LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1552, 18 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.Mr Runniclcs, organist of All Saints’ Palmerston N., was a visitor to Fox ton yesterday.

Our esteemed townsman, Mr (!. H. Stiles, intends to take up Ids residence in Palmerston at an early date. .Mr Stiles will, however, continue his business and farming interests in (his district.

We are requested to slate that (he Foxton Ladies' Patriotic* (luild will meet as usual to-morrow, in All Saints’ Sunday school, instead of (he Council Chambers. A full attendance is requested, as important business will he discussed.

It is reported from a town in the Wellington military district (hat a local old-age pensioner presented himself last week to a recruiting ollicer, and l»y representing his age to he 14, passed the medical ollicer and the military authorities. Ho served his training period in Trcntham, went away with tin* Fifth Reinforcements, and fought at (lallipoli until the (“vacua! ion. Recently, it is stated, the Old Age Pensions Department instructed that inquiries he made to ascertain why the pensioner had not been drawing his monlhlv instalments !

Speaking at the Masonic social D.M., R. Wor. Hro. J’eterkin, paid a tribute to the- Masons who had given their services to the Umpire in the present great war. He made touching allusion to those who had fallen in battle and to the splendid work of the women of the Fmpire. He concluded by slating that those young men who were lit to go and who refused to hear the call of their comrades at tin* front were unworthy of (lie race. He would like to take all such shirkers to the beach —and although he was an old mail, they would lind that he was a pretty good shot.

At the conclusion of a forgery case in the Supreme Court sitting at Christchurch a few days ago. His Honour, Mr .Justice Sim, declined to make an order for a sum of money found on I lie prisoner to be paid over to the person who had cashed the forged cheque. His Honour said the way in which some hotelkeepers cashed cheques for people they did not know, signed by people (bey did not know, astonished him. In the present case, two hotelkeepers had cashed cheques for the prisbner, whom they did not know ; nor did they know the person whose signature was on the cheques. “In (hose circumstances,’ added the .Judge, "they deserve to lose their money, and 1 decline lo make Ihe order.”

Living-cosls in Wellington worn compared wilh Auckland, much to 1 ho disadvantage ul' 1 ho former, hy .Mr A. I’arlane, <d' tho Drivers’ I nion, before 1 h(* Arbitration Court mi Tuosdny, says the Post. “Is that nut largely duo la tho higher ronls askod Mr .Instico SI ringer. Mr I’arlano agreed that lids was a big factor. "Woll," .rejoined his Honour, “you are going to have a Fair Ronls Bill. Perhaps that will soldo llio question. Suppose (hat, wo gave a special rate for Wellington and then the rents came down “That could ho quoted against us next time wo came before the Court," replied Mr I’arlano. Tie added that if their wages were lixed hy award and (he rents rose they had to hear the burden, and it was only fair that they should have the henelit if reels came down. It would he quite’a new experience. ITS VALUE DEMONSTRATED. You cannot he too careful in buying cough medicine for children. The one selected should ho free of opiates and other narcotics, pleasant to take, and one that can he depended upon, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy meets all these requirements. Few medicines have met with such success in the treatment of had colds as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It loosens the cough, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration, and retores the system to a healthy condition. For sale everywhere.—Advt, Woods’ Great peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails.

His lordship had engaged a new bntlei'. A week later lie gave a hall and the butler had to announce the guests. “lion. L. Brown. Hon. Mrs Brown, Muster Bi’own, and Miss Brown,” called the Imller. This got on his lordship’s nerves, “dames,” he said, “pray he more brief when you announce people.” The next arrivals wen 1 Mr Crown, Mrs Crown and Master Crown. The butler waved his hand to indicate which direction they were to take, at the same time calling out —“Fifteen bob.”

A striking tribute to (he Prince of Wales is paid by Captain Kendall, one of the Primitive Methodist chaplains who has been at the front, and is now serving temporarily at a Midland camp. “At a certain village," said Captain Kendall, addressing a local audience, “is a line of cottages, and many a time the Prince of Wales lias slept on (he (loor in one of these humble homes. Over the other side of the road is a beautiful old mansion, but (he Prince would not go there, preferring the miner's cottage. I have seen the room in which the Prince slept, and the Frenchman who lived there knew who his guest was, and told me he did not give a bit of trouble. I have seen the Prince ‘doing his bit.’ He was often in danger, for he went where the boys wmd. I am very proud of the Prince, and glad to be able to tell vou this about him.”

.V correspondent of the New York Herald, who has boon on a visit of inspection lo (he British front in France, writes a glowing account of (lie organisation of the British Army. “I have just returned,” he says, “from a live-days' visit to the British Iron! in France and Flanders. 1 am now convinced that the British Army to-day is a mighty machine, becoming mightier hourly, a marvel of efficiency, and that behind it, as it continues to grow, move forward, and light, is an amazingly scientific organisation, developed in less Ilian twenty months, which privides all accessories against that great hour when the linn 1 ‘great push’ comes that will end (he war. I was escorted to the headquarters, workshops, and storehouses of the Army Service Corps, and then 1 I saw the workings of a great machine which has challenged the wonder and admiration of the trained military observers of the allied and neutral Bowers, and which to the layman appears as a product of magic. As a matter of fact, it is the result of expert organisation, which has mastered the tremendous problem of supplying every need of an army which has grown, roughly, from .150,(100 in the piping days of peace—how far away lltal piping seems now ! —to more than 1,000,000, and which is ever growing.” An interesting demonstration of the effects of ><lloll lire on barbed wire entanglements took place at Miramar on Saturday morning. A gnu detachment under Lieutenant Person lired half-a-dozen rounds of 15-pounder shrapnel and four rounds of a special shell invented by a resident of Dunedin, and manufactured by the Defence Department. Colonel Allen (Minister of Defence), Brigadier-General Juibin (Commandant of the Forces) and .Major Koberls (Director of Ordnance) witnessed the shooting. The test was carried out at short range, but this, while it introduced some difficulty in the matter id' bursting th(‘ shells correctly, owing to the fuses having a minimum selling, did not effect the test as against wire. The entanglements, designed on the lines of those regularly used on the Continent, suffered much damagjg from the shrapnel and the special shell, which burst correctly in front of the target and lore a hole big enough to make an easy passage. The demonstration was a useful contribution to the knowledge of the arlilleriests present, and showing the means that are coming lo the fore for superseding the ditlicnlt work of cutting through b\> hand.

Writing' from London on March .I. lth to tin.' .Sydney Morning Herald. Sir Henry Luey said ; “In military eireles the lieree, prolraeti'd attaek on Verdun is regarded as the beginning ot‘ the end. The Herman Kinperor recognises that the land I‘orees at his eomniand have reached the maximum of strength. Heneefonvard they must by physical necessity diminish, while the allied armies, notably including the British, will grow in strength ami etlieienev. If anything is to be done, it must be done now. Hence the desperate. driving into the shambles at Verdun of the recently recruited armv there concentrated. Hence the organised murder on the high seas by the torpedoing of defenceless merchantmen ; and hence the y.eppelin raids through English counties, with their accustomed toll of slaughtered women and children. A desperate gamester, these authorities believe is hazarding e\er\thing on his last throw.

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The Canterbury Jockey Club’s profits for the year amount to £4,285 Os Od, of which £SOO Ims been paid to the French Red Cross, £I,OOO to the Patriotic Fund, £I,OOO to the Red Cross Funds, £SOO to the body Liverpool Fund, £SOO to the poor in Belgium, £SOO to Lord Bores ford’s Navy Fund, and £285 for the Citizens’ Defence Corps.

A commercial transaction of a. large nature, possibly the largest that has occurred in the Wairarapa district, has recently been completed, the W.F.C'.A. having purchased that portion of the oldestablished business of Abraham and Williams, controlled by them in the Wairarapa and Bush districts. —Masterlon Age.

A member of the 7th Reinforcements, writing from Fg.vpl, in anticipation of their early removal, after expatiating on the activity and ferocity of the insect world, concludes : —“Altogether 1 am not surprised Jacob or Abraham, or whoever it was, sold his section in this locality for a pot of porridge, or that at a later date the Israelites did a bunk out of the bally place.”

During the March quarler of the present year 298,533 bales of wool were exported, as against 330,415 for the March quarler of last year. But while the quantity exported thus decreased by over 30,000 hales, the value increased by over Cl.3oo,ooo—at £1,113,184, for the March puarler of 1915, to £0,905,813 for the first three months of 1910.

“Tt is common knowledge that enemy goods are coming into the country marked ‘Made in C.8.A.,’ ” said Mr H. W. Hudson at Thursday’s meeting in connection with the All for Empire League at Auckland. Mr Hudson mentioned as an instance some sparking plugs, which on examination were found to have the brand “Made in Geramny” beneath a copper hand. He said he had bought a pair of scissors, which were taken out of a box marked “Made in Britain,” but were exactly the same article as a German pair he had bought before the war.

Intimation has been received that the Panama Canal is now open for trallic again after being (dosed for some months owing to landslides. The first vessel passed through the canal on April 15th, and she was followed by a large lleet of steamers which had been waiting. Although open for navigation, officers who have passed through the canal recently declare (hat great care is necessary, and that from appearances further landslides may take place at any lime.

In connection with the arrest of three Putaruru farmers —Scholter, Seller and Kieiiely —all said to be enemy subjects, the Matamata correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that it took the police a day to effect the arrest, of the mwi, who were living on their farms, which were scattered. Possession was taken of .-even titles and about 400 rounds of ammunition. A fourth warrant was in the hands of the police, but the man

was away. The arrested men are being sent to Wellington on Monday, More arrests are possible.

The death of Mr James Batchelor (says the Nelson Mail) removes another old settler. He. was a native of Bradford, Wiltshire, and when live years old left England with his parents for New Zealand in the ship Little London, which sailed in. 1841. He landed in Nelson, but for a short while afterwards he lived at Wellington. Eor the last (15 years be had resided continuously in Nelson. He was for many years au energetic member of the Nelson Volunteer Fire Brigade, and of the Nel-

son Lodge of Oddfellows and the L.O.L

A correspondent writes as follows to the Levin Chronicle : —“Sir, —What do you think of the following suggestions to aid recruiting, if our recruiting ollieers in. each district could give a list of names of all young men of 20 years and over, who have not given in their names, and get the local papers in each district to publish a “shirkers’ list” every week, giving names, of course, of any young man who has been rejected,'” and whose name would not appear on the list. I’.S. —I think we could also add to the same list any young man who has taken unto himself a wife during the last twelve months, and has not handed in his name." A large toadstool, which was mistaken for a mushroom, was the means of preventing what might have been a serious motor accident at Whenuakura a few days ago. A Wanganui business man and his wife were motoring to Ha tea, and when W henuakura was reached, the lady noticed what she thought to be a mushroom of unusual size and had the ear stopped in order to pick it. While she was away, and thinking to shorten the distance his wife would have to walk, the husband attempted to back the car, but to his surprise it did not move, although the reversing gear was working at full force. He found, on getting out to make an inspection, that the axle was broken, and the wheel almost otf. Had the car not been stopped, and instead been going at full speed when the wheel came off, a serious accident would probably have re* suited.

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The newest name for the young unmarried men who refuse to do their duty by their King and country is the “singlets." Mr Goo. Palmer, an old resident of the Mauawatu district, died at Bunnythorpe on Saturday in his 81st year. Mr Palmer served in Her Majesty's Royal Lancers in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny. He was a prominent and highly-respected member ol the Veterans’ Association. •

“We want our men to marry. Roman Catholic clubs are all right in their way. But when a man passes 21 it is time for him to think of establishing a little club of his own. (Applause.) lie can he the president —even if he is not the speaker. (Laughter.) And the bigger membership he has the better. (Applause.)” Brother Egbert, at the Marist Brothers’ Old Boys’ reunion in 'Wellington.

A correspondent writes to the Post that the record of 154 pairs of socks (308 singles) achieved by a, Victorian lady, has been beaten by :t resident of Wellington—Mrs Owen, of Ghuznee street —who has knitted no less than 275 pairs (or 550 socks) for soldiers. She earns the money for the wool, and sends some of the socks direct to Egypt, and distributes others to the troops on their way to the transports. This is indeed a record to be proud of, and one tint! will not be easily eclipsed.

The Haxmilling business lately carried on by Air J. Liggins, at Tokomaru, has been taken over as a going concern by a private company that will trade under the name of Ashlea, Ltd. This week’s Alercantile Gazette contains the following particulars of (he new company : —Office, Palmerston North : capital, £15,000, into 15,000 shares of £1 each ; subscribers : Tokomaru, J. Liggins 2,500, H. L. Liggins 1,000, C. W. Liggins 500, S. E. Liggins 500 ; Wellington, L. Goldfinch 1,000, E. G. E. Zohrab 1,000, A. C. Blair 1,000, Arthur E. Alabin 1,500, Alice E.‘ Alabin 500 ; Feathers! on, W. Barton 1,000, A. J. Toogood 2,000, E. AI. Toogood 500 ; Martinborough, G. Gower 1,000, E. Wall 1,000.

What fate is in the word “farewell !” It tells of parting, pain and sad regret. It oft sobs the sound of friendship’s knell. Fare well, spelt this way, means otherwise. Fare well with health, makes strength secure, Rose cheeks, red lips and dancing eyes, Wrought by Woods’ Peppermint Cure. 8