The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 30, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1479, 30 November 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, November 30, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A thunderstorm broke over this district this morning accompanied by heavy rain. The Mangaweka school has been closed owing to an attack of measles.

The Feilding races are being held to-day. A number of local sports ate in attendance. To-day is St. Andrew’s Day, and the memory of Scotland’s patron saint is honoured by the observance of a bank holiday.

The junior national scholarship examinations are to be held at Palmerston on Thursday and Friday next. Several pupils from the local State school will sit. At the local police court yesterday, before Mr Horndlow, J.P., two females arrested for drunkenness on Saturday, were convicted and had their balls estreated, 10s and cost of vehicle 2s each. The Turks used to say : “When we are driven out of Constatinople we will go to Broussa ; when we are expelled from Broussa we will fly to Paradise.’’ Broussa in Asia Minor, Is fifty-seven miles from Conatantiuople, and the booking should shortly be heavy. The last of this year’s series of socials under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, will take place in the schoolroom on Friday night. A capital programme is being arranged, and the ladies will provide refreshments. Admission is, children half-price.

The interment of the late Mr Charles Hunt, sen., took place at Marton cemetery on Sunday. Before the cortege left Palmerston, Rev. A. Poull conducted an impressive ceremony at deceased’s late residence in Ada Street, and later Mr Doull presided at the services at the graveside and at the Marton Presbyterian Church, of which the late Mr Hunt was one of the founders. The first Australian woman to *ake to the recruiting platform s P />ke recently in Sydney. The lady, Mrs E. P. Dillon, is connected with the Labour movement amd is a practised speaker. She opened her address by stating that she had made her sacrifice for the war because her husband had gone to the front and was now lying in a hospital in London. She had a tilt at the men who spent their time at home or who took a delight in Chaplin films. One man whom she thought she had converted to a recognition of his duty said that he would rather be a live man on earth than a dead hero in the sky. She had no time for such live men. They .could not hide behind the women’s skirts. Some said they would fight when the Germans came here. She could not thank those men. They were either ■hypocrites or fools. Women must help by urging their able-bodied men to go. Every man of the millions fighting had a mother, a wife, or a sweetheart, so the excuse of others that they could not go because their womenfolk held them back was not valid. BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS' CATOLOG IT’S FREE.

All Saints’ Bazaar was opened in the Coronation Town Hall this afternoon.

Archbishop Cerreti Apostolic Delegate to Australia, is expected to visit New Zealand next February. A dairy farmer at Wanganui named G. McGrath was fined £2O and costs £4 for supplying milk with added water.

Monslgnor Brodie, of Auckland, has been appointed Roman Catholic Bisnop of Christchurch in succession to the late Bishop Grimes.

A number of interviews are published by the Auckland Star in support of the statement that many men of military age and eligible for active service are hastily getting married in order to escape enlistment.

The New Zealand Gazette officially describes the Wanganui Education District new area as “ all that area being the counties of Kaitieke, Wairaarino, Patea, Waitotara, Wanganui, Rangitikei, Klwitea, Manawatn, Orotta, Pohangina, and Kairanga (including all borough and town districts therein). Chief town, Wanganui.” In the school children’s sewing section at the recent show, three exhibitors from the Oroua Downs sshool had their exhibits disqualified, owing to the garments exhibited not being in accordance with those specified in the schedule. The work forwarded was excellent and more intricate than that specified, and the mistake was probably due to the late arrival of the schedules. It is considered that children in the upper standards should be allowed to exhibit any needlework instead of specified articles. Dr. E. H. P. Marshall, (Peebles) writes:” Many of the soldiers coming under one’s observation, whether invalided home from active service or requiring medical treatment while undergoing their course of training at home, show obvious signs of ‘ tobacco poisoning.’ I have found that the popular remedy, ‘ soda miut ’ in tablet form, allowed to dissolve slowly in the mouth, dispels the immediate and urgent desire for a smoke more efficiently than anything else I have tried. Men are so conscious themselves of the aid it is to their endeavours to control the habit that they come and ask for the tablets. This in no way interferes usually with other treatment being used at the same time. So useful have I found this simple expedient that I think it Is worthy of trial by others, and I would go further and suggest a generous supply of the remedy being included with each consignment of cigarettes sent by liberal donors for the use of the troops at the front. Perhaps it might save many a man’s wind when the day came for him to leap out of his trench and charge.

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