LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1771, 3 January 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The borough ■ roadmen are topdressing Main Street with tar and sand.

The heavy winds yesterday and on New Year’s Day interfered with the enjoyment of local seasiders.

Heavy floods have been experienced in Greymouth, and parts of the town were for a lime under water. The Omoto racecourse was submerged to a depth of ten feet. With the exception of a few light showers, no rain has fallen at the Chatham Islands for the past two months. The spring Ims been the dries! experienced for years. The crops are coming on very slowly owing lo the dryness.

The Dario Hill elevator tunnel at Wanganui has been completed, and a start has now been made with the elevator shaft to connect with the tunnel, and in which an electrical-ly-driven elevator will convey passengers to the level of the highest point of the suburb.

The ten brothers of Mrs IV. E. 13. Froggart, of Burnett Street, Ashburton, have made an excellent record, so far as personal service in the war is concerned. Of the ten, nine are at the front, while the remaining brother has tried many times to got away, but has been turned down as medically unlit.

Knighthoods have been conferred, hy His Majesty the King on the Hon. Win. Eraser, Minister for Public. Works, and Mr John Robert Sinclair, formerly of the Legislative Council, and lately representative of New Zealand on the Dominions Rova! Commission.

The following properties have recently been purchased by the Government, and will bo offered to returned soldiers for settlement: —In the Ashburton district, from Ashton Bros., 1,100 acres: from S. Bruce, 1,100 acres; and from P. Buckley, I.GOO acres. In the Wellington district, part of the Gear Estate at Te Horo, 22 acres, IMPORTANT TO ALL. Is there anything in all this world that is of more importance to you than good digestion! Pood must be eaten to sustain life, and must be digested and converted into blood. When the digestion fails the whole body suffers. Chamberlain’s Tablets are a rational and reliable reliever of indigestion. They increase the how of bile, purify the blood, strengthen the stomach, and tone up the whole digestive apparatus to a natural and healthy action. For sale .everywhere,^Advl.

rj ■ r (l e latest addition telelione exchange' is Easton, No. 1 Line. , Tlio vital statistics. for the month of December «P* Births, 1; deaths, 1; marriages, nil. dominations for all events at the local racing club’s annual meeting on the 22nd instant close with the secretary to-mori'ow night, at 9 o’clock. - - Walter Brown, aged 15 years, was drowned on the Oamaru beach on New Year’s Day. The body was recovered. The unfortunate lad, with his parents, were on a holiday visit from Christchurch. The, Marion Cup of 500 sovs. whs won by Municipal, Rude second, Gold Soult third. The locallyowned Moutoa Queen ran second in the Railway Handicap. ' Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, commenting on the negotiations with the Trade Union leaders regarding man-power, states that there is no intention to send youths into the lighting line before the age of 19.

A storm passed over the country between Masterton and Foxton on New Year’s Day. It appeared to be at its worst in the Wairarapa. A howling.’westerly gale'was blowing accompanied by heavy downpours, making things very unpleasant for motorists. - 1 ■ y

Mr E. J. Fenn, a member of the firm of Stewart and Fenn, electricians, was swimming in the Waikato River about noon on Monday, when he was drawn into a whirlpool and disappeared. Mr Fenn is well known as a consulting engineer in Auckland.

Charged with betting in a billiardsaloon, Thomas Melrose pleaded guilty at Auckland this week. A line of £2O, in default one month’s imprisonment, Avas imposed. Defendant asked for time.to pay, but the detective-sergeant objected. He said that if a man could lay £2O “doubles” lie ought to ho, able to find the money to pay the fine.

On a nival in Auckland, Count von Lnckner protested; strongly against being taken to Ml. Eden, contending. that this was nut in accordance Avith the articles of Avar, and that the authorities had uo right to take this course. Of course not —of course not. And Auckland Government House Amount, too!

Mr J. W. Hodgson, of Olaki, received Avord from Waihi yesterday that his daughter, Daphne, Avas in a critical condition. An operation was to have been performed for appendicitis, but a complication bad set in, and the operation avus abandoned. Miss Hodgson is on the nursing staff of the Waihi hospital, and is Avell-known in Foxton.;. With the young lady’s many friends we sincerely hope that her youth and spirits will pull her through. |

As the result of a disturbance ;li Lyttelton on New Year’s morning, three men, Thomas Donovan, diaries Joseph (Stone, and Walter Scott, were charged with assaulting Carlo Guahello, Bartholomew, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. It it stated that the three men went to the house that was occupied hy Bartholomew, and on altercation ensued, the victim’s head being battered, it is alleged, with an iron liar. His condition is very critical. Between Masterton and Foxtail on New Year’s Day two motor cairs were passed on the road more (>r less damaged and out of action. Ode two-seater ear on IhePalmerstonFoxton road had both front wheels off. The main road between Pahialua and Maurieeville is about .tiAj

worst for motorv'" betvJp.cn lington and New Plymouth. sists of innumerable pot holes. Yet in the district mentioned ‘there are millions of tons of the best metal for reading purples.

The official lambing estimates for 1917 show an excess of over a million lambs compared with the lambing of 1915, and nearly one million compared with last year, the figures being as follows:—1917, lambs, 11,611,340; 1910, -10,7.33,579; 1915, 10,530,78 n . The estimutcxl-average percentage of lambing this year is--871 per cent,, compared with 831 per cent, for 1910 and 831 per cent, for 1915. The returns are taken from the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture.

There has been some excellent records of war service established by New Zealand families, hut probably the following would bo hard to heat: —311 r Thomas Pratt, late of the Baptist Lincoln, and now of Lindwood, has a cousin of the same name living in Bradford, Yorkshire, the whole of whose family of nine sons and one girl are cngaged in war work. Three of the sons are officers, four are non-com-missioned officers and privates, and one controls a munitions works, and one is a scout. The daughter is a Red Cross nurse, There- was re cently published in a Home paper a photograph of this patriotic family.

Commander Viljalmur Stefans*olli who has just relumed from an expedition in the Arctic Ocean, is 37 years of age. He is the son (f Icelandic parents who had emigrated to Canada, and was born at Winnipeg. Then, as his parents removed to the U.S.A., he graduated at the University of lowa.. He was Prolessor of Anthropology at Harvard University, and paid two visits to Iceland on ethnological expeditions. He journeyed in 1906 to the Arctic shores of Canada by way of the Mackenzie river, and spent the winter among the Eskimo, learning their language. He spent four years with Dr. in the Arctic finding copper. He started on a new expedition in 1913, under Canadian auspices, but it met with adversity, 1 '

and' from premise^! ■ Some- liien says the Wairarapa Daily Times, itf] ■' thirsty soul, who had commenced his Christmas festivities rather .' early, wandered into the Park. Evidently mistaking the' . water in the basin round the foun* -_ tain for a promenade, he walked ' right into the water. This amused two gentlemen who were sealed near by. Being annoyed at« their mirth, ; the one who was now wet outside as ’ Ayell as inside, let o£C steam at the two gentlemen in lurid language. This is where he had no luck —the gentlemen were both stipendiary'' ’ magistrates! ‘ ,

Another of New Zealand’s piou- ' I eers passed away at Palmerston on J Tuesday, in the person of Mr I Thomas Graham, aft the age of 79 J yearsi The late MrlGraham was a-'l member of: one of tile British regi-pl merits tliat took paj|’ in the Maori”! War, antVhft^jmgJ^Jujjsome of thef' 1 Taranaki aWdthe WaiJ 'j lento. Later he joined Constabulary, of which he member until he retired on n siou. About 40 years age tied in Palmerston, and was service of the late Mr roll. He avus a very a member of the Royal ter, and a charter Manawatu Kilwinning A parly of Foxton while returning from New Year’s Day, arrived witness an accident, io a car bound for Masterton the Maurieeville hills. coming down the hill, ran into the gutter on the The force of the impact inmates with much violence various obstructions in the young follow received a over the eye, and two youiJg were cut and bruised. ans rendered first: aid to tfie and Avith help of passengers in other oar Avhich happened look the party back to whore their wonmF received cal attention. The damaged Avas subsequently lowed back The Ohine.se Minis,;er in has made a notable “When broke out,” he “China expected that, as it bo fought hctAvcen Christian ons. it A\t>uld be a tight gentlemen! But Germany had signed to tliAisvastc-papcr the laAvs of humanity jrv men and children, by sinking of unarmed ships, the murder of helpless Many lives of his own been lost: in this way. tested, but no notice was her protests, and she, light fur barbarity, for moral material force, and die She ''contribute —men, raw and the enemy ships in to the Allied cause.”

An Auckland pressmans taken for a trial aerial flight urday found the exhilira ideas tlmM^^H^|^| that fort i () t and the sea %h ca s I Du l/ode G a rue the ed rity has recei to land) now fiecr.s v>'ede],^^^^^^^^H rest

', * Tlie.reeent- rains have damage Jtho? ■ best wheat-crops in South Canterbury. ■ * I . Teviotdale has been appoint - , ed sple agent in Fox lon for the Wellington Evening Post. The Post may ' be obtained every evening on arrival of the Levin mail car, from Mrs * Henricksen’s shop, Main Street. ’ The annual meeting of the Educational Institute being held at Wellington -deplores the fact that the •idea that a national system of education,vwhich should become the guiding spirit of national life, had been given a check through the establishment by some denominations of church schools. ■