LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1808, 2 April 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr, Valentine, it is said, is to be transferred to the Defence Offipp, and have charge of all activities connected with'tlue military side qf thg hpspithls.. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Poston Borough Council will be held on Monday, Bth April, ut 7,30 p.m. Business: To discuss report and specifications of proposed baths, and general.

At the-Feeding races yesterday, Poeman, owned and trained by Mr A. M. Wright, ran second, in the Kawakawa Hurdles. Prank Roach, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, was fined £5 and 19s costs at-Paliiatua for selling underproof whisky. Evidence disclosed tliat another hotel-keeper tested the defendant’s whisky, found it bielow standard, and informed the Victuallers’ Association. A married' woman stated in the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton on Thursday morning that her husband had allowed her £1 a week for housekeeping. Apart from the milk bills and gas account, she kept the home going on £1 per week. “You must be a remarkably economical housekeeper,” remarked His Worship. During the visit which he paid to Raetihi on Good Friday, the Mayor of Wellington was informed by a farmer who had been settled in the district for thirty years, who lost almost all he had, including all his buildings and stock, that the fire would put £3 ah acre on the value of bis land—-the burn has been so complete. When grassed again, the land would carry far more stock Ilian before the fire.

The Forty-mile Bush now seems to belie its name, At one of the leading cheese factories is to be seen on .the notice-board the following appeal:—“For the economical working of the factory a certain amount of firewood is necessary. The economical working of the factory is purely in the interests of milk suppliers. Therefore, the manager will be very glad if suppliers will advise him as to what firewood they can send in.” That there is a growing appreciation among parents of the benefits their children derive from continued education was remarked upon by the Hon. .1. A. Hunan, Minister of Education, a few days ago. He added that this was to be seen, also, in the increasing number of children seeking admission to the secondary schools, notwithstanding the stiffening up of the requirements, for free places,'and this gave rise to numbers of applications for financial assistance for additions to high schools, With the funds at his disposal the difficulty was to provide even for the needs of primary education, which came first with him. As the result of a number of thefts in the Aokautere district, the Palmerston police on Thursday morning at 3 o’clock surrounded a farmhouse. Dogs alarmed the inmates, some of whom made a hurried exit. A youth named Hayward Frost escaped in his night-shirt, after slipping through a constable’s fingers. He ran to his brother’s! house, where he was arrested after a rough and tumble fight) The brother escaped. A number of sad*dies, military overcoats, clothing; etc., “planted” in bushes, lofts, etc., on the farm, were recovered. A brother of the Frosts, for whom a military warrant has been issued, has been in the vicinity of the farm for some time. The question whether a license should lie granted to a woman in any other circumstances than those of a widow whose husband had died while he was the holder of a license, was raised at the last quarterly meeting of -the Nelson Licensing Committee. A member of the committee said he thought "that it was the intention of the Act that licenses should not be granted to women unless in exceptional circumstances. In the particular'ease before the committee, the house was a wayside one used by travellers, and should be kept under the best conditions. Such houses, he said, were the sort of places where a man appeared necessary. In reply to a question" from the committee, it was stated, that the applicant was a married woman with a separation order against her husband. Under the Destitute Persons Act there was special provision for women situated as was the applicant, and for divorced women to hold licenses. The transfer was-granted.

-An unusual, sequel to a recent divorce action was mentioned at the Auckland Supreme Court recently, before Mr Justice Cooper. An application was made for the 'Court's sanction for Ihe allocation of damages awarded the petitioner in a recent case. It was staled that' the respondent, the wife, in the case,' had misconducted herself. The Court granted a decree absolute, and fixed (lie damages at £3OO against the corespondent. The costs were not paid for some lime, and finally the co-re-spondent deserted the respondent after two children had been horn to thorn. Mutual friends brought the petitioner and the respondent together again, and the husband remarried his divorced wife, takingover the care of his own five children and the co-respondent’s two children. The co-respondent was pressed for the payment of damages, and the amount was eventually paid into Court, which was now asked to sanction a scheme for the damages to be secured for the benefit of the petitioner and the eight children, another child having been horn since the petitioner and the respondent remarried. His, Honour said that, as Mr Justice Hpsking had adjudicated on the ease the papers should be forwarded to him for his judgment. Counsel was instructed to adopt this course. A IIANGfIR AVOJEipp. There is no, danger from, bloodpoison resulting from a wound when Chamberlain’s Fain Balm is applied. It is an antiseptic. For sale everywhere.—Adyt,

The Queen of the South, from Wcllington, ,with general, • arrived on Sunday. She will sail again for Wellington to-night with hemp. The following are the vital statis- ' tics for Foxton for the month of March: —Births 8, deaths 2, marriage certificates issued 1. Ruin fell locally on six days during the month of March, the maximum fall being on the 28th, when 1.95 inches was recorded. The total for the month was 2.39 inches, compared with .26- during March of last year. Mr Norman Kirkcaldie, youngest son of Mr John Kirkcaldie, of Wellington, shot himself in the Wellesley Club at Wellington on Saturday morning. He was removed to the hospital, where he died at 2.30 pan. Deceased had been in ill-health for some time, and suffered with fits of depression. He was well-known in the Levin district, where he had resided for many years. He leaves a widow and three children, one an infant. The-war is said to have completely isolated the Falkland Islands from the rest of the world as far as commercial intercourse' is concerned. Since March 10th of last year not a single ship has stopped at the Falkland# on its journey to England, and correspondence for. Buenos Ayres and Monte Video has been sent by way of Punta Arenas, while passengers tor Buenos Ayres or Monte Video haye had to go uround to Valparaiso on the Pacific liners, and then across the Andes by train to get to their destination. The story of a dramatic encounter during the interchange of prisoners of war at Rotterdam between Ca'pt. von Muller, of the Emden, disembarked from the Dutch hospital ship, and a sailor of a British steamer captured by the Emden in _ the (Atlantic three years ago, is told in the London Express. The two men looked at each other for a moment’ in amazement. Then the Englishman saluted in an easy, pleasant way, and Von Muller clicked his heels together and returned the salute.

The" Cl Camp at Featherston has already been the means of turning into 1 soldiers 1,100 or 1,200 men. “I am,” states the Minister of Defence, “impressed with the value of the training, not only in its immediate results, but upon the future of the men who go through the camp. There are good lessons to be learned as.-a result of this experience in the wijy ■ of showing the value of physical training and the regular camp. life. I was also greatly impressed with the esprit de corps of the camp. There are few men in it who are not keen to become Jit, and according to the last figures received, 58 per cent, of those who go in succeed in reaching the Glass A condition. It is a most astonishing and gratifying success. There are about 1,100 men in the camp to-day, and a good many are fit, awaiting their opportunity to go into the reinforcements.” The death is announced from Auckland of Mr William Richardson, a familiar figure in that city. The deceased, who was a native of New South Wales and over 70 years of age, had long been identified with the temperance movement. He was a forcible, fluent speaker, and a facile writer, and by his death the Prohibition Party has lost one of its ablest advocates. For many years past Mr Richardson conducted the Auckland Free Press, which was mainly devoted to the furtherance of the temperance cause. On several occasions he was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliamentary honours. Many years ago he figured as defendant in an action for libel brought by a lending Auckland hotelkeeper. The ease, which excited an immense amount of local interest, was heard before the late Mr Justice Conolly, and was decided in his favour. A few months ago Mr Richardson underwent a serious operation. He has left a widow and a. family.

Some interesting remarks were made by six men who returned to Dunedin from Campbell Island last week. They stated that the season at the Campbell Islands had been a remarkably good one. The wool clip had turned out much better Hum previously, which was in a, measure due to the fact that the sheep had been dipped regularly during the last two seasons. Last year 10.1 bales of wool were sent a« way, and 94 so far this year. The lolal number of sheep sent away last year was 700, and about (ho same number was shipped by the Iliumtangi this (rip; hut a number were lost owing to the storm encountered after leaving the islands. The whaling industry has not been carried on, as 1 lie men had no launch. The big launch Komuri, which was towed; from'Dunedin to the islands early last year, was ahandoned owing to a mishap to her machinery. The loss of the launch meant that the whaling party could not carry on operations. Whaley are very plentiful ip/the southern waters now, and therefore the loss of the launch has been severely felt. ILLS OF WOMEN", Many women suffer miserably from chronic constipation, causing nervousness, dizziness, and sallow complexion. They will find that Chamberlain's -Tablets invariably bring relief. These Tablets are easy to take and pleasant in effect. For sale everywhere,— Advt, or better scones, for lighterpastry, for more delicious cakes, use “Hudson’s Baking Powder—- “ Bound to Bi&c.” W. D. Baud* ham, Fox ton.*

To encourage fanners to break up more ground.fdr potatoes this J?ear, the Food'Controller has fixed prices for potatoes grown on acreage in excess of that of 11)16 , The prices for English-grown are £6 per ton for delivery between November and January, £6 10s in February' and March,land £7 from May to the end of the season.