LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1879, 19 September 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the local branch of the P.W.M.U. was held in the Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon.

The public is reminded of the ouehre parly and dance to be held in (be Town Hall supper-room tomorrow night.

A number of local Masons attended the annual installation ceremony in connection with the Horowhcua Lodge at Levin last night.

According to Cr. Law, at last Horowhenua County meeting, labour, except for tlaxmilling, is almost unprocurable in the Shannon district.

The Otaki Hospital is still practically full. A number of the patients are very serious cases, and the hospital stall’ is having an extremely busy and trying time, says the Mail.

At the Masterton Magistrate’s Court, Alexander Biss, licensee of the Taratahi Hotel, was fined £25, and Alfred Congdon, taxi driver, £lO, for having supplied liquor to natives in a proclaimed area. If you in bed lie sick and sad,

Because you’ve influenza bad, Or if a wheezy, chesty cold Upon your lungs has taken hold. To keep that cold from getting

worse You’ll need but little from your

purse; Relief with promptness you’ll assure Bv taking Woods’ Great Pappormint Cure. 20

The Queen of the South arrived this morning from Wellington with general, and will sail again for that port to-morrow, hemp laden.

Mr Peter Fraser has been .selected as Labour’s official candidate for the Wellington Central seat at the forthcoming by-election to be held on October 3rd.

The Girls’ Guild intends holding a sweets and flower stall in the Main Street on Saturday, 28th inst., in aid of the Red Cross Copper ’frail, and will he pleased to receive donations.

The school children are settling down to their work in the various halls. They are handicapped in their studies owing to lack of furniture and material, but it is hoped by the end of next week to improve matters.

A true story from a New Zealanders’ Hospital (says the London Evening News) : “Can you lend me your leg, old chap”-I—it 1 —it was Sunday morning. “Why, matey?” “Got leave to-day, and mine hasn’t come yet. I want to go out proper,” Leg lent.

The possibilities of the Mangatainoka district in the growing of lucerne are revealed by the experience of a settler who is now cutting a line crop. Two acres were laid down in January last, and fed off in July. There is now a second sturdy growth, the plants being a foot high.

An American writer is of the opinion that the time will yet come when the world’s supply of petrol will not meet the demand for fuel for tens of millions of ears and gasoline engines that will be dependent on petrol for power. His idealistic idea is that water power and wireless waves will solve the problem.

. Some little excitement was caused at the Port, Napier, on Wednesday (reports the Tribune). It appears that the Kiritona put to sea, and on hoard was a returned soldier who demanded to be put ashore again, as he refused to travel with

“squareheads,” as he termed (he crew. The soldier’s wishes were gratified, and he* was accordingly returned to terra lirma.

A medical journal vouches for this story :«A distinguished surgeon, while making his rounds through a hospital, was momentarily dazed, when a wounded soldier inquired querulously: “Bay, doctor, when one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the other doctor like the doctor wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor (he other doctor like (..he doctor doing the doctoring wants to doctor him?” V

Pte. Bernard Osborne, of the Australian Expeditionary Force, is at present spending a short holiday with his parents, Mr and Airs FI. Osborne, of Palmerston North. Pte. Osborne, who was recently wounded in action, went out with the Alain Body from Australia, and has been at the front for four years. He will shortly return to Australia for hospital treatment. Pte. Osborne is a nephew of Air A. Osborne and Airs Bullard, of Eoxton.

There have been many ami unique records put up during' the course of the war, but the Hon. Mr Burton, South Africa’s Minister of Bailways, stands in a class by himself. When he went from Capetown to London to represent the Botha. Cabinet in the Imperial War Conference, Mr Burton’s ship was torpedoed, and lie completed his voyage in a rescuing warship. How, on his return to Capetown, he has been “torpedoed.” Hoiks will be thinking Minister Burton is a modern Jonah.

How a soldier’s wife spent his money while he was serving his country was related to Mr E. D. Mosley, in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, when the wife sought a separation and maintenance order from her husband. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate, in refusing to make a separation order, said the woman had apparently gone through over £SOO, and if she liked to spend money like water she was not going to get any past maintenance from that Court. The ease would be adjourned for a month in order to see whether the pension which the wife was drawing would be continued. If it was stopped defendant would have to pay £1 per week maintenance. Sir Kobert Stout, Chief Justice, in an address at Carterton, on Friday evening, said if there was to he any hope for democracy and the future of humanity the war must go on and on until Germany was utterly defeated. He emphatically ridiculed the Bolshevik idea of “no indemnity, no annexations, no reparation,” which parrot cry was being echoed by some of our own people, the so-called pacifists. If this were to be the adopted principle, then murder, theft, and rapine were to be condoned, and instead of punishing wrong-doing we should shake hands and live amicably with the wrong-doers. Those who held those ideas should go to Russia, where the ideas were being so dreadfully put into practice. There was no doubt whatever that part of the German plan wgs to conquer England as well as France and Russia, and seize the British colonies. Reports had actually been made of the mineral and other possibilities of Hew Zealand.

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Mr Waters, Town Clerk, returned to Foxton on Monday evening. Mr Waters, although improved in health, is not yet convalescent. In the Salvation Army Hall tonight a musical programme and service of song will be given. All arc welcome.'

The Patriotic Shop next Saturday will be in charge of Mesdames A. Ross and Cronquest, and the proceeds are to be devoted to the Red Cross Fund.

Mr Jackson, late headteacher at the local State school, and now of Queen’s Park, Wanganui, forwarded a telegram of sympathy to the Chairman of the School Committee and teaching staff touching the loss of his old school by fire. Mr Jackson naturally feels the destruction of the building, as he took a keen interest in the welfare of the building and grounds.

The births registered for the four metropolitan areas of New Zealand in August numbered 710, as against 738 in July, a decrease of 22. The deaths in July were 485, an increase of 67 as compared with the previous month. Of the total deaths, males numbered 240, females 230. Seventy-one of the deaths were of children under Jive years of age, being 14,04 per cent, of the whole number. Forty-nine of these were under one year of age.

The extent to which Japanese goods are eoining to New Zealand at present, while practically no goods are taken from here, was referred to at the last meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce by a letter from Messrs A. 8. Paterson and Co. It was pointed out that while the boats trading from Japan brought goods here, they loaded again at Sydney, and the opinion was expressed that representations should he made in the matter. The question was referred to the shipping committee.

The following Wellington district men have been awarded Military Medals: —Sergt. IT. S. Thomasson, L.-Corpl. C. J. Gordon, L.-Cornl. W. H. May, Pie. .11. Cameron. Cpl. J. R. Blake, Pte. T. Richardson, Cpl. W. E. Ball, Pte. W. E. Elton, Pte. 8. A. Lamb, Pte. E. 8. Brigley, Pie. W. IT. Paynter, Pte. R. Campbell, Cpl. D. Crutchloy, Cpl. IT. D. O’Donnell, Pte. G. J. Scothern, L.-Cpl. W. J. Lewis, Pie. J. C. Nichulls, Cpl. IT. R. Hampton, Pte. F. A. Belhin, Pte. A. Park, Bgt. K. Mackenzie, Pie. E. L. Black, Pte. IT. N. Law, Pte. C. Bargh, L.-Cpl. J. AL Hammersley, Pte. J. 8. Butter worth.

A correspondent in the Times, writing from Honolulu, says:—The Germans have had a bad time in Hawaii. The more dangerous ones have been transported to Balt Lake City, which is scarcely llatteml by the distinction. A few are in gaol for complicity in the Hindu sedition plot, and a few may hope soon to be (here. Germans holding responsible positions as managers of important sugar plantations are being evicted and (heir places taken by genuine Americans —ail of which is very disconcerting, to German ambitions in the Paci/ic, for the German community in Hawaii before the entry of America into (Tic war was a nourishing colony, well founded in “Kultur” and other amiable qualities.

The Horowhenua County Council had under consideration on Saturday the circular, received from the Minister of Public Works in reference to the Us per day rate of pay for labour engaged in connection with county works. Councillors contended that the letter was a slur on local bodies, who were composed of level-headed business men. The following motion, moved by Councillor Law, and seconded by Councillor Whyte, was carried unanimously: “That this council wishes to cuter a strong protest against the terms of the circular issued by the Minister for Public Works. Although this does not affect us at present, we feel that it is a reflection on the business ability of all councils.” A copy of the resolution is to be sent to the Minister and member for the district.

Mr and Mrs Isaac Lovelock celebrated their golden wedding 'by a, family gathering at their home, Newbury, Hangitikei Line, Palmerston North, on Monday, at which all the members of the family (with the exception of one son, who is at the front) were present. Mr and Mrs Lovelock were married in the Wesleyan Church, Manners Street, 'Wellington, on 10th September, 1868, by the Rev. W. Kirk, and were presented with a Bible by the trustees of (he church, as they were the first couple to be married in the new edifice. They have a family of thirteen, nine sons and four daughters, and there are twenty-three grandchildren. One son is at the front, and three sons and a son-in-law are in camp. The youngest is leaving with the. next force. Air Lovelock was born in Wellington, his parents having arrived in the ship Bollon in 1840. Mrs Lovelock is the eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Edwin Bannister, and was born in Wellington. Mr and Mrs Lovelock are still hale and hearty, and have been living at their present home, Palmerston North, for a number of years, highly respected by all who know them for their hospitality and kindness.

We have large stocks of Yates’ Reliable and Sutton’s English Seeds. All fresh in this season. Alsu a number of varieties of choice seed potatoes, including the famous Aherbrothock.—Walker & Fume*

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s f *