LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The l*nliiat 12 a Herald” will not h* published on .Monday next. A Birmingham grocer has been tim'd ‘.'2o and £3O for supplying margarine as Danish butter. l i e margarine w a - packed in Danish casks. Tim margarine "as worth 70s to 7os a cut, and the buttci lt'tis. An American, who some time a*'o became a naturalised Japanese -i|Tiject. has just joined the navy ot Ins adopted count i and is undergoing instruction at Yokohama. He is t lie first American who ever entered the naval service of lapan. I’abiatilii and district have just pnss*'*l through the wettest season experienced by farmers in the past twelve or loiirtecn years. Dairy farming has boomed, and a most successful season lias just n suited (telegraphs a Post representative). Top prices w et e obtaim'd for butter and the outlook is very bright. A private couimunieation receive*! from a colonial student at the Edinburgh I uiversity states that out ot 20 medals awarded in all classes no less than four of them were gained by .New Zealanders. Four each wc.i, to Australia and Soulli Africa, and two to Canada. This is a gratifying result to colonials generally, and to New Zealanders in particular. A memorial statue of the late Hon. W 1 11 1 »»m Hoi lest 'in, t ho last Provincial Superintendent ot Canterbury, was unveiled in Holleston avenue, in front of the Museum, Christchurch, on Saturday afternoon, in the prcsciux' ol a bilge concourse ol people. The Hon. C. C. Bowen, M 8.C., picsid.*!. i c statue was unveiled by Sir John Hull, Mayor if Christchurch. When wintry tens my eyes o'*"Jew In )>ninfill sympathy with my nose I rest my heavy head ami sigh For .-nine relief or I shall die. The hacking cough, the hard-drawn breath, Can only menu approaching death But i o the remedy, Lilr*s Kt*Is found in Woods' Great l\pp*rmint Cure. *>

Commenting on Air. Justice Cooper s remarks ott tbe proceeding- at a social in Otago. Chrixtchuicli •-Truth ’ says: "The unlimited liquor -■ r:al is one of the worst incentives to drunkenness the average young man au- to combat.” An admirable work is being done by school savings banks in enc mi-ag-ing the rising generation care of the pence, says a Christchurch paper. These institutions an . -.u on a copper basis, but substantial sums are accumulated, nevort-• At the meeting ot the S;i:ooi Coinn ,t----tees’ Association, for in-tanc-e, it ..,s stated that the hank at tin Of>.. ..a school had eighty depositor-, and a total saved of £322. after ab lit n. • years. At Woolston a hank w . started a year ago. and there w«i<now eighty depositors and £47 ii--3d accumulated. It was decided n urge the Education Boat 1 to affied all possible facilities ter tie e,t ; lishment of such hank-. For c-olds in the head and infillenza. Woods’ Great Pepp mm* t Is Gd and 2s 6d per bottle. THE “TROCADERO” is the be-t place in Pahiatua to get a hrstclass meal. Your wants attended to punctually and with civility. Large stock of high-class confectionery.