LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1505, 3 February 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A NeW Plymouth young lady has been appointed Town Clerk to a northern borough. The following pupil teachers have been appointed to the local State school Dorothy Ross, Maud Heley, and Bida Piper. The local Salvation Army services on Sunday next, will be conducted by Major ioomer and Staff-Captain Thurkettle. A pleasant afternoon was spent at the residence of Mrs Munro by members of the Foxton Presbyterian Ladies Guild yesterday. See the large assortment of Chocolates and Fancy Sweets at J. M. Kelly’s.*

A first ofieuding inebriate was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, at the local police court this morning. The offertories throughout the whole ot next Sunday at All Saints’ Church will be given to the General Church Fund of the Diocese.

Mr W. Hunt of the local school staff has been transferred as a pupil teacher to the Marton School, and will take up his duties there on Monday next. Zeppelins raided the Eastern Midland Counties on Monday night and it is officially reported that fifty-four people were killed and sixty-seven injured. According to a private cabie message. New Zealand’s Eighth Contingent is still in camp at Cairo. A portion of these reinforcements had been drafted into Liverpool’s Own Regiment. The health of our boys is good. Sapper F. Bridgewater, son of Mrs Sears of Foxton, who left in the First Reinforcements with the N.Z. Engineers, and who spent most of his time at Gallipoli, has been admitted to the Pout de Koulbeh Hospital, Carlo. Mr Fraser, honorary recruiting officer, has received the following intimation from headquarters (Palmerston North): All recruits for the Thirteenth Reinforcements will leave Foxton by the first train on Monday morning, yth instant, and not Tuesday as originally intended. In a letter hone, Mr Melville Andrews mentions that he had met Dr. G. J. Adams, of Foxton, in London, and Mrs Adams. Dr. Adams was In camp at Weymouth, and was attached to the 16th Royal Scots. He was just about to sail next day for East Africa, to take part in the operations against the enemy there.

The Palmerston N. Patriotic Society has received from Mrs Grant, at the Manawatu Heads, the sum of £6 8s for the Sick and Wounded Fund, being the proceeds o£ sports and entertainment held recently at the Heads. We may mention that Foxton also has a Patriotic Society, and will be pleased to receive any donations to its funds.

The missing liner Appam, with a large number of passengers on board, has reappeared, flying the German flag. She was captured off the Canary Islands on 15th Jajtmary by a German raider, and sent with a prize crew to Newport, U.S.A. An enemy submarine also sunk an Australian meat ship after taking off the passengers. German submarines are operating in American waters.

The Awahou, coal laden from Westport, arrived at the wharf at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. She sailed again at 10.45 o’clock last night for Greymouth, but stuck at the bar. and did not get away until 8 o’clock this morning. The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, arrived at 10.30 this morning. She will load hemp and sail for Wellington tonight. Mr W. Smith to-day received a letter from Bugler Bolton, of the Main Body of the Rifle Brigade now at the front, in which he desires to be remembered to Foxton friends. He reports that the men were in good health and anxious to topple over the enemy. [The letter is dated December 20th, and since then the Brigade has been in action.] A local recruit who was passed as medically fit, joined the Rifle Brigade at May Morn, and indulged in subsequent training there, and at Rangiotu. As the result of a medical examination recently he was given his discharge as medically unfit. Naturally he feels disappointed after being allowed to remain in camp until the last minute.

An additional feature of Saturday’s programme at Fuller’s will be “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” This feature was repeated no less than nine times in Wellington, and is reputed to be the finest cinematograph production ever screened. Special musical accompaniments will lend additioual charm to the picture. Some remarks about the circulation of the Opuuake Times, made in the S.M. Court by an Opunake solicitor, were resented in the following terms by the Times :—“ Some people mind their own business, and others, it would seem, try to mind other people’s as well as their own, and they invariably make a mess of both.” We may add that it is the newspaper man’s business to mind other people’s business —in a public sense, of course.

The great advantage in coming here for your groceries is that our prices are always the lowest for high-grade goods, while stocks are always fresh. Prudent buyers will make a point of procuring their groceries and provisions from Walker and Furrie’s (the Reliable Storekeepers) Foxton. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS WHOLESALE CATOLOG. A well equipped hearth is one of the distinctive touches that mark the well furnished room. If you are seeking anything in the way of Fenders, Fire Irons, etc., it will pay you to inspect our splendid range of artistic designs. Our value can’t be beaten. Walker and Furrie, Foxton. ECONOMY. Cramp, colic and diarrhoea can be promptly relieved by Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. As plain printed directions accompany each bottle, it can be administered by any member of the family. It is economy to keep Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house. It has never been known to fail even in severe and dangerous cases. For sale everywhere.— Advt.