LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1821, 2 May 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The statutory meeting 1 of the Foxion Harbour Board is being held at Palmerston N. to-day.

Mr Evans, of Victoria, who is interested in the cultivation of pliormiiuu tenax, is on a visit to this district, and to-day inspected thb liax •areas and mills.

At the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court, James Loughlin, a farmer, of Tamahcre, was charged with being a, bookmaker and having betted on licensed premises. He was lined £2(l.

Unofficial advices from Berlin state that since the beginning of the war 3,000,000 German soldiers have been killed or have died of wounds or sicknes..

An Ordcr-in-Council has been signed authorising a ballot to call up 200 First Division men (Natives) of the Waikato-Maniapoto district. The ballot will take place this week. “Mothers’ Day” will be celebrated in the Salvation Army Hall next Sunday in a specail way; An interesting programme will be arranged for-each meeting. Brigadier Toomer, from Palmerston, who is ever a Avelcome visitor, will conduct the meetings.

The Territorial Camp opened at Woodville on Tuesday, and .about 800 alien arc expected. Owing to the extremely wet weather, a .meeting of officers was hgid yesterday, and it was decided not to put the.'men under canvas in the meantime, but to accommodate them at various halls.

The Ganterubry’ College Board of Governors adopted the foil Awing recommendatious of the Professorial Board: “That no defaulter under the Military Service Act shall be allowed to attend lectures at Canterbury College, and that in the event of any student*becoming a defaulter his name be posted oh the main notice-board at the college.” At Hamilton on Tuesday, a boy, aged. 14, charged with stealing two letters containing cheques, from the Post Office, was admitted to probation for twelve months, on condition that he obtained work in the country. The boy cashed one cheque for £l, and attempted to cash the other, for £5. He was employed at the Post Office.

A weli-known Maiiapoko" chieftainess, Wiki Huuia, who has been a familiar' figure in Levin for many eyars, died at the Kawiu last week. The body was, taken across Lajto Horowheiuui in a canoe on Sunday for internment in the Maori burying ground on the other side. The usual tangi was begun, and is still in progress.

Trustees of estates have been making enquiries as to theii' personal liability if they borrow on the security of the trust estates for investment in'war loans. Sir Joseph Ward states that he has placed the matter before the banks through the chairman’of-the Associated Banks, and he has been informed that in any cases where the security of the trust estate is ample and repayment of such loans fully secured,' the banks will not object to an exclusion of personal ’ liability of the trustees or agents. Bach:casc, how-, ever, will have to be decided by the bank concerned on its particular merits." , 0 A SURE INDICATION : Hoarseness in a child subject to croup is a sure indication of the approach of the disease. If Chamberlain’s Cough Eemedy is given at once, or even after the eroupy cough, has appeared, it will prevent the attack. Contains no poison. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

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Members of- the Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild were entertained by Mrs John Ross at her residence yesterday. The last ballot hit Woodville hard, as it. caught the Mayor, the Town Clerk, a bank • official, a solicitor, and other prominent men. ' , The vital statistics for Foxton for the '.month of April were: —Births 12, deaths 1, marriage certificates issued nil. . A young man, who had been acting strangely, was taken to Palmerston' yesterday for medical obsei’vation. Rain fell locally on fourteen days during the month of April, the maximum fall, .86 inch, occurring on Bth.The total rainfall for the month was 3.14 inches. ■ Mr John Harvey has, offered to carry on the honorary duties of secretary to the local Patriotic Society. His services have been thankfully accepted by the Society. , The duck-shooting season opened yesterday. Some local sportsmen /inet with a fair amount of success, but the weather was considered unfavourable for good sport. Mrs Stunneil, of Feilding, and lato of Foxton, has received word that her_son, Pte. H. R. Stunell, of the N.Z.M.C., who has been severely wounded in the right thigh, is progressing favourably. The winner of the motor car in the Final Battle Art Union is Mr F. J. Oakley. The fourth prize (a seetion valued at £200), was won by Miss Bonnie Lines, who has generously handed her prize back to the Patriotic Society to be sold for tho benefit of the Sick and Wounded Fund. Guard Growc, of Foxton, met with a painful accident during shunting operations at Tiakitahuna on Tues-i clay afternoon. By somo.means he got'crushed between two trucks. Hew was taken to the District Hospital. Examination disclosed that no bones were broken, but be was severely bruised. He left the hospital for his llome this afternoon. Constable Woods left early this ■ morning to search the beach from the Heads to the Rangitikei. river for tho bodies of (hose lost in the launch ‘which capsized outside the Wanganui bar lust week. It is reported that two of the bodies wore recovered yesterday, and some clothing was washed up near the Rangitikei river. Major C. J. Hamilton, of Gisborne, was one of the Imperial Mounted Escort to the King at the opening of the British Parliament in ■February. Tho whole of the escort, with the exception of.the, bodyguard, which is drawn from the Life ‘Guards, was composed of overseas troops. The New Zealanders in particular received a, very’ line reception, The Chief Justice informed the boys of the Wellington Boys Institute yesterday,that he had a great number of relatives at the war. Some,time-ago he counted them, and found there were thirty-nine. Of course, they were not all from New Zealand; some were from the Old Country as well, and lie had lost a considerable number, by death. , • ' ' •

Billy Sunday, the American evangelist, got into high society in Washington. -He held a service in the home of the Secretary of State; Mr Robert Lansing. Amongst hiq hearers on that occasion 'yfero tho Spanish Ambassador, the Chinese Minister, and the wife of the French Ambassador. He also opened tho House of Representatives with prayer, at the invitation of*the Speaker. . .

“You admitted, when before the court op a previous occasion, that your husband gave you a diamond ring worth £75. Was'not sucii the case'?” asked counsel of a young, woman who was claiming maintenance against her husband (a Hindoo) in the "Wellington Court. “He gave ule a diamond ring, all right,” reolied the witness, “but it was a ‘brummy’ one, and not worth hve shillings.” ; “My wife went out and left the baby. On a particular occasion, hearing a .scream, I Avent from the factory where I Avas. Avorkiug at tho time, into the residential portion of' the premises, and found that the pillow, on Avhich the baby had been placed near the lire, was in flames.” So said a defendant when under eross-exaflpnation at the Magistrate’s Court, in Wellington. “My Avife avus ahvays ‘boss/ and sacked the girls I engaged to Avork for me in my factory. On account of my Avifo leaving the child Avithout food, ! fed the infant on oranges.” Speaking at a meeting in Wellington on Tuesday evening; the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) said if Ave Avere to do Avithout liquor” in the future as he hoped avc Avould —Ave ought to provide some places where men could enjoy themselves in the evening without the temptation of liquor. That would be doing an immense service to them. Our citizens must ho good, and have a high ideal of citizen life; they must have self-sacrifice, and they must be ready to help those Avho might stumble by the Avay. CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS. - /These Tablets are intended es-1 pecially for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. If y OU are troubled With heartburn, indigestion or constipation, they will, do you, good. Try them. For sale everyAvhere. —Advt. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 : and 2/6.

Mesdames Gibbs and Jennings will be in charge of the Patriotic Shop next Saturday. '

Four hundred thousand tons of seaweed are taken from British sea-i shores annually. Much of it is used on the ground for fertilising plants, - particularly cauliflowers, and from burnt seaweed iodine and other chemicals are made.

, It is reported that the whole of the ilaxmills in the vicinity of Te Puke arc to stop cutting at an early date, owing to the shortage of shipping space (states the Poverty Bay Herald). This will thi’ow out of cm-i playment V large number of men, probably from 150 to 180, the greater mimber of whom are Maoris.

The idea of reafforestation with native bush does not appeal to Mr H, D, M. Hazard (Commissioner of Crown Lands for Southland), who recently gave the • following statement in support of his.theory: — About October of last year he had occasion to visit Dusky Sound, and while there visifed the spot which Captain Cook had cleared in 1773 for the purpose of planting vegetables, which he thought would thrive in New Zealand’s climate. The spot —a quarter-acre—is still quite distinct from the bush around it, and, though cleared'lso years ago, there is not a tree-on it which could be used for timber.

A rather remarkable motor ear accident occurred at Newmarket, Auckland, on Tuesday, when a .vehicle conveying a wedding party to church for the ceremony to be performed capsized. The motor car skidded on the wet rails, and was completely- overturned, with the occupants underneath. They had a remarkable escape from serious injury, if- not worse, and, strangely enough, not one was hurt. The car was righted, and the wedding party, consisting of a lady and two gentlemen, having been released, then proceeded to the church, where the marriage ceremony was performed as if no such untoward incident had happened. ...

The Auckland Herald states thalj an extremely heartless hoax was perpetrated on Sunday by some person at present unknown. Two ladies in different parts of the city received telephone messages, alleged to be, from a doctor at the’hospital, stating that a serious accident had occurred, and requesting the ladies to proceed to the hospital without delay. Enquiry at -the hospital revealed that the messages were bogus, and the matter was immediately reported to the. police by tho hospital authorities.

Dealing with the question of denominational schools, Professor Hunter expressed himself at a Wellington meeting this week as being intolerant of the idea that people should be prevented from building their own denominational schools, but he considered that no, grants should be made by the State to any of these schools. If the State considered it necessary to inspect them' from the point of view of national efficiency, then the schools should the costs. All the difficult questions which arise in connection with denominational schools would be solved by seeing that the State institutions were superior in. every respect to all others. It, had got to be done,.and then there, would be no call for denominational schools. We had to raise the educational vote from £1,500,000 to £5,000,000.

Mr W.,W. Smith, curator of Pukekura Park,' New Plymouth, has had marked success with wekas kept by him in captivity. “My tame wekas,” lie" wrote on April 9th, “have continued to lay at intervals since October 23rd. During the five months one female has laid more than three dozen eggs. The birds have, been well fed on the best egg-producing food, iii order to test their laying qualities. I have one that follows me about the house, but, on account of fear of dogs, I do not let it out often. -The male.weka, to its-mates, is one of the most attentive and faithful birds known to Nature. Al- • though this male, during the summer months, is supplied with ample meat and boiled, eels, unless I am present to secure the newly-laid eggs, he eats them with great gusto. Tho pair 1 am referring to were hatched on October 2nd, 1914. They were well-grown and handsome birds, and are very tame.” Mr Smith also has been successful in keeping kiwis in captivity. Of these he writes; “They did not lay any, eggs this season or . last season. Owing to the high price of meat, I 'liberated three of the five in a large area of native bush, where they will hud plenty of huhus and other good natural food. In the bush they usually frequent the sides of creeks, where they probe the moist soil for large worms. They undoubtedly are the greatest ornithological problem known to scientists.”