The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, May 31st., 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1103, 31 May 1913, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, May 31st., 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald will be published at an early hour ou Tuesday morning next —King's Birthday.

The services in All Saints’ Church to morrow will be at 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.tn. The offertories throughout the pay will be given to the Maori Mission.

Mr H. Witchell was last night elected President of the local Horticultural Society in succession to Mr Alex. Speirs, who has filled the position for several years with marked enthusiasm.

Ensign Potter, in charge of the local Salvation Army corp, has received marching orders, and will be fare welled to-morrow. Ensign Potter has been transferred to the social work in Wellington. The services in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the minister, Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A. In the morning he will continue the story of “Pilgrim’s Progress” to the children. At the evening service Messrs Masters and Buglass will sing a sacred duet.

The services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be held to-monow in the supperroom of the Coronation Town Hall. The morning service will be conducted by the Rev. T. Coatsworth (subject “Mercy”), and the evening service by Mr J. Chrystall. A hearty invitation to these services is extended to all.

A disastrous sequel occurred at a ball in Milan, organised by a number of working men and their families, which took place at Greco Milanese, a resort in the environs of the city. Rivalry regarding three girls, and consequent dissensions among the guests, so embittered the proceedings that the „ younger men ultimately divided into two camps, and fought fiercely with knives iu the ballroom. Twenty persons were wounded, and two of the injured died shortly after their arrival at the hospital.

The motor trade continues to expand in an. extraordinary fashion. During the first three months of the present year 598 motor cars and 813 cycles, of a total value of ,£225,480, were imported to the Dominion. Of the cars 210 went to Lyttelton, 192 to Wellington, 141 to Auckland and 55 to Dunedin. Wellington took 439 of the cycles, Lyttelton 293, Dunedin 62 and Auckland 19During the corresponding ( period of last year 534 motor cars and 539 cycles, of a total value ol £180,350, were imported.

/ ' Many.ja , kingdom, many a famous country of the Old World* is ' dwarfed' by, the vastness of Mr Sidney Kidman’s holdings in Australia, ; directly controls or owns in Australia to-day 45,000 square miles of country. And this huge extent of territory does not include holdings of companies in which be has shares or is interested. Some" years ago he sold all his Western Australian estates to Bpvril, Ltd. He is greatly interested in that company, but no portion of that interest is counted in the 45,000 square miles. ; This is larger than the area of the North Island of New Zealand.

When a newspaper makes a slip there is never a lack of correspondents to supply corrections, but it is not often that a correspondent so effectively makes bis point as one who complains in a South African paper of the “modern and deplorable custom ot giving the adjective Reverend (contracted to Rev.) a plural form—Revs.” He says : —“ If the goods men who publish the interesting news in theirs valuables newspapers wish to introduce plurals forms of adjectives let them be consistents and do it to all. ’ ’

Carterton Borough, which brings its coal over the Rimutaka ranges by rail, has reduced the price of its gas for lighting to 7s 6d per 1 oooft. Its gas returns for the mouth were:—Gas registered by works meter was 351,000 cubic feet; consumers’ meters registered 296,700 ft.; iS large street lamps consumed 13,500 ft. ; 25 small street lamps consumed 14,375 ft .; gas works engine and retort house consumed 12,500 ft.; number of meters taken, 242 ; average per meter, 1221.218; number of meters now in use, 256. Ladies! Warner's Corsets are comfortable —guaranteed so —they shape fashionably. The bones cannot rust, nor can the fabric tear. Order now. Local drapers.* Fountain pens I/- each. Try one. 1 Thomas Rimmer.* Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets. In the latest models the bust is low and full. Flexible corsetting above the waist is the result—the newest figure fashion. Perfect comfort with figure elegance. , . Cartridges, 10/- and 12 /- per 100. Guns and sporting material.—Thos. Rimmer.*

The attendance shield at tlie local State school was won this week by Standard IV., with an average attendance of 95.1 per cent.

The death occurred at Palmerston yesterday, of an old Foxton resident, in the person of Dr. Rockstrow aged 78.

Messrs Watt Bros, will tjun d conveyance on Tuesday and Wednesday next, from Foxton to Levin to connect with the train at the latter place for the Otaki races.

Mr M. Littlejohn offers a reward for information leading to the conviction; of. the person who tampered with a sign plate on his window last night.

“There is an Act in force in New Zealand, the benefit of which is not sufficiently realised by the people at large,” said the Mayor (Mr H. Holland), in proposing the toast of “ Parliament” at the annual dinner ot the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club at Christchurch, says the Christchurch Press, By this Act, he continued, a boy, by contributing ninepence per week, could build up a pension for himself and his family, so that no matter what adversity overtook him he would be provided for in his old age. These provisions, he felt sure, were not sufficiently known, for if they were they would be more taken advantage of, and more would be heard of the measure.

A new theory of life has been advanced by no less a person th an the Director of the Physiological Institute in Berlin, Professor Max Rubner. Every animal, he says, is given by nature the capacity to produce only a fixed amount of energy, and when it has produced and expended it, it dies. Man starts with the capacity to produce and consumej'72s,ooo calories per kilo of his weight. Excesses shorten life, because they cause an abnormal squandering of one’ kinetic capital. A man cannot 5 hope to lengthen life by increasing bis capacity to develop energy, because “ the capacity of all men is unchangeable and the same.” There is also a minimum expenditure necessary to the functioning of life, “ but it is possible by wise ways of living to reduce the amount expendable in a given time.”

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