LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 2 October 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death is reported at Dunedin of Capt. J. J. Astlier, R.NL, a Maori War veteran. A farmer in the Wairarapa, with the assistance of his daughters, is now milking 70 cows night and morning. “Bnowdropping” appears to be rife in Palmerston. In several places the week’s washing was removed from (he clothes lines lyThomas Lee was charged at the Masterton Police Court with keeping liquor for sale in the No-license district of Masterton, and was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. One of the best-known schoolmasters in New Zealand —Mr William Malcolm —died at Ilunlervillc a few days ago, in his eightieth year. In the case of M. Skipper v. Cummings, an appeal against a conviction for a seditious utterance, the Court dismissed the appeal with £lO 10s cos)s and disbursements, at Wellington yesterday.One Wairarapa: hotelkeeper is reported to have made provision against the increase in lire price of whisky. He is stated jo have £1,500 worth of whisky in his store room, paid for some time ago. The Wairarapa Patriotic Association has a sum of £17,200 invested on deposit, £12,500 in debentures, and £21,000 on mortgage. The. interest derived up iill Jane 30th last amounted to. £3,880. ~ For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6 and 2/6, ..

For using obscene language, a man was lined £5 allPicton, in default (wo months’ imprisonment.

• There was no appearance of Sam Singh, charged at the local police court yesterday with drunkenness, He was convicted by Mr Itornblow. J.P., and Ids bail, 10s, estreated.

The W.M. of the local Masonic Lodge, W. Bro. J. IV. Stevenson, together with several of the brethren, attended the funeral of the late Bro. W. Dawiek, at Palmerston on Sunda v.

A long night euchre party' and dance .will be held in the Catholic schoolroom on Friday evening next, in aid of the sweets stall fund at the forthcoming' 'Catholic Bazaar. Prices as usual.

An appellant before the Military Service Board in Hamilton staled that more was made out of an acre bee farm than from 30 or 40 cows K Last year his relatives took £SOO from their bees, which, meant a prolit of £IOO.

A live, shortly a Her midnight on Sunday night, destroyed a sixroomed house in Johnston Street owned by Mr J. Nelson. The bouse was unoccupied at the lime, the previous tenant, Mr C. McDonald, having shifted on the Saturday. The building was insured in the Slate Ofliee for £l5O.

The Cl Tmining Camp nt Eeathcrston was inaugurated last week, when some 2GO men classed as likely to become Jit with graduated 1 raining were placed under canvas. It is expected that the number will he brought up to about 500 (his week. Preliminary training in the form of light physical exercises, etc., is now being commenced.

Some hotelkeepers in Wellington, following the practice in other cities, have raised their prices for spirits and English ah’ and stout from (id to S)d a glass. The increase is not yet general, (lie majority of licensees awaiting the decision of a meeting which is to he held next week.

The German Government Ims offered a premium of 500 marks (aboiit £2l 10s) to every poor unmarried woman hearing a child, and also to contribute to its support for the lirst- fourteen years. Such children arc to be considered legitimate. The Emperor Charles has already issued a decree legitimatPing illegitimates horn in Autslria since (lie outset of the war.

A message from Dunedin announces (he dentil of ex-police-Inspector Mallard, aged 82 .wars. .Deceased came to Xew Zealand in 18C2, together witli such other well-known members of the force as the late Inspectors Pender, Hickson, and Bi'oiuun, and others, lie was stationed in Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tokpmairiro, Tuapeka,, raid Dunedin.

Mr C. H.-Hanson, M.P., has been elected Lord Mayor of London, Air Charles Augustin Hanson has been member lor the ‘Bodmin division oC Cornwall since August, If) 1 (5. His wife is a Canadian. Mr Hanson lias been an Alderman oil Hie City of London, High Sheriff of Cornwall (1!)07), and BheriiT of London (1911-12). lie is, or was, a Knight of tlie Order of Francis Joseph of Austria.

Three old identities of Wairarapa have passed away during the las! day or two. Mr Joseph -Smith, J.F., one of (lie pioneers of the Forty Mile Basil, died at the residence of his son-in-law at • Parkvillo. Mr Alexander Napier, for over thirty years a settler at Alfrcdton, died at the residence of Mr V\ T , A. Hurling, at Master!on, at (he age of 73. Airs Grace Brown, for many years resident: in MasterLm, died on Saljirday. At Palmerston S.AI. Court yesterday, Bold. Craw pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying liquor to a member of (lie Expeditionary Forces while in uniform, for consumption not on licensed premises. Do fendant stated he had been asked by the man to obtain the liquor, and lie had done so, drawn the cork of the bottle, and handed (he bottle over. In view of the fact (hat this was the lir.st ease of its kind in Hie district, the Magistrate merely recorded a conviction, expressing the hope that it would serve as a warning lo others. An unusual scone of a pathetic nature was witnessed in Christchurch on Thursday (according to Lie Press), when a funeral procession was passing, which consisted of a motor-hearse and an ordinary hearse drawn by a horse, together with mourning carriages. The deceased were Mr and .Mrs Thomas Hall, of Oxford Terraco. The wife had predeceased her husband by about 2-1 hours, the latter dying suddenly after arranging for tiie funeral of ids wife.-

We arc informed that the following’ will be the stalls at the forthcoming Catholic Bazaar:—American stall (plain ami fancy), Mr* 11. Hynes and Mrs F. Hooker and assistants ; Belgian stall (plain and fancy), Mrs W. Smith,,Miss Diamond, and assistants; Great Britain (sweets stall), Miss L. Woodroofe and assistants; Irish stall (refreshments), .Mrs 11, Jliclunond, Mrs Desmond, and assistants; New Zealand stall (produce), Mrs Wright, Mrs* Grey and assistants. - SOUK STOMACH. # Tin's is a mild form of indigestion. Eat slowly, niastifsvte your food thoroughly, and take one of Chamherlaia’s Tablets just after supper, and it may be avoided. For sale every where. —Advt. Wanted Known: You can get better groceries for the same money at Walker and Fume’s,

Tlic dog j)oi-.o;K'v is at work in Ofaki. xiicr Mail reports that Mr J. Fair lay found the! Mis dog, valued 'Trt : -.t‘2o, had been jpoisoued with strychnine while on the else in. This is (ho fourth canine he has lost in nine months.

A united service will he held in the Town Hall next Sunday evening, at 7 o’clock. The address will bo delivered by 1 lie Kev. A . Hume. The singing will be. led by tin; united Anglican, Methodist and i'resby-. terian choirs.

A large crowd of people assembled in front of Mr J. M. Barr’s drapery establishment, in Main Street on Saturday night, to listen to the stirring strains of the visit-, ing band. Main Street presented a very busy appearance up till about SI o’clock..

“Every worker is worth £(i a week; the only reason they get less is because they lack self-respect,” £. said Mr .lames Thom, at. a meeting hi Palmerston on .Sunday night. Well, suppose you make it £lO per week, it is passed on, and the wageearner is no better oJT.

Mr \V. Ferguson has been reappointed chairman tif the National EJlieieney Board. The personnel of the Hoard is us follows: — KT. Hoik Mr Massey (Prime Minister), Sir Joseph Ward, and Messrs G. 11. Elliott (Auckland), J. A. Frostiek (Canterbury), J. Begg (Otago), and T. Moss (representing the farmers).;

One of life’s little ironies. A. gentleman purchased a parcel at a patriotic function at 2sew Ply-: month recently. It looked neat and felt satisfactory. On opening it, he found himself the possessor of a gross of curling-pins —and ho is a bald-headed old bachelor, says the Herald.

The iirst important result of a diplomatic broach between Argentine and (lernmny will probably be the, seizure of German ships in Argentine ports. There are 15 such vessels with, an aggregate tonnage of about 80,000, ami these will doubtless he added to the already ■Jargo mercantile fleet made available for Allied use by the German submarine policy.

A\ e have asked Messrs W. 11. Field and Ell, M’s.P., to forward us impressions of (heir recent visit to (he “Pound Bush,” which should prove of interest to onr readers, as both gentlemen are intensely interested in Xew Zealand .fauna and bora, it is remarkable how few local people realise that within short walking distance Horn their homes is to he, seen one of the most beautiful pieces of native bush on this coast.

The present price of silver is Us !kl per standard ounce, an ‘increase of Is lid on the pre-war average price of 2s. It, is gratifying to know, says the Auckland Herald, that many of the mining companies in the Auckland district, owing to the high percentage of silver in the ore being won from their mines, arc enjoying, through this increase in its value, a set-off against the increased coat of all supplies, and also the heavy taxation.

The splendid band of the Bedding Salvation Army Coi‘ps visited Fox ton on Saturday ami Sunday last, and rendered several ’programmes in Alain Sired, 'Lie Park, and on Sunday night in the Town Hall. The object of the visit was to rolled funds for the Army's homos for

boys and girls of fallen soldiers, remilly established in different parts of Lie Dominion. A very generous response was made by tiro local public, about fob being collected.

“Tiie Waikaio Hirer is exceptional among the rivers of tiie world, in limj in no oilier river is such a, large quantity of line sand brought down,”, said Mr Ashley Hunter, at the silting of the Waikaio Hivei* Commission recently, Air Himtoc stated that lie had come lo the con-, elusion that at least 2,000,000 cubic yards of sand came down tiie Waikato every year. The quantity might be even double that amount. He looked upon dredging tiie Waikato as an utterly futile operation for (he purposes of improving it,for navigation purposes.

There’s a yarn to the effect that the British War Ollier* found itself graciously pleased to award Private Timothy Treanor a pension of nines pence a day for having- fought at Waterloo seven years aider Tim had died in the workhouse —a pauper. Before Vou know, you will say “All ! hut they manage these things belter in France !” Do they? Old Marco Fosello, of Levin, has just received from the French Minister'for War a communication to the effect that as he fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1370,-71, for the French, ho is entitled to the decoration for that great affray. The medal is being sent. Mr Fo.-ello, it is shown, was a “franc!ireur,” that is, a lighter not in uniform, and therefore not recognised by Prussia as a soldier and liable to be instantly shot ou irapi uri? May one indulge in the pious h’ope that Mr Fosello’s free shooting in'l37o-71 was most sue-; ccssful. —X.Z. Observer. Whatever befalls when our country calls, Not one moment reluctant lag; Far better be slain in the last wild rush Than survive ’neath an alien flag. Such serfdom wo could not endure; Such freedom we could not endure ; For in sickness and pain we’d beg in vain ior M oods’ Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt. 23 Fresh supplies of Lettuce daily ujj Walker & Furrie’s,' 1

. The following are the vital statistics for Foxton for the month of September:—Births (1, deaths 2, marriage certificates issued nil. During the month of September rain fell locally on 13 days, the maximum full being on the 24th, when 8-i points-was registered. The total for the month wah 3.2 I inches, compared with -1.12 inches in September, ID 1(5. The total rainfall this year up to the end of September w:m 23.41 indies, being almost the same as that registered during the first nine monGm of last year,**23.(s9 inches. ’ ' Dr, Cleary, Roman Catholic Bis-’ hop of Auckland, who Ims been absent from the Dominion for ibe past IS months, will return shortly. Mondgnor Mahoney, diocesan administrator, Auckland, received a cablegram on Friday from the Bishop, slating that be had arrived in America, and would leave for New Zealand at an early date. Bishop (deary, since leaving Auckland, has paid an ad limiua visit to Rome, and has spent some time in France, where he reorganised (he Catholic chaplaincy services in connection with the New Zealand troops. He also has spent some weeks in the trenches and at the New Zealand hospitals in England as a (dm pi a in. Writing of the Sydney strike, the lady correspondent to the Free Lance says: “For sheer brutality in declaring ‘black’ the dead body of a voluntary coal worker, who, as the result of heavy manual labour to which be was unaccustomed, died suddenly of heart’failure, the I\allarah (N.S.VV.) strikers hold unchallenged supremacy. Not content with throwing every obstacle in the way of decently burying this victim of the strike, their ‘women’ — God help im! —gathered near Ihe grave so jibe at and titter during the burial service. The white heart of Australia is sound. The ‘black 1 cancer is a superficial growth, which the Commonwealth, while Prune Minister Hughes is in power, proposes to cut cat by beginning with its septic I.WAV. roots.” The Auckland Star has received the following communication from the office of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph: —‘T am' venturing to scud you, as a member of the Empire Press I'nion, a copy of a solemn oath, that we are Iranslating into French, Italian, and Russian, and that we hope to see circulated all over the world, 1 am appealing (o the Press (o assist to make (he scheme known to (tie various Chambers of Comm: rce sad Anti-German Leagues.” Enclosed is a in nil of the oath mentioned, printed under (lie draped (lag of the Allies. The form reads as follows: —“A Solemn Oath. —To mark our horror and disgust of the method-- of Germany since duly, 19LI, we swear that we will no! (n) knowingly purchase anything wide in Germany: (b) transact hu-hies.-, with or through a Gemma, J'i r tea years ai’l.r peace is declared. So iclp us, God. 1 ’ Mis J('o\,ie, the well-known temperance lecturer and organiser, delhered an open-air ad/os-ss in Main Sired on Saturday night, and on Sunday afternoon she spoke to tlie cumbiuml Sunday school scholars in Alt Samis’ schoolroom, and in the ev< dug delivered a forcible, address in me Presbylerinn Church, - Mrs Lee C-.wie is just completing her “Si ih ol the Nation campaign agni ; 4 the liquor traffic. Her remarks were I>iH of interest. Site referred to (ho recent early closing legislation, the evil effect.- of liquor in coniieclmn with military adairs and child I i.e. Some oi: her sidelights on 1 m liquor question were startling an i pathetic, She strongly appealed to. tier audiences no! to let up on the Rmior ti'af!m..H-n(ii it was prohibited altogether. Mrs Lee Cowic also nuke tor a short lime in the 'l’own Hall during the Salvation Army's sacred concert on Sunday night. During Mrs Lee (Vwic's stay in Foxton sic was the guest of Miss Duncan and Mrs John Ross.