LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2778, 29 July 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Assessment Court will resume its sittings in Pahiatua on Wednesday next. July 31st. at 0.30 a.m. A ladies' practice liockev match was played on the Recreation ground on Saturday afternoon. It is the intention of the larlies of Mangamaire to give the bachelors a return ball on Friday evening next, in the Mangamaire schoolroom. On our seventh page to-day will he semi an advertisement respecting "Frootoids." the new cure for headache. indigestion and conscipaticn. The road on the Pahiatua side ol the Ngnturi hill is in a very turn state, and urgently reuuires the attention of the authorities. Messrs Oulgety and Company. 1.. d., will offer by auction at the !. rm Rallancc. on Monday. August 6th. th» whole ol the dairv c >ws .etc., of Mr J. Jolly. The annual general m .'tint; of t.. ■ New Zealand I'armers’ Hairy t nun. 1. 141.. will be In Id in lie I'.iii in i Fketnhuna. eu Moni'.r.v. Hut: Align t, at 1 li.in. | A visitor passing thr ugli a jail : said to one ot the prisoners. ‘Broth- | ers and -isters have I none, yet this mail's father was my fat Inn's son. What was Ids relation to the prisoner;" And they bought all their clothing and limits at Herbert and Com

Oil Monday. August 12th at the farm. Konini, Messrs Atual.a ii amt Williams will oiler iiv auction the <hiirv stock, etc., ol Mr John Falleon. and it Hainua on Friday, August llitli. the dairy cn.is, etc., ut ticorge (icange. From enquiries made at the Paliiatua Hospital this morning we learn that Mi Charles Bndden, who drives tor Mr W. It. Carter, anti who injured his side on Saturday last at Mangatainoka. owing to the bread cart lie was in charge ol capsizing, is progressing favournldv. We understand, however, that it will lie some six weeks before he will lu* able to resume his duties. Yet another bread-cart accident. On Saturday morning. J. Beaufort, who drives one ut Mr J. Donaldson's carts, collided with a culvert in Wakc-man-stroot, with the result that the cart, driver and contents wore upset with considernhh' violence. Young Beaufort- escaped with a severe shaking. The cart and the bread were the only things damaged. Bread has evidently a downward tendency. We understand that Messrs Husband Brothers have just disposed of Messrs Hughes and Daw sun's property at Mangni aniarama. The propeity has changed hands several times withri the last lew mouths. Mr N'itz soldi out to Mr Dampnev. and the latter I disposed of i( to Messrs Hughes and | Dawson. The name of the latest purchaser has mil transpired, 'lucre is evidently llloilcv in the gallic.

On Saturday night lasi while Mr S. 'Pullv and his man were returning In Cuiiiimir, the horse, vehicle. .. id occupants were suddenly capsized over the Makuri (huge about I of a mile this side ol the township. Foi l iin.ite tv Mr 'fully and h s companion land cd in siinie hushes ami so escaped serious injury. 'I lie trap was somewhat damaged, hut the horse returned > Pahiatua yesterday morning none the worse lor his misadventure.

A ride of 281 miles in 4 consecutive days without changing horse has been accomplished by Captain Chopin de la Bruyere, of the French army. His horse which finished in good condition, lost 421 b in weight. A well-known Lyttelton stevedoe was “shanghaied” the other night on the s. s. Cygnet. He went below to speak to a friend, but stayed a few moments too long, for when he regained the deck he found that the vessel had cast off and was some ten or twelve feet from the quay. The distance was too far to jump, and ms vehement protests to the skipper were of no avail, and he had perfofee to make the trip to Kaikoura with the vessel.

Everybody knows, or has heard of Brinsmead pianos. Even those who do not, or have not, will probably be interested to learn that the founder of the famous firm, Mr, John Brinsmead, and his wife, to whom he was married 70 years ago, and both of whom are now in the 93rd yea r of their age, recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of their wedding day. “ If a father won’t come to the point about indenturing his son, the only safeguard for the employer is to discharge the boy.” said Air. S. Brown, from the Bench of the Aroitratioa Court, The employer to whom this advice was addressed had just been ordered to pay a fine which he might, have avoided if he had had Mr. Brown to counsel him a few months ago.