LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1857, 25 July 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Palriolic Shop has been enlarged (o almosl double ils former size. Private ('. E. R. Spring, son of Mr and Mrs C. A. Spring, of Mouloa, is included in the latest-hospi-tal report aiming (he “not serious'’ (■uses. The Gueen of (lie South, after being delayed here since Monday on accoiml of had weal her, sailed for Wellington yesterday morning with a cargo of hemp. Messrs Pnilar and Burrows, grocers, Palmerston North, have an advertisement on page 4 to-day, in whirl) are quoted prices 'of goods* on rail, Palmerston North. Don’t forget Saturday next is Foxton's Copper Trail effort. The, proceeds of the Patriotic Shop will he devoted to the fund. Donations will he thankfully received by Mrs Mandl. ‘ The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held before Mr W. G. K, Kenriek, S.M., to-mor-row. The eases set down for hearing include a number against ratepayers in the Manawatu County for allowing stock to wander on the County roads, and several civil cases, two of which are defended. To-morrow, at Mr Nye's yards, commencing at 1 o’clock, Messrs; Mounsey and Co. will conduct an auction sale of household furniture,live and dead stock of all descriptions, including a large variety of furniture, horse, gig and harness, fowls, etc. Further entries are solicited. At 2 o’clock a house property in Cook Street will be offered. This Is a very desirable property, and should create spirited competition. WADE’S WORN FIGS eradicate Worms of all description. Price 1/0.

-A'sharp shook of earthquake was felt in Foxton ahoul 5.30 on Tuesday evening.

Loans advanced to returned soldiers by the Wairarapa Patriotic Association up till June 30th, including repayments, amounted to £33,317 3s. ' • Air William J. Adams, manager of the Waitangi Mine, at the Thames, died suddenly last Sunday, when driving- y home from church. The deceased, who was (it) years of age, hits left a widow, two sons, and four daughters.

During (he snow-hailing operations in Alaslerlnn on Afonday, the glass screens of several'motor ears were smashed. Shop windows were also cracked. The police were appealed to by some whose property was damaged, hut they, too, were subjected in a sustained and well directed lire.

An offer of a concession is made by a conscientious objector in a letter to the Minister of Defence, thus : “I wish to state that, while unable to recognise or accept any form of war service, I am prepared to render any peace service which 1 fee! to he in (he interests of the community.” A cablegram from Ban Antonio (Texas), dated June 10th, says; — Sentences of life imprisonment were imposed by a court-martial tiwlay on 45 conscientious objectors who had refused to wear army uniforms. The sentence was reduced to 25 years’ each by Brigadier-General J. P. O’Neil, who reviewed the records. They will be sent immediately to prison.

If anyone is desirous of sending a Christmas cake to any of the boys at the front, an opportunity will be afforded them of doing so at the Patriotic Shop on Saturday. Mrs Woodroofe has made and donated a dozen cakes—and we can vouch for their quality—sealed in tins, and covered all ready for addressing. As the number is limited, anyone requiring one should communicate with Mrs Mandl forthwith.

Numbers of married reservists, with a prospect of an increase in the family not long after the dateof mobilisation, have been naturally anxious. They have the comfort that the Military Service Boards are being recommended by the Defence authorities to grant leave to the first convenient draft after the confinement, in all cases where this is expected within two months of the normal date when the husband would ho under orders to parade.

Sir William Fi’aser, when receiving the deputation from'North Taranaki at Wellington on Thursday last, said he wished to correct an erroneous impression that arose owing to a remark he made to a depnlalion from Waimarino and Taumarunni last week. He did say that he had not one shilling to spend on public works,- hut qualified il with the addilional words “until all necessary war money was provided for.” There was money for allocations voted some months ago, hut his engineers slated they eoald not. obtain labour.

The Manawaiu Chih, a^ its moot inti 1 on Tuesday, disl ribulod £3,118 ns follows: —I Imlinn Red Cross, £25; Returned Soldiers, £25; pal nolie shop, £80; press baby, £10; Bush Biros Relief, £SO; Fuglish Clmroh Army, £500; Cnlhoiie Field Sendee, £500; .Copper Trnil, £500; Aolea Homo, £800; French Rod Cross, £800; Mayoress’ Parcels Blind, £100; Soldiers’ Club fanuInro, £SO; Merchant Seamon’s Assooinlion, £100; Patriotic Women Workers, £100; Tmitham Scholarship Fund, £200; Overseas Tolmooo Band, £SO; Soldiers’ .Relief Bund, £IOO. With previous donations, the Club has distributed £12,008.

A very tempting oiler has been made by the Kaitangata Coal Company to their employees, in the form of a bonus for regular work. There is a considerable amount of lime lost by (he workers, and this causes a reduced output of coal. The company are offering as from yesterday a bonus of 5s to all day-work-ers —that is, all employed as shiftmen, and 21 per cent, to all piece workers. The above advance is to 1)0 paid on pre-war rates. It is to he hoped that full advantage will be taken of this splendid offer, and thus increase the output of a muchneeded commodity.

The love we bore lo France, remarked Hon. ,1. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, in an address at Auckland, was not only because of her heroism, but because many of our loved ones lay there—sleeping their last long sleep. So close did these ties bind us that we claim France to be part of New Zealand. Many a father and mother after the war would visit France to see that little bit of the country where their loved One was sleeping. When ■France drew the sword she determined not to sheath it till victory was won—rather would she die. Today they were in a position to say that France was driving the Germans back. (Applause.) There could be no peace until complete victory.

BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL. If neglected, bronchitis becomes chronic, weakening the system and paving the way for serious attacks of lung trouble. No matter whether for child or adult, there is no medicine for this complaint equal to Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Taken early it cheeks the spread of inflammation and prevents the full development of the disease. Even fully established bronchitis is promptly brought under control by the use of Chamberlain’s Cough* Remedy. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

Frnesl Henry Thomas, aged 30,’ a single man, was found dead in a yard on his hrother-in-law’s farm at Hotulnna, Hamilton, on Monday. Deceased was subject to Ids.

Though the advanced headings of the Otira Tunnel have met accurately, the work is far from finished. Afore than a mile and- a. quarter of the advanced driving has to Ite widened 'and lined with concrete. No estimate of the time for completion can be worked out to-day, for the man-power factor is uncertain.

Fire gmlted a shop at Pahialua on Tuesday oeeupied by L. A. Burberry, draper, who is a returned soldier. The stock was insured for £7OO. The building was owned by the T. C„ Williams Estate, and was insured for £l2O. .Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co.’s office adjoining suffered slight damage.

“There is every sign of an early spring,” remarked a farmer from the Gisborne Flats to a reporter a. few days ago. He went on to say (hat the pastures were already improving as a sequel to the mild weather that is at present being experienced, whilst willows and fruit trees were also heralding the early advent of springtime.

The Lee Toy Chung Company made their (irst appearance before a Foxton audience at the Town Hall (in Tuesday night. Lee Toy Chung is a conjuror and sleight-of-hand artist of more than ordinary ability, and kept the audience entertained for the best pari of im hour. Mr Harry Hill, ventriloquist, was particularly good, and Professor D’Ahnaine proved that he had thoroughly mastered the art of hpynotism. The company intend paying a return visit on Thursday next.

By some good fortune, or more probably as the - outcome of foresight and good management, the local iiaxmillers have got away the whole of their last season’s output. Though shipping is said to be scarcer, this makes their coining season’s prospects brighter. Most, if not all, of the flax, goes by sailing vessels, the bulk of it to America. Very little cutting is permitted during July and August, the owners fearing the effect of frost upon the young growth.—Manawatu Times.

A well-known resident of Palmerston, in the person of Mr Thomas O’Reilly, of Cook Street, died on Tuesday night (says the Standard) with painful suddenness. About five o’clock be was standing in front of a shop in Broad Street, when he suddenly fell, and although medical assistance was at once obtained, it was of no avail, as be had evidently died instantaneously. As a medical certificate lias shown that heart disease was the cause of death, it will not he necessary to hold an inquest.

Says (be Asblmrsl correspondent of the Standard:—The late Capt. Dance Buchlor, who was awarded (he Military Cross, was horn here. The record of hoys from this district who have, and are, taking part in (he great war, is something to be proud of. Nine have made the supreme sacrifice, and a Vieloria Cross, a Military (truss, a Military Medal and Bar, and two Military Medals, are the honours won.

A young woman named Violet Hopkins pleaded guilty in the Mastei'lon Magistrate's Court to'making a false declaration under the 'Marriage Aet, and was committed to the. Supreme Court for sentence. A member of (he Rxpedilionary Force named Percy John Hopkins pleaded guilty to causing a false declaration to be made. He also was committed for sentence. The young woman, who is the daughter of a Mangamalioe settler, declared before the Registrar that she was twenty-one years of age, whereas she was only sixteen.

The cpiestion of what is a reasons aide rate of interest, which has been dismissed on several occasion* id the Supreme Court recently, arose in connection with an application under (he Aet, to Mr Justice Cooper at Auckland, for leave to sell a property, subject to an overdue mortgage at 5 per cent. The Court was asked to suspend the granting of leave so long as the mortgagor paid tho current rate of interest. .Affidavits were filed hy opposing counsel, showing that some (inaneial institutions in Auckland considered 51 per cent, the current rate, while other institutions had been charging (1 per cent, for (he past three years. His Honour decided that the latter was a reasonable rate of interest.

A vast amount of blunder, (rouble, suffering, and crime, said the Hon. J. A. Hanan, at the. conference with the Education Board at Auckland, could be summed up in the words, “I did not think,” and “what might have been” gave rise to much reproach and remorse. We ought to search more deeply, ho said, for cause and effect. There was a tendency at present to look too much to the secondary cause, and not sufficiently .to the primary cause. Having discovered the cause, we should set to work to eliminate it by a system of practical education along sound and reasonable lines.

Crude were the drugs and clinic ways In what were called “the good old days,” For science then was at its birth, And what it taught was little worth. They knew no anaesthetics then, Nor means of storing oxygen: And what was just as sad, be sure, They had no Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 11 Let NAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. One dose a day keeps colds t. wav. Good for old and young. Sixty doses 1/6,

“The richest land in Now Zealand is going to he cut up into 10-aere blocks some day, like Denmark," said Or. J. .1. Bryee at the Kiwitea County Council- meeting on Saturday.

After another desperate encounter at Sydney the police arrested Walter Grant, who has several aliases, and who is an escaped Victorian criminal, in connection with the shooting of a detective. The authorities have recovered practically all (ho jewellery stolen from Roseberg’s motor car.

The public arc cordially invited to make the Patriotic Shop effort on Saturday next a big success by forwarding donations in cash or kind. The funds are in aid of the Copper Trail effort to assist the Red Cross Funds. Donations and goods av i 11 he thankfully received by Mrs Mandl.- The shop will be in charge of Mrs Mandl, assisted by Misses Signal and Woodroofc.

An invitation from the congregation of the Island Bay Presbyterian Church to the Rev. J. M. Thomson, ALA., to become their minister was accepted by the Wellington Presbytery. His induction will take place early next month. Mr Thompsan has for some time past been conducting the services in the church of which he is now to become the regular minister, and was formerly in charge of the Eoxton Presbyterian Church.

“It is seventy-six years to-day since we dropped anchor in Wellington Harbour/’ said Mr H. Barltrop, in a short chat with a Nelson Mail representative on Friday. The vessel was the old Indemnity, and Mr Barltrop, who will be ninety-one years of age next October, is the sole survivor of the passengers. The vessel leaked all the way out from Home, and the passengers had to take their turn at the pumps. At Wellington the vessel was hauled up on a slip at Kaiwarra, made on purpose for the Clydeside, which had previously been repaired there. After the Indemnity was repaired she was loaded with oil, bones, etc., from the whaling stations, and proceeded Home under Captain Seddewiek, who previously traded with the three-masted schooner called the Osprey.