LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1058, 18 June 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Rugby football at Hawera on Saturday, Taranaki defeated Wanganui by six points to nil. Herr Hinkel, a German merchant of Moscow, bequeathed his business, with a fortune of halt a million sterling, to his employees.

A bottle has been found on the beach at Thirrou), New South Wales, with a note inside signed “Jones, fireman, Dredge Manchester.” It is dated May 24th, and states that the dredge was then 300 miles south-east of Lord Howe Island, “disabled, broken down, leaking ; won’t last lortyaight hours.” It is belived to be e hoax, as there was no fireman named Jones on the Manchester. M. Poiucare, Premier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, referred to the suggestions of the press that the entente cordiale between linglaud and France should be transformed into an alliance. He said, though not written on parchment the entente had the support of the majority of the people ol both nations and its strength lay in its present form. An alliance was unnecessary and a mistake. (Cheers). Relations between Germany and Prance were loyal and correct. In Britain, there is no man more anathematised, more lied about than Lloyd George, and why ? Because he has compelled the rich to contribute of their riches to the upkeep of the nation. The wealthy and the powerful cried aloud for Dreadnoughts and still more Dreadnoughts, but the moment the Chancellor of the Exchequer levied upon these same persons, they again cried aloud, and this time declared that Lloyd George was a robber and a scoundrel and several other kinds of villain.—Petone Chronicle.

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Ox tongues, sheep tongues, roast, corned, spiced and boiled beet and mutton, stewed tripe, etc , procurable tram T. Rimraer’s. 7,

Mr W. H. Field is to be entertained at a banquet in Mahara House, Waikanae, on July ist. It is reported that the police are in possession of some startling facts in connection with the recent doings of a tohunga at an adjacent pah.

Unregistered barmaids are being employed in certain hotels in Christchurch, much to the disgust of those who have been compelled to register. There is a flaw in the Act.

The body of Mrs Patrick Keegan, who disappeared from her home, clad in a night dress last Sunday week, was found in the Wanganui river yesterday morning. The Federal Government caucus has decided that the tariff shall remain untouched in the coming session. Only anomalies will be rectified.

At Perth Amboy, New Jersey, a thousand strikers stormed the American Smelting Company’s plant- The deputy-sheriffs warned the crowd to desist, but their warnings were fruitless. The sheriffs then opened fire on the crowd. One of the strikers was killed and three injured. There was a large attendance at the municipal skating rink last night. This pastime is still very popular and nearly every night some new learners may be seen trying their best to master the • ‘rollers. ’ ’ By all appearances the rink, by the end of the season, will possess some excellent skaters, and should a fancy dress carnival wind up the season there will be some very keen competitions. The rink will be open on Friday evening.

Krupp’s organ, the Neuste Nachrchten, declares that the recent Malta conference is the writing on the wall. It is indicated that if in a war Germany deprived England of half her fleet, her position in America, the Far East, and many parts of Europe would be forfeited. This would be the beginning of the end of her world supremacy. The conference should be a warning to Germany to develop her sea power at all costs, and obtain her ideal of the balance of power on the high seas.

It is wonderful (says the Lyttelton Times) what a large number of “gentlemen” appear in the dock at the Magistrate’s Court, and what a large number of similarly aristocratic friends they have. “We are not the gentlemen who created the disturbance,” said two men in dock charged with assault at Christchurch. “It was another gentleman who was very drunk. We can call two gentlemen to support the contention.” The witnesses said that one of the gentlemen had hit the other on the jaw—doubtless an evidence of the fondness of the British aristocracy for manly sports. The attendance at Saturday night’s picture entertainment was good, and the programme submitted very fair. Some of the films shown appeared to be the worse for wear in various portions, this being especially noticeable with pictures containing a predominance of high-lights, or sky, but this in a minor degree is almost unavoidable, owing to the tremendous magnification by the projecting lens of the slightest defect in the celluloid film. The pictures seem to retain an evergreen interest with Foxton play-goers, and apart from the amusement obtained, films of an educational nature are frequently shown, and illustrate subjects of universal and topical interest. In a letter read at the meeting of the Kiwitea County Council on Saturday, a roadman complained that a ratepayer had given him instructions while he was doing his work, and when he refused the ratepayer called him a blank blank blank. In further discussion, the roadman alleged, he was called a blank pointer, and threatened that he would be shifted. When the letter was read at the meeting, the Chairman said the roadman did the proper thing in refusing to take instructions from a ratepayer. The Engineer was the only man from whom he should take instructions. —Feilding Star. The Petone Chronicle objects to the sub-heading “Vice-Regal” in the personal column of certain Wellington journals. It adds : “ we are invited to contemplate the grovel of the press ; and are ordered in addition by fluukeydom to take our hats off in the street when the Governor passes ! Now, please hurry up someone, and make our Mayor a “ Lord Mayor,” and our Bishops all ; “ Lord Bishops”—though, thank God, there is no House of Lords wherein they may sit and vole Tory—our Chief Justice the “ Lord Chief Justice,” and anybody else the “Lord Knows Who.’” But let us be serious again for a moment. We really should like to know the meaning of that “Vice-Regal” heading, and who it was who instituted it and why.”

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The late Mr W. T. Stead’s estate has been sworn at .£13,000. A codicil to the will is missing. The Premier informed a deputation at Dargaville that the Government was not prepared to bring down a Bill giving the bare majority to the liquor question. The Rev J. A. McKenzie, of Shannon, underwent an operation for appendicitis in a Palmerston private hospital on Saturday, and is progressing as favourably as can be expected.

Sir Francis Younghusband was awarded ,£1,400 damages against the owner of a motor-car for running over him at Spa last year. The driver was also fined, and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. The “motor hog" receives short shrift in Germany.

The death occurred at Manakau on Saturday of Mrs T. Bevan seur.,oueof the oldest residents on this coast, aged 72. Mrs Bevan is survived by her husband and a large family.

At a recent meeting of the Mangaweka Debating Society the members, after a lengthy debate, decided in favour of the savage life as against civilisation. We don’t expect to hear very favourable reports from Mangaweka in the future !

The Broken Hill Proprietary, Sydney, is negotiating lor the purchase of land near Newcastle. It is proposed to erect large steelworks, and it is estimated that if they are established nearly 10,000 persons will eventually be employed.

Welling ton's meteorological performances recently resulted in what is surely the most unusual lorm of lost advertisement ever seen in a newspaper. It tan thus : “Blown from tram car, Saturday evening, between Post Office and Lambton Station, hatbox, containing two hats. Reward.” Mr James Pauline, of Bulls, one of the oldest settlers in the Rangitikei district, passed away on Saturday, aged 86 years. He arrived in New Zealand in the early fifties. His wife predeceased him by about two years. He leaves a family of four —William and Tom, Mrs Warriner and Mrs Mansell.

A painnful accident happened to a young man named Denbee, at Parkvale, Carterton, on Tuesday. He was assisting to kill a pig, and when hoisting the carcase, the hook of the iron gamble flew up, the point entering the corner of the young man’s left eye. It was found that the tear-duct, was destroyed .

Saadou farmers have done remarkably well out of their dogtail crops. One well-known farmer put down 50 acres in dogtail, and he sold one half the seed at Palmerston, realising whilst the other half brought a slightly better result at Feilding, the total received from the 50 acres being slightly over Dr. Robert Bell, of London, the exponent of the system of treating cancer by diet and without operation, has been awarded £,2000 damages, also costs, tor libel, against tbe British Medical Association and Dr. E. F. Bashford, principal ot the Imperial Cancer Research Institute, alleging in the British Medical Journal that Dr. Bell was a quack. Many leading doctors gave evidence, mostly disagreeing with the Bell system, but stating that it was worth} of consideration.

The duties of the two new inspectors (male and female) to be appointed by the Education Department to undertake the medical inspection of schools will commenof about August Ist. Their principal duties will be to instruct and train teachers in matters relating to the inspection ot school children and to school hygiene. In certain cases they will conduct personally the medical inspection ot schools and school children, and of teachers where so directed, and deal with other aspects generally of school hygiene; advise the Public Health Department and the Education Department in all matters that concern the health of school children, whether normal or otherwise ; and, generally, act in all these things in conjunction with the officers of public health, in accordance with such regulations as may be mutually agreed upon between the Minister of Public Health and the Minister ot Education.

Three boys and a football appeared in the Auckland Juvenile Court on Wednesday morning in consequence of having collaborated in a game of football on the public street, wherein a city by-law got in the way and was broken. The lads were admonished, and were ordered to pay qs costs apiece, being allowed their ball back on a promise not to again agitate it on the street. A solicitous materfamilias, who was watching the interests of one of the delinquents, rapped out a tart suggestion that three big burglars would make a police Court exhibit of more credit to the police than the appearance of a trio of little boys. “Never mind, I’ve bad my say,’’ was her satisfied retort to a quiet hint that her remark sounded like contempt of court.

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The English transport strike is fizzling out. A wedding of local interest takes place at All Saints’ next Tuesday.

William Joseph Owen, 50 years of age, was found dead on the verandah of his residence at Gisborne yesterday. The following steamers are within wireless communication ot New Zealand:—Manuka, Navua, Moeraki, Maheno, Victoria. John lies, 73 years of age, a farmer at Papanui, who was gored by a bull on Friday last, died from fiis injuries yesterday morning.

Mr “Jack” Harris, a wellknown pedestrian in the ’seventies, and who held the 10-mile championship of Australasia, died at Greymouth on Saturday, after a short illness, aged sixty-eight.

The Ohakuue Times uses the recent conflagration at Foxtou as a text for a lengthy article in which it urges burgesses to instal a high-pressure water supply. Ohakune, however, is possessed of a fire brigade.

A schoolmaster named Rash, at Endorf, assisted by bis wife and eldest sou, poisoned three youuger members of his family with cyanide of potassium. The elders then committed suicide. Financial worries were the cause of the tragedy.

Yesterday’s gale at Pahiatua lifted the roof of the Dudley Arms Hotel, at Maugatainoka, bodily from the building and carried it across the road. The portion of the roof carried away comprised twenty sheets of ten-fool iron and a large number of rafters. At the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, John Scoles, Henry Couper and William Craw were proceeded against by the Stock Inspector on a charge of exposing lice-infected sheep for sale. A fine of with costs, was inflicted in each case.

Public opinion at Wanganui strongly condemns native tangis, and the one now taking place there affords some grounds for the prevailing leeling. Of genuine mourning thert appears to be very little, auu luc ..ugc gathering of natives is not considered as conducing to the welfare of the races.

An advertiser in the Levin Chronicle says that if a tub removed from a certain section is not returned, proceedings will be taken to recover same, “as it is known where the tub is.” The advertisement, apparently, has escaped the eye of the police. The law deals harshly with aiders and abetters.

At the Radio Telegraphic Conference in London, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Dominions accepted the principle that ships must accept messages from each other whatever the wireless system used. Thus the general application of the principle has now been approved by all countries.

Leo. Burnett, sou of Mr H. Burnett, solicitor, of Woodville, mysteriously disappeared from Mr Carlyon’s “Gwavas/ station at Hawke’s Bay, a week ago. Search parties have been scouring the surrounding country every day since, but no trace of the young man has been found.

Chas. John Brooks, who escaped from custody in Auckland on Friday morning, was arrested at Wellington on arrival ot the Nainshire yesterday morning. He was found in hiding in the bunker by the firemen, and the captain placed him under arrest. Before the Court yesterday morning Brooks was remanded to Auckland.

At a meeting of railway men at Christchurch on Sunday, it was decided to urge on the executive the importance of Parliament reviewing the position regarding the Ministerial veto on Appeal Board decisions. Messrs Veitch and Robertson, M’s.P., addressed the meeting, and advocated the abolition of the right of veto.

” We propose, in the immediate future,” says Mr Laurenson, " to deal with the land question as strongly as we can. I have nothing to say against the large landed proprietors and squatters; they have served their day and generation but their day and generation have passed. (Applause.) I say before we have displaced them, we must give fair compensation, and not rob the individual to give to the public. But when there are rapidly growing up educated boys and girls it is the duty ot the State to say that no laud is to be monopolised by the individual.”