LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3877, 23 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Primate of New Zealand has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of ihe Magdalen College, Oxford, The Yorkshire Liberal Federation by a large majority voted in favor of secular education in the schools.

The German burgomasters now visiting London were delighted at King Edward’s manifest cordiality. Towels 10J, Is, Is 31, Is Gd, Is lid per pair at the Economic. The D dly Telegraph states that Admiral Bir A. K. Wilson’s Home fleet will visit Gronstadt at the end of July. The House of Representatives at Washington has voted £22,000,000 towards the building of a battleship that will surpass the Dreadnought. Master Francis Hutchens, a New Zealander, was awarded the Sterndale Bennett scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. All the Powers are supporting Great Britain’s demand for adequate explanations and an assurance in connection with the recent Chinese customs edict.

The announcement 1 hut Japan intends to adopt a protective tariff has c-iused ahum in commercial circles and among '.he newspapers of United States. Lightning killed fifteeen members of a funeral party at the Koniaku Church, in Austrian Silesia. The lightning also burned, crippled or stunned thirty-three others, A tenement at Stratford, Essex, was burnt, and a family of six, including three generations, were killed. Another family displayed great heroism. Several nominations for members of the A. and P. committee have come in, but none, so far, for president or vicepresidents. There was a liberal pepp n ring of snow on Mount Whanto this in irning, and there was a bite in the atmosphere in town which suggested that we might expect a fall before long in Woodville. A labourer was fined £1 Gs lid at Woodbridge (Suffolk) for stealing sixpence worth of turnip tops, and failing to pay, was committed to prison for 14 days. The Braille Printing Company, of Edinburgh, has brought out books for the blind made of thin aliminium in stead of paper, embossed in the usual manner. Ladies’ Black Caracul Jackets 455, at the Economic. A mysterious suicide occurred at the Pimlico Hotel, London. The victim is identified as a Russian, who is believed to be a police spy, who committed suicide to escape the Nihilists’ sentence. Eight towns in Northern Wisconsin have been devastated by forest fires. Thirty people were killed. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. A great area of settled country is threatened.

The Prince of Wales’ Birthday (June 3rd), a bank holiday by statue, falls tins year on Sunday, and is to be observed by the banks on Tuesday, June sth, as Whit Monday (June 4th) is also a statutory bank holiday. The anniversary services in connection with the Methodist Church will be conducted by the llev. J. J. Lewis, of Palmerston North. The anniversary soiree will be held in the Church on Monday evening. Mr Seddon is in communication with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth and State Premiers with respect to a joint representation to the Imperial authorities to request Prance not to wound the feelings of Australia by establishing a penal settlement at Tahiti, Mr Andrew Carnegie has donated .£2OOO to Dannevirke to erect a free public library for the Borough, if the Free Public Libraries Act be adopted, and the maximum assessment under it be levied producing i'lla p.-r year. A site must also be given for the building, the cost not to be a burden upon the penny rate. As showing the enormous increase in the business of the North Island Brewery ( Mangataincka), we may s'ate that we have just received an order for 200.000 bottle labels from the firm. We only recently completed an order for 100.000 labels. The very excellent bottled beer manufactured by the North Island Brewery Company is gaining the widespiead popularity which it richly deserves.

A committee meeting of the local bia"ch ot the British and Foreign Bible Society was held in the Borough Council Chambers on Monday evening, ten members of the committee being present. Arrangements were made for the sale of tickets for the Rev. Spencer’s (tho N.Z. agent for the Society) lantern lecture, which will probably bo held early in dune. An announcement of tho date will appear later. Tho secretary reported a sum of £o 10s lid in baud, which, with other amounts handed in during the evening increased to £3 19s 3d.

A lost modal is advertised for. Teachers are wanted for various schools in Hawke's Bay. An assistant mistress is wanted for the Kuineroa school. Charles Putts, ft boy aged 15, residing at Wooih-limeli, Kent, is Oft high and v sighs 25 stone. lie is a good scholar mid un active cricketer. Practicdly the whole of the creameries of (lie New Zealand Fanners’ Union will close clown for the season at the end of the present month. The Times says it is an entire misapprehension to suppose that the AngloHussion agreement has readied any concrete shape, though doubtless it is desirable. Acting on bdialf of St. Colnrnbkille’s congregation, Father McKenna has purchased the two sections on the east side of the church property from Mr Nelson. At a special meeting of the Borough Council on Monday afternoon the Mayor and Mr Crawford, Town Clerk, were appointed sinking fund commissioners in connection with the garworks loan. Wo understand that a meeting of the Poultry Association was held last Friday evening. We would like the members to know that as usual we were not notified of the meeting, so we cannot give a report of it. France supports Great Britain’s note to China, insisting on the danger caused to the Chinese nation credit by any tempering with the customs policy. Germany first condemned and then approached the edict, bin has now reverted to the fitst attitude, owing to the representations of German bond-holders of Anglo-German loans, the security for which is the customs. Mr W. F. Bowden has decided to leave Woodville, having acquired a farm at Tawa Flat, mar Wellington. Both Mr and Mrs Bowden will bo greatly missed in Woodville. They have always been ready and willing to assist in any movement for the benefit of the town. We understand they take their departue in about three weeks’ time. Admiral Mason, Chief of the United St.atws Ordnance Department, complains of Congress reducing the navy estimates by .£2,450,000, The increases in the navy were voted without adequate provision for guns, gunnery, and stores. The condition of his department is almost desperate. The naval warehouses are depleted of ammunition. Another contingent of dissatisfied Australian artisans and tradesmen, who proceeded to South Africa at the cessation of the late Boer wa> - , have returned. They were bitterly dissapointed. Wages are low, and living is expensive, while everywhere the Ausralians were black, guarded and had no peace of mind night or day. It was practically impossible to obtain employment for the merest pittance.

At the Supreme Court, Auckland, John Schischka, a merchant, pleaded guilty to unlawfully selling manure, to which a false trade mark was applied, and applying a false ti ade description to certain goods. Eis Honor inflicted a fine of i'soo, or In default 12 months imprisonment. His Honor commented very strongly on the case, and said it was a contemptible fraud to bo committed by a person in the high position in the commercial world occupied by accused. Football Jerseys cheaper than ever at the Economic. The committee of the Free Church of Scotland have compiled a report in which they attribute the declension of spiritual life to the worldliness of society and the workmen’s tendency to irreligion socialism, and rationalism. The report condemned the Spanish marriage as an outrage upon Christian feeling ; deplored the advent of a Continental Sunday; and blamed King Edward for dishonoring the Sabbath both at Home and abroad. The newspaper Scotsman condemns the lack of wisdom, modesty, and good sense displayed by the committee. Dealing with the report of thel'New Zealand Inspector of Prisons in favor of the employment of prison gangs in treeplanting, the New South Wales Comptroller of Prisons condemns the system and emphasizes the moral danger from associating the prisoners. He points out that the criminals in New South Wales last year were nearly 800 less than ten years ago, while New Zealand during the same period shows an increase of 230. Cash Discount of Is in the £ at the Economic.

A deputation of 550 women suffragists waited upon the Prime Minister at the Foreign Office with a manifesto containing 750,000 signatures, and asked for the franchise. Sir Henry CampbellBannerman said the deputation was conclusive evidence of the irrefutable case the women bad. The Government, ho vever, was not united as to the expediency of acting in the matter, and he must preach patience. The reply was hissed, and meetings of protest were subsequently held on the Thames Embankment and in Trafalgar Square. For Colds in the Head and Influenza Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s (id per bottle. The King of Italy and M. Farrer, President of Switzerland, performed the opening ceremony at the Simplon tunnel. The Simplon tunnel, the largest and deepest tunnel in the world, was completed in 1905, costing about two and a half millions sterling. It pierces the Alps between Switzerland and Italy, a length of I‘2 ; [ miles. A novel system of piercing was adopted, namely, two distinct parallel single track tunnels, 50 feet apart, and connected every 220 yards by transverse galleries. Thus one tunnel will ventilate the other. The work was commenced simultaneously at both ends in 1898. The Poultry Association has been strongly impressed v, ith the advisahleneas of doing something more to assist the poultry industry of the neighbourhood than just holding a show once a year. With this object it has arranged with Mr L. O. Hooker, of Hawera, to give a lecture on poultry' culture in the Foresters’ Hall next Tuesday evening, when Mr Hooker will also give an exhibition of killing and dressing poultry. We have been informed by a gentleman of the town that owing to the wrinkle he had picked up by watching some of the experts who have given exhibitions of poultry plucking he was able topluck two fowls while his wife was plucking one. If this is the case, there must be wrinkles worth picking up. The Association is not endeavouring to make money out of the lecture as the admission is free. For Bronchial Coughs and Colds Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is G One thousand yards Japanese silk, in i all file leading colors, just received direct from Japanese agents, twenty-one inches wide, all io go at Is per yard, usual [trice Is Gd, at the Bon Marche. — j C. Saxufokd & Co. i

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