LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1440, 26 August 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Foxton Bowling Club is advertised to be held in the Corona*’ tion Hall supper-room on Monday evening next, at S o’clock. The local Borough Band has notified the local Horticultural Society that it will be pleased to play selections on the occasion of the Bulb Show to be held on Thursday, Sept, 2nd. The society desires to publicly acknowledge the band’s assistance in this connection. Included in the Trentham Regiment; in camp at Rangiotu is Sergeant Massey, son of the Prime Minister. Sergl. Massey is a barrister and solicitor, and was in practice in Auckland. He gave up his business and joined the forces as a private, receiving promotion recently. Three more men were charged before Mr Cooper, S.M., at Wellington with taking liquor into Trentham Camp. Kach was fined or two mouths’, the Magistrate remarking that apparently £S fines have no deterrent effect. He refused time for payment of the fines.

The Mayor is in receipt of a copy of the outline of the scheme for the administration of the War Relief Fund as finally settled by Mr Skerrett, incorporating the suggestions of the conference lately held in Wellington. A further conference will be held in Wellington on September 15th, when it is hoped that the scheme will be finally approved. BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG IT’S FREE. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, l/o, 2-10, Heaseman, Foxton’s Premier Tailor, specialises in gents, riding breeches. Inspect my stock of English and Colonial suitings. Fit, style and workmanship guaranteed.*

An impoitant meeting of I members and adherents of the I local Presbyterian Church will be I held at 8 o’clock this evening to I consider a call to the Rev Mr I Bredin. The Rev. G. Budd.ofl Feildlng, will preside. I The Borough Band will play I several selections outside the I Coronation Hall to-night, prior to I the commencement of the enter- 1 tainment, to be held under the! auspices of the Girls’ Guild. j There was only a moderate® attendance at the lecture given by® Mr Foston in the Town Hall on® Tuesday night. Those present® expressed disappointment at the® subject matter of the lecture, ® while the slides had very little I bearing upon the war. ! It should be hardly necessary to! remind the public of the picture! entertainment to be given in the! Town Hall this evening in aid of I Girls' Guild funds, Tickets have I gone off well and a good house is I assured. In the first portion oil the programme several vocal items! will be given by well known® perlormers. I The Wellington master baker® have decided to lower the price oil bread from 5d for the 2111 loaf tcfl 4Vsd Irora Saturday next. Shops® which have been selling over thel counter will sell for .pi. The U wholesale price of butter in Wei- I lington has been reduced a further I 2d per pound. It is now sold I retail at is $d per pound for I standard brands. I The local public who visit thel Town Hall on Saturday night are I to be accorded a huge treat, when! the famous topical picture, depict-i ing the bombardment of the Dar-1 dandles, will be screened. Thel film faithfully portrays the actual! bombardment, and discloses ex ! citing and thrilling incidents. To! avoid disappointment, intending! patrons are advised to book early® at Mrs Teviotdale's, as the circl® is filling rapidly. ® The coming Horticultural I Society’s Bulb show promises to I be very successful this yaar, as I the blooms give promise of I readiness for next Thursday’s! display. The society fixed thel date for the show a little earlier | this year in anticipation of an | early spring, and it appears that j such prognostication is justified. I In order to give exhibitors, whose! blooms are a little behind, anl opportunity of showing, entries! will be extended to night l?efore| the show and late entries up tol 10 o’clock on morning of show.J Kntry forms and catalogues may" be obtained from the secretary, j Mr H. C. Patterson. At a play held in Feilding this | week, says the Star, the orchestra 1 opened with the Russian National i Anthem. The large audience immediately rose. But after giving about a bar and a half ot this hymn, which describes God as the All Terrible, the orchestra glided on to the Marsellaise, which ignores God altogether. The sons of France were urged to march on to glory, but without adding that freedom called them, the orchestra rushed the British Grenadier into the musical medley about the girl he left behind him, the audience, though beginning to look silly at itself for remaining on its feet, did not sit down. But when Paddy got excited and shouted it was a long way to some place or other, the members of the audience “took a tumble,’’and went down kerflop like skittles. Sapper W. F. Kent-Johnston, in a recent letter to bis parents, writing from Gallipoli, inter alia states -“We arc quite ready for the Turks if they come at the Chlorine gag ; they couldn’t use it where we are anyway for there are too many gullies which would cause cross winds and blow it back upon themselves. Here is an • example typical of an Australian. , Soon after we got well established. ’ a man supposed to be with the horses, bolted from his ship and walked up into the front trenches ’ where a hot fight was in progress. Olliers had their heads down, but * in full marching order, blankets etc,, tied on, and ride coolly slung 1 over bis shoulder, lie stood bob. : upright, with bullets win./ing ad round him. It’s a wonder he was 1 not killed. The an officer came up to deal with him, but he got i-a first saying, "Is this a Manky . private brawl or can any blighter , 'ave a go ? ’ Not bad, was it, t No news this trip. A tew more , 'Jack Johnson's' landed the oilier , day rather close but not enough, to scare one ; they killed a eh.oese ut the supply depot, that’s all.