LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3869, 4 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Clerk to the Licensing Committee i gives notice of the annual meeting to j be held on the Ist June. 1 The Canterbury Jockey Club has in- \ creased the Stakes for the Grand Na- | tional Steeplechase to 1000 sovs. Mr E. B. Boss M.H.R., is being entertained by his Pongaroa constituents at a banquet to-night. At the Hawera races yesterday Mr P. Scally’s horse Scenery won the Manaia 1 Handicap and paid a dividend of £3lls6d. For Bronchial Coughs and Colds' Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la Cd

The extradition of W. N. "Willis has been ordered on all charges. Potatoes are quoted at i'9 per ton at the country stations in Canterbury.

The Paris-Havre express was wrecked near Paris. The driver and guard were killed and several passengers injured. Mrc Sold. Dannevirke, is prepared to undertake housework, cleaning, and washing in Woodville. Britain and China have signed a treaty embodying China’s adhesion to the Anglo-Tibetan Convention.

Miss J. Cook, formerly of Hastings, has been appointed assistant mistress at Woodlands Eoad School, Six thousand lond shoremen at Buffalo and three thousand at Chicago have struck. Mr and Miss Lowman left on their trip to the Home Country yesterday. Their boat sails to-morrow. We wish them a pleasant trip. Cash Discount of la in the £ at the Economic.

The presence of three boats near King JEdward yacht, under suspicious circumstances, led to several arrests in Naples. King Edward has arrived in Paris and remains three days. At the Postal Conference, Sir [Joseph Ward’s motion, that the Postal Union adopt penny postage, was lost. America Egypt and Australia voted for it. Great Britain and a few others abstained from voting, and the others were against it. Britain and France have agreed to deflect the Northern Nigeria frontier southwards, giving France the territory belonging to Zinder on the Niger immediately below the rapids. Articles have been signed for a match, JISOO a-side, between Stanbury and George Towns for the championship of world. The match will be rowed on the Parramatta river on July 28th.

It is understood that No. 2 Mounted Battalion, under Major S. Bolton, is adopting a full dress uniform, thus following the example of the Southern Mounted Corps.

There is on view in Mrs Davies’ window a very handsome mirror panel which is to be disposed of at the Holy Trinity Church Bazaar next week. It was painted by Mrs Cross, of Pahiatua, and is a lovely piece of work. This evening in the Foresters’ Ha'la social in aid of the Bazaar Fund of St. David’s Ladies’ Guild will be held. An excellent programme will be gone through. It is hoped there will be a crowded attendance.

Football Jerseys cheaper than ever at the Economic.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra visited the Observatory on Mt. Vesuvius by means of Cook’s railway. Under Professor Matteucci’s guidance they ascended the volcano as far as it was safe. King Edward later started homeward overland.

At the April meeting of the County Council, the Chairman was instructed to interview the ranger and complain to him that he was not carrying out his duties very well. This the Chairman did. Besult: the chairman’s horse was jn the pound next day.

The County Council is going to buy eight tins of a new bird poison and test it—not, we hope, on the neighbours’ fouls. If it is effective, it will be probably got for general use in the County. The Crown Dairy Company are agents for the particular brand of poison which the Council intends to experiment with. Mary McKearney, an elderly single woman, residing in lodgings in Christchurch, received fatal injuries on Wednesday night through her clothes catching fire when she was going to bed. It is not known how the accident occurred, but when screams brought assistance she was enveloped in flames, and died in the hospital five hours after the occurrence. Ladies’ Flannjlette Blouses 3s9d, at the Economic

The managing agents of the Oceanic Steamship Company state that it is impossible to say when the San Francisco service will be resumed, though they hope it will be within two months. The wharves at San Francisco are in a state of chaos, and vessels are unable to load even if cargo were offering. The Times says that a co-operative cheese factory is about to be established at Mangaramarama, near Pahiatua. Mr W. M. Singleton, of the dairy instruction staff, baa inspected the locality, and approved a suitable site close to a stream. There are three butter factories within a radius of a few miles.

At the Court this morning a witness was giving the Court a lot of trouble owing to his not rembering anything. He said he had been “on the wine ” at the time of the offence of which he was expected to know something. The Sergeant of Police asked him if he was on the wine now. The witness replied that he was not or he might remember. The Sergeant upset the gravity of the Court by suggesting that he would send down for a nip for the witness just to see the effect it had on him, Mr Burnett .said it was the first time that he had heard it suggested that drink refreshed a man’s memory.

In Mr H. Hill’s report on Hawke’s Bay schools, he rem«rki that “ one thing still remains to be done in the schools of the district. The old desks that have been in use for 20 years or more require to be replaced—for young children fay a similar type of desk to that at present used, for children between Standards I. and 111. inclusive by dual desks, and for children above Standard 111. by the single desk. This anangement is possible in all schools where there is an infant department, whilst in the smaller schools of the district, tho dual desk might be used without distinction.”

Ladies’ Bla ck Caracul Jackets 45.°, a 1 the Economic. The Christchurch Press, referring to the missing schooner Ronga, says:—lt has been remarked by a large number of his friends that during his stay in port last week, Captain Peterson seemed somewhat preoccupied and downcast, and several times made (he remark that sooner or later the Ronga would drown him. On Saturday morning, however, before he left port, he seemed to have recovered his usual good spirits, and ho said that the gale was a good wind for ihim, and that he would be back again inside ten days. When the launch was towing the Ronga out, the strong wind and heavy sea caused her to hang for some minutes between the moles, and one bystander remarked that it looked as though she was unwilling to leave port. Once outside, however, with her ! fore sail and one jib set, the handsome ) little vessel went away at steamer speed. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint is Gd and 2s Gd per bottle. English saddle-tweed trousers, 7s Gd Colonial ditto 8a Gd. Youths’ and girls jereys in cardinal and navy, with polo and roll collars. Bloomers, Golf blouses, everything of the latest. Everything at the right price. Bush rugs in unusual variety and A 1 value. Colonial Blankets at the right price. At London House. Special purchase of ladies’ trimmeg hats and toques. There are 12 rangins from 18s 6d to 22s Gd, all to bo sold for 12d 5d each. Customers would do well to jail early and get the pick.—o. Sand■■oiu), & Co,, the Bou Marche.