LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3825, 17 January 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr George Moore has been appointed census enumerator for this district. A good general servant or lady help is wnn'ed by Mrs A. E. Anderson, Wil’ington de'eati d Auckland by’ thiee wickets and 214 runs. An old soldier, William Bannctt, aged 72 vears, hanged himself in the Forestirs’ Hull, New riymouth.cn Monday. A girl named Benha Holloway evas thrown from a horse at Masterlon on Saturday evening, and was killed. A man named Little was drowned at Whangapoua (Auckland) on Saturday through a boat capsizing. A mutch will be played by the Australian cricket team at Pulmerstcn on or about the 17th of February. The Pahiatua County Council h decided teget iis Engineer to report on the question of metal ing the Gorge-Ballance road. Diplomatic relations between France and Venezuela have been ruptured owing to President Costro ignoring M. Taigny, French Clmige de Affaires. Mr McArtney, licensee of the Provincial Hotel, which was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, had no insurance on his effects, the policy having expired a few doys before the fire. Breeders of stock and others interested are requested to note that entries for the Fielding A, and P. Show, to be held on Fid). 7th, close on Friday next, 19th. Handsome prizes arc offered in all classes, as much as £ds being allotted to the open hunters competition, and all other classes arc provided for on an ( equally liberal scale. Schedules and I entry forms may he obtained at the • office of this paper.

Holiday excursion fares and train arrangements in connection w th Anniversary Day are advertised to-day. The Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands has arranged for a consignment of live rabbits to be sent to his territory, with tire obj'Ctof adding io the food supply of the islands. The Southern Cotton-Growers’ Association has resolved to plant one-fourth less codon. This resolve is at the re- I quest of holders on the spot who have pledged themselves not to sell below fifteen cents. M. Dure), French architect at Geneva, was murdered in a train in a tunnel near Viiien, Le Grand. The body was robbed of fourteen thousand sterling in securities. Two youths, Marzo and Georges, have been arrested on suspicion. A party of drunken Kanakas took possession of a shop at Thursday Island and attacked with bottles two constables and two soldiers who were attempting their arrest. A constable _ procured a rifle and fired several shots into the shop wounding six Kanakas, two seriously. Dr Joseph Crane Hartzell, American Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Africa, states that, aftir an exhaustive personal study of the Chinese labour problem in the Transvaal on the spot, he was convinced that the cry of slavery and illtreatment was absolutely absurd. The native labour was insufficient. At a banquet of 200 guests, held at Berlin to promote an Anglo-German rapprochement, Sir Frank C. Lascelles paid a high tribute to the Kaiser aid his gratitude for the confidence the Kaiser had always shown him. The toast of King Edward was drunk with acclamation. Mr J. A, Gilrnth, Chief Government Veterinarian, gave an interesting address under the auspices of the Mangatainoka branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday evening. After the meeting the lecturer and Mr F. E. Perry were entertained at a supper. Genetal regret was expressed at Mr Perry’s decision to leave the district, and cheers wore given for Mr and Mrs Peny. The Pahiatua County Council decided at their meeting on Saturday last to write lo Mr R. B. Ross, M.H.R., re his statement to the electors that the Government had promised to re-build the Gorge bridge by a straight out Government grant, and that the GorgePalmeraton road would be widened and kept in thorough repair. The Council would hke to know on whose authority he had made the statement, and if he has any written authority would he be good enough to forward a copy of the same to the Council. The Woodville business people have got their reward for closing all day on People’s Day at the Palmerston Show. The Woodville A. and P. Association asked the Palmerston Holiday Association to close at 11 o’clock on Woodville Show Day, and have been met with a point blank refusal. The request was a very reasonable one, and the Palmerston business people might for once have shewn a spirit of neighborliness. Pahiulua, too, has declined to close earliir than 1 o’clock on Show Day. The U.S. Collegiate football season was practically wound up on November 25, when two deaths were recorded. Half-back Moore, of the Union College, playing against New York Uriversity, was taken out of a scrimmage unconscious. He was removed to the hospital, where lie died in the evi mng of cerebral heinoTiage. Carl Osborne, playing in the high school game at BMI- - Indiana, was [licked up dead on the field, after having tackled an opponent. One of his ribs had snipped, and h >d pierced his heart. The barque Zanita has arrived at Adelaide. She reports that early on Xmas morning she collided with the baique Coimbatore, 200 miles west of Cape Leuvvin. It is believed the Coimbatore sank. When the Zanita drifted clear she sighted what appeared to be a boat with two men clinging to it. A second boat was apparently going to the rescue of the first. The Zanita hove-to and cruised about the remainder of the night and next day, but saw no traces of the Coimbatore, which was coahliden j from Newcastle to Port Elizabeth, While locked together one of the Coimbatore's crew jumped aboard the Zsnita. The latter had her bowsprit and some gear carried away. Mr Parsons, the Japanese Consul at Adelaide, who is visiting Sydney, complains bitterly that owing to the new Liquor Act, he was unable to receive friends at his hotel on Sunday. He says he had to entertain them walking in the streets or the park. In the la ter a constable debarred them from smoking and anofher constable compelled their cab to walk because it was passing a church. “ Such pharissism," he declares, will not make for the development of a robust nation.” Under the circumstances he was not sorry to depart for the queen city. Other visitors make similas com? plaints. Glasgow is the municipalise.’s ideal town. A citizen of Glasgow may live in a municipal house. He may walk along the municipal street, or ride on the municipal tramcars, and watch the municipal dust-cart collecting the refuse, which is used to fertilise the municipal farm. Then he may turn into the municipal market, buy a steak from an animal kill in the municipal slaughterhouse, and cook it by municipal gas on a municipal gas-stove. For his recreation he has the choice of municipal libraries, municipal art galleries, and municipal music in the municipal parks. Should he fall ill he can ring up his doctor through the municipal telephone or be taken to the municipal hospital on the municipal ambulance by a municipal policeman. Should he be so unfortunate as io get on fire he would be put out by a municipal fireman using municipal water, after which ho will perhaps forego the enjoyment of a muni* cipnl bath though he may find it necessary to buy a new suit in the municipal old clothes market.

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The railway goodf-shed at. Ormond was destroyed by fire on Monday night. A plague of caterpillars is causing great damage to the crops in the Buninyong district (VictorL). The Harvest Festival in connection with the Methodist Church will be held on the 14th March, Mr George Hutchison, formerly mem* ber for the Patea seat, arrived in Wellingyesterday from Capetown. Captain Edwin telegraphed to-oay:— Strong winds to gale from between north-east and east and south ; g'ass full, rain probable. The Choir and Vestry of Holy Trinity Church are entertaining Mr and Mre Bagley at a social in the Foresters’ Hall on Friday evening. Just prior to our going to press to-day we heard that the induction of Mr Evans to the pastorate of St. David’s Church was taking place, and that he was to be entertained at a social in the evening. The Woodville Cricket Club are playing a match against the Volunteers today on the Recreation Ground. On Saturday the club will play Pahiatua at Pahiatua. We regret very much to hear that Mr Arthur Hodge, formerly engineer at the Bacon Company’s works here, has been lying dangerously ill m iho Palmerston Hospital for some weeks. A meeting is to be held next Tuesday to discuss the Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act of 1905. The Act makes it compulsory for business places to close at 9 o’clock on Saturday evening. The Anglic m Primate, Dr Nevill, has received information of his nomination to the vacant position of Sub-Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. The nominator is the Prince of Wales, who is Grand Prior of the Order. The dismissal of the Post Office officials—Messrs Larcome, West and Willis —has been gazetted, Lundon, one of the four concerned in the voucher inquiry, considers the decision of the Government “iniquitous” in view of the finding of the Commission of Enquiry. He therefore asks to be relieved from duty immediately, Two hundred and thirty-five white employees in the Nowise Deep Mine, Johannesburg, have protested that reports of ill-tnatment of Chinese circulated in England are baseless. They allege that a photograph of a supposed sufferer was arranged by a former Chinese compound manager, who was dissatisfied with his salary. We deeply regret to record the death of Mr James Loved ay, son of a former resident of Woodville and lately residing at Hamilton, Waikato. Deceased had been in ill-heal h for about six months and the end was not unexpected. The late Mr Loveday was always of a cheerful, generous disposition, and enjoyed the friendship and respect of a very wide circle. Mrs Ingpen, sister, and Mr W. Loveday, brother of deceased, left yesterday for Hamilton, but would not reach there in time as their brother’s deaih occuived yesterday afternoon. Frank Little, head shepherd for Mr George C. Ormond, Mahia, was drowned at Opoutama on Sunday (states a Gisborne telegram). Two telegraph linemen were riding along the beach and saw Li<tie, who was some distance ahead, fall off his horse into the surf. They galloped to his assistance, but on reaching him found life to be exiinet. Theboat Minnehaha, in which two young men left Gisborne six weeks ago on a fishing cruise and never returned, was found on the beach a few miles north of of Mahia on Monday morning in a damaged condition. A deputation from the Wellington Racing Club waited upon Sir Joseph Ward, placing before him the desire of the club that no telegraph office should be established in the vicinity of the club’s new racecourse at Trentham, In replying, Sir Joseph said that ho had decided, after careful consideration, to establish a telegraph office in a tent some few hundred yards away from the club’s property. He had considered the whole subject from his position as head of a Government department and not as a Minister, and he felt justified in saying that any Minister ulij might come after him would perforce have to arrive at the same decision. It was a question of a duty to the public. The Telegraph Department could not discriminate between telegrams as to their merits; wherever any big gathering of the public took place, whether an agricultural show or a race meeting or anything else, it was the duty of the Department to establish an office. By its regulations the Department was bound lo deliver telegrams within a three mile radius of the relieving office, and if a telegraph office was not established at Trentham, there would have to be 150 boys engaged to ride on bicycles or horses from Upper Hutt to deliver the messages at Tientham, He assured the deputation that it was in no antagonistic spirit to the Racing Club that he had arrived at his decision. There are signs that the era of “ sky scrapers ” will before long begin in London. No building may be erected in London of a greater height than eighty feet, with two extra storeys in the roof, making roughly a limit of a hundred feet. The advocates of the steel-frame building hold that this is a restriction which was all very well in the days of masonry, but is absurd in the days of steel. An ingenious suggestion for introducing a skyscraper in the guise of a “tower” is made by the Builders’ Journal. The idea is to construct the towers on the steel-frame principle, which is more economical and gives more space than the masonry building. An ideal tower building would consist of four lofty square towers, standing apart, but connected by narrow necks with a central tower, which would contain staircase and 1 fts. This plan would secure light and air to every part of the building and would thus bo superior to the American plan of skya riper, in which the lower rooms in the interior of a 1 irge. building have to depend on artificial light. The great argument in favour of such “office towers,” is that it would help to relieve the pressure on space, which is growing greater in the centre of Lou lon every year. Instead of buildings of seven or eight storeys, there could be “ office towers” of sixteen or twenty, and more business people could be accommodated in a given area with as punch light and air ns now. In America it is found that the economic height of a steel-frame building is sixteen to twenty storeys, Our Dressmaking Rooms are now under the management of a first-class dressmaker, who comes to us with the best credentials. Ladies requiring a new dress would do well to give us a trial — UP-TO-DATE 51..U3 AND DOWN TO DATE PRICES. A. ROSENBERG & Co.. The Economic Woodville. For men’s and boys’ suits and mercerv visit the Bon Marche. We have just opened several now lines in this department. Juvenile suits a speciality. Ladies would do well to visit our Show Room, and we request their inspection of our new goods in voile skirts, silk and embroidered blouses, sunshades, etc. —C. Sandfoud & Co. CIIAMHERUIN'S TABItTS WiU Relutat* Your Bowtia*