LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1546, 4 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In Wellington milk is now (id a quart, and at Christchurch it is practically unprocurable.

France is the only country in Europe that is self-supporting in normal times. The country produces sullicient corn and meat for the whole population. The annual meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held at the Council Chandlers, Palmerston E., on Tuesday, oth inst., at 1.3(1 p.m. Business ; Election of Chairman, and general. Honey jias been advancing steadily in price for the last four years, attributable to the export trade, coupled with two consecutive bad seasons. Prices are said to be fully 75 per cent, higher than in 1012.

Albert Bissell, head imslmian at Butler Bros.' sawmill, Hokitika, was killed yesterday morning hy a dead tree falling while he was haulingl another tree on a. wire 1 rope. Bissell was thirty-live years of age, and leaves a widow and family of live young children.

The quantity of butler in eool store at the various gazetted grading ports throughout the Dominion on April JOlli, 191(1, was D2,*2!>7 boxes. The total in store on April doth, 191 ft, was 13!),798 boxes ; the total in store on April doth, 1914, was 88,0(12 boxes.

According to all accounts, the scarcity of labour threatens to force a number of dairy farmers out of the dairying business next season, several having already sign! lied their intention of giving up owing to their inability to carry on under present conditions. —Waikato Independent.

At the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday, Krnesl Charles Jewell Devoin was brought forward on a charge of attempting to murder Louisa White. A further charge of attempted suicide was also brought against accused. After hearing the evidence for the prosecution, accused, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial at

Ilu‘ next silling of the Supreme Court ill Wellington.

()m> of the most remarkable things about (lie Commomve:i!th migration, statistics is (he "fact that

a, considerable number of Germans are still recorded as coming to Australia, in spite of the war. It is oflicially staled that for the first eleven months of 1!)!;") no fewer than 880 Germans, and .also 20 Austrians, arrived in Australia. The arrivals from Germany 'itself numbered only live, and no one departed for Germany ; (here were 3,42!) departures to the United States, more than to any- other foreign country.

“In Nelson apple hinds have gone sky high in price,” says an Auckland man who recently visited the Nelson district. “Unimproved apple land is quoted at £25 an acre; planted one-year-old, £s(l to £7O an acre, ranging upwards according to age. 1 inspected several orchards, about ten acres in extent, from eight to eleven years old, yielding from £I,OOO to £1,500 a year. These figures may seem large, but anyone inspecting the orchards would have no doubt on the point. The trees are hi den with fruit like strings of onions, and they are propped up and tied in every way. Representatives of a number of Taranaki dairy factories met in Hawera (says the Star) to consider the question of approaching the Government to get matters so regulated that the dairy factories should not he depleted of skilled labour by Ihe operation of recruiting activities. The matter is of considerable practical importance, and though it is not desired to unduly interfere with the supply of men, the company directors Lear that there will be acute dilliculty in carrying on the dairy industry unless it is settled on some fair and sound basis. Form the good habit, of inhaling NAZGL, and you'll keep free from coughs and colds this wuuei. Eighteenpence buys sixty doses.

A letter from “One Other,” on the subject of “Closing Down the Mills,” will appear next issue. At the Salvation Army services on Sunday, Capt. Podmore will take part, and will conduct the evening service. The Awahou sailed for Wellington yesterday morning. She took 220 bales of hemp for transhipment to Australia. She is loading general at Wellington to-day, and is due here to-morrow. The Moutoa Ladies’ Guild (Sick and Wounded Soldiers) begs to ackand AVounded Soldiers) acknowledges receipt of the following donations : Dr Wall £2, Mr 11.I 1 . H. Crawley £2. ‘ Seldom has the Wanganui River been so difficult to navigate as it is at present (says the Herald). Five boats were delayed" at different places at one time recently. Constable Woods, who has been away on his annual leave, has resumed duty, and Constable,Minogue who had been relieving, returned to Palmerston North this morning. The members of the Girls’ Guild are providing supper in the Coronation Hall supperroom for members of the Queen Alexandria Band at the conclusion of the performance to-morrow night. AI Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawalu County Council a. letter was read form Mr P. \\. Brown and other ratepayers in the Whirokino Subdivision, drawing attention to the unsatisfactory state of the drain from the river along No 2 Line, and asking that same be cleaned out without delay.—lt was decoded to clean the drain. At Wellington on Tuesday, Mrs A. S. Walsh was found with her throat cut, in the back yard of her parents’ residence in Daniel Street, A razor was beside the body. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, when evidence was given (hat deceased had been much depressed since the death of one of her daughters about a year ago. A \erdicl was returned of death selfmllictcd whilst temporarily of unsound mind. NO COLD IS NAZOL PROOF ! AVhy pay dearly for Baking Powder when SHARLAXD’S —the best that can be produced —costs less than others “! Ask your grocer.