LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4702, 2 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Balhvnoe and Mangahao notes appear on pages 2 and 3. Cable news will be found on page 7, and telegraphic matter on page 6.

The election and installation of officers of the Pahiatua Druids’ Lodge will take place on Thursday evening. A pound night will also be held.

The Mayor (Mr .T. D. C. Crewe) will be formally sworn in as a Justice of the Peace upon the next visit here of the Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr L. G. Reid).

It is expected that the proceeds of the entertainment in aid of the Town beautifying fund last night will net about £l2.

An effort is lining made to form a cricket club in Pahiatua. A meeting, at which all interested are invited to attend, will be held in Mr A. F. Cosford’s shop on Monday evening. The Rutland Hotel has changed hands. Mr J. Spillane, who has been the licensee for the past eleven years, has disposed of his interests to Mr C. Hosking, late of Palmerston North, Mr Spillane will probably settle for a time in Wellington. Negotiations are als'> proceeding for the sale of another hotel business in the town. Messrs J. 1). Wilson and A. Ross have been nominated for the vacant seat on the Borough Council. Mr Ross was nominated by Messrs C. E. Clifton and J. W. Mills. Nominations close to-morrow at noon. The election will take place on the 10th inst. There are 835 names on the District Electors’ list. A meeting of the Methodist Bazaar Committee was held last evening, when it was decided to hold a cookery competition for girls of the age of 15 years and under in addition to tho competition for adults. Final arrangements were made, for the gathering. It was reported that several ladies at Nikau, Ballanoe and Makomako, as well as those living in the town, were working hard for the bazaar.

A smoke conflfifct will be tendered to Mr (5. A. Burgess, who is leaving for Hawera, at the King’s Theatre this evening. On Thursday evening a public social will be tendered to Mr end Mrs Burgess and family at- the Foresters’ Hall. In response to a letter from the organising secretary of the function (Mr J. A. Walsh), the Town Band last evening resolved to turn out on Thursday evening and do honour to the departing townsman. The town and country ladies are also organising valedictory socials to Mrs and tho Misses Burgess. Mr J. E. Fitzgprald, of Wellington, representing Argyll’s, Ltd., writes as follows:—“With reference to a paragraph appearing in your issue of the 27th November re a challenge to tho Argyll Motor Company, I have to state that no such challenge has yet been received, nor has any appeared in the Wellington papers as stated. Should the challenge ho issued Argyll’s will gladly accept it. We are giving a public demonstration of tho Argyll from Wellington to Auckland during the currency of the Exhibition. Tf Messrs Hatrick and Co. wish to challenge this would he an excellent occasion. Time occupied, load carried, as well as petrol consumption and reliability will he the deciding factors in the contest.” Longmore’s Camera House is the depot for all photograph necessities. ’Phone 47, Pahiatua. WHY 18 SANDER and SONS’ EUCAYLPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalyptus produced P Because it is always snfe, reliable and effective. A death was recently reported from the internal use of one of the ooncootions which are now palmed off as "Extracts,” and at an action at law a sworn witmeae testified that, he suffered the most ornel irritation from another, which was aold to him as “fort as goed as HANDER’S EXTRACT.” Therefore insist upon the GENUINE SANDER and SONS’ PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Woodville Bowling Club is sending a senior and junior team to compete for the Ruahine Pennant at Danrievirke to-morrow.

The first shoot for the Bolton Cup, which was to have taken place at the rifle range to-morrow, has been postponed till the 17th inst. Entries for the competition close with the secretary (Mr R. V. King) on the 12th inst. “The shearers are going to take part in this game now. I am quite safe in prophesying that by the end of this week there will not be one shearer shearing in the Wairarapa district remarked Mr Dowgray at Sunday night’s strike meeting in His Majesty’s Theatre. The speaker also asserted that a deputation from the railway servants would w ait upon the Prime Minister this week and ask what the intention of the Government was in connection with the action of the employers in refusing to meet the men in a tribunal presided over by the Right Honourable Sir Joshua Williams. The Auckland Exhibition has grown from an idea advanced in an afterdinner speech as far back as 7th June, 1910, when the then chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr J. H. Gunson, suggested that tin opening of the Panama Canal should far celebrated in Auckland by an International Exhibition. A year later a public meeting was held to collect in practical form ideas which had been evolved as a result ol tin consideration which had been given to Mr Gunson’s suggestion. The proposition of an Internation Exposition was abandoned, but it «as decided instead that an Industrial Exhibition should l>e held in the city. Upon that foundation the Exhibition has been raised, plans have been modified o' elaborated, early projects abandoned or later ideas adopted, until the Exhibition grounds and buildings occupy an area of 48 acres, the snm of £30,000 having been spent in their preparation. The big 'show will remain open for at least five months, and during that time considerable in', fit will probably be made. No financial support has been sought for the venture outside Auck- | land, its commercial reputation being 1 assured by a guarantee fund of £16,350 raised in a few weeks last Year. No State subsidy was either sought or given, and any surplus remaining when the affairs of the Exhibition are concluded will he at the disposal of the executive. A purpose for the earnings was determined long ago, for when Mr Gecrge Elliott accepted the office of president he made one condition, and it was that all profits should be expended in improving and beautifying the Outer Domain, a portion of which is occupied by the Exhibition. At the Police Court, Wellington, i yesterday, Arthur Leonard, a middleaged man, pleaded not guilty before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., to using insulting language. The evidence of the i prosecution was to the effect that the | accused had had an argument with a I group of specials, in the course of l which he asked them if they had read, j certain 1 looks. Receiving an answer ,in the negative, the accused calk'd them: “An uneducated lot of b | scabs!” Leonard was somewhat un- ! der the influence of liquor at the | time. The accused stontlv maintainieJ that he had used the word | “shrabs.” not scabs. The Magistrate: l What is the meaning of '‘shrabs?” Accused: I don’t know. In fact. I don’t know the meaning of the word “scabs!” The Magistrate surveyed the man with a look of incomprehension, and remarked: You don’t pose as an educated man, do vou?” The accused replied that he had read some books. The Magistrate: Have you ever seen the word “schrab” in the [dictionary? —No. Was it a word that | you made up yourself.—Yes. What are you?—l was a seaman, but I have lately been working on the wharves. Tho Magistrate: And you are out on strike? Accused : I am. unfortunately. Further questioned bv the Magistrate. the accused said : I know- that the word scab has been list'd, but I did not know it had a meaning in the dictionary. The Magistrate said that the weight of evidence was against the accused and fined him £3. with the alternative of fourteen days’ imprisonment.

Tui Calf Meal is having the biggest run of any calf meal in the market. Glowing reports from all quarters. —Herbert and Company, sole agents.