NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1599, 17 August 1916, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

A gold bar broordi sol with pearls, is advertised for. Beward.

The by-election for the Pahiatua seat is taking - place to-day. It is anticipated that Mr G. IT. Smith will win by a substantial majority.

In the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, Alexander McPhail was sentenced to live years’ hard labour lor a criminal offence on a girl.

Particulars of the Juvenile Annual Ball to be held under the auspices of All Saints’ Church, will be inserted in a later issue. It is proposed to devote half the net proceeds of the function to the Belgian Fund. The affair will take place in tin* Town Hall.

The Queen of the South, from Wellington with general, and the Awahou with a cargo of cement from Tarakohe, arrived yesterday. Both vessels sailed last night, the Awahou for Greymouth and the Queen of the South, hemp laden, for Wellington. The Queen of the South is due back again to-morrow afternoon with general.

The Mayor has received a telegram from the Minister of Finance, in which it is stated that the money order ollices throughout the Dominion will he open to-morrow and Saturday nights between 7 and 8..‘10 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving applications for invesfmeuts for the war loan.

The eause of the two out breaks of lire at Trent ham Camp on Sunday is still a mystery. The military authorilies have appointed a Hoard of Enquiry to thoroughly investigate the whole circumstances, and tills hoard is now engaged in taking evidence. The debris of the burnt buildings and coni cuts is now being removed, and elsewhere men are engaged in sorting out the thousands of pounds worth of clot him l ' that was salvaged. This clothing it has been found, is wholly undamaged (except; for one or two overcoats), and is til for issue.

One of our boys serving in France, in a letter has something to say about trench rats. He writes:

“The Irem'li rats are our greatest foes. Some seem as large as kittens. 1 used In he quite friendly with one in my dug-out. I named him Algernon. We used to quarrel a little over the rations (they were MY rations), hut got on fairly well until a pared came from home. It was a cake! and such a heautv! I’ll never forgive Algernon! He invited ALL his relations, and had a party with my cuke while I was sleeping! ! ! Well! I don’t knowlie’s gone now, so I’ll have to hud another.”

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s ?• Tho’ distrust may submit each new claim to dispute, Unanimity ever prevails, W here years of integrity build the repute Of a medicine that always avails. Such decisions are rare, and the sceptics beware Lest vile frauds should their favour allure; Eor they know tho sad dearth in such treasures of worth As Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 2ti

A good general servant is advertised for. Best wages to good worker.

The local postmaster has received a number of enquiries re applications for investment in the war loans. At Palmerston Supreme Court yesterday, Thomas Stanley .Madge, chai’ged with manslaugther, was acquitted. The hemp market continues very firm for deliveries up to the end of next month, prices offering being approximately; Good fair £3B 10s,

The hemp market continues very firm for deliveries up to the end of next month, prices offering being approximately; Good fair £3B 10s, high fair £37 10s, low fair £36 10s. Tow is in good demand at £l6 per ion for first grade, £ls for second grade and £l4 for third grade. The Supreme Court action ai Dunedin, Newburn, a youth, v. Zealand Coal and Oil Company, a claim of £2,000 damages for loss of both legs above the knees, the result of being caughl in machinery at the Kaitangala mine, has been settled by the payment of £I,OOO and costs.

.‘■Ynn were drinking about town with this soldier and other men,” said bis Honour (lie Chief .Justice (Sir Robert Stout) to a prisoner he was sentencing at the Wellington Supreme Court. ‘‘Unfortunately there arc* drunken soldiers in our midst," lie added, “’although the Parliament docs not seem to think Mr Fraser, S.M., at Onehunga, ordered Herbert Halloway to be deprived of civil rights for tlii’ce years for having failed to attend a Territorial parade. Defendant, who was deseribed as a persistent shirker, had enlisted, had Ids teeth attended to nt the Government’s expense, and then refused to .attend drill. 'flic engagement is announced of .Miss Flvina Aileen AlsdoiT, of

“Kiora," 34 Walker Street, Sydney, youngest daughter of the late Mr Walter Alsdorf, of Foxlon, to Mr •lolm P. .Middleton, J.P., second son of the late Mr Charles P. Middleton, of Manly, and Mrs C. Middleton, “Oondooroo,” Willoughby, Sydney, Xew South Wales.

A Maori youth at Professor .Norwood’s entertainment on Tuesday night disclosed that he was the possessor of a line voice and allegedly under hypnotic influence sang a .character song, “Mr Booze,’’ in a manner that called forth vociferous applause. The singer is travelling with Professor Norwood, and we are informed took a role in the Hinemoa opera.

The was a good audience at Professor .Norwood's entertainment in the Town Hall on Tuesday night, and they were kept amused and interested for about 21 hours. At times the antics of those under hypnotic influence sent the audience into tits of laughter. The entertainment was quite up to expectations as a laugh producer - , and was keenly appreciated from start to finish.

Regulations under tlie Wax - Kegulalions Act passed last session are being’ dratted by the Crown Law Cilice and will be gazetted in due course, interest chiefly centres round the anti-shouting'’ provisions of the Act; and in this connection it is interesting’ to note, says the 'Wellington Tost, that already two big Wellington clubs have brought the law into operation without waiting for the regulations. A Chinaman named Joe Pye was charged at the Palmerston Supreme Court on Tuesday with, at Palmerston on June 10th, assaulting Peter Xeilson in such a manner as to do grievous bodily harm. Accused pleaded not guilty. After a short retirement the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. The Grand Jury passed a resolution enquiring why the poliee had not taken action against the men for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Joe Pye, who was charged with assault. His Honour thought the motion a, proper oue, anil he would draw the attention of the poliee to it.

When thanking members for reelecting him Chairman of the Wanganui education Hoard, Air Pirani said to some extent lie was sorry to be re-elected. He was sorry for anyone who would bold the position during the next year. Without being egotistical, he thought that nobody except himself and Air Kraser would he able to do the work. The lirsl thing was to arrange with tlie Taranaki Hoard a conference to discuss the question of assets and liabilities in connection with the altered educational boundaries. They would also have to arrange with the Auckland Hoard. It would be a difficult task and a heavy burden for any chairman. The earnestness of the women of Sydney in connection with war work was remarked upon by a recenl Wellington arrival from that port in conversation with a Post reporter. One example was .symbolic, he said, of a great, many others. The wife and daughters of a very wealthy landowner had selected the poorest quarter of Sydney as the scene of their operations. They obtained the addresses of the relatives of soldiers in that district, called on them, invited them to cooking and dressmaking classes (all in the most unostentatious manner), dealt with uecessitous eases which had escaped notice. They worked from 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and it was xveeks before anyone knew where they had gone to or what they were doing. To this day their names have never appeared in print.

Our groceries never vary in quality you are always certain of obtaining the best at the lowest prices. • —Walker and Fume, Foxtou.

An evidence of the mildness, re-

ported in a local paper, of the season in Gisborne is the fact that a Kaiti resident is picking ripe strawberries from his garden.

Lieutenant Richard E. W. Riddiford, of Orui, Masterton, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallant conduct at the front in France. He is the first Wairarapa soldier to win the much-coveted medal.

The Wairarapa Daily Times says it is reported that an inmate of the Solway Home, Masterton, has established his claim to a sum of £62,000, which has been lying in Chancerv for manv rears.

Butter in cool store in the Dominion as on 15th August amounted to 20,300 boxes, as against 6806 boxes at the corresponding date of last year, or an increase of 13,503 boxes.

Mr R. A. Dixon, cashier at the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has received notice of his transfer to Waipukurau. The vacancy will lie filled by Mr .lackson. of Wellington, who will take np his duties on Mondav.

Complaints are general hy gas eonsnmers of late in reference to the objectionable smell of the gas. From enquiries wc learn that, soma steam coal which contains a higher percentage of sulphur, has been carbonised. This coal is not now being used.

Mr W. Poynton expressed the opinion ul :i public meeting; at Palmerston, that the rights of British citizenship were too easy of access. Some enemy subjects became naturalised Just to gel the old age pension and others‘so that they might dig gum. ‘‘lf we are wise, we will bundle ('very Him out of our country, h’ussia did il: Prance has done it. Why does not Xcw Zealand do the same? In all times, in all places, in all countries they are our enemies." —Lady Stout’s opinion of the Herman menace.

Of phormium libre Xew Zealand exported in dune last 1,052 tons, valued at £30,002, while in June, 1015, 1,03(1 tons, valued at £40,250, were sent away. For the first six mouths of this year the ligiu'es were, 12,107 tons, valued at £410,708, and for the tirst six months of 1015 they were 11,157 tons, valued at £249,200.

There seems no probability of the price of butter being reduced for some lime to come (says the Taranaki Daily Xews). The Inglewood Dairy Company has just refused an offer of 17d. f.o.b. trucks at rail-

way station, for its next three •months' hatter. An offer of 17jd. has been aceepted for one month’s Imtler. At Hie meeting of suppliers of the Lepperton Dairy Company, the chairman stated that the company had sold its local butter at 17-Id. in Xew Plymouth.

“It’s a most extraordinary state of things in Xew Zealand for a man to have to take his valuables out of his room when he goes to the bathroom. This is a new development. I have been travelling in the Dominion for very many years and have never laid anything stolen from my room in an hotel," observed the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the Palmerston Supreme Court when a theft from a hotel bedroom ease was in progress.

The District Health Officer (Dr Sydney Smith) is concerned about the general sanitary condition of Shannon, and has urged the Horowhenua County Council to carry out some very needful reforms in the township at the very earliest moment. He suggests that the council

should appoint an officer to control sanitary matters in all the small townships in the country, the salary of such an officer to be paid according to population. The council has decided to meet the District Health Officer, and arrange a course of action.

The over-age bachelor of good physique had a bad live minutes at the lecture delivered by Lady Stout at Palmerston on Tuesday night, lie is a moral shirker in the view of Lady Stout, who considers it: a disgrace that hoys under age who volunteered are taken in the forces, but healthy bachelors have been allowed to shirk simply been use they are over military age. ‘‘They havenot (‘Ven the courage to get married. if I had my way .1 would not only conscript them, hut 1 would press-gang these moral shirkers. Our racecourses arc full of them.’’

An impressive ceremony was conducted at the conclusion of Colonel Gibbon's address to the Kith Reinforcements at Treutluun Camp on .Monday afternoon, when a courtmartial sentence was promulgated by the Camp Adjutant, Captain Bell. The prisoner was a gunner in the 10th Reinforcements, who had been convicted by court-martial of escaping from confinement at Treniham in December last, and of deserting from His .Majesty’s Forces, fie having been found in civilian attire and engaged in civilian employment at Kiipiti Island during the present month. He was escorted by two military police into the centre of the hollow-square formed by the lOths, and when Captain Bell, mounted on horseback, commenced to read the proceedings the culprit had his hat forcibly removed. He stood there facing the whole draft, while Captain Beil, in clear-cut tones, read the charges and pronounced the sentence of 112 days’ 1 detention. The prisoner’s hat was then re-phiced on his head, and he was marched oil' the ground in eng, tody to serve his time.

For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. *

The infant child of Mi’ F. S. Silcock, headmaster of the Glentunnel School, Christchurch, met its death under tragic circumstances yesterday afternoon. Airs Sileoek was giving - the child its food in an old-fashioned feeding bottle, hut left it to feed itself for a minute or two, and on returning found the child dead, having been suffocated. The actions in which E. G. De Mey, of Te Horo, claims £2,000 and £5Ol damages from Percy A. Gillies and R. D. Harkness respectively, are set down for hearing at the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The cases are exciting considerable interest. Air Thos. Wilford will appear for plaintiff, and Air Myers for the defendants. The directors of Te Opakcto flaxmill, Levin, have donated £IOO to the county fund for returned wounded soldiers, and announce that the Patriotic Society can rely on a further subscription up to £2OO for the same purpose. Messrs AL H. E. Gorringe and X. W. Kirkcaldie have promised to donate £IOO each to the fund if £SOO is raised by the public.