The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1648, 9 December 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The head teacher desires to acknowledge prize annuals for distribution at the school breaking-up from Mrs Fraser and Messrs Fraser and (Varsoti.

A limn applied lo I lie Edmonton Tribunal for exemption on the ground that he couldn't open his month wide enough to eat Army food. Me was given three months’ grace.

Om- of the most modern residences in the Dominion has been built at Tara dale (H.D.) for Mr D. U. Donnelly. i( is a vast concrete structure, and lias a splendid view from Hie hills.

Last month a slight loss was made on the working of Hie electric light system at Feilding, says Hu« >Slar. The total revenue was £2(12 His ltd, and Hie total expenditure, including 1 interest of capital charges.'£2tU I Ds.

A competition has been inaugurated hy Hie National Service League at Mast erf on for Hie children attending the schools and colleges of the Dominion for essays on “How Yon .Mean to Help the Empire.” Gold medals, watches, fountainpens, and hooks have been donated for prizes. The entries will he judged hy Hie otlieers of the National Service League. The (wo best essays will he selected hy Lady Stout, the prizes for these being gold medals.

A tribute to the courage* and resource of a young woman was paid hy Hie coroner at .Palmerston North at Hie inquest regarding the death of Mr William Forbes, who was killed in consequence of a motor ear running over an embankment into the Manawalu Elver. The coroner said that. Miss Kitty Sullivan, who was one of the motoring party, though hampered hy a broken arm, succeeded in removing her unconscious sister from the river, where she would certainly have been drowned, and after placing her in safety, sealed a 20ft, bank and brought assistance.

Wanted! Housekeepers to try Sntal Tea. Pure, delicious, fragrant. Specially packed and blended. Walker and Fume, Foxton.

Mr W. IT. Ferris, ohicf hemp grader, was in Foxlon yesterday.

Mr A. W. Hall, late of the hemp grading depaiinienl, is at present in Foxlon. Mr Hall is now llaxmiiling in the Wyndham Valley, Southland, and is visiting the North Island for the purpose of disponing' the automata- seutehers at .■work, with a view to installing one at his own mill.

Picture patrons will note that a lilm of an attractive nature is to he screened at tin* Town Hall on Monday and Tuesday next, a livereel quaint and delightfully humorous item, “David Ilarmn.” The hook hearing' (hat title, written hy Edward Noyes Westeott, is widely known, and it is doubt fill if any American work of drama or fiction has ever achieved such a widespread and instanlaneoiis success as did this work.

On behalf of I lie Labour organisation, 0. R. Hunter, Kunanga, applied to the tlreymouth Ho rough’ Council meeting on Thursday evening for the u>e of Ihe tiand rotunda for a demonstration for Saturday afternoon. The council re-fused unanimously, on the motion of the Mayor, Mr Perkins, (o allow the applicants the use of either the rotunda or any of (he streets. The Mayor said that in view of tin* War I,’egulalions they could not enter! ain for a minute such an application.

"1 never look my clothes off. nor had a wash from August Ist, ID 1 fi, until May ‘Joth this year—nearly ten long momhs—said Sir Ernesli Shackelton, in the course of his lecture in Wellington. The si at emeu t was greeted wilh laughter. “Well.” added the explorer, "when I made that statement in South America there was no such sensation as that. (Laughter). I remarked on it aflenvards to a man, saying ilia I they hadn’t seemed to think anything of it. And I lie man replied, ‘They would have laughed if you had said that you had a hath every day for ten months.’” (Renewed laughter).

Another of the remaining few early seniors of Wellington has parsed away in the person of Mr Fred C. IVlheriek, in Ids 8-llh year. Mr IVlheriek arrived in Wellington on Anniversary Day, IS4O. by the ship Aurora. After an adventurous youthful career, Mr IVlheriek was attracted hy Hie Australian gold rushes at Hendigo and Ballarat during the early tiflies. Later he took part in the New Zealand West Coast gold digging operations, and then returned to Wellington, where lie settled. He leaves a wife and live children: Mrs R. W. Avery, Mrs A. -I. Deary, Mr A. .). IVlheriek, and Air T. A. IVlherick.

Mr Isitt speaks a piece:-—"la these days so many appeals are made to you for funds that you ( ould he excused for beginning to look a hit gloomy, and for asking when they are going to slop,” said Mr L. M. [silt at a meeting held at Christchurch. “Let me tell you they are not going to slop while you can spend ,£l,0(H),t)()() a year on booze, and £s,.hot),(Kit) in war-lime on (his wretched lolalisator. What good do you get from it, 1 would like lo know? The drink gives you a had head and a hob-nailed liver, and tinman who supports the lolalisator goes home and raves a! his wife and kiddies because he has been fool enough to pul his money on a bad horse. No! These well-deserved appeals must not cease while nearly £.10,000,000 is being wasted in New Zealand on drink and gambling.”

A series of pictures of special interest has been arranged for by the management of “Our Fidures.” the lirst of which will be shown in the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday. the 22nd and 2drd insts. The lirst picture of I lie series is eutilled “An Enemy of Mankind,” the leading character being “SHugaree,” a neat, immaculate person, roaming (tie Australian bush, a social pariah and an enemy of mankind, u ho is going to he one of Hie most popular characters on the screen. Courteous lo women, relentless when dealing wilh Hie oppressor, heave, daring, ea re-free. His adventures in the hush, his wild, mad rides to safety, Ids very devil-may-care will endear him to yon. Those exploits have been re-created hy the Kalem Company, and a picture of the series lias been arranged |o he shown every week. Each picture is said to he complete in itself.

The German “nature men,” who arrived at Wellington as prisoners of war from Tahiti, were followers of a dill established in Papeete hy an American. Originally a student at a Pennsylvanian University, he developed Jung trouble, and. having been advised that his ease was hopeless, he established an abode 2,o<)oft. up the side of the mountain, which constitutes Tahiti in (he Eastern I’acitie. Disregarding civilised clothing, he Jived upon wild tropical fruits, and from a weak consumptive developed into a strong healthy man, as the out come of his experiment. He made a practice of visiting Hie steamers touching at Papeete, and distributing - pamphlets in Roosevelt’s phonetic spelling, extolling the virtues of (he Tahitian climate, and posing as a living advertisement of the benefits lo be derived from “getting close to nature.” On these occasions he donned a reading shade, and a “pareo” (waist cloth); with long hair and heard, and bronzed skin, lie presented a picturesque appearance that was always a source of interest to the casual tourist.

See cheap rates, front pages Laidlaw Leeds 7 Wholesale Catalog.

At is officially announced that the blockade of Greece will begin today.

Persons intending to send Christmas ‘''reelings cable messages to soldiers for delivery in England or France, should lodge messages not later !ban Pd!li inst.

The arrivals in New Zealand from oversea during November numbered 1,05.3, and the departures 1,100, as against: 2,581 and 1,558 respectively in the previous November.

Sir Waller Eiichanau has ha toll'd a cheque for 1200 to (lie Wairarapa Patriotic Association, to he expended in trench com forts for the Wairarapti soldiers. The money is !o he cabled to the Wairarapa representative of the Y.M.C.A. at the front.

Harry Lauder, the Scotch humorist, who is already the owner of a house at Dunoon, has purchased the estate of Glen Drainer, Argyllshire, ami Ihc lauds of Dallimorc. Glen Drainer is beautifully situated in the hill country mi the east side of Doeh Fyne. The estate is about II,(100 acres in extent, and includes -II mites of Loch Mck.

There are now no fewer than (1,007 names on the register of (he Discharged Soldiers' Information Department. The latest progress report, issued by the Hon. A. L. Merdnmn on Thursday, shows that 1,220 have been placed in employment and 2,215 have work or military duties to return to. At present 130 men require work, four of them being in Wellington.

The deed of transfer of llic properly ;ir Creytown. valued at about £20,000, pre.-enleo liy Mr A. P. What man. of Maslert.m. i«» ila 1 Patriotic Association, for settlement by returned soldiers, has now bean prepared. Tlie trustees in whir-ii tinland is vested intend visiting the property at an early date, with a view to culling it up into suitaiiie seetions.

“It ought to be a lesstiii to the public to carefully si-an any testimonials winch they may sec in an advertisemenl. They can be seen on the pages of the newspapers day after day,” said the Chief Justice ;i! the Supreme Coitrl, Wellington, recently. The remark was occasioned by (lie evidence of a witness, who admitted having signed a testimonial stilling' that he had seen a “llercc lire" extinguished by a patent extinguisher, while, in point of fact, he h:u! done nothing of the hind.

During lhe recent whaling season Mr .1. Perano's whaling parly captured of whales, one of which was a valuable right whale. Prior to the war a whale of this species was valued at £SOO. The Haldiek parly was not so successful, capturing only seven whales, all of which were hump-back. The Perano party had in use a new boat of P2O horsepower, as well as two other smaller vessel.-, while Dahliek's .carried out operations in two new boats, of 05 h.p. and S 5 h.p. respectively.

The Treaty uT Friendship : t hat existed bclwccii (In* Kill” 1 of Tonga :iiid I Ik* Berman Emperor since November Is!, JB7(i, is now regarded by lh(* Tongan t lovernment s having been terminated, as a result of Ihe (mi break ul' war between Britain ami (iermany. 'File Kais(*r always had a weakness For tin* tiny island kingdom and its nionaveh, and tin* numerous presents and orders in Ihe possession of (leorge Tnbon 11. testily to his reyard. Included in the gifts are a handsome Slate barge and a life-sized oilpainting' of Frederick the (Ireal of I’nts.-da.

For one Cockney to call another a ‘'bleeder' might lead to bloodshed—but this term is safely used by medical men as a concession to vulgar ignorance, by way of explaining what “haemophilitic" means, says the Wellington Times. “Bleeder," in the seienlilic sense, is a person chronically unable to retain his blood on.ee !:: ■ blood-vessels are punctured. One of two brothers, who claimed exemption from military service on ihc ground (hat (hey were “bleeders." told (he Military Sendee Board lie had bled for seven days after a 1 oofh-drawing operation. The appiiealion was opposed on the ground that even “bleeders” were eapable of military service, alt hough it might not he desirable to send them to the front. The brothers were given temporary cxemiitiou.

X(i milder upon whom the lot Tails when the conscripti.m ballot is token, iu> must, if ho wishes to appeal, undergo the ordeal of examination before the .Military Service Hoard, lie may he a married man, belonging' to (he second division of the Reserve, drawn hy mistake, bul the onus is upon him of proving that he is entitled to be in the second division, in the ease of appellants who may urge physical unlitness as a reason for exemption and the board disallows the appeal, they are, of course, liable to be rejected by the Military Board. A civil servant, whose appeal was disallowed on Thursday, stated that he had an internal trouble. sss appeal was not allowed, and it is cpiite possible, and indeed probable, that he may he rejected hv the Medical Board. The Military Service Board takes, no cognisance of a man's physical state. Otherwise there arc no grounds Tor exemption.

Wanted Known,—Our Sutal Tea pleases the palate with its delicious fragrance. “It heats them all.” — W alker and h’urrie, Boston.

fhe season has now come far hot steak and kidney pies—a good meal for school children. —At Perreuu’s.*

Mrs 0. E. Austin, of Tc Aroha, is on a visit to friends at Foxton.

The Pope has appointed Father Erodie Homan Catholic Eishop of Christchurch.

Tin* Pope has protested against Germany's refusal to allow Cardinal Mender to attend the Consistory. The Pope's Consist orial discourse condemned the deportations and the air raids on open towns.

Teachers will he asked at the anmia! meeting of the Educational In-

statute to state their views on a controversial (piestion, for a remit to the following effect has been sent, forward by Auckland: —“That (he Minister of Education he congratulated on his firm stand in refusing the request for subsidised demoninat.ionai schools.'’

American habits are feared by (he Ilonnvhenua district of the Nett Zealand Educational Institute, which Inis sent forward for the animal meeting the following remit:— “That in view of the prevalence amoug children, of the ‘chewing habit,’ the Government he urged lo instifnlc, forthwith, enquiries into the composition of imported substances known as ‘chewing gum,’ and similar titles.’’ Another attempt lo accomplish the objects of his expedition into the Antarctic is contemplated by Sir Ernest Ssacklcton. During a. lecture in Wellington on Monday evening. lie said his story, so far as the objects of the expedition were coticeruei;. was a failure. The expedition had mu done what if set out to do, because it encountered forces of nature sui-h a> had never before been experienced by adventurers into either rh.e Arctic or the Antarctic regions. When the war was over, nowvvcr, he hoped to tackle the job once more, and to carry out !he programme.