LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1616, 28 September 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A committee meeting of the loculi Horticultural Society will be held on Friday evening, at 7.30 o’clock. Advice has been received that Killeman W. Krebs, late of Foxton, has been wounded in France, and has been admitted to hospital. Private Joseph Green has also been wounded and admitted to hospital. Only one remedy for coughs and colds bears the name XAZOL. And NAZOL is the quickest, spA, cheapest remedy. Tlowayc of “just us goods,"' Accept nothing but XAZOL.

The monthly sitting of tho Magistrate's Court will be hold before Mr J. W. Poynlon, S.M., to-morrow.

Mrs Einpson, Johnston Street, is prepared to undertake dressmaking. Terms moderate.

The death occurred at the I’aimers! on North Hospital on Tuesday afternoon of Mrs Mitchell, wife of Mr Thomas Mitchell, Avenue Road, Foxton. The deceased had been in the hospital for some weeks, fihe leaves a family of young children, the youngest being only seven months old.

Mrs F. Woods has received word thal her brother, Lieutenant Page, was wounded in the thigh, hip and spine in action on the 151 h inst. This is the third time that Lieut. Page has been wounded, first at the landing at Gallipoli, then earlier in the year in France, and again on the loth.

Something unique in moving pictures will be shown by a visiting company at the Town Hall on Monday next, in a 7,000 f(. war Him, entitled, “Fighting Round Verdun,” a splendid exposition of one of the most wonderful battles of the world war. ' Prices of admission are Js and Is, and seats may be booked at Mrs Tevio)dale’s.

The enterprise <>)' Mr M. Id. I’erreau is responsible For' lli(‘ establishment of :i Marble Bar in Foxton, wbbdi will be eonducied on the most up-10-dale iiin-s. 'l'ln- 1 r,un”*■ is situated in I’erreaii’s Buildiii”-. nml will bo opened on Sni itrdny. Tlic proprietor Ims -pared no ex)>ense in Jilting up tin- building, wbieh ha- been fund-bed ibrouehonl in oak, and tin- plant in-1.-ilb-d is 1 lie most up-to-date procurable. At the opening' on Saturday tin- Bar will be in elm rue of the expert wlm installed tlie plant, and re-blent-an- assured that the menu will be equal lo that of any of the la.fire (owns.

■‘Can a man sue bim-elf/" a-ked Mis Honour Mr Justiee Denni-ton at the Christehureh Sujireme Court, when a ease name on For In-ariim m wliieh the plaint ill' was also .loinen as one of the defendants (say- the Cress). The position wa- that the plaintiff was the tenant -if certain land, and also one of the tru-u-‘—. Mr Alpers. who appeared l-m inplaintiff, said that there was u<- authority for joining the plaintiff aone of the defendant-, but in donna so be bad fidlowed the u-tial pno--tiee of the court. Hi- Honour remarked that sui’li a cour-e wa- mu allowable under the Knaii-h law. However, he would mu at t-tv-rt;: remove the plaintiff's name from Tne list of defendant-, whb-h Mr per- expressed liim-elf willing r .T . until he had looked further into authorities on the matter. In reply to a lett-.-r ..t yr-.- - tioli of hi- 2" Year-' -errice a- • member of the < rCt; at a Board. Mr dame- M;mmn- m . “I am firmly n-nvittmt that aa rr-.-r----in relation the maimm m; education are approach-mu max. By steady -tet- atta ;a-M. mehtods ihe power- ..f Board:- h..‘ • been curtailed, and the tura ta aconferred upon then. iiy tht .-iva:or- of the iinttoimi edit.a.tma tent usurped by a centra,; dU-revr:-meni. with no c;,i n j,, -tit. , ; ,u-c. ami iticre.-ised n>-l to the natem, This lime. I feel assured, is no; tar distant when the people of the Dommion will have to decide whether at not there shall be an end to aa hvaI control, and the whole direction ot education rests in the hand- of the central authorities-, owim; n,, albh'iance to parents, and havimr no direct interest ui the wellare of the children." The Medaille Miiuaric which waj)reseuted to Senreani-Major B. C. Boate, at the Auckland Domain on Saturday is a neat decoration of ifold. silver and enamel, h i- -impended by ;i c’veeu and yellow ribbon. and is surmounted bv a cold represciiialion of old armour and cross cannon. The medal on the (diverse side bears the inscription, ‘■l\epui)lii|ue l’’rancai«e. 1570." and a has relief of the bead of Louis Napoleon. On the reverse side are the words. “Valeur et Discipline." Tin- Medaille Miliiare is strictly conlined to the military, and. allbouLth it may lu> awarded in times of peace as well as during war, it is held in the highest esteem. Ser-c'enat-Major Boate is the livsi New Zealander to receive the honour.

Nolson a* a place conducive to hmgevily received an excellent advertisement at a gathering of old identities on the Slh inst. About 150 old la ides and gentlemen were present. none oi' whom was under G 5 years of ace. The oldest person in the hall was Mr H. Harllrop, with a record of 8!) years to his credit. 01' I lie remainder, two were over Sti years; four (two ladies and two gentlemen! over So years; li vo over 84 years; seven over 83 years; eleven over 83 years, fourteen over 81 years; eighteen over SO years; (wenty-seven over 75 years;'thirty over 70 years, and forty over Go years. Many had spent the better part of their lives in the Nelson province; thirty had sjient over 50 years; twenty-one over 55 years; fourteen over GO years; eleven over bo years; seven over TO years; six over 71 years: lour over 72 years; tour over 7 3 years, and three over one Mrs Pairey, was horn in Nelson in 1843, and has lived there eyer since.

i->piing in the home! Springtime i« cleaning time, and we are ready to assist you with our splendid p . (>± Mo P«j Brushes, Pails, etc. t rices au moderate. Walker and r urrie, Poxton,

Worm ruins are fulling' throughout this district.

A number of local “sports” attended the races at Levin to-dav.

Mr James Costall, at one time a very well-known resident of Wellington, is at present on a visit to the city from Rongotea, says the Dominion. Mr Costall is one of tho earliest arrivals in New Zealand, having landed at Lyttelton as far back as 1855. Though his obituary notice was recently published in certain papers, Mr Costall is still hale and hearty, and like Mark Twain, ready to crack a joke over the premature announcement of his decease.

A soldier at, the front writes as follows to relatives in Christchurch;

—“They will seem to you reading I he lists to be very heavy, but everything goes into the casualty report. A fellow has to be careful of a stomach ache from over-eating, as if he dares to mention it someone will report him sick, and it will cost him a cable to New Zealand to say “he ain't.' I came across one of the runniest incidents the other day. A bombardier in the same batch as I am in, who has some Maori blood in him, was incorrectly rumoui’ed to have been killed, lie was very popular and well-known, and some of the Pioneers (Maoris) held a langi in his honour. A few days after, one'of the lads who had done him honour met him face to face in a trench, and went quite wild to lind him .-till alive, as he had done fourteen days for getting tight and all to no purpose.”