrs Alpers and Nicholls have issued a writ, on behalf of Mr W. Jeffries, who contested the Geraldine seat in the- Opposition interests, claiming £1000 for slander. Prizes won in connection with the Navy LeaguoV essays upon "Battles of Nelson" will bo presented at'a function to bo held at the Municipal Hall on Friday night, when Mr Palmer, the Wellington secretary of the League, will deliver his promised lecture, also Mr Palmer' lectures in Napier during the week, and delivers his Palmerston address on tho way back to Wellington. A trap accident occurred at the corner of Cuba and George streets about 10.30 Mi last night. Tho horse in a dogcart driven by Mrs Martin, of Kairanga, shied at tho naval searchlight and ran into a lamp post. Tho vehicle was capsized, and the occupants (two ladies and three children) were thrown out. They were badly shaken and bruised, but were not seriously injured. The lamp post was broken. Mr Henry Hayward announces in our advertising columns that owing _ to the great amount of work entailed in making a permanont installation of electric light in tho Opera House there will be no pictorial display to-morrow evening. On Monday evening, he will present the first of tho series of Pathe pictures, and from that date will occupy the Opera House every evening when not otherwise engaged. The pictures will be screened in the Municipal Hall when the Opera House is booked for other attractions. The new issue of postage stamps was circulated for the first time yesterday. The design and colour of the penny stamp remains the same ae before, except that "Dominion of" has been prefixed to the words ."New Zealand. The highly decorative designs of other values have'been superseded by a portrait of the King in Field Marshals_ uniform. The new stamps are printed in attractive colours, and will no doubt tveew® the attention of collectors. The old l 2 d stamp are to bo entirely withdrawn from issue.

A report of an alleged complimentary gathering in connection with - the departure of a Dannevirke resident was sent to the Advocate, and that journal accepted it in good faith and published it. The Advocate has since found that the information in the paragraph was without foundation, and that a most cowardly and contemptible hoax has been perpetrated. The Advocate should eiffc the matter to the bottom with a view to instituting proceedings. The document sent in for publication was type written, and there should be no trouble in ascertaining where it originated. It is not in the interests of the Press that the matter should be allowed to remain, where it stands.

The stable belonging to Mr T. Bevan, junr., Manakau, destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, contained twenty stalls, several loose boxes and a harness room, while the upper floor (a part of which was used as living quarters by some of Mr Bevan's employees) carried many tons of chaff and oats. Fortunately there- wero no horses etabled at the time of the outbreak, and the contents of the harness room were saved. By strenuous efforts, a bucket brigade prevented the firo from spreading to the men's cottages, otherwise the engineer's, shop must have gone. It is believed the fire originated in the part of the building used as sleeping Tooms by the boys, but the cause is unknown. The loee above the insurance is £200.

A somewhat unusual claim was settled. by a. judgment by Mr T. Hutehinson, S:M..< which was road , at .W>aiuiate. (?;■ F. Richardson sued G. Jones for £42. damages for over-feeding off a crop of young wheat. It seemed that in October, 1908, defendant was permitted to depasture 1050 sheep in plaintiff's field at Willowbridge, wherein was then growling a young crop of wheat. The sheep were to remain from Tuesday till Friday, They w r ere taken away on Friday; but as defendant did not soil them he sent them back on Saturday, and kept them there tilL the Monday without reference to the plaintiff. The consequence was that the crop, instead of yielding 64 bushels to the acre, yielded only 46j bushels per acre. Upon this basis the Magistrategave judgment for the amount claimed, with -costs.

A disgraceful scene was witnessed in : Peel street, Gisborne, the other day, when a woman was observed punchinga man. It was an ungloved affair, and. was _ not confined to a single round. Again, and again the woman returned to the charge, and launched out at 'the l object of her attack, occasionally dealings hini a kick. The man showed remarkable self-restraint. Occasionally ..he /'defended his face, mostly the! object .. of; the female's blows, but refrained, :f : rom retaliation. In one instance,he held the. woman's hands in self-proteotion,' and foe* it a spectator dealt him a blow', that almost sent him sprawling to the ground; Urged on, seemingly by several individuals, the woman repeated. lier on-' slaughte upon the man. «Several spectators who attempted to prevent' the continuance of the scene formed' a'ring round the participants, and attempted topersuade the woman to desist, but ehe broke through their guard, and with her ringed fist inflicted a. wound near the man's eye. The arrival of the police and the arrest of the woman brought the unseemly display to a sudden termination. As a 6equal to the affair the woman was fined 10s, with costs, at the Police Court, Sergeant Hutton explaining thai the whole thing could be put down as a drunken brawl.