LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3871, 9 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Eighty thousand workers have struck in Paris, demanding an eight-hoar day. A very promising gold mine has recently been opened up at the Kawri Mountain, Whangerei Heads. The dates for the Wairarapa and East Coast P. & A. Society have been fixed for October 23rd and 24th. Ladies’ Black Caracul Jackets 45a, a the Economic.

The volcano Stromboli, on the island of Stromboli, south-west of Italy, is active, emiiting rooks and lava. Neville McWilliams, blind from birth, was admitted to practice as a barrister at Sydney. He bolds degress ofßache* lor of Arts and Laws.

Mr Aston has given Clivedon Hull and its contents to his son Waldorf, and a diamond worth £20,000 to Mrs Longhome Shaw, on the occasion of their wedding. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned in the case of the young man James Fenwick, who was found in an outhouse at Auckland in a dying condition. Towels 10d, Is, Is 31, Is fid, Is lid per pair at the Economic. The Hospital Saturday street collection in Sydney included over three tons of coppers. The total amount of the collections was £4538.

The sentence of crucifixion passed on Mesfeury, the murderer of a large number of women, has been overruled. Further bodies of women have been unearthed.

In five weeks the United States has taken nearly three and a quarter millions of gold from the Bank of England. The total return from all sources is nearly six million.

Football Jerseys cheaper [than ever at the Economic.

A Woolaston Research Studentship in physiei. value £125 per year, has been established at Gonville College, Cambridge University. British, colonial, and American University students are invited to apply betore July 21st. Mr George Eaton has disposed of his property on the Musterton Road to Mr T. Dally, of Napier. Mr Eaton has not yet decided where he will settle, but is thinldng of having a look round the Waikato.

A packed meeting of Catholica in Albert Hall protested against the Education Bill. Archbishop Bourne presided and many Catholic Peers and Commoners were present. Earlier in the evening a thousand Catholics assembled on the Embankment and thirty thousand were accommodated at an overflow meeting outside the hall.

Isandbma, mentioned in connection with the native trouble in South Africa, is in Zululand and is 90 miles northwest of Durban. On January 22nd, 1879, an overwhelming force of Zulus under Cettiwayo defeated a detachment ( of the British Army under Colonel Pulleine. In the same year General Wolseley defeated and captured Cettiwayo. Mr Ralph Cox prior to his departure for Wellington was presented by the staff of the local Post Office with a silver mounted shaving outfit. Mr Owens, in making the presentation, remarked on the good fellowship existing between Mr Cox and the rest of the staff, and said that, owing to his happy disposition he would be much missed. Mr Cox suitably replied. Mr G. Nicholas fills the position left vacant by Mr Cox’s transfer.

Twenty-two corpses were found in the Borussin mine, in Westphalia. There are indications that the men starved to death. After an explosion in the mine last Juno the entombed men caulked all crevices with strips of clothing to prevent the inrush of gases. Explorers near the surface relinquished hope at an early stage, in a similar manner to that at the Courrieres mine, in the north of France, where a shocking disaster occurred a few weeks ago.

Ladies’ Flannslette Blouses^Js9d, at the Economic

A puzzling question is exercising the United States courts. A man named Sheerer, upon being told he was fatally ill, made provision for an unborn child. He died, and instead of one child twins were born. The will provided that the child, if a boy, should have two-thirds of the estate and the widow one-third; if a girl, the child to have one-third and the widow two thirds. What share will the twins —one boy and the other a girl—have, is the problem that the courts will have to decide.

The head shepherd on the Mesopotamia station, Canterbury,(named Ernest Oscar Charles Gilman, was killed by slipping and falling »on the frozen surface of a steep spur on the station on the 4th inst, when mustering. When the other shepherds got down off the hill with their sheep Gilman was missing, and a search party was at once organised. The body of deceased was found at la.m. on the sth inst, with the dogs guarding it. It is presumed that he was killed instantaneously by the fall as the ground is treacherous, a covering of snow having been frozen by severe frosts.

I For Colds in the Head and Influenza I Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d 1 and 2s 6d per bottle. | From Thursday’s Gazette we learn < that the revenue for the colony for / the past year totalled £2,349,704, I against £2,209,230 amounted to 4.1,621,239, as compared for the pre- \ vious year, and the expenditure with 1 £1,492,899. The proportion of expenditure to revenue was 69.00 per cent. For the previous year it was 67.58 per cent. For the North Island the revenue was £1,022,790, and the expenditure £693,924, and in the South I Island the revenue was £1,326,914, and (the expenditure £927,314.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Is 6d and 3e 6d per bottle.

A reward is offered for the recotery of a locket lost somewhere in town.

Quite a number of Woodville sports journeyed to Hastings this morning for the races.

A red and white steer is to be sold at the pound on Saturday if not claimed before then.

This morning Mr J. B. Yenle disposed of his Oxford Road farm of 240 acres to Mr Mann, of Palmerston North,

Mr Holder has received the contract for building a six-roomed house for Mr B. Offwood in Ormond street.

Mr Lancombe, of Fisher voucher fame, has taken over the lease of the Jollies Pass Hotel, at Hanmer. What will his prohibition friends say to this ? The body of a man named William White, a dairy farmer and pork butcher at Greentneadows (Tatadale) was found in a drain under circumstances suggesting suicide. The Coldstream Guards, using the new rifles, won the Daily Telegraph and Dewar Cups at Bisley, easily beating the volunteers using the old Lee-Metford tides.

For Bronchial Coughs and Colds Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is fid

Abraham and Williams, Ltd., have purchased the Rnahine Hall in Dannevirke for business purposes. A oontr ict has been let for the erection of a hide room, and offices are also to be built. Mr and Mrs J. Motley left for Christchurch on Monday. Mr Motley will represent the Rnahine Lodge at the installation of Lord Plunket as Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity in New Zealand.

“ We won’t spend a shilling more on it than we can possibly help,” is the present attitude of the Kairanga County Council towards the Gorge road. We fancy we heard the Kairanga County Council say that some time ago, but they had to spend a good bit all the same.

At the Methodist Chnrch on Monday evening the first meeting of the Band of Hope was held. It took the form of an enteitainment by the children, and was largely attended. Every item was excellently rendered, and earned hearty plaudits. The meetings will continue monthly throughout the winter. A Woodville resident who was looking for sport in the Auckland district started out rather badly. The lake whereon he was going to shoot was the scene of a grim tragedy, four men being drowned from a boat. The police stopped all shooting cn the lake, and enlisted the services of all those about to search for the bodies.

The New Zealand Rugby Union has decided, with regard to its credit balance of over £12,000, “ that £6OOO be invested on fixed deposit and the balance bo loaned to affiliated unions offering good security at 2£ per cent.” The amount put on fixed deposit is to be held in view of the probable visit of an English team in 1908, and tbe necessity of guaranteeing all the expenses.

An unfortunate omission to obtain the consent of a parent to the marriage of a daughter, who, at the last moment was found to be under age, led to the postponement of a wedding that was to have taken place at Picton. The Press states that the clergyman stayed in town till next day, in the hope that the requisite sanction would be forthcoming, but it wasn’t, so the ceremony bad to be put off a second time.

Gash Discount of Is in tbe £J at the Economic.

A sensational fight between a railway foreman and a gang of navvies ii reported from North Carolina. Tbe navvies, who were Hungarians and Italians, were dissatisfied with their treatment, and made an organised attack on the foreman during the dinner hour. Seizing an iron bar, the foreman threatened to brain the first man who approached him. The navvies made a rush to overpower him but he wielded the bar with such effect that he had beaten seven of the men to death. Tbe rest of the navvies fled.

Mr Thomas Martin, of Crosse’s Estate, who was driving out from here to Kumeroa with his family on Sunday afternoon, had a narrow escape from a serious accident. As the trap approach -d Mr Gilbert’s place, a motor-car was observed coming along, and Mr Martin, who had a restless horse, held up his hand for the car to stoop. The driver of the latter took no notice, however, and came on. Mr Martin’s horse made for the side of the road, and capsized the trap, smashing it badly. Luckily Mr Martin and his family received very little injury, but their escape was a narrow one. Mr Martin intends to proceed against the owner of ihej motor car, whom he knows. Eng lish saddle-tweed trousers, 7s 6d Colonial ditto 8s 6d. 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 Blan kets at the right price. At LondoHouse.

Special purchase of ladies’ trimmeg hats and toques. There are 12 rangind from 13s 6d to 22s 6d, all to be sold for 12s 6d each. Customers would do well to call early and get the pick.—C. San»ford, & Co., the Bon Marche. WEATHER REPORT. Capt. Edwin telegraphed to-day Strong winds to gale from between south and south-west and west; glass rise; rain probable.