LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1632, 2 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All local business premises will bo closed to-morrow, People’s Day at the .Mariawain A. and D. Show.

The following are the vital statistics for Koxton for the month of October: —Births !), deaths 1. marriage certificates issued 2.

Tin* collectors of donations through the Patriotic Boxes are reminded t hut the October donations should be collected and handed in to Mr E. Ilea lev bv (he f>( It instant.

During the month of October rain fell locally on 14 days, the maximum fall being on the 10th, when one inch was registered. The total rainfall for tin 1 month was 2.48 inches.

All the carting in connection with the forwarding of the goods for the Patriotic Luncheon to Palmerston this week was done gratuitously by Mr Andresen, to whom the local committee express (heir thanks.

Under the arrangement entered into between the Government and the producers, 227 licenses to export but ter from the Dominion ha ve already been issued. No limit is placed on the epiantity that may be export ed.

The house-lly, according to Professor Kirk, is more übiquitous than most people imagine. Itis range is two miles, and he can go from a quarter to half a mile in an hour. The Professor recommends tin* following tanglefoot recipe; 8 parts resin, 4 linseed oil; melt and add one;, part of honey. Putting it on wires gets tin 1 best result.

After referring to the “splendid balance of trade" and recent, improvements in the same, the Trade h’eview says; “According to present indications our exports for (he coming season should show further increase, but owing to the high cost of goods imports may also increase l . However, a good balance appears assured, and consequentl.v a good supply of funds (lowing into tin 1 Dominion."

America is becoming a nation of motor car owners, and it is estimated that by the l beginning of 1017 there will be l one car in the United Stales tor every 25 inhabitaiits. This means that in January next there will lee- some 1 ! lung like 4,04(i,004 c:irs in Anmriem, the l aggregate 1 value of whiedi will be l some l ! hing lilce l .(MO,01)0,000. The- cost, of running the cars alre-ady on Anmrie-an roads is simply staggering. Themeare 1 , accoreling lo the l latest (lovemnmcnl eamsiis, 2,445,004 cars in use. At an average upkea-p of only .CSO caedi per" year, the gigantic sum of ovem f 122,250,000 is arriveal at, anel ,1. - 50 wouhl be l a long way nneler Ihe actual average running easts. The Ameriemn car imluslry is now suedi a gigantic business that we may faii'lv wotieler where 1 it will end.

Feu 1 being conea-rneal with Henry Brma 1 ami Henry Vaughan, now nndemgeiing penial scrviluele, who gave ewielemce-, in forging a eloemment purporting to be- a will, (Range l Kennedy or Kemnaway (ageal 45). was semiemceal at the l Old Bailey recently to 10 yemi's' penial servitude l , ami William Ilann (04) to live ye-ars. (lemald Kemnaway. who was ealucaleal at Cambridge University, is gemerally ivcogniseal to be 1 tin l edeve-rcst of forgers. W hem any e'l'iminal wanleal mnylhing done l with a pen he- sought out Kemnaway, while l the l “e-rooks" id' America ivcogniseal him as their master. “Jim the l I’emman." saiel a pedice ol'lie-em, “was a novie-e compareel with him. What Kemnaway e-oulel not do with a pen in the matlem of copying a signature l no man conlel 1 1 1 >; he- emuld empy anything in live 1 minutes.” There wees always an unmistakable 1 ball mark about his work. But it was often impossible 1 to bring home to him any particular offemce. lie- was far too valuable 1 lo the criminal community for anyone l to give l him away.

A brief respite from the worry of tilling up Government papers has been afforded us here (writes the Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald) by the non-arris val at the post office of the forms necessary in connection with the gooseberry bush registration. We have, however, not quite done with the excess-profit calculations. Letters arrive from the Tax Commissioner easting doubts on the accuracy of figures that show the production of wool at 14d and ol but-ler-fa I at Is (id to be occupations that lead to financial disaster. The census papers are off our minds, and owing to the very clear manner in which they were drawn up gave comparatively little distress. I did hear of one man who got confused with perusing the examples of the proper mode of tilling the blank spaces and, because his name was not .(ones (the example given), concluded he had no right to enter his actual patronymic, and so he increased the tally of the Jones tribe by the number of his family.

Tin* |>of it ion for a municipal baleory in Levin lias Ijc*cu signed by over 300 people.

A niovoinent is on Tool in (Held 1° liglit ilie township hy electricity, and surveys are living made of the Waitoim stream, which it is thought wul provide sutheienl motive [lower for the purpose.

It is reported from Nelson that that district will soon have a million eases of fruit to dispose of per season, and at a recent meeting of (hose interested in the industry a speaker emphasised the need of direct shipment, and of motor traction or railway facilities to lap the fruit-growing districts, and enable (he fruit to be efficiently handled.

According to a message from Berne, Switzerland, the .Minister of Justice in the Grand Ditchv of Baden has decreed that single women betrothed to soldiers killed in llie war or missing may style themscives ‘-Frau” (Mrs), and also, in certain cases, may adopt the family name of the men to whom thev were engaged.

It is reported (hat a new Norwegian shipping company is likely to open a regular service (o Australia in the course of the next few months. The most meagre information is available at present concerning (he position, hut if is understood that the vessels are all of the cargo class, and will he large carriers, especially of limber. The fleet to ho Used has been secured; in fact, it is reported that some of the vessels that will he used in the serviee are already known in Australia, and have visited that country, under charter, at various times.

Remarkable directions regarding his funeral were left by 'Major Henry Ernes) Baskerville Walton, late of the -Ith Dragoon Guards, of Sussex Sipiare. Brighton. Be ordered that—-Xo gloves, hatbands, scarves and cloaks, or “other disgusting paraphernalia of tin* undertaker” were to be worn at his funeral, and the horses used were to be brown, bay, grey or ( bestnut. and “not the usual undertakers’ slab-sided Belgian horses, behind which not gentleman would care to be* seen, dead or alive." Major Walton, who left estate to the value of £102,‘225, made bei|uests to servants and charities.

The last chance for voluntary enlistment is for the 23rd Reinforcements, which go into camp on the I.'Jlh insl. (Monday week). Men willing to join must go to the Defence Office, Palmerston North, or see Sergi.-Major Archer at the Masonic Hall next Tuesday, between (he hours of 2 and A p.m. The Sergt.-Major is coming to .Foxton for a last try to get men under the voluntary system. As the 24th Reinforcements will be taken by ballot to go into camp next month, all men willing to enlist and unable to be at the 'Masonic Hall on Tuesday next may till in a registration card with the Mayor, at Ids office in Main Street.

Talking of fashions, says an English writer, there is much chargrin in army circles at the recent order forbidding the Charlie Chaplin moustache. It was so youthful and becoming, that little piece of Huff. The elderly second lieutenants are specially incensed at its abolition. Tin l young ones, of course, can afford not to mind, although the full moustache —“covering the whole o)f the upper lip,” as the official notice, has it —will he much more difficult for some of the baby subs to grow. It is amusing to note that this description, “the Charlie Chaplin,’- 7 did actually occur in “Orders,” usually so dignilied and uncolloquial a document.

Sixty-three tears of age. and never saw a railway train until last week. This sounds incredible (says 1 ho Waikato Times), but it is a fact, for Mrs Mary Jerome iiad not, until her arrival in Hamilton a little l over a week ago, ever set eyes on railway rolling-stock. Cor 57 years she has lived at Te Mata, a hack country district in the hills to the south of Raglan. She is a native of Taranaki, and at the age of seven years journeyed with her parents by summer and coach to Waikato, and on to the Te Mata district. Last week, however', she was subpoenaed to appear at the Supreme Court, Hamilton, hence her new experience.

Tin* "foods sent IVura Foxton on Tuesday morning for Hie pa!riotic luncheon rooms at (he Maim wo I u A. and I’. Show included the following: 4 sacking' pigs, weighing 85 lbs., 12 cooked joints weighing 54f lbs.. !) longues ( IJ)v His), a hams (7(i Ihs.), Hi hollies pickles and saaee, 1 (|iiart mint sauce. 1 quart salad dressing. 3 dozen lettuces, 5 Ihs. cooked heel, quantity spring onions, IS plum puddings (78 Ihs.), (it) cakes (201 Ihs), 37 sponge rolls 441 ihs), 23!) scones, 4(12 sausage rolls, 324 small cakes, 3(i Ihs. bread, l(! Ihs. hatter, 1 Ih. tea, 17 bottles paste, 2 tins ami 1 hotHe fruit, 50 dozen fresh eggs, and 20 dozen hard boiled eggs. In addition to the ahove, subscriptions totalling ,€22 14s 3d were received. The expenses totalled only !)s 10d, made up of railway freight, (is 4d, labels Is, and cleaning up Council Chamber 2s (id, the sum of €22 4s 5d being handed to Mrs Penny, secretary of the Town and Country Patriotic Markers’ Committee. Well done, Poxton !