LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1493, 6 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Trooper Willie Howe, who was among the returned wounded by the Ruahine, will arrive by the 7 o’clock train this evening. Mrs Freeman has presented a whip, for the winner of the Foxton Cup. Hotel and boardinghouse accommodation at Wellington during the holidays was taxed to the utmost. The engagement is announced of Mr Reg. Barber, eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. E. Barber, of Foxton, to Miss McHardie on the staff of the Pahiatua District High School. The nominations received by the local racing club tor their annual meeting this month are very satisfactory both as regards humber and class of horses. The total nominations exceed those of last year by 43. Mr “ Brassey ” White, an erstwhile Foxton resident and now of Wellington, received a cable recently, stating that his son had been wounded on Dec. 4th, and is now in hospital. The young man is well-known locally, and it hoped that his injuries are not serious. Here are two or three facts concerning the economic situation in Germany, says the Nation, on which far more than on the happenings in Servia the issue—perhaps the next issue—of the war depends. The other day a Scandinavian firm was offered for a ton of nickel. The price in the British market is about Two invalid travellers from Germany were deprived of their hot water bottles and air-cushions on their arrival at the frontier for the sake of the rubber coverings, the price of rubber in Germany having risen to 30s a pound.

The Patriotic Shop will be opened again on Saturday all day, under the supervision of Mrs Baker, who will be pleased to receive gifts of anything saleable. Goods may be left at the shop on Saturday morning, and fruit, flowers, vegetables and cakes are specially welcome. Last week gifts from the following were received Mesdames King, T. Robinson, P. Robinson, J. Newth, Baker, Moore, Hislop, King, Mitchell, Greig, Freeman, Proctor senr., Mandl, J. H. Robinson, Thynne, Saunders, Small, Stevenson, W. Ross, Raine, Messrs Yates, Hughes, Nye, Bangs, Huntley, W. Knapp, and Bullard, The following were omitted from the list of donors last week: Messrs Kellow, Freeman, Nye and Aitken, and Mesdames F., J. H. and John Robinson. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS WHOLESALE CATOLOG. Perreau’s 6d cakes are in great demand now eggs and butter are dear Housewives are reminded that ’Xmas is fast approaching and it will be necessary to procure their groceries and provisions in good time. Walker and Furrie, Foxton, are splendidly ready to serve you with all your ’Xmas requirements, best quality goods at the lowest prices. Walker and Fume, Provision Merchants, Foxton. Why give your children cold uaches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pie at Perreau’s for threepence.

Mr “Peace” Ford has returned to New York,

Several properties in the borough have changed hands lately.

A farewell social is to be tendered to Mr and Mrs Boyes on Tuesday evening next by local townspeople. Several cases of diphtheria are reported locally. As a matter of fact the borough has not been free from this dread disease for months past. All the houses at the seaside are occupied and the overflow is accommodated in tents. The weather since New Year’s Day has been very unfavourable.

Mr J. Vincent, of Ashhurst. who with his family is spending the holidays at the seaside, caught a severe cold and complications set in. He is progressing favourably. Messrs R. T. Betty and J. Golder, assisted the Waipawa Band in the competitions held at Napier on Boxing Day. The former played Ist baritone and the latter soprano cornet. An Australian soldier, writing home from Gallipoli, says: “The Turks said if we surrendered they would give us a good time, and three wives so that is a very fair offer, but all the same I don’t think I will take it on.” The Otaki Patriotic Society have hit on a novel idea for raising funds. Young women meet the trains with baskets of flowers, which they quit to railway travellers passing through. Quite a large sum of money has been raised by this means. The friends ol Mr Wra. Ross will be pleased to know that he has so far recovered from bis accident as to be able to get about again. As the result of a fall a few weeks back, Mr Ross fractured some ribs and was severely shaken up. The Footwear Inspection Act is now being administered by the Department of Labour. Inspectors appointed under the Act are now making an inspection of stocks of boots and shoes in shops throughout the Dominion. These officers are at the same time carrying out their duties as inspectors of factories and shops.

The Foxton Ladies’ Patriotic Guild will hold its first meeting in the new year in the Council Chambers to-morrow afternoon, at 2.30 o’clock, when members and all interested in the guild’s operations are Ivvited to be present. The guild established a fine record last year, and it is hoped that this year’s operations will prove equally successful.

The man Norman Edward Keals, who is undergoing a life sentence at the Mount Eden Gaol for murdering at Onewhero about a year ago his brother’s wife, Mrs Emma Keals, and her intant child, succeeded ou Sunday evening in breaking a medicine bottle in his cell and in mutilating himself with the jagged glass. The Herald reports that subsequently he was removed to the hospital, where an operation was performed. The grave digger at the Greytown cemetery went on strike a few days ago, (says the Carterton News), and gave his reason for refusing to work, that he did not see why he should have all the hard work and none of the lighter tasks of keeping the graves clean and tidy. The civic authorities met in serious conclave to consider the matter, and finally appointed a new man to the position.

The railway department is always making innovations. The recent excursion fares provided that the journey could not be broken until 50 miles had been covered. This caused a good deal of inconvenience to a number of travellers. There must be a reason for this restriction, but so far we have not heard a reasonable solution. It hits up the poorer people who visit friends at a short distance from home. Commonplace events sometimes lead to important results. Writing to a gentleman who is at present visiting Wellington, a lady correspondent in London relates the following incident : “The other day a lady went to Victoria Station to meet a train of wounded, and as the train came in the crowd made a rush and she was thrown against a British staff officer in full rig, scarlet tabs and all. She trod on his toe and he said, ‘Gott in Himmel.’ She immediately got out of the crowd and pointed him out to a policeman, and the officer was arrested. A few days later she received a cheque for from the War Office, and a note to say that at the close of the war she would hear what good service she had done her “Since hearing this,” naively adds the correspondent, “I’ve had much ado to refrain from kicking any sufficiently important • looking officer I’ve come across !” SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS WHOLESALE CATOLOG. ’Xmas gift seekers will find hosts of suggestions -both useful and practical at Walker and Furnes Foxton. A visit now will _ be time well spent for early selection is a wise course —it means satisfaction to all! We offer special holiday value to all purchasers.. UNSURPASSED. For the quick relief of all bowel complaints Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is unsurpassed. One or two doses of it are sufficient to check the attack. It is not disagreeable to take Chamberlain’s Colic and. Diarrhoea Remedy contains no astringent, and for that' reason leaves the bowels in a natural; condition. For sale everywhere.— Advt . v

Unmarried men, physically fit, in the Canaa an civil service must join the ar ny or lose their" positions, > The Rev, J, M. Thomson M.A., late of the Foxton Presbyterian Church, is o ficiating as relieving minister at (risborne. Mr A, E.| Pearce, managing director of Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., was ini Foxton this morning, J The local!bar and fairway are in good for shipping except for a silting up near the “ Fishermen’s point.” Lord Derby’s recruiting scheme has resulted in 831,012 men attesting. The 23 to 26 group will be called up on February Bth. .The Defence' Department ,has rejected a proposal from Wanganui for a route march from that town to Trentham. : ;

James Tait, clerk to the Collingwood County Council, and an ex-postal official, committed suicide in his office on Tuesday night by cutting his throat. On Saturday afternoon Miss Myrtle McGregor, residing at Tavistock road, Wellington, was severely injured at Island Bay through a heavy stone falling on her from the cliffs.

The Kaiser is suffering a recrudescence of his throat trouble. The King of Servia and the King of Greece are also reported as seriously ill.

It is rumoured in London that Lord Kitchener may vacate the post of Secretary of War- to become Viceroy of India or to take up supreme command in the Near East.

In response to a request by the residents of the district, fhe Minister for Internal- Affairs has agreed to the deletion from the map of the name of German Bay, Banks Peninsula. The new name of the bay is to be Takamatua Bay.

It is understood that the Government has purchased the Mountain Rimu Timber Company’s plant and bush at Mamaku. Thisicom-i pany has for many years famished a large portion of the high-grade timber in use in the Auckland district.

j A good deal of latitude Is allowed soldiers on leave, but some ot them overstep the bounds of propriety. The conduct ot a number in a railway train from Wellington the other evening wasdecidedly “ off ” and women were compelled to listen to their coarse jests and parodies. Such con- . duct is calculated to prejudice. them and compromise their wellbehaved companions. Liquor was the cause of the trouble. While excavating bn his property at Upper Takaka, Nelson, some weeks ago, Mr Henry Spittall discovered an almost complete set of moa bones lying about three feet under the surface. The skeleton is in wonderful repair, the body being considered one of. the most perfect yet unearthed. The bones of the legs are complete, and a great many pieces of the backbone and neck are so included, the peculiarly small head being easily recognised. The height of the bird when alive is estimated to have reached about 9ft, gin, .. A little over a mile and a half / . of the five-mile tunnel through the Southern Alps at Arthur’s Pass remains to be completed* and the engineers believe that the long undertaking can be finished , in about two years. According to the original contract with Messrs McLean and Co., the tunnel was to have been handed over to the Government, ready for use, in February, 1912, but the' contractors were obliged .to throw over the work, and it has since been carried on successfully by the Public Works Department. Our representative was privileged to be present at thd berthing > of the hospital ship, Maheno, at ' Wellington ou Monday afternoon, and to witness the welcome ac-. corded to the returned wounded. There were some very sad sights but the men seemed to forget their wounds in the delight • of the reunion. At Otaki the same evening we witnessed a welcome home to Corporal Tahiwi by members of the Ngatiraukawa tribe. It was in marked contrast to the civic welcome accorded •’ to the wounded at Wellington and. carried the mind back to historic Maori times. The Maori'women set up a wailiog.chant of welcome and copious tears were shed. Tahiwi is a Well-known- district, athlete and his wounds consisted of seven bullets in the right; knee and a bullet wound in the arm. The bullets have been extracted from the knee and although.septic poisoning set- in the wound is doing fine. In the course of an interesting conversation, Tahiwi , said the -Maori contingent»were not satisfied until they got into the firing Hne, where they got alLthey wanted. He is not anxious to back to “the mouth says the Turks are good and very cunning fighters, He speaks very • ■ highly of the Australians andjp states that though-they ape lackiiJifH in discipline they wi}l tackle thing., ■ , HOW TO BREAK UP A COLD. It may be * to many td v learn that a sex can be com*; s ; ; pletely broken [up in one or twi> day s time. To do this, ; prompt action Is first symptom of a cold loud cough and a discharge frdm ’the Chamberlain's Cough 1 Repay. taken every two, hours appearance of these counteracts the" effect-fa and restores the system ®o-a'l conditlbn'within s dayor sale evorj/where.-rAdvL