LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1646, 5 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were 2(i undefended eases sef down for hearing in I lie. Divorce Court in Wellington last Eriday.

Levin hits just secured the extension of 1 Ik* telephone hours to 10 pun. Foxlon is still a few short otj (he required number to give subscribers the extended privilege. The monthly meeting of (he Borough Council will he held in (he Council Chambers on Monday nexl, 11th insL, at 7.J0 p.m. Business: t leneral.

A shearer employed by Mr R. A. Nieholls at Hie Upper Taueru, Wairarapa, shove 1,123 sheep in five and a-half days last week. This works out at over 200 sheep per day. The shearer's cheque for the week would he over f 14.

The amount of the war loan certificates sold to 30(h NoA’cmher last: was fl,l”3,!l. r )S (is. The four chief cent res contributed as follows: — Auckland, ,i:UI2,USft Itis; Christchurch, £15(1,211 is; Dunedin, £lft-1,7H3 -Is; Wellington, £2(i7,!H2 (is.

Tite local lawn tennis courts will he officially opened to-morroAV afternoon, at 2.30 o’clock. The annual general meeting of members will also take (dace during the af(ernoon, when the’ report and balance slice! will be presented, and officers elected for (he ensuing sen-

Thirly pounds spent in (avo days was the record recently of a returned soldier, formerly of Tanmarunui, Avltile visiting Dannevirke. This admission was made when tie was “broke,” and wanted a loan from an oilieiai of the local branch of the Hawke's Bay War Relief Association.

There are about 3,000 members in the Ncav Zealand Eire Brigade Association, and of these 000 have enlisted or are now on active service with the Dominion’s forces in Era nee. Of this number HO have been killed, two are prisoners of war, mid 200 have been wounded in ha t He. Hon. James Allen slates that arrangements have been made for the 241 h Reinforcements to go into camp in Hie first week in next month, instead of before Christmas. This A\ - as in order to allow sufficient time for the medical (examination of the nii'ii and the Avork of Hie Military Service Boards, also in order to give the training staffs at camp a Avell-earned rest.

A trial of our famous Sutal Tea will convince you that it is unequalled for pure quality and llavour,— Walker and Fume, Foxton.

“There h:;ve been quite a number of tea ('hors who have been taking’ all I lie benefits wo oan give, and yet have paid nothing to the funds of the instiluto,” said a member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, at the meeting of that body at Wellington on Eridav.

There was a large congregation at the morning service at the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday, the occasion being children’s day. The service throughout was appropriate to the occasion. At the evening service an eloquent sermon was preached to young men and women. The Rev. .1. 11. Brediu, minister, occupied the pulpit on both occasions.

The Ota Id Licensing Bench met on Friday and considered the plans of Ihe proposed now Railway Hotel at Otaki. It was decided to request that three more rooms be added, and that the office be placed in a more convenient position. Transfers were granted to 1. Lowe and Annie Donga n in respect to the Central Hotel (Otaki) and Grand Hole 4 (Levin). All police reports were favourable.

According to an exchange, the efforts of the Cisborne Defence Committee to secure names of owners of land willing to dispose of their properties to tiie Government for settlement by relumed soldiers have not been fruitful. Mr 4. W. Bright (chairman of the committee) told a reporter that only one communication had been received on the subject. As it so happened, the communication was negative in character.

Tlie hiiesl sheep returns show that North Auckland Jloeks have increased by 217,(5(15 during l!ie past live years, and that llie increase over last year is 100,(nil. As I hi 1 .Norlhern pasture ye ayes it hevoines snilable i'or sheep, espeeial)y in hilly territory. and throughout Ihe nine counties embraced in the North Auckland peninsula a decided preference is being shown by settlers in the back blocks for sheep in place of cattle.

The friends of Mr Harry Lyali, schoolmaster, of Longlmrn, and late of Paugioiii, will regret to learn of Ihe death of his wife, which occurred on Sunday lasi. The late Mrs Lyali had been a resident of this dislriel for many years, and with her husband, took a leading part in a. large number of social functions. She had been ill for some time. Mr Lyali will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in his bereavement.

A good joke is told at the expense of a ralher loquacious Gisborne publican, lie became quite concerned when he learned that two strange members of the police force had arrived in Gisborne for the purpose of detecting broaches of: the anti-shonling regnlations. “I know them," In' said, very eon fiditigly to a number of patrons in his har, “and if (hey come in hero with their little game 1 will throw them out !" The visiting policemen were at the time among his patrons, and it is reported, enjoyed the publican’s innocence immensely. An .accident which terminated in the death of a sixleon-year-old lad named William Gason, occurred at Wellington on Saturday shortly after midnight. Gason, who is employed in (he telephone exchange as a clerk, was exuding homewards when he was knocked down and run over by a motor-ear which came round the corner from Clyde Quay. When picked up he was found to he suffering from severe concussion of the bruin. He died at the Hospital yesterday morning. It appears that the accident was caused through Gason being dazzled by the headlights of the motor-car.

During the next few days the local corps of the Salvation Army will join with Hu* other Dominion corps in making an appeal to help Hie distressed Belgians. The Salvation Army lias special facilities in Belgium for the distribution of relief, and the whole of the amounts subscribed by the public and entrusted to Hie Salvation Army is used on behalf of those suffering and in need, without any deductions of expenses whatever. The local otlieer says that he regrets that (his appeal should come on lop of Self-denial, hut he hopes that the public will respond to this call as (heir funds will allow. Hast night the local corps visited a number of streets and took up a collection, and got a fairly liberal response. A sad story was told in tin* Auckland Police Tonrl on Saturday, when a girl of 12 years was formally charged with not being under proper control. Sister Esther said lhal Hu* girl lived for a time with her mother and step-father. The la tier,however, would not allow her to sit at the table or at the lire, and at an early age she was placed with Hie Maoris. She lived with the Natives until she was six, and could only speak Maori. At Hie age of nine sin* was sent home again, and had to milk 10 cows twice daily. Hater she was put out with another lot of Maoris, and again was returned to her people. Next she went to strangers. When she (Sister Esther) got hold of her, the child had never worn hoots nor stockings, and was in a state of extreme bodily neglect. When Jiving with the Maoris Hie child had slept on 1 fern and tilri, and her story was one of the saddest: of child life the speaker had ever known. The Magistrate committed the child to the Industrial School, and it is to be hoped she will there gel Hie benefit of a little kindly treatment. But apparently nothing is to be done to the step-father.

The Queen of the South, with general from Wellington, is due tomorrow morning.

Two Racing Conference appeal <*ases will be considered in Palmerston to-day—one the alleged doping ease at Levin, and the other the weighing-in case at Foxlon. The headless decomposed body of a man was found at Mercer (Auckland) on Friday morning. The man had apparently committed suicide by placing a plug of gelignite in his month, living it with a fuse. Identity has not been established. A railway ticket found on the body bore the dale October 24th.

The local Ladies’ Patriotic Guild has received an appeal from the Wav Relief Committee at Home asking for clothing, etc., and pointing out the urgent need to relieve distress. The Guild has decided to forward a ease of goods, and solicits gifts of good left-off clothing for inclusion. Those who can assist in this way arc asked to forward same within the coming week. Any further information will he supplied on communicating with Miss R oss, secretary.

The S.M. (Mr 4. W. Poynton) recently gave warning that anyone found supplying Native women with drink would be severely dealt with.

The warning has gone unheeded, says the Otaki Mail. At Friday’s sitting of the Otaki Court a charge was preferred against a local resilient, who was lined £s(l, in default three months' imprisonment. Air Boynton expressed a hope that the line would have the de.-.ired Hl’ect, and that Natives, who he considered a fine race, would not ju future he demoralised.

In reference to the recent sheepguessing competition at the ITorticulinral Show, .Mr G. T. Woodroofe, I lie donor of the sheep, takes exception 10 the allocation that the weight of tin' sheep was known beforehand. Air Woodroofe says this is absolutely nntrue, and no means could be found of ascertaining the weight of the carcase until the sheep was scaled after the competition closed. Mr Woodroofe has generously donated sheep for guessing competitions in the past, and says such reded ions has decided him to refuse any gifts of this nature in the future. His sympathy with the Society and his assistance with its aims ami objects will not, however, be affected, but he objects and rightly, too, to such inputations. The following men from this disiriet are reported to be wounded, but improving in English hospital: —Private H. S. Amble, Levin; Private E. 11. Aslridge, Levin; Private W. Raker, Woodville; Private A. E. Rartlett, Palmerston North; Private A. W. Montgomerie, Bulls; Private H. W. Bell, Bulls.

It was at an anti-militarist meeting in Christchurch, and (here was much denunciation of militarism and the inhumanity of war. Young speakers decried war as against < the law of God and man. One young speaker was absolutely against it. Never would he lift his bayonet ugainsl a German —his soul revolted at the very idea. Shortly after he was asked what he would do in the ease of a class war —would he hear arms? “Bear arms,” he said, “I should think I would. I would seize an axe —a tomahawk —anything, and be in it for all I was worth.”

•■Wonderful changes have taken place in Hie Tinted States since my last visit there '23 years ago,” states Mr 0. M. Yerex, who returned to Wellington on Saturday, when speaking to a Post reporter. The changes, lie continued, were both political and social, and more particularly the latter. Matters dealing with the general health of the people received considerable attention. (iambling had practically been .lone away with throughout the Stales, and with it had gone horseracing. (.ambling and horse-racing had been diverted to a Mexican border (own, where there was stabling accommodation tor 700 or 800 horses, and race meetings extending over 100 days at least were held. Fortunes were made (and ] os ;) hi a few hours. Roulette tables and hull lights all helped to attract crowds, and thus free the States from a certain undesirable element. The social evil had been grappled with, and reform was continuing with the greatest success. Even the “Red Light” district in San Francisco was now a thing of the past. Twenty-four out of forty-eight Stales, or (10 per cent, of the population, were now under prohibition laws, and woman suffrage, judging by the present rate of progress, would soon lie universal. The press generally had assumed a more serious lone. It was less inclined towards sensationalism and scandal —less frivolous than it ever has been before. The .States were now enjoying a wonderful prosperity.