LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1799, 9 March 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

»' Every useless animal we keep consumes someone’s share of food.

If half the 40,000* owners in New Zealand each travel but five miles a day for pleasure, we thus burn a quarter of a million cases of benzine annually.

In this world crisis it does not urgently concern us if individuals squander their fortunes; but every ounce of food saved will help to prevent starvation.

Mr and Mrs Alf. Fraser received word recently that their son Garnet has had his left arm amputated as a result of recent wounds received in the firing line. The Defence Department has received advice from the Imperial Government that the age limit for cadets for the Royal Flying Corps has been raised from 25 to 30 years, this meaning that cadets must, not have attained their 30th birthday before arriving in England. The Prime Minister (Hon. Mr Massey), Hon. D. W. Guthrie (Minister for Lands), and Mr W, H. Field, M.P. for Otaki, expect to visit this district at an early date for the purpose of inspecting the Round Bush. The party tvill also inspect land in the district which has been offered to the Government for soldier settlement.

In a case of silk shirts received by Mr John Cobbe, a Feilding tradesman, the oilier day, one cardboard box of the shirts had been opened and five • abslracted. The bottom of the case had been opened, a hole made in the zinc, and the cardboard box and all the contents but one taken. The ease was fastened up again, and outwardly bore no appearance of theft. —Star.

> The dea tIT is reported of an old identity of Wellington in the person of Mrs Sophia Barber. The deceased lady, who was in her 81st year, was born in Kent, arriving with her parents in the year 1840 by the ship Martha Ridgway, and with the exception of a few years spent in Australia, had lived in Wellington ever since, passing through the trials and hardships of the early settlers.

The Taihape Times reports that whilst a drain was being dug, preparatory (o laying pipes near Mr Hammond’s residence at Ohingaiti, the skeleton oi' a man was found, some three feet beneath the surface of the ground. The sksleton, which appeared to have been buried far a few years, was that of a tall man, probably Oft. high. There was no sign of clothing, coffin, or other articles found, and it is thought that the remains are those of a Maori. A farmer giving evidence at the Supreme Court, Palmerston, referred to the causes of impure cream supplied to the factories. He attributed the defect partly to the use of unclean utensils and insanitary surroundings, and partly to the practice of mixing warm cream with cream of the previous day that was cold. He emphasised the. necessity of waiting until the new cream was cold before mixing it with the other cream; or, better still, the cream should be run over a cooler.

Mr Richmond, who is nJw the resident partner of Messrs R. Moore, Webb, Van Staveren and Richmond, solicitors, is a son of* the late Mr Alfred Richmond, of Feilding, and was educated at the Collegiate School, Wanganui, and Victoria University College, Wellington. He was formerly managing clerk for Mr R. H. Webb in Wellington, and later for Messrs Richmond and Kavanagh in Feilding, « The following appeared in last week’s Mercantile Gazette under the heading of companies recently registered: —Torehape Flax Milling Co., Ltd. Registered as, a private company February 21st, 1918. Office:. Endean’s Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland. Capital: £1,600, into 1,600 shares of £1 each. Subscribers : Patetonga —D. 11. D. Hunter 400; Kaihere —C. H. Aldrich 400; Mercer —C. Roose 400; Kaihere —Gavin Stove 400. Objects: To carry on the business of flaxmillers and general. A returned soldier named Herbert Joseph Seymour Mettqrd was sentenced to three months’ gaol with hard labour by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S. M., at Wellington on Thursday, on a charge of stealing a walking stick. Before going to the war accused hud a record of previous convictions, but pleaded that his aytion in going to fight tor his country atoned for these lapses. He did not remember stealing the stick, because he had been di’inking. The magistrate observed that drink appeared to be Metford’s trouble. It was stated in a letter written" by his 1 wife that when her husband arrived back from the front be was too drunk to know her. Accused remarked that it was “a dirty trick-” for his wife to write this letter. Accused said nothing when he was told he had been sentenced to three months’ hard labour. * ! EVERYBODY KNOWS. Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is to-day the bestknown medicine in use for the relief of bowel complaints. It is especially good for griping, diarrhoea, dysentery, and pains in the stomach, and should be taken at the first unnatural looseness of the bowels. For sale, every where,—A dvt.

At the Folding Court yesterday, a local resident was fined 5s and 7s costs for allowing his motor car to stand for more than 15 minutes in the mam street. During the recent, floods on the East Coast, four spans of the Waiapu bridge were carried away, also causing damage to the telegraph and electric cables acro.ss the bridge. The miners at the Westport Coal Company’s Millerton mine, who objected to pay a levy on behalf of the Australian victims of strike, have now all paid the levy, and work was resumed at Millerton yesterday. Cabinet sat for about an hour and a-half yesterday afternoon, and at the close the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) stated to a Times representative that “The little difficulty which has existed in the Cabinet for some little time past has been amicably settled.”

“In future all these profiteering cases are going to px-ison. There will be no fines. Everybody —butchers, grocers, and butter-sellers—-will go to prison after this week.” This was the warning given by Mr Chester Jones, magistrate at the Lambeth (London) Police Court, in fining groeei’s £35 for selling mar-gax-ine above the maximum price. A message from Washington states that John Dever, the New York editor of the recently suppressed “Gaelic American,” was the man behind the German Sinn Fein efforts to launch a revolution in Ireland in 191 G. This statement is according to his own claims in a letter, a copy of which was made public. The letter was found on the premises of Lawrence de Lacey, at the time of the latter’s arrest in California last August. A man named Herbert Staples, a boot operator by occupation, had a narrow escape from serious injury on Sunday afternoon (says the Auckland Star). While he was walking along the road near Drury a heavy stonn came on, and he entered a whare to wait for the storm to pass over. The storm increased in violence, and without any warning the whare collapsed, burying him so that he was unable tv> free himself. Fortunately two young men who were passing noticed his danger, and hurried to his assistance. He was rescued and conveyed to the Auckland hospital, suffering from broken ribs.

Palmerston is out to raise £20,000 for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. Patriotic citizens are turning the town upside down in order to raise the needful. An organiser has divided the town into sections, and each '.. i . section is out to do its utmost. Country visitors are buttonholed to purchase tickets for entertainments or art unions as soon as they enter the town. Every conceivable idea is put forth to win cash. Motor cars invade the adjoining townships, carrying enthusiastic workers, whose persuasive eloquence to “shell out” cannot be denied. The effort, should result in a much larger sum being raised than that aimed at. t

Before his execution in Christchurch, Frederick William Eggers, the Runanga murderer, gave directions as to the disposal of his effects. He had previously stated that £SOO of the money found with him was his own property, and. this he repeated, directing that it should be given to Mrs M’Mahon. He emphatically denied that he had been guilty of the murder of Coulthard, stating that it had been done by another man, who had been paid £SOO for the deed. “I am not guilty. I have not had justice done to me,” he was heard to say, in a louder tone, and he proceeded to express his appreciation of the way in which he had been treated by the gaol officials. He could not, he added, say the same for the police. “In my last two minutes, as I stand before my Maker,” he concluded, “I did not shoot John Coulthard. That is all, sir.”'

Two chaplains—the Rev. JEL L. Blamires and W. Walker —who have seen long service at the front, addressed the Methodist Conference at Dunedin on Tuesday last, and stressed the point that the stay-at-home New Zealander did not know that a war was going on. It was impossible of realisation. Mr Blarnires (states the Otago Daily’ Times.) said that the chaplain’s work was most strenuous. He had a long front to look after, for the men under his care were spread over great distances. Let a chap- I lain go amongst the men, and there were great possibilities open to him. He had had to act as letter censor. The men did not know that he saw their letters, and in them he found the finest testimonies to the work of the chaplains. Of course, it was often in language that was not usually heard in church, but in the expressive parlance of trench life. Maybe this made it all the more valuable. Often he had had a dozen generals in his congregation, and he testified to the splendid example of many of the generals, who, in cleanness of life and nobleness of bearing, were a continual inspiration to the-men. A BEAUTY HINT. If you are a housewife you cannot reasonably hope to be healthy or beautiful by washing dishes, sweeping, and doing housework all day, and crawling into bed dead tired at night. You must get out into the open 1 air and sunlight. If you do this every day, and keep your stomach and bowels in good order’by taking Chamberlain’s Tablets when needed, you should become both healthy and beautiful. For sale everywhere.—Advt.