LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1381, 1 April 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In older to give our staff the full benefit of the Easter holidays, the Herald will not be published on Saturday next.

It is notified by advertisement that the tram will not run on Good Friday or Easter Monday. As from Monday next, Fuller’s pictures will be shown every night in the Town Hall,

Mr Malcolm Ross has been appointed official correspondent with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces.

The Rev Father DeLach, who has been lying seriously ill at Hastings, is now out ot danger, and on the high road to recovery.

In accordance with the rules of Synod the offertories at the Anglican Church on Sunday will be handed over to the vicar.

Some hoys at Himatangi weie caught recently breaking the insulators on the telegraph poles. Their names have been handed to the local postmaster. The continuous telephone service comes into operation In Feilding from to day. Foxton requires a few subscribers to enable us to have an 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. service.

On Easter Monday a rifle shooting competition under the auspices of the local Rifle Club will be held, commencing at 10 a.m., for which several trophies have been donated, A resident invited a friend to inspect a well-loaded apple tree iu his orchard last Sunday, but to his surprise the tree had been stripped the night before. The weight ot the stolen fruit was about two hundredweight. The local Rifle Club intend installing telephone communication on the range from the butts to the different ranges, the instruments for which have been kindly donated by Mr E. Barber, of Wellington. The services in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday next will be conducted morning and evening by the minister, Rev. J. M. Thompson, M.A. The service ot praise and sermons will be appropriate to the day. The Sabbath school will be held as usual iu the afternoon. “What is the difference between wages and salary?” asked Dr. F. Wallace McKenzie at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. ‘T don’t know,” said the Chairman. “It has been said that a wage is £$ and a salary ,£6.” Dr. McKenzie: “I suppose he is an aristocrat who receives a salary.” (Laughter). In the December quarter of 1914 there was a decrease in the number of criminal cases taken before the Magistrate’s Courts of the Dominion as compared with the cases taken in the December quarter ot 1913. In the three months of 1913 there were 11,832 cases, and in the 1914 quarter 11,149 cases. On the civil side there was an increase iu the amount of litigation referred to the magistrates.

A daughter of Mr William Adam, jam, farmer of Otokia, Otago, was found drowned in a water-hole shortly before 6 o’clock on Tuesday night. It seems that the child, who was two and a half years of age, strayed from the house while Unliking was in progress, and fell into the hole, being found drowned twenty minutes after she was last seen about the house. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.

On Good Friday, and April, the local post office and telephone exchange will be closed. The telegraph office will open from 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m, only. All mails close 8 p.m. on the rst. On Monday, sth, the post office will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. only in all branches except M. 0. and S. B. There will be no delivery by letter carriers. A delivery will be made over the counter on Saturday, 3rd, between 7 and 8 p.m. Telegraph office open from y to 10 a.m. and 7to 8 p.m. Telephone exchange closed. All mails for the day will close at S p.m. Sunday.

The following is all interesting extract from the Wellington Inspector’s annual report on the district schools:—ln composition we have uo fault to find as to lack ot matter or freedom of expression. The vocabulary of the average pupil is still more restricted, however, tbau might reasonably be expected from the amount of general reading which is done nowadays. This poverty ot vocabulary is to blame for such faults as the misuse of the unfortunate words “get” and “ got.” The following sentences, for instance, collected from the composition exercises of a single school are examples of this failing : —“ Alter dinner I ‘get’ cleaned,” “Charles I ‘ got ’ executed.” ‘ “I’ve ‘ got ’ a shilling in my pocket.” “ I ‘ got ’ to school late.” “I’ve‘got’ to milk ten cows.” “ The children ‘got’ tired of playing.” “ When we ‘ got ’ to Auckland we ‘ got' our luggage together and ‘ got ’ off the traiu.”

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Having just landed 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 child’s push cart is advertised for sale.

The Victorian Cabinet has decided to facilitate the consideration of the Totalisator Bill. Labour is assured of a majority of sis as Ihe result of the South Australian Parliamentary elections. With this issue is circulated an inset drawing attention to a sale of drapery by Messrs Smith’s, in premises nest Perreau’s buildings. During the past few days several trucks ot horses for remount purposes have been sent from Palmerston to the reinforcement camp at Treutham.

The following are Foxton’s vital statistics for the month of March and the quarter ending March 3rst: March—Births 3, deaths 3, marriages 2 ; quarter ; Births 19, deaths 5, marriages 4.

During the month of March rain tell locally on thirteen days, the maximum fall being on the 10th when 1.04 was registered. The total for the mouth was 3.40. In the same mouth last year the total was ,So.

Alexander Seabright Allison, a single man, aged twenty-eight, a share milker of Hawera, was killed by a fall of earth on Tuesday afternoon while excavating iu a gully.

There has been a very firm tone iu the stock market in the Masterton district during the past week, and in some instances record pri:es have been obtained. Ewes have tjiiched 30s and 335. per head.

A Sydney cable states that owing to the continued increase in the price of butter, it is suggested that the Federal Government suspend the import duty and enable New Zealand butter to be placed on the Australian market.

Operations *in the Dardanelles have been chiefly confined to mine sweeping. General Liman von Sanders is in command ot the Turkish forces, Russian ships in the Bosphorous a:e shelling the Turkish positions from a distance of eleven miles.

The Queen of the South sailed at nine o’clock last night for Wellington with hemp. She is due back to-morrow morning with general. The Avvahou from Lyttelton via Wellington with general is also due to-morrow morning. Both vessels will sail on Saturday night for Wellington with hemp. In the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday Leslie William Simons, charged with forgery and uttering at Aratapu, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment; George Reginald Bennett, for breaking and entering, to two years’ imprisonment, to be concurrent with the seutauce he is now serving.

Private advice has been received in Christchurch of the death of Major Robertson, 4th Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, He" was a brother of Mr R. M. Robertson, of the Bank of New Zealand in Christchurch, and of Mr J. M. Robertson, of the Napier staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. The Masterton Age, referring to Mr P. McHardy’s splendid donation to the Belgian Fund, says it is a worthy example for others to follow. Continuing, our contemporary says: “While many settlers have given spontaneously and liberally towards the Belgian and Allied Relief Fund, there are not a few who have made no response whatever. These offer various excuses, the most common being that the State will ultimately impose a substantial war tax upon the producers. While we do not regard this as sufficient, in view of the liberal contributions of other settlers, we consider it a good reason for the Government taking effective measures to apply an increased income tax upon those who have beneiilted by the war.”

The first session of the new Parliament will be opeded, probably, towards the end of June as usual. A suggestion has been made that the Government might be inclined to summon members to an early consideration of the national affairs, but it is more probable that the opening of Parliament will be delayed until the representation of districts, still in dispute, has been decided. Several technical questions raised during the trial of the various election petitions have been referred to the Full Court, which has decided to hear argument upon them on April rath. After the court has given its full judgment, the trial of the petitions has to be concluded, so that it will probably be the end of April before the Election Courts give their verdicts. It is not unlikely that one or more by-elections will be necessary, so that a final determination in the matter will not be reached until the end of May.