LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1827, 16 May 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dressed two-tooth lamb on view in Mr Woodroofe’s butcher shop this morning turned the scale at 1391b5. ' 'Empire Day, 24th inst., will be fittingly celebrated at the local State school. Parents are invited to be present at the ceremony, which will be held in the afternoon.

Among the invalided soldiers returning this month by Draft No. CO is Sergeant R. 11. Dalhousie, who resided for some years in this district.

Cabinet has offered to make a payment of £I,OOO as a compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Mr William Hall, paymaster of the State Coal Mine, Runanga, who was murdered by F. W. Eggers in November last vear.

The export of honey is likely to be heavy this year( says an Auckland report), as it is ever one of the favoured commodities, and will be taken by steamers whenever possible. Much of the 1917 yield has b6en shipped. There is about 270 tons of honey in store how.

The death is announced by cable from New York of James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the “New York Herald.” He was born in 1841, and married Baroness de Reuter in 1914. The late Mr Bennett commissioned the late H. M. Stanley “to find Livingstone.” Deceased was an enthusiastic yachtsman, and owned the yacht Namouna. When a farmer stated in tho Military Appeal Court in Master!on on Tuesday that he had found it impossible to secure a suitable man to carry on his farm at Pongaroay Mr T. A. Bamber, a member of the Board, said that the previous day he had seen a sheaf of fifty or sixty letters in a labour agency from men seeking positions, and he thought it should b.e a fairly easy matter to get a suitable man from that lot. The l appeal under consideration was dismissed.

“Perjury” was tho charge made by a person at the Second Division League’s meeting at Wellington on Tuesday, against some Reservists of an earlier class who had obtained sine die exemption on a plea of “essential industry.” The accuser said he knew of ii dairyman who thus escaped a trip to camp, and immediately sold his cows and went deer-shooting. If this person felt that there was a risk of being called up for service he might buy cows again.

On Saturday Mesdames J. H. Pobinson and A. E. Green arc making a special appeal bn behalf of the fund for the relief of War Orphans, and as the Patriotic Shop will not be large enough, they have arranged to conduct the effort in the shop next to Miss AYanklyn’s. Already a good response has been made to their appeal, the object being such a deserving one. They are anxious to raise as large a sum as possible, and therefore solicit donations of cash or goods for sale at the shop. A large supply of apples will bo on sale, and there will be various competitions.

Mr E. A. Shrimpton, M.1.E.E., of AVcllington, who has been appointed to succeed Mr J. Orchiston as Chief Telegraph Engineer, has risen from the position of telegraph messenger to his present responsible office. After working steadily up in his branch of the Public Service he was, in 1911, promoted to be engineer for the AA 7 ellington district. Mr'Shrimpton installed the first central battery telephone system at Timaru in 1910, and since he has been engineer in AVellington he has supervised all the cable repairing work . He was selected to go to Fiji and instal a telegraph system, and set up telephone exchanges for the Administration there.

Au Eltliam resident, but now of Pa tea, drew a winning ticket in the Palmerston North art union. He was not fortunate enough to win the much-coveted motor car, but he won a racehorse, a prize which had been advertised as being worth £2OO, For a prize of such value the i winner thought he could stand the expense of going to Palmerston to look after it, although he would be losing his wages, 16s per day, by doing so. He accordingly went to Palmerston North, and when there the best offer he could get for the £2OO steed was £lO, and an attempt was made to charge him for grazing. Two things strike one on reading this. Is it not obtaining money under false pretences to announce a prize as being worth £2OO when it is worth only £10; and, further, has some person undeservedly gained kudos for donating a prize worth £2OO when he really gave au old. crook worth only £lo,?—Eitham Argus.

For children’s coughs, and colds the best remedy is NAZOL. Agreeable and safe. More economical than mixtures or sprops, 60 doses V 6. Refuse substitutes.

The Medical Board' opened a sitting in Palmerston on Tuesday for the examination of the Second Division men drawn in the recent ballot. About 400 men have received notice to parade for examination, and the Board will sit throughout the -week. ‘

The Wanganui District Racing Committee heard an appeal by the jockey, W. Young; against the decision of the Manawatu Jockey Club, disqualifying him for two years for pulling Ibex in the Woodhey Handicap at the Manawatu Meeting. The appeal was dismissed. Accoi’ding to statistics furnished to the Patea County Council,' 6,679 motor cars and 2,814 cycles wei’e imported into New Zealand during 1917. Of these, the Wellington, Rangitikei, and Wairarapa districts obtained 155 cars and 747 cycles. Taranaki received 482 cars and 195 cycles.

A return of the estimated population of New Zealand as at March 31st last, published in the current Gazette, gives a total of G,167,356, made up of 574,581 males and 592,775 females. The gain in population by excess of births over deaths since the end of 1917 is estimated at 2,006 males and 2,235 females, while the gain by excess of immigration over emigi’ation (including members of the Expeditionary Forc.es) is estimated at 2,730 males and .140 females.

Thirty years ago last Tuesday a great Rugby football match was played on the Basin Reserve, Wellington. It was between Stoddart’s English team and a New Zealand team captained by H. Roberts. It will be remembered by old-timers that “Andy” Thompson, now a Public Service Commissioner, and late Magistrate in this district, had a collarbone broken, and the late E. M. D. Whatman, of Masterton, had a leg fractured. A. Stuart, a member of the visiting team,- remained in Wellington after the tour and played for Poneke Club. In 1893 he represented New Zealand in Australia.

Referring to New Zealand llax as a product which might be utilised for many purposes in Japan, the Hon. S. Shimizu said that the pride of llax absolutely prohibited any being purchased at the present time for Japan. Besides the high price ruling for New Zealand fibre, Japan had to consider the Philippines, where she had built up a big trade during the last ten years. In return Japan imported hemp, sugar, and tobacco. Japan grew a. good deal of her own tobacco, but not nearly enough for her requirements, so stocks had to be supplemented by large importations from the Philippines and America.

A comparison of the average weekly rent of houses in various parts of the Dominion, contained in the Government monthly abstract of statistics shows that Wellington'is the most expensive city in the Dominion in this respect. For instance, 24s is demanded there for houses of six rooms, as against 17s 8d in Auckland, 17 7d in Dunedin, and 17s 3d in Christchurch. For a house of six rooms in Taihape 20s is asked, and for the average rent of houses of all sizes in this town is the racist expensive of any outside the four centres. In Gisborne the average for a house of the same size is 18s 6d, in Hamilton 21s Id, Whangarei 14s Bd, and Rotorua 18s Bd. The lowest average rent in any town in the table is paid at Waihi, where 10s is the average for a house of six rooms, and houses from three to seven rooms may be obtained at from 4s 7cl to 14s. The average rent paid in the Dominion for a sixroomed house is 18s 6d.

The Great Fingall gold mine at Day Dawn, West Australia, is being dosed down, and another tragedy in the mining history of that State is now practically an accomplished fact, says (he Sydney Sun. The mine has been operating since 1892, and has treated 200,000,000 tons of ore for the return of £4,919,460 sterling. Over £1,250,000 has been paid in dividends. The balance of the” revenue has gone in plant, wages, and general upkeep. Through its long career the mine has almost wholly supported the town of Day Dawn, and contributed largely to the support of the town of Cue, three miles away. What this meant may be guessed from the fact that Day Dawn had seven licensed hotels, a workers’ club with full liquor license, four churches, a public library, a town hall and council, and the streets and houses were lighted with electricity. Cue had ten clubs, three churches, a public library, town hall, and town, council. Now Great Fingall has come to the end of its resources, and finds itself 565 miles from Perth, with a great sand dump dominating the landscape for many miles around, and plant worth nominally hundreds of thousands of pounds, but with nothing else to do but to sell up and close down.. Already the light is. out, for the mine supplied the electricity, and that has been cut off. The miners have left, or are leaving, and in a few months Day Dawn will revert to the roadside inn stage lihe Lawlers and Sandstone, and other once famous mining towns that are now deserted. AFTER INFLUENZA,

Many persons find themselves affected with a persistent cough after an attack of influenza. As this cough can be promptly relieved by tbe use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, it should not be allowed to run on until it becomes troublesome; For sale, everywhere.—Advt. Fof Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6,

A meeting of all interested in furthering the effort to be held on June 3rd to supplement the' Patriotic Funds will be held in the Council Chambers to-night. It is requested that all who can make it convenient will attend.

“I should like to beg of mothers to let nothing induce them to let their little girls take part in any entertainment when from the nature of the case the attractions of the performance are a consideration,” stated Miss Pulling, head mistress of the Auckland Diocesan High School for Girls, in the course of her annual report. “The dances and recitations and dramatic situations in which it amuses grown-up people to see little children take part, are often terribly quick to destroy their, simplicity and teach the beginnings of, self-consciousness and pertness. It involves the health, nerves, modesty, and charm of the girls. I know the heads of other Auckland schools feel with me, that we see the beginnings of harm earlier than parents do, and that we are to blame if we do not sound the warning.”

Scottish farm labourers are not likely to emigrate if they continue to receive their present rate of wages, The Scottish Farm Servants’ Union is demanding a minimum of £2 5s a. week. There are usually allowances over and above the wages, according to local custom. In North Ayrshire the men’s wages are £2 Is per week. In South Ayrshire wages are 38s to 40s a week. Last November an agreement was made for Lanark, Renfrew, and Dumbarton for paying ordinary ploughmen £2 per week, with 10 stones of meal and 6 cwt. of potatoes in six months. In West Fife, Stirling and Clackmannan the rate may be stated at 38s to 40s a week, with potatoes, the general allowance being 12 cwt. to 16 cwt. in the year. In Forfar, Fife, and Perth ploughmen were engaged at, £7B per yeax*, with 65 stones of meal, half a gallon of milk daily, and one load of potatoes (in Fife, two loads). All married ploughmen get their cottages rent free.