LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1758, 29 November 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual class examinalions iit Hie local State school will he completed to-morrow. A special meeting of the Borough Council will he held at 7.30 o’clock tiiis evening to deal with the resignation of the sanitary contractor.

The Patriotic Shop will be open ilt usual on Saturday, and will be. in charge of Mosdames J. H. Robinson and A. Green. The School Committee desire to acknowledge 10s towards the prize fund from Mr IV. Bock. Further donations to this fund are respectfully ,solicited.

The annual concert by the pupils of St. Mary’s Convent will be held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, December 18th. A capital programme is being arranged. Messrs Coliinsou and Cunningluune, of Palmerston North, in a replace advertisement to-day set forth a few details regarding their stocks of new 9 curtain materials. According to returns made by the officers of the Agricultural Department, (he estimated percentage of lambing in the North Island this year is 87A,'thc estimated number of lambs being 6.530,033, from 7,475,418 ewes.

On the local croquet lawns yesterday afternoon another match for the Awuhou Mallets was played, Mcsdamc.s Woods and Mcpoll se : feating the holders, Mesdames Perreaii and Parkes, after a very interr esting game,

At the sale of Kanunft thoroughbreds, it was noticeable that practically every province in the Pbmm= ion was represented round the sale ring, and "dry” districts like Wairarapa competed with wet districts such us Taranaki, for some of the lots. Whether Masterton’s “drynessMmd anything to do with the bidding or not is not known, but the two highest priced lots of the sale both went in Unit direction.

It is the practice at the Ruakura Government-Farm (according to the Journal of Agriculture) to grow each season a few acres of ryecorn, the straw of which gives excellent thatching material, and any surplus of which usually finds a market for horse-collar nlaking. The farm recently sold to a local saddler five tons of rye-corn straw for this purpose at £6 per ton. “At this price,” says the Journal, “the crop is a very.payable one. There is comparatively little work in saving it, specially ii the weather is favourable-at harvest time.”

The following is extracted from a recent Report of Sir Douglas Haig on typical instances of ]j rayjepy op the Western front: —“On the afternoon of 21th August a New Zealand n.e.o. swam a river and spent live and a-half hours reconnoitering the ground on the German side of the stream. Ip the evening he found a raft, on which he refurped. Two hours later he took a patrol of three men across the river op the raft, surprised a sjbuU German post, and after killing its occupants, brought his patrol buck safely to the British lines.”

Ladies who contemplate a ’Xmas gift for “mere mini” will find (ho list appearing in O’Connor and Tydeman’s advertisement to bo of great assistance in making their choice. Early selection is urged. Don’t delay—’Xmas will be here “before you know where you are!”

In the Feilding Court yesterday, before Mr Kenrick, S.M., Robert Pearson, carpenter, of Feilding, for failing to register as a Reservist under the Military Service Act, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in the Wellington Gaol.

'Mrs M. Chrichton received a telegram from the Minister of Defence yesterday informing her that her son, Pte. W. Chrichton, was wound - ed on the 16th inst. Pte. W. Crichton is a nephew of Mr John Golder, of Foxton, with whom Mrs Chrichton has taken up her residence.

the- body of Charles Birkett, a well-known horseman, and trainer for many years in the employ of the late Mr Henry Redwood, was found in the Wairoa river at Appleby. The deceased had been missing since Wednesday. At the inquest a verdict of found drowned was returned.

At a meeting of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, held at Government House, Wellington, Lieut. Hugo A. MacKenzic, son of Professor McKenzie, of Victoria College (and a nephew of the late Sir John McKenzie, Minister for Lands) was chosen to hold the next scholarship to be awarded. Owing to the war conditions, the Rhodes Trust is not actually electing scholars for 1918.

The first case of its kind brought under the War Regulations gazetted on July 16th last, respecting the safety of overseas shipping, was heard in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington on Tuesday. A Swede named Alfred Lund was charged: That, without necessary permission, he boarded a sailing vessel not exclusively engaged in coastal trade. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £5. Accused had been refused permission to board the vessel, which is manned by aliens, the captain being a naturalised American of German birth.

Quite.a good war and bookmaking story was told by Mr Cyril Maude at his civic reception at Wellington on Tuesday last. It was of a bookmaker who went to the front, and duly reached the firing line; After n bout of enemy shelling, he called out to a mate who was sheltering in a shell-hole, “Are you all right, Bill?” Bill replied, “Yes.” After more shelling, there was the same enquiry, and the same reply. Then more shelling, and the enquiry again in rather a disappointed tone, “Are you still- all right, Bill?” “Yes,” shouted Bill. “But why all this fuss about still all right?” “Oh, nothing,” replied the bookmaker, “but I’ve drawn you in a sweep.”

Homecomers in London were full of sloxdcs of the Tanks. A Poplar lad, knocked out temporarily by a richochet, said: ‘‘Suddenly the rifle fire all round stopped.'-I heard a sound out of the fog like three or four motor horns rolled into one. “Toot-too-ool!’ and the boys.came staggering along all ninthly and bloody, but some of them laughing tit to kill (hemselves. ‘Look opt for the Lord Mayor’s Show!’ sings out one chap. ‘Here she copies!’ Apd then .through the mist coipes No, 1 Tank—the comicalest sight you ever saw in your life. ‘Old Mother Hubbard’ they called her, and lots of other funny names as well. She looked like a pantomime animal or a walking ship with iron sides moving along very slowly, apparently all on her own, and with none of her crew visible. There she was, groanin’ and gruntin’ along, pokin’ her nose here and there, stoppin’ now and then as if she wasn’t sure of the road, and then goin’ on, very, slow, but over everything.”

The death took place at Auckland on Friday last of Mr William Baildon, father of Mr N. C. Baildon, ipappger of-jRe local gasworks. Th.e late Mr Baildon, who was ip his 81st year, was born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and he sailed from EngIppd for New Zealppd ip the ship Whirlwipd, ip 11859. Ip 18C1 he participated in the rush to the Thames goldfield, previously having worked on the West Coast and Otago goldfields, After 10 years at Thames, to which he journeyed by the Enterprise on her first trip, Mr Baildon finally settled in Auckland in 1877, and has resided there ever since. For some, time he was a member of the old Archhill Road Board. Mr Baildon was a builder and contractor for many years. On September 10th last he celebrated his golden wedding. His widow, Mrs Isabella Baildon, is a daughter of the lute Mr Nathaniel Gow, and came to New Zealand in the ship Ganges from Scotland in 1803. Mr Baildon was an enthusiastic bowler, and one of the founders of the Grey Lynn Club. The deceased 'gentleman hud seven sons, two daughters, and fourteen grandchildren. HOW TO PREVENT BILIOUS ATTACKS. “Coming events cast their shadows before.” This is especially true of bilious attacks. Yoiß: appetite will faiij yop wili feel (Jull'aml languid. If you are subject to Ijilious attacks, take three of Chamberlain’s Tablets as soon as the symptoms appear, ppd the attack jpay fee wajrded off. For sale everywhere.— Advt,Wanted; Housewives to realise that it pays to purchase groceries and household requisites at Walker and Furrie’p,

Up to to-day sixteen aliens have registered with the Foxton police in accordance with the requirements of the Registration of Aliens Act. The registrations are largely made up of Danes. Saturday is the last day of registration. “Alien” moans, a person of either six not less than lifteen years of age who is not a British subject either by birth or by naturalisation in New Zealand. Penalty for failing to register, £SO. On removing from one county or borough to anotherj a registered alien must notify new place of abode within fourteen days. Penally for failure, £2,0. At the local police court yesterday morning,, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., John Kinley was charged with drunkenness, and pleaded guilty. Constable Woods stated that this was Kinley’s fourth offence within six months. On Tuesday ho had been arrested for drunkenness in Palmerston, and lined. The fines inflicted upon him during the •period amounted to £l7 odd. Ho was also a prohibited person. The Bench pointed out that the Act provided a term of imprisonment in (ho present case up to six months, but in order to give accused one more chance a fine of £5 would he imposed, with the alternative of fourteen days’. The fine was paid, and in thanking the justice, Kinley promised to get back to work immediately.

The chairman of the Wanganui Education Board (Mr F, Pirani) visited Table Flat on Friday in connection with complaints from the chairman the School Committee of undue severity on the part of*the teacher of the Table Flat School. The chairman and three members of the School Committee and several parents, including two ladies, were present, and took part in the proceedings. Strange to say, the complaints came from the men, and the mothers strongly supported the teacher’s action (reports the Star). After going into the matter, Mr Pirani said-that he intended to report to the Board that (he action of the teacher was fully justified, and that it was in the best interests of the community that she should be retained. Mr McMillan (a member of the committee) supported the line of action outlined, and the members of (he committee there also said they would do their best to help the teacher to carry out her duties.