LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1529, 30 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held this evening in Mr Patterson’s shop. Owing to the scarcity of paper the Feilding Star has been compelled to reduce its size. The scarcity of paper of all grades is causing the printing trade throughout the Dominion grave concern. The Queen of the South with general from Wellington is due to-morrow, and the Awahou also from Wellington with general is expected on Monday. A resident complains of stock being turned out to graze in certain streets alter dark. We may add that there is very little feed for stock in the streets, but it is annoying to find straying stock in one’s garden. The remedy is to impound the stock, and add the damage to the impounding fees.

That there are risks attached to the chaplains’ work was illustrated by a few figures quoted by Chap-lain-Capt. Blamires in the course of a lecture at Wanganui. There were thirteen chaplains who left with the Main Body. Of those, Chaplain-Grant had been killed, four others had been wounded three more seriously, and others had been invalided.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held before Mr T- W. Poynton, S.M. to-morrow, Among the cases set down for hearing are six under the licensing Act, three ol alleged threatening behaviour, one under the Licensed Vehicles Act, one of alleged breach of the borough by-laws, and one for allegedly keeping a shop open for business on Sunday. The civil business includes two defended cases.

Nationalisation of hospitals and the treatment of all patients free ot charge was the subject of a remit to the Municipal Conference from the Petone Borough Council. In answer to a question the Mayor stated that this would cover both rich and poor patients, and was moved under the assumption that the health of the community ought to be the State’s first consideration. A logical outcome would be the nationalisation of all medical men.

J. M. Barr intimates in his change advertisement to-day that costume satisfaction may easily be obtained by selecting from his stock.

Several pieces ot furniture are advertised for sale.

At a meeting of the committee of the Foxton Rifle Club on Tuesday, it was decided that owing to the second competition for Dr. Mandl’s trophy not being completed on Saturday, March 18th, the competition will be re-fired at the local range on Saturday next.

A statement was published throughout the Dominion a few day’s ago that galvanised corrugated iron had advanced £lO per ton at Home. In a letter to the Post last night, John Lysaght, Limited, contradict this stating that no such advance has taken place-

Certain rumours have been in circulation during the last day or two that the 9th Reinforcements have suffered severely in France. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) informed the Post yesterday that no news whatever had come to hand to suggest anything of the kind.

Miss Thurston, matron of the Christchurch hospital, was granted leave of absence by the board yesterday to take charge of the Walton -on - Thames Military Hospital, a position she has been invited to by the High Commissioner. Mr F. H. Knight, manager of the Tuarangi Old Men’s Home, was also granted leave, he having enlisted.

Land in this district continues to remain at a high figure. A block of ten acres with buildings and other improvements facing the Tiro Tiro road was sold the other day at per acre, and a farm of 50 acres, with a frontage to Kimberly road changed hands at per acre.—Horowhenua Chronicle.

A young man, named Wilton, employed at the Bank of New Zealand, Huuterville, was cycling on Sunday morning when he was run into by a motor car, which passed right over him. He did not appear to be badly injured at the time, but suddenly collapsed and died at midday yesterday. Audrey Wilton was the son of Mr Frank Wilton, of Otaki.

The Foxton Harbour Commission will hold its first business sitting at Foxton on May 19th. The Commission consists of the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr Cyrus Williams (secretary of the Lyttelton Harbour Board), and Mr W. M. Hannay (late manager of the Manawatu Railway Company). Mr W. H. Cocker is the secretary.

At the Magistrate’s Court Wellington yesterday Krnest Devoin was formally charged with attempted murder, and a remand until next Wednesday was granted on the application of the police. The condition of both Devoin and Miss White is still very serious. As a precautionary measure, the depositions of the latter were taken at the hospital yesterday.

A man named Henry M’Laughlin, employed as a boilermaker’s labourer by Messrs W. Cable and Co., of the Lion Foundry, Kaiwarra, dropped dead while working for that firm on board the steamer Arawa yesterday. Death is believed to have been due to heart disease. Deceased, who was a widower, and about forty years of age, resided with his parents in Rugby Street.

The Girls’ Guild this week forwarded the following to the Wellington Branch of St. John’s Ambulance : —B3 roller bandages, 82 swabs, 63 towel face washers, 7 hand-knitted face cloths, 14 pairs pyjamas, 6 pairs shorts, 5 flannelette operation gowns, 1 pair mittens, rS treasure bags, 10 balaclavas, 7 hand-knitted chest protectors, 3 nightingales, 2 pairs knitted bed socks, 1 cholera belt, 2 flannel body belts, 6 pairs handknitted socks, 8 day shirts, 1 handknitted scarf, 2 flannel bed jackets, 1 flannelette undershirt, 1 pair spiral socks, 73 handkerchiefs, 1 jug cover.

Another meeting was held at Martou last Saturday in furthereuce of the scheme for deviating the Main Trunk line, Levin to Greatford. Sir James Wilson presided, and Mr Newman, M.P., was present; also Mr M. Luckie, as associate to Mr Skerrett, K.C. Evidence prepared by the Committee was discussed. The evidence got together is very full and complete. The Commission will hold its first sitting on May 19th, the Foxtou wharf question being the first business set down, after which evidence in connection with the proposed deviation will be taken.

An unusual find was made on the sea beach near the Mokau heads on Saturday, when a live' snake was secured amongst the driftwood. The reptile was put in a bucket of water and next morning it was dead. It measured 2ft. qin. A smaller snake was seen amongst the driftwood, but was not captured. The snake was almost black on the back and light underneath, the skin, in the words of a correspondent,, “resembling the wrong side of a very finely woven carpet.” How the snakes found their way to the Mokau beach is a problem.

Hewlett and White’s famous English white shoes are now in stock at R, T. Betty’s. The best selection yet offered locally.*

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“A reporter has just as much right to come into court to report a case as a lawyer has to appear in it.” This was the ruling of Common Pleas Judge Manuel Levine, of Cleveland, when Harry Crawford, attorney for Cleveland Railway Company, asked that the jury be dismissed, and a damage case discontinued following publication of stories of the trial in the city papers. Newspaper clippings were read in support of the request, but the question was over-ruled.

Some persons have a very queer idea of humour, as two young ladies who went bathing in the Manawatu River last week found to their cost, says the Palmerston Times. The ladies went in bathing, and when they returned they found to their chagrin that some person with a perverted sense of what constitutes a practical joke ■ had made off with their underclothing. Their plight could be far better imagined than described. A month in the “cooler” without the option of a fine would probably -teach the individual responsible that this peculiar sort'of joke does not commend itself to sane people.

Mr F. M. B. Fisher, writing to the London Times on the 6th instant says:—“A labourer joins a union—by compulsion. He limits his output —by compulsion. He goes on strike— by compulsion. He adopts his leaders —by compulsion. He gets his politics —by compulsion. If he fails in any of these things he is regarded as a traitor and a renegade to his own cause. When unionism is in danger, he must pay for the cost of striking, he must starve his wife and children, he must violate the law if necessary. His union compels him to fight, Mark the difference between Labour’s own compulsion and that of the State. The State compulsion stands for equality of opportunity, equality of service, and a distribution of the burden of war amongst those fit to fight. What answer can come from Labour, a party whose very essence of strength is built up on the principle of compulsion r

A furnished house is advertised to let.

A reward is offered to the finder of a lost £5 note.

Our extremely moderate prices afford many opportunities to the housekeeper, who is always welcome to inspect our showing oi crockery and hardware without obligation to purchase.— Walker and Fume, Foxton.

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