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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1680, 1 March 1917, Page 2

Thu latest addition to the load telephone list is Dr. Lamb, Clyde Street, No. till. Wanted! Housewives can now purchase machine-cleaned Currants and Kaisins at Walker and Fame’s, “The Store for Cleanliness and Quality,”

In the Magistrate’s Court at Hnwo.ra three Territorials, for failing to attend parades, were.each fined £5, in default 20 days’ military detention.

The Hopwood Hardware store, Palmerston N., was burglariously entered on Tuesday' night, and six revolvers and 4,000 rounds of ammunition are missing. At the Auckland Police Court, J. A. Brailsford pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to enrol in the Expeditionary Force Reserve, explaining that he had done so because of conscientious scruples. He was lined £5 and costs.

A Maori, while cycling home to Awapuni from Palmerston on Tuesday night, was stuck-up on the Longburn road by two armed men. The native called at the residence of Mr H. Pillons and informed him of what had happened, and the latter rang up the police, who are making enquiries.

A British civilian liberated in December told an interviewer; —“All the time .1 was in Berlin I have been able to read the English papers. 1 bought them at a local bookshop, and the contents were never blacked out nor censored in any way. The good Berliners simply refuse to believe anything that they read in the English papers.” As showing the mildness and also the dampness of the season, the unusual spectacle of seed sprouting on sheeps’ backs was observed on a sheep station (says the Gisborne Times). The sheep, which were in full wool, had been grazing at a slack containing burr clover and some of the burrs had clung to the wool. It was this seed which had sprouted, and when the sheep were yarded many were noticed with a distinct tinge of green on their wool.

A presentation was made at the meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association at Wellington on Tuesday. Mr Abbey Jones, on behalf of the Provincial Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, presented their president, Mr Fred Pirani, with a travelling suit case as a mark of their appreciation of the services he had rendered in forming the association and directing its operations for some time past. The Hon. G .Carson (Wanganui) also spoke in appreciation of Mr Pirani’s work, and Mr Pirani made an appropriate reply. A statement showing the whole cost to New Zealand to January 31st, 1 !)17, of the military occupation of Samoa, gives the following particulars: Mobilisation and equipment of troops, £13,785; transports, Moeraki £10,(572, Monowai £13,377, Talune £l4,ti!!7; other items of transport, men returning to New Zealand, freight, etc., £4(5,900; pay, of troops, £145,283; provision and supplies, forage £12,343, rations £38,578, medical £3,254. The total cost was £301,09!).

In the <_• nurse* of liis address at Hastings, Sii- .Jolm Findlay stated dial lie had received a wire from the Hon. \V. 1). S. MacDonald with regard to I he work of the Board of Trade. It was dealing with t lk* (| nest ion of tin* cost- of living, and in ten months had saved consumers in New Zealand ,€700,000. The price of milk in Wellington city had been fixed. Butchers’ shops had been established in Auckland. The price of blitter had been fixed, and the question of fixing the price of bread was being attended to. “I am a really good woman, and I work in a laundry for 25s a week, and all 1 took was ipiinine and iron and port wine.” This illuminating .statement was uttered in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court by Nora Nugent, who appeared to resent (he imputation that she was “found drunk.” The Magistrate (Mr L. G. Reid, S.M.) : “You see you have 141 previous convictions." The defendant: “Oh, yes; hut (hey are in the past; J have turned over a new leaf.” The Magistrate; “You are Jined 20s, in default seven days.” Defendant (with commendable resignation) : “Oil! God spare your health, sir.”

The Advisory Board of the Federation of Patriotic Societies resolved: “That the Advisory Board begs to call the attention of the Government to the grave economic danger which will result from excessive enlistment of men employed in primary industries. The board also desires to bring under the* notice of the Government the hardship inflicted by practically compelling men drawn in the ballot to dispose of their properties, and is of opinion that Government action is urgently necessary to secure the retention of such properties to the owners, and to prevent exploitation by unscrupulous persons.”

Ju his opening address to llie electors of Hawke's Hay at Hastings the other night, .Sir John Findlay outlined at considerable length the problems which had already been handled by the Xationa 1 Government, and dealt with the many things that have yet to he done, included among which was the ipiestion of excessive shipping freights. This, he said, was no lime for tenderness to sectional interests.. H; private interests and private sellishness were embarrassing to the Government, and adding to costs of living, then, he said, let the (State nationalise that industry in the interests of the whole country.

Housewives should bear in mind that Walker and Furrie can supply household ironmongery of every description at the best value prices.

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s ?•

The Tiratu block, near Danne- j virke, the survey of which has just been completed, will be offered for selection to discharged soldiers at; the end of the year. The block comprises some 5,727 acres, mostly first-class land.

“I am not prepared to say that the manufacture of perambulators is an essential industry,” said counsel appearing for an appellant in that line of business at the sitting of the Third Military Service 80.-u|| on Thursday. “Perhaps so,”

plied the Chairman, of thorn mav be.”

“but the tilli

There is stated to be a tremendous demand for peanuts in New Zealand. The possibility of cultivating peanuts on a commercial scale in the Auckland district has already been discussed. ' According to Mr H. F. Allen, secretary ;jhe Wellington Industrial Ass- ■ • who has just returned fro Iceland, an experimental crop si.u planted just outside the city •'*#the road to Onehunga, and the ■ jferiment is being watched with intores I.

Mr W. Flynn, the oldest settler of the Great Barrier, and one of the earliest settlers of New Zealand, died last week, at the age of f jj* Flynn was four years old win -Jr came to New Zealand wit .

father in the ship Nimrod, in 1837, (he family settling at Hokianga. He was married in 1854, and in 18(10 went to Port Fitzroy, to work at the original Barrier timber mill. A few years later he took up land on the island and lived (here ever since. His wife and ten children survive him.

A special income (ax imposed under tlu‘ Finance Act, 191(5, will he payalile to-day. Demand notes have been issued by the Department. The tax is subject to a 10 per cent, surcharge on any portion unpaid on March 22nd next, thus giving a period of 21 days’ grace. Should this special war lax not be paid within three months of the due date —March 1st — the additional percentage will he 12A per cent.; if six months after 15 per cent. Payments may he made at any moneyorder post office or by remittance to the Tax Office, Wellington,

Angry scenes were witnessed at Hamilton on Wednesday night at a lecture on “Who caused the War'?” by Rev. Howard Elliot. The lecturer sought; to show that Catholics throughout the world were in league against Britain, and he was subjected to a tirade of bitter interjections throughout. His declaration that the Pope was responsible for the present European conflict in his anxiety to secure world domination, caused a tremendous outburst, of invective, and the lecturer, who had difficulty in proceeding, ordered the police to remove several interrupters. At the conclusion the crowd waited for and followed the lecturer, who had to be escorted by the police. Eventually he escaped in a motor.

“The most nit cresting morning of my life,” said Dr. Newman, M. 8., for Wellington Bast, on his return , from Huropc on Tuesday, “was a V visit to the front line of trenches in France, held at the time by Wellington Rifles. The boys were surprised to see a man not in khaki. ▼ They fired off a few rounds of the Stoke mortar for me, and 1 saw the bombs fly high and fall about the German trenches; and the machineguns of the Germans let off a few rounds. They told me if I heard the rattle of (he machine-guns the bullets were past, and there was no danger because bullets travelled faster than sound. Though my visit, fascinated me —still 1 like Lamhton Quay better. After visiting the front I feel 1 Avant to take my hat off to every one of our infantry privates, for every man who has done his bit there is a real man and a perfect hero.”