LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1714, 19 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sir John Findlay, M.P., has been retained for the defenee of P. C. Webb, M.P., on a charge of sediti-

The Primate, Bishop Nevill, at the close of his sermon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin, referred to the fact that he had that day reached his SOth year, and that he had been for 4(i years Bishop of the diocese. The Ladies’ Guild desires to publicly acknowledge a donation of £lO 5s from the Wanganui Education Board through the secretary of the local Patriotic Society. The money represents a proportion of that raised by the school children in the Wanganui district on behalf of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. Private Hughes, whose death from wounds was recently reported, was ihe son of Mr and Mrs T. Hughes of Weraroa. He was hardly eighteen when he left Xew Zealand (with the Dili Reinforcements) and he was but nineteen years and two months of age at the time of his death. His elder brother Norman is still at the front in France, says the Chronicle.

‘‘l enlisted at one time, and was refused, so I got married, and now I have domestic troubles,” staled a seaman, called in the Seventh Ballot, in the course of a letter written from a southern port in order to guide the Military Service Board in deciding his appeal for exemption.

At. ;i mootol‘ managers of tlie local Presbyterian Church last night, it was decided to hold the llrs’t of a scries of socials in the schoolroom next Tuesday week. Mr Betty was given the use of the schoolroom for orchestral practices every Monday night. Mr Ilornhlow was appointed to collect subscriptions towards the debt liquidation account.

In a council school in Newcastle the class were having a history lesson, and the subject under consideration was the life of Queen Elizabeth. The teacher, after outlining (he career of this wonderful woman, who found England poor, weak, and divided, and left it strong and conscious of greater possibilities, asked: “Now, can any boy tell me when Queen Elizabeth died? Perhaps Tommy will tell the class?''’ “She’s not deed yit,” replied Tommy, “been as A a hard me f ether say she was light in’ in th’ Dardanelles.”

At the annual meeting of members of the local Horticultural Society on Thursday evening, Mrs McMurray suggested that the Bulb Show this year should he made a patriotic show and (he proceeds from same handed over to the Ladies’ Patriotic Guild. The Guild required a certain sum every month to enable it to continue its good work on behalf of the sick and wounded soldiers. Similar shows had been held elsewhere. The president said he was in sympathy with (he Guild's operations, but he questioned whether a patriotic (lower show would result in a financial gain to (he Guild, it was pointed out that the tea room had been offered to the Guild as a means of assisting its funds, but had been declined. .Another suggestion was that the Guild be given a stall at the show. The consensus of opinion was that while the Society was in sympathy with the Guild’s operations it would be unwise to interfere with the constitutional running of the shows.

Tims “Civis” in the Otago Daily Times; —Professor Dickie made (he shrewd .suggestion (hat ‘‘the leakage of information which caused (he loss of (he Hampshire and the lamented death of the great organiser of victory, was owing to treachery emanating from the Russian Court/’ Why, of course; what else? The light now thrown on the Russian Court and its Germanism makes (he tiling as clear as daylight. The movements of the Kitchener mission were known at Pelrograd; a Petrograd traitor told the Hermans. The Hampshire was waylaid at the one sure point for intercepting her —the start. There a submarine was waiting, and within an hour or two of the Hampshire leaving port, the deed was done. Is emesis has already overtaken the Russian traitors, or some of them. To the Hohenzollerns there remains a fearful looking form of judgment; and Tino, their faithful lackey, must he shaking in his shoes.

Jn support of co-operation, a speaker sit the Midhurst Dairy Company’s mooting on Monday expressed himself in oiled us follows : “Talking about skim milk. This is a question that J can speak on. 1 have had seventeen years of argument on pigs. I have worked, in the pig industry for years.” He had told all those who worked on farms that if the bacon companies amalgamated pigs would soon be no price. They had probably seen where certain companies had amalgamated. They could be quite sure that it was no farmers’ concern. When the war was over, it appeared to him that the farmer would get only about 2d or 3d for ids pigs. If they were going into casein the price would come back to what they should have, but the pig industry would be done unless they were going to buy stock and handle their own stuff. Wanted Known: The Store where quality and value lead is Walker aud Currie's. The best of everySuits made to measure, 72/C. Special offer for one month. 25 allwool Tweed Suitings to choose from, and wo guarantee you a good fit. Don’t miss this opportunity at J. M. Barr’s Big Bargain Stores.*