LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1838, 11 June 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fourteen horses and eleven cows were impounded by the ranger dur-» ing the month of May. Accounts amounting to £522 Os Od were jassed for payment at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council.

Miss Price, fourth assistant at the local State school, has tendered her resignation to the Board, to take effect from the 7th proximo.

Mr Pirani, Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, intends to look .into the question of education when in England, and will also interview the British Minister of Education.

It is a peculiar thing that all the six press delegates who are proceeding Home were compositors,' while the President of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association (Mr P. Selig), who had to decline nomination, is also a cojnpositor. The only linotype operator of the six is Mr Fred. Pirani, savs the Sta.r

Referring to the many disadvantages under which many settlers in the far north lived on account of the absence of roads, Mr R. E. Hornblow, vice-president of the Kaipara Chamber of Commerce, stated recently that he knew of a family the members of which had not been near civilisation, meaning a township, for nine years. The wiman had not seen one of her sex for 14 months.

At last night’s Council meeting a letter was road from the New Zealand Pictures Supplies, Ltd., making an offer for the settlement, of the matters in dispute in connection with their recent tenancy of the Town Hail, in accordance with an agreement arrived at between the Company and the Mayor and Cr Coley at a conference field in Wellington last weclc. —The Council decided to accept the offer. A ranger’s lot is not a happy one, and some unpleasant, experiences come his way occasionally during his daily rounds. The Hawera County ranger met with a rather [.sainfill experience (lie other day, being assaulted by a woman, who used a whip with such effect that medical attention was afterwards sought by the ranger. The matter was later ventilated in the S.M. Court, the woman being fined ,C 5, with two guineas costs.

Golden Sunday (instituted about lou yours ago liy I Ik* II George Bndd) nt llio bedding Presbyterian (')mreli, wits observed l:isl- Sunday. The lot:)] eolleelious fur the day (including Waiala’s contribulion) was £101) 15s 2d. Awahuri’s colleclion is vet to be made. Golden Sunday was instituted as a substitution for sales of work and bazaars, and has proved very sueeessful in reducing tin; debt on Hie ehnroh properly. —Slur.

A bead-on collision between two motor (mi's look place on Saturday (•vomit}?, about a mile past Sanson, on the Mount Stewart road. The road at the particular spot is level and wide enough to accommodate baf-a-dozen cars abreast. The occnpanls of both cars were uninjured, but the cars wore badly .smashed. Shortly after the car smash, a gig collided with the wreckage, but without doing much damage. This particular piece of road lends itself to scorching by motorists.

Although New Zealand’s prosperity depended primarily upon its exports of wool, meat, hides, butter, cheese, flax, coal and gold, its industries were of considerable value, said the Hon. G. W. Russell, in a speech at Auckland. The census of 1916 showed that, omitting Government establishments, there were at that date 44,000 males and 14,000 females employed in manufactories and works, the total wages for the year being £6,654,000, an average of £133 for males and £SO for females. About 150,000 horse-power was employed. The value of the products was over £45,000,000 for the year, the value of the land, buildings, machinery, and plant devoted to the industries being £22,000,000. The machinery used showed an increase in'value of £3,000,000 during the live years. Of the fourteen millions increase in value of the output between 1911 and 1916, nearly half was represented by the growth of the meat and dairying industries, but large inincreases were also shown in nearly every other industry.

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Sunday was (he 32nd anniversary oi : the eruption of Tara wcra and the destruction of the Pink and While Terraces, Lake Jiojomahana, near Rotorua.

The head teacher reported to tiie Stale School Committee last night that the epidemic of diphtheria appears to have subsided, no fresh cases having been reported to him. for nearly a month. Another old resident of the Dominion, Mrs Annie Keall, widow of the late Rev. W. Keall, for many years a well-known Methodist minister, has just passed away'in Palmerston North.

A meeting of shareholders and intending shareholders in the Foxtorj Co-Operative Gash Trading Society, Ltd., will be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Friday evening next, at 7.30 o’clock. A good attendance is desired.

The juries failed to agree on both occasions on which William Fox, charged with a criminal offence at. Waiouru (Wanganui district), came up for trial. It has now been decided that Fox shall stand his third trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court at Palmerston N.

Let us learn to be content with what we have. Get rid of our false estimates, set up all the highest ideals —a quiet home; vines of our own planting; a few books full of the inspiration of a genius; a few friends,worthy of being loved and able to love us in return; a hundred innocent pleasures that bring no pain or remorse; a devotion to the right that will never swerve; a simple religion empty of all bigotry, full of trust, hope and love —and to such a philosophy this world will give up all the joy it has.

What was apparently an attempt to burn down the Courthouse at Bulls was discovered by a passerby on Saturday night, says the correspondent of the Times. Constable Wilson, who lives in the vicinity, was called at once, and about a dozen buckets of water quelled the outbreak. Investigation showed that a deliberate attempt had been made to set fire to the building by means of a light placed between the rear wall and the tank stand. There is little doubt that but for the prompt action taken the building and contents, including the Court records, would have been destroyed. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the deed.

“You meet a man in the street, and he will readily talk about almost any subject but religion,” said Bishop Julius, at Leeston on Bunday. “He will talk about the weather, and discuss the war news, or any other current topic, and even tel! you about his health —it is unfortunate if he does trouble you about his health —but the one thing that matters most is scarcely ever mentioned. Why, it is the one subject that everybody should be bubbling with, full to the brim. If you happen to mention religion to a man he 'upll shrink away into his shell at once. It is a sad thing. I don’t mean to say that I want men to bo always talking about their religion, or to be talking about it at all with long faces, but I do want men to talk about religion just as they would about any other subject.” The action brought by the police against W. F. Edwards, licensee of the Telegraph Hotel, at Ota lei, on a, charge that he did supply beer to a native for consumption off the premises, occupied the greater portion of the day at Otaki on Friday. Evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that a native, ITakamia, entered the hotel shortly after nine a.m, with an empty bottle, and was leaving with one full of beer when accosted by two plain clothes constables (Constables Hedgoman and Hunt). The defence was that Haknrain had not hough! the beer at the hotel, and that if he got it from the hotel he had stolen it. The S.M., after reviewing the evidence, fined defendant £lO and costs. In a second action, that of allowing his 14-year-old son in the bar for the purpose of carrying liquor to guests, Edwards was fined 10s and costs 10s.

Scenes of wild uproar were witnessed at the annual meeting householders of the Auckland city schools district at the Auckland Town Hall last week. The purpose of the meeting was to elect a school committee for the year 1918-19, but the proceedings were of such a turbulent nature that for some time no business could bo transacted on account of the boisterous conduct of many of those present. Probably owing to the interest created by the 'election of two rival committees at householders’ meetings held in April, which elections were subsequently declared void, and a new election ordered, there was an attendance of upwards of, 1,000. Nine of the nominees, states the Aucki land Herald, were run on the Protestant “ticket,” and what was regarded and freely spoken of as the introduction of sectarianism into the election was apparently responsible for the wild and unruly nature of the lirst part of the meeting. There were obviously two factions in the hall, and many adherents of both were in a very excited state and continually interrupted the remarks of those who were indeavouring to preside over the meeting. The Protestant ticket was elected by a two to one majority. LAME SHOULDER. Lame shoulder is almost invariably caused by rheumatism of the muscles, and yields quickly to the free application of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. This liniment is not only prompt and ellectual, but in no way disagreeable to use. For sale everywhere.—Advt. -•

Cons (aide Fred. Hooker, of Auckland, is on a brief visit to his paren(s. A complimentary banquet is io bo given to Mr Hcnnessy, chairman of: the, Foxton Harbour Board, by the ciii/.ens of Foxton in Mr Perreau’s rooms to-night.

The Foxion Girls’ Guild desires to acknowledge a : donation of five guineas from Mr F. S. Easton, and five shillings from Mrs Heasman, io supplement their funds.

The name of (he Government Statistician (Mr Malcolm Fraser); was drawn in the tirst ballot for reservists in Glass C of the Second Division vesterdny.

The death occurred at Nelson on Sunday, at the age of 74 years, of Mr Chas. Yates Fell, well known as a member of the legal linn of Fell and Atkinson, and also prominent in art circles.

The infant child of Mr and Mrs Libline, of Whirokino, died on Sunday. An inquest was held yesterday, when a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence, that the cause of death was heart: trouble.

Mr L. E. Read, son of Mr S. Read, goes into comp on the 19th. On two previous occasions Mr Read ah sgone into camp, and was passed out as unfit owing to an injury to the foot. At a recent medical examination he was passed as fit. At last night’s Council meeting, the Mayor and Cr. Henderson were appointed to represent the Council at the conference to be held in Palmerston North next week to form a. league to further the proposed Mangahao hydro-electric scheme.

As in past years, a series of socials (euchre and dancing) will be held in the Catholic schoolroom. The first will be held on Friday evening next, and from then on every second Friday. The price of admission is Is fid.

There were present at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council held last night: —The Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) and Crs Henderson, Bryant, Kempster, Hannah,, Hurley, Coley, Walker and Thompson. An apology for absence was received from Cr McMurray.

A youth employed on a farm at Himatangi is reported to have cleared out last night on a Red Indian motor cycle belonging to another employee on the same property. A pair of boots is also missing from the whare, and one of the occupants has reported the loss of £ls 10s ()d from his clothes during the night.

The election for five members of the Wanganui Education Board will be held on Wednesday, July 17th. One member is required for each of the following:—Wanganui Durban

Area, Palmerston N. Urban Area, West Ward, North Ward, South Ward. Nominations close on Wednesday, June 26th, at 5 p.m., with Mr W. 11. Swanger, returning officer, ’Wanganui.

While the Rev. Father O’Dwyer was riding his motor cycle past tho Post Office at Apili on Sunday, a collision occurred, a car driven by Mr Hart running him down. Father O'Dwyer was injured in (he legs and face, and was taken to (he hotel, where he now lies. His many friends will he glad to hear (he genial Fal her is not seriously hurt, and expeels to he well again in a few days, says the Star.

A young man stabbed himself several limes in the region of the heart and neck at Franklon Junction Railway Station, He w.as secured by the police and taken to the hospital, where an hour later he attacked Dr Joseph and an assist■ant. A desperate struggle ensued. Thfe police were summoned. The doctor and his assistant were not seriously hurt. The man was taken to I he Avondale Menial Hospital.

Lieut. Gerald Hill, eldest; son of Mr Dudley Hill, of Christchurch, was recently presented to the King; and Queen. Lieut. Hill, who left New Zealand about 18 months ago, has for some time been engaged with the Admiralty on special work in connection with an invention of his own. The visit paid by His Majesty to Lieut. Hill’s vessel was apparently for the purpose of seeing the young New Zealander’s invention at work. The King asked many questions, and chatted with him about New Zealand. Lieut. Hill, who is only 22 years of age, served his apprenticeship at the Addington Railway W orkshops.

The inclusion of Mr F. Pirani as one of the press representatives to visit the Western Front at the invitation of the Imperial Government, will meet with the almost unanimous approval of the newspaper proprietors throughout the Dominion. No man connected with the newspaper life of this dominion has done more to promote the Welfare of newspaperdom, nor has made greater personal sacrifices in this connection for the common good, than Mr Pirani. He will enter upon the visit with his usual enthusiasm, and, what he misses won’t be much. Nothing would please our esteemed friend more than to be given the chance of taking part in a raid with the New Zealand boys. Anyhow, we are certain if this is denied him he will get a passage in a tank, or even in a'submarine, and a trip up aloft. His spare time will be devoted to looking into education affairs. We join in wishing him and the other representatives a pleasant time and safe return.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Grout Peppermint Cure. 1/0, 2/0,