LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1197, 21 February 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The owner of a sheep siraying in the borough is advertised for.

At Alfredtot) the race course and the church are in one paddock. The erection of the new Anglican Church is engaging the attention oi the new vicar.

The Woodville Tennis Club are send, ing a team to play a Pahiatua team tomorrow, on the latter’s courts. The holdors of the Norton Feathers have agsiu been challenged, and the match will take place to-morrow afternoon on the bowling green. There was a very large attendance at tha State School picnic on Wednesday. Tho outing was thoroughly enjoyed by parents and children. Church of England services will be conducted on Sunday next by Rev II M. B. Marshall in the afternoon at Ngaturi and in tbs evening at Makuri. Trout are very scarce m the streams around this district this season, and very little angling has been indulged iu by local sports. Mr Horton, nurseryman, loft for the Carterton Show to-day with heavy exhibits for the horticultural show in that town.

The asphalting of Main-sheet foot paths is progressing. A promenade on the eastorn footpaths strongly suggests London.

The Pahiatua Ritlcs parade this evening. As there is only one more parade (Friday, 28th inst.). every man is requested to bo in attendance, in order to qualify for capitation. There was a fair attendance at the Alfredton races yesterday. Several bookmakers wore on th« course doing duty for the. totalisator. Neary, the Pahiatua jockey and trainer, got past the judgo first, in three events.

Tho W.F.C.A. are showing a great n ove.ty in tho shape of a patent rubber heel, nil idea which will bo lmilod wiih delight by tlioso who tiro troubled with tired feet. Tho invention cau he adjusted to any sized boot and the dim are oropared io do the job while you wait.

Before oponing winter goods C. Sandford and Co., are having a elonrnneo of much useful stuff. The sale begins to* morrow, and will last lor a short time only. Many will ho tho bargains placod before tho public to-merrow. Ho not fail to pay an early visit to this sale which will he made as great u success ns former ones. Lowes and lorns’ Mnstcrtnn ram fair is fixed for 27th February. Train arrangements in connection itli the Mnstertorton Bhow aro advor. tised to day. I,owes and lorns advertise a olearing sale of dairy stock at Nowmun on ;»rd March, Monday. A respectable young woman wants a situation as housekeeper or ladyhslp, country preferred. Tho local auctioneers notify a ram fair at Pahiatua at an oarly dc t, . Exact date and particulars will ho advertised later.

The Scarborough people aro arranging a farewell social iu connection with Miss Hall’s departure. Tho allair has boon lisod for Tuesday evening next,

Tenders are called for stumping ten acres.

Weasels in the Oamaru district are reported to be as numerous as rabbits. Mr T, Hawke, who met with a severe accident to his ankle some time ago, is about town on crutches.

The unfortunate man Exley, who met with the shooting accident at Makuri, is still in a precarious condition in the Wellington Hospital.

The local Presbyterian Church is shortly to be adorned with a steeple and bell, and the building will be painted outside and in. It is stated that Lord Granville Gordon, who is now one of New Zealand’s “ distinguished visitors,” was the corespondent in a divorce case heard at Home in December, in which a decree nisi was granted with costs. The Crown Dairy Company ha K purchased Mr Henry Bayly’s property at Toko, and intends using it for dairyingTo cope with the additional supply of milk, the Toko factory is to be enlarged. A boy named Herman Furey was accidently shot through the nose in Grey street, Auckland, with an air-gun. Another boy twelve years of age, was firing at some sparrows on the roadway when Fuery passed and received a shot in the nose. Dr Parkes was called in and removed the leaden pellet. At the recent Woodville Show Mr Cobb got the credit of securing first prize for a pen of jthe best 10 wethers, but as a matter of fact the first prize winner was Mr R. Smith of Onslow Park who secured the distinction with a pen of magnificent Lincoln wethers. Church services will be conducted in the Pahiatua parochial district next Sunday, February 23rd, 1902, as fo’« lows; —Pahiatua—8 a.m., Holy Com* munion, 11 am. Matins and Litany—the vicar, 7 p.m. Evensong by the vicar. Kaitawa—2.3o. p.m. Evensong by the vicar- Tine—2.3o. p.m. Evensong by lay reader. The Pahiatua Horticultural and Industrial Society publish an inset to-day containing a list of their special prizes for the forthcoming show.

The jockey who is alleged to have shot the Chairman of the Rockhampton Jockey Club Committee on 4th Septam ber, 1900, after being suspended for six momhs for not trying to win a race, has been arrested on suspicion at Uran* dangle on the Western Queensland border. He had not been heard of since the tragedy. H. M. McNeill, dentist, formally of Wanganui has arrived in Pahiatua and will commence the practice of his profession in rooms over Mr J. Boagey’s shop, on Monday February 24th. We understand that Mr McNeill was lor four years connected with the leading practice in Wanganui, and has had considerable experience in eyery branch of the profession. A correspondent assures tho North Otago Timas that the plan of hanging pieces of mi**ror glass in his garden is the best scare for small birds he has ever tried. He hangs the mirror en an arm extending from a piece of stick stuck in the ground, and with every puff of wind the glass revolves, Hashing in every direction. The birds will not stray near the glass. Even in dull weather the glass is able to scare the birds, as there is a Hash from it as it turns on the hanging string. The usual meeting of the local lodge of tlie A.O.F. was held on Tuesday evening February 18th C. R. Bro. Yewen, presiding. The action of a previous meeting was confirmed that money lent out to members of the court be charged 4$ per cent, also a donation of 2 guineas to the family of a ate brother of the Court Sir William Jervois. Five members were reported on the sick fund. The court closed at 9 15.

C ark and Manilold report their sale of general drapery, boots and shoes etc., as the most successful yet held by the firm, and they now announce the fact that Saturday March Ist will be the last day of the sale. No doubt the bargains will continue to be sought after right up to the closing day. Although King Edward did not notify his accession by special ambassador to the Vatican, the Pope is desirous (says an English paDer) of being represented at the coronation ceremony. Accord* ingly. negotiations are now proceeding on tiie subject, with special reference to the question ot precedence- It is stated that Leo. XIII. would be satisfied with a private reception of his mission by the King, similar to that accorded to the Papal Mission on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. The Countess Raiz, whose visit has caused such a furore amongst the Whakarewarewa Maoris, lett Rotorua on Friday en route for Wanganui via Taupo. Bhe purposes spending some time in the colony before leaving to attend the coronation. Besides natives a sixteen years’ rheumatic martyr, who lodges in a tent near tho Postmaster baths, has been the recipient of the Countess’ bounty. The Maori Council’s regulations of the Wanganui district provide that any* one who sells, gives, or supples any cigarette, tobacco, or torori to any Maori youth under 15 years of age is liable to a tine of £5 under the Council’s by-laws. Any such yout i caught smoking shall be fined—first time ss. second 19s, and for third aid subsequent offence* 20s. (Torori is a herb sometimes used by thena:ives as a substitute for tobacco. Its smoko has a very evil smell.)

The Rev. Fierpont Edwards, knowr as “ The Fighting Parson.” who lef( Southwark a year or two ago, lias joined the Essex Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper. In a letter to the hon. secretary of the Colchester Rifle Club, who with twenty members, has also joined tlie Yeomanry, Mr Edwards says . —“ My advice to all members of the club is—be good if you cannot be good looking, but you may be both by donning the uniform ol the Essex Imperial Yeomanry,”

As he could “ eat more than the rest of tho family put together,” and was ‘‘ still growing.” the parents of a thirteen year old giant naiuod M irsh wore coinpalled to send him to work, though he had only passed tho fifth standard, hiix foot in stature, and weighing over ten stone, he is now employed at an iron rolling mill at Newcastle* underLyme, before tho magistrates of which borough his mother appeared tho other day to show the cause why she had neglected to send her son to school. The bench held that ” the child ” could not leave school until ho was fourteen, and made an order for him to attend school.

Speaking to a Government official the other day a representative ol an Oainaru paper asked how. on tho whole, rating on uninjprovod values had operated on those places whore it had been brought into lorcc. Ho replied that he deemed that the general effect had been entirely satisfactory. Liamne cases it hud the effect of inducing people to build on vacant spaces that were lying idle, and people who hold u lot of sections unoccupied. when they did not build, improved their sections by peeing up good fencing and cultivating the ground so as to make ii »* pi .- Uictive. 10 JLt ult., Messrs Wm. Cooper anti Nephews received tho following letter from Kimo. Uundag.ii, one of the leading sheep stations in Now South Wales —“ Wo have been using Cooper’s Sheep Dip at Kimo for tho past twelve years, and have no hesitation whatever in saying that the results are wonderlul—i,. one instance it made a differ* enee of over one penny per lb,, in some wool here, 1 have tried several other tlips, but I must say homo ha ve come up to yours at tho critical time—win n the wool comes oil—(tho shearing). Youj dip is also a grand preventative of tuuggot fly, and has been used with excellent remits here.”