NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1316, 27 October 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The phosphorescent happiness that an Italian painter is stated to have seen shining in the eyes of the Kaiser is more likely to be the gleam of madness. The Kaiser continues to stands before me world as either its most maligned man or its most unholy hypocrite. From what is recorded of him during jthe war it is impossible to avoid the query; Is he mad f Dannevirke News.

The following new books have just been added to our local public Library, viz “ The Following of the star” (F. Barclay); “ The Moccasins of Gold ” (N. Way); “ The Wilderness Trail” (F. Williams); ‘‘ The Wedding Day” C. N- and A. M. Williamson);

“Both of this Parish” (J, S. Fletcher); “A Knight on Wheels” (lan Hay) ; “ The Day of Days” (L. J. Vance); “The Chalace of Courage” (C. T. Brady); “Their Yesterdays ” (H. B. Wright).

One of the things that touched him ,ost during his visit to New Zealand, said Mr Philip Snowden, the British Labour M.P., at the civic reception In Wellington, was the hundreds of New Zealanders be had met who had not seen England but yet spoke of it as Home. “I can assure you,” he proceeded, “that that is extremely touching to an Englishman. So long as a spirit like that exists I feel that England can stand foursquare to every wind that blows.” (Applause).

“In all the years I have been in business in Christchurch,” said one of the oldest leading butchers the other day at Addington, “I have never seen meat to sell at these figures. I have known fat sheep to rise 6s per head in a day, but it has never come to these figures before.” “When my client gets his account sales for these he will have a fit; be never expected this,” remarked an auctioneer as he knocked down half a race full of medium quality lat ewes in the vicinity of 30s per bead, much over s<i per lb. “God help the butcher and public,” he added.

Appendicitis continues to supply vastly more surgical cases than any other single disease, says the medical staff’s annual report to the District Hospital Board, During the year 86 operations were performed for this serious malady : 20 of these cases were of the most dangerous type, being accompanied by gangrene of the appendix and peritonitis, with the patient extremely ill. In this series of 86 cases there was one death. It is pleasing to know that the public are becoming cognisant ot the serious nature of this disease, and are inclined to seek surgical aid at the earliest moment. It is by this means alone that the risk of a fatal termination can be enormously reduced.