LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2064, 27 May 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The date fixed for Father Hay’s meeting in the Olympic Theatre, Pahiatuii, is the 27th June.

On and after Monday next, (he \\ oodrille telephone exchange w ill he open from 7 to 7.90 p.m.

Tenders are invited by the Pahiatua County Couneil for quarrying and breaking ?<V) cubic vards of limestone for the M nkuri-fVmgaroa-road.

The meel of the Woodlands Hun! Club on Wednesday next will take place at Mr T. Vlexted’s property. Pnhiatun. We understand that a very nice run has been arranged. The police of Vienna caught redhanded an old man, 102 years of age. while in the act of committing a burglary. The man, it i« added, has spent more than half of his life in the central prison of ljcpaglova for burglary. The Russian Government has created a good effect on public opinion in Hull by the promptness with which it paid the i’ttO.OOO awarded against it in connection with the lVigger Bank affair. Instead of I‘ffOJVVi it paid .-€65,000, and w it bout a word of demur N missionary at Hamnda. in Japan, tells that he went to the funeral of a Japanese soldier, and condoled with the mother, a t'hristian. She replied : “Oh. yot ought to congratulate me' Is it not the greatest honour my son could have had, to die for his country Y' A social in aid of the funds of the Konim Hockey Club wall be held in the Konim hall on Wednesday next, ‘list Vlnv. Tho tickets for admission will be Gentlemen, 2s ; lady. Is. An excellent programme is in course of preparation, and no doubt the social will lie successful and ns sociable as Konim socials usually are.

M ills' Special Gough Pure The only cough cure taken by the Pahiatn.i pulvbe. Is tid. AOVT

At the annual meetingof the Woodville Central Agricultural and Pastoral Association, held ot. Wcdn “ lay evening last, it was- decided that for the future the number of vie.-.presi-dents shall be four, and a further resolution was carried to the effect that members two years in arrear w>th subscriptions he struck off the roll. Japan has only spent £7B/K»,oi*» on the war with Russia. Twenty of these millions were provided out of revenue, and the remainder by loans The ilikado’s Government i- carrying on a stupendous war in the most astoundingly economic manner the world has even seen. Britain's annual peare bill is twice as large as the total cost of the Japanese array and navy during the war We congratulated the Woodville Agricultural and Pastoral Association in having again elected Mr F. FT. Perry R“ President. Mr Perry is an enthusiastic, reliable worker in connection with everything pertaining to the Association and in addition he is not afraid to speak plainly when necessity arises. We feel sure the Association is entering upon another sueee'sful year.