LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1760, 4 December 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr P. C. Webb has been re-elect-ed unopposed for the Grey seat in Parliament. Mr Sca’dden, who met with an accident on Saturday last, is making a satisfactory recovery'. At Nelson College sports on Saturday, A. Keath broke the college record by clearing sft. Gin. in the running high jump. A married woman named DCvimv Ferguson, 37 years of age, died suddenly' in the Dunedin hospital on Saturday afternoon. She had boon a patient in the institution for some lime. It is understood that an operation was about to he performed* At a baby show at Portsmouth, the eight months old child of Mrs Jessie Burley, whose husband is a private in the Northamptonshh’C Labour Battalion in France, bore the distinct outline of a Zeppelin on its left arm. The Wellington Social Democratic Party, which is affiliated with the Labour Representation Committee, has decided to nominate Mr H. E. Holland for the selection ballot for a Labour candidate in the Wellington North hy-eleetion. A family which has a striking record in connection with the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force is that of Mrs Ryan, of South Dunedin. Mrs Ryan has seven sons, all of whom arc in khaki. Mrs Ryan’s sister, Mrs, O’Gorman, of Wellington,* has five sons in khaki. A girl named Owen Turley, aged 8, wits knocked down by a motor ear at Edcndale yesterday, and died four hours later. The taxi, driven by a man named Williams, was ear-, rying one passenger, and travelling on the road, when a spring broke and the ear dashed on to the footpath, and knocked the girl down. The Stoke (Nelson) Fruitgrowers’ Association strongly protests against the increased railway freight on fruit, seeing that other food stuffs, such as meat, Hour, etc., are exempt, especially as fruit is now recognised as an article of diet, and the whole crop must be marketed locally in view of shipping shortage. Talkiiig of mean men, it is on record (hat a certain well-to-do man entered a local stationer’s shop, some time since, to buy an exercise book. The prices Avero sixpence and threepence. He counted the leaves of each book to ascertain Avhether it would he cheaper to purchase two id threepence each! As the result of proceedings of a District Court-martial, held at Trentham Cam]) on November 2(ith lost, the folloAving soldiers were each sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with luird labour for disobeying the lawful commands of their superior officers: —Private T. E. Fowler, Private J. E. Wix, Private T. 11. Ireton, Private R. A. Stone. All arc members of the Thirty-fifth Reinforcements. At the Thames Police Court on Wednesday last, Robert Lamb, charged with making.a disloyal utterance, A\’as ' sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. It; had been alleged’ that he was of \veak intellect, but a certificate from Dr. Walshe, Avho had examined the-man, did not bear out that assertion. The Magistrate had given instructions To have the man placed under ohseiwaiion when ip gapl. An -inf rep set) inclination for work by Maoris in the Auckland district is ope of (lie results of the eoudU (ions prising out of flip Avar, says (he Herald. It is stated that in all parts of the province natives who hitherto have done little or no Ayoj’k are uoav busily‘‘engaged in carting, ploughing, bush-felling, shearing, and oilier agricultural activities. The high Avages noAv ruling are largely responsible for this marked accession of industry. It has been notified Unit all men accepted for actual employment in' home service are so accepted only in the rank of private. Non-commis-sioned rank is granted in the Home Service Branch only by virtue of the appointment held, and in all eases when men so employed vacate their appointments on transfer to another branch, or on transfer to indefinite leave without pay, rank so granted Avill automatically lapse as from the date of such transfer or discharge. At the Palmerston Court on Saturday, Louis Clark Avas sentenced to ; one month’s imprisonment for giyj ing wrong information in respect to (lie Expeditionary Eorce Reserve. He pye Ihfcc different names jo the police—Lamb, difii-If, M’Eay—and said that he had walked from Wellington. He had no registration papers. It was impossible to find out- anything definite about hint. The accused sjaid he hi,id registered ip Wellington us Louis M’Kay. HOW TO .CURE A SPRAIN; A sprain may be cured in about one-third the time required by the usual treatment by applying Chamberlain’s Pain Balm ans .observing the directions Avilh each bottle. For sale everywhere,— rAjivt*

‘ .■ Fruit-growers in Greytown are exporting large qmmtities of gooseberries to .Auckland'this season, shipments being made almost daily. v In a written statement to the Military Service Board, a Taranaki appellant wrote that he was not religious, as he belonged to the Church of England! The. first girl telegraph messenger mnade her appearance at Gisborne on Monday of last week. .With a bag on her shoulder and mounted on a bicycle, she expeditiously delivered messages to the various business premises. v You have heard of Billy Sunday, the , great American revivalist 1 This is his description of the Kaiser: “The rottenest, vilest, dirtiest, most vicious, corrupt, inhuman, beastly, devilish, triple extract of Hell.” Nearly as well as wo could have described him! —John Bull. % The Hon, Arthur M. Myers, Minister of Customs, stated yesterday that the amount of Customs revenue collected in the Dominion for the month of November was £281,756, and the excise beer duty £21,797. The figures for the mouth of November, 1916, were £327,094 and £14)38-1 respectively. The Wellington Post is informed by Mr W. Barr, of 440 Adelaide Road, that he has.written to the So-licitor-General informing him that a petition is being presented, to be tiled in the Supreme Court, to have the decision by Parliament to close hotel bars at 0 o’clock set aside on grounds the substance of which will be set out in the petition. A serious accident happened on Friday night at Redwood Pass. A car proceeding to Scddon overturned on a steep bank 50ft. in height. William Brown sustained a severe fracture of the base of the skull and a broken arm, as well as other injuries, and Frederick Greenfield a compound, fracture of the thigh; two others being slightly injured. Brown’s condition is precarious. The Palmerston municipal swimming baths were formally opened on Saturday by Sir Joseph Ward, who was subsequently entertained at luncheon by the Mayor and Council. Replying to the toast of his health, Sir Joseph Ward emphasised the need for the elimination of party politics, and also deprecated captious criticism of Ministers who were genuinely desirous of carrying on the administration of the country in the best interests of the people, and who were hampered by influences quite beyond their control, and frequently swayed by circumstances of which their critics hud no conception. Speaking at the Wellington College prize-giving ceremony last week, his Excellency the GovernorGeneral said, at Eton the headmaster told him he-was the laziest boy he ever knew, and he suggested that perhaps even such an •exalted personage as Brig.-Genefal Preyberg, V.C., D. 5.0., had not been quite a model scholar. The college principal (Mr J. P. Firth) accepted His Excellency’s confession with equanimity. “Froyburg didn’t win many prizes at school,” he said, M because he was in sonic respects very much like your Excellency. (Laughter), in regard to school work he was pretty hard to beat, but I often did it.” (Laughter and applause), It is quite upon the cards that, as the season 1 advances, the Government will prohibit the slaughtering of lambs in life Dominion (says the Wairarapa Age), 'This course will not be adopted unless there should be a serious shortage in shipping. At present there is sufficient tonnage in sight to clear the freezing works of last season's surplus. The prospects for next year are, however, uncertain. If the shipping cannot be maintained, it will be useless freezing lambs, as these are the least essential class of moat produced. The freezing companies are much concerned about the matter, but they may rest assured that nothing will be dope that is not in the best interests of the Empire. Ip flip ipeanfinie, people be very Careful about gambling op the lapibmarketr A (he Magistrate’s Court, Lpyip, op Thursday last, flip .Education Board’s truant officer prosecuted a father for failing to have his girl registered at some school, Counsel for defendant stated that the child was delicate, and the mother was teaching her at home. He produced a number of lesson books to prove this. Mr Kendrick, H.M., said that every fdiild between the ages of • seven and fourteen years must ho enrolled at school, and if n child were unable to attend by reason of sickness then a certificate of exemption must be applied for to the educational authorities. In many eases a medical certificate might prove that while a child might not he strong,it was quite able to attend school. In this case no medical certificate had been produced, and no exemption certificate applied for, although the inspector had asked for this. In several other cases of irregular attendance, the Magistrate warned parents that it was quite competent for the truant officer to issue a summons for every week or portion of a' week in which a child was nb.sept, and whep this was dopCj and the case was a bad ege, hg would have no in indicting a fine in each case of absence. CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS. These Tablets are interred e.spe ; daily for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels'. If you are troubled with heartburn, indigestion or constipatibp they will do yop goojj. Try them. For sale everywhere.— A4vt.