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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 167, 24 July 1907, Page 4

A meeting of ratepayers called by the Mayor will be found on page 8. The Board of Conciliation will sit at Falmerston in the bakere' industrial dispute on Wednesday, 21st August, at 10.30 a.m. One of those chosen for the Transvaal [Representative football team is Mr B. Taplin, assistant compound manager of the Simmer Bast mine, and brother of Mr C. N. Taplin of this town. The Hawke's Bay Kennel and Poultry Club's annual show opened yesterday. The displays o( dogs was a particularly good one, exhibits coming from all parts of the colony. In the poultry section the North Island championship for Partridge Wyandottes was won by B. J. Chapman (Carterton) and that for Homer Pigeons by T. Bullio (Hastings). At the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to-day Messrs Mao Donald, Wilson and Co., of Wellington, in conjunction with Mr T. Mandeno Jackson, will sell the new town of Horopito, situated on the Main Trunk Eailway Line, midway bej tween Auckland and Wellington. The sale has created a large amount of interest, not only in Auckland but especially so in the distriots along the Trunk Line. Tho Kairanga Hall funds were considerably added to last evening by a concert and dance. Visitors were present from all round the district including several from Palmerston. A first-class programme was contributed to by Mrs Curry, Messrs Preston, Clements, Borley, Harris, ,Curry, Hoar, Martin, Carter, Miss Curry and Mr Stevens. A highly amusiug sketch entitled " Irish Justice," in which the whole company took part concluded the performance, after which dancing was indulged in till the early hours. The floor was in good order and the supper was excellent. Mr P. C. Hanley acted as musical conductor and also supplied the dance music in his usual satisfactory manner.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced at Oamaru at 6.30 last night. ' ; Two small fires occurred at Timaru last night quite near each other, the circuin- | stances suggesting incendiarism. , The St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Ladies' Guild have arranged for the holding of a sale of work during the first week in October. At Kilmore, Victoria, recently a potato digger dug and bagged in one day 4£ tons, or 46 bags of potatoes. He ig the champion digger of the district. South Canterbury Dairy Company has bad a profitable year and will pay a dividend of 5 per cent and a bonus to suppliers. The year's turnover was .627,000. The postal authorities notify that on and after Friday, 26th inet., a steamer will leave Wellington for Sydney every Friday and will connect with mail leaving Sydney for London on Tuesday evening. It is estimated that owing to tbe drought in Oamaru district between 4000 and 5000 head of cattle have been sent out of the district or potted. ' There is considerable mortality due to want ,of feed. A cablegram states that the Britbh Post Office notifies that postage on parcels to New Zealand exceeding four feet in length and girth combined will be increased on Thursday next owing to the large number of bulky packets. Palmerston Holiday Association at their meeting yesterday decided to hold the next annual meeting on July 30th, at 10 a.m., in the Council Chambers. The letter from the Invercargill Association, re the amendment of half-holiday laws will then be discussed.)

A number of residents of Stoney Creek met on Monday evening at the public hall for the purpose of farewelling Mr E, Tallott, who has sold his farm and is leaving the district. Mr Tallott has always taken an active interest in local affairs, having been a member of the school and hall committees and was presented with a small memento of esteem in tbe shape of a silver mounted pipe suitably engraved. Mr W. Dimock, Managing Direotqr of W. Dimock and Co., Ltd., has beea visiting this district, and he informs us that he fully expects the price of pig 3 for tbe coming season to be higher than the season just closed, as owing to the large number of pigs to be handled by their firm the cost per pig will be considerably reduced, and they have decided to give the suppliers full advantage of the saving affected. Their new factory is now in working order and the abattoirs will be completed in time for the coming season. The ne# machinery is capable of handling 2000 piers per day of eight hours and they expect their factory will be large enough to handle all the pigs offering ifor several years. Tbey have, however, reserved room for doubling the capacity when the supply increases sufficiently to warrant them so doiug. This should be welcome news to suppliers in this distriot. At Falmeraton Court yesterday Mr A. D, Thomson, 5.M.,, read the reserved, judgment of His Honor Mr Juetice Cooper in the case Lovelook v. Jefferies, a suit for specific performance of an agreement, heard at the recent Supreme Court sittings. There was also a claim for damages which plaintiff alleged he had suffered through defendant's refusal to carry out the agreement, and an alternative claim for specific performance of tbe agreement as far as defendant was able to perform it, with, a claim for abatement of the purchase money, and damages, and a claim for damages generally in lieu of specific performance if specific performance could not be decreed. Tbe statement of defence admitted the agreement and the defendant's refusal to perform it, # and set up grounds wbioh the defendant alleged afforded a sufficient answer to the claim for specific performance in whole or in part, and the defendant had paid into Court, whioh he alleged was sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff's claim for damages. The defendant had also filed a counter-claim for .£2O 4s lOd for the agietment of cattle belonging to the plaintiff, in answer to which the plaintiff alleged that the cattle were placed J>n defendant's property by consent of the latter and in part performance of the agreement of sale. He . also denied any agreement to agist the cattle. His Honor went into the facts of the case at considerable length, after whioh wae allowed as against the defendant under the claim fof commission on the actual sale. As general damages iJIOO was allowed, this sum being, in his Honor's opinion, a fair estimate of the general damage sustained by plaintiff and fairly chargeable to the defendant. Specific (performance of the contract was refused, and judgment was given for plaintiff in the original action for the j turn of £150, against which was credited the J£so paid into Court. On the counterclaim judgment was given for defendant by counter-claim (the plaintiff in the action). Plaintiff was allowed the costs of the action on the lower scale, including witnesses' expenses and Court fees. At a public meeting at Wellington the other night a branch of tbe National League of New Zealand was formed. The Premier, speaking in support of the proposal, said he believed the National League movement would have the effect of impressing upon the people the fact that, not in a spirit of jingoism, but that when necessity arose tbey would gain in times of peace that experience which would enable them to fight for their country and King. Personally he would do all he could publicly and privately to mould public opinion in this direction on sound and politic lines. A remarkable case of self-hypno-tism is puzzliag the doctors at Worcester, Massachusetts. Some time ago a well-known resident, Mr A. H. Stimson, brought himself under a hypnotic spell, and the physicians have been unable to restore him to consciousness. Mr Stimson read of a man who stated that he had hypnotised himself, and iu spirit had toured round Europe. He determined to imitate the writer, and fell into a state of catalepsy as the result. The doctors fear he will die without their being able to rouse him. For bronchial coughs take Woods Great Pepperment Cure. Is 6d & 2s 6d.

At Dunedin Loo Lee was fined £15. for having opium in his possession. The Canadian lacrosse team defeated New South Wales by eleven points to nil. A black whale measuring between 40ft. and 50ft. in length has been washed up on the beach a few miles north of Timaru. Henry Bruhn, oharged with exposing 40 infected lambs for sale at Bumside markets was fined 40s and costs. Three firemen belonging to the Rippingham Orange named Thomson, Jacobson, and Oallahan were arrested at Dunedin for broaohingcargo. A fire mJ. 0. Roes' drapery .establishment in Princes street, near - the Octagon, Dunedin, did damage of £300 to stock and £150 to theshop. Both were insured in the United. A representative meeting of ooal , mine owners at Dnnedin decided ta< emphatically protest against any increase in duty in connection with mining machinery, especially boilers* and locomotives, as the industry has already as much as it can carry. The Ohinemuri district suffered: much from the gale and flood. Qα Saturday night and Sunday the river overflowed its banks, and at 1.30 p.m. on Sunday the main street, in Paeroa was like a mill-race, and low lying land was deeply flooded. Many residents were removed fromi their houses in vehicles. The water drained off with the ebb tide early on Monday morning. Drapery and boot sale at the Bon, Marche to-day., The crowd continues because the bargains continue. There's-' a big walking movement in boots and drapery taking place at the Bon Marohe* -—Advt. :