LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1738, 17 July 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Gill, Inspector of Weights and Measures, is at present on an official visit to Poxton. Should sufficient inducement offer, a woodwmrlt class will be started locally. All interested are requested to communicate with the Rev, A, Harding. Amongst the floral tributes at the late Constable Hanlon’s funeral wms a handsome wreath received from his comrades who fought with him in the South African War,

Mr and Mrs 11. Hawke, of Greytown, are on a holiday visit to Poxton.

The local Girls’ Guild will meet in the Council Chambers on Thursday of this week, instead of to-night. The Lutheran Church building at Haleorabe was totally destroyerd by fire at 2 o’clock yesterday morning.

The Queen of the South, with general, from Wellington, crossed inwards this morning, but stuck in the river. It is expected she will get off on to-night’s tide. “When people know you have to go to the front, they offer you ridiculous prices for your stock,” said an appellant at the sitting of the Appeal Board at Mastorton. The public meeting convened to discuss the question of the proposed exchange of portion of (he Target Reserve for the Round Bush, will be held in the Council Chamber to-night, at 8 o’clock. Messrs Walker and Furric remind all those who purchased coupons for prize packets in Die C.T. Carnival, that they will receive their parcels at the sample rooms, in Hal! Street, after 7 o’clock this evening. A resident of Pehbleton, Canterbury, who is reported to have won £5,000 in an Australian sweep, will be duly called ’upon by the IncomeTax Department to pay £2,250 excess profits tax. Conscience money amounting to £ll2 2s (id is acknowledged in this week’s Gazelle. The money was sent from Auckland to the Commissioner of Taxes by someone whose identity is unknown. A quiet wedding was celebrated at Hie residence of Mr and Alts .Mantel), Ravensworth Flam 1 , yesterday, by Die Rev. .). H. Gredin, when Ptc. .Malcolm Mautoil, of the 29th Reinforcements, was united to Mi>s Irene Rose Dyer. For transit of a road roller from Canterbury to Devin, the Ilorowbeiiua County Council lias had to pay a total of £BO. Over £3O of (his was charged for wafer freight to Wellington. The charges were reckoned lo be exorbitant when the Council discussed the mailer. Chaplain-Captain Dime, who is at present in Palmerston, paid a visit lo Shannon on Sunday, and met some of; bis old parishioners. We are informed that Chaplain-Captain Dore will shortly visit Australia, as the win(or here is somewhat trying for him. At the meeting of the Second Division League in Mastorton, much comment was made on (he decisions of the Military Service Medical Board when examining recruits. “Numbers get the shock of their lives to be told they have a weak' heart.” The death occurred at Mastorton on Saturday of Nurse Hall, relict of the late Mr Henry Hall, who died in Wellington about forty years ago. The deceased was seventy-nine years of age. She leaves two sons, one of whom is Captain J. B. Hall, of the coastal service, and late pilot at Foxton. “On the Dogger Bank the sen per acre yields a greater harvest than any acre of land,” said flic Rev. 11. Johnson in the course of a lecture on the mine-sweepers of the North Sea. In substantiation of his contention, Mr Johnson said that the fish yielded an annual income of £10,000,000. The estimated area of the Dogger Bank was 11,000 square miles. The steel steamer Putiki, formerly engaged in the Wellington-Wan-ganui service, was sold by public auction by Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., at Wellington yesterday. A large number of representatives of shipping linns were present, and the bidding was brisk. The vessel was knocked down to Air Stewart, of Stewart and Co., for £5,300. The bidding opened at £I,OOO. The enemy alien question was referred to in Parliament, Sir James Allen stating, in reply to a question, that the Government was considering whether German and Austrian residents in New Zealand could bo made to make a contribution in proportion to their mean- for each year of the war. The whole question of the treatment of aliens was receiving the attention of Cabinet. It is not generally known that Air Lloyd George is reported to have Flemish blood in his veins. In a lecture at Auckland, Professor Alaxwell Walker remarked that it is staled on authentic grounds that the British Prime Alinister’s ancestors belonged to Flanders, before settling in Wales. The admixture of the characteristics of the people of the Flemish Plains and those of the Welsh mountains liad developed, said the lecturer, a most interesting personality. The mountains of Whales had given Air Lloyd George his great breadth of imagination and gift of oratory, whilst to his Flemish torgears he owetl the great power of patient and successful organisation that he had displayed. The darts of sly Cupid lurk waiting within The adorable dimples of "Winifred Wynn; Her eyes, like sapphires, blue as th(| sea, Rare jewels of lustre and loveliness be. Winnie’s radiant energy fully affirms . Beauty and health are synonymous terms; Changes of weather her lungs will endure. She wards them with Woods’ Peppermint Cure. 12 For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6 and 2/6.

Rev. R. S. Gray informed a Wellington audience that an examination of the share list of the New Zealand Times revealed the fact that 30,000 shares were held by brewers, publicans, and wine and spirit merchants, that three men who held upwards of 160,000 shares in Staples’ brewery were three of the leading shareholders in the Times, and that it was hopeless to expect fair treatment of the 0 o’clock closing question from such a paper.

Two youths, aged 13 and 14 spec-lively, who recently Icftjtyf/l ford with the sura of £OO 14s 2a their possession, and were bent 011 spending it on travel, and amusement, were arrested at Onehunga on arrival of the Ha raw a from New Plymouth on Wednesday morning. The lads, who were brothers, appeared before Mr J. Taking, J.P., at (ho Onehunga Court, charged with having stolen the amount named. Sergeant Rogers said the money had been taken from their father, who resided at Stratford. They had paid their passage money out of: the amount, and the balance was recovered when they were searched after their arrest. The lads were remanded to appear at Stratford.

The altitude of the Anglican Church in regard lo the formation in Auckland of a Protestant Political Association was expounded by Dr. A. \V. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, at I he annual meeting’ of (lie members of the Order of the Good Shepherd. “I believe (here is going to be a great political upheaval in the near future." said Dr. Avcvill, “The Roman Catholics have their political organisation on the one hand, and now a Protestant political party has been formed on the other side, but the Anglican Church i.- ; going to keep clear of Doth, (Applause). 1 feel it is our great opportunity. The thinking portion of the community will see that our Church is not a political body,- but a Christian body, working quietly for Christ, and carrying out His ideals. We do not want to botherabout politics more than we ran help, and we are certainly not going to lake one side or the other." Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, Sir .join; Findlay said: "The Minister for Defence had laboured with a persistency and tireless devotion to duty which must win (lie admiration of every impartial man. He bad borne a burden of difficult responsibilities which would have crushed most men. And if he had failed —as failed he must confess he had in many things —it was mainly because he had only human and not Atlantean shoulders, liven his chief weakness his outstanding vice—in different circumstances would have been a virtue. Me referred to his rigid and unreasoned loyally lo his subordinates and official advisers. They admired a Minister for courageously standing between his officers and unfair attack; but that stand became per-, nioious( and in these times danger- , ous) when it threw the shield over blundering official inepti- „ liule and insensate indifference to reasonable complaints. Gratified by making a haul of £9 in the office of the AlcCallum and Co.’s sawmills, Crawford Street, Dundein, a cool and humorously inclined shopbreaker printed in blue pencil across the rilled drawer the jeering words, “So grateful,” and further, to point his jest, left the caretaker’s Bible open at the 20th chapter of Exodus, underscoring the words of the 15th verse: “Thou shall not steal.” A drawer on a high desk had contained £9 in. pound notes, 10s notes, and silver. It was gaping open, and empty -of everything except the jeering reference alluded to. The drawer had been locked, but an auger applied to the wooden socket of the shot-bolt had made’ short work of the obstacle. A night-watchman is always on the premises from dark lo 4.30 or 5 a.m., and on this occasion he left at 4.30 without receiving any alarm. He had been reading his Bible in the office, and it was this book which give Mr intruder his opportunity to put over a joke on Ins victims. During the recent wash-out on the railway Hue at Rangiotu, com- , plaint was made by a correspondent ■ that certain passengers were inconvenienced, through not being informed that the train would not make the return journey from Foxton. The complaint was forwarded to the Minister by Mr W. 11. Field, ALP., who has received the following reply under dale July I.4th: —■ “Sir. —Willi reference lo your let- - ter of Dhh ultimo, enclosing a letter, signed ‘Passenger” appearing in the ‘Manawatu Herald’ of the 10th ultimo regarding train arrangements from Rangiotu to Fox ton, 1 have the honour lo inform you that this.matter has been enquired into, and it is found that on the day in question, while it was possible, with the aid of a canoe, to passengers across the Hooded area in the morning, it was considered dangerous to attempt it in the afternoon, and the trains between Foxton and Rangiotu were therefore cancelled. You will recognise that in circumstances such as Dipso the suspension of train services iw unavoidable. It is understood from the inquireies made that only four passengers were affected.” IVlien colds and influenza aro prevalent let NAZOL your family. One dose a day k®p<? colds > away. Good for all ages. 60 do3B for 1/6. Wanted: Housewives to realise; that it pays to purchase groceries , and household requisites at Walker and Furrie’s. . j

Unlike many more purely British centres, llong-Kong does not minee matters relating to the German. The following resolution was passed by the commit tee of the llong-Kong Chamber of Commerce, and afterwards submitted to the Hong-Konff Legislative Council, through the Chamber’s representative, the Hon. M.P.H. ITolyoak:—“It is the opinion of this Chamber that it is in the best interests of the colony of Hong-Kong that persons of. German nationality should be excluded therefrom for a period of at least ten years following the declaration of peace; and that, subsequently they be only admitted into the colonv under strict license.”

Sir Joseph Ward recently paid a. glowing tribute to the women of the

Old Country for'the work they are doing in connection with the war. The women of New Zealand had already done a great deal, but before the war was over it was possible that our women would have to do similar work to that being done by the women at Ilime. The women in France had long ago given up luxuries and gone m for work which they had never previously undertaken. lie did not suggest that a e should do anything to limit trade in this country, because that would only add to our dillicuilies, but we must be sure we would make the necessary arrangements to enable us to carry the war to a successful conclusion. (Applause).

Some painful houio-lvnlhs firj Germany were nllcml by the Sozialdemokart, of Wiesbaden;, "It docs not show any great political wisdom to imagine that Russia will make an offer of peace lo Germany, where not a .-ingle denioeralm idea has as yet come to fruition, whereas Russia has gone to the length of

(■renting a rcvolulion to spread and consolidate these ideas. Everything in this world has it- price. Germany might have peace to-morrow if she cho-c lu lake example by what is being done in (he enemy countries, and threw overboard the political privileges of special classes. Wo fear, however, that serious infernal I rouble must occur before the eye- of high-placed bill obtuse personage- are opened sufficientIv wide.”

Tile danger of exciting amusements to convalescent soldiers, particularly (hose suffering from shellshock, nciiraslhcnia. ;nid wounds in the head, was emphasised by a medical authority in the course of a report on a ease, submitted al a meet iny of the Chi mis Hoard of I lie Auckland Balrioiic Association. It was slated that the extent of improvement and perhaps complete recovery in these eases depended largely upon the mode of living.

Cigarette smoking in excess, picture shows, fast motor rides, the excitement of horse racing, and other such amusements, would prove most detrimental in all Ihe eases mentioned, and would keep the patient in a perpetual condition of “‘jumps,’' a state very prejudicial to his rocov-

From llie Parliamentary “Questions and Answers”, paper of the House .f Representatives: —Mr W. 11. Field (Olaki) to ask the Minister of Defence whether he will without delay bring down an amendment of the Military Service Act, 1910. to provide for the right of appeal to a Supreme Court Judge from the decisions of Military Service Boards on questions of law.- At present, said Mr Field,' ihe Military Service Boards appear to be a law unto themselves, and I heir decisions in

some eases appear to he contrary to law. and grave injustices are being done and ere likely to be done in consequence. In replying, the lion. Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, said it was not intended to amend the Military Service Act in the direction suggested, The Chairman of each Military Board was either an experienced Stipendiary Magistrate or a barrister of the Supreme Court, and therefore well qualified to decide on all questions of law.