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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7801, 26 August 1903, Page 2

The date of Dr Eeid Mackay's lecture on the America Cup race has been altered to Monday, 31st.

The new Presbyterian church, which will be the largest and handsomest of its kind in Feilding, will be completed about the end of October.

For drunkenness, William Storey was yesterday fined 10s, in default 48 hours. A man, giving hi 3 name as Breed, was remanded for a week for medical treatment.

Messrs Johnston and Sim report that Mr Edward Newman, of Turakina Yalleyj has bought jihe two homestead sections of the well-known Dunsinane Estate, Marton, lately purchased by Mr L. Cohen.

The Premier at Carterton:—lt had been said that there was no question as between the Government and Opposition, and that there was co welldefined line. . . . Give an increase in the absentee land tax and in the graduated land tax, and thon they would very soon find the dividing line.'

The steamers Himitangi, Kennedy, apd Qreti are discharging coal at the Foxton wharf. The Hirnitangi will take away another load ofTi'v'e. stock to Greymouth which came from the'Balinerston district. Great improvements are being made to the Foxton racecourse tracks by the laying on of clay soil. The training track has been topped with sawdust.

A ev,Qhre tpprpamenf, arrapged bc= Uvcen the Stoney Creek and Kelvin Groye subscribers to the Manawatu Daily Times (or the respective Hall committees, we are not quite sure which) for a trophy consisting of a hall broom, was decided on Monday night in favour of Kelvin Grove, much to'the dissatisfaction of the Stoney Creek players who considered they had fairly won the trophy.

The next meeting of the local branch of the Feilding Farmers' Union will doubtless be interesting, as. several of the local farmers intend to urge the Union to take steps in erecting cooperative saleyards in Feilding (says our local correspondent). They hold that the prico charged by local au,otigneers. for disposing of stock is entirely'but of reason. [They had bettor bo careful, remembering that to be a penny wise is often to be a pound foolish.—Ed. M.D.T.]

On Monday night the police received information of the theft of a horse at Stratford, valued at £4Q. Yesterday Constable I)eN,orville ar-rested a rn'ivn named Jqbn William Roberts for the alleged theft of the animal. • 'Co stable DeNorville also arrested yesterday a resident of Palmerston named Fred. Hopper for the alleged theft, some months back, of a set of harness, the property of John J. Deency, Fred. Jones was also lodged in the lock-up last pig^t ffii a charge of using obscene language.

The value of hemp exported from the colony for the year ending 30th June last was £577,204. This shows an increase on the preceding year of JG194.824. Over £20,000 of this increase is due to better prices. The export of hemp is not far short of the valua of grain exported during the same period, and is in excess of the value or kauri gum and tallow (says our Foxton correspondent). The largest proportion of the increase of this export of hemp would be from the Foxton district. If the present prices are maintained the output of the Fqxtqn district will be considerably increased in the future, as many swamps and lagoons are being drained for the purpose of flax cultivation.

When the vote for the Audit Department came befo-e the House last night Mr Duthie expressed the opinion that the audit staff was not sufficiently maimed, and some of the sa]aries were not in keeping with the responsible work of the office. The work was all behind, and the Audit Department to be effective should be up to date. Sir Joseph Ward admitted that the auditing of some of thp local bodies' accounts was in arrears but said if tho number of audit inspectors was lirgely increased" some of them would be idle for part of the year. If there was any necessity for an increase in the staff surely the head of the Department would have made representations in that direction. Mr Buchanan said many local bodies laboured under serious difficulty on account of delay in their audit. Sir Joseph Ward promised to look into the matter with a view of ascevtaini;-g whether any improvement could be effected.

It will always pay you to have the name " McCormick" in your grain.

The Hawera Band Contest Committee's balance-sheet showed a credit of £149.

Tho Borough Council will inspect today the four sites selected by the Coun cil as likely to prove suitable for abat toirs.

At tho election in connection with the Oroua County Council yesterday, Messrs Pleasants and Corn foot were returned for .Tlangitawa ward.

Mr F. Hunn has signified his willingness to agree to the Band Contest Committee's proposal that he should act as supervisor at the contest in February next. Mr Hunn does not state any terms ; he leaves that to the committee.

A special meeting of the combined Borough and Kairanga County Councils will bo held on Friday night to further discuss the Fitzherbert bridge matters.

Informations were laid yesterday against all tho Newtown hotolkeepers, charging them with selling liquor without licenses. The cases will be beard on Friday.

Mr E. H. Soilitt (late of the firm of Bennett and Soilitt) intimates that in future he intends to carry on business on his own account as builder and contractor, and will be prepared to draw and supply plans and specifications, also give estimates or superintend any work entrusted to his care.

Miss Wation will open her tea rooms and confectionery establishment in Cuba Street to-day. Her new establishment has been fitted up in a tasteful and attractive manner, end patrons will find the greatest attention at the hands of Miss Watson and her staff.

The balance-sheet in connection with the late Feilding Industrial Exhibition is a very successful one and reflects great credit on the promoters. The balancesheet (says our 10-a 1. correspondent) shows a credit of £1155 4s 2d, with bills receivable £103, total £216 4s 2d ; liabilities, £15 5s 2d; leaving a net -credit balance of JG2OO 19s.

The illuminated address presented to Mr A. Greenfield, S.M., yesterday was an exceedingly artistic production, the work of Mr L. Watkins, of Palmerston North. On one side of the lettering is a bold figure of justice, and in the top corner a drawing of the Courthouse, while other small scenes are also depicted.

la response to an appeal issued a month ago by Lord Eoberts to possessors of Boer family Bibles taken from farms in South Africa, and pocket Bibles found on the field during the war, about eighty volumes have up to tho present time been forwarded to the South African Belief Committee ici London. Some_ are weighty old volumes which contain family records of over a century. Others are small pocket Bibles inscribed as gifts of wives and sweethearts. The committee had considerable difficulty in locating the owners of the books.

Considerable attention is now being given to the new food that is now being placed upon the market, viz., shredded wheat. It is made up in the form of biscuits and friscuits, and is not only a most delicious food but most nutritious. Unlike other foods of this character it requires no preparation at all. The friscuits are in the shape of a small loaf. Alroady a keen demand for this fqqd exjsts in the centres where it has been introduced, and we understand that Messrs Barraud & Abraham, the wholesale agents, are now completing arrangements by which it will be procurable from all leading storekeepers.

Mr Haselden, S.M., yesterday morning at ChristchurcU convicted and fined Vernon Ritson (three oharges), Frederiok Lovelock (three charges) and James Seatree (two charges) for wilful trespass on the Christchurch racecourse reserve, at the instance of the Canterbury Jockey Club. The cases were test ones to ascertain the club's rights to exclude bookmakers under the regulations passed, gazetted ana1 posted. Fines of 20s were inflicted on the first charges and Is on the others. For trespassing on the Metropolitan Club's grounds John Ross was again convicted, but on his assuring the Bench, unconditionally, that he will refrain from trespassing on racecourses in future, he was let off with a fine of 20s.

The London School Board's report on the degenerate condition of a large percentage of school children has caused a profound sensation. Two per cent, of the pupils are declared to be so deficient as to be unteachable, Ten per cent have so defective eyesight that they are thrown back in their work. The hearing of another 10 per cont. is seriously defective, and one per cent, have defects in their ears that lead to death. Classes have been re-opened in sixty-one centres for feeble-minded children. The percentages of actual imbeciles has grown to such an extent that the asylum accommodation is entirely insufficient. Early, marriages, underfeeding, drunken parents, bad air and neglect are mentioned as causes ot this terrible state of affairs. A. Royal Commission will be appointed immediately to discover some remedy.

Speaking at Carterton the Premier referred to the prosperity of New Zealand, which with a popuhtion of less than that of Glasgow exported last year produce to the value of over fourteen millions. He anticipated seeing the figure twenty millions. Imports and exports would not, ho hoped, be equal— he would like to see for every £2 in the increase in exports only £1 increase in imports. He wished to see the colony self-contained. Insurance companies had been bleeding country districts. According to a letter he had received from Home, the prerniuni was "s on a certain class of buildings for which we paid 16s in New Zealand.. As the Government had stopped high interest rates and fixed a maximum premium for accident insurance, so they were prepared to pass a Bill fixing the maximum premium for fire insurance.

The Premier, replying to a Trades and Labor Council delegation at Wellington last night, said as far as a State Bankwas concerned he would not go to the extent of saying that the commercial business of the country should be conducted through a State Bank. He was unable to see that a State Bank would be safeguarded n gainst difficulties that would arise, still, so far &s the Bank of New Zealand was concerned, he believed that the bank should devote something out of its profits for what the State had been doing. He did not think it would be in the interests of the colony to go farther than retain and partnership. There were a large number of people who wore against leasing vfttb, revaluation.. This vsr-as a question that would have to be settled by the people at,the next general election. He would be prepared to trust the people with the initiative in connection with the referendum. Preference was now in some sense established for unionists, and he did not think Parliament would be prepared to go further. Efe would favor subsidising the Trades Hall if -he money was to be spent for the benefit of the workers,

By the American mail just arrived we learn that Dr. Pfeiffer and Dr. Friedberger, of the Hygienic Institute of Konigsberg University, have concluded experiments with radium which prove the deadly effect upon bacteria of this marvellous element. They exposed for forty-eight hours in a dark room a gelatine plute which hac{ been frcelj' sown with typhoicl bacilli to radiation "from a small quantity of raciium bromide. The effect was decisive, by far surpassing results achieyed in the same field by X rays. The bacilli were either killed or their growth completely stopped. It was also proved by further experiments that radium had marked effects upon the bacilli themselves and not merely upon the gelatine. Similar results were obtained in the caso of cholera baccili, and this in even shorter time (fifteen hours), while in the ca»e of anthrax bacilli it took three time? tjypnty-four hours to have them destroyed by radium rays, or as they arc culled, Bacquerel rays. The practical importance of these" experiments lies in the hope they give of using the rays of radium for therapeutic purpoa.s for infectious diseases of the skin, as for instance lupus. It is, however, possible that the injurious effect upon tissue cells caused by radium rays may prove too strong to admit of their being used in therapeutics.

As the eye ing season is arawing upon us again I wish to invite inspection of Massey-Harris and Imperial bicycles of intending purchasers. Before laying out j923 on a bicycle you want to know that you are getting satisfaction for your money. The Massey-Harris and Imperial bicyclee give entire satisfaction. Call at C. S. Pickaring, near Bank of New Zealand, Palmerston North. Box 81, Tele phone 192.—Advt.

Economy is the surest road to wea th, but there is nothing gained by neglecting a cough or cold. Buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Copgh Eemedy and cure it before pneumonia develops. It will be economy in the end. Fox sale by U.F.C.A.

The Mayor, at the request of a number of citizens, has convened a meeting for this evening to arrange for a benefit concert to Master Victor Harris, the child violinist, who is about to be sent to England to undergo thorough instruction in the violin. Not many weeks ago the diminutive musician was "commanded " to play at an "at home " at Government House, and his reception was a most enthusiastic one, competent judges remarking the child was undoubtedly a geni::s. It will also be remembered that his playing at the local Orchestal Society's concert created quite a furore. The meeting this evening is called more for the purpose of electing a committee and arranging preliminary details.

Last few days of alteration and extension sale at The ■ Boa Marche is announced. "We are parting with some genuine bargains in drapery, dress goods, jackets and millinery to "effect a complete clearance. It will pay buyers to look out for these this week at The Bon Marche.—Advt.