The Examiner, Published MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. Topics of Everyday Interest.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3681, 30 March 1904, Page 2

The Examiner, Published MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. Topics of Everyday Interest.

It -vrill be remembered that at the last silting of the

an Pabiatua Licensing explanation. Bench, otrong comment was made on the action of Constable Bales who reported adversely on the conduct of the licensee of the Herbertville Hotel. Had the following explanation only been forthcoming at that lime, it would have put a very diffeaent complexion on the conduct of the Constable. Constable Eales, the offender in the matter, asked Inspector Macdonell if he would attend the quarterly meeting and support his (Constable Bale’s) report on the hotel. The Inspector wrote stating that it was not likely anything would be done at the quarterly, meeting, and instructing Constable Eales not to attend as his services were urgently required on the coast in the effort to trace McKenzie, the man wanted for murder at Te Awaite.

The sub-committees appointed in connection with the the EALLAKCE collection of funds gorge road, towards metalling the Ballance-Gorge Hoad were successful in gathering together over £SO. The Mayor (Mr H. Burnett) wired the Premier informing him of this fact, and asking if the Government would subsidise the amount collected. The following reply was received the same afternoon The settlers having subscribed £SO towards metalling the Gorge road, the- .Government have decided to subsidise that amount pound for pound, but not exceeding the £SO. The local authority can act at once upon this, as it has been approved by Cabinet. The formal instructions will be sent on to the Minister in charge of Roads in due course.’’ The Mayor immediately comraunicat<d with tbe°Pahiatua County Council,and as a result tenders have been called for the work, particulars of which appear in our advertising columns.

Local and General. The Examiner will not be published on Friday or Monday but will instead be published on Saturday. Mrs Hutchinson, Postmistress at Makuri, has been transfered to Ashurst. The profit on the recent race meeting at Danneyirke was £405. The Hastings Band made a profit of £5 over their visit to Palmerston North. Lord Curzon succeeds the late Lord Salisbury as Warden of the Cinque Ports.

Parker (New Zealand) won the Singles Championship at Sydney, beating Harbison 5; 6) 7 — 5, 6, 1. Mr W. Rose announces a sale on behalf of Mr Dewhirat of S valuable farm in the Mt. Cerberus District.

Train arrangements for the Easter holidays are advertised to-day.

Tenders are'invited for various works in the Pahiatua County (including the Ballance-Gorge Road). Tenders are invited by the Wood villa County Council for delivering 250 yards metal on Harding’s Road. The Cabinet has decided to construct a narrow guage railway from Culverden to Hanmer, Several steamers have been chartered at Sydney to load breadstuffs and fodder and other produce for Japan. The Government has cabled Home for six Shorthorn bulla of a milking strain, to be out here by next spring. • The Mayor of Wellington, Mr Aitken, has been prevailed upon to seek reelection for another term. The Wanganui people have already subscribed T 250 towards the cost of sending their Garrison Band to take part in the Ballarat Band contest. Wickham, at the schools championship meeting at Sydney, swam 50 yards in 24 3-5 sec., which is a world’s record.

Mr Elliott, lata of Maharahara, has purchased Mr J. Goodwin’s Yiowfield farm at Waipukurau, and takes possession this week.

f It is stated that Mr Burmester, o Dannevirke, has Received notice that a substantial legacy has been left to him and his family. A company, with a capital partly subscribed at Singapore and partly at Australia, has been formed to erect a cold storage at Singapore.

Indignation runs high against Dowie, who, since Friday, has been staying at Mount Lofty, near Adelaide. He refuses any information as to his intentions. Yesterday Mr G. P. Donnelly sent a shipment of 500 ewes and rams to South Africa, consigned to his nephew, Mr L. Shaw, who has taken up land there. The bursting of a dam flooded the Exceleior Olay Works mine at Brazil (Indiana), "imprisoning thirty persons. It is believed that all perished. A tornado in the vicinity of Chicago destroyed five hundred houses. The damage is estimated at a million sterling. Twelve persons were killed, and many injured. The London Financial Times says that the deplorable results in New South Wales are entirely due to the Government pandering to labour.

The Irish Unionists havo intimated that they will not support the Government pnless n grant is given for the drainage of the val)ey of the river Bann, also a grant for Queen’s College, Belfast,

A further reduction has been made by the Insurance Companies doing business in Hawke’s Bay. This reduction applies to all fully detached dwelling?, the insurance on which is now 18s per cent, instead of 16s. The alteration came into fo-ice o,s from the 15th March.

At the Women’s Emigration Association meeting in London, the Hon, Alfred Lyttelton eulogised Mr Eeeve's letter to the Times assuring that all of British stock desiring to settle in Now Zealand would receive a welcome and hospitality. 3Sr" To Our Lady Customers. —We have just opened one dozen Black Chiffon Hats, all different styles and .• hapes. These goods arc very scarce, ana we weie fortunate in securing (hie lot. We invito eusiy it sp etion as ihcy will SOoll b*r fold. —A. lIOSENUERO tfc Co., The JS.cpk.qmio.

An advertiser wants to hire an organ

The annual meetings of the householders in the Woodville and Woodlands Bead districts will he held on the 23th April.

Mr Sullivan, of Waug.nuii, will" deliver an address in the' Cbristodelphian Ha'l on Sunday evening on the second enning of Christ. All ate invited,, and there will be no collection.

Mr D. Crewe reports a very satisfactory sale on behalf of Mr George Barnett, of Kumeron, yesterday. Details will appear in due course. Captain Edwi i telegraphed to-day;— St'ong winds to gale from between north and west and south-west after 16 hours from now, with glass falling. R dn probable. Owners of factories are again reminded that they must register with Constable Brosnahan-on tha Ist April, after which date they will be liable to a penalty.

At the instance of the British Ambassador at Washington, the Commissioners of the St. Louis Exhibition have prohibited the proposed Boer war display on the| ground that it would be insulting to the British army.

The dockers on strike at Marseilles rioted and exchanged revolver shots with the police. A stone spilt, a policeman’s skull. Nine police aad twelve rioters were wounded. Subsequently an agreement was arrived at, and the strike terminated.

A British jury has awarded Captain Doraysc-r, of the Belgian Army, £SOO damages for libels contained in Captain Burrows’bopk “The"curse of Central Africa, ” wherein allegations are made of maiming, flogging and massacring Congo natives.

It will be noted that visitors to the Feilding races on Easter Monday from this part of lire district may return the same day. The Feilding meeting is always one of the most popular sporting fixtures of the year, and doubtless many people will take advantage of the opportunity now afforded of visiting the races. A cyclone devastated the Is'and of Reunion, and thousands are without food and shelter, while crops and bridgen have been destroyed. It is estimated that £40,000 is required to relieve immediate distress. Twenty-four residents were killed. Constable Brosnahan is now almoner for this district. The other day Mr S. Johnston and Capt. Baker came to Woodville and banded over to Constable Brosnahan all the necessary books and papers in connection with the distribution of charitable aid.

Mr J. T. Steele, Messrs Bing, Harris & Co.’s p 'pillar traveller, is to be married on Monday. A member of his friends at Napier on Monday presented him with a handsome oak case of cutlery and silver table ware as a mark of goodwill. The Palmerston Borough Council has been served with a writ for £475 on behalf of Messrs Crichton and Mackay, architects of Wellington. The claim is for supplying a design of an opera house for the Borough, and working plans for same.

The dockers’ strike at Marseilles has been renewed in consequence of a unionist who was arrested on a charge of insulting the police not being released. The mail steamer Arcadia was unable to discharge or coal owing to the strike. She is proceeding to Gibraltar to coal. At Mrs Yeale’s residence yesterday afternoon Mrs Hounsell was entertained at afternoon tea, and presented by the members of ihe Guild of the Methodist Church with a handsome silver preserve dish as a token of the great regard in which she has been held during the time the Rev. Mr Hounsell has been in charge of the Woodville circuit.

The murderer, Crossman on Jan, 'loth of last year married a woman, and sent hfr back to her parents on the 12th. He then on the 15th of the same month married Mrs Owen, a maternity nurse, in order to secure her savings. He forthwith bought a bushel of cement, and the police are convinced that Mrs Owen was murdefed during the other wife’s absence.

In consequence of Howie’s remarks about the King, the Mayor of Sydney notified Howie that he would not be allowed to hold tho meetings announced for the Town Hall. Further use of the Hall is concelled; The Premier informed Howie that owing to his disloyal utterance the Government had decided that he would not be allowed to hold a meeting in any building under Government control. An influentially-signed memorial has been presented to the Premier asking him to demand a full apology from Bowie.

Mr Robson informs us that he has met with wonderful success in his efforts to form an orchestral society for Woodville. He has already twenty-six names of those willing to become playing members, sod these include no less than 14 violinists. A successful preliminary practice was held last evening at the Vicarage, and another practise will be held at Mrs Havies’ residence, Upper McLean St., on Friday evening. Proper practices will not be commenced until details have been arranged at a meeting to be held at the school next Wednesday evening.

Crossman, the man who committed suicide in London when being arrested for murder, went through a form of eight marriages under various aliases. Two wives are missing, During his late wife's absence for a fortnight in September, another woman lived on the premises. The autopsy on the body of the woman found at his home in Kensal Rise shows that death approximately took place in September. A portion of the skull is missing, and it is believed that a hatchet was psed in killing her. Crossman recently purchased cement with a view to placing additional layers over the remains of his victims to stifle the smell.

Hv Geo. Booth, of Christchurch, in speaking of lobor legislation the other day said that it showed no consideration for employers at all, However pure the motives of those responsible for it might be, it was plain to him, and he thought to all fair-minded persons that they were misguided. He had noticed that men seemed to be on the best of terms with their employers, and seemed quite different from the men who banded themselves together and passed resolutions. He thought this was partly attributable to the fact that their best men did not take prominent positions in tire Unions (hear, hear), and this was a pity. Mntsuhito, the Emperor of Japan, is said to be tall fur a Japanese, about five feet seven in height, and rather heavily built. He looks older than his years, which are fifty-two. His beard is long, rather than full, and ho has the same coarse bjack hair which all his subjects have. His' eyes are coal black and of a rare brightness when interested, but generally their expession is dull and heavy. Some declare that the Mikado of the Meiji, or >• enlightened peace 'I era,, is the most remarkable man of liis agej and others that he is hut little removed from an idiot.

Messrs D. G, MtKibbin & Co. intimate in i ln,i is-iiw th.u.i t’;oy arc pow showing their Inst shipment of new goods ivr 'he season. These include a nice selection of Kampoi end other jackets, and the latest goods in all departments.

Thuongh an accident, to a goods train . the Wellington express was unable to get through to time to-day. She left Mauriceville at 3 o'clock and should reach Woodville at-4.15.

At its next sitting in Wellington the Arbitration Court will deal with a claim of £250 made by Harry Campbell, of Woodville, against Duncan McAlister, of Eakaunni, as compensation for an injury to an eye sustained while bushfelling.

It will be remembered that at the beginning of the month a horse was discovered in an exhausted condition at Mangamaire, and it was thought that it may have been ridden by McKenzie, the man wanted in connection with the To Awaite murder. This horse is still in the hands of the police, and wo give the following description with a view to its owner being found : —Bay gelding in good condition, no shoes, 7 years old, 14|- jhanda high, branded on near shoulder with figure 2, over which is an older brand V, which is about 3 inches above the figure; star on forehead, and one white hind foot. The animal had been ridden to a standstill, and was found on the Ist March.