LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1452, 28 September 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

John Kinley, who has been twice before the Palmerston Police Court during the past week and twice before the local court for drunkenness and breaches of his prohibition order, made still another appearance at the Palmerston Court on Saturday, charged with committing similar offences at Shannon. Mr J. W. Poyulon, S.M., convicted and sentenced defendant to three months’ imprisonment.

The management of Fuller’s Pictures announce that the services of Bugler Bolton, of Rangiotu Camp, the well-known comedian who scored such a great success on his appearance at the Town Hall at the Regimental Band Concert, have been secured for Saturday’s matinee and evening performance. Bugler Bolton will give a number of items at both performances which will no doubt he responsible for bumper houses on each occasion.

1 cannot sing the old sweet songs, Which I should sing to-night; I’ve lost my voice, and have no choice, Because of bronchial blight; hut very soon I’ll be in tune, And sing them ail, be sure ; I’ll change my moans to dulcet tones With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 3

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

The Feilding Bowling Club's green will be officially opened on Saturday afternoon.

The friends of Mrs Furrie will regret to learn that she is again seriously indisposed.

Miss M. Collins of the local State school staff, underwent an operation lor appendicitis in the district hospital yesterday. .She is making satisfactory progress.

There has been a scarcity of fish, excepting kawhai, at the mouth of the Manawatu river during the past month. There has also been a scarcity of whitebait.

Passengers by the Arawa from London .at Wellington on Saturday included a party of 37 domestic servants. They were described try one of the Immigration officials as ‘‘a fine healthy body of women."

The majority of the local sports who attended the Otaki races yesletdaj ate reported to have had a good day, and as a result a fair amount ot “foreign capital” was brought into Foxton last night.

Two local resMc-nts who wete interrupted whilst engaged in a fustic combat in Clyde Street on Saturday night will he invited to explain matters at the local police court next Monday morning. Yesterday was Dominion Day. Right years ago New Zealand was first declared a Dominion. At the local State School the day was celebrated by appropriate lessons, the flag sainted and the National Anthem snug and cheers given for King, Rmpire, and Onr Soldiers at the Front; after which the children were dismissed. A welcome social was to have been tendered to the Rev J. 11. Bredin by the Tiakitahnna Presbyterians last: night, but out of respect to the memory of Miss Passey, the function was postponed until a later date.

Mr Hawke, local postmaster, asks ns to Inform the public that lie has received the new issue of 1 Rid stamps, also an issue of Rid war stamps. We are also asked to again remind the public that letters not carrying the extra Rid postage will be surcharged double deficiency upon delivery. The local Ladies’ Guild invite the Foxton ladies to provide cakes (slab cake preferred) for the men in tha Rangiotu camp. The cakes will be distributed among the men in camp on Sunday next. The gifts are to be sent to the Connell Chamber next Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. A schoolboy named William Henry Hopcroft was killed at Pigeon Bush, near Featherstou, while alighting from the train. At the inquest the following rider was added : “That the Railway Department be urged to issue instructions calculated to ensure the safety of school children travelling to and from schools on trains.

A few weeks since, the Council reduced the price of gas, and decided to sell gas cookers to the public at practically cost price, tn another column will be tonnd an announcement which will be of great interest to all housewives. The price of gas has been brought so low, and the cookers being placed in at such easy terms, there should not be a single cooker left over from the first consignment to arrive shortly. An advertiser who uses space in a widely circulated daily newspaper, filling that space with salesmanship copy, sets in motion a powerful selling force which no other form of advertising can give. If the space is judiciously used, interest in the goods will be awakened and a demand created for them that will swell the sales to greatly increased volume. New business is the red blood that newspaper advertising supplies—without; it. no business will thrive and grow as it should.

William Keith and Samuel White, charged with attempted breaking and entering at Rltham, were brought before the Chief Justice at Wellington lor sentence. Counsel for White said prisoner had a mania for tunnelling, he was subject to epiletic fits and was in poor health. His Honour said the proper couise was to send both men away to some place where they could get open air treatment. He would recommend that While be sent to a tree-planting camp at Waipa and Keith to Kaingaroa. Sentence would be two years’ Imprisonment in each case.

The soldiers in the ranks at Rangiotu include many well educated and professional men, and members of well-known families. One of the first to greet the Parliamentary party which visited the camp on Sunday was the Prime Minister’s son, lately a solicitor practising in Auckland, now Sergeant Massey. Another member of the party, Mr L. M. Isitt, was met by his son, a sturdy young sergeant; and yet other members of the regiment are sons of the Hon. S. Thorne George and Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P. In one small section, when the regiment was first formed, there were two privates with the degree of M.A. and another with LL.B.

Bad colds and NAZOL cannot exist together, Test this commonsense and certain treatment. Children like it. Sixty doses cost eighteenpence.

‘’Good health is the best 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.

We are showing a splendid line of ladies “Equity” shoes, guaranteed quality, latest style. Betty S Boot Emporium.*

Advertiser wishes In purchase, for cash, an old iron tank.

Mr H. R. Huntley who recently rejoined the New Zealand Police Force has been appointed to Napier, taking up his duties there on the first proximo. At Wanganui on Saturday the sum of ,£23,773 passed through the totalisator, as against ,£21,01.5 last year, making a total of h* r the. meeting ; an increase of /5056. Thomas Owens, a native of Tasmania, and a labourer, suicided by takingpoison at Grove’s boardinghouse, Kawhia, He wrote on a looking glass with shaving soap, “ Good bye ; suffered from insomnia.”

At theOtaki races yesterday the Hack and Hunters Steeples was won by Master Strowan, and the Memorial Slakes by Master Montoa. Bath horses are owned by Mr F. S. Kaslon, and trained locally by D. McCauley. The exact date of the opening of the bowling season locally has not yet been fixed, but trom present appearances the green and croquet lawns will be ready for play very shortly. The new caretaker, MrII. Webb, is giving them every attention, and by opening day they will be in tiptop condition. A “working bee” of members will be held on the green to-morrow afternoon, when it is hoped there will be a good muster.

Another benefit entertainment, in aid ot the Wounded Soldiers Fund, will be held under the auspices oi the Foxton Girls’ Guild in the Town Hall on Thursday evening next, when a specially attractive star programme will be submitted together witli vocal items. A bumper house is anticipated. In order to keep the band of workers busy on behalf ot the wounded soldiers, the guild requires material, and it is for this purpose that the entertainments are held. The public, by attending, are both amused and have the knowledge that they are assisting a deserving cause.

Which is the oldest British steamer afloat ? The Ceres ot Padstow seems to ‘‘take some beating,” seeing that she was built in 1811. For over 100 years she was a sailing vessel —a ketch—but a year or iwo ago she was fitted with a motor engine, and so now appears in the Mercantile Navy List as a steamer ! Probably few of the original limbers of the old craft remain, but she is often to he seen ploughing along the Bristol Channel carrying cargo.

A young man in Greymouth was ranting on the dearth of war news the other evening, although he had nothing to say about the quality or quantity of the liquor in his glass. The headings in the papers are all wrong, misleading—in fact, there was no news from the front, he complained, with a bumptious air. A gentleman, over the military age, who had entered the room, took the young man In task. "Look here,” said lie, pointing to a two column casualty list in the evening paper, "is tills not news for you—has it no message—-is it nothing to you that your brothers are daily giving up their all while you stay at home aud complain about lack of news ? Your place is in the trenches, where you will get news first hand from the Turkish hnllel(ins).”

“I am not going to bother myself about the peace party,” said Mr Isllt in the Mouse, when discussing the National Registration Bill. ‘‘Under other circumstances I did all I could to secure consideration for those who. believed in peace. A section of that party have the decency to keep quiet, even though they are not, doing much for the common weal while others shed their blood and face death in their defence. So far as these extremists are concerned their talk is absolutely lunatic. Mr I,ee : Put them in the asylum, Mr Isitt : For a man to write to me urging that the British ought to disband their Army, do away with their Navy, and put their trust in God, is it sane? We must simply ignore them.”

At the Hastings Magistrate’s Court a native was summoned to appear and show cause why he should not be committed to prison for not satisfying a judgment debt. He did not appear, hut forwarded to the clerk of the Court the following letter, the reading of which caused some amusement :—“Dear sir, —Will you kindly put my letter before the Judge of the Court to he held there on the rsth instant, Dear sir, lam guilty of the amount owed by me to

motor proprietor, of 14s, including Court costs. Dear sir, don’t think of my absence, ray letter is tny hotly as well. Dear sir, I pray to the Judge to give me oue mouth from date to pay the whole amount. Have no more to say. Hoping success to British Empire which are now fighting for us all. God save the King and us all.” Why give your children cold lunches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pie at Perreau’s for threepence. There’s a money-saving reason why every housewife should use SHARLAND’S Baking Powder. Costs less than others—worth more. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6. Girdle scones and pikelets are all the rage. Perreau’s specialise in these lines.

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Good cooks waste nothing. They prefer SHARLAND’S Baking Powder because it ensures best results and IS CHEAPEST.

Major Batten of Makirikiri, has been appointed in' charge of the Ninth Reinforcements, to go to front.

Referring to the National Registration Bill, the Feildlng Star says:—‘‘There are New Zealanders who can go, and won’t. What prevents thetn—why are they deaf to the call? Registration will answer those questions. Registration will cine their apathy. No blame can be attached to the Government for such a measure. If objectors are looking for the party that is to blame, he is easily found — he is the Kaiser !”

Professor Hunter, speaking in Wellington at a meeting for the formation of a War Teague, said that if the Government was prepared to go to a man and ask him : ‘‘Are you prepared to go and fight; and if not, why not ?” the Government should also be prepared to go to the man of wealth and say, ‘‘How much can you give ? Will you give it; and if not, why not ?” (Rond applause).

Our readers will notice in another column an advertisement by the Mayor calling a meeting in the Council Chamber, for tomorrow night at 7.30 o’clock, to discuss the proposed Foxton Stall at the Palmerston North Show, lor the sale of articles to provide funds for the N.Z. Wounded, also to arrange for the despatch of Christmas gifts to New Zealanders at the I 1 rout. It is hoped that as many ladies as can make it convenient will be in attendance. The Governor announces that the undermentioned contributions have been promised for the hospital ship : 1,200 nightingales and 1,000 night shirts by Mrs Howry, Hawke’s Bay ; 400 deck chairs by Mr A, Hatrick, Wanganui ; 50 sets of shoe brushes by Bunting and Co., Christchurch ; -600 hot water bottles and covers by the Dunlop Rubber Co., of Australasia. Owing, therefore, to the generosity of these donors, no more of the articles mentioned will be required for the Marama.

In the course of a stirring speech on the National Registration Bill in the House, Mr Isitt offered his services to the Prime Minister for platform work for recruiting. With a flash of humour Mr Isitt added: “ It the Massey lion went round with the Isitt lamb the people would think that the millennium had arrived!” (Laughter.) He would fight the Premier on the land question when the war was over as bitterly as ever, “ but while the war is on, ” he declared fervently, “ we are simply two men who love our Krapire, two fathers who have sent our sous to the front, and for whom we offer our common prayer.” (Hear, hear.) Some interesting figures were quoted by Mr T. W. Leys, when lecturing on the war at Auckland. Fourteen years ago, he said, Gerniaus formed but a small proportion of the numbers of people who were met with in the hotels in Switzerland, Italy and France. Just before the war, however, three-quarters of the tourists in those countries were Germans. The trade of Germany in 1906 was worth ,£312,000,000. In 1913 it represented ,£495,000,000. Last year Great Britain imported ,£2,250,000 worth of aniline dyes, and of this sura ,£1,157,000 went to Germany, where synthetic dyes were manufactured on a principle invented by a British student named Perkins, and stolen by one of the professors at his school, who returned to Germany and introduced the process there. The result has been that the indigo trade of India has fallen from ,£1,430,000 to £\ 30,000 a year. In the year before the war Britain imported from Germany ,£80,000,aoo worth of goods, and exported only .£45,000,000 worth.