LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1388, 20 April 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

$ Harvest-thanksgiving services were held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The services were appropriate to the occasion. A young fellow in a certain district received per post a white feather from some young lady friends, as a hint that he should serve his country. He mistook the meaning of the emblem, and pinned it in his buttonhole. When informed of its symbolical meaning, he curtailed his walks abroad. A head-on train collision took place at Binabong on Saturday, when the Melbourne express collided with the Timora mail. The engines were derailed and four carriages damaged. Seventeen persons were Injured, one fatally, Mr Robert Thomas, of Temora. Included among the injured were a party of Federal legislators. 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 Fume.

Lord Rothschild's estate has been provisionally sworn at ,£2,500,000. The body of a man killed on the railway at Paekakariki on Friday last has been identified as that of Charles Thomas Boulton, a well known settler at Pahautanui.

A big deal in potatoes took place here the other day, says the Hnnterville Express. A Paraekaretu grower sold the whole of his crop—400 tons—at ,£4 xos a ton. The payability of potato growing may be appreciated when it is stated that the crop returned over £6O an acre.

The Berliner Tageblatt publishes, without comment, a warm tribute from a returned German to tbe kindness with which the Germans in England are treated. He says there is no hatred there against Germans, while the great hatred by Germany against England is incomprehensible in England. On Saturday, at Wellington Supreme Court, a youug man, Charles Edmunds, ou a charge of setting fite to an hotel at Ngahauranga, was sentenced to six months, and James Farquhar, ou charges of forgery and false pretences, to six months and two years’ reformative treatment. Though a large number of the recruits who sign on proceed to the front, there are still some who tail at the last moment. “Please strike my name off tbe list,” recently wrote a recruit. “I am unable to leave owing to my wife objecting. This is a contingency 1 did not anticipate, though I really think that I should have had a quieter lime with the Germans than staying behind with the missus and the kids.’’

By Gazette notice it is announced that the shooting season for imported and native game in the Wellington acclimatisation district opens on May xst. The native game that may be killed are grey duck, black swan and teal, and the maximum bag tor one gun Is 25 head in all. The notice also prescribes areas in which imported and native game may not be killed. The license fee for the shooting of imported game is £l. With his briefs, the barrister changes colour like a chameleon. Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., caused some amusement in the full court by relating that he was now engaged in arguing the exact opposite to what he did some years ago, in the case in which the question of the conclusiveuess of electoral rolls first cropped up in this country. On that occasion, he explained, he was covering the ground taken by Sir John Findlay, K.C., while Mr Bell was launching against him contentions which he himself now had to adopt. As a joker, Mr F. M. B. Fisher, ex-M.P., had few equals in Parliament, and from that point of view will be a great loss to the House. “Roddy” McKenzie, exmember for Motueka, was his special butt. “Fisher flutin’ again,” ejaculated he of the raucous voice one day in the course of a little pleasantry. With his proverbial readiness, Fisher retorted : “I’d rather have a voice like a flute than one more akin to the tearing of linoleum.” The House roared, but “Roddy” couldn’t see the joke.

Miss May Alison, of Camilla, has been appointed “manager of lazy husbands” by the Los Angeles County supervisors. Her official title is “Fiscal Representative of the Failure to Provide Court.” Miss Alison’s duties consist of “managing” the husbands sentenced to the chain gang so that their work will be sufficiently productive to support their families ; supervising husbands on probation in a similar manner; advising women whose husbands are not financing the home, and handling the wages of the chain gang husbands for the benefit of their wives.

There was a large audience at the Royal on Saturday evening, when an excellent programme of pictures were screened. The star item was a magnificent Nordlsk production entitled, “The Soul’s Awakening,” and it was a highly graphic picture of modern life, which held the close attention of the audience throughout. Another item of exceptional merit was a 3,000 feet production by the K.E. Company, namely, “ Man's Enemy.” This picture dealt mainly with the evils of the liquor traffic, and showed the misery that is caused by this great evil. The conclusion of this picture was greeted with applause. The supporting films comprised topical, comic and dramatic subjects of a high standard.

No, 2 Battery with the New Zealand force in Egypt, which is comprised of Auckland and Hamilton boys, has earned a reputation for smartness and efficiency. In a letter to his parents in Hamilton, a member of the battery states that they are doing a lot of live shell firing, and No. 2 holds the record for coming into action, their time with the gun rea^yJ°r firing being forty seconds. The time of the best Australian battery is fifty-five seconds. The best English time for carrying out the operation is fifty seconds. Major Francis Bernard Sykes, the officer in charge of No. 2 Battery, the writer states, was sent for, and offered any battery be chose, bu replied that he was content with the New Zealand No. 2 Battery. A sou of Mr Percy Darnells, of the Beach, is an officer connected with this crack battery. SEE CHEAP PATES, FRONT PAGES laidlaw leed - WHOLESALE CATOLOG.

A reliable pony and gig is advertised lor sale. It is stated that a settler in the Eketahuna district this season netted from bis oat crop. According to the local paper the visiting bowlers at the Easter tournament at Cambridge spent close on £IOOO in Cambridge during their stay. A lad named Bowman, aged about seventeen, had his right arm almost severed below the elbow by a circular saw at the Wanganui Sash and Door Factory yesterday. Mr C. Bowe, son of Mr and Mrs T. Bowe, of Moutoa, has volunteered for service abroad, and went into camp at Trentham to-day.

There were some sixteen or eighteen big motor cars in Maneiia on Wednesday morning, the property chiefly of Maori landlords and aristocrats —the idle rich of New Zealand, —Witness.

Mr Monel Walsh, who plays Joe Carson in “Within the Law,” is a native of New Zealand, and was for some years stage manager and producer for the firm of Clarke aad Meyndl. The body of Trevor Marfell, a well-known young farmer, who had been missing since Friday, was found in a creek near Whangaruomona on Sunday. There were indications that bis horse had slipped, and that the man fell forty feet into a creek.

Dr. G. J. Adams, late of Foxton, who is at present in England, has joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He has been given a commission, and is attached to the Sixteenth Royal Scots, and will leave for the front next mouth. British-built and rivetted carriage lamps at a freight-paid prices are advertised by Collinson and Son of Palmerston North. A picture is given showing the exact lamp, and the value is good. Ballbearing horse dippeas at 40s are also featured. See page 3. The Kennedy sailed at 10.30 o’clock yesterday morning for Motueka, and the Waverley at 11 o'clock lor Pupouga. The yueen of the South with general from Wellington is due to morrow, and the Awahou is expected on Thursday from Wanganui to load cattle for the West Coast.

An Italian war correspondent describes how Mr Churchill proceeded with the naval brigade to Antwerp. “Smilingly smoking a big cigar under shell-fire, he looked quite satisfied.” He had made this effort, after an interview with King Albert, to show that England would not abandon the last defence of Belgium. “ The naval men fought marvellously.”

In the office of Wliitauuui Eimited, Mr Selby has a most interesting collection of fibres which are well worthy of the inspection of those interested in the subject. The collection comprises Migney hemp from the Philippines, Manila hemp, jute, sisal hemp from Borneo, Mexican sisal, saureviera from Central Africa, Mauritius hemp, German East Africa sisal, and British East Africa sisal.

Mr Theo. Boase, representive of the “ Within the Law” Company visited Foxton to-day, and made arrangement for the appearance of the company at Foxton, on the 27th inst. Mr Boase states that the company has met with splendid success throughout the Dominion. Foxton is to be congratulated upon being included in the company's tour, and will no doubt appreciate it:; appearance with a bumper house.

For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/6. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS’ WHOLESALE CATOLOG.

For Children’s Hacking Gough ai night, Woods’ Great Peppermin' Cure, 1/6, 2/6.

The tamous Roslyn Writing Pads obtainable from all stationers and storekeepers at 6d and is each.* Walker and Furrie have an as sortment of cheeses of superior quality and invite the public to sample them, A well assorted supply of English and colonial confectionery at Perreau’s.*