LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1644, 30 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Five Chinese laundrymen were sentenced at (he Auckland Supreme Court to six months' imprisonment apiece for having laid improper relations with a young girl who visitmi their business premises.

At the farewell to the recruits at the New Plymouth railway station the other morning was a venerable, brave old lady, who was seeing her sixth son off to (he front. The seventh, the last, is also going' short I v.

Th(‘ vacancy on the ilorowhenua Comity Council (for Hu 1 Whirokino riding) occasioned by the departure of Mr Fred Keller from the district, has been tilled. Nominations (dosed on Tuesday, and as only one ratepayer had been nominated —Mr Alexander Murray—--1 here will be no coni esl.

In referring to tin l question of placing returned soldiers on tin l land, at a function in Maslerton, Mr Sykes, M.F., predicted that after the ces.--.alion of hostilities closer sell lenient in New Zealand would be acquired, it was (dearly the duly uf every large landowner without kith or kin to cilher give their land

or (inance returned men on. to some of I heir properly. There would, he said, be no beg pardons when the war was over. It happened at a school not a, hundred miles from Maslerton. The teacher of a class, who is eligible for military service, ordered a lad to remain behind after hours and write 50 lines, a course of punishment usually meted out to offending pupils. The lad. who considered his offence did not warrant- the. punishment, determined to get one haek on the teacher. He completed I lie task set him, and when the teacher went to examine the work', he was confronted hy 50 lines of the sentence: “Your King and Country need yon.’’

The Christchurch Stipendiary Magistrate is hearing a ease in which Chrissie flobeii is suing Ernest Dennis Hoiien for separation and maintenance. The defendant alleges persistent cruelty, commencing in Palmerston and ending in an assault in a Christchurch tram-car to which several witnesses deposed. Plaintiff called a medical man to testify to her normal mentality, but alleged that her husband was subject to savage outbursts after severe headaches, during which on one occasion he tore 1 her hat off her head and tossed her on to a bed with one hand. The defence has vet to be heard.

Sutal Tea is the tea of distinct flavour. It is superior to other brands. Try a pound. Walker and Furrie, Eoxton.

“II is quite a common thing to find the* Roman Catholic Chaplain, the Anglican Chaplain, ilia Methodist Chaplain, tho Salvation Army Chaplain, and the Presbyterian Chaplain work ins' together in camp in the common interest as though there' were no dilTeretices between them,” said Captain-Chaplain Gilbert at the Presbyterian Assembly.

“The farmers of New Zealand are not badly cared for,” said the Hon. Arthur M. Myers to Tuesday's deputation of Parliamentarians, at Wellington. “As a class, they have always been looked after. The Government purchases land for yon, lends you money at. cheap rates, imports selected stock for you, and sends round specialists to improve your knowledge and direct you in vonr affairs.”

Mr I). ■!. Reardon, of Eketahuna, lots furnished the Otaki Town Hoard with mi electric lighting scheme estimated to cos* €8,820. A 70-diotse-pcwer suction gas engine is the motive [lower, bin the plant will be of such a nature that it can be coupled up to any hydro-electric -'■heme installed by the Govcrnmcnf in I lie fill are. The report will be considered by the Town Hoard at ils next meeting. Paragraph from a Taranaki paper: “A gruesome story is going the rounds with regard to a. New Zealand soldier who is a prisoner of war in (.Jennatty. The talc goes that he recently wrote to Itis fiancee in New Zealand stating (hat he was well, and asked if I hen* was anything he could send her. The girl, in reply, wrote, “Send me* the Eai-,-er‘s eyes." To her horror and amazement she recently received from Germany a box containing a couple of human eye-s These she believes arc those of her lover, and have been scut by tin* Germans a punishment to her for her request." Next, please! Teachers ail over the Dominion will be affected in no small way as a result of a section of the War Regulations concerning them, which regulations will come into force on •January I-I .next. At present Hu* number of teachers allotted to each school is based on specified average at tendances of pupils to each class, and where the averages fail below these figures I.he number of teachers is correspondingly reduced. The new' regulations make these averages higher than hitherto, with the re--ull that schools ail over the Dominion will lose teachers. Although the new scheme will hardly be welcomed by the teachers, as extra work will devolve upon them, it will mean the overcoming in a small way of the shortage of teachers. Schools all over the Wanagnui Education disirict will be affected by the new regitlal ions. At the annual meeting of the National Insurance Company, held sit Dunedin on Tuesday, the chairman, of directors said with the item “had debt recovered .CHi!) IPs 2d.” sis as--oeialcd an episode that deserves publicity. Daring the year the general manager received from one of his branch managers a notice of the payment of that sum, accompanied by a letter, from which the* following is cxlraclcd: —“Yon will probably remember in the (‘state of the late your claim amounted to €IBB Ss 2d. and that .von were paid 2s in the € in considers)tion of such payment yon executed a release in the year 1804 in full of all claims and demands. ! f bad lived ami his allairs had been prosperous we. I lie undersigned, bis two sous, ore quite sure tie would have been only too pleased to have paid you in tnli. We, out of respect for bis memory, have now pleasure in enclosing onr cheque for €J(iP IPs 2d. thus paying you the full amount of our kite father’s debt to you.”