LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1860, 3 August 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning the weather was very mild, a real spring morning. The Patriotic Shop to-day is in charge of Mesdames Gibbs and .Jennings. The monthly meeting of (he, local Slate School Committee will he held on Monday evening. The Minister for Defence lias been advised that the 381 h Reinforcements have arrived at their destination. Wo are in receipt, from the Minister of Defence, of the report'dealing with the Royal Commission on Defence Expenditure. Mr IT. Signal has arranged to hold the first rehearsal by those taking part in the forthcoming concert, in All Saints’ schoolroom on Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock, Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., who has boon transferred to the Rotorua district, expects to leave Palmerston on Wednesday next. Mr Kenrick will preside at the usual sittings of the Magistrate's Court in Palmerston next Mondav and Tuosdav.

A football match is being played on (he racecourse this afternoon between teams representing “Oldtimers’’ and Foxton juniors. The losers will entertain the winners at dinner in Perreau’s rooms at 6 o’clock this evening. The gate receipts are to be handed over to the Injured Players’ Fund. Mr J. P. Kelly, of the Railway Department, Wellington, was killed at Takapau through falling beneath a moving train. Deceased has been connected with (he railway service for 43 years. lie leaves a widow and three grown-up sons, of whom one is in camp, one in the Public Service at Wellington, and the other in Christchurch.

The personnel of the Wellington Education Board is:—Wellington City: Messrs R. A. Wright, M.P., Thomas Forsyth, J. J. Clark, and J. P. Shand; Hutt-Petonc: Messrs G. London and E. P. Rishworth; HuttHorowhenua: Messrs W. H. Field, M.P., and C. 1. Harkness; Wairarapa: Messi's A. W. Hogg and T. Moss; Marlborough: Messrs R. M’Callum and 1C H. Penny. The new members are Messrs J. J. Clark, J. P. Shand, and 0. I. Harkness.

At the advanced age of 95 years there died at: Cambridge this week Mi 1 W. K. Cartel', who was wellknown in the Waikato district. He arrived in Victoria in 1851, during the palmy days of the goldfields, and drove the first coach from Melbourne to Bendigo in the early rush to that field. Later he came to New Zealand, and for many years drove a coach between Dunedin and Gabriel’s Gully goldfield. Going to Auckland in due course, he was well-known as a driver in the old coaching <lays between that city and Cambridge, and also from the latter town to Rotorua.

Persons whose- business neeessiInles their (ravelling on the railway will he interested in (he following' new railway by-lnw:—“When nny railway carriage, or eompjirlinon! or seat in a railway carriage, lias been reserved for any pariienla.r reason or Tor any person or class ol' poisons, any person oilier than the person or persons for whom the carriage, compartment, or seat has been reserved, who shall enter or occupy any such reserved carriage, eoinparlmeiil or seal, shall immediately quit the same when requested to do so by the person or any of the persons for whom the carriage, eomparlmenr, or seat lias been reserved, or by any ollleer of (lie railway. Any person who shall commit a breach of the foregoing by-law may be removed from saeh reserved carriage, eoinparlmeiil, or seat by any officer of tin* railway, and shall be liable to a penally not exceeding £lO for each' breach.’'

Inlercsiing reference to the training- of reinforcements in Hie English camps is made by Sergeant Philip I). Bareimm, who lel'l New Zealand with (he 30 th Reinforce•nienls. “I was reduced from warrant officer to I lie rank of temporary sergeant, and placed in a n.e.o. class under instructors . who have been soul over from the trenches in Prance. I was somewhat upset over having, to lose the rank which I worked so hard for, but 1 soon found out how little I knew of soldiering as it is clone on this side of the world. The course that we have to go through for our non-com. rank is extremely difficult here, and the work is harder than navvying. I am to go up for my examination in about a week’s time, and there will be no one more surprised than I if I manage to struggle through. In the last class only one man passed for sergeant out of about 30.” Sergeant Batch am remarks that men sent from New Zealand cannot hope to retain their ranks. “I have had nearly twenty years’ experience in military training, and I am even worse than a new recruit, as I have all my New Zealand habits to forget.. The training here is commonsense and founded upon commonsense and • experience during the present war.” With feet soaked in a mustard bath, Poor Grandpa crouched beside the hearth, And gasped so hard and looked so glum, Despite three lots of steaming rum. Tlftit Grandma, anxious grown for him, Exclaimed at last lo Uncle Jim—- “ This dread suspense I can’t endure. I’ll send for Woods* Great Peppermint Cure.”

There will only be morning service at the local Presbyterian

Church to-morrow. The evening service will be held in the Town Hull.

To-morrow, the fourth anniversary of the declaration of war. will he observed us u day of continual intercession at All Saints’ Church. The public are asked to make use of the church at any lime during (ho day. arid to join in the prayers and intercessions.

A tribute to the work and energy of the Rev. A. Donll during; his eight years' minisiry in Palmerston was made by a member of St. Andrew's congregation at the annual church meeting this week, says the Standard. “Mr Doull has been here eight years,” the member stated. “I hear two sermons every Sunday, and during that time I haven’t heard him preach the same sermon twice.”

A wireless message removed by the American Consul in Melbourne says that official dispatches have revealed efforts to hide from the German public and (he crews of submarines the extent of the submarine losses. The German High Naval Command forbids the statement in death notices that the deceased are members of submarine crews unless the loss of the submarine is olfciallv announced.

The three sons of Premier Soddon are,,well distributed in serving the Fin (.lire. Captain .R. 4. S. Seddon, who arrived in England with the last reinforcement, is attached to the Rife Brigade camp at Brocton. Lieut. J. S. S. Seddon, who has had a commission in the Royal Field Artillery for nearly three years, is now serving on the British front in Italy. Captain Tom Seddon, M.P., is with a special military mission in U.S.A.

A position in bankruptcy, the first this year in PnJmerston, was lodged on Wednesday, by John Robertson, journalist, Palmerston North. The assets are given as nil, and the creditors are as follows: Remington and Kelly, cycle agents, Levin, £2l 8s (id; P. J. O'Regan, solicitor, Wellington, £ls; Wellington Publishing Company, £2 19s 7d; Cycle and Motor Supplies Company, Ltd., motor agents, Wellington, £45; G. G, Kelly, cycle agent, Shannon, £B3 14s sd; Simms and Sons, Ltd., merchants, Christchurch, £3 ss.

Miss Price, who has been a member of the local State school' staff for (he past four and a-half years, and who is retiring temporarily from the teaching profession, was made the recipient of presentations from the scholars and teachers of the school on Thursday afternoon. The headmaster, Mr L. J. Furrie, made the presentations, which took the. form of a case of toilet requisites, suitably engraved, from the scholars, and a fountain pen from the staff. Miss Price suitably acknowledged the gifts. On Monday next the Hon. W. H. Hurries and Dr. Pomare will visit Devin, and lake part in a ceremony, in which Mrs Sciascia will be made the recipient of a military medal, won by her late son, Charles Sciascia, who was killed in action in France. Private Sciascia was wellknown locally, having lived here for some I line, when he took a keen interest in football. An effort is to be made to secure the presence of Sir James Carroll, Mr W. H. Field, M.P., and Mr Heubeu Tukina, a member of the Fpper House, at (ho fund ion.

Mr Fred Pirani sends verv ini or-

es) mg Idlers regarding his trip ae-ro.-.s (he Paeilic. All hough new lo the sea, he made (lie voyage to Vancouver wiihotii a moment’s uneasiness. Wherever the New Zealand party landed, (he delegates with shown lavish hospitality by confreres of the press. Suva was not impressive, hut Honolulu was “simply wonderful." Of this latter city, Mr Pirani writes: “We were taken to an aquarium, where we saw (lie most wonderful coloured shoals of fish yon could possibly imagine—in fad Ibe imagination moan - pictured anything like (his. And we all came away impressed with I lie idea that we knew nolhing of (he real wonders of I lie world. Then we weye I alien through Chinatown, Japtown, and finally the grim I city of Honolulu, with ifs fantastic colouring, splendid buildings, fine market, and eosmopolilan population drawn from all nations, especially the gorgeous East.”—Star.