LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1874, 7 September 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday was the Jewish Xew Year’s Dav.

The Queen of the South, from Wellington with a cargo of general, arrived this morning. Weather permit! ing, she will Sitil again for Wellington to-morrow morning, with hemp.

The very unfavourable wealher conditions interfered with the attendance at the euchre parly and dance held under the auspices of 81. Mary’s Church in the Town Hall supperrooni last night, but those who were present spent a very enjoyable time. The recent restrictions to shipping- on this coast on account of danger of floating mines will be discussed at a conference in Wellington on Monday. It is understood that the conference will be attended by representatives of the shipping companies concerned, also representatives from Harbour Boards and Chambers of Commerce. The West Coast Refrigerating Co. intend to provide storage for another 50,000 crates of cheese at Hawera. It is understood that a freehold site has been secured alongside the Winter Show Buildings, and all necessary machinery has been purchased. Jt is intended to have the building completed and the machinery installed by January. You couldn’t do better than buy your horse-covers at Walker & Furrie’s. Price only 32/- for the best.* Xo more grinding of teeth with WADE’S WORM FIGS. Price 1/6.

In the latest casualty list the name of Pto. George Harper, of Fox ton, appears among the wounded, Private Harper’s wounds arc not severe.

Great Britain’s heaviest man, G. Lovalt, of Brierley Hill (Staffs.), has been called on to report for medical examination. He is 48 years of age, ami weighs 34 stone.

.The Glasgow Corporation tramways for the year ended in May bad a total surplus of £177,000, an increase of £17,000 over the previous year, while the revenue reached the record sum of £1,412,000.

“Have you ever kissed this girlf” asked Mr McDougall, of,a defendant in a case in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. “Not to my knowledge,” was the non-com-mittal, but unlactful reply. “No! to your knowledge,” repeated Mr McDougall, interrogatively; “I think I can remember when 1 kiss a girl.”

A peculiar accident occurred on Sunday, says the Pa tea Press, to a local resident, Mrs Hunter, who slipped and fell, striking her windpipe on 1 lie edge of a bucket, dislocating and almost severing it. She was at. once removed to the hospital, where an operation was performed. The sufferer is progressing as well as can be expected.

Some 350 pigeons, a portion of the first bateh for service on (he Western front, have been despatched from New Zealand. The. birds are yearlings, and specially selected with a view to training- in new lofts. When the new season’s birds are available they will be sent instead of yearlings, as the younger the birds the easier it is to accustom them to their new homes.

A novel sight has been noticed near Nolantown for some time (says the Hawera Star). Every evening about dusk, starlings in thousands alight in a paddock (changing their ground occasionally). The people of Nolantown consider it a most fascinating sight, and many turn up every evening to watch proceedings. Large paddocks are literally alive with the birds, and it would be interesting to learn what attracts them.

The Hastings Tobacco Company has decided not to grow a crop this year. It holds a very large stock of leaf, and as the farm could not be again secured on favourable terms, and 80 men would be required at the harvest, in view- of the present day labour shortage, it was thought’ wiser not to attempt it. The planting machines and other appliances which could not be easily replaced will be retained, and the horses and farm implements will be sold. Mr E. W. Eurkert, Chief Inspector of the Public Works Department, placed a meter on his dwelling-house in Wellington to find out the quantity of water used by a household. The meter had been in existence for two years, and the readings showed that on an average 2,000 gallons of water had been used per month for his household of six persons, including the hosing of the garden. This works out at about 07 gallons per day for six persons, or 11 gallons per head per day.

The extent to which the Conciliation Council saves the time of the Arbitration Court is exemplified by a record that has been established in Auckland (states the Auckland Star). Mr T. Harle Giles, Commissioner for the district, tiled It) disputes to come before the Arbitration Court, and of that number 15 have been fully settled by the Conciliation Council, three were partially settled, and in only one instance —the soft goods trade —has no settlement been reached. All these disputes have been dealt with during the last two months.

A charge of disloyalty against two female assistant teachers in a Westland school has been investigated by a committee of the Canterbury Education Board. The enquiry was the result of a petition from a number of the residents stating (hat on the King’s Birthday, when the'scholars were assembled for the purpose of saluting the Hag, two female teachers, it was alleged, did not salute the Hag, and there was a strong suspicion that (he omission was not an oversight, but the result of disloyalty. After hearing the evidence the chairman announced that the board’s decision would be forwarded in due course. There recently died at Christchurch Mr Henry Kilter, one of the notable scienlists of the Dominion, and author of the “Manual on Xew Zealand Mollusca.” At the time of his death the lat-c Air,Kuter was engaged describing and identifying fossils for the Geological Survey Department. Later Dr. Thompson (director of the Dominion Aluseuni) visited Christchurch, in order to go over the geological survey and museum specimens and books in Air Suter’s possession when he died. Air Enter had valuable scientific collections, and had directed the Public Trustee, who is his executor, that his collections should not he sold without the consent of his two sons, and to the latter he had left a note instructing them to offer his collection of molluscs and other natural history objects to the Dominion Museum. The collections have been housed temporarily in the Canterbury Aluseuni, and the question of their purchase is awaiting proposals from Mr R.-Speight (curator to (he Canterbury Aluseuni) and Professor Chilton (Professor of Biology at Canterbury College), who are acting as trustees for Alessrs Kuter brothers, to whom the collections have been left by their father. Cover your cow to-night, and increase your milk supply. Best white duck covers 17/6, at Walker and Furrie’s.*

P. C. Webb, cx-M.P. for Grey, who has recently been ailing considerably, has been removed from the prison camp to hospital in Rotorua.

All indications are for bumper crops in Missouri this year. And that word bumper has a joyful significance it never bad before, for everyone knows who is going to get bumped, remarks a Kansas journal.

In the 48 hours ended nine o’clock this morning the rainfall locally was 1.08 inches. The fall from nine o’clock yesterday morning until nine o’clock this morning was 1.40 inches.

There is a noticeable subsidence of the excitement apparent: a month or two ago in connection with the dried milk boom. Feeling on the matter is evidently reaching normal. —Waikato Independent.

We understand that it is intended to dismantle the remaining portion of Muutoa Buildings occupied by Mr J. Walls, and the work of pulling same down will be commenced as soon as temporary premises for Mr Walls have been provided.

Mr J. Walls has made arrangements to continue his bakery and refreshment business in the old premises in the meantime, pending the erection of temporary premises on the site of the recent tire. The afternoon tea rooms will lie rc-opened as from to-day, and suppers will be procurable as usual to-night.

“Did you try the simple plan of counting sheep for your insomnia ?'’ “Yes, doctor, but 1 made a mess of it. I counted 10,000 sheep, put ’em on the cars, and shipped ’em to market. And when I’d got through counting the wad of money I got for them at present prices it was time to get up.” —Boston Transcript. The largest, building in the world is the Equitable Building, on Broadway, New York. It contains 2,300 offices, houses 15,000 people, has 50 elevators that serve 37 doors, is 485 feet 5 inches high, and covers 225 thousand square feet. It takes 487 men and women to keep it going and keen it clean. It cost 30 million dollars to build it.

The death of Mr K. Fletcher will render necessary a by-election in Wellington Central. The seat is regarded in Wellington as being within, the reach of Labour, and it is certain that there will be an official Labour candidate in the Held at the by-election. The name of Mr P. J. OTlegan is being mentioned in Labour circles.

Mr Thomas Wood, a well-known Pohangina farmer, passed away at Ids residence yesterday morning. Prior to settling in the .Pohangina Valley the deceased gentleman resided at Waverley and Kangiotu. He was of a quiet, unassuming nature, and was held in the highest esteem in the district. The late Mr Wood is survived by a widow and an only son, Mr Ered P. Wood.

Mr Peter Isbistor, of Island Bay, Wellington, was one of the officers on the s.s. Wairuna when she was captured by the German raider Wolf. He is now interned at Ruhlehen Camp, in Germany, whence he sends to his parents a postcard and a photograph of himself among a group of other naval internees. He states that the naval prisoners are kept separate, and are having a good time.

Writing under date 23rd July, the London correspondent of The Post says: Mr Tom Sullivan,,the former sculling champion, was rather badly injured in a thunderstorm in England this week. Mr Sullivan, recently returned from internment in Kuhleben Camp, Germany, has taken over the Suffolk Hotel, at Bury St. Edmonds. During a violent thunderstorm he was looking out of an upper story window trying to discover the cause of an overflow of water, when he was struck violently on the back of the neck by lightning, and fell to the ground. He soon recovered consciousness, but is suffering from pain and shock. . The Imperial Institute has been in communication with Sir Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, with regard to the prospects of obtaining commercial supplies of seal and penguin oils from the Antarctic. Samples . of these oils, which were subnutted by Sir Douglas to the Imperial Institute for examination, proved to be of excellent quality. As it is now possible to convert such oils into odourless, tasteless solid fats by a process which has been rapidly developed in the United Kingdom during the war, there is some prospect of these oils becoming available as raw material for margarine manufacture in the future. Kir D. .Mawson is of opinion that the manufacture of these oils in the Antarctic is feasible, though it will require several years’ preparation, and will have to be conducted under carefully considered regulations to prevent extermination of the seals and penguins. Meanwhile there is already established on ’Macquarie Island an industry for the preparation of penguin, sea-elephant, and sea-Jeopard oil. The annual production is estimated at 400 to 450 tons, and though the bulk of this supply is absorbed by the Australian and Xew Zealand markets, there is a surplus available for export. The Imperial Institute has been approached in the matter from Tasmania, and has placed the interested parties in touch with possible buyers in the United Kingdom. CHAMBER LA LX’S TABLETS FOR COXSTI RATION. For constipation, Chamberlain’s Tablets are excellent. Easy to take, mild and gentle in effect. Give them a trial. For sale everywhere.- —Ad,

Mr W. Waters, town clerk, who has been in the Cl Camp, has been discharged as unfit for active service. He will again take up his duties locally shortly. A cold storage shed has just been completed at Rarotonga, Up to the present time the residents, especially the European population, have had to depend entirely on the island meat, which is composed principally of chickens and pork, in addition to tinned meat. New Zealand meat can now be sent to the Islands and placed in cold storage and be sold as required.

Some fairly heavy shipments of hemp are to be made from Wellington within the next few weeks, a large quantity of which will be drawn from the Eoxton stores. By this afternoon's train 15 trucks of hem}) were forwarded to Wellington for shipment overseas, and the Queen of the South will take a cargo away to-morrow, and further large consignments are on order to leave here.

The American Consul in Melbourne has received a wireless message from Washington stating that Luther Burbank, the famous naturalist and originator of new fruits and (lowers, announces that ho will soon publicly demonstrate a new variety of wheat which lie claims will revolutionise the farming industry. It will produce fifty bushels of wheat to the aero whore twelve were produced before.

The many friends of Sergeant Con. Burgess will be pleased, to learn that the report that he had been killed in action is incorrect. The error occurred through the wrong reading of a name in a telegram received by his people from the Minister of Defence. The unfortunate soldier to whom the casualty telegram referred was his brother Tom, which was wrongly read by Ills people as Con.

An exchange learns from an Otago visitor that a southern factory engaged in the manufacture of sugar of milk was in extreme difficulty owing to the price having dropped to about £I.OO per ton, hut within the past two years they have risen to unheard-of affluence through a rise to over £450 per ton. A recent cargo of 25 tons was lost, and they bewailed the fact because it wits only insured for £4OO per ton.

A Ruff Orpington duck owned by the Old People's Home, Park Island, laid an egg last week of the almost incredible weight of sixteen ounces. Inside the big oval, which was very much larger than a goose's egg, was another perfectly formed egg, with shell, yolk, and white. The big egg had if own yolk and white. The specimen has been presented to the High School museum, with a declaration as to the circumstances of its production.

i\lr Peter Neilsen declared at a cheese meeting cl Puhialua uti Saturday lasi 11 1 ■ ■ I some dairy herds, averaged as much as 4001 bs, of fat in a season, and the champion cow of New Zealand last year produced D39lbs., but the average for the cows all ovr New Zealand was only 1601bs, of butter-fat. Mr Singleton (Dairy Division) bad said that out of 750,000 cows milked in the Dominion annually Jess than 3 per cent, had 'sad the scales and Babcock tester eu them yet.

Anything calculated to render pumice of more commercial value than it is at the present 'time is of interest to a volcanic country. The Monthly Current Trade and Service Issue of the Pacific Ports states that local shipping men are interested in a project to build monolithic hulls for steamers from pumice and steel on similar lines to those adopted when using concrete. It is claimed that a chemical compound has been developed which will cause pumice to hind and set as (irmly as cement about the reinforcement steel.

In a back number (March) of the School Journal the following appears: “A detonator is a small brass ease about the thickness of a lead-pencil, and resembling a thin cartridge ease, 1 Ain. long, aifd more than half tilled wiiii dynamite.” The person who wr.do that article has probably never seen a detonator. He should gel hold *.f one at the first possible opportunity, and careful examination will show him that it is not half filled with dynamite in fact that it does not contain any dynamite. As an authority on -detonators, the School Journal does hot count for much.

It is understood il is Iho intention of (lie . owner of the property to oroot nil up-to-daie brick or ferroeonerele building on the scene of the recent lire in Main Street. Mr Fielding, of Wellington, has boon engaged to provide plans and specifications, and the new building will extend along Main Street from the corner of Whyte Street to the boundary of the sec lion. The ground portion will contain shops and pox - - tion of Whyte's Hotel, and the upstaii’s will provide the hotel house and boarding accommodation, and also the living apartments for the bakery premises. We understand that when completed the building will be a very fine one, and will greatly add to the appearance of Main Street. Oh, what a blessing- to possess Provision for each winter stress; A well kept home where you obtain Snug shelter from the wind ,and rain. A eoal lire always burning bright, To cheer you from the gale-swept, night; And when you’re sic l : with cold, are sure Of warmth and Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. , 23.

The condition of Miss Edwards, who is an inmate of the Palmerston Hospital, still continues very serious, and is causing her relatives and friends much anxiety. Advice has been received that Private Hugh F, Hughes, son of Mr and Mrs G. Hughes, of No. 2 Line, Fox ton/ has been wounded and was admitted to hospital on August 27th. The latest progress statement issued by the Discharged Soldiers’ Information Department shows that on August 31st the total number of men on the Department’s register was 21,375. The protest entered by Await on against the win of the Crusaders in last Saturday’s football match was considered by the committee on Wednesday night. The ground of the protest, was that the potted goal awarded Crusaders was not a goal. As the matter in dispute was one of fact and not of law, the referee’s decision is final, and cannot be altered. The protest was therefore dismissed, and the Crusaders will hold the PciTcau Cup and Petrie Shield until next season.

An old man of over 00 summers strolled into the dentist’s rooms the other day (says the Akaroa correspondent of the Press) to have an offending stump removed. It interfered, so he asserted, with the process of mastication. Reference to the teeth reminds one that it is not uncommon to find in Akaroa district men of over (iO and 70 years still in possession of comparatively sound sets. One old farmer, born near Akaroa, prides himself on the fact that he Avas 05 before he had a tooth drawn. And a certain veteran of three score years and ten, whose fresh looks and erect, sturdy figure would be the envy of many men of 50, used to amuse himself, not so long ago, by displaying the strength and soundness of his molars in this way; —He would pick up a 5611). bag of sugar with his teeth, swing it sideways once or twice, and then hurl it to the other side of the room! His teeth, it may he remarked, are still sound. And for the benefit of the younger generation, it should be added that his toothbrush is daily put to its legitimate use.