LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1447, 16 September 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The health of the Hon. J. A. Millar is reported as critical. The Young Men’s Club will meet at the Council Chambers this evening at 7.45 o’clock.

Another case of diphtheria is reported locally, which necessitated a visit from the District Health Officer to-day.

“Happiness Waltz" is the title of a composition by Mona Moore and published by the Bistol Piano Co., of Wellington, which sends us a copy. The waltz should command popularity. The Queen of the South and the Wakatu sailed for Wellington yesterday with hemp. The Queen of the South is due back at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning with a general cargo. The final ciibbage tournament between teams from the combined Druids’ and Oddfellows’ Lodges and the local railway employees will be played In Mr Perreau’s rooms to-night. Mr Perreau has kindly donated a box of cigars for the winning team. The Church of England has initiated a large building scheme in Christchurch in connection with their orphanages. Additions will he made to the homes both for their boys and girls at a cost approximately aggregating £15,000.

Senator Charles Humbert, In an article in the Matin, says : In the tenth month of this war we perceive that it is with the savants, engineers, and artisans, and not with its soldiers, that Germany wages the most redoubtable war. In acknowledging receipt of £23 16s from Mrs Fraser on behalf of the Foxton contributors towards the waistcoat fund, Mrs Luke and the Wellington Committee thank the Foxton contributors and state that they are practically certain now of being able to send the 5000 waistcoats, so all our men will have one. Foxton’s contribution was 99. At the. local police court yesterday afternoon, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., John William Prestliug was brought up on two charges of indecent assault against girls aged five and six years respectively. The charges were read out, and detective Quirke made formal application for a remand. Accused was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on Monday next.

An arrangement is under consideration, but not yet completed, by which Dr. Glantz, a German interned at Motuihi Island, will be exchanged for a British doctor now a prisoner of war in Germany. Dr. Glantz was one of the prisoners taken when the New Zealand Expeditionary Force captured Samoa.

The first pension under the new War Pensions Act was granted on Friday last, following on the enquiries necessary in such cases, and provided for in regulations. Up till Saturday morning the War Pensions Office had received four direct applications from men, who had suffered on active service, and about twenty from the dependents of the fallen. A Gore member of the forces now at Gallipoli writes ; "Your last letter mentioned the censoring of our letters. I don’t think that a great deal can have been cut out of mine. An Australian chaplain, who is acting as censor told us about a certain letter, stating that when it reached him it contained a detailed account of our voyage from Alexandria to here, but which, when it left him for Australia it read, ‘Dear Aggie, —Your loving Bill.’ ’’

From Gisborne comes news that, although up to the present official approval lias not been secured of the proposal to send Maori girls to Egypt to assist with the nursing of New Zealand wounded, the Natives are still moving in the matter. It is understood that Lady Caroll herself is anxious that if her services would be of value she should he allowed to accompany the draft of Native girls who are to proceed to Egypt.

"If a few of the people who are worrying how to help the war along could sit down and write a page to all their friends they would do more good than even sending socks. When a mall arrives everyone is happy and contented We tucker

very well, really, and have lots ot jam. Our daily ration is : Bully 120/-S, biscuits iqozs, bacon (good) 40Z, jam 40Z, pressed vegetables Soz, tea and sugar, rum twice weekly, 2oz tobacco weekly."— Extracts from the letter of a New Zealander at the front.

Farmers and flaxmill employees are recommended our new special waterproof boots. We guarantee them. R, T, Betty.*

Our grocery prices point the way to economy, for we have a reputation for quality and value which we maintain in every item we sell. Walker and Furrie. The economic housekeeper always finds her way to our store, for by dealing here she gets the “best” for her money in high quality groceries. Walker and Furrie.

Girdle scones and pikelets are all the rage. Perreau’s specialise in these lines.

Why give your children cold lunches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pic at Perreau’s for threepence.

A returned soldier on the Tahiti says: “A letter was a god send. If people in New Zealand only realised how welcome a letter was they would write to fellows whether they knew them or not. We used to read our letters over and over again, and sometimes swap with our friends for variety.” Ee Matin publishes a translation of an army order found among the papers of a German lieutenant, in which the Emperor Francis Joseph says: “Overwhelmed with grief, I order that; the 28th Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment shall be excluded from my army for cowardice and high treason in face of the enemy, and shall be struck off for all eternity from the list of Austrian regiments. Those of the officers and men of the regiment who remain will have to expiate this grievous fault with their blood.” The regiment in question is one of the Bohemian regiments which surrendered to the Russians.

Writing to one of the “Southland News” staff, a member of the forces in Gallipoli states : “We have four Japanese bnmhthrovvers with us now. They throw a 35th. bomb, with a secret Japanese explosive, a distance of 450 yards. They can land a bomb on a target a foot square from that distance, and the explosion Is reckoned to be equal to that of a 9.5 m shell —so they have something of an effect. They have the ruramiest explosion I ever heard. It’s exactly ‘whoof,’ and everything all around seems to be ripped up to nothing. It’s a lucky man that can sort out a whole Turk after one of these bombs has landed.”

A burning accident occuned at the Masonic Hotel, Nelson, on Sunday night by which a waitress sustained painful injuries. It ap pears (says the Colonist) that she went to a bathroom for the purpose of using a hair preparation containing kerosene, but inadvertently took up a bottle of benzine. She was bending over the bath to apply it when the fumes ignited from a candle, and in a moment her head was enveloped in flames. Her screams were heard by a guest, who, finding the bathroom door locked, burst it open, when the girl rushed out with her hair ablaze. He promptly seized her and smothered Ihe flames with a towel, alterwards, with the assistance of a constable and others, doing all that was possible in the way of first aid until the arrival of a doctor. The giri received nasty burns about the head and face.

When quality counts ! Our customers appreciate the high standard of our Groceries, combined with our low prices. Therefore, wise folk deal at Walker and Furrie’s.

The famous Roslyn Writing Pads obtainable from all stationers and storekeepers at 6d and Is each.*

Unlike cough mixtures, NAZOL goes direct to the seat of trouble and quickly soothes and relieves. No cold is Nazol-proof. Don’t leave the lightness and digestibility of your scones and cakes to chance. Use SHARLAND’S Baking Powder —it is bound In rise.