LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1516, 29 February 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Snowstorms of exceptional severity are reported in England and France.

New Zealand products exported last week were valued at £1,275,903, including butter ,£141,735, and cheese £189,099, Irozen meat £161,054, an( * wool £701,899. The Hon. R. McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, says that the capital wealth of the United Kingdom is roughly estimated by statisticians at £15,000,000,000, and the annual income at £2,400,000,000. In accordance with the resolution of the last General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church ot New Zealand, the Rev Mr Scorgie, Moderator, has fixed March 19th as a Day of Humiliation and Prayer, in connection with the war.

Word has been received in Bulls that Corporal Watson, son of Mr F. H. Watson, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, has been awarded the D.C.M. Corporal Watson is a Government surveyor.

The Tenth Reinforcements will be reviewed by His Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool) tomorrow afternoon, and on Saturday afternoon next will engage In a route March through the streets of Wellington. In addition to a splendid programme at the Town Hall tomorrow and Thursday, a 2000 ft. Keystone comedy featuring Syd. Chaplin will be screened. The management also announce a 6000 feet drama, featuring Mary Pickford in “Such a Little Queen,” for Monday and Tuesday, March 6th and 7th. Household supplies! You cannot do better than make up your mind to use only the best groceries. In other words deal from Walker and Furrie who promise you genuine quality and good service at the lowest prices. BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG. IT’S FREE.

Another twenty minutes tournament will be played on the local croquet lawns to-morrow afternoofl, commencing at 2 o’clock. The Hastings Tribune states that a rough estimate of the total proceeds from the sales at the recent Ram Fair in Hastings is given at about The annual picnic in connection with the local Presbyterian Sunday School will take place in Mr O. Robinson’s property, Rady’s Mile, next Saturday.

The pursuit of the Turks by the Russian armies that occupied Etzerum continues. The fugitives have been brought to a standstill 60 miles west of Erzerum.

The Imperial Supplies Branch of New Zealand has forwarded since March 3 from this country ,£7,150,000 worth of meat, the quality of which has been irreproachable. A lad, 13 years of age, named William George Alexander Brown, ot Fitzroy Street, Caversham, Christchurch, was killed by the south express while crossing the railway line on Saturday. While bathing at St. Mary’s Bay, Auckland, a boy named Cecil Snowden, aged 16, struck his head on the bottom when diving. He was seriously injured in the spine, and died in the hospital shortly after his admission.

Trooper Roy Robinson (son of Mr and Mrs James Robinson, of Foxton), of the' Wellington Mounted Rifles, Main Expeditionary Force, has been invalided home. Word has been received that he will arrive about March istb-

It will be news to business people to know that men going on military service cannot be sued for debt unless the amount owing is over Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., stated from the Bench at Feildihg on Wednesday last that such is the position.

A soldier, who was fighting the Senussis, writing to his father in Wellington, says : Here I might state that anyone who allows any but the most physically fit men imaginable to go on service ought to be hung. We are a very good battalion and yet over 100 had to fall out on the march.

“When the old wharf was built in 1887,” said Mr Thomas Pattie at Motueka on Tuesday, “the staple products of this district were corn, potatoes, butter and bacon. In those days the settlers were not so prosperous as they are to-day. In fact, I do not think I am exaggerating when I say that many of us then had to make £1 go as far as £5 goes to-day.’’ The Picton'Borough Council, in discussing the Recruiting Scheme, held that the attempt to place the responsibility upon the shoulders of local bodies was asking the individual to display greater courage than that shown by the Government itself, and it was regretted the Government was not capable of giving a stronger lead in the conscription of both men and wealth.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., has drawn the attention of the Minister of Railways to the serious shortage in rolling stock for the transport of chaff and grain from the Rangitikei. The farmers have been asked by the Government to grow more crops, and having responded, their produce is now ready to be sent away, but it is impossible to get haulage. It is necessary that relief be given to allow of the fulfilment of the farmers’ contracts.

It is interesting to recall that the man who has lately been superintending the preparations for the defence of Salonika is the soldier who cleared the enemy from the vicinity ot Verdun, pushed the opposing front yard by yard until he commanded all the important heights within a radius of eight or ten miles, established bis batteries on them, erected barrier after barrier ot barbed wire over and In front of his trenches, and virtually created a new fortress with a perimeter treble that of the old one. Sarrail did his work well at Verdun, That is why Salonika is now left severely alone.

“This paper stands unequivocally for conscription—the compulsion that means that every man capable of fighting, no matter what his personal opinion may be, shall be forced to fight. If New Zealand is worth keeping as a British country it is worth fighting for. If you are a New Zealander, you either own some ot the country or have some kind of stake in it. Whatever your stake is—whether it is a lump of land worth .£50,000 or a job worth £2 xos a week doesn’t matter. You won’t have either the land or the job if the Germans come. In order to avoid the plain duty of making every man fight to maintain what he holds, the Government has alienated its duties. It has placed the onus of keeping up fighting reinforcements on public bodies, has, in fact, failed itself, and asks the lesser fry to try moral suasion. The job is excessively difficult.

tended, as it most possibly will be, compulsion will come as suiely as morning, and this avoidance by the Government of direct action is flabbery.”— Auckland Observer.

When you buy your groceries at Walker and Furrie’s, you may rest assured that you have received the best, That’s the only kind this store sells, and prices in every instance are cut to a fine point.

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On the local bowling green tomorrow afternoon, a match for the Nye Ferns will be played between McColl’s rink (holders) and Rimmer’s rink (challengers). Mr Matthews, technical supervisor, visited the local school this morning, and conferred with the head teacher in respect to the proposed cookery and classes.

The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, arrived at 6.30 o’clock this morning. She will load hemp and sail for Wellington to-night. The Awahou, from Lyttelton with general, is due to-morrow.

The scare caused by the reported shortage space for frozen meat, despite the shipping companies’ denial, caused a big drop in prices at the Westfield fat stock sale last Wednesday (says the Auckland Star). Practically only butchers were buying, and prices dropped as much as £1 10s per head.

The following new books have just been added to the local public library : “The Ocean Sleuth," M. Drake; “Afterwards,” K. Rhodes; “The Bronze Eagle,” Baroness Orczy ; “The Rainbow Trail,” Z. Grey; “The Inner Law,” W. N. Harben; “The Grey Dawn,” S. E. White; “Flower of the Dust," J. Oxenham.

Another case of recovery of speech : —Private Woods, 6th Buffs, who was rendered dumb by shock caused by the parapet of a trench falling on him in France, recovered his speech while in Colchester military hospital. His mother, who had been sent for, appeared unexpectedly at his bedside. He at once exclaimed “Mother,” and has since conversed freely.

Mr Hodge, the Education Board’s foreman of works, visited the local State school this morn* ing in company with the Chairman of Committee, to investigate the ventilation problem of certain class rooms. Mr Hodge recognised the necessity for a belter system of ventilation, and, will report and advise the Board as to what he considers necessary, and the Board will communicate with the committee.

The following candidates who sat at Palmerston have passed in their respective classes at the examination held in January last for teachers’ certificates :—Class C., Christina Earsen, Annie Thompson, J. S. Webb ; Class D., Elsie Buchanan, Ida Cameron, Edith Collingwood, L. I. Day, Dorothy Mills, Anna Richards, and Elaine Ryder. Several candidates received partial passes.

The electric tram service has proved a payable proposition in Wanganui. The Herald says the takings on the Gonville-Castle-cliff trams for the month of January constituted a record. The receipts were £736, compared with for the same mouth last year, an increase of £75. The cost of car mileage was .£395, so that the profit for the month was £34i-

“Plus war charges-r-what does that mean ?” Mr Bishop asked a plaintiff’s solicitor in a civil case at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court. The solicitor was unable to explain, “Well, I won’t grant judgment until I am satisfied concerning this point. If ‘plus war charges’ can be shown to be legitimate judgment will be given, but if it is an attempt to place an extra sum on for loss incurred by plaintiff I will not grant it.” Mr Bishop said he had never seen the phrase before. The matter was settled by the plaintiff’s solicitor agreeing to strike out the amount for “plus war charges.” Here is a play upon words that will take some beating : Two men Russian into a restaurant ordered Turkey without Greece. When they became too facetious, the waitress said : “You can’t Roumania, for I shall not Servia.” “No, so,” said they. “Call the Bosphorus,” But she wouldn’t, and they went away Hungary, hoping the boss would hear of their Straits Anzac the girl for Balkan them. “Europe of a feed has vanished,” said one; “let’s go to Austria and get a new Diet,” said the other ; “we’re fairly up the Poland have no time to lyoos.” A b reach of promise action, in which ,£I,OOO damages was claimed, was before Mr Justice Denniston at Christchurch. The parties belonged to Amberley, the plaintiff being Miss Irene F. lies, and the defendant Ernest Stackhouse, the son of a well-to-do farmer. The action was partly heard, after which a settlement was arrived at. It is understood that the plaintiff accepted in full settlement of the claim.

A young lady of society tank had an experience in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, from which she may learn much. A wellbuilt young fellow in civilian clothes was talking to a lady friend, when the feminine patriot accosted him, and said: “Why aren’t you in khaki, like that man there ? It makes me sick to see you shirkers about the streets !” The young man’s reply was to promptly and decisively slap the interrogator’s face —a result that naturally considerably surprised her. As a matter of fact, ,heis a returned soldier, and explained to a constable who appeared in response to the screams of the startled enthusiast, that this was the third time he had been so accosted, and he proposed to continue his treatment of “interfering hussies’’ till the annoyance ceased.

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