LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1351, 23 January 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All accounts owing to the Herat,d have now been rendered, and the proprietor would esteem as a favour an early settlement ot same. The resignation of Miss Drummond as pupil teacher of the Foxton State school has been accepted by the Board. Ask for the famous “Roslyn’, Writing Pad every time. Contains 100 sheets fine bank paper, with artistic picture of New Zealand’s wonderland (Rotorua), including photo of a charming Native girl. Only 6d each from local dealers.*

The Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, in presenting the results of the scholarship examinations, referred especially to the poor showing made by candidates from the town schools throughout the district. The war is a righteous cause, and England, as a Christian nation, is right in using physical force. She is using it not only to save the lives of her own subjects and the existence of the country, but also tor right against wrong. —Canon Li’ttelton, headmaster of Eton. A youth, 19 years of age, named Leslie McKenzie, employed in the Auckland postal service, was arrested on a charge of stealing on or about October 29, three postal notes, one being of the value ot ids, and the other two of the value of 2s each. To night the 4th series of “Lucille Love” will be shown at the Royal, as the difficulty of finding seals becomes greater with each succeeding series, patrons are requested to be in their seats before the lights are down at 7.45. I would rather go down in slavery with our King than have liberty with the Kaiser. People talk about the cost. What would it cost it Kaiser Bill was here ? If we get out at .500,000,000 we shall be lucky; but if the Germans came here we should also have to give them 500,000,000 to go back again to build more Dreadnoughts with. —Will Crooks. On Monday evening, Mr O. E. Hugo, the well-known lecturer on character, will give one of his instructive entertainments in the Presbyterian Hall. Mr Hugo is well-known, throughout the Dominion, having tor the past 2S years paid periodical visits 10 every town, and is recognised as an able entertainer. His subject will be “Faces.” Admission will be free, but a collection will be taken up. One good thing the war has already done—it has made hay of the pseudo-biological theories which declare that the malign influences of Pity and Peace ate sapping the vitality of the civilised races, and leading to world-wide degeneration. Can anyone believe that there has ever been a time when the nations of Western Europe could have put into the field, in fairly sound physical condition, a larger proportion of their manhood ?—William Archer. There is no crisis in recruiting. There is simply a crisis in the miraculous stupidity of the recruiting department of the War Office—a stupidity so intense, powerful and infectious, that it has apparently paralysed a whole Cabinet consisting in the main of intelligent men. The first thing is to put the recruiting job into the hands of a human being. Sir R. Baden-Powell has been well suggested for the post.—Arnold Bennett. “ I think this will put us right,” said the Prime Minister to a Post reporter, referring to the fact that the s..s, Kaiapoi, with 300,000 bushels of wheat for New Zealand, had been released and is on her way to the Dominion. “We were,” he added, 11 relying on the Kaiapoi to keep us going until the big shipment of 300,000 bushels by the Hesperus from Canada arrives. If the Kaiapoi shipment had been held up I am satisfied that very serious inconvenience would have been caused.” The Labour Department reports show that the position of employment is fairly satisfactory in the chief centres of the Dominion. At New Plymouth, Mastertou and Palmerston North the Labour Department’s agencies are dealing very successfully with the applicants for work. In Aucklrud there are 124 applicants, and in the South Island the position is not quite so good as in the North. As has been the case all along, the West Coast of the South Island is comparatively free from employment. There are fewer unemployed carpenters in the Dominion. The Department notified the Wanganui Education Board that grants had been made for additions to the Kiwitea and Feilding High Schools, but there was no mention of a grant for necessary additions to the local Stale school. The accommodation at the local school is now inadequate, and overcrowding in several of the rooms is a menace to the health of the children. These facts have been submitted to the Board months ago. Probably the Department is at fault in not having the matter attended to. Unless extra accommodation is secured, steps will have to be taken to hire a hall. The sunlit isles of the summer sea Gleamed gay in the waters blue ; But the heart ot the man was ill at ease. And his face of pallid hue ; But his soul revived when a boat arrived, With a cargo of life renevver; And he laughed like a boy—he was full of joy, When he’d taken Woods’ Peppermint Cure. The clothes oft proclaim the man, Heasman’s tailoring is the last word in style and finish. Select your suitings now for the festive season to save disappointment. A wide range of summer raaterail.* Wanted—The people of Foxton and the surrounding districts to know that A. de Luen, tailor, of Palmerston North, will call on anyone with samples upon the receipt of a postcard. Costumes from £4 4s. Suits fronr£a 10s.* On page 3 Walker and Fume tell of some reasons why they get the trade of the most discriminating people.* We are showing a splendid line of ladies “Equity” shoes, guaranteed quality, latest style. Betty’s Boot Emporium,*

The local shops will re-open at 6 o’clock this evening. Yesterday’s excursion trains throughout the Wellington district were well patronised. The launch “Taniora” is advertised to make two return trips to the Beach to-morrow. A number of Brethern assembled locally yesterday, and special meetings were held in the Gospel Hall. Yesterday Wellington celebrated its 75th Birthday. A gala day was held in Newtown Park, and old settlers foregathered. The rain which fell throughout this district yesterday afternoon was much appreciated by the farming community. The picture entertainments and other attractions were well patronised last night. Germany is delighted with the air raid on England. The raid has further stimulated recruiting in England. Among the visitors to the races yesterday was Mr W. H. Field M.P., and Mr W. T. Jennings M.P. and the veteran Mr John Stevens. Some very pretty millinery and dresses were to be seen at the races yesterday. When the rain commenced to fall, the fair sex stampeded for shelter. The death of Mr John Harris McCaw at the age of 80 is reported from Tauranga, where he had been for 50 years. Deceased was a Maori war veteran. Four members of the Territorial Forces were convicted at Wellington on Thursday of creating a melee and were banded over to the military authorities to be dealt with. For the purpose of fighting the I Duuedin' Central seat, unions { throughout the Dominion are being circularised to establish a fighting fund on behalf of Mr Munro (Social Democrat). The services in the PresbyterianChurch to-morrow will be conducted both morning and evening by the minister, Rev J. M, Thomson, M. A. The children's portion will be given in the morning as usual. The services in connection with the Methodist Church will be held to-morrow as follows : Foxton, 11 a.m, and 7 p.m., Rev Maslin ; Beach, 7 p.m., Mr Chrystall; Oroua Downs, 7.30 p.m., Mr Hamilton, During yesterday’s races, Mr Simpson, a Hawke’s Bay auctioneer, sold and re-sold a picture on behalf of the local Belgium Relief Fund Committee. The amount realised was in the vicinity of fifty pounds. It is probable that the picture will be again offered today. There was a babel of noises in Main Street on Thursday and last night. The shrill notes of cornets, clanging of symbals, and the booming of drums. These noises emanated from showmen eager to attract patronage to buckjumping and other exhibitions. Apart from this the two local picture shows attracted good audiences. German scientists, poets, philosophers, and artists of all kinds ; in fact, the whole of the country’s intellectual elite, have shown that they profess to believe their Fatherland to have been forced into war by unscrupulous enemies, but we are rather surprised to find the famous Haeckel among the false prophets. The conditions which he declares “necessary to ensure Germany’s future” are grandiose enough to satisfy the most ardent Pan-German. It is a melancholy termination to a long and honoured career. No living writer has brought scientific teaching more within the province of the masses, and no work of its kind has enjoyed a greater vogue iu our times than his “Riddle of the Universe.” That so great a rationalist should be found ready to talk of the necessity of freeing Germany “from the tyranny of England” is a striking sign of the mental confusion on the war prevailing in the German Empire. In Europe to-day the sun rises shortly after 8 o’clock, and sets at about 3 o’clock (points out the Melbourne Argus). The period of sunlight is thus hours or thereabouts, while we in the Antipodes are enjoying fourteen and three-quarter hours of sun daily. It is not easy to realise the conditions under which the armies are fighting. Such daylight as they have at this time ot the year is usually foggy. So thick are the fogs, especially in the region ot rivers, that searchlights are ot but little use against them. With the early night, too, comes the bitter cold, and the vigil in the trenches is long and comfortless. It is little wonder that slow progress is being made ; the armies have such a short period daily for effectual fighting, for very little can be done at night. Even were the roads favourable and there were no trenches to take, the pace must be like the snail’s. On a full summer’s day an army on the march can only deploy once. On a short winter’s day there is “nothing for it” but to hang on desperately and. try to gain a few yards at a time. In the Crimea and other long wars the soldiers went into winter quarters, and Germany would have liked to do that in this struggle. But it would not pay the Allies, who, to use Joffre’s words, must “fight and endure throughout the winter. The “promise of spring” means a great deal more to us than the poetic expression usually signifies. For Influenza take Woods” Great Peppermint Cure. Neves- fails, 1 /fir 2/6.