LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1380, 30 March 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In cider to Rive our stall the fall benefit of the Easter holidays, the HKRA.UJ will not be published ou Saturday next. Will advertisers please note/ 1 The farmers of North Taranaki decided at a public meeting held at Stratford to form a Co operative Freezing Company, with a capital of ,£IOO,OOO. The Ottawa Empire perpetrates the worst pun of the war. “General Goffre,” it says, “will Arras the Germans till they Argonne.” It Is a mercy it did not add: “They Verdun already.’’ A child named Raymond Euwright, fourteen months old, whose parents reside in Russel street, Pousouby, ate soap in a bathroom on Saturday, and despite medical attention died shortly afterwards.

A hermit sheep was shot last week on Cecil Peak Station, opposite Queenstown. The animal was a three-quarter bred four* year-old ram, its fleece being fully ibin long, and the tail, which taken as a trophy of the chase, a yard in extent.

Things often, in fact, are not what they may seem ; the hand may not grasp that on which the mind is intent. This truth will apply to the “catch-penny scheme your cash coupon is “value” when the penny is “spent.” Thomas Rimmer.

We are showing u splendid line of ladies “Equity” shoes, guaranteed quality, latest style. Betty’s Boot Emporium.* SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS' WHOLESALE CATOLOG. For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 3/6.

A patriotic flag sold at a concert in Masterton last Thursday realised the sum of ,£1,178. Messrs Ross acd Signal aud Mr C. H. Podraore, notify by advertisement that their blacksmithlug |sbops will be closed for the Easter Holidays, from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning. The Japanese Trade Commission, which has in view the opening up of an extensive interchange of commerce between this country and Japan, is expected to arrive in New Zealand at the end of the present month. The Oroua Freezing Company, with headquarters at Feilding, has instructed Mr L- G. James, architect, to prepare plaus for works capable of handling 1,500 sheep per day, and with a storage capacity of 60,000. The buildings are to be erected by day labour, starling within a fortnight. Some time ago it was announced by a lady’s outfitter in Gisborne that she intended giving the whole ot the profits ot her business for twelve months to the Belgian Relief Fund. Within three months she had £IOO to pass to the credit of the fund, and recently a second instalment ot £IOO was received. According to advices received by the Government Immigration Department, the number of immigrants aboard theR.M.S. lonic, due in Wellington from Loudon on Thursday next, is a good deal larger than has been the case with the last two or three passenger liners from Home. Included in the third-class passengers are about twenty domestic servants, Fred. Peterson, a chauffeur who was driving a party from Havelock on Sunday morning, collided with a bridge at Flat Creek. The occupants were thrown into the creek, and were not injured. Petersou, however, struck the railing of the bridge, aud sustained terrible internal injuries. He was removed to the hospital, where he succumbed. He was a married man, with a wife aud child. A pioneer settler of the Kaiwaiwal district passed away on Thursday, in the person of Mr Thomas Smith. The deceased had reached the great age of 93 years. He came to New Zealand in 1840, in the Duke of Roxburgh, in company with Mr W. O. Williams, the late Mrs Tocker aud Mr William Udy. He leaves two sons, two daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. The Foxtou ladies sewing guild is doing good work iu making up suitable garments for the poor of Great Britain aud Belgium. The secretary informs us that a box of goods will be ready to forward iu two or three weeks time. This morning a donation of £5 16s was received from the employees of the Poplar mill to be spent by the Guild iu purchasing garments. The Monthly Abstract of Statistics issued by the Government Statistician (Mr Malcolm Fraser) shows that the total exports during February, 1915, were valued at £4,001,213 as compared with ,£3,33°>3i0 for February, 1914, an increase of ,£670,903. For the first two mouths of 1915 the exports were valued at >£7,003,304, compared with ,£6,200,126 in 1914. There was a good attendance at the Army Hall last night when a social aud sale of gifts was held in conjunction with the harvest festival. The Borough Band enlivened proceedings aud a programme of vocal items was much appreciated. The gifts of farm produce, fruit aud vegetables were nicely displayed and were subsequently sold by Dutch auction. The function, socially and financially, was very successful.

When a man was lined ios in the Auckland Police Court for lighting in the bar ot a hotel he asked lor time during which to pay, saying that he had a wile and family to support. “It is astonishing how many fellows waste money in hotels and then, when they come before the Court, plead leniency because of their wives and children,” commented Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M. “They should think of their wives and families before going into hotels.”

Dr. T. Oshima, a Japanese doctor, who accompanied a Japanese Red Cross contingent to London, stated in the course of an interview in January : “Here you are taking a leading part in the greatest war the world has ever known, and vet you calmly go about your work and take your daily pleasure as if peace smiled upon the earth and you had no worries or troubles at all. For the first time in several centuries your peaceful coast towns are bombarded by the euemy, you are threatened with invasion, airships and aeroplanes drop bombs on your very hearths, and yet no man’s hair stands on end. It is wonderful—a revelation—this self possession of your people, and it inspires confidence. Such things cannot be possible in any other country in the world.”

Gentlemen! .Next time you require a “best hat,” buy the “R. & G.” make —it will style and comfort give vou. Apply local drapers.* It is quality that makes a bargain. This will be found in every pair of boots or shoes purchased at Retter Bros. Ladies, call and see the special line of 6dong welted sole shoes from 13s str. Boots and shoes of all makes and prices stocked. Don’t forget, we sell five tins of Nugget polish for is.* Walker and Furrie have an as sortment of cheeses of superior quality and invite the public to sample them.

The local State school attendance shield was won last week by Primer 11., with an average attendance 0f99.2 percent. The appointments of Mr William Tompsitt and Mr James M’Leavey as members of the Otaki Licensing Committee, are gazetted.

What’s the difference between a gaoler and a jeweller ? Just for curiosity sake, turn to O’Connor and Tydeman’s advertisement in this issue. The answer to the riddle will be a “good one” to spring on to your friends/ 14

Messrs R. L. (“Snowy”) Baker and George Redmond, newseditoro£ the Sydney Sun, and two others were motoring in Baker's car at Manly, when a tyre burst, flinging out the occupants. Redmond was killed and Baker was injured, and is in the hospital. The others were not seriously hurt. The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, arrived at 10.30 o'clock this morning. She will sail again to-morrow for Wellington with hemp. The Awahou with general from Wellington and the Queen of the South from Wellington also with general, are due on Saturday. Both vessels will sail on Saturday night for Weliuglou with hemp. At a meeting of creditors iu the estate of Walter Shaw, a bankrupt solid cor of Tiiuaru, some tenders of small amounts for assets were accepted aud others declined. The Deputy Official Assignee stated that claims against the estate had amounted to ,£63,000, but had been cut down to ,£SOOO or £6OOO. So far as he could see, the estate would pay about twopence in the pound. A creditor said that if they waited ten years lor realisations they might gel fourpence. Replying to a deputation which waited upon him at Gisborne, the Hon. Jus. Alien, Minister for Defence, said that an officer of the Defence Department was being instructed to ascertain the total amount that had been given iu New Zealand iu money aud goods to the Patriotic Fund, He was anxious to know the total value of donations in cash, equipment, and goods, and that information would be collected aud published so that all would kuow what New Zealand had done.

A plea of guilty was entered at the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, by Patrick Flynn to behaving in a violent manner in a railway carriage on the 13th inst. From the statement of the police it appeared that accused was in the Foxton train on the evening of Saturday, March 13th, and was struggling with another man. From the evidence they had, accused was the guilty person. A fine of £2 and costs 7s was inflicted. [The authorites are to be commended for taking steps to stamp out disgraceful scenes which occur on this train on Saturday evenings,—Eo.H.] It has been the practice in a " number of towns to close ness premises at Raster from the Thursday evening until the following Tuesday morning and this year a proposal was put forward that Foxton business people should do likewise. Several meetings were held to discuss the question and although a very large majority favoured the proposal it was eventually decided, as there was not unanimity on the subject, to open again 011 the Saturday, Consesequently “business as usual’’ on Saturday next as far as Foxton shops are concerned. The Teutonic morality is simply that what is advantageous for Germany is good, and what is to her disadvantage is evil, says the Loudon Express. That is to say, it is perfectly righteous to sink ships aud drown their crews if by so doing the British food supply could he jeopardised, as it is perfectly righteous to kill babies in Scarborough and widows in Yarmouth if by so doing the British nation can be terrorised. On the other baud, for Great Britain to use her sea power to prevent copper and other contraband from teaching German ports is an act ot the devil.

The Amsterdam Telegraph has recently quoted some remarkable passages from a letter written home by a wounded German soldier. This is what he says: “Those British paid dearly tor my wounds. I laid low three of them when I had approached the British trenches within 90yds. It was then that I received my wounds. My knapsack was pierced by four bullets. My poor neighbour’s eyes were pierced through ; and in that fight our wounded were numerous, I crept on all fours back to report to my superior. The whole fight of November nth was very bitter. The Guard took a number of British trenches and many prisoners; but usually we shoot down those scoundrels as much as possible, iu order not to take many prisioners.” Having just ianqea an up-to-date supply of catering utensils from England, Mr M. Perreau is now in a position to specialise in catering, which will be undertaken in any part of the district.* A few good hardware lines that were not selling as fast as their value' warranted have now been marked down to cost. They’re worth an inspection. Walker and Furrie. The sunlit isles ot 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 renewer; And he laughed like a boy —he was full of j‘oy, When he’d taken Woods’ Peppermint Cure. Perreau’s assorted]fruit pies ar§ delicious. Try them.*

For belting in a small way as a “side line” an Auckland wharf labourer was fined with costs, the minimum penalty for the offence.

There is an uprising in Italy, and mobs before the Austrian Embassy are yelling “down with Austria !”

The items supplied by Ebbett’s Orchestra at last night’s Army social, was keenly appreciated by those present. The bombardment of the Dardanelles has again commenced, and the guns of the Queen Elizabeth are battering the forts from the Gulf of Saros. An Amsterdam message says that the Germans fined Bruges twenty thousand sterling because schoolboys tarred the German flag.

It is rumoured that owing to the lack of unanimity among members of the local holiday association over the Foster closing question several members intend to resign. There was a stormy meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday, over the proposal to purchase a dairy farm for the purpose of supplying the institution with pure milk. Dr, McKenzie resigned from the Board after an angry scene.

The Chairman of the local Slate school committee has been advised by the Board secretary that the Board’s foreman has been instructed to carry out the necessary alterations to the school building with a view to improving the ventilation.

The famous Cberniavsky trio of musicians appeared before a small but delighted and enthusiastic audience in the Town Hall last night. It would be difficult to express the effect such marvellous music had upon the individual members of the audience, except to say that it was a feast of the soul. The compositions of inspired men were interpreted by an affinity, and those present were lifted for the time at least from the gross and material to the sublime. Foxtou's appreciation of the visit cf these artists was disappointing, but the trio gave those present of their best, and the performance will long remain as a pleasant memory. The National airs of the Allies’ stirred the patriotism of the audience to its fullest depths. We regret that the patronage was so disappointing because it will prejudice future visits of first-class artists.

An unusual case was heard at the Kimboltou Court recently, when Herbert Yeldham was charged with practising as a medical practitioner without being registered as required by the Medical Act. Mr Mclntyre, of Feildiug, appeared for defendant, while the prosecution was conducted by Sergeant Willis. Defendant stated that he had been practising at Whangamomona, in the Taranaki district, until about eighteen months ago, when he was engaged by the Apiti Chamber of Commerce. The defendant contended that when he applied for the position he stated that he was not registered, but apparently this was overlooked at the time. He showed that he had had fifteen years’ practice, and had good testimonials. Evidence was given by two residents of Apiti that the defendant’s treatment of their respective cases was quite satisfactory. Counsel for defendant submitted that, though unregistered practitioners had certain restrictions placed upon them, there was no law to prevent them practising so long as they did not. by advertising or any other similar means, create the impression that they were registered. There was no evidence that the delendaut had ever stated that be was a registered practitioner. Mr Poynton, S M., who presided, reserved his decision.

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