LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The euchre party arranged for this week iias been postponed until Tuesday, 12th December.'

The death of Sophia, the wellknown Maori guide of the Hot Lakes District, was announced in a telegraphic message received, last night by Mr W. M. Clark, of Levin. Deceased who was in her eighty-fourth year, was an aunt of Mrs Clark.

Chronicle readers are reminded of the lecture to be given in the Century Hall to-night by Colonel J3irkenshaw. The Colonel will be speakrxF ,i lc c^la^r - Remington Hork, the Rev. Mi- Randerson taking the chair. Miss Remmington, Miss Prmgle, Miss Herd and Mrs T. Devine will be giving items, also the brass band.

The manager of the Central London Sffh'ool dictrict decided recently to tlie mixed system of education which has been in practice at their schools. It was explained that the conclusion come to was-that the boys dequirod a different kind of education from the ff£rl s , and different treatment. The system had been expected to infuse ,a spirit of emulation, mto the children. It had Sf+nlr? S i'n Tt indeGd stated had the contrary effect. It g,r, 7 d '' slle 'irtened and indifreient. and hampered tilie rvrogress of girls and boys, alike: { now come to iprav f° r + -P° I have just got in the jiew season's stock of Arsfn--IMb jaS"' m llb - 2 ' b " s "'- J!!' The Pharmacy, Ley in, >

A town district is to be formed at Otaki, and a committee is mow taking the necessary steps. The Shell Picture Company is dueat Levin to-night, >and a highly diversified programme is Poised. While humour is catered for, the scenic element predominates. Lhis is a treat feature of a company that is dotii"- so much to arouse interest in the beauties of the various parts of tibo world.

A popular legend about the hat on the statue of Nelson surmounting (he. column in Trafalgar &q»are, London, is recalled by the death m Sheffield on Tuesday, at tte ago <">/ 53 of Mr W. E. Harrison, the wellknown steeplejack. There was considerable public argument ns to whether the hollow of the hat contained silver and pewter vessels placed there when the statue was erected. Mr Harrison climbed the column in ]80fi. and found there was no hollow in the hat at all.

According to the British Weekly, a well-known London doctor states that- the busiest season for tlic medical profession is just at the close of the summer holidays. "My telephone hell," he says, "is ringing all day long. Some of my patients .have "walked, too far, others have cxhalifted themselves with climbing, others have .vat- in draughts on trains steamers. a.nd returned, to town with bad colds." Whereupon our contemporary remarks that the logical conclusion seems to he tlwit every holiday oucht to be in tihe nature of a rest cure, and that the cure should be taken in bed.

The Bishop of Carlisle deplored "tilie soft notions now being preached by people calling themselves humanitarians," when he spoke at Carlisle recently. "It is said to be degrading to flog a boy," said the Bishop. "Well, lam truly thankful I was regarded in that sense in my bovliood. If I had not been bo degraded then, I should be more degraded now. Wo need to eliminate these enervating, foolish, soft, and therefore cruel notions from our educational system. This is a matter not only for teachers, hut for parents."

"The Ministerial journals," says the Paris correspondent of the Pall Mull Gazette on October 5, "have been careful to deny that, 'with the concurrence of the Government,' three hundred million francs (£12,000,000) havs been sent to Germany to assist in the'financial settlement. It is quite true that the Cabinet has had nothing to do witlh the transmission of this formidable sum; but it has, none the less, gone, and most of it—probably the whole of it—was capital earned in France. But Governments cannot prevent private corporations from doing wibat they will with their own, and the actors in this particular operation are bankers of cosmopolitan origin and of international activity. An important newspaper here demands the banking houses from a charge of 'les-patrie' by declaring that, had the money been withheld, the resultant 'krach' would have brought about a 'slump' in Paris. This is an interesting confirmation of the theories as to the interclependonco of the money markts.

Another amazing calculation as l-o the value of hairpins in actual use among the. women of the United Kingdom results in the statement that these unsuspecting ladies do, among them, spend not far short of £24,000 per year on the harmless, necessary hairpin! Tt is added that if every woman in the United Kingdom were to lose one hairpin every day tho value of all those hairpins would amount to £18,000 per day or £057,000 per year! The moral is, never lose hairpins; tho problem is, where d:o the lost hairpins go?

Back to the hind is the cry in Denmark among the youngest sons of Royalty as well as of the nobility. Prince Eric, tiho 20-year-old nephew of the King of Denmark and of Queen Ale.vardra, has just been apprenticed for three years to learn practical agriculture. He took up the vocation purely from choice. He is to make a thorough and scientific study of all that applies to his subject. and starts by labouring in the field. B'ome years ago Prince Eric visited Snndringham with his father. Prince Waldemar, to visit the late King and Qneen Alexander. Even in those days the young Prince showed his predilections for farming and spent all hi;; spare time about tho homo farm.

The truth is now. coming out about the Winton "ovation" to Mr Massey (states the Clutha Free Press). On the face of it, it seemed strange that in a small place like Winton — the last census gives it a total population of but 504, men, women and children—they should have a hall oapnble of holding 2000 people. And "Winton is not a relic of past greatness, but a growing village—in 1909 the population was 500. Tho plain truth seems to be that the meeting was purposely, "boomed" by the lepresontatives of the Press' Association, and in this connection the Southland Daily News says "There would appear to be «i conspiracy amongst the. Association's agents on the morning newspapers to depreciate the Government ;md to boom the Opposition by every possible means. This is perfectly legitimate when the reports are sent as special messages, but when the Press Ascosiation sign manual is systematically used to further the. cause of a certain party it is time to complain."

From statements made by an official in tho head office of the Labour Department to a Lyttelton Times representative at Wellington recently, it would appear that the large number of arrivals from overseas by recent steamers lately have found very little difficulty in securing work in Aew Zealand. All the applicants who were able to adapt themselves to the now conditions were senu away to employment within fortyeigh thours of landing. Among the passengers by the Remuera, the latest Home liner to arrive, were a jnreo number keen to get on to the land. No trouble at all was experienced in finding places for anyone who applied. The demand for this class of labour still exceeds the supply. _ The Department finds that there is work for all classes of manual labourers, while in some directions, notably the building trades, there is a distinct shortage of workers throughout tho dominion.

Mr Massey and Mr Herdman ridicule the idea conveyed by the Prime Minister's statement in America tlnat "the policy he and his colleagues followed was to find out what the people wanted and to give it them." If Sir Joseph Ward expressed himself thus, ho indicated a principle whioh is the sheet-anchor of Democracy, and the adverse comments are an indiscreet and unguarded outcrop of Toryism. If administrators are not to do the people's bidding, whose 1 bidding are they to do? Why ,„re I Messrs Massey and Co. so frantically ranging the country and so desperately blaring their owe virtues and Government vices, if it is not to , the people, wilrom they profess anxious to represent? and tTiey cannot he represented unless their wishes are consulted. Tt is an insult for the people's votes to get into piower, and to tell them, at the same time, that they are not to "get their own way, but that a superior t intelligence is to exercise supremo discriminating power. Of what use is the liberal franchise "if its end is only to increase the number of simpletons who are to ho the victors of Tory Presumption P—Oiamaru 'Mail.

Sneaking to a representative of tiho Oamlaru Mail, concerning bygone ejection canards, Mr J.J. Ramsay relates two amusing instances of the kind of thing lie had to contend with when assisting in the fight for the late Sir John M'Kenzie in the memorable Waihemo campaign. Shortly before the election Mr Ramsay and, the late Mr Frazor, of the Stock Department, accompanied Mr M'Kenzie on a tour of the Maniototo districtj and (luring that tour Mr M'Kenzie, as Minister of Lands, selected and reserved an area of land for the Ranfurly township, the then coming terminus of the Otago Central Railway. "Judge of my surprise," said Mr Ramsay, "wlien I found one of the Opposition canards I had to combat was that Mr John M'Kenzie had collared for himself 600 acres where tho railway terminus was situated." Another eaniard mentioned by Mr Ramsay was till is: Just on the eve of the eleciton an Opposition paper came out with the startling dogmatic assertion that a batch of Seaward Bush cooperative men 'had been transferred to the Otago Central Railway with secret orders to vote for John M'Kenzio." Mr Ramsay, who had enrolled all the men engeged on tho railway works, knew the statement to bo a gross untruth; but tho only means of combating it was to get printed and very hurriedly distributed a leaflet declaring the statement "an unmitigated falsehood," and staking his reputation on his accuracy. Needless to say, although challenged' to the proof after election, the Opposition paper woild not face the music, but Mr Ramsay's leaflet saved the situation iand truth prevailed. The facts really wero that owing to the expenditure of the Seaward Bush vote, those men had to be transferred, and that their transfer actually disfranchised them, as the rolls were closed and writs issued some time before they came to the district, and they wero thus unable to exercise a vote unless they went to the Seaward district. "This stylo of misrepresentation," said Mr Ramsay, "is not dead yet, hut it only discredits tlio.se who uso it, and i shows how barren they are of legitimate criticism."

Arsenate of lead for the codlin moth pest; fungicide for blight, scale and all fungous diseases of fruit trees and vegetable®; also HeUobore and Gishnrst Compjirad are obtainable from 0. 8. Kaedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford street. — Advt.