LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

General ilaigh has commenced a big offensive north of Arras, and a great battle is now reported in progress. The excursion trains yesterday and to-day, both north and south bound, were packed with jmssengers. There was considerable motor tralfic between Wanganui aud Random yesterday aud to-day, the oc-casion-of the Peilding races. Messrs P. J. Heunessy (present chairman) and Thomas Dimmer have been elected unopposed for the positions of two Eoxtou representatives on the Puxton Harbour Board. Wanted Known: You can get better groceries for the same money at Walker aud Purrie’s. Eor Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6.

The Military Service Board will commence its sitting at Palmerston North to-morrow morning.

Three absconders from the Weraroa Training Farm were arrested in Foxton on Friday and returned to the institution.

A military deserter was arrested by the local police yesterday and handed over to the military authorities to-day.

An inebriate, arrested locally on Sunday, and allowed mil on bail, •lid not answer to his name at the Police Court yesterday morning, and his bail, 10s, was estreated.

Messrs M. Cohen, of Palmerston X., and John Cobbe, of Feilding, the sitting members, were nominated on Saturday for re-election as the Manawatu representatives on the Wellington Harbour Board. With eight children, a soldier's wife told the North London magistrates she had an allowance of £l. Ills a week, whereas before the war her husband gave her £1 a week and she had to keep him.

Patea, the little seaport town of South Taranaki, is evidently patriotic in a very high degree. A visitor was informed a few days ago that (here were only five men between the ages of twenty and forty-six left in the town —all the rest had gone to the war.

Gustav Hirschherg, arrested i'or sotting - fire to a cheese factory at Longlmsh, belongs to an old Wairarapa family. He has had a longstanding' grievance over certain properties near Longlmsh, and in recent years Jins been very peculiar in his actions.

There were very large crowds at the local seaside during the holidays. All the cottages were occupied, and large numbers of people visited the beach in vehicles of all kinds. On Friday over fifty motorcars were lined up. A Beach Improvement Committee has been set up, and their efforts will he the means of making this popular seaside resort even more attractive to visitors.

The issue of ar Loan certificates through the Post Office to .March loth totalled £1,2911,33!). Leading contributions are: Wellington £311,015, Christchurch £171.3(50, Dunedin £171,148, Auckland £102,858. Blenheim heads the per capita contributions with 40s lOd, Wellington next with 35s 2d, then Nelson with 34s Id, and Dunedin with 30s Id, Christchurch 23s 4d, and Auckland 12s (id.

Kaikoura is not very far away, but its very best stories take a long time to work down country (says the Christchurch Sun). It was on Christmas Day that they arrested a man on a “language” charge. In the, course of justice he was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment. Then followed his amazing request that he might be allowed to serve the term in the winter, as he did not want to miss the harvesting. The Bench consulted, and decided that it couldn’t be dome

The friends of Mr R. A. Wilson (Boh), of whom (here art; many in this district mid up in the hush, will he pleased to know that he has raided (hat he has been promoted io captain of the Royal Garrison Artillery. He has only been at the front live months, and it is a decisive indication of his abilities that he has been promoted during that time from (Second Lieutenant to Captain. Naturally, Sir James, Lady Wilson, and his friends Avill he glad to hear of his rapid preferment. —Advocate.

The Dannevirke newspaper has been thrown into a state of excitement by hearing that Count Bernstoff, the late German Ambassador at Washington, was at one time a resident of Dannevirke, and was for a time the guest of Mr E. C. Cowper. At that lime he was known as Baron Ernst. The gentleman “had a most persuasive manner, and was an adept, lady’s man. He had a charming way of conversing with ladies, and he had a way of acquiring information from them that in the light of after events was particularly sublte.” After leaving Kaitoke, Baron “Ernst” went on a sketching tour to Woodville, and proceeded to Wanganui, where he spent some time with Air Cowper’s relatives. These incidents are said to have occurred 31 years ago.

The Government scheme for settling returned soldiers on the kind has made good headway in the Auckland district, despite the fact that large numbers of the men apparently prefer to take up city life. A total sum of £120,000 has been spent during the last year in acquiring land for settlement by soldiers, two of the most recently acquired being large blocks in the Warkworth and Matamata districts. An endeavour has been made in every instance to seeiire the best land available, so Unit the men will have every opportunity of making their areas self-supporting. The Government makes to all soldier settlers an advance up to £SOO, to be expended in providing a house, implements, fencing material, and stock, all these advances being secured to the State by mortgage, bearing a low rate of interest. Alas! how soon have passed away The joys and hopes of yesterday! And yet it doth console to know Its griefs and pangs have passed also. The colds and coughs which yesternight Filled countless hearts with pain and fright, Have passed away —could not endure, Opposed to Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 3

Butter worth £2,302,079 has been exported from Victoria since July last. Almost the whole of this has gone to the United Kingdom.

Up to the end of March, the censor of kinemutograph dims (Mr W. Jolitfe) had, since Ist October, examined 2,107,310 feet of film. During March three films were turned down, and in one case the decision t was appealed against, but was up- ,J held by the Board of Appeal.

A resident of Inglewood has received a letter from his sister, w ;o ’■ sides in Sweden, stating that there is a considerable shortage of food (here, and tickets arc being issued for bread, etc. The allowance of sugar is a kilo (about 2i lbs.) per month.

Some idea of the acute shortage of paper in certain parts of New Zealand may he guaged from the fact that the Hokitika paper could not be published the other day because of no paper. The Hokitika journal came out on blue paper, while the Murchison Standard was printed on green.

In a ploughing match for £lO a side on a farm at Wainlleet, Lincolnshire, Miss Elsie Jackson, aged 19, who had been ploughing since she was 10 years old, defeated Mr Tom Wainlleet, of Dovecote Farm, her work being declared more finished than that of her'competitor.

In commenting on a ease in connection with the selling of shortweight bread, at the Napier Court, Mr S. 10. McCarthy, S.M., said: “In these cast's the law empowers the court to order that the conviction he recorded in the public press. If there arc any ntore of these cases I shall do it.” A line of £7 10s was imposed.

A strange case of loss of memory is reported from the Feat hers ton Military Camp. A young man of good physique had been undergoing the usual training. One morning he was missing from his usual place, and was later found roaming about. His mind was an absolute blank, and he had no recollection of what had happened. He has not yet recovered his memorv.

Proof of the largeness of the amounts (hat accrue to (he tolalisator management from the fractions in the dividends below sixpence, which are not paid out to the investors, was given on Saturday in the course of the case now before (he Magistrate’s Court. It was shown that on one day alone of the last Takapuna spring meeting the sum involved in these undivided fractions amounted to £lll 13s. Of this one-half went to the racing club and the other half to the totalisator proprietors.

The head of a Manchester firm of caterers, with branches in several parts of the city, being unable to get sufficient sugar for table use for his customers, has been experimenting with honey instead, and now clients find in place of sugar on (be table pots of honey with which to sweeten their lea. Some have demurred, “but that,” says the proprietor, “is prejudice.” The great majority have tried the alternative, in good faith, and the general verdict is that the tea is just as pleasant with honey as with sugar.

“It is a disgustingly cruel practice; absolutely inhuman, and only a lit thing for a German to do. Now it has been made public, I hope something Mill he done to prohibit it by law.” Thus declared His Honour Mr Justice Edwards at the Supreme .Court at Gisborne, when a. witness was describing the practice 1 of cutting off the (eats of wild sows so that the suckers would die and the sow loose condition. “It seems to have been a common practice,” remarked counsel. “That does not make it any the better,” rejoined His Honour.

As a result of the war, the Australian rabbit is now a recognised source of wealth to the community 7 . Replying to a quest ion in the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister of Australia, Air W. Hughes, stated that the Commonwealth Government had entered into a contract with the Imperial Government for the supply of rabbits for the British forces, and had therefore requested the various .State Departments to co-operate with the Commonwealth in regard to the matter. Rabbits were no longer a pest to be destroyed at all hazards, but a means of finding employment for a number of persons, and a source of wealth to the community.

A New Zealand business man, writing from Chicago to a Christchurch contemporary, comments as follows on the cost of living in the United States: —“I am sending you to-day’s Tribune. You will find a good deal therein about food prices. They are tierce. The people in New Zealand have no room to talk about food prices when you compare prices in the two countries. Here are a few: Beef 12|d per lb, potalies 3Ad per lb., cabbages lOd per lb., onions 10d, butter 2s 4d, and everything else in proportion. Bents fur flats and houses within 20 miles of New York are very high. A nineroomed house, unfurnished, and a very ordinary house at that, with a very small section, would cose 100 dollars per month —equal to £4 14s a week. To heat that house it would cost about £SO per annum. W'e are very well off in New Zealand and we don’t know it.” See cheap rates,. front pages Laidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Catalog.* Wanted: Housewives to realise that it pays to purchase groceries aud household requisites at Walker and Fume’s.

The traffic on the railways, especially on the Main Trunk line, has been ahead of that of last Easter.

The election of a Mayor and nine Councillors for the borough of Poxton will take place on the 25th instant. Nominations close before noon on Thursday, the 19th instant.

A local motorist who has just returned from a run through to New Plymouth and Mount Egmont, speaks in glowing terms of the Taranaki roads. The main road for miles (‘(insists of screened tarred metal.

During tin 1 month of March the Dental Corps at Trentlmm’ camp dealt with 3,408 attendances. The work comprised 3.9(3 amalgam Idlings, 50 cement, 238 root, 119 roof-dressing, 143 sealing operations, and 2,185 extractions.

The local returning officer had some difficulty this morning in getting an extra nominee, other than the Chairman, for the Poxton borough representation on the local Harbour Board. Mr Jenks, who previously (tiled the position with Mr Hennessy, is out of town.

Coilinson and Cunninghamc, of Palmerston N., in a change advertisement to-day feature (heir large and varied stock of linoleums, etc. This brni carries a very large stuck of all such goods, with patterns of all kinds and colours.

A very distinguished family has (says “The Clubman" in the Pal! Mail Gazette) been thrown into frreal distress by one of the accidents of war. Soon after the war bewail an officer member of the family was reported missing, and though every investigation was made, nothing could be learned of his fate. Quite recently his wife, believing herself to be a widow, married again. Within the last few days news has arrived from the missing officer stating that he had been unable to write before as he had completely lost his memory, lie is a prisoner in Germany.

.Much contusion was caused in Australia by the resumption of ordinary time after the experiment in “daylight saving.’’ Though plenty of notice was given of the alteration of (he lime, many neglected to put the hands of the (dock back an hour on the night of March 2-!-(h. Many hundreds of people appearing at early church services usually held at eight o’clock, found the churches closed. Then it dawned upon them that they had arrived an hour too soon. Large numbers of people were an hour too early at the suburban stations to catch (he morning trains imo the city, and a similar mistake was also made regarding the departure id' the bay excursion steamers. A story of heartless desertion of a bride elect is fold in Napier. A wedding was to have been celebrated a few days ago. All arrangements for the ceremony wore well in hand, and an hour before the appointed time the bridegroom, who is a re) aimed “hero,” borrowed his prospective mother-in-law's bicycle to go on a small errand. The bride and the attendants and the impatient minister, after a considerable wait iit the church, were obliged to return to their homes in great disappointment, the bridegroom having failed to pul in an appearance at the church. (To is believed to have pawned the cycle at a well-known dealer's, and then made good his escape, for he has not been seen or heard of since.

Appa really Ihe practice of pampering German prisoners in New Zealand continues. A correspondent writing to I lie Auckland Observer says: “Walking down the main street at Devonport the other morning I spotted Ihe noble Jigure of a man emerging from the post office. Smoking a cigarette and walking in a nonchalant manner with his hands in his pockets few would have known that it was an alien enemy, and a prisoner at that. .1 gazed again. Could it be the man I thought it was? Yes, there was no mistaking Ihe stalely figure of Dr. Endletsbergder. Then 1 noticed that a soldier accompanied him and J knew my surmise was correct, because the soldier's arms were full of parcels, and no prisoner of war in New Zealand is allowed to demean himself by carrying parcels. ’Twas the doctor all right, and I felt sorry for the soldier, because he looked so sorry for himself. I wonder if our English prisoners in Germany are allowed to wander down to the local post office while 1 heir guards carry their mail for them? Ido not make any comparisons, but I am merely curious.”

Wanted Known: Walker and Furrie helps you to practice economy by offering you pure, high-grade groceries at the very lowest prices.