LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1564, 15 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wairarapa publican was lined .€2O hist week for putting draught whisky into a bottle labelled “Buchanan’s wbiskv.”

When the Verdun bailie was at its height, (bo British asked leave to attack, but dolTre replied : “Remain where you are ; T am bolding them with one hand.”

The Otaki Mail warns local tradespeople and others who handle much cash to lx* on the watch for spurious half-sovereigns, which are in circulation in Otaki. One was presented at one of the hanks on Friday last. It looked a genuine coin, hut, on (dose examination, proved to he nothing hut a, gilded sixpence.

Notice of motion lias boon given in Ihe House by Mr R. 11. Fletcher to ask the Prime Minister the following ((iiestions : (1) Whether, in view of the fuel Unit ■wheat is at practically the same price as it was in August, when bran was £3 ])er ton, ami pollard i‘;> per ton, he will slate the reason why bran is £5 per ton and pollard £S per (on at the present date? (2) Whether he will state the reasons why at the present dale the prices of pollard in Australia is £5 15s per ton and in New Zealand £8 per ton? Members of the llorowhemm County Conned are firmly convinced, after a fair trial, that the present system of ranging (proceeding against owners of straying' stock) is most satisfactory, fur before the old system, and is paying well. Already the tines have amounted to a considerable amount, the roads are considered much cleaner, and the Council has just granted an increase of £2O to the ranger's salary, to enable him to procure a motor car for his work. For-Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Don’t leave the lightness and digestibility of your scones and cakes to ehance. Use SHARLAND’S Baking Powder—it is hound to rise. Thousands agree that NAZOL is is the surest and cheapest cough and cold remedy in the Dominion, Test it with the Nazol Inhaler.

The Supreme Court' sittings in Palmerston X. are adjourned until 1711 1 July, when tiio case Spoil's v. Wall will Ito rosnmod.

Mr Field, M.P. asked the Minister of Agriculture, whether he does not think that the time has arrived for the compilation by (he Government of a comprehensive work on New Zealand farming, much of the material for which is at present available but in fragmentary form, in the published humbers of the Agricultural .lournal. The Hon. Mr MacDonald (Minister of Agriculture), in reply, said : The suggestion will receive sympathetic consideration after the war.

The following will contribute items at the social to be held under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church management, in the schoolroom (his evening : —Misses Woods (Whangarei), D. Signal, Bryant, Kempt on, Mesdames Tevioldale, Freeman, Messrs .J. Stewart, 11. Osborne, C. F. Johnston, Bullard, Henderson, Aitken, Claris, Matheson, and Hornblow. Refreshments will be provided by members of the Ladies' Guild. Admission Is, children (id.

Horatio AV. Botlomlev, editor of the London weekly, John Bull, has been converted by the war from atheism to a belief in God and in immortality. inasmuch as John Bull is said to have 1,(100,(100 readers, remarks an American exchange, many of whom take their opinions from its pages, this conversion can hardly he without effect. It may be said in passing, that one of John Bull's favourite pastimes has been bailing the United Slates for not entering the war.

Tlu 1 Chief Justiee paid a (iuo tribute. in his article on “Foxlon impressions” (published in our lasi issue), to (he* Foxlon linkers when ho said : “The host broad obtainahlo in any town' I have visited in Now Zealand is lo bo got in Foxton.’’ Hals off lo the Chief Justice, bakers! We can endorse I his opinion, and even if a little more is charged in Foxlon I ban elsewhere, the quality of the article more than compensates. If our local bakers can turn out biscuits of equal merit with the bread they manufacture —and there is no reason why they shouldn't — then there should be a good outside demand for the output if a biscuit faetorv wen* started.

Russia has gathered in an enormous number of prisoners, exceeding, on present reports, the total captured in General Brusilolf’s tirst invasion of Galicia (including the faking of Lemberg), up to the middle of September, 101-1. In seven days during the sweeping Russian advance, culminating in the capture of Lemberg, about 70,000 prisoners wen* taken. After only a week of the new offensive 1 , the captures touch 1L),000. In the great German victory of Tannenberg, in Eest Prussia, Von Hindenburg captured unwounded men estimated to number 00,000. The Russian “bag" is among the records of tin* war. If figures recently cabled out are correct, more than one-sixth of the total Austrian strength lies in the hands of the Russians in prisoners alone.

A possibility <*i' a union of ilit* churches Inis been mentioned in Auslralia. Speaking ;il a public itK's‘l in” in connection with the Congregational rnion, the (Inventor of Queensland (Sir Hamilton (loold Adams) said the world had arrived at a momentous epoch in it' history. Were there going to he changes in the religious ideas They knew (Jennans were attempting to undermine all the truths In tiffin hy Christ. Mercy. truth, and honour would he swept away if (ienuany triumphed. As a layman he wished something 1 more could he done to reconcile the ditVerences of the various churches throughout the whole world. Tie knew there was a move in that direction, and expressed the greatest regret that one or two churches were hesitation'. As a member of the Anglican Church, he regretted that his church was one of them. Could not the laity do something' to encourage the clergy to draw together and let the people know what were the doctrines the people should follow?