NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1031, 17 August 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The sum ot ,£2,600 is a fairly large one to be drawn by one man from buiter and cheese factories for milk supplied during one season, but this amount, within a fraction, was received by a dairy farmer in Pahiatua district for last season’s supplies, says the Herald. Of course, the milk was not taken from one farm, and this cheque did not all go to the banking account of the dairy farmer. A considerable sum was expended in the payment of different families, who in the majority of cases were milking on the share system.

A wife-beater was severely handled by a Pennslyvania magistrate, to whom an ill-used wife, a frail and delicate woman, bad shown cuts and bruises on different parts of her body. She asked for some protection, and a warrant was issued for the man’s arrest. When the delinquent appeared in Court, the magistrate left his desk carrying a heavy whip. “ I cannot control myself in the presence of such a brute,” he exclaimed. “Take off your coat and get down on your knees.” The magistrate then lashed him until he rolled over howling- ‘‘l’ll teach you to strike your wife,” said the indignant magistrate several times, and he desisted from flogging him only when the man promised never to strike his wife again.

The Post says:—“Enquiries made in the Parliamentary lobbies go to show that there is a combined movement among the country members to force the hands of the Government in the matter of rehabilitating the country clubs which have lost their totalisator permits as the result of the report of the Racing Commission. They threaten that unless what they regard as justice is done to those clubs, they will assist in carrying a motion to abolish the totalisator, and they can secure the object aimed at. There is also a movement among town and country members interested to arrive at an amicable settlement of the matter, and the preliminary steps have already been taken to that end.”

“Plant your feet firmly and squarely on the ground, throw back your shoulders, fold your arms, and swear in most emphatic terms that you are strong, healthy and well. Do this for a few minutes every evening, and even if this is not how you actually feel, maintain by your physical and mental attitude that it is your condition, and you will soon find that it becomes so, and that you are not telling lies, “This was the advice given by Dr J. Stenson Hooker in a lecture on “ Posturing and Posing for Health,” in connection with the opening of the Simple Life Conference and Exhibition in London. “It is wonderful to what extent our state of health can be altered in this way,” Dr Hooker added. “It stirs up the currents of feeling which act on the nerves ; these act on the blood vessels, and thus the whole system is improved, and we become different beings.”

Nelson has a generous benefactor in Mr Thomas Cawthorn (says the Marlborough Press). Some years ago he presented a Sunday school to Toi Toi Valley. He made a valuable presentation to the Nelson Museum, and donated to the Nelson Institute. He subsequently offered to defray the cost ol carrying on the improvement scheme for the Church Hill steps in connection with the Albert Pitt memorial fund. Pie gave to the building fund of the School of Music, and lent ,£2OOO to the school at a nominal rate of interest. Indeed, but for his assistance the School of Music could never have been built at all. Quite recently he donated another to the same institution, and has promised three further donations, each of the same amount, at half-yearly intervals, so that the indebtedness of the school in about a year’s time will be completely extinguished. In addition to the foregoing he has ordered for the School of Music a magnificent organ at about Altogether, Mr Cawthorn’s benefactions to Nelson are almost unprecendented in the way of spontaneous liberality so far as New Zealrnd is concerned.