The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 8th., 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1561, 8 June 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE Bth., 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Ladies’ Patriotic Guild acknowledge receipt of a donation of .€5 from Mrs E. 11. Burlier. The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, arrived on .Tuesday evening, and sailed again, yesterday for Wellington with hemp. She is due hack with a cargo of general to-morrow. Mrs Mandl.entertained the members of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild in the schoolroom yesterday afternoon. There was a good attendance, and a pleasant time was spent. Messrs Puller's, Ltd., announce that Saturday’s programme includes a special feature which will he screened in addition to the usual programme, details of which will appear in Saturday’s issue. A dance, organised hy Mr W. Healey, will lie held in the Masonic Mall 10-niorrow night in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Pund. The music will he provided hy Mr R. Healey. The prices of admission are : Gentlemen Is (id, ladies Is. "Every winter the local Druids and Oddfellows Lodges and railway employees arrange a scries of crihhage tournaments, which create considerable interest. The first of this year’s series will he played in Mr Perreau’s rooms to-night. A Masterton party who went to the Otaki races had rather an unique. experience. They left. Masterton hy motor car at (i. 3() o’clock on Saturday morning. They encountered a very heavy frost in the Porty Mile Bush, a dense fog at Pahiatua, three or four mobs of cattle in the Manawalu Gorge, three punctures between tin l Gorge and Palmerston, two punctures thereafter, and eventually found themselves at Poxton. When they readied Otaki they wen* just, in time to see the last race ! A reporter waited on (he Mayor of- Christchurch on Saturday after the lirs( news of the German “victory" was put into circulation. Mis Worship was feeling a little damp and depressed'. Me said that the news was of a grave and serious character, so grave that the British people would he compelled more than over to realise that in this great, war they were in the hands of the god of battles. A recognition of national faults, and a humbling of national pride before Almighty God were necessary before the spirit that meant certain victory could he attained hy (he nation, and the shadow of what at present appeared to he a serious naval loss might help towards the realisation of dependence on the Deity. It is the wish of all M.P.’s To catch the Speaker’s eye. By perseverence they may all Be Speakers hy-and-hye. ’Tis not the wish of anyone To catch another cough, Take Woods’ Peppermint. Cure, and you Will stave’ the evil off. if See cheap rates, front pages Laidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Catalog. Thousands agree that NAZOL is is the surest and cheapest cough and cold remedy in the Dominion. Test it with the Nazol Inhaler.

Yesterday afternoon a “kitchen’’ afternoon was given by Mrs Fraser for Miss King, who is to be married shortly.

Al a meeting of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Build, Airs John Loss was appointed secretary, in place of Miss E. Koss, who has left box (on.