LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1886, 5 November 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier has promised a full enquiry into the gun accident at Fort Ballance.

An advertisement respecting couplings for Page’s patent lever wire strainer is inserted to-day.

On our sixth page will be seen a □umber of casual advertisements crowded out of the front page. The evening preacher at the Methodist Church to morrow is Mr Hugh Bennett, of Wellington. The Battleship New Zealand “Pence ” Fund now totals £229 7s. Contributions have been received from 638 schools. Our readers' attention is directed to the clearing sale at Mr Jessop's residence. The sale takes place on Monday, at 1 o’clock. Our Pongaroa correspondent telegraphed this morning as follows : The firing for Captain Barker’s cup takes place at the range to-day. In 1898, 147,199 people had £8,966,049 in the Savings Bank of New Zealand. In 1908, 280,011 people had £8,432,958 put away. The express trains between Napier and Wellington dow pass each other at Hukanui, 11 miles beyond Pahiatna, where they formerly passed.

An advertisement from the Force Food Company, Wellington, urging purchasers not to throw away empty “Force" packages, appears in this issue. .

At the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Show Mr O. C. Cooper, of Pahiatua, secured first prize in the IS stone hack class with his horse Montua.

Caroline Wing Kee, of Midburat, was on Wednesday afternoon committed for trial on a charge of psrjury, allfgid to have been committed during th 3 trial of Arthur MeAuliffe, when the latter was recently sentenced for arson and perjury. The programme of the Pahiatua Mounted Rides’ military sports, to be held on the 23rd inst., comprising no less than fourteen events that should prove both exciting and amusing, appears in to-day’s issue. A replace advertisement from Mr R. Bee, jeweller, as to the quality and prices of goods suitable for wedding presents on sale at his establishment, will be found in another columD. He also inserts an advertisement on our frontpage thatcannot fail to attract the eye. Daring a storm at Esperance, West Australia, lightning struck the telegraph instruments, wrecking all inside connections. Twenty feet of leading-in wire disappeared altogether. The report was deafening, and the office was filled with suffocating fumes. The old Sirius, the first steamer to cross the Atlantic, was lost off the south coast of Ireland in 1847, and has remained at the bottom of the sea until the present year. Her builders or owners, or both, must have had liberal ideas of expenditure on their vessels. She has a brass shaft, and copper and guu metal in her fittings. A Birmingham firm will convert the shaft into mementoes. Other things are to be engraved and presented to pubiic institutions. Some have been converted into steam fittings.