LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1653, 21 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A general servant is advertised for, wages 25s per week. A youth named Leo Dobhs, was drowned at. Sumner while swimming. All Ihe loeal business premises will remain open to-morrow and Saturday nights, and will close on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

The period of grave for those who have been railed up in the ballot, and have not reported, expires today. Reservists who are still unaeeounted for will be treated as deserters under militarv law.

There are (JO,01)0 French Catholic priests lighting at the front in Kranee, said Father Loekinglon at tin* Wellington Town iln 11; and loday France, which for many rears tried to stamp out Catholicism, is more Catholic than ever.

Among (he successful candidates who received pass cert ideates in the associated and continuation classes at the Wellington Technical College appears the name of Henry Bert hold, an ex-Foxton Slate school pupil, who passed in chemistry and physics and hygiene.

Tin* publican's booths at the Foxton Racing Club’s meeting on January 22nd and 2Jrd have* been sold to Mr W. Devine, of i’almerston K., for ,CS(). This is ,t‘2() less than was received last year, but the fallingoff is accounted for by the operations of the Anti-,Shouting law.

.Speaking ;it .Marlon, Dr Trilby King said: “All ilio lessons of history laugh! that the downfall of; a race begins when home and family life are neglected. The great civilisations of Greece anti Koine undermined themselves by Jove of ease and neglect of the family. Coming to modern limes, the lecturer said that the increase in population in France in recent years before the war had been 20,00(1 a year, as against 800,000 in Germany. Germany's population had, therefore, increased forty times as fast as that of France. Had there been no decrease in the birthrate in France since the Franeo-Prussian War, it would have made a difference of no less than thirty millions to that country.

Wanted Known. —Come and see all the seasonable Fniits and Confections, and all the good things to eat, that we have secured specially for ’Xmas. —Walker and Furrie, Foxton,

Measles are prevalent throughout this district.

.Advertisers and subscribers will please note that the “Herald” will not be published next Tuesday, Boxing Day.

The Poxton Harbour Board has authorised its chairman, Mr P. J. Hennossy, and Mr J. A. Nash, to make arrangements for floating a loan for the acquisition of "the wharf and a dredge.

Air Lloyd George has made the important statement (hat the Dominions are to be consulted in war matters, and that an Imperial Conference would be held at an early date.

A message from Auckland announces t lie death of Major Shepherd. formerly officer commanding the Auckland Military District, and recently Sergeant-at-Anns in the House of Representatives, aged 71 yea rs. Mr Lloyd George has announced that a reply will be given to Germany regarding the peace proposals in a few days, and also that the Allies arc agreed that peace is impossible without I lie fullest restoration and reparation by Germany.

Without ceremony, the Antarctic relief ship Aurora cast oft from the Port Chalmers wharf at !t o’clock yesterday morning, and left on her journey to the Ross Sea. The Hon. Dr. MeXab was present. As the little vessel left, hearty cheers wen l exchanged between those on board and the spectators.

Ai I lie Magistrate's Court, Wellington, three men, Timothy Troy, .Joseph William Scott, and Maurice Costello, were committed for trial on a eh a rye of conspiring - to defraud Alfred Cross ley, veterinary surgeon, of £52, in connection with a game of show poker at Pahiatua after a recent race meeting.

His H.veelleney the Coventor has received a telegram from (he Secretary of Stale for the Colonies, staling that His Majesty the King approves of Sunday, dlsl December, instead of the (irst Sunday in the New Year, as previously arranged, being appointed for special war services of intercession, thanksgiving, and commemoration. No special form of service is prescribed.

Picture patrons will note that the tirst of the series of "Slingaree" pictures will be shown at the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings. Tins series i> said to lie remarkable for its scenic effects and the freshness of its character, dealing in a most attractive, manner with the old bushranging days of Australia. Each Him of the series contains a complete story.

A Peilding draper has received another shock. On opening a case of goods recently which had just come to hand from London, he found that it had been very neatly broached. No fewer than 27 expensive Gabardine shower-proof raincoats were missing. Apart from the monetary loss, there is the difficulty of getting sufficient supplies of this idass of goods. The gentle whartie!—Star.

At a meeting of (lie Xew Zealand executive of tlit* Returned Soldiers’ Association, held at Wellington yesterday, Ihe following resolution was carried:—“That the secretary make public this meeting's entire disapproval of and lack of sympathy with tin* sentiments expressed by Captain Sinison in South Africa, and especially deprecates his statement that Xew Zealand farmers who have lost sons in the war console themselves with prolits made out of the war.”

'file following are the prize-win-ners in the art union held under the auspices of the Cirls’ (mild, the <lrawing' for which look place last Tuesday;—first prize (pair worked pillow-shams), W Robinson; 2nd, pen-painted eosey), Mrs Mandl: 3rd (hand-painted cushion). Mrs Cower; 4th (model house). I). Me Inly re; nth (canvas worked cushion), Miss X. Moon'; (ith (handworked tea cosy), .Mr Daughen; 7th (patriotic hearthrug), If. Cibbs. The ellorl realised tin- sum of .(.‘lO los.

Extended leave is being granted in the training camps for the Christmas and Xew Year holidays. At Irenlham the 20th Reinforcements will get leave from Saturday morning until midnight on Tuesdav. The 21 si Reinforcements and 25tb officers and n.c.o’s. will get extended leave from 21st December to nth •January, and (he 241 h officers and n.c.o’s. leave from Saturday to midnight (in Tuesday. The Engineer drafts, with the exception of the IDllis. will go on extended leave at Christmas. At Featherston Camp, the 22nd and 23rd Reinforcements are getting leave as from to-mor-row, and on the 22nd until the Gth prox.

In speaking jit the* local State school prize-giving ceremony on Tuesday, the Chairman said that lie believed Unit Claude Cunningham's unbroken attendance at the school lor a period ol 7.1 years constituted a record not only for the school, but possibly in the Board's district. The lad was to be congratulated upon such a run of good health. There were others jast as keen to attend school but Jess fortunate. He instanced (he case of a little girl, Phyllis Robinson, who had recently had the misfortune to break her arm but dispite this handicap she came to school ip order to keep an unbroken attendance. In respect to the Chairman’s statement re Cunningham’s record, Mr McKnight informs us that Ids son, an ex-pupil, put hf an unbroken attendance at the local State school for a period of ebdit years. . ,

The Patriotic Shop will be open ns usual on Saturday, and will be in eharge of Mrs James Robinson, who will bo pleased to receive gifts of anv land for sale.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, by the direction of the Moderator, will hold intercessory services in all churches under its jurisdiction at 8 o’clock on Christmas morning. The local service will bo conducted by the Rev. J. H. Bredin, to which members and adherents arc cordiallv invited.

Evidence of the rapid advancement of surgery was, telegraphs The Post’s Auckland correspondent, embodied in an account given by Gunner A. H. Sewell (who returned by the Maheno) of an operation he underwent in hospital in Prance for ihe removal of a piece of shrapnel shell from the spine. It was during the lighting at Armonticres that Gunner Sewell was wounded. A piece of shell penetrated down his neck to the root of the second rib. He was taken from the tieid paralysed in one side, and it ■was suggested to him that he should return to New Zealand, as possibilities of recovery by operation were remote. He look the risk, however, and was operated on by Colonel Sargent, late surgeon to the King. Strange to say. immediately after the operation he regained the use of his arm and leg, and ten days later was despatched to Walton-on-Thames, where he remained for seven weeks, leaving the institution to join the Maheno for New Zealand. Membeis of the medical profession in Prance, in complimenting Gunner Sewell on his recovery, advised him that it was the only known case of a man having recovered his faculties after such an operation. See cheap rates, front pages Laidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Catalog.