The Examiner. Published MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 28. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3879, 28 May 1906, Page 2

The Examiner. Published MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 28. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Entries for the Poultry . Assolifltion's Annual Show close this evening.' The Rev. F. W. Isitt was ini Woodville on Friday.

The French barque Vincennes from Yokohama is ashore at Sydney Heads. Graff, a wealthy Philadelphian, was killed while motoring ontside-Paris. Henrik Ibsen, the celebrated playwright and poet, is dead.

Admiral Rohzdestvensky has resigned as Chief of the Russian Naval Staff owing to ill-health. Cash Discount of Is in the £ at the Economic.

It is estimated the three million school children in the British Empire took part in the celebration of Empire Day. Fifty-five entries have been received for the Clarkson Road Race to be run on the 4th prox. The only local name appearing on the list is that of G. Trask. The ordinary meeting of Court Woodville, A.0.F., will be held on the 7th June instead of to-morrow evening.

Owing to the steamer not arriving with the goods, Messrs Hawkins & Co’s sale advertised for Thursday will not be held until next week. Mr Pat Scally, of Woodville, purchased a three-year-old colt by Musket-, ry-Mab at a sale of throughbteds at* Wanganui on Friday.

A yoong man named William Marigold was on Saturday committed for trial at Palmerston North for a brutal assault on a China-man. j -

The annual meeting of subscribers to the Woodville Public Libiary will be held in the Borough Chambers this evening.

The Rev. F. H. Spencer (agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society) is to deliver a lecture in the Foresters’ Hall next Monday evening. A team from the Japanese warships fired a match against the Rifle Association’s team at Sydney. The visitors were badly defeated. The Australians made 300 and the Japs 136. The Provincial Conference of delegates to the N.Z. Farmers’ Union will open at Pahiatua to-morrow morning. A smoke concert is to be held in the evening.

A correspondent writing from Auckland states that a rumor is current in that city to the effect that 500 men are to be sent down shortly to work the Maharabara copper mine. Mr John Quinlivan, horse trainer, has taken up his quarters here, and for the future will do all his training on the Woodville racecourse. The only horse he has in training just now is Merrimanu (by Merriwee out of Fleetwing).

The theoretical examinations in connection with Trinity College, London, is to be held on the 13th June, not 80th as previous advertised. Entries for the practical examination close on the 12th not (he 28tb.

We give a final reminder that Mr L. Hooker will deliver a lecture in the Foresters’ Hall to-morrow evening on Poultry Culture. An exhibition of poultry killing and dressing will also be given. No charge is to be made for admission.

For Colds in the Head and Influenza Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d per bottle.

R. Collier and a valet were killed while motoring in America at a speed of forty miles an hour. They collided with the express train from Westburg to Long Island. Archibald Wakeley, the rising young English artist, was murdered at Westbourne Grove, London. It is supposed the murderers were burglars, who were interrupted when about to break into the bank adjoining Wakeley’s studio. The men are unknown.

Ameetingof the Woodville Domain Board was held on Saturday evening, all the members being present, The appointment of John Harris in place of Mr A. McCormick, resigned, was notified by the Land Board. Mr Harris was cordially welcomed by the Chairman. The Chairman and Mr Peebles were authorised to spend £5 on the domain, A Full Court recently reversed the decision of Mr Justice Simpson, who granted a Commission to examine W. N. Willis in South Africa in connection with a land transaction. 1 The -High Court to-day granted an appeal against the Full Court’s decision, and ordered the Commission to be issued. Commandant Beyers, addressing the Hetvolk at Pietersburg, declared that when the Chinese question was settled the Liberals of England would lose all interest in South Africa. The Boers must ngiiate, must work out their own salvation, and fight for their national existence.

A large meeting in the Sydney Town Hall under ihe auspices of the Orange bodies adopted a petition to the King declaring that the Home Buie resolutions recently adpoted by the Federal Parliament did not represent the opinion of the people of Australia. Mr (*. T. Keid was the principal speaker at the meeting. A Florida sugar-planter was supposed to have been killed in the Moot Pelee eruptions. His brother and sister, residing at Nantes, believing that he was dead, inherited his fortune. The planter has now returned to Nantes. He declares he went to Melbourne after the eruption and then amassed a fortune blockade-running at Port Arthur. The Free Church of Scotland Assembly adopted the committee’s report condensing King Edward, Mr Balfour and Sir H. C. Bannerman for desecrating the Sabbath. King Edward went to a race meeting on the Sawbath, Mr Balfour played gowf, and Sir Henry Campbell Barnermau was once heard to whnstle an the Sawbath. It’s awfu’, monl

A negro, arrested at Louisiana for robbing a white boy of a dollar, was lynched. He was riddled with bullets.

A Greek band, numbering two hundred, murdered eleven Wallachian families, totalling sixty peopel of all ages, in the village of Gobera, Macedonia.

Ladies’ Black Caracul Jackets 455, at the Economic.

Entries for the Poultry Association’s show are coming in very well, and there is every indication of a record. Two entries have been received from Christchurch and one from Otago. The Standard’s Paris correspondent reports that Persia is prepared to_ grant Germany a port or whaling station in the Persian Gulf in return for a loan of £1,200,000. ■ ' . .

A Swiss railway official named Wydler has been arrested at Bio Janiero for stealing 100,000 francs’ worth of securities from a railway carriage in Switzerland.

* Germany claims the extradition of the chief Morenga on the ground that he is a common criminal. The Cape Government consider he is a political prisoner and promise to safely intern him. Towels lOd, Is, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is lid per pair at the Economic. The Daily Mail’s New York correspondent reports that, yielding to Mr Grover Clevelahd’s advice, Mr T. Ryan, First-Assistant Secretary for the Interior, has decided to give policy holders in the Equitable Life Association the right to elect the directors. - The Princess Ena of Battenburg has taken her-departure for Madrid where her marriage to >rhe King of Spain is to take place. Prior to her departure a great family banquet took place at Buckingham Palace. The King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales, and other royalties were (present. Large crowds farewelled the ‘ Princess. Her brother .accompanies her. • Football Jerseys cheaper than ever at the Economic.

New Zealand has every cause to be proud of the Red Funnel magazine. It is worthy to rank with the best the colonies produce. The reading matter is always bright and interesting, while the illustrations are throughly up to .date. A special feature always is the get-up of the advertisements. These are splendidly set up, and are most interesting to read. Orders may be left at The Examiner office. The price (including postage) is only 6s 6d per annum.

The Band played an excellent programme in Fonntaine Square yesterday, entertaining a very large crowd of people. The Band continues to improve under the very able tuition of Mr Lawrence, and if members will always realise that regular attendance' at practice stengthens the bandmaster's hands, and makesjthe Work a pleasure for him, the Ruahine Battalion Band will soon rank with the first bands of the colony. The object in view at present is the Christchurch Exhibition, and it is hoped that members will attend practice regularly all through the winter. The attention of settlers is this district is drawn to the. interesting advertisement in this issue inserted by Messrs Dalgety & Co. The firm are prepared to conduct sales in all parts of the district, and receive wool, skins, hides, &c., for sale or consignment. • Mr K. J. McLennan, whose wide experience gives him an especial faculty for conducting and working up a stock and station agency business, has the management of the firm’s Pahiatua branch. It is his intention to exploit the whole district, and his many friends here will wish him all sorts of luck. . A resident 'of Maharahar a did a little prospecting on his own account some time ago up one of the creek beds on Wharite. As many of the residents know, there is “ gold in the mountain,” and our friend succeeded in getting several good specimens of surface quartz. One of the pieces was forwarded on to the Government Assayer, and on Saturday a report was received stating that the quartz yielded 17dwts. to the ton, and thst the gold was a very fair sample. We understand that more prospecting is to taTce place with a view to finding the reef. For Bronchial Coughs and Colds Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1s 6 One thousand yards Japanese silk, in all the leading colors, just received ■direct from Japanese agents, twenty-one inches wide, all to go at Is per yard, usual price Is 6d, at : the Bon Marche. — O. Sandfobd & Co.

Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, has announced that no agreement between Russia and Britain existed, but that the recent tendency of the two countries has been to deal in a friendly way with questions in which both are interested, and are able to co-operate upon. On some 'occasions the British Government would gladly encourage the tendency aa naturally assisting the settlement of questions. Mr Kier-Hardie, the Labour Leader, has informed Mr Ramsay Macdonald, secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, that he will be unable to accompany Labour members to Australia in August, owing the probability of an Autumn session end to the state of his own-health.

The members of hia family banquetted Matthew Fowlds, of Kilmarnock, on the celebration of his centenary. Four hundred guests were present, including Sir Joseph Ward, and Messrs Robert McNab, J. G. W. Aitken, Geo. Fowlds, New Zealand Ms.H.R. The King, Mr Seddon and Auckland friends, and single taxers telegraphed congratulations. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Onslow, and Mr Reeves, Agent-General, sent apologies for not being present. The sentonarian, in a vigorous speech, acknowledged an oil painting of himself working at a weaver’s loom. All the Commoners present spoke. Sir Joseph W«rd was given a great reception when replying to the toast of “ Britons across the seas.”