CONTENTS BILL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 427, 14 July 1905, Page 2

CONTENTS BILL.

Pibst Paok — Tenders, Amusements, Wanted*, Ac. ' Sjboond and Thibd Pages—Business Announcements, News of the Day. Foubth Paob — Auctions, Land Sales, General Business Notices.

The annual meeting of the Philosophical Sooiety will be held on Thursday, July 20th. The value of butter shipped from New Plymouth and Waitara during the pait season amounted to £30,000.

Michael Barry, wearing the cloth of a prießt, was yesterday fined 5s at the Police Court for helpless drunkenness.

Mr H. E. Gunter has a notice to pupils elsewhere that he will not be giving lessons this afternoon.

The Levin Industrial School, accord, ing to tbe Premier, will be occupied early in the spring.

The Municipal Band will render an interesting piogramme of music at the Square Rotunda on Sunday afternoon.

Mr Jickell, Borough Engineer, now has the septic tank in working order, the connection with the Main street West sower having been made on Saturday last. So far the tank is working satisfactorily.

A property has been acquired in Nelson by the Government for a home for the training and care of defective children, and is, according to the Premier, in course of preparation for the reception of inmates.

Mr W. T. Wood, M.H.R., ha 9re ceived intimation from the Miniater of Education that the Government has authorised the expenditure of £400 in additions to the College street School. The Wanganui Education Board has been advised to that effect.

s The motor 'bus which has been running between the Cathedral Square and the Christchurch Railway Station for tbe past fifteen months, has covered 15,000 miles in tha f> time and carried 80,000 passengers. Ie ia now running between Ohristchurch and Riccarton, and giving proof of the great usefulness of motor 'busses for suburban traffic

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Mrs Richards' pupils gave a concert at the Hospital last night, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Contributions were made to the programme by Misses Watson, Pegden, Muggridge (2), Mrs Richards, Nurse Beading, and Messrs Morris, Lawn, and A. Bennett. Mr Haybittle, an inmate of the Hospital, gave two recitations.

At the S.M. Court yesterday Robert Hamilton was charged with the theft of 19 silver watches, 11 chains, and a quantity of second-hand watches valued at £40, the property of Richard Terril. of Christchurch. The date of the aliened theft was fixed as April 24th, 1903. Mr Moore appeared for the defondant, who having pleaded not guilty, was committed for irial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court at Palmerston.

The proprietor of the Paroa flaxmill at Maketu, Bay of Plenty, has purchased from the natives a large quantity of cultivated flax, the first, yet used in New Zealand. Mr Grey has had considerable experience in the flaxmilling industrj, and he pronounces this flax to be the best yet passed through his hands, the fibre having the appearance of silk. Mr John Holmes iB persuaded that tho cnJfiyation of flax on suitable IIU-US Wl 1 , '.'.. 1,.

The Canterbury A. and P. Association's Committee, after consideration of the question of charges for space for implements at the Metropolitan Show, could not see their way to make any reduotions;in the scale.

A correspondent writes to the Woodville Examiner complaining of the cost ef providing books for his chiidron in their new standards. Ho says that for his four children's new books he had to pay 37s the other day, nearly a week's wages, and he felt it pretty hard.

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The architect's estimates for the extensions at the Hospital amount to something like £1500. The only thing now required is the money. Further estimates, for a brick building, are to be obtained.

The final rehearsal for the orchestral concert was most successful last oveniDg. Aided by several visiting instrumentalists ihe orchostra accomplished its work with even more than usual fidelity. The acoustic properties of the building wore found to bo excellent, and fiß the violins woro cased and tha other instruments tucked away to rest, there was a general feeling of satisfaction mingled with expectation for the morrow.

The Wellington Post says:—lf the farmers are going to brand as their antagonist every man who thinks that the State-has parted with quite enough of its landed proporiy, they will be putting more enemies into the field than will be good for them, and they will be giving a fresh stimulus to the very undesirable antagonism between town and country.-

With respect to the North Island Main Trunk Railway, the Minister for Public Works states that the Government intends to submit proposals which will enable work to be further extended at both ends of the opened sections, and that arrangements were being made to permit Of the heavier work, some distance beyond that now in progress being put in band during the ensuing summer. It was hoped that the work would proceed uninterruptedly to completion.

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Feilding's forth Poultry Show opened yesterday. Thero was a good attendance, and the birds exhibited showed an improvement on last year. The silver cup for the most points in Leghorns was won by Mrs Holland, of iiunnythorpe (39 points), and this being the Becond year in succession in which she has appropriated the prize, the cup becomes her own property. The Society's special prize of three guineas for Black and Buff Orpingtons was won by D. Haswell.of Feuding, with 32 points; and in Wyandottes T. West, of Feilding, was first and \V. Ritchie second.

Writes Churchman to the Napier Telegraph: Is it riot a strange thing that the Church of England in New Zealand should so willingly permit Dissenter bodies to control tho Education Boards. In this district we have two Dissenting clergymen already on the Board, and two others are candidates for election. They will probably get in, and then four out of the nine members will be exponents of the interests of Dissent. It is not difficult to realise the disadvantage tbua placed upon teachers of the Church of England when seeking employment under the Board in competition with Dissenting applicants.

The perils of country journalism are numerous, but the latest experience of the Hamilton Argus is exceptional. A cattle sale was being held a few days ago in a yard adjacent to the newspaper office, when a cow lost her temper and tossed one man out of the yard. " Another cow," naively states the newspaper, (l entered this office, but as we are used to being interviewed by infuriated beasts, the advent of this one did not disturb the equanimity of the -establishment. After a general inspection of the premises she quietly departed without even stopping her paper." .

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Several hundreds of people from all parts of the district attended the "At Home," arranged by the Mayoress to Celebrate the opening of the new Opera House. The reception took place in the Municipal Hall, which was very nicely decorated for the ocpaeion, and where' Mrs Cohen, very gracefully attired, formally welcomed 8 her guests; who, after partaking of afternoon tea, wandered at large over the Opera House enjoying the strains of orchestral music. The proceedings were inficuously bright, gay, and novel, and were much enjoyed by the participants who were unanimous in praise of the arrangements.

A woman who sought a separation order from her husband at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, alleged that trouble had arisen in the home owing to her husband's conduct with a young girl staying with them. The young girl waa in Court. "Do you mean.to insinuate that there was misconduct, and do yon say that in the presence of Miss ?" asked Mr Oassidy, who was defending the husband " Certainly, I do," replied the petitioner, "he used to have her foot on bis knee and cut her toe-nails." An audible titter, sternly suppressed by the Court orderly, beamed forth from all parts of the Court.

The Melbourne Leader says: — Arrangements at Warrnambool are in progress for establishing agricultural olaßses for farmers and their sons, and also for boys who are just leaving school. The pupils will be taught to feed and rear stock, to grow crops, and to do carpentering and blacksmithing work. If these classes prove a success, they will probably lead to tbe establishment of the proposed agricultural high school. It has been arranged that two five-acre plots shall be used for experimental purposes, and experiments iv potato-grow-ing will be carried out with the object of ascertaining tbe cause of the falling off in quality and yield of the locally grown potato.

In adding an extra visitors'day, Wednesday afternoon, to the old list, the Hospital Board yesterday expressed tbe hope that tho public will in future aid the various officers in their work by adhering to the regulationsion this point. The resolution arose out of a nuisance which has grown during the last few months, caused by tbe influx of visitors to the Hospital when they are least wanted. The regulations in regard to visiting are in future to be rigidly adhered to, only the relations of patients in dangerous straits being allowed to visit the Hospital on,"off" days. So serious had tbe trouble become that recently one of the much-harassed nursing staff was awakened at 2 o'clook in the morning by the knocking of a visitor desirous of admittance.

1 The Auckland Herald, that mouthpiece of petty provincialism, is still moaning, as thus: We have only to note the conduct of our Auckland Ministerialist members, their attempts to excuse the notorious maladministration, their refusal to join in any vigorous attack upon tbe Government, their inevitable backing and filling in tbe face of this wholesale plundering of the province, to be further convinced that no member returned to support the Seddpn Administration can ever be depended upon to secure justice for Auckland. . We have 901 railway miles in the north, and not all the partisan twaddle in both islands can make us out to have any more, nor can cover the equally notorious fact that the south has 1427 railway miles. .. . It is the first duty of every Auckland member, whether he calls himself Ministerialist, Opposition, or Independent, to stop that astonishing, and intolerab'e system of maladministration by which Auckland Province is continuously robbed and its progress systematically impeded.

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It is stated that the Land Commission (whose report will be laid on the table of the House today) decided, by the casting vote of the ChairmaD, to recommend that the option of the freehold should be given to tenants of ordinary Crown lands. The following is said to bare been the voting on the question:— For the Freehold: Messrs Matbieson, Hall, McCutcheon, McArdle, and the Chairman (Mr MoKerrow). Against the Freehold: Messrs Johnson, Anstey, Forbes, McLennan and Paul. It is alleged that Messrs McCutcheon and McArdle consented to vote for the freehold at the last moment only. The votiDg in regard to lands purchased under the Land for Settlements Act was one for giving the option of the freehold and nine against. Mr Mathieson is believed to bo the commissioner who voted for the freehold in this instance. It is also stated that the report recommends the modification of the restrictions on the leases of ordinary Crown lands as well as of the conditions as to cropping on lands purchased under the L'\r;,{ for Settlements Aot.

About sixty seats have been placed at the back of the orchestral stalls sinco the box plan was opened, and these will be sold and reserved during to-day at 3s each. If not nil taken during the day, they will bo iold at the doors. The pit tickets have been fixed at 2a each, early doors 2s 6d from 7 to 7.30. It ia expected that all tho seats will bo booked by 7.30. A fow specially reserved seats ac 5s tire also open in the dress circle, and may be h,ad on application to tho secretary at tho new Council offices in the Square, formerly iho readiDg room. It is confidently expected that every scat will be booked during the day. On Ihe 9th April, 1902, states a Press Association message from Invercargill, Frederich Sheath left the township of Otautau to shoot in the Longwood bush. He never returned, and although search was made no trace, of. him-could be found. On Wednesday the skeleton of a man, with a rusty gun besido it, was found about a mile from the township Tho remains are those of Bheath. There is no sign of a gunshot injury on the anatomy. Sheath came from Tapananui to manage tho Kingway Estate, and leaving there he came to Otautau to reside. Ho was a man of about 30 year. He had been operated upon for an abcess and was in delicate health.

Two women under the influence of drink caused a sensation in Kent terrace, Wellington, on Wednesday evening. A horse and vehicle were left in Kent terrace, and the women got into the trap and drove abouttho street in an extraordinary manner. Tiring of tho trap, they alighted from it and took possession of two bicycles, on which they cut antics to the amusement of all who saw them, until a constable took them into custody. The names of the women are Mary Thomas, a single women, and Elizabeth Culliford, a married woman, both from Auckland. Defendants were charged, with having „ behaved in a disorderly manner whilst drunk. The woman Thomas stated that she was employed at Island Bay. " Well, what were you doing in town yesterday," asked the Magistrate. "My day off," said the defendant. »• Yes, you had a day off^evidently," replied his Worship.' Nothing having been previously known Bgainßty.tho defendants, his Worship told them to behave themselves in future, and merely entered a conviction.—Post.

Speaking of the Bible in-Schools movement at the session of the Anglican Diocesan Synod, the Rev. 0. 0. Harper stated that he bad been assured by representative teachers that the teachers as a whole wanted the Bible in schools; that with' regard to an adverse motion passed by the Teachers' Institute, that body was not representative of the opinion of teachers, and was not authorised to expross this opinion on their behalf. The president (Mr T. H. Gill) and the secretary (Mr "W. H. L. Foster) of the New Zealand Educational Institute state in reply that the only opportunity afforded to teachers as a whole to express such a desire for the Bible in schools is through the annual meeting of the Institute, at which, on the last occasion, every district institute in the colony was represented. No such ex« pression of opinion was adopted, but, on the other hand, it waa resolved that the introduction of Bible-reading into the schools syllabus was undesirable. The motion was not aimed against the teaching of the Bible ia schools by others than the teachers employed to teach the syllabus.

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