LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1635, 9 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

The monthly meeting of iho local Patriotic Society will be held in the Council Chambers this evening, at 8 o'eloek.

Constable IJnnlon leaves Foxton 10-morrow for Ashhurst to relieve Constable Herlihy, who met with an accident on Tuesday.

Two absconders from the Weraroa Training Farm were arrested at Foxton yesterday and escorted to Levin yesterday afternoon.

The challenge howling match for the Cold Stars, to have been played at Shannon yesterday afternoon, was postponed on account of the wet weather until next Wednesday. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the residence of Mrs Alex. Ross yesterday. Occasion was taken to welcome the founder of the Guild, Mrs Ait ken, who is on a visit to Foxt on.

A (ire occurred in the llax on the Alouloa Fslale last week', and a considerable area of two-year-old leaf was destroyed before the outbreak was got in hand. The damage is estimated at about £2,0110.

A Christchurch man who has just returned from a visit to Australia states that the agricultural and pastoral prospects have never been brighter, notwithstanding the recent. Hoods in New South Wales and Yict oria.

The Wairau river has overflowed at Taumariua and Spring Creek. Serious damage was done lo .the crops, and it is feared railway communication between Blenheim and Piet on will be inteiTupted, also the motor service from Blenheim to Nelson.

It is estimated that during the current export season meat sold to the Imperial Government will return to producers, or whoever disposes of the meat, .C 10,000,000. The export is expected to amount to the equivalent of 7,000,000 carcases of 001 b. this including beef.

The Levin Borough Council has decided by five votes to two that the time is not opportune for establishing a municipal bakery. Two hundred and fifty ratepayers signed a petition in favour of the proposal. It was mentioned during the debate that a local baker is selling bread at 3Ad a loaf.

At the Palmerston North Show last week a fat eow was penned, and Mr M. Funnel I, of Ashhurst, guessed the exact weight—932lb.—which entitles him to a £lO note. The second and third prizes were divided between Messrs (I. R. M’Kenzie, Carnarvon (931 A 11).); F. s. M’Rae, Palmerston North, and F. O. Andrews, Christchurch (each 932A1b). Constable Herlihy, of Ashhurst, met with a very painful accident on Tuesday afternoon, by which be lost tin* first linger of the left hand. He was hanging up a side of bacon to the ceiling, and lost his footing, and in attempting to prevent himself from falling, clutched at the hook in (In* ceiling, which caught, in his linger and pulled it out at the socket. Constable Herlihy is suffering severely from shock, and it, will be a considerable time before he completely recovers from the mishap.

The news that New Zealand had adopted compulsion made an excellent impression in Britain, according to the Hon. \V. C. F. Camcross, M.L.C., who returned from London on Sunday. On .any occasion when the Parliamentary delegates mentioned t he Dominion’s legislation in that direction, their remark's were received with enthusiastic applause. Mr Carncross said the result of the conscription vote in Australia, as at present indicated by the returns, would cause keen disappointment in Britain. "AVe often come in contact with the famous Scottish regiments here, and I can (ell you candidly we are always on the host of terms with them,” writes a member of the New Zealand Division to a Wellington resident, from “Somewhere in France.” “Recently we had a lecture by a major out of the Gordon .Highlanders on the new bayonet, tighting, and it was most interesting and educating. In his opening remarks he said In* was exceedingly pleased lo have the chance to meet, the An/acs in his capacity as instructor, though on two previous occasions he had met some of them in England, having played against (he ‘All Blacks.’ He said we had taught, them football, but he was getting his own back by teaching us the bayonet, and I think he is right.’’

The Wairarapa Age says;—lt is stated that at a school visited |>y the organiser of that strange body known as the “National Service League,” the boys destroyed all their rulers on discovering they were “Made in Germany.” We do not know whether the organiser is proud of this wanton act of destruction. The rulers wore probably purchased in good faith before the outbreak of war, and their destruction means nothing more nor less than a levy upon poor parents of the children. It is all very well to encourage the children to buy British made goods. It is quite another thing to teach them to be recklessly extravagant. We may next hear of boys taking German made axes and destroying the pianos in their homes, because the bitter were made in Dresden. The “National Service League” should be made to understand that loyalty and madness are not synonymous terms.

See cheap rates, front pages Laidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Catalog.

It is expected that the gross returns for the Manawatu Show will bo in the vicinity of £1,200 for the catering done by the women of the district.

It is staled that a certain snail destroyer may be made from the following mixture: Two double handfuls of bran, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of Paris green. Mix dry, and leave about the garden. New Plymouth residents (says the News) who have tried this specific slate that the snails like the mixture, and next morning are found dead in large numbers.

“Professor” W. T. Mills, who for some considerable time was prominent in Wellington Labour circles, is, according to the latest American

exchanges, one of the Californian candidates for the United States Senate. He is standing in (he Socialist interests, two of the planks of whoso platform are the total exclusion of Asiatics and the putting into operation of an educational test in connection witii all other un-

migrants

The digging of a new ditch at. Tulnr.au some few weeks ago was indirectly the means of securing for the Dunedin Museum one of the largest “finds” of moa bones ever located in 1 he* country. It appears that the ditchers struck bones of an unusual nature, and submitted them to Professor Benbam, of Dunedin, for identities I ion. The Professor at once recognised the importance of the discovery, and replied in person, with (In* result that when he returned to Otago's capital he carried with him 35 complete moa skeletons.

The footprints of babies are now lining 1.-ikon in many countries, says the Daily Express, as a sure means of identification. The system is so

simple that tiny mother can adopt it for herself. All that is necessary is to cover the sole of the child’s foot with printer's ink by means of a roller, and then transfer the impression to a sheet of paper. The ink can be cleaned off the foot with alcohol. Care must he taken not to disturb the impressions before they are dry. There will then exist for all time a record of the baby’s identity which would carry weight in any court of law in after years. No matter how much the feet grow, the lines will have grown with them, and their pattern will not he changed. If such records of the Tichborne and oilier claimants had existed, judges would have been saved much anxious thought.

A caution is given by Mr Isaac Hopkins, formerly Government Apiarist, against the eating of wild honey at the present time. Mr Hopkins (says the Auckland Star) stales that the Wharangi (Brachygloltis repanda) is now, and Ims been, in full blossom for some time, and owing to the mildness of the season he expects a more than usual yield of nectar from it. It is from this plant I he honey is gathered that lias caused very injurious effects on several occasions at this time of year. It is a curious fact that whatever tin* poisonous properties are they are of a volatile nature, and pa ss oil in about eight weeks, when the honey can he eaten with safety. Mr Hopkins stales that no one need he afraid of eating the honey of commerce at any time, as this is not gathered and put up till after the New Year sets in; it is only in honey from hush nests or from common box hives in the vicinity of the bush that danger lurks at (his time.

I -Mr E. I*. Lee, oho of (ho New Zealand Parliamentary delegates who wont (o England sonio moidlis ago, passed through \\ ellington oh .Monday on his way homo to Oamaru. In (ho oonrso ot an interview with a. reporter, ho said that the war was a colossal business, and it was beyond Ids comprehension how if was organised and carried on. England, lie sad, seemed to be a vast arsenal in (hose days, and there were between 2,000 and 3,000 munition factories, many of which covered acres of ground. “1 notice that Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward have been saying something about the end of the war, and (hey have had exactly (he same experience ilmt wo bad,” said Mr Lee. “W’e saw British Generals and French Generals, and nowhere did we meet a man who expected a speedy end (o the war. Yon can’t get anyone there to talk about (he end of (he war. They all know now lhal wo are going to win, (hough some of (hem admit that (here was a lime when (hey did not know, bin they no not think we are goin" to win «|nickly. They all believe that the Germans have the power, if they are .steadfast ami willing to use that power to the uttermost, to hold us up for years and years. They admit that there may bo a break in German courage before German power is exhausted, and, that there may be something dramatic. such as a big break through in the East by the Russians, but they do not expect these things to happen just yet.”

Ihe season has now come for hot steak and kidney pies—a good meal for school children.— At Perreau^s.*