LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2775, 25 July 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A black whale, measuring between 40 and 50 feet in length, has been washed up on the beach a few miles north of Timaru.

A practice match of the Mangatainoka Football Club will be held on the Domain ori Saturday next, -iti. inst. A full attendance of players is requested. 11l a football match between Uaio. ran and Wanganui on Saturday, Tali, arangi kicked a hall oelweeu tne i-.d posts of his own side and the re. feree gave it as a goal tor bis up poneut's (Wanganui;. Herring have been stranded on the beach at Picton in such quantities recently that if allowed to remain they are likely to become a nuisance, it has been decided to engage a motor launch and clear the beach. A representative meeting or coal mine owners at Dunedin decided to 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. A somewhat remarkable coincidence occurred on the last homeward voyage of the Atlienic.' On the vessel's arrival at Monte Video she was joined by a young Scotswoman, w ho had been spending a six weeks’ ltolid ;y at Buenos Ayres. When the vessel arrived at Teneriffe she received a cablegram. informing her that she tad won the Argentine State Lottery oi £25,000. At the same time another qt the passengers, who bad travelled in the steerage trom New Zealand, learnt that lie bad inherited a fortune ol £300,000. Ibe House was somewhat scandalised by the memorandum attached to Mr Major’s Lamps on Vehicles Bill, containing the interesting information that "it is not considered advisable to compel the lighting of w heelbarrows and perambulators.” The Law Drafting Department disclaimed responsibility and so did Air Alajor, until a letter was produced in his handwriting instructing an official to add the memorandum. Then be recovered trom ins lapse ol memory, but said ho was certain the memorandum was taken from the English Act. Alessrs t . Sandtord ai d Company advertise in this i-siie a complete clearance ot their showroom stock, t i make room for their new goods. Every article will be greatly redueixi. Shapes and ii .turnings at ridiculous prices. Those who do their own millinery will and a visit pay them to this showroom sale.

Acting under instructions from th ( Palmerston Cycle and Alot, r Company, .Messrs .Mitchell and Griffith will s, 11, at tin* Ala it. \\ akeuiau street, on Saturday, at 1 p.in., new and second-hand bicycles. All these machines are in first-class order, and will be sold at very low prices. Ailvt.