LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1872, 3 September 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held on Monday, September SHh, at 7.30 pan. Business; General.

At the Magistrate’s Court 01 Saturday in Christchurch, Mr S. E McCarthy, S.M., fined Ann Gallagher and Frank Thorne each £5( for selling watered milk.

The Queen of the South, from Wellington with a cargo of benzine, arrived last night. She will sail again for Wellington to-morrow morning, with hemp. It is understood that a big field of coal has been located on the State mine reserve at Point Elizabeth (says the Westport News). The quality is something between a lignite and a brown coal.

There is good authority for saying that certain soap manufacturers in the Dominion are about to close down their businesses. The cause of this is the impossibility of procuring caustic soda.

The death ftf a Scandinavia! mimed Rebeck, at the age of lOf years, is reported from the Wairarapa. The old man had recently become an inmate of the Buchanai Home.

Some 1 >i”■ prices were realised a( an auction sale of fish in Wellington on Friday. A line of warehou was sold at the rate of-(is lid each and a kerosene tin full of Westport whitebait brought £4 17s (id.

The shortage of feed has been the cause of considerable mortality (his season amongst cows and calves, some of the farmers’ losses being' pretty heavy. On a certain farm the carcases have not been buried, and the air in their vicinity is redolent with —well, not the perfumes of Araby the blest. —Eltham Argus.

It is really a peculiar position for a so-called democratic country to be in, says the Waikato Independent. We elect representatives to Parliament, and they immediately turn round and dictate. Instead of being the servants of the people they dominate the people. We have Sir William ’Fraser saying at Christchurch recently, “I am not going to make good motor roads to the 'West Coast. ’’ A Sultan could not he more autocratic, in his own harem. Who rules New Zealand I Sir Fraser or the people of New Zealand? it it is the will of the people that a motor road he built to tlit? West Coast, Sir William Fraser, as a servant of the people, should carry ont Ihe work. We have too much of political autocracy or swelled headedness in Xew Zealand.

Tavo runhohlers were lost in Ihe snow for several houi's in tlie Mackenzie Country Inst week (reports the Timaru Herald), finally they got into the bed of the crock, and ai'tcr groping' blindly about for a. Ion”’ time, they bad the •food fortune to come upon a hut which the 'Mackenzie County Council had erected for just such an emergency. Never was the sight of a shelter more welcome than by the (wo runholders ii! question, for it afforded shelter from the storm, and meant the difference between danger and safety. Though the hut was inhospitable enough in sonn ways, in that it had neither lire nor food nor bedding, it had a telephone connection, and by this means the travellers were able to relieve the anxiety of their friends. They had perforce to snend the night in the lint without food,'bedding, or warmth, but they cheerfully paced the lloor till daylight came, and then continued their journey, wet through to the waist.

The following is the text of the notice served upon non-subscribers to the War Loan after failure to arrive; at an amicable arrangement with the Tax Department: —“Take notice that you are. required, under the provisions of section 16 of the Finance Act, 191 S, to contribute to the loan authorised by the War Purposes Loan Act, 1917, the sum of £ on or before (date). If you have any objection to offer you are hereby required to state fully in writing the grounds of your objection. Objections must be received at the oflice of (he Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington, not later than (dale).” The, circular is signed by Mr D. (1. Clark, Commissioner of Taxes. It is understood that the number of these circulars issued is not very large. The Act provides for no exceptions among those who should subscribe and do not, and the penal rate'of interest is, in all eases, 3 per cent, instead of 41 per cent . A simple method is being used to prevent persons liable to make compulsory subscriptions from taking ui) a. quota, at the full rate of interest, for no bunds are being issued now without inquiry as to whether the applicant has complied with the requirements of the Act.

SOMETHING RELIABLE. “Can be depended upon” is an expression we all like to hear, and when it is used in eonnection with Chamberlain's Colie and Diarrhoea Remedy it means that it is a reliable medicine for diarrhoea, dysentery, or bowel complaints. It is pleasant, to take and equally valuable for children and adults. For sale everywhere. —Advt. For better scones, for lighter pastry, for more delicious cakes, use “Hudson's Baking Powder—- “ Bound to Rise.” W, D. BauckLam, Poston.*

Companies, (inns, and individual taxpayers who hailed to subscribe, to the lasi war loan have received a, circular hroin the Commissioner 01. Taxes, which seems to indicate ils intention to apply the compulsory clauses oh (he Finance Act, HUH. The document calls upon each recipient to explain its or his reason for not subscribing.

A record freight even fn these Avar limes is that oh the sailing schooner Snow and Burgess oh San Francisco, which is to load lumber on the Sound for Durham The schooner's charter rale amounts (o ,C)(i per 1,00011., and as she can carry a total oh 1,300,000 feet oh lumber, her gross earnings for the voyage from I lie Sound to Durban xviil be approximately £21,000.

A man living near Wellington used to retail watercress at one penny per bunch, lie now charges twopence per hunch. Asked tor his reason for increasing the price, he says it is because oh the increased cost oh living. But he still gets them for nothing, pulling (hem from any old drain or watercourse where he can hind them. The cost oh living may have gone up, hut his watercress are as cheap as ever to gather.

The overseer to the Taranaki Education Board reported to the meeting on Wednesday (bat be had received a request from Kaponga to forward a design hor an open air class-room, the head master stating ho was so pleased with the result oh teaching a class in the shelter shed that they were determined to put up an open-air class-room themselves, owing to the department not granting the application hor additions. The plans and particulars required were forwarded. The Board decided to submit to the Education Department the matter of granting a suh.-'dy towards Ihe erection of the class-room.

The fact that the milk supplied in Wellington during duly had been adulterated in many cases was mentioned by the milk inspector in a report to the Wellington City Council last week. “For (he whole year 1.917-18, 1,455 samples were taken, and only 12 were found to contain added water,” he stated. “From July Ist to July 31st this year the number-of samples taken totalled 199, and of these 20 were found to contain added water, ranging from 4 per cent, to 28 per cent. In iwo eases where water was found on vendors’ carts in milk cans the samples obtained proved to contain 28 per cent, added water, ami 9 per cent, respectively.”

As a memorial to soldiers who have made the 1 supreme sacrifice, three rows of gum trees were plant - ed along Nepean Road, Melbourne, tor a distance of nearly half a mile, on a recent Saturday. The street was closed to trallic for two hours, in order that the thousands of people could plant their trees in memory of fallen relatives and friends. On each tree a copper label was placed with the name of a fallen soldier thereon. In a letter to a, local resident, a relative who was present at the ceremony, writes; — “It was sad to see the groups at each tree, yet it was a line thing to do, and will be a great memorial in years to come.”

“•But will Prohibition bo a sueness l n asks (bo man in doubt. Surely there was never so impartial an investigation of the question as that conducted, by the National Bfiiciency Board. Evidence was heard from all classes of the community. The Liquor Trade stated its case, the Prohibition advocates advanced their reasons, the nonparty sections of the community "avo their views; and after hearing' all sales the Board reported in favour of immediate prohibition. The Alliance Monster Petition asks for a poll on the Board’s proposal—sign it to-day. Be sure you sign the right Petition! Look carefully, or you may be induced to support a proposal asking for nationalisation of the Drink Traftic with all its attendant evils. The Alliance Monster Petition is the one that every patriotic citizen should support. Sign it, and no other®

The 46th draft of reinforcements to go into camp between September 10th and 14th comprises several hundred more men than are usually called up, and the question has naturally arisen whether it is wise to mill up more married reservists t han are actually needed. The point was put to the Minister of Defence, who replied that there is no fair way of selecting the men to remain at home, and most of them having completed their arrangements to give up civilian life, would now be embarrassed by any postponement of mobilisation. In any case, if the casualties of the New Zealand forces at the front are heavy during the remainder of the lighting season, the men will all be required, and the camps are becoming empty. So there is to he no postponement of the mobilisation of the Class B men called ni) for next reinforcements. They can, however, look forward to a brief respite from military duties during the Christmas holidays.

SPRAINS AND CUTS. In cases of sprains, cuts, wounds and bruises, Chamberlain’s Pain Halm takes out the soreness and drives away the pain. For sale everywhere.—Advt. No cold i.s NAZOL-proof. And no cough and cold remedy is so economical as NAZOL. Eighteenpenec buys 00 doses—more than three a penny.

The 'following arc the vital statistics i'ur Fox!(in for the month oh, August: —Births (i, deaths 3, marriage eerf ideates issued nil.

Rain hell locally on nine days during the month oh August, the maximum hall occurring on the 13th, when (it) points were registered. The total for the month was 2.02 indies.

The next social under the auspices oh the local Catholic Church will be held in the Town Hull supperroom on Friday evening next, at 8 p.m. Euchre, dancing, refreshments. Admission Is (id.

.More men are at present applying to the Public Works Department at Gisborne for work on roads ami railways now than has been the ease for twelve months past. A number oh returned soldiers are on the various works.

Probably Hie Xew Zealand record for war-knitting is held by Mrs Gardiner, oh Kangataua, on thu Main Trunk line, who has knitted 335 pairs oh sox for the boys at llm front, all of which have been duly forwarded. The old lady is over 70 years oh age, and her eyesight is not too good.

Most oh the telephones in the Main (Street were cut off through Saturday night's lire damaging the cable. The telegraph engineer and Mall’ arrived by motor lorry yesterday morning, and completed the necesary repairs to the cable, and (he connections are now being made, and will he completed to-night.

For stealing a paybook ami £8 from a New Zealand .soldier in a munition ale shop, Daniel Gallocher, a naval stoker, was eonvieted, at the Northern Police Court, Glasgow, and sent to prison, for GO days. It was slated that Gallocher, who was an absentee from his ship, while engaging the colonial in conversation, abstracted the pocket-book and money from his tunic pocket. Another soldier informed the New Zealander of his loss, but by this time Gallocher had started to share the money with two companions. A struggle followed, but the Anzae proved the better man, and, downing the stoker, held him until two detectives arrived. Gallocher’s companions tied.