LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1810, 6 April 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advice has been received that the thirty-fourth reinforcements have arrived safely at their destination. At Auckland this week, a young man named John P. Kelly was lined £5 and costs for putting his arm round a young lady and tearing her blouse. Harvest thanksgiving services will be held in All Saints’ Church to-morrow. ' The offertories throughout the day, are to be given to the Raetihi parochial district, to help rebuild their church and vicarage, which were destroyed by the recent, bush-.flres. In conversation with our' representative' at -"Wanganui yesterday, Mr W. Yeitch, M.P., said he intended to visit Foxton at an early date, and speak on-the aims and objects of Labour. Mr Veitch has great hopes of a sane Labour Party, the first plank of which is King and Empire. FINDS THE WEAK POINTS. The sudden changes of weather we are having are sure to find the weak point in your system. These are immediately attacked. Colds are most prevalent now. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy cheeks coughs .ing, relieves hoarseness, and drives out inflammation. For sale everywhere. —Advt. FoWCfaildren’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/0, 2/0.

The local Slate school will reopen on Monday. , In England dairy cows have again been making record prices, many markets reporting £7O and up to £OO per head, the latter price being obtained a t Gloucester for a Very useful cow and calf. A meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held at the Council Chambers, Palmerston N., on Thursday next, at 11.30 a.m. Business: General, and important in connection with proposed loan. According to the statement of an Ashburton butcher, the public, at an early date, will be obliged to provide their own wrappers for parcels of meat. 'The class of paper now used by butchers for wrapping costs £7B per ton, and even then there is no guarantee of regular shipments coming to - hand. On Easter Monday the local corps of the Salvation Array held an openair meeting on the beach, and a collection was taken up, amounting to £2, .for the Raetihi Relief Fund., On Thursday next a special entertainment will be given in the Army Hall, Avenue Road, for the same purpose. "Vida Neumann, aged 18, a daughter of Mr Otto Neumann, died at Marlon this week while taking an anaesthetic, prior to an operation on the throat. ’At the inquest a verdict was returned of death from heart failure, following on a spasm of the glottis, during the administration of an anaesthetic. The other day a Maori at Tangoio, busily employed in a paddock presenting to the eye an unbroken expanse of weeds, was asked what he was doing. “Digging potatoes,” was the reply. “Why don’t you cut the weeds?” queried the settler. “Kapai te weed,” explained the Maori, “he cover te potato; te —— blight he.no go down; he stay up.” Writing to a relative at Balclntha (states the Leader), a Gore soldier slated that while in London the “home touch” was realistically portrayed at a “movie” entertainment which he visited. Included in the pictures screened was a film depicting the last Metropolitan Show at Invercargill, and the writer could plainly distinguish one or two friends from the Gore district who were present at the show.

A dastardly act, meriting condign punishment, was perpetrated some weeks ago in a local refreshment room (states the Wanganui Herald), where some strong chemical was placed on a chair. The result was that a lady had her dress ruined, and also other garments damaged, and she herself suffered from serious burns, necessitating medical attention. The damages were met' by the proprietor, and the offender is now threatened with legal proceedings. A young man passes a Medical Board, and is pronounced “fit as a fiddle,” and classed as A 1 for a fighting man. A long time afterwards he goes before a special Board and something wrong is discovered with his vision', and he is not considered fit to go abroad. Query; Was the first Board a set of dunderheads who did not know how to examine, or is the second Board subject to manipulation. People are wondering which it is.—Eltham Argus.

A school inspector is reported to have had an unpleasant experience recently while travelling in the course of his duty in the Awakino district. He was on the way to a. very out-of-the-way place, and someone guided him to a short-cut. The track he was directed to was the wrong one —it led to nowhere — and eventually the inspector got (here. He slept in the fern for the night. His horse was evidently not sleepy, and had left for somewhere else hy morning. As a result the erstwhile rider had a long walk back to (he place he started from, and arrived there in a somewhat sorry condition.

In urging the appointment of men of experience to staff positions at the sitting of the Defence Expenditure Commission in Palmerston on Thursday, Captain Hudson said of Colonel Adams, Commandant of the Feathersfon Camp, that he was a man of no military or administrative experience. His sole military experience had been in the Territorial Force, II Battery, Nelson. Colonel Adams would be (he (irst to admit it. Major Newcombe, the adjutant, was an amiable, benevolent gentleman, whose only military experience had. been in driving a motor car in the Motor Reserve in Auckland. Such appointments as these meant disaster. An interesting feature of a case at Patea in which a Native was lined £5 for being drunk and disorderly, and £lO for using obscene language, was the evidence of a Native witness who stated that another Native who had taken part in the disturbance had been summarily dealt with by the womenfolk on his return to the pa (says the Press). The spokeswoman, he said, had pointed out to the accused that the people of Patea had always treated the Natives well, and it ill became any of them to return this kindness by disturbing the people. At the conclusion of the speech the Native, women, it is stated, danced a haka of derision and contempt before the offender and followed this up with a sound flogging. Similar treatment, the witness declared, would be meted out to the prisoner when he. returned to the pa. For better scones, for lighter pastry, for more delicious cakes, use “Hudson’s Baking Powder—- “ Bound to Rise.” W, D. Bauykham, Foxton.* ;

The Bluff paper claims .that the honour of providing the youngest soldier must belong’ to Bluff, as Mr W. Campbell, of the local Harbour Board’s staff, has received a letter from his son, Sapper W, C. Campbell, that after an unsuccessful attempt to join' the navy, he had joined a branch of the army. Sapper Campbell, who is 15 years of age, would be readily accepted from his build to be of maturer years. “All that glitters' is not gold.” There is on view, amongst the glittering gold in Mr Golder’s window, an unusual array of glittering brass, some shining and some battered and much abused band instruments. We are informed that these instruments are composed of high quality alloy, and are therefore worth the extensive and costly repairs which they are undergoing, in order to bring the band to its fullest strength. The exhibition is in connection with an appeal'for funds to meet the expense of putting the instruments in order. It is an appalling fact, says Dr. Robert Bell, that during the past 45 years in England the ■ death-rate from cancer has risen close upon 300 per c§nt., until the annual mortality in that country alone has reached the enormous total of 30,000; while, if the habitable globe be taken into account, there are at present living on the earth 25,000,000 persons who are destined to die of this scourge, if steps are not taken to nullify the causes which lead up to its incidence. Operations, far from proving efficacious, are largely responsible for this terrible state of affairs. Many surgeons have staled that never in one instance have they known cancer to lie cured by the knife. The shortage of boiler plates in Japan has been responsible for a transaction which is without a precedent in the shipping trade. Fairplay states that a Japanese steamer of 7,252 tons net, fitted with three turbines and built in 1908, was wrecked in 1910. The salvors recently succeeded in taking out the seven boilers from the wreck, which were offered for sale, and, it is reported, realised £25,000 each, or £175,000 in all. Boiler plates are said to be fetching £2OO per ton in Japan, and steel plates £165 per ton. The cost of a 9,000-ton steamer, assuming it contains 3,000 tons of steel at £165 per ton, would represent a cost of £495,000 for material alone, or £55 per ton deadweight on the completed ship. It is difficult, however, to believe that Japanese shipbuilders are paying this priee, unless in very exceptional circumstances.