LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1598, 15 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts amounting' to £B2O IDs Id were passed for payment at last night’s Council meeting. The Government offices throughout Mew Zealand will be closed on Dominion Day, September 25th. In last week's Gazette appears a, proclamation changing the name of “German Bay,” Akaron, to Takamat ua.

’Without hesitation, the executive of the Feilding Patriotic Society has decided to recommend the society to incest £5,000 of its funds in (he Government war loan.

Last night’s Borough Council molding was conducted expeditiously. and without unnecessary loss of lime. The silting lasted exactly an hoar.

There were present at. last night's Borough Council meeting; The Mayor (Alt’. Fraser Fsp.), Crs Bryant, Geo. Coley, Freeman, Simmons, Stevenson and Thompson. Apologies for absence were reeoived from Crs Henderson and McColl.

Mi* Joseph Dawson, bridge engineer. has drawn up plans for I lie const nu-l ion of a bridge over the Manawatu !Mvt'r, on I lie oi lier side of Palmerston North. The structure will he dhtlft. in one span, with eonerete piles and Moor, and the cost will not exceed £3OOO.

Cr Stevenson milled a ( lent ion at last night's Council meeting' to. a chimney left standing on the site of a house recently destroyed hy lire in .Norhilon Poad. It was a source of danger to children playing’ in the vicinity.—The Council decided to order same to he razed.

The peculiar sight of men digging up a motor-car was seen at Eskdale last week, dust he fore the flood, a large car was left standing in a dip in the main road in the valley, and when the river overflowed the water, heavily laden with silt, engulfed the car. The silt was gradually deposited, until the whole car, excepting the hood, was completely huried.

The Pahiatua hy-election is proceedingly quietly. The general opinion is that Mr (I. H. Smith, who is well-known throughout the elecI orate, will top the poll on Thursday next. .Motions expressing appreciation of the earnest manner in which the late Mr ■!. 11. Escolt carried out his duties in the Pahiatua electorate have been passed by local bodies in Pahiatua, Woodville. and Akitio.

Two little children wore observed lo he taking eoiil from the Kailw:iy Wharf at on Saturday morning, mid :i constable endeavoured to nrrest them. There were about -‘{oo waterside workers in the vicinity at tiie lime, and a mob of them a I lacked the constable, and a rough and tumble ensued, in which the children were enabled to escape, making oil' as fast as they could. The incident looked as if it would have a serious ending at one time, but nothing furl her happened, save I lia I 1 In* constable was hooted by the water,siders, says the Dominion.

At a meeting of Ihe management committee of the Wanganui District. Educational Institute, held on Wednesday evening, the following resolutions were agreed to: —“(a) That this meeting, having read the correspondence involved in the charges recently brought by a committee of imiuiry erf the Wanganui Education Board against Air dames K. Law, headmaster of the Aramoho school, and being convinced that such of the charges as are not frivolous are based on misconception, remits the consideration of the whole matter lo t lk* executive of the New Zealand Educational institute, and urges upon it the propriety of taking 1 every possible step not only to vindicate Mr Law's reputation as a teacher and his honour as a gentleman, but also, if possible, to bring to account those involved in the proceedings of the committee ol inquiry. (b) That this meeting, having considered the charges brought bv Mr dames K. Law, headmaster of the Aramoho school, against two of his assistants, and being convinced that tin 1 thorough investigation of these charges and their surrounding circumstances is of vital importance lo headmasters throughout tin' district, remits the consideration of the matter lo the executive of the -New Zealand Educational Institute, and urges it to make such representations to the Wanganui Education Hoard as shall induce the Hoard to make a careful inquiry into all the circumstances of I he case."

The analyst sal in his sanetuni alone, His stall' had gone home for (ho night,

And he soliloquised thus, in a critical lone, As he held a retort to the light; “Yes! Yes! 1 confess ’(is compounded with skill, Its components are potent and pure; if thro’ chill 1 fall ill, I most certainly will Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.” 05

1?. T. Belly has just landed a Urge sliipuient of footwear direct ■from Ihe manufacturers, inspection of which is incited. Included in the stock is a good selection of the famous “Lquity” footwear, the makers of which arc contractors for the Government supplies to the troops. Mr Betty holds the sole agency for the district for this wellknown brand of hoots and shoes.

The recent rains have brought, down another Hood in the Manawatu river, and the road to Shannon on the other side of the bridge is again under water. The water, however, appeared to he at its highest hist night, and provided that Ihe warm weather does not melt I ho snow on the ranges too quickly, should go olf almost immediately. Trentham Camp was the scone of two outbreaks of lire on Sunday, one occurring (hiring the forenoon in the paint-shop. I( made a clean sweep of that and other stores, as u ell us gulling'the olliccrs’ mess. The second out break, which took place about two o’clock in the af(erinion, was in Ihe big supplv store, one half of which was completely destroyed with its contents. The building in which the lircs occurred are about thirty yards distant from one another, and there is a camp road and railway crossing between them. Up to the present the cause of the outbreaks remain a mvsterv.

The offences for which Daniel Alexander M’Donald, a delicatelooking youth of 30, came up for sentence at Wellington Supreme Court was that of the theft of a postal packet containing money, to which lie had pleaded guilty at New Plymouth, His Honour said it seemed to he a typical ease. A series of dishonest .acts have been committed under such circumstances as to bring' suspicion on the whole office. It is in these cases that the Court Ims almost uniformly refused to grant probation, or an equivalent to probation. 1 must say Iha I a I present I do not see my way to do anything else hut impose a term of imprisonment ; hut I will 'have the prisoner brought before me again early in tbe week.

Music plays a large part in the spare hours of the men in the training camp at Peatherston. There are 20 pianos there, and for I‘2 months the camp has possessed a brass hand. “As each contingent goes,’' said a bandsman, "we think we arc going to lose our hand, hut other players come on to till up the gap.” An officer was asked: “Do yon have much talent in the entertaining line?" The officer replied: “It would surprise you, the talented men who enlist. Wo have fellows who are topnolchers in every way. Take this lot —the sixteenth —the very best yet: we have a, clever solo pianist, a tip-top 'cellist, a splendid tenor singer, a basso profnudo, and an officer who actually played in ‘Hamlet’ in Sir Deerhohm Tree's dramatic company in Loudon."

“To-day,” said Dr. Pomare, with striking eloquence, in supporting: ;i motion of determination to continue the war pnssod nl (In' conclusion of Parliiiini'nl last week, “tho Aegean breezes sliv the grasses over the graves of mine and yours, and wherever the Maori hears the moan of the wind, whenever he hears the boom of ihe guns, it reminds him

that away beyond the seas, ntn has got lo be brought about for Iris dead.” For this reason tin* Maori's determination to end Ihe war victorious was ;jusl as indexible as that of (he pakelia. One result of the war would be the cohesion of the Empire and an understanding between (he different races under the British (lag. The spirit of K’ewi and other hig lighters lived in the Maori to-day, and he cried in the same spirit of defiance: “Ake! Ake! Ake!” for ever and for ever.

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods - ’ Great Peppermint Cure.