LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3881, 1 June 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We regret thatjextra pressure on our space compels us to hold over onr report of the silting of the Licensing Bench to-day. A full report will appear on Monday. Armour's grain elevator at Chicago was burnt with a million bushels of grain.

Lloyds’ agent at Valparaiso reports that the ship Lismore, from Melbourne to Coronel, Chili, was totally lost at sea. The first officer and three men have landed at Llico. It is feared the rest are lost.

A Bill for the suppression of gambling will he introduced into the State Assembly next session. It provides that a judge, if not satisfied to the contrary, may issue a certificate practically putting a place were gambling has been carried on in legal quarantine. The battleship Montagu is ashore at Shutter Point, on Lundy Island, Devonshire. The accident occurred in a fog. The vessel ia reported to be badly damaged. The crew are safe. Assistance has been sent.

Britain and France have agreed to send a commission io delimit their possessions between the Niger River and Lake Chad, and to give France access to the latter region without passing through British territory. The Church Association wrote to Si r Henry Campbell-Bannerman that the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Princess Ena’s marriage and their assistance in the celebration of Mass was a dangerous departure from c institutiona' usage The Premier dissented Irom this opinion. At Dannevirke yesterday a man named John Larsen was fined TlO, or a month’s imprisonment, for using obscene, abusive and threatening language to Mr James, S.M., on the night of the 10th May last. The offence was created outside the Masonic Hotel, Dannevirke, after 10 o’clock, while Mr James was waiting for the door of the hotel to open. Towels 10J, Is, Is 31, Is 6d, Is lid pec pair at the Economic.

An advertiser house to let. Mr G. J. Vaughan, Pinfold Road has splendid swede turnips for sale. King Peter, acting under advice from the Powers, has retired the principal regicides from their official positions.

Cash Discount of Is in the £ at the Economic.

Mr Tverman, who has taken over Mr Foster Brook's business, will have an interning advertisement in our next issue. We are requested to state that the N. Z. Dairy Union is not closing down its creameries except in one or two cases where the supply has fallen too low to warrant running them. The hammer has been found wherewith Mr Walkey, the artist, was murdered. The wounds included spur marks. Members of the Natal Assembly are seriously discussing a union with Orangia. It is claimed that the two colonies’ interests are closely identified. A motion in favour of amalgamation will shortly be introduced. It is stated that the payments made in connection with New South Wales land transactions, as disclosed before the Royal Commission, amounted to £07,000. W. N. Willis is said to have received jG44,000 and Peter C. Close Dr Morrison, Pekin correspondent of The Times, states that China’s reply to Britain’s representatives concerning the recent appointment of Chinese officials to control the Customs is evasive and unsatisfactory.

In the alleged ptomine poisoning case at Palmerston, the jury returned the following verdict: —“ That Mr Hosking died from heart failure, caused by exhaustion from the effects of ptomaine poisoning through having eaten tongue prepared by the North Island Bacon Company. The presence of the poison in the meat seems from evidence to be purely unaccountable and no blame attachable to anyone.” Victorian Ministers have completed a scheme for the irrigation of wheat growing along the Murray frontages. Homesteads will be granted along the river front, about forty acres in extent, twenty of which will be irrigated. Each homestead will have in addition 400 acres of interior land. The charge for irrigation water will not exceed 15s per acre per annum.

Mr Buxton states that he was glad to announce that Britain had succeeded at the Postal Convention in obtaining two considerable concessions. First she had obtained two additional votes, and second, the weight of foreign letters bad been doubled, becoming an ounce. This also embraces letters under (he Imperial penny post. Foreign letters would be charged three half-pence for each additional ounce. The charges become operative in 1907. Ladies’ Black Caracul Jackets 455, at the Economic.

In the case in which the assignee of a policy of insurance on the life of Henry Blake proceeded against the Equitable Life Society in Perth (W.A.), for the recovery of the amount assured, the defendant society objected to payment on the ground that Blake when insuring failed to notify the society that ho was suffering from a serious disease. The jury returned a verdict for the amount claimed.

A settler named Moahaffy, of Moturoa, New Plymouth, sustained serious injuries through being knocked down by a tramcar in Auckland on Wednesday. He got off the up-car and immediately started across the road to a neighbouring hotel, carrying a portmanteau. He walked straight in front of the down car, which hit him and sent him flying to the side of the road. He sustained a fracture of both legs below the knee, and a compound fracture of the left arm, besides several scalp wounds. He now lies in a serious condition in the hospital.

Amid tremendous enthusiasm the Kaiser led the Eleventh Regiment of Hasaars into Crefeld on the morning of April 2, in fulfilment of a promise given by him when visiting that city in 1902. On that occasion his Majesty asked the maids of honour assembled to greet him, if they liked dancing, and whether the lieutenants danced with them. The unanimous reply was that there were no lieutenants at Crefeld, and the Emperor thereupon promised to send a garrison. The burgomaster presented at the gates of the city an address, in reply to which the Emperor said that the regiment had as brilliant a reception as if it had been returning from a successful campaign. ” This day I have kept my word with the city,” said his Majesty in conclusion. “ When I give my word I keep it. I have brought your city its garrison, and your young ladies their dance partners.” Mr John D. Rockfeller, the millionaire, who is hiding from process servers at his Lakewood, New Jersey estate, is under the care of a specialist (says the New York correspondent of the London Daily Express). Mr Rockfeller, jun., refuses to discuss the report that bis father is suffering from mental derangement, but it is known that the millionaire is undergoing treatment for nervousness. Mr Rockfeller’s habits have changed greatly within the past 12 months. He now wears a waistcoat made of newspapers. He insists on walkingbarefooted through the park before breakfast. A few weeks ago he sent a bushel of potatoes, stuffed with five dollar pieces, to the pastor of a Cleveland church. The millionaire is said to have been greatly affected by the illness of a near relative, who is suffering from the delusion that he has suddenly been reduced to poverty.

No chemist, who sought in vast ages The phantom Philosopher's Stone, Has handed down (hat which assuages The throat-trouble always so prone. Till Woods, after thirty years’trial, In tests both exhaustive and sure, Discover a charm to defy all — Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

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.— C. Sandford & Co.

For Bronchial Coughs and Colds Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6

We have had a special opportunity of purchasing 15 Men’s Tweed Suits. These are made from all wool colonial tweeds, and will be offered for ten days only at One Guinea each for cash,—D. G. McKibiun & Co.

English saddle-tweed trousers, 7s 6d Colonial ditto 8s 6d. Youths’ and girls jereys in cardinal and navy, with polo and roll collars. Bloomers, Golfblouses, everything of the latest. Everything at the right price. Bush rugs in unusua variety and A 1 value. Colonial Blanl Lets at the right price. At LondoHouse.