LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1783, 31 January 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The <leatli has occurred at Petone of Mr Isaac Hutson, in his 90th year.

A number of cattle have died in the Masterton district of late from the effects of eating ergot.

Mr David Gardner, proprietor of the Rotorua Chronicle, is dead, aged 07. He had been suffering from asthma.

A Manawatu bee-keeper this year had a return of thirty tons of honey. This he has sold at £IOO a ton, a total of £3,000 for the year’s work. His expenses were between £2OO and £3OO.

The Beach Improvement Committee contemplated organising a concert this week at the seaside, but owing to the departure of so many families it has been decided to postpone the function until Easter.

The Salvation Army Sunday school picnic was held in (he Park yesterday, and (he little ones spent a most enjoyable time, (lames of Jill descriptions were indulged in, and refreshments on a liberal scale were provided.

Arthur J. Sole, managing director

of A. J. Sole, Ltd., potato merchants, of Covent Garden, London, was fined £1,150 and ordered to pay £52 10s costs at the Bow Street court in November last for selling seed potatoes at prices exceeding the maximum.

Out of 1,771 candidates who presented themselves for the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University at the end of last year, (111 are recorded its passed, 108 having completed partial passes previously obtained, and 232 have qualified for a partial pass. Steps are being taken at Ell hit m to recognise the patriotic services rendered by Mr and Mrs 11. J. Barnard, who are about to remove to Wellington. .Mrs Barnard has figured prominently in anything of a patriotic nature, her most notable achievement being the collection, without assistance, of over £7OO for a motor ambulance. Of six sons who went lo the fronl, two have “gone west,” and two returned homo invalided.

Aays the Palmerston Times; —“A number of defendants appeared before His Worship yesterday charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises after hours. None of the defendants had, .according to their own evidence, gone into the hotels for the purpose pf obtaining liquor, 'but had gone to see a man about a dog, or for some equally erudite reason. However, as a tine was inllicled in (he majority of cases, with a promise to increase it in the future, doubtless many will attend to these business matters before 6 o'clock in future.”

Amongst the conscripts called by ballot are convicts and others under sentence (says the Auckland Star). The Military Service Boards have had some rather Ironical communications on the subject from such persons. In sending in an appeal to the local board the other day, one prisoner said he was at present serving a sentence, and he gave details of dates. He added; “I had been in goal many times, and I have a very had record indeed.” Another prisoner was even more matter of fact, for, to prove his contention that he was living at “His Majesty’s expense,” he sent along the Police Gazette containing h’s photograph. With such frank and ample evidence and official particulars, the boards are enabled to grant exemption, and to strike such men off the list of the reserve.

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s*

The Rev. Father Dore, M.C., arrived in Foxton to-day to resume his duties as parish priest. Miss Sarah Henderson has withdrawn her application for appointment as a pupil teacher at the local State school, having decided to continue her education at the High School. x..

The four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs A. J. Kellow, of Foxton, met with a pinful accident at Seatoun on Saturday last. The little fellow fell from a window and broke his leg.' The sufferer is making a satisfactory recovery.

Francis William Carter, who had been employed as an hotel porter at Raglan, was found at Hamilton East on Sunday afternoon apparently suffering from a lit. He was taken to a boardinghouse, and recovered, but later was again found bn the street with an attack, and was taken to the hospital, where he died the following morning.

There is much wonderment regarding the delay in declaring the Wellington North seat; vacant, and some injustice to Mr Herdmau is resulting from the continued silence. A very deep sorrow is the cause, one who is very near and dear to the Attorney-General being in an extremely serious state of health. Genuine sympathy, we feel sure, will he extended to Mr Herdmim.

A record price for January was realised in Auckland for a consignment of about 300 cases of bananas that came to hand last week trom the islands. Usually this month, when the market is glutted with locally-grown peaches, plums, and nectarines, the bananas sell at irom 8s to 9s per ease. On this occasion, however, 20s was the price realised.

During the hearing of a charge against a youth-of Jetting off fireworks in Christchurch on New Years Eve, it was urged that the sale of fireworks should be prohibited, as they were a. great source of danger, especially the larger ones. It was a breach of the bylaws to discharge fireworks in a public place, but there was no bylaw restrictingihe sale. The magistrate said that (he matter was one for the Legislature.

According to Ihe Pahiatua Herald, Mangamaire has a patriotic committee and fund in operation specially for the purpose of extending a suitable welcome home to soldiei’s of the district returning from active service. As each one comes back a social is arranged, and the soldier presented with a purse containing £B. This scheme has been attended with most satisfactory results, the settlers and ladies are most enthusiastic in carrying it out, and recipients have appreciated the warm welcome and practical goodwill extended to them.

On Tuesday evening a number of the parishioners who have taken a prominent part in organisation work in connection with the parish, paid a surprise visit to Father Corley. They were afterward* joined by the Bohmgh Band, and a pleasant couple of hours was spent. The music was all of a patriotic nature, (he National Anthems of the allied nations being all played. The Bev. Father Corley thanked the Band members for entertaining him, and in doing so said the Band was a credit to the community, and was deserving of the encouragement and support of the citizens of the district.

An unusually bright young Maori has given his life for the Empire in the person of Private Edwin Abraham. Educated at the Taihape public school and High School, ho evinced more than ordinary ability, and was sent to the Hawkesbury College, N.S.W., where his education was being continued when the war broke out. He enlistee in the Australian Main Body with a number of college being then only 18 years old. lie served for over three years with the Australian forces, and was invalided buck to Australia early in this year. Pneumonia supervened, and he .succumbed on the 18(h insf., and was buried at Coburg cemetery, with full military honours.

Mrs Maria Arundel, whose death took place at Dunedin recently, at the age of 77 years, was a granddaughter of the late Baron Rothschild. Her mother, daughter of the Buron, was intended by her parents to marry a wealthy man of her own persuasion, but, not liking the intended husband, she refused, and eloped with Abraham Smith, her father's coachman, with the result that Mrs Smith was deprived of all benefits from her own family. The marriage was not a happy one, owing to the husband’s drinking habits. Mrs Arundel, at the age of 16, with the help of her mother, left her home in London, going to Geelong, where she met her first husband, Mr Henry Wright. She came to Dunedin in 1850, and lived, with her husband till he died. Mrs Arundel was married to Mr George Arundel, who predeceased her by some years.

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The Queen of the South sailed for Wellington on Tuesday night, and is due back with general to-morrow.

Speaking at Zealand Club luncheon, at /Wellington on Tuesday, the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) said they had all read, not with pleasure, but with interest, the recent speech of the German Chancellor. ( They would agree with him that it was a most insolent and arrogant utterance, to which the only answer they could make as British citizens and metubers;of the principal partner in the alliance was that they were going to fight on until victory came (Loud applause). The Christchurch correspondent of the Dunedin Star, as an indication of the lavish way money was spent in that city at Christmas time, says that a business man who makes a speciality of high-class china stated that he had been so rnshed., with orders that he could not. give delivery in time for Christmas. These orders represented thousands of pounds, several of them being sums for like £SO for a dinner set, or a single vase. Orders' came from all over the Dominion, and the many costly articles unable yet: to be delivered amounted in the aggregate to many hundreds of pounds. An outstanding feature was that practically in every instance spot (‘ash had been paid. Some jewellers say that they experienced a better Christmas trade than in the years before the war.