LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXIII, Issue 4052, 29 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr R. Shaw wants to purchase eggs in any quantity. Highest price given. Mr T. H. Walker has disposed of his house and five acres in Vogel Street East to Mr W. Galbraith, The Manawatu reps, defeated Wanganui at Palmerston on Saturday by 11 points to 8 after a most exciting game. The Kaiser has again denounced in sharp terms rich living among officers of h a army. Ladies’ jackets greatly reduce at the Economic Sale. Mr Thomas Fenton, a New Zealander-well-known in mining and racing circles, was killed at Perth through a sulky colliding with a train at a level crossing. The Daily Express reports a deadlock in the business of the Cape Parliament, owing to nearly half the members being prostrated by influenza. Richard Brinkley was sentenced to death for the murder of Mr and Mrs Beck at Croydon, by the administration of cyanide of potassium. Victor Booth, of Oamaru, a young pianist, obtained the Macfarren Gold Medal and the Westlake Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. Mr Massey suggests that when New Zealand’s name is changed from colony to dominion it will have to be known as “ dominionette.”

The Standard asserts that the British Government has succeeded in obtaining the pattern of a short Lee-Enfield rifle which experts declare will be the best in the world.

News has been received that Burns, Philp, and Go’s steamer Ysabel is ashore on a reef at Tamana Island, one of the Gilbert Group. The position of the vessel is considered precarious. At his own desire, Mr Winston Churchill (Under-Secretary for the Colonies) will pay his cost of living and transport, except Government transport, during his African tour. Colonial flannels, |all colors, 9|d per yard at the Economic sale. Addressing the Grocers’ Company Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, said ihe unrest in India was only skin deep, an I was not alarming if treated firmly and patiently. The King sent a message to Parliament, signed by his own hand, recommending a grant of £50,000 to Earl Cromer in recognition of his eminent services in Egypt. Leveson and Cooke, of the firm of Sharkey, Leveson, and Cooke, ofLondon, sharebrokers, who recently failed, were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each, for misappropriating clients’ money.

The SA. Marine Department has received a report Jfrom the lighthousekeeper at Penguin Island, Rivoti Bay to the effect that the island is crumbling away, through erosion of the sea, at the, rate of four inches a month. Heavy landslips are occuring, Work has been going on satisfactorily at the Coppermine, and the men expect any day to strike the big lode as the indications show that they are close on to it. Considerable difficulty is being experienced owing to the large quantity of water coming down. Caracul jackets, 22s GJ at the Economic sale.

We hear that the Government has abandoned the intention of taking Mrs Matthews’ To Ohu property, near Norsewood. The estate comprises some 13,000 acres. The requisition asked that 4700 acres be taken, but Mrs Matthews insisted on the whole being taken with the exception of some 2000 sores which she reserved to herself.

MrS. Bolton has bought the controlling interest in the Pabiatua Herald, having purchased the shares of A. Baillie and Company. MrE.Darlev, of Pahiatua, has bought Mr Mcßobie’s interest in the same journal which will be run in the new proprietors’ interests as from the Ist prox.

The following team will represent the Dannevirke Sub-Union aganst Napier at Napier on Wednesday : —Grinlinton (W), Hoppy (A), Kelly(E), Monteith (W), Puru (A), Drinkwater (E), Nuttall (E), King (A), Killkenny (E), Crawford (W), Ladbrook (E), Carlson (A), Stewart (W), Swainson (W), Bridston (E). Emer. backs, Palmer (W), T«i Heketa(E). For. wards—Pritchard (W), Pickering (A), and Gordon (A). Ladies’ ready made costumes and skirts at clearing prices at the Economic sale.

Those who contemplate planting should not miss the opportunity offered by Mr J. Goddard, of the Havelock Nurseries, of procuring fruit trees during the present month at greatly reduced prices, as seen by his advertisement. Thousands of pears and apples are yet to be disposed of, while side by side with them in all the glory of vigorous youth grow peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, quinces, nuts, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, and, indeed, everything in the way of fruit one could possibly want. To see is to believe. A bed of 30,000 roses began the Feason in these nurseries, so that it will be ea?ily understood there are still plenty to go on with. The same applies to cabbage trees, of which there were 11,000 two inonth3 ago. All descriptions of hedge and shelter trees as well as flowering and ornamental shrubs, can be obtained by writing or calling at the Havelock Nurseries. The BRle of winter goods a the Bon Marche is now proceed ing, and great reductions in the price of all surplus stock baa been made to effect a speady clearance. Buyers o drapery and clothing would do well to pav an early visit to C. Sandford and Co ; s establishment, as the sales are al w*ys well-known to be genuine. You often sing of England, And of Ireland, too, sod Wales, And the " Braes of Bonnie Scotland, With her stirring Border Tales : But don't forsret New Zealand (No other ekies are bluer), And its famous household remedyWood's Great Peppermint Cure.

An advertiser has a first-class Bohm piano for sale. It has only been in use for a very short period, and is as good as new. As the owner is leaving the colony, he wishes to dispose of it, a*d will accept any reasonable offer, A man named Samuel Turner, aged 35, married, tailor by trade, died suddenly on Friday evening at Blenheim. He was suffering from hemorrhage on the brain and took a fit and expired.

In response to the telegram from the Band strikers—asking for the repatriation of all Chinese by February or for passage money to England for three thousand strikers —Mr Churchill (Undersecretary for the Colonies) has replied that he does not possess information justifying him to apply to Parliament for funds to bring the strikers home. Under Mr D, S. Mitchell’s will, in addition to bequeathing his library to New South Wales, £70,000 is left to endow it. A special Gazette was issued expressing regret at the death of one of the greatest benefactors in the State. The famous Mitchell library is the most complete collection of Australian and Oceanic literature in existence. The late Mr Mitchell was a notable collector of coins and vertu.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. announce a clearing sale, on behalf of Mr T. Hughes, at Mangarawa on Wednesday. Mr Hughes is one of the best known of our dairy farmers, and his herd has always been kept up to the very highest standard. Mr Hughes has decided to relinquish dairying, and the disposal of his herd should afford an excellent opportunity to those in search of firstclass stock.

The Governor of North Carolina refuses to obey the ruling of the Federal Circuit Court, declaring the State law on railway rates unconstitutional, and rejects all compromise until the Railway Company comply with the law. A serious conflict between the State and Federal authorities is feared, involving even the use of Federal troops to enforce the orders of the Court. The press widely condemns the Governor's action.

The attention of the Borough Council is drawn to the fact that though it was nine o’clock before the moon rose last evening, none of the street lamps were lighted. The night was pitch dark with heavy rain, and those going to church had an exceedingly unpleasant time. Surely the Council does not need to be quite so economical with the gas. On a Sunday night particularly when no strop lamps are alight, a street alight here and there, if only for an hour, would be a great boon. An influential deputation of Roman Catholics headed by Archbishop Bourne, protested that the new regulations must destroy the denominational character of training colleges. Sir H. CampbellBannerman and Mr McKenna,(Secretary for Education, maintained the equity of the regulations and declared that they did not desire to impair the present character of the colleges. If the regulations did destroy the colleges the situation would be reconsidered, but Government claimed a fair trial for them. The principal item of the business of the Oddfellows’ Lodge at its meeting last Friday was the reading of the quinquennial valuation which had just been received. This periodical stock-taking is always looked forward to with a great deal of interest, as it shows how the Lodge has been progressing during the period covered by the valuation. At the close of 1894 the Lodge showed surplus funds to the extent of £298 ; five years later they had increased to £494, and at the end of 1904 the surplus funds had risen to £627. It had been proposed to deal with the surplus of 1899 some little time ago, but it was determined to wait till the results of the last valuation were known, and now that they have come to hand a committee was set up to consider the best method of doing so. Probably it will bo in the way of distributing a reversionary bonus to members to be paid at death, while provision maybe made for it being used to redeem contributions on attaining the age of sixty, so that there will not be so much fear of members having to fall out of the Order through financial stress in old age—a bugbear that has harrassed many a friendly society member in the past. It is worthy of note that during the five years for which the valuation was made £SO was transferred from the previous surplus to the management fund of the Lodge, which, of course, reduced the last surplus by that amount. The valuer points out that the surplus is largely due to the rate of interest realised on the funds—in other words, to the careful way in which they have boon invested. It is a pleasant thing to see a local institution doing so well.