LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1518, 4 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A regulation has been gazetted making the branding of imported eggs with the name of the country ot origin compulsory.

American press despatches assert that the German raider Moewe, which recently did a good deal of mischief in the Atlantic, has been captured by a British cruiser.

The meeting convened by the local Patriotic Society to have been held last night to consider the new recruiting scheme did not take place owing to the very small attendance.

Mr Buglass’ services have been accepted by the Imperial authorities as a munition maker and he leaves Foxton for England next month. Mr Buglass will be accompanied by bis wife and will return to New Zealand after his period of service is completed. Mr Bugiass has disposed of his engineering works and garage. For having failed to comply with an order of the Court to pay maintenance to his wife, Albert Leader was sentenced by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Levin S.M. Court, to six months imprisonment in Wellington gaol. This sentence is to be suspended if the arrears now due be paid within seven days, and also that future instalments be paid regularly.

“ The military authorities do not desire the return of Joseph South, and ask that his military kit be returned to Featherston camp,” was the message sent from the Defence Department to the Auckland Court respecting Joseph South (33), a prospective soldier in training, who had admitted throwing a piece of iron piping at a hotelkeeper in Victoria Street, missed his aim, and sent the missile through the window ot Jno. Court Ltd.’s shop, and also that be had used obcene language —all when he was in Auckland on final leave from camp. In view of the refusal of the military authorities to keep South on as a soldier, and his long list of convictions for assault when begot under the influence of liquor, his Worship decided to commit the man for a term of reformative detention not exceeding two years.

In the gazetted list of clergymen licensed to officiate at marriages appear the names of ten Maori members of the Riugatu Church. The Ringatu form of religion is (says the Auckland Star) practically the Hauhau form of worship, of which the high priest at one time was Te Kooti, and later the wily Urewera recalcitrant Rua. The scheme of worship is a continuous uplifting of the hands and the rapid chanting of a mixture of Old and New Testanient phrases interlarded with native ideas regarding the Deity. The ten men who represent the church have now the right to claim the prefix of reverend to their names, and their right to that title of honour has already been accepted by the Government Printer.

The attention of the nublic is directed to Riramer’s Cash Store advertisement in our leader columns.

The Hekaed staff desire to acknowledge wedding favours from Mr and Mrs A. S. Moore whose health was honoured and good wishes expressed, thus obviating the curse of the printer’s devil!

Extraordinary precautions are being taken at Auckland to successfully combat the outbreak of infantile paralysis. The streets are kept continuously watered, public buildings thorouhly cleansed and fumigated, and all the schools closed. Out of 303 cases reported there have been 20 deaths.

' Discussing the causes of infantile paralysis at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board this week, Mr C. T. Batriball quoted a suggestion which he had heard that the eating of unpeeled fruit which had been sprayed with poisons was a possible cause of the present disease.

It is the silliest lot of drivel that a Government has ever been guilty of,” remarked Councillor Anderson at the Petone Borough Council meeting on Monday sight, when the issue ot armlets for exempted recruits was mentioned. “ It a man is weak he is not going to advertise the fact by going about labelled like a prize fowl.” A denizen of the deep, rarely seen in any but tropical waters —a large sunfish—was discovered floating in Wellington Harbour on Tuesday. The huge flabby creature, which would weigh close upon Bcwt, had apparently been dead some time when it was found, and at the direction of the harbourmaster it was securely roped to the wharf, and later towed out to sea.

The following appear on the first-reading of stations at the Methodist Conference: Palmerston N. (Broad Street), Frederick W. Boys and home missionary ; Palmerston (Cuba Street), Jonathan H. Haslam ; Feilding, Daniel J. Murray and Thos. Coatsworth ; Sanson and Rongotea, R. Purcell Keall; Foxton, William Rowe and home missionary ; Kimbolton, home missionary. A well-known Auckland citizen, Mr E. W. Alison, celebrated his fifteenth birthday on Tuesday. To those who know his mature years, this may appear either a misstatement or a joke, but it represents simple tact. Mr Alison happens, like the hero of “The Pirates ot Penzance” opera, to have been ‘‘born in leap year, on February 29th.” Consequently his birthday comes round only once in four years.

Speaking at the opening of the Pukekohe Show, Premier Massey said that, in spite of the bad season in one part of the Dominion (Canterbury), he thought it likely that New Zealand would experience another record year. East year the Dominion had exported worth of produce. New Zeeland now led the world in regard to the exportation of produce per head ot population. There was plenty of room to develop, too, because there was a great deal of uncultivated land which could be made to produce more riches for the farmers of the Dominion. But will you get ships for our products, Mr Massey ? “Applications for land by returned discharged soldiers are increasing in number daily,” said Mr W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke’s Bay, on Friday. “Evidently the Hawke’s Bay land is the most sought after, as the applications are coming from all over the Dominion. The Department is dealing with these applications as rapidly as possible.” The Otamauti Estate, of 6887 acres, 31 miles from Napier, is open for for selection, and the Government has just acquired nearly 5000 acres ot native land near Dannevirke, which will be available for settlement in the near future.

A special attraction is announced to appear at the Town Hall on Monday and Tuesday next, in the form of the world’s favourite motion picture artist, Mary Pickford, in “Such a Eittle Queen,” a most charming production by the Famous Players Company. This is an enthralling love romance, portraying the life of the splendid Queen of Herzgovina, depicting royalty in prosperity and adversity—a queen’s life in peace and revolution. Romantic episodes blended with the thrill of danger and doubt; loyalty emphasised by surrounding treachery and intrigue. The power of good, the force of evil, and the triumph of a woman’s tenderness and sympathetic influence are unfolded in a style piquant with interest and with a charm that is at once dramatic, picturesque, stimulating and delightful. The work of disinfecting Napier still continues daily, the streets, baths, municipal theatre, trams, stables, and all borough property are being done daily with the City Council’s own mixture, the strength of which is 640 to 1. Speaking to a Telegraph reporter, the Mayor said that if all shopkeepers swilled their shops down with water diluted with lysol it would help to a great extent to purify the town. He said that Churches and all public halls should be done, but those in authority did not like the idea of disinfecting their churches on account of the smell. “It is better to stand the smell than to allow the dreaded infantile paralysis to become an epidemic in Napier,” concluded the Mayor.

An advertiser wants to sell a spare bedroom suite.

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 arc cut to a tine point.

All the offertories at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be given to the Melanesian Mission. Miss Hare, who has been transferred from the Feilding D.H.S. to the Foxton School, was presented with a silver-bound prayer book by the -=taff on the eve of leaving Feilding, says the Star. A meeting of the management committee of the local Presbyterian Church was held last night, presided over by the moderator, Rev. J. H. Bredin. Correspondence was read from the district treasurer (Mr A. Matheson) acknowledging receipt of ,£9O odd, voluntary contribution Irom Foxton congregation towards liquidating debt on the anse. It was decided to instal improved lighting in the church. A resolution was passed placing on record the committee’s high appreciation of the excellent done by the district treasurer, Mr A. Matheson, and urging him to reconsider his resignation. Members of the committee referred to the thoroughness of the treasurer in putting the finances on such an excellent footing and the serious loss the charge would sustain if Mr Matheson’s services were lost to the charge. The delegates to the district meeting reported as to the business transacted at the last quarterly meeting. It was decided to tend Mr and Mrs Buglass a farewell social and details were left over for a subsequent meeting.

An advertiser wants an unfurnished room.