Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1725, 14 June 1917, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A white frost was experienced throughout this district this morn-

The petition for six o'clock closing of liquor bars, to be presented to Parliament, is being numerously signed locally.

It is rumoured that an action for slander is pending. The parties are connected with the local llaxmilling industry.

There is considerable public feeling in Levin over the Council’s resolution to remove the lamps from the centre of Main Street . If we may be permitted to express an opinion, we would say leave the lamps as Ihev are bv all means.

The .Napier Telegraph says a schoolteacher in the Hastings district, who is alleged to have made pro-German statements, is to be asked by the Hawke's Bay Education Board if the report is correct, and, if so, what he meant by such statements.

-Some time ago there was a demand in Wellington and other centres that the Defence Department should take some effective steps to deal with the men who were defying the Military Service Act. It is reported that the number of men not traced, exclusive of those who have been included in the ballot in error, will be about 1,000.

Says Monday's Pa tea Press; — Mr L. G. Mercer left oil Saturday for Poxton, where he lias received an appointment on the Poxton Herald. Prior to his departure, Lieutenant Mercer was made the recipient of presentations from the members of B. Coy. Xlth. Regt. Taranaki Rifles, and the members of the Press staff.

. The Foxlon Girls’ Guild forwarded to the British Bed Cross Depot, Wellington, yesterday 1 ease containing the following;—29 handkerchiefs, 3 h.k. face washers, 112 towel face washers, 9 swabs, 2 pairs h.k. spiral sox, 7 pairs h.k. sox, 1 h.k. scarf, G balaclavas, 3 flannel bed jackets, 11 pair flannel under pants, 13 flannel under-shirts, 8 suits pyjamas, 3 roller bandages, 5 treasure bags, magazines. The golden wedding was celebrated at Auckland ,a few days ago of two of the oldest residents in the Auckland district, in the persons of Mr and Mrs John Rule. Mr Rule came to the Dominion with his parents in the early sixties, and after residing for some years at the Thames, proceeded to Auckland, where he established himself as a building ai’chitect. Mrs Rule has for years been associated with social work in Auckland, and has been particularly identified with the W.C.T.U. ■ Wanted Known: You can get better groceries for the same money at Walker-and Furrie’s.

On March 17th, Captain Cuyneiner brought clown his 35th aeroplane. He is the champion aviator of the war, a Frenchman.

A meeting of the committee of the local Horticultural Society will bo held to-morrow evening.

All Saints’ Ladies’ Guild intend holding a Sale of Work in September.

The recent gales were responsible for a fair amount of damage to hbro in the paddocks in the Shannon district.

The Carnival Committee meet in the Council Chambers at 7,30 this evening. A meeting of the executive will be held at 7.15.

The road to the seaside has recently had the grader over it, and some large stones have been brought to the surface and centred. Otherwise the road is in good order.

Although a fair amount of tish is caught locally, very little is marketed in the town. It is quite a common thing for local people to get their iish from Palmerston or per medium if an outside hawker.

The ( L )ueen of the South, from Wellington with general, is due this evening, and, circumstances permitting, will sail again for Wellington to-morrow night, with a full cargo of hemp.

Somebody called out “Wowser!” at the public meeting' at Fcilding on .Monday night, “There are no wowsers in Kcav Zealand,” replied Mr Geo. Bartholomew. “They are all in the iiring line, fighting for the Empire.” (Cheers).

The public arc reminded of the competitions in connection with the Patriotic Shop on Saturday, and for winch good prizes are offered. There Avill be three competitions: one for the best pair of handknitted sox, one for the best homemade fruit-cake, and the third for best dressed doll, the last being open only to children under 15 years.

Professor Osborne, avlio recently returned to Melbourne from a visit to the-United Kingdom, is not the only Australian avlio has been impressed by the fact that “oppressed Ireland” is better off in many respects at present than “England the oppressor.” A Avouuded soldier on leave in Ireland has Avritten home a gloAving account of life in the Emerald Isle. “Everybody is so cheerful, so easy to get on Avith,” he Avvites. “For instance, compare the Jarvey Avith our cabmen. When, at the end of a ride in a jaunting-car I asked the Jarvey the fare. He replied, “Begor, sir, I’ll leave it to yourself. Sure I’d sooner take the three half-croAvns you’d offer me than the Jive shillings I’d he askin’ of vou!”

Was there ever a greater adventure by air and sea than that of the two Russian aviators a week ago? asks the Westminster Gazette’of April 4th last. They started out on a seaplane to make a raid. The petrol tank got punctured, and they were compelled to descend. As they did so they saw a Turkish schooner. This they attacked with machinegun lire-, and the crew quickly took to their boats. .Our two aviators promptly proceeded to sink the seaplane add board the schooner, which they contrived to get to port in safety, although all the food they found on board was a little bread and water. A splendid adventure which really makes us feel quite young again, and as if we were reading Jules Verne.

The Comptroller of Customs (Mr W. B. .Montgomery) told the First Wellington Military Service, Board that the duties of Customs examining otlicers had increased considerably during the war, owing to a constant watch having to be maintained to guard against infringements of trade marks, and such like. The Japanese, he said, were importing Chinese collins as Japanese, and goods with British and other trade marks. Japanese cutlery, for example, was being sent here bearing not only the word “Sheffield/' but also the names and trade marks of British makers. American-made goods had also to be watched for similar reasons.

In describing at Hie Garrison Ilnil, Wellington, liuw the New Zealand soldiers paint tiieir faces black and arm themselves with a “waddy'" made with an entrenching tool and a big nut, just prior to engaging in a. raid, Major Andrews said that one night a German officer was brought a prisoner into his dugout in charge of two stalwart New Zealanders, ' and he noticed that the man looked behind him one* 1 , or twice as v if he feared something was after him; and as soon as the officer saw him, he said to him in French, “You are an ollicer, I claim your protection.” “My protection!—against what?” asked Major Andrews. “Against these New Zealand savages,” was the reply. “But lam a New Zealander,” said the major. “You, a New Zealander!' Impossible!” exclaimed the officer’, “Impossible!” “He had seen them, you know,” remarked Major Andrews, amid laughter. “He had seen them, and he knew.” (Renewed laughter). Of nerve-racking worry, beware! Have faith in the help which avails you: Take courage and vanquish de- < spair. In storm and stress, each pang will grow less, If with calmness your fate you’ll endure When cough or cold of your lungs take hold, ■ Take Woods’ Great’ Peppermint Cure. 14

Mr itnd JVlr.s C. L. Barnard, who havqjieen residents of Te Aroha for some years past, left on Friday last to take up their residence in Auckland. They were farewelled at the station by a large number of friends, —Te Aroha News.

The Palmerston-Foxton (rain was unable to gel through last night, owing to the Hood waters being across the line at Rangiotu. .Passengers, were, however, trolleyed across the line and transferred to the train Availing on this side. No mail came through from Palmerston last night.

The Patriotic Shop will be open as usual on Saturday, and Avil! be under the management of Mechanics Arthur Green and Murdoch, of Marotiri. The public are asked to look out for the surprise bags, Avhich Avill be on sale. All prizes—no blanks. Nelson apples will a.lso be on sale as usual.

The poll taken in Shannon yesterday on the question of whether the toAvnship should be constituted a borough or not resulted in a majority favouring the constitution of a borough. The voting avus: For 07, against 24, informal 3. There Avere 120 ratepayers' names on the roll, and as (his number included several absentees, it Avill be seen that great interest avus taken in the proposal.

A feAv days ago Mr Win. Ross, of Levin Road, had his two dogs poisoned. One, a valuable little animal he brought from Australia, succumbed, and the other, a bull dog, managed to pul! through. The dogs were given large bono upon Avhich the poison was spread. Tlie motive for the fiendish act .cannot he accounted for, as the dogs Avere kept within Mr Ross’ premises. It seems strange that, the poisoned dog was only recently recovered in Wellington, where it avus on sale in a fancier's shop after mysteriously disappearing from Foxton. The matter is being investigated.

A man anxipus i‘ov a position but not for work was recently encountered by the Public Trust ollice in Wellington, says the Post. He was doing' nothing, and being qualified for special work he could have been given plenty of i( by an office now very short handed, lie was duly offered a place, but stipulated that he must not be asked to work overtime, nor to stay in the ollice longer Ilian a certain period at a time, nor given certain classes of work which he speeilied. Then lie began to choose his room, making further stipulations as to its position, the colour of the carpet, and the heating arrangements. As it appeared to the ollice that the applicant did not really wish to work, he was enthusiastically “turned down." He is still out of a position. Mr W. U. Pearce, chairman of the Kiwiiea County Council, made out one of the best eases for the curtailment of the liquor traflic, at a public meeting at Peilding on Monday night. lie said the people in various communities were growing potatoes jmd other vegetables at the request of the Efficiency Board, yet they were spending more money in liquor than the value of the products they hoped to grow. The farmers in the Sandon and Bulls districts, he said, had agreed to increase I heir wheat area by 1,500 acres, and their oats area by 900 acres, yet in the next 12 months the people in that district would consume- liquor costing more than I he value of the wheat and oats they hoped to produce. The Government were considering the ’establishment of a hydro-electrie scheme to serve Wellingtgon and the West Coast. It was to cost a million sterling, and the (government had decided hot to go on with it during the war, as the money could not be found. Yet, in 12 mouths, The .people living in the area to be served by that scheme would spend a million sterling in liquor. Was that efficiency?