Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Air W. 11. .Ferris, chief hemp grader, arrived in Foxtou to-day.

A thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy rain, passed over this district during the night. Air W. H. 0. Johnston is at present relieving Air Scollay, hemp grader, locally. Air Scollay will take up his duties again next week.

Constable J. O’Douoghue, who has been relieving in Palmerston North, returned to Foxtou last night, and took up his duties this morning. Among those recently reported as died of wounds was ‘‘Ted” Laurvig, who was well-known locally, and was employed in one of the local mills. He enlisted at Foxton. His mother resides at Hastings.,

The Chairman of the Wanganui Schools Committee has challenged the Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board to resign his seat and contest an election to the Board with him. The challenge is the outcome of differences of opinion on Board administration.

Now that' the local Harbour Board has practically secured the wharf, the next move is to call a conference of local body representatives from the Gorge to the outlet of the river, with the object of set-, ting up a body to control the river between these two points.

In connection with Tuesday’s Harbour Loan Poll,'the Alayor yesterday received the following telegram from Air Edward Newman, ALP,: —“Alay I congratulate you on successful poll re wharf, Foxtou. I believe district will now enter on period of expansion never known before.”

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6. . ....

Mr C. E. Statham, M.P., who was in the first ballot for the B. Class of the Second Division, has been medically examined and classed C2. Von Hindenburg telegraphed to the German Irish Society in Berlin: “I thank you for your kind birthday wishes. I hope that Germany’s victory will also be of use to Ireland.”

Mr Luther Burbank annouces that he has evolved a' new wheat, containing 14 per cent, of gluten. It is hardy, and can be grown in all climates, from Hudson Bay in the frozen north, to Patagonia in the sultry south.

The Valuer-General notifies that) the revised valuation rolls for the Kongotea Town District and Waitohi, Kongotea, Kawakawa and Carnarvon Hidings of the Mauawatu •County, are now open for inspection, and that any objections to valuations must be lodged not later than June 4th.

One of the largest corteges over seen in that district marked the funeral of Private A’Court at Sanson on Tuesday. It was a military •funeral, and besides cadets and Territorials, there was a party of returned soldiers present, under Captain E. Buckeridge. The returned men acted as pall-bearers.

The Governor-General has been advised that the King had conferred the honour of Knight Batchelor oh the Hon. S, J. Johnston, Speaker of the Legislative Council. In view of the Speaker’s serious illness, the King specially commands thpt the announcement shall be made now, instead of on his Majesty’s birthday.

In tho Auckland Supreme Court, the jury awarded William Edgar Phillips £UBI damages against the Auckland Tramway Company in an action for damages for injury caused by a collision between a tramcar and a lorry. The company has intimated that it will move for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of evidence.

Mrs Dudson has received a telegram from the Minister of Defence that Pte. S. W. Dudson has been admitted to hospital in France, suffering from a shell wound and fracture right down. Prior to receiving this message, Mrs Dudson received a cable from her brother in London, informing her of the wounding of her son. The price of ben/Jne is still being manipulated by wholesalers, and today it is being retailed at 39s Od per case. But notwithstanding the price, there will be plenty consumed by cars journeying to and from the Wanganui races. If burning petrol for joy rides to races would have ended the war, this Dominion would have contributed handsomely to that end, as the almost endless processions of motor cars to race meetings testities. —Ellham Argus. ‘On Tuesday next, the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., will hold an unreserved clearing sale of dairy stock on behalf of Mr S. Hutchinson, of Oroua Downs. The herd to be submitted includes (13 Shorthorn and Shorthorn-Jersey cross dairy cows, due July, August and September. Mr Hutchinson is selling off owing to the difficulty in obtaining labour. For full details see advertisement.

A peculiar and painful accident befell a returned soldier, Mr H. J. Harris, of Totara North, a few days ago. He was engaged in climbing trees for gum, and had worked his way up a tree to the height, of 25ft., when in driving a gum hook into the tree it was deflected by a vine, and the hook entered his left hand, impailing him to the tree. With great presence of mind and fortitude, Mr Harris withdrew the hook, and with lightning speed again drove it into the tree, thus preventing himself from falling backward. He eventually reached the bottom of the tree, and fell fainting to the ground with pain.

A good story comes to the Feilding Star in connection with the Wanganui races. A Maori from up the river waited upon the Racing Club’s secretary in order to enter a horse for one of the events. “What’s the horde’s name?” asked the official. “By corry, I forgot that! I ain’t gotta name for him. What you think a good name, eh—-wot?” “What about Paddy Webb?” suggested the secretary, firing off the’ first name that came to mind. “Oh, be no good!” exclaimed the native. “I want my horse to win, Paddy Webb, lie no go to the front. I want my horse to go to the froni and win!”

The secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, at Wellington, has received a letter from the Minister for Education, in reply to the request for information regarding the tenure of scholarships at private schools. The Minister says that for many years, probably ever since the passing of the Education Act of 1877, scholarships have been held at two endowed schools, namely, Wanganui Collegiate School and Christ’s College. National scholarships, the letter states, have been held at the following private schools: —Sacred Heart College, Auckland; King’s College, Auckland; Wanganui Convent. High School, Wanganui; St. Patrick’s College, Wellington; St. Mary’s Convent, Greymquth; Columbia College, Dunedin; and the Christian Brothers’ School, Dunedin. Of a total of about 800 scholarships now held, 18 are held at private schools and four at the endowed ; sehoo!s mentioned. SLEEP POSSIBLE.

In eases of rheumatism, relief from pain makes sleep and rest possible. This may be obtained by applying Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. For sale everywhere.—-Aclvt.

The monthly sitting of the local Magistrate’s Court will be held tomorrow.

New Zealand’s annual payments in military pensions were at the rate of £904,383 a year on 31st March. The total number of pensioners then was 14,497 (comprising soldiers, wives, widows, and other dependents) at an average of £62 a year. The Defence Department advises that 12/2591 Corporal Thomas Troward, Albany, Q.M. Staff, Trcntham, died at Trcntham Military Hospital on Tuesday, the certified cause of death being carcinoma of jaw.

The premises of Sun Sbing, laundryman, of Carterton, were burglariously entered between Friday and Monday. The celestial was away for a few days, and on his return discovered the place had been broken into and the sum of £55 stolen. The thief evidently was familiar with the premises, and went straight to the money. Nothing else was disturbed.

“My husband joined the Red Feds a little while ago,” said the applicant in a separation and maintenance case at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, “and now he wants the easiest work lie can find at the highest possible wages. He is so busy educating himself with a view to becoming a member of Parliament that his wife and child are in his way, and so he told us to leave the house.”

A popular clergyman was to lecture on “Fools.” Another clergyman introduced him to the audience thus: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are now to have a lecture on ‘Fools,’ by one of the most distinguished”—lung pause aud loud laughter—“men of this country.” But the lecturere was not to bo outdone. He arose and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am not so great a fool as Mr Smith” —long pause and uproarious laughter—“would have you think.”

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Recently a party of New Zealand nurses en route to England were invited to a concert at Newport} News while their vessel was scaling there. There was a large number of American soldiers and sailors present, and one loquacious soldier got into conversation with the sisters, “I have spoken to a lot of your New Zealand soldiers,” he announced, “and find that they are really educated,” “We nearly fell oft' our seats with laughter,” writes one of the sisters, in mentioning the incident. “They apparently think we are more or less heathens in New Zealand.”

There were some stirring and impressive scenes at Seaford, Sussex, the other day (says the Weekly Scotsman of March Kith), in connetciou with the departure from their camp of the Maclean Highlanders (Sir Sam’s Own), of Canada, a battalion which, although.it has not yet been in action, has already achieved fame by reason of the men who compose it and the manner in which it was recruited. Every man,in the battalion either bears the name Maclean or is related in some way to the clan of Maclean. Another x-emarkable fact is that every State in the United States, as well as every Province in the Dominion, has contributed one or more men to the battalion. The battalion was inspected by Sir Donald Pitzroy Maclean of Duart Castle, Chief of the Clan Maclean, a soldier of; long and distinguished service.

Evidently the reservist who shirks his duty by being reported “missing” after the notification reaches him that lie has been called on for service, is not so far to seek in Southland, says the Invercargill Times. A party of sportsmen from Invercargill who penetrated inland beyond Mossburn a few weeks ago brought hack a tale which smacks faintly of the adventures and lives of the outlaws of the days of old. It is stated that close to where the party were camped no fewer than nine deserters had made their temporary home. Supported in their tale by a complete set of the required instruments, the men had stated that they were surveyors. They lived on what they shot (it is said every man had a rifle), reinforced by stores purchased from the nearest settlement. The tale runs that the police got to hear of the party, and the “surveyors” got to hear of the suspicions of the police, day they “trekked,” it is presumed, to the West Coast.

Rivers that toss about fretfully in their beds when roused by storms or thaws of snow have given much anxiety to many settlers in various districts of New Zealand. During his recent visit to Canterbury, the Minister of Public Works had his attention drawn to the damage done by the Rangitata and Waimakariri Rivers. Sir William Fraser indicated that this question of river erosion would have to be considered from a national viewpoint. One difficulty at present is that one river may be under several boards. One board safeguards a certain district by cheeking the waywardness of a stream, and the diverted current takes vengeance on an area lower down. Thus various boards may toss a turbulent river.to and fro, but always, between this divided control, the wild water takes toll of rich land. 4 Aipid the press for place and wealth, Be wise, don’t juggle with your health; All you may gain will be in vain, If you are racked by care and pain. And more than all, whate’er you’re told, Don’t juggle with a cough or cold; All crude experiments abjure—:

Rely on Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure— Adyt, (i

To-morrow, evening the first of a series of socials will be held in the Catholic schoolroom, under the auspices of St. Mary’s Church. The social will take the form of a euchre party and dance. Admission l£ 6d. The Stockholm correspondent of the Chicago Daily News states that, judging by foreign exchange rates, the Germans have no prospect of breaking through on the West front. The German exchange had an upward trend at the beginning of the March offensive, but is now several points lower than before the offensive, and is falling daily.

Yesterday’s Gazette makes the total number of reservists called up under the Military Service Act 113,767. The first ballot was taken in November, 1916, aud the first call upon the Second Division was made a year later. Of the men already called, 81,593 have been members of the First Division, and 32,174 members of the Second Division.

The State of New Jersey is to enforce vigorously the new AntiLoafing Law, says an exchange. Idlers, without regard to their station in life, will be seized, and will get one week in which to go to work, the alternative being criminal prosecution, with a penalty of lOOdol, fine, or three months in gaol, or both. The result is that .1,100 workless, men applied for jobs in one day.

A Dutch correspondent has received from a German sailor interned in Holland a lively account of hit) adventures in a German U-boat (says the Daily Mail representative at Amsterdam). After being a prisoner in Britain for a short while, he says, ho escaped with a fellow-prisoner in a small boat, and was. picked up by a German submarine near the English coast. Soon afterwards the submarine sighted some fishing vessels, but their curious movements caused the Germans to suspect a trap and to dive. They proceeded slowly, but presently the screw began to beat irregularly, and the commander could not make out what had happened. After about two hours the water seemed curiously still, and as it felt they wero making no headway, the commander decided to come to the surface. When they emerged they saw alongside a quay the laughing faces of British naval officers and bluejackets. They were safely in a British port. “Just towed in like a fish,” said the German.