LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1847, 2 July 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A cable message says Mr Massey voted for the election of sheriffs for the City of London. He is probably the first Dominion Prime Minister to exercise sueh a right as a freeman of the Gitv-

Tlie Otaki Volunteer Fire Brigade lias on order a chemical fire engine, syren, hose, ladders, etc., which should come to hand anyday. The members are now busy securing a suitable building.

A young man was convicted in the Maslerton Magistrate’s Court on Friday, .and ordered to pay costs, for wearing a military overcoat while the remainder of! his a (tire was civilian.

Messrs Alex. Murray (Levin), Charles Invie Harkness (Oliau), and Lev. F. 11. Petrie, M.A. (Johnsonville), have been nominated for the Education Board election (to till the vacancy (mused by Mr J. Kebbell’s retirement (by effluxion of time) for (he Huit-llorowhenua rural district.

The chairman of the Egmout County Council, at its last meeting, reivd a telegram from a Native owner: “1 cannot get down to see yoiC just yet,” which referred to some Council matter. The members all laughed (says (he Times) for the said owner was in gaol in connection with the Raholu riots.

A Han Francisco message in the Australian papers says the German raider See Adler, which was sunk in the South. Seas, is to be floated. A steamer equipped for the salvage left some time ago. She will also try to raise another steamer sunk near by. The See Adler ran ashore and was set on tire by the crew, but she is hot damaged seriously.

Opossums are increasing' steadily in the Tararuas, at Paraparaumu, Rangitikei, Wainui, and other localities in- the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s district, but as they are absolutely protected in the district no trapping season can be opened by the society until an amendment of the Act enabling differentiation to be made has been sanctioned by Parliament. Electric power (according to the New Zealand Railway Review) will be 'the motive power used in the Otirli tunnel. The Review" states: In a few weeks’ time the headings of the Otira tunnel will meet, but it will be many months ere the big hole can be opened out, lined and provided with permanent way for through traffic. At various times we have published hints about the motive power for the live-mile tunnel. We now hear that the line is to be electrified, the idea of using petrol-electric motors having been abandoned.

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No more grinding of teeth with WADE’S WORM FIGS. Price 1/6.

The following are the vital statistics for Foxton for the month of Juno: —Births 7, deaths 5, marriage certificates issued 4.

Second-Lieut. S. Austin {Foxlon), who had his preliminary training in New Zealand, is now serving with a training squadron of the R.A.F. in the Eastern Counties.

The ordinary meeting of the local School Committee was postponed from last night till next Monday,..on account of the unavoidable absence of several committeemen..

Private 11. Heal her, late of Fox - ton, who was recently reported “missing, believed prisoner in Germany,” has now been officially reported as a prisoner of war in German v.

It was stated at the meeting of the Wairapara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Friday that one of the inmates of an old men’s home in the district had nine meals a day, and still complained that he had not sufficient to eat.

During the football match on Saturday afternoon between the Awahou and Crusaders teams, three of the players sustained injuries. Feehan had his shoulder dislocated, Meßrearty had his right arm broken, and McPherson sprained Ins ankle. None of the'accidents were the result of rough play. The Government of Fiji has made arrangements with the New Zealand, Government for a half-caste platoon from Fiji to be embodied in the troops from the Dominion. An anonymous offer has beeq. accepted to equip and transport to New Zealand the platoon of 60 men. The pay and upkeep of the men will, be borne by the Fiji Government.

According to information' which Sir James Allen has received so far from Mr Massey from England, the shipping position does not look any too promising. Mr Massey is doing his utmost to try and obtain the necessary supply of shipping to lift the Dominion’s produce and bring goods here, but many grave difficulties are in the way, and it is possible that the shipipng will not prove equal to last year. “It’s a lie,” “it’s damnable,” and other similar dignified (sic.) .expressions were used by councillors at a recent Napier Borough Council meeting. Charges of incompetency were hurled at the chairman of committees, the Mayor’s calls to order were ignored, and one councillor actually shouted at the Mayor while he was speaking. Stump speeches were the order of the evening, ami a certain councillor tried to stem the tide by saying: “I’m tired of these vaudeville x'emarks.”

Many valuable bequesls to local institutions and charities were made by the late Mr W. J. Tabuteau, of Napier. These included: —Napier Soldiers’ Club, £500; Hawke’s Bay Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, £500; Napier Hospital, £500; Society for the Health of Women and Children, £500; Napier Branch of the Salvation Army, £500; Napier Salvation, Army Bethany Home, £500; Napier Branch of the Y.M.C.A., £500; Napier Branch St. Mary’s Home, £500; Napier Branch of the Girls’ Friendly Society, £SOO.

In a letter to Mr Hnrnblow, under dale June IDlli, Ah’ F. Pirani (one of the Dominion’s Press delegates to the Western front) says: —“Tomorrow morning we reach Sava, where I will post this. We arc having a glorious trip, and I have fell as well all the time as if I were asliore. The arrangements are perfect —State cabins for four, with only two of us in them, fitted up in splendid style, with everything one could require. She is a groat seahoat, and will he a full ship from Honolulu. We propose id publish a paper after leaving Suva, and there is not a dull moment on the ship. So far we know nothing of our programme.”

Four years ago last Friday occurred the event which acted as the spark to international gunpowder in Europe —the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, then heir to the Imperial throne of Austria, and his wife. The Imperial pair were paying a visit to Serajevo, in Servia, on June 28th, 1914, and in (heir drive through the city were twice attacked. While they were motoring to the Town Hall a bomb was thrown by one Gahrinavich, hut missed the Imperial car, and injured a number of bystanders. After the municipal reception the Archduke and Archduchess were driving to the military hospital when a Servian student named Princep fired two shots with a revolver, fatally wounding both. Within the next month —on July 23rd, to be exact —A us trin-Hungary presented to Servia her notorious ultimatum, which, despite its unreasonably mandatory terms, the Servian Government accepted, with very slight reservations. Austria-Hun-gary, however, pressed for her full pound of flesh, and on July 28th declared war against Servia. Germany immediately supported her ally, declaring war - against both France and Russia, and, on August 4th, Great Britain, failing to receive satisfactory assurances in answer to her demand that the neutrality of Belgium should be respected,\ threw her might into the awful struggle that has convulsed the world ever since.

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Mi* A. Hawke, local postmaster, goes on annual leave towards the (■ml of this week. During his absence Mr Delaney, relieving postmaster, will till t heWac-ancy.

The marriage took place at St. Mary’s Church, Foxton, yesterday afternoon, of Mr Denis McCauley, of Foxton, to Miss Catherine O’Donnell, of Wellington.

The Queen of the South, from Wellington with general, is due this afternoon, and will sail again for Wellington to-morrow afternoon with a cargo of .hemp. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will he held in the Council Chambers on Monday next, Bth hist.,, at, 7.30 p.ra. Business, general.

Advices from Moscow, via Berlin, dated June 24th, slate that the President of the Enateribhnrg Soviet says that rumours of the murder of the ex-Czar are lies, designed to incite the public.

Mount Ruapehu has been emitting huge columns of steam, which rises to a height: of about a thousand feet. It is plainly visible from Taihape, some forty miles away, making an impressively brilliant sight. The emission appears to be on the north-western side.

Whenever there is a disaster in the British shipping world it is accompanied by stories of heroism. The Wimmera disaster carries on the brave old story. The list of survivors shows plainly that the usual rule prevailed, “Women and children first.”

Miss Mary Mackenzie, second daughter of the Hon. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, was married on June Ist at the Chapel Royal of the Savoy, London, to Lieutenant S. Howard Ellis, of the Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps, eldest son of Mr Howard J. S. Ellis, nf New Lynn.

A very successful skating carnival was held at Shannon on Friday night, there being a large attendance, including a number from Poxton. The following prizes were won by residents of this district: —Best fancy dress, Mr Len. McCarthy (Indian chief); most graceful couple, Miss Dolly Bbbett and Mr H. Osborne.

At one margarine factory in England five million pounds of margarine are turned out per week. The factory receives milk, which is separated, and the cream made into butter in the usual way. The skim milk is then churned up with vegetable fats from nuts to replace but-ter-fat, and the product boxed just, like butter.

In accordance with the new regulations governing the hours of post, and telegraph offices, the local office was closed at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and was not re-opened between 7 and 8 o’clock. A number of people, who had apparently overlooked the fact that the restricted hours came into operation yesterday (July Ist), were disappointed at finding the doors of the office locked.

In Wanganui on Thursday I here was groat consternation amongst I lie “sports” because of a rumour that the famous racehorse “Desert; Gold” was on the Wimmera. The report, however, appears to have I teen unfounded. Some of the “sports” referred to appeared to he more concerned over the supposed loss of the horse than they were: over the loss of human life.

A Washington message announces that America is endeavouring to end the war by 1020, according to a high Government official. The latter, in repudiating the rumours that the war would soon he over, declared that America’s full force would not be .available until next summer, and that they would then require at least another six months to achieve victory, and to complete the political jockeying between the Allies and the Central Powers which would precede the actual cessation of lighting. He declared that the Government was proceeding on that plan of action.

Charges of being parties to a seditious strike were made at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court last week against a number of firemen and trimmers from Hie steamer Pateena, which was delayed recently owing to trouble with the stokehold crew. The charges against W. Elton and F. Dempsey were dismissed. Two other men, D. Cunningham and L. E. Fitzpatrick, were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and another, F. Galland, to 14 day’s imprisonment. Cases against three others were adjourned until July 12th. • ■ -

June 28th, 1870—48 years ago or Friday is a date important in the history of New Zealand, for on that day Sir Julius (then Mr.) Vogel, as Colonial Treasurer of the /lay, in his Budget Speech, launched the Public Works policy-which was the beginning of the real development of the country'. Mr Vogel proposed the expenditure of ten millions sterling within 10 years, . upon Railways, roads, immigration, goldfields, waterworks, and telegraph extension, six millions to be raised on the London market? The boldness of his scheme was described at the time as “positively frightening honourable members,” and the Treasurer was obliged to revise it by reducing his borrowing scheme, to six millions. In this form “the great public works policy” was unanimously adopted by Parliament.

For children’s coughs and colds the best remedy is NAZOL, Agreeable and safe. More economical than mixtures or syrups. CO doses 1/(5, Refuse substitutes.

Advice has boon received that Private Richard Ninuno, son of Mr R. H. Ximmo, of Marotiri, who is serving with the Australian Forces, was wounded on May 20th, and has been admitted to hospital.

- The strike of the Dalmatians employed on the Ongarue-Siratfovd railway works, near Okahukura, was emted before the commissioner in charge of Jugoslavs registration, Air J. Guillen, 1.5.0., had actually

reaehed line camp, by the men deciding to resume work. The system of piecework, to which they objected, is not yet in operation, and they had suspended work in anticipation of its enforcement. It is understood that the Public Works Department, under which the railway works are proceeding; will insist upon the piecework plan being carried out, hut for the present the men are still on wages. Air Cullen addressed the men in regard to their breach of discipline, making it (dear that obedience to the requirements of the Government will he required of them.

The musical entertainment given in the Salvation Army Hall last night, arranged by Bandmaster Brown, and presided over by Adjutant Baylis, passed off very suceesfnlly, and was enjoyed by all present. The Band played several selections, and instrumental and vocal items were given by Bandmaster and his family, assisted by Mr Scolly, Airs H. Chalk sang a solo very sweetly, and was accompanied on the violin by her sister, Airs F. Chalk. Solos were also sung by Mr T. Ward and Mr Scolly, and recitations given by Air H. Smith, Lieut. Smith, Aliss B. Brown, Aliss Doris Ruhack, and Master Albert Ruback. A collection was taken up to assist the Band funds, and coffee and biscuits were served at the close. A meeting has been arranged for next Thursday, to be conducted by Secretary Ward, also special meeting for next Sunday.