LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1626, 19 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

War Loan Cert ideates issued through tin l Lost Otlicc have now reached the total of f1.01i1.000.

A Masierton linn recently Hold n line of 1.000 4-year-old ewes, lor delivery in February, at 20- per bead.

Thomas West, aged 1 years, fell into a hath of boiling water at Christchurch on Tuesday, and was so severely scalded Iha I he died after removal to the hospital.

Frederick George Smith, a soldier pleaded not guilty at the Magi--irate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, to a charge of theft from a dwelling. He wa- ('oiamilted for trial. On two other similar charges lie plea<h“d guilty, and was committed for sentence.

Another two-star programme iamiouneed for Satnrdr.y afternoon and evening’ at (lie Town Hall. “Rosemary," a Metro, and “Sins of Society,” a World Filin product ion. A scenic picture of special interest is “Scenes on the Waikato River.”

“Taking a (’nance (comedy), find “.John Hull’s Sketch Hook, 7 ’ will nlso be screened.

The Board of Trade hits, for some time post, heen in communication with tint linns eoncerned with reyard io the price of petrol. 'Die tnerehitnls promised to advise llie Board when any chanye w;is nmde. find I lie eompnuies hove now informed them that the price of benzine has been reduced hy (id per case find the price of kerosene by 4d per ease.

The We.-d Coa>t lias -applied a large nttmher of fat cattle this yeat for the Christchurch markets, and another line of tine bullock.- wa- offered at the Addington saleyardlast week. They come from about !)0 miles south of Ross, and 2f steers sold at from Alt) to £2.1. ss, topping the market with the highet price. Cows and heifer- also maih from .f I I .15- to ,flti 10s.

At Wanganui, under tin* antishouting regulation-.. three young nii'n, Henry Slemp, Arthur Thomaaud James Delve-, were each lima 20s, without costs, and a barman at Chavannes' Hotel, Florence Corbin I. who supplied them with liquor was lined 10s without co-t-. and hei license suspended for -ix months In the ,-a-e of the licensee. Mr -I. (I Swan, .judgment was reserved.

Mr C. •). Parr. M.P., of Auckland as just returned from Eng land, considers that, in the mallei of land warfare, (treat Britain Inn had rare good fortune. Her recovery. manellou- a- it ha- been, w.-i----nearly too late. During the lir-i year there was especial delay in tin manufacture of munition-. 11 at (lerinaiiy then struck with her fit 1 force, iu-lead of blundering, then would doubt It 1 — have been an ending very different from that which has become apparent during tin pa-I t hree moat h-.

A large deputation of women wailed on the lion. A. 1.. llerdman at Wellington to urge the appointment of women police for Court work and the -a fegtia riling of the welfare of women and children in the -I reel-. The speaker- included Rady Stout, who referred to the good work done by women police elsewhere. The Miui-ter. replying, said I lie deputation would recognise that it would be folly to appoint women with full power- ol police ollicers. lie intended, however, to reque-l the (Jovernmenl to appoint additional police matrons for Court work, and tin- would go a long way toward- meet ing I lie depul.a I ion'- request.

Many hundreds t> 1' Malie:-.c have been a rri \iiiu in Australia daring recent months (writes Iha I’osl’s Sydney correspondent I. They are a useful class <>(’ labourer, and I hey have round employment, readily enough. on the mining lields, on railway works. and around tlie docks. Over -‘500,000 young Australians have eidisted, and it is obvious that extra workers are wanted in some industries. But the labour unions, not unnaturally perhaps, have taken great alarm. They insist that these men are coming in under contract to someone or other, and they have badgered the Federal and State Ministers unceasingly. The latter declare that they can discover no evidence whatever of a contract, and point out that the Maltese may quite probably ha\e been attracted to Australia in the ordinary way. Thyy are a put undesirable class of South European, who come from a place that has been British for a hundred years, and who speak English rather than Italian. Op broad, national grounds there can be no objection to admitting them to this population-hungry land. But the agitation goes gaily on.

The Brilish Board of Traded figures show Hint the cost of living ainong the working classes has increased from 4fi to fit) per coni, during the war period.

A small Wanganui boy, nine years of age, writing to his brother at the front, asks: “Have you dropped a bomb on the kaiser yet? You will notice I have not given the brute a capital K. v Owing to Hie sealing capacity of I he Town Hall being fully taxed last Saturday (‘veiling, intending patrons are advised to book seals either by 'phone 88, or at Mrs Teviotdale’s. There is no extra charge for book-

The case against Scoullar and Co., furniture manufacturers, Wellington, for alleged breach of a war contract for the supply of mattresses. which was to have been heard in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday afternoon, has been adjourned sine die.

The Japanese shipbuilders suffer an extreme shortage of materials, according to a recent exchange l , though in spile of this tin l industry has grown !>> a great extent. Tin 1 number of docks for ships of 1,000 lons and upward has grown from .18 to 37. Shipbuilding mechanics in Japan number 1(1,000. The demand for skilled foremen has gone up considerably, and since April last the wages have increased 1.0 per cent.

The War Pensions Board dealt hist week with .143 separain cases — s!i new claims, including' 33 1 rota soldiers and t2<> I'rom dependents; 5(! applications for the renewal of teinpornry pensions; 25 reviews of pensions granted last year for a period of 12 month,-; and .‘3 special application- for increases of pensions. 'file total number of pensioners I- now 3,21 ‘I, aggrega | ing „C2W».(ioO per annum.

A well-known Fox ton boy, (limner (I. Fraser, son of .Mr A If. Fra-er. .Mayor of Foxton, -end- its a leal from the "spreading- chestnut tree*' immortalised by Lone-fellow in “The Village Blacksmith.” also a photograph of the tree and the old smithy, darnel write-: ‘‘The seem* is only about three miles from our camp (Salisbury Plains). and is a very old-fa-hioned and picturesque -pot. The remains of the old blacksmith are interred in the churchyard there, and the date on the tombstone is 1 SOb."

Half a century ago three resident of Wellington—Messr- Cha-. F. Worth., diaries Gillespie, and Win. Cbri-tian Smith, who were bo.-om friend- —entered into a compact that when they died cadi one’s cof!in should be cm-a-cd in concrete in such a way that the whole block could be lifted out of the grave and removed to another part of the district should the ground he required for building or other pnrpo-e-. Air Smith, who wa- an architect and builder, drew up plan- and specification- of the propo-ed graves, and he and Me—r- Worth and Gille—pie signed an agreement. Me—rWorth and Gille-pie. who died some year- ago. were buried in accordance with lite trio'.- peculiar -cheme. Mr Smith pa—ed away last Sunday, and his cotlin wa- on Tuesday lowered into a bed of concrete in Kurort Cemetery, the mode of interment being identical with the burial of hitwo old friend-.

Mr Clement Wi - ;iuut‘. ilu* Meteor--111<>l;i--1. blames ilu> t-uu for the mild delude th;it Auckland h.-m lately experienced. "The -un is in nn altogether ahtiormal eor.dition." said .Mr Wrapge oti I'riday. "In fart, during my lone experience I do not remeinher the >un having been so active, Five enormous disturbances a.re now in operation on the solar photosphere, and they average from do.00(1 mill's to Id.ooo miles in diameter. That the mur-tial season — itieludiii"' the heavy raim is due to solar inlluettce there is no doubt whatever. The sun’s condition was the main cau-c of the heavy rain and Hoods in Australia, and the storm that lias jttsi heen experienced in New Zealand is the same as that which produced tin* heavy rainfall in Australia. \\ e wish our Australian friends to know that furl Iter heavy rains may he expected, and that the season in A, 11-1 ra!ia, apart from the damage caused hv lloods. will he distinctly Wood." Asked when he thought umbrellas might he 1 discarded and more seasonable garments donned. Mr \\ rupee was not too hopeful, lie said it would lake some time before I lie inlluenee id' the dist urhance ceased.

An interesting' Maori relic, in the shape of the hip-hone id' a celebrated Northern Native chief of eight or iitne general ions ago, was unearthed in a cave at Motalan recently. It is generally believed (says the Auckland Star) that the one-time owner of this portion of the human anatomy was Kawharu, a chieftain of the tribe of the Ngaliwhalnas. noted for his size. Sweeping over from the direction of Dargayille towards the Hay of Islands, he and his followers became a menace and a 1 error to all the other Northern tribes. It is said of him that he disdained the ordinary weapons of the Maori, and used only those supplied him by nature, his method being to seize his enemy, raise him above his head, and dash him to the ground. His great height, however, ultimately proved his undoing. During a tribal light one of his enemies crept forward, and smote hint on the shin with an axe, breaking the bone. The great warrior fell to (he ground and, w {( s speedily killed. Wanted known! It pays to buy your china and crockery at Walker and Furrie's. Choice and value second to none,

The local shopkeepers will observe a close holiday on Monday (Labour Day).

The other day (says the New Zealand Herald) a father, who lives not many miles north of Auckland, registered the birth of his seventeenth child. The pai’ent himself is more than eighty years of age.

(’abled advice has been received by the Department of Agriculture from the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Melbourne, stating that the authorities have decided that the price of Australian butter shall remain at Hid wholesale regardless of London parity.

As a result of police inspection, two hotelkeepers, Edward John Knapmau and Frederick Paget Jones, were each lined £2O (the minimum penalty) at Pahiatua yesterday. for having certain labels on whisky bottles not containing the particular brands named on the labels. The defendants pleaded guilty, and were allowed a month to pay the fines.

I'he \\ eslland Laud Board yesterday confirmed the grant of a. lease and reservations over 30.000 acres of bilsli land to the New Zealand Wood Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Company, Limited. The

company has a water-right over 3,000 Covernment heads to generate l lie necessary power; and further bash reserves totalling 30,000 acres have been set aside by the (iovernmeiil for (he purposes of the industry. The company is increasing its capital lif £20,000 for the purpose of commencing operations in the near future in the vieinilv of Otira.

The Ijondou correspondent of the Sydney Sun says; —“in Xew Zealand it is. I understand, fairly well accepted that Air Massey is to succeed Sir Thomas Alackenzie as High Commissioner, soon after his present joint journey to London with Sir-Joseph Ward. What future Mr Hindu's will have in the Empire only time will show, hut it is certain ht will have hold, opportunities to take a commanding Imperial leadership. Uespite the jealousies inevitable between Ibaninious, he is regarded in Canada and South Africa as the (rue leader of Empire consolidation and conservation, and his hold upon (treat Britain is being; maintained firmlv."

An application in the form of an originating summons came before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in Chambers at Wellington yesterday. The ease was one in which Sivirine Pelletsoii made application under the Family Protection Act, HH.'S, for an allowance out of the estate of her deceased husband, Johan Petterson. of Shannon, and for extension of time under the provisions of Section M 3 of that Act. His Honour granted the extension, and made an order that Airs Betterson he paid +32 per week as from April 1-1 la-t for life, and that the -inn of .+,'33 surplus payment he repaid to the Public Trustee out of the estate. Mrs Petterson was allowed +35 5s costs and disbursements out of the estate.