LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1839, 13 June 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Raine entertained Miss Nora Robinson at a kitchen tea at the Anglican vicarage yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Mr Fortune, of Rongotea, has acquired a holding at Paraparaumu, with the intentiton of residing in that district for health reasons. The secretary of the Foxton Patriotic Society acknowledges with thanks the sum of £ls from the Moutoa Committee, for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. A meeting of shareholders and intending shareholders in the Foxton Co-operative 1 Cash Trading Society, Ltd., will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow night, at 7.30 o’clock. A full attendance is desired. The average price of honey in the Wellington market is Is per lb. The Apiary Inspector reports that there is no pot honey coming forward. Beeswax is in keen demand at 2s per lb. Export lines continue to come freely into the grading store. The euchre party and dance to be held under the auspices of St, Mary’s Church on Friday evening next, will be held in the Coronation Hall supper-room, and not the Catholic schoolroom, as previously advertised.

The C2 Modif-nl Bonn! will finish (he Dunedin group to-morrow, and proeeed to Milton and Invercargill. The board will then go North, working up to Auekland, dealing on that run with the railway C2 men. From Auekland another itinerary will be at onee started through the whole Dominion. In eaeh itinerary about 5,000 men will bo examined.

The first ballot of men in C Class, Second Division, was completed at "Wellington cm Tuesday, the last of the 10,000 names being drawn a few minutes before noon. The chocking of the list is now proceeding, and the names, together with accretions fromother classes, will be published in a Gazette Extraordinary on Wednesday, 10th dune.

The statement is made by the Ashburton Guardian that an Ashburton farmer who has sown a considerable quantity of winter wheat this year, not having sufficient fertiliser on hand fo sow the last few acres, decided to use linn' with the wheal, and to his surprise the latter crop is now more advanced and heallhy-looking than the remainder, which was treated with the manure. The lime was much cheaper than the other mixture. He states that; he will watch the comparative yields with great interest.

Seven Maoris who were drawn in the last Native ballot have been'arrested at Mercer on charges of failing to parade for medical examination. The arrests were made by a party of seven civil police at a pa where a large meeting was called for the purpose of dismissing conscription, The first man arrested was Te Rangaanga Malinin, brother of the Maori King. No active resistance was offered, but when called upon to come the Maori made no response. He was-lifted bodily, and carried out of the building. Six others were, also carried out, no more than passive resistance being offered in manv cases.

It is just about eight years since the present received telegram form was adopted as the result of enquiries made by the then secretary, Mr D. Robertson. What the use of this form has saved the Department in that period is hard for us to estimate, but it must be somewhere in the vicinity of £30,000 —a very respectable sum to be saved out of so small a thing. x This prompts the Katipo, the official organ of the Rost and Telegraph Officers’ Association, to suggest that the full saving has not yet been made. There still remains many important telegraph offices which take off received telegrams in duplicate—one for filing purposes and the other for delivery to the addressee. If the practice prevailing in the large centres of taking single copies only is worth sticking to, it is obviously worth extending to other places. Why should not all this paper be saved when paper is in short supply, to say nothing of expensive carbons and the loss of time in'manipulating the same?.

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For failing to render the personal service required by (he Defence Act, J. It. Freeman was lined £2 and costs 7s, at the Palmerston Magistrate's Court, and for failing lo notify his change of address was fined ss.' ' -

Mr R. B. Ryder, headmaster of the Marton District High School, has been appointed headmaster of Campbell Street School at Palmerston North. Mr Ryder will take up his duties at Campbell Street on June 17 til.

The two women, Mary Griffin and Winifred Olsen, who were recently convicted for respectively keeping and assisting in the management of a house of ill-fame at Upland Road, Wellington, have lodged notice of; appeal against their convictions.

The first of a series of socials (euchre' and dancing) will be held in the Coronation Hall supper-room to-morrow night. The price of admission is Is 6d. These socials will in future be held every second Friday.

A large conference of No-License Leagues and Business Men’s delegates from all parts of the North Island was held at Palmerston on Tuesday to consider proposals for a prohibition campaign on new lines. The representatives of the press were not admitted.

Mr F. Pirani’s second son (Fred.) who returned from Gallipoli wounded, was discharged from the New Zealand Forces as medically unfit, with a pension of £26 a year, returned to England nearly two years ago, and enlisted in the Imperial Forces there, was afterwards transferred to the New Zealand Engineers, and has been at the front in France over 12 months, doing well, and two months ago was still enjoying the experience.

Charles Hunter, auctioneer, of Cambridge, aged 58, was found dead on Sunday, hanging by the neck, in his stables at the rear of his house. He is survived by a widow and two children (Mrs Richardson and James Hunter, aged 16). Deceased had some twelve months ago the misfortune to lose his two sons, Wallace and Fred, at the front, both being killed in action. Deceased up to the time of his death Was engaged as auctioneer for the New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. He was an old resident in the district.

The Hon. Mr Massey, interviewed in London, said he had brought from New Zealand the promise and inflexible resolve to do all in her power to carry the war to a successful end. He was convinced that the only satisfactory end would be one which would render Germany incapable of resuming war, or continuing to menace, the peaceful progress of the free nations. The colonies in the Pacific ought not to be returned to Germany, as she would use them for naval liases and wireless stations and aerodromes, a peril which must be avoided. Germany, until the war broke out, said the Hon. G. W. Russell, in an address at Auckland on Thursday, was rapidly increasing her imports from the Dominion. In 1014. they amounted to nearly half a million, chiefly in wool, kauri gum, and scheelite. He had nothing good to say about Germany and her methods, hut her wonderful organisation was demonstrated in the fact that the year before war broke out she purchased one-third of the entire output of our scheelite mines to make ammunition with which to light our Empire. In an interview in London, Sir Joseph Ward said he was impressed by the appearance of the country from a productive standpoint. Since his last visit, he opined Hie heaviness of prospective crops, and the increase in (ho cultivated area, proved that Germany’s chance of starving Britain was an absolute failure. The war could only end in a pronounced and certain victory for the British Empire and her powerful Allies. New Zealand resolved to do her part till victory was attained. The sacrifice would be great, but the goal would lie greater.

The Naval Adviser announces that: the New Zealand mine-sweep-ing trawlers have located an enemy minefield to the northward of New Zealand, between Cape Maria van Diemen and North Cape, about ten miles from shore. Two mines have been recovered and destroyed, and a third in all probability has been located. Operations are continuing. The public are warned again that mines are liable to break away be washed up on the shore. Should any person And such an object, it should be reported at once to the nearest naval, military, police, or Customs authority; it should not be in any way tampered with beyond endeavouring to make sure it does Snot again float out to sea. The appearance of the type of mine being found at present is somewhat oval in shape, with five horns and two lifting bolts at top end and mooring arrangements at base. The height is about 4ft. 6in., and the diameter about three feet.

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tis Of a remedy that really never fails. The winter time now scarcely seems to try me, Tho’ I sometimes get a twinge, you may be sure;

But I always keep a large sized bottle by me Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 13

You couldn’t do belter than buy your horse-covers' at Walker & Furrie’s. Price only 32/- for the best.*

An*enqniry is bein'? hold in regard lo thefis of pnreels at the Hastings Post Office. The extent of (he depredation Is not yet known. A couple of days ago (he drain became blocked on two occasions, and an investigation showed the cause of the trouble to be a number of wrappers, addressed principally to soldiers, blocking the pipes. The parcels had evidently been posted in the posting boxes and had not been received over the counter. The eonten rs are believed to be principally socks and sweet-, and it is said the thief disposed of a number of the former locally. The culprit, is a< youth who has owned up to the thefts, and the matter has been reported to the head office.

A brother of the Maori “king’’ Tonga Mahuta, was charged before' Mr E. Rawson, S.M., at Hamilton, last week, with failing to render personal service by not attending the camp at Claudelands. Mr Gillies, who prosecuted, staled that the accused had refused, consistently to discharge his duties under the Military Service Act;, and had been lined repeatedly in consequence. Ho had elected to go into camp on May 25th, but had not done so, producing, instead, a doctor’s certificate to the effect that his wife was ill,, and maintaining that, therefore, he could not go into camp. Nevertheless, during the week he had frequented billiard rooms and played football. The offender being of high rank, his conduct was calculated to have a bad effect upon the other natives of the district who, generally, were hostile to the Military Service Act. The Defence authorities asked that as fines were of no effect, a term of imprisonment should be imposed. Police’ and military officials having given evidence, the Magistrate stated that the Act did not provide for imprisonment, a fine of £5 being the maximum penalty. He suggested that Tonga Mahuta should be summoned for every breach of the Act he committed. He inflicted a fine of £5, and ordered the accused to pay £2 16s 6d costs, adding that he regretted that ho could not imprison him.