LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1642, 25 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“In politics, if you do a man a good turn you make an enemy for life.” said .Mr Hornsby, M.P.. at Woodville the other evening.

The president, secretary and several members of the local Horticultural Society visited the Rongotem Horticultural Show on Thursday last.

“1 have* always considered children, elderly people, and drunken men," said a motorist in giving evidence at the Wellington Supreme Court. “I always give them as wide a berth as possible 1 ." he added.

Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, whose health, has greatly improved since l he left NVw Zemland for Europe 1 . has cabled to Monsignor Mahe.my, of Aucklanel, that he is going to fill a vae-ancy in the chaplaincy in France. He has recently been a chaplain in an English e-amp heispital.

The- silting of the Magistrate*’* Court liefiel locally beTore l .Mr J. W. Feiynlem, S.M., yesterday morning was ;i veu'y bried one 1 , umst of the case* having beam arranged or adjotirneel. On a juelgmenl sumniems, R. X. Speir.s v. L. Ashwin, an oreler was made by consemt for the payment of .CIO 8s lid by instillments of ten shillings monthly, in the judgment summons case 1 , Mauriceville Lime Co. v. W. F. H. Scott, there was no appearance of judgment debtor, and an order was madefor the payment of the 1 amount due. £2 ss, forthwith.

Mrs E. Wildbore. sent'., met with ;i tragic death at her home l at Taonui on Wednesday afternoon, says the I’almerslon Times. As Me*sdames Wilson and Burnett were passing, they saw smoke* e-oming from (he house*. They discovered the old lady lying on the path outside. with all her clothes burned off her body, It is surmised (hat (he oil-stove* in (he kitchen seU fire to Mrs Wildboim’s clothes. Mesdaines Watson and Bunmll had some difficulty in subduing the Haines and preventing the 1 house l from destruction.

Probably the 1 honour of being the. youngest soldier to leave New Zemland to light for King and country belongs tn ;i Foxlon boy. Alex. Cray, only son of Mi' W. Cray, an eslcemmd exx-townsman. and now of the* Tourist Departniemt, Wellington. “Alex." is an ex-pupil of the* local Slate school, mid put in his spare lime 1 as one of “our staff." His fine physique* was in advance of his years, and he possessed plenty of grit and pluck. When war waij dee-la red he l was tired with an ambition to semve l his country. He offered his services although only 17 years ot age! \\’e will pass over his “diplomacy" with the military authorities and Ids father. His se*rviems weu'e acempUal, and he* went; to Samoa and participated in its bloodless occupation. At Samoa he; celebrated his 18th birthday. Coming back to New Zealand, he left, with the Fifth Reinfommii'iil. and participated in the thick of the disastrous landing at. Suvla, Bay. His' platoon got badly cut up, only about twelve coming out of it alive. Since l (hen he has beam lighting in France*, ha* participated in several raids, and was at the capture of Flers. During the whole period, except for three weeks at Malta, with bad feet (ingrowing toe nails), he leas not received a scratch or suffered an illness. We sineerelv hope that Alex's guardian angel well see him through in the stormy days to e-imie 1 , and that he will he spared to return to the Jam! of his hirth and enjoy a life of peace and happiness.

Wanted! Housekeepers to try Sutal Tea. Pure, delicious, fragrant. Specially packed and blended. t\ aiker and Fume, Fox ton.

Copious min fell throughout this district lust night.

“The Chinese hover continually round Ihe missionaries," remarked Miss Wright, of Canton, China, at I lie Presbyterian Assembly at Wellington, “and I have seen women bonding over my cot, eager to see what the foreign devil-woman looks like when she is asleep.” (Laughter).

The late Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph’s successor is the Archduke Charles Francis Joseph, who is 20 years old. and nephew of tho late heir apparent, .Francis Ferdinand. He is described as shy and simple, and was almost unknown in Austria till, in ID LI, lie contracted a. popular marriage with Princess Zita of Bourbon Parma. The couple have a sou, now four years old, named Francis Joseph Otto.

Of phorminm fibre, 1800 tons, valued at £72,838, were exported in September of this year, as compared with 1,(185 tons, valued at £4.3,5!)2, in September of U)ls. For the first nine months of the year 20,435 tons, valued at £717,274, were exported, as against 10,070 tons, valued at £308,025, for (be first nine months of 1015 —an increase of 5,105 tons in volume, but an increase of £318,000 in value.

A cable* message received yesterday from New York announces (be death of Jack London, tin* most virile of fiction writers and one of tin* mo-1 adventurous of moderns, lie bad vo\a(/.cd 1 In* world, looking lor tin* unu.-ual —and meeting up with it. lb* wa- biirn in San Francj -co onlv >0 vear- ago, was twice married, ha- two da light res. estah-li-bcj ,i f;,nij in iden Ellen, California. and it wa* there that he died, though In* had been living recently in tijc Hawaiian Islands, lie had been writing- books since 1000, and In- tallv is over 40 books.

Private Mark Taylor, 2512, Australian Imperial Force, lias been reported as having been admitted to the Don Joll Hospital on 10th October, suffering from myocardial degeneration, mild.. Ho is also re-

ported a- having been wounded. His next-of-kin is recorded as Mis» Eliza belli Saunders (sister), New Zealand, which address is rather vague. The Director of Base Becords. New Zealand, requests that any person knowing Hie address of the next-of-kin will communicate with bis office.

Speaking- ;it the dinner to the delegates of 1 lit* Dominion Chambers of Coimm-Tce, at Wellington this week, Mr (I. Fenwick (Dunedin) remarked that the South Island wa> not progressing as the North Island was progressing, and they could, not expect to do so. They had only to visit the North and set* Ihe vast area.- of land opened, and to he opened, to realise why that stale of things was inevitable. In the South the best of the land had been subdivided, and they could mu hope for the progress that was to be expected from tin' North, but there would be progress, and there was solidity and great wealth. and the South had largely supplied the Xorlh with brains (Laughter and applause).

('mi a Frenchman who, not havin': presented himself for military service, ami thereby become a deserter, inhci'il money loir fo him in Franco.' Tin's is iho (mini that has arisen, owing to Ihe recent death oi' the lather of three sons, two of whom were killed in action. Tim lbird was in America when the war broke out, hut preferring the peaceful salubrity of the United States to risking his life in the trenches, the unpatriotic one lately found himself sole heir to his father's fortune. Legislation is about to step in, however, with a view to framing’ up special (iscal reservations, as concerns the property of deserters. A Frenchman who has shirked his duty to his country, ii is claimed, should by virtue of his military crime, be deprived of all monetary and other legacies. It is more than probable that this thesis may shortly become law.

The use of ammonia in dealing with the plague of slags and snails is being tried in Nelson with greal success (says (he Mail). It is staled that if the ammonia is watered in a little distance from rows of vegetables, slugs and snails will not. pass the line. The ammonia, it must he noted, has |o he diluted, for if it I ouches plaids at 100 great a strength it will hum them. An additional advanlage gained hv the

Use of ammonia is (ha! ;> very powerful stimulant is added In (lie soil, in the form of nitrogen. Tlit* amiiioiiia as saved a( Ihe Nelson "as works is not of (till strength, living already diluted with drainage water. .Mr Neil stales that, used in the proportion of one part of ammonia to S of water it lias proved effoetivo in dealing with slugs and snails, and at this strength will not injure foliage l should any of the liquid toueh it.