LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1577, 15 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The second of the series of dances under the auspices of St. Mary’s Church was held in the Masonic Hall last night. There was a, fair attendance, and a vei'y enjoyable time was spent. The music was supplied by Miss White, Miss Leuihan and Messrs P. Robinson and Keppell, and Air S. Hudson officiated as M.C. A very tasty supper was provided by the ladies of the parish. Another dance will be held on Friday, the 28th instant.

It is the wish of all M.P.’s To catch the [Speaker’s eye. By perseverence they may all Be Speakers by-and-bye. ’Tis not the wish of anyone To catch another cough, Take Woods’ Peppermint Cure, and you Will stave the evil off. II Cakes and Chocolates packed in sealed tins. All ready to send to our boys at the front.—Perreau’s.*

The Rev. W. Raino, vicar of All Saints’, who has been in attendance at the Wellington Diocesan Synod, relumed to Foxton on Wednesday night.

One of Foxton’s old and esteemed residents, Mr Spring senr., intends to leave shortly to take tip his residence with his daughter, Mrs Huse, at Waitara, Taranaki.

In 1915, 47,189 persons were dealt with in the Magistrate’s Courts of this country, 21,028 on arrest and 20,101 on summons. Of these, 43,990 were men, and 3193 women.

During 1915, 37,032 debt cases were tried in the Magistrate’s Courts of Now Zealand. The amounts sued for totalled £440,979, and the amounts recovered £383,531.

Arrivals in New Zealand from oversea during June totalled 1530, compared with 1921 in the corresponding month of 1915. The departures were 1825, as against, 1440 a year ago. These ligures do not include members of Expeditionary Forces. Chinese arrivals were 40 and departures 11. Land is continuing to change hands in the Mas ter ton and Wairarapa districts at prices which were not dreamed of a few years ago (says the News). In one case a property was purchased seven years ago at £9 per acre. It changed hands a year or two later at £l4 per acre. And now an offer has been received of £42 per acre. The third of the series of cribbage tournaments between teams representing the combined Friendly Societies and the railway employees was played in Mr Ferreau’s rooms on Thursday night. Seven tables were occupied. The result was a win for the Friendly Societies by Ihe narrow margin of one point, the totals being 25 —24. It was decided to hold another tournament on Thursday, the 27th instant.

Mr W. 11. Field is asking the Minister of Internal Affairs whether he will lose no time in coming to a decision iis to what are the best steps to take to prelect, and regulate the slaughter of, oppossums in New Zealand, with the object of establishing what will undoubtedly become a. magnificent industry in this country, but which is now being threatened with destruction.

The Hu a trial entered its thirtieth day at Auckland on Thursday. At the outset Judge Chapman said: “Well, gentlemen, I think wo may say that we have established a record so far as a trial in Now Zealand is concerned. I once had a similar case which lasted 28 days, but I don’t know of a longer one, I can only once again express my sympathy with yon. We are a baud of martyrs, and should remain such for the rest of our lives.” (Smiles in the jury box.)

Says the Christchurch Press: — We do not believe anybody in New Zealand objects to pay his fair share of the cost of the war. But nobody likes injustices. A Bill which adds 150 per cent, to the income tax of the struggling clerk or professional man with £3OO or £IOO a year and only 50 per cent, to the income tax of the man with £SOOO a. year, cannot he defended on any grounds of equity. And a, Bill which penalises young firms who arc just turning the corner and beginning to do well, hut does not touch old-es-tablished linns who have enjoyed a regular llow of prosperity for years has something radically wrong in its drafting.

“The hearts of many fathers and mol hers sink within them,” remarked Chaplain-Captain D. C. Herron to an Otago Daily Times reporter on Monday, "when their hoys get away, and they think that within seven or eight months they may he in Ihe tiring line, hut all of us do not realise that the. biggest battle Unit many a man will ever be called up to light will he during the first ten days of camp life. A man’s altitude during those few days will often determine the whole of his earthly career. Broadly speaking, there are three classes of people —those who morally are definitely on the up grade; those who are just as obviously on the down grade; and between these two the great host that might he termed neutral. Once in cam]) a man quickly realises that there are no neutrals there, and that that very large class must he reabsorbed either among those who are going up or going down. A man is compelled to make his decision either to buckle <m his harness and light as he never fought before or to drift with the stream.” Captain Herron, who is a chaplain of the Presbyterian Church, is visiting Dunedin just now from Trentluuu in order to secure urgently-needed additional accommodation and comforts for the men. He is appealing especially to Presbyterians, of whim there are on an average 1200 in Treutham camp alone.

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The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, arrived this morning. She will sail again for Vi ellington to-night with hemp.

“There is no country in the world where the stock is freer from disease than in New Zealand,” said Sir \\ alter Buchanan, at the Couamlj of Agriculture. •

The Girls’ Guild acknowledge with thanks donations from the following: Messrs 0. Robinson, R. N. •I. G. and R. A. Spoirs, H. E. Baughen, R. A. Dixon, .1. Bolder, 6. Nesbitt, and W. Signal senr. Also from Miss Bertha Gower (proceeds of impromptu concert).

In consequence of the depletion of their staff by enlistments, the Bank of New South Wales has found it necessary to close the subbranch at Shannon after July 17th. No fewer than 445 members of the stalf of the bank voluntarily enlisted for a (dive service, and of this number 23 have been killed, died, or are missing. It is stated that a party at Stafford has pumped the water out of one of the old shafts that were sunk years ago on the excellent lead of gold that ran through that locality, and has struck a good payable wash. If this is correct, (says the Grey River Argus) it is good news for the district, and the lind will in all probability again put in motion a large area of country —about three miles —between Stafford and Callaghan’s.

The current programme at Fuller's is a particularly good one, featuring as a special attraction a star drama by the London Film Company, “Whoso Diggeth a Pit,” a thrilling dramatic story featuring Charles Rock, Gerald Ames, and Gwynnc Herbert . Supporting pictures arc; “Getting Rid of Aunt Kale,” comedy; “Stolen Glory,” a

Keystone comedy with Fred Mace and Ford Sterling 1 ; “Assayer of Lone Gap,” drama; “The Latest Topical Gazette.

There is evidently some difficulty in determining the life of a motor car. In a ease before the Supreme 'Court at Wellington, the Chief Justice put the question point blank' to a witness; What is the life of a motor car? When a man has used his ear for about three years, said the witness, it is lime to get a new one. Then, is three years the life of a motor ear? queried the examining counsel. “I should say so,” observed the witness. Would it not depend upon the owner’s use or abuse of the car? remarked a junior counsel. ‘•Of course,” said the witness, “if a man is reckless in the use of his ear it may not last more than two years.” But, generally speaking, in about that time an owner tires of his ear, said an expert, and sees some other ear he likes better, swops his own away for a new one, and a hundred or two to boot, and so gets a new car every two or three years.

"Then,” observed the Chief Justice, with ;i smile, “keeping a motor ear is a far more costly luxury than I had imagined.”

The law regarding the Sabbath Day provides that no than shall carry on his usual trade or business within the view of passers-hy. Two Chinamen, Jim Long and Jim Lee, who were brought before Mr P. V. Frazer, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court, admitted that they had broken this law by market gardening in Ponsouby on Sunday, July 2nd. William Cowsill, who had clipped the Chinamen’s horse, who was also charged with a breach of the law, pleaded that horse-clipping was not his usual trade, hut admitted that all hough a general labourer he clipped on an average 12 horses a week. He also added that the public could uni see him at work. Mr Fraser said that in future defendant must lind some mol hod of hiding his horse-dipping operations from, the public eye. Defendant was lined 3s tid and costs 7s. The Chinamen, who said (hey had worked because they saw Cowsill working, were each lined Is and 7s costs.

Commenting on the Loyal Commision’s report re the wharf, the Palmerston Times says; “A very much mo re economical tribunal could have done that! (what the Commission accomplished). Ihe compromise, by which it is suggested that a small rating district should be established to lind the wherewithal to buy out the Kailway Department, which has been squatting on the wharf like a benevolent brigand for many years, will lead to nothing more than embittered controversy. Probably it is too much to say that the Commission's report is not worth the paper it is written on. It is quite what anyone might have expected who studied the order of reference. A quite reasonable commentary on the proceedings is that as far as the Fusion wharf is concerned, a better arrangement than is suggested could have been, made by three or four representative business men at a round-table conference. The other proposals were merely jimk and make-weight, and were never intended to be taken seriously. The Commission disposed of those at short notice. And now the essential part of the business will have to be taken in hand just as if the Commission—whose findings have no ? legal validity-had never sat at all.

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