LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1450, 23 September 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Norman Hunger has been temporarily appointed sixth assistant at the local State school, and will take up his dudes on Friday, October ist.

On Tuesday George Lovegrove, a married man, was found dead on a cliff near Fort Cautley, with a gunshot wound on the temple and a revolver with one chamber discharged alongside the body. l,ovegrove was 45 years ol age and resided in the Mt. Eden district.

In regard to the National Registration Bill, which will come up for discussion In the House at an early date, it is anticipated that exception will probably lie taken by several members to the clause which asks, in effect, the question : “If you are not prepared to serve in any capacity, what is your reason for refusing It is confidently expected says a Parliamentary coirespondent that, in consequence of the strong opinion expressed during the financial debate, the taxation proposals in regard to alcoholic liquors will be altered, in the direction of an increase in the duty on beer at any rate. It is also likely that there will be a modification of the proposals regarding a tax on mineral oil.

At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., John Kinley was charged by the police with drunkenness and pleaded guilty. Constable Woods stated that, substantial tines had been indicted recently upon the accused by the Magistrate for drunkenness. The justice said that it appeared that Kinley was setting the law at defiance. The cause of all his trouble was drink, and prohibition orders did not prevent his imbibing. In view of more serious charges pending Kinley would be fined .jos, or in default .|8 hours imprisonment. “Go out and conquer,” said Sir James Carroll to the second Maori Contingent at Wellingon on Saturday, “ and, it need he, die. lint never come back defeated. It is splendid to think that the Maori and the pakeha, who had done no real fighting for four generations, meeting a magnificent lighting machine equipped to dominate the world, have shown, as soon as they have got to grips, that the spiiit of their forefathers lives again in them.” Sir James’ speech stirred the Maoris greatly, and they frequently broke in with thunderous hakas, in which some of the soldiers joined, with strange wailing war chants. Bad colds and NAZOL cannot exist together, Test this commonsense and certain treatment. Children like it. Sixty doses cost eighteenpence.

Household Hints These hard times make the need for economising an important point in ever/ household, and housewives should study their own interests by dealing at Walker and Furrie’s. “The store that saves you money.” There’s a money-saving reason why every housewife should use SHARLAND’S Baking Powder. Costs less than others—worth more.

SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS’ WHOLESALE CATOLOG. A sensible precaution m changeable weather is to take NAZOL. Use the Nazol Inhaler for best results. At all chemists. ‘•Good health is the best friend you have in the world,” and by getting your Groceries and Provisions from Walker and Furrie’s you are assured of the purest and bestgrade groceries, which is assuredly the first step to good health.

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The widows of the three Chinamen who died from gas poisoning in Wellington are suing the Gas Company for ,£IOOO each. The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held before Mr J. W. Poynton S.M, to-morrow. The secretary of the local howling clnh has received invitations foi members to lie present at the opening of the Palmerston green on October 6th, and the Terrace End green on October 13th. Three employees of the Public Works Department, Joseph Holmes, Ambrose liuline and Richard Vince, were each fined the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday for conveying liquor to the Trentham camp. Loudonfreports that Jack Johnson was lined 20s lor furious dtiving while visiting the wounded at Colchester. When trapped, he said to the policeman, “Von fellows ought to lie out at the Iroiil instead ot Interfering with us who are helping your people.” The prolonged desperation ot ihe struggle at Gallipoli is due to the lact that in that confined area Ihe lata of South-Eastern Europe is being decided and it is more than probable that the fate of South-eastern Europe will be the cine to the final issue ot the war, says the Auckland Herald. "Prepare to live and you will he prepared to die,” said Rev R. G. Callison, addressing a large congregation in the tabernacle of the Oregon Christiana Church convention. As he spoke, he sank to the floor of the pulpit and died within a lew seconds. Death was due to apoplexy, Callison was prominently known in Oregon. London reports that three men attempted on Saturday to rifle the grave ot the caretaker of Llanly silliu Hall, who died a century ago, to ascertain whether the coffin contained a will establishing a claimant’s right to the Pritchard millions. The same grave was unsuccessfully searched fifty years ago. There are -three hundred claimants to the Pritchard millions. Yesterday Mrs Harris, ol Cook Street, received telegrams Irotn the Prime Minister and Minister lor Defence, conveying the sad intelligence that her son, Private John Henry Harris, a member of the third reinforcements, died of sunstroke at Zeiluun, Kgypt, on September 15th. Private Harris was wounded on July 27th and his name subsequently appeared among those who had returned to the front. Yesterday a number of members of the local howling club formed a “working bee” and put in the afternoon cutting and rolling the green and croquet lawns and generally improving the appearance of the grounds. The official opening will lake place about the middle of next month when it is anticipated that the green and lawns will be in tip-top condition. It is intended to have another “bee” at work next Wednesday afternoon. The public welcome to the second Maori Contingent in the Town Hall at Wellington on Saturday ended with hakas and songs. The contingent’s war song, sung in the big hall by 400 tuneful voices, made a tremendous impression, and an encore was demanded, then, from somewhere came an insistant call, “Ko mate, ko mate,” and, in an instant, every khaki-clad man was on his feet, his rifle held as Ids forefathers held the spear, and the haka that puzzled and terrified the Turks in Gallipoli trenches filled the huge hall with its clamour. At Hie Auckland Police Court, S. Maekay, clothier, was charged that lie incurred a debt of ,£SO when be could have had no reasonable or probable expectation ot being able to pay. He was sentenced to one mouth in prison without hard labour. Mr b'razer, S.M., said he had no doubt defendant intended to be honest, but the law protected the commercial community from rash optimism that gambled on the mere chance of getting out of difficulties instead of putting Ihe position clearly before creditors. The Union Company's steamer Marama has been chosen as the second hospital ship irom New Zealand for service in the Mediterreanean or elsewhere. The ship will lie ready to sail about the first week in December. The Minister for Defence says the Government will bear the cost of hire, and charier and fitting up, and also of the bedsteads. His Excellency the Governor will do very much what he had done in the case of the Maheno, that was to say, he would attend to the equipment ot the Marama out of the moneys available. With SHARLAND’S Baking Powder in the dough, good results are certain. That’s why busy housewives always use Sharland’s. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS’ WHOLESALE CATOLOG. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and the only proof you can obtain of our high qualities and tip-top values is by dealing with the “store that treats you well” —Walker and Furrie’s. Why give your children cold lunches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pie at Perreau’s for threepence. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/6. BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG; IT’S FREE. Girdle scones and pikelets arc all the rage. Perreau’s specialise in these lines,

The Foxton Girls’ Guild are at work on articles ot equipment for the second New Zealand Hospital Ship. The Awahou with general from Wellington arrived this morning. She will sail again without cargo lor Wellington to-night. Mrs Fraser desires to acknowledge 3s each from the Misses Maroni (21 and Miss Rough for the waistcoat fund. This brings the total number of waiscoats supplied by Foxton up to 102. Mr and Mrs Frank Robinson have received official notification to the effect that their son Frank is missing, but that “there is every hope.” Mrs J. H. Robinson has been notified that her son Roy is ill at Malta. Mr Geo. Stephenson, under whose management the “Fun on Bristol” Company, which appear at the Town Hail to-night, is louring New Zealand, has arranged to include Foxton in the tour of his “Mother Goose” Pantomime Company. This company will appear here in December. The local tennis courts were officially opened yesterday alternoun. The opening ceremony was performed by the president of the club (Mr A. Fraser) who in declaring the courts open, referred to the loss in male membership sustained In the clnh through members joining the Expeditionary Force, and said that consequently this year they looked particularly to the ladies for the success of the season’s operations. There was a good attendance ot members, and the public was also well represented. Afternoon tea was supplied by lady members. After the opening a very pleasant afternoon was spent on the courts. For Chrome Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 1/6, 2/6 BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG IT’S FREE.