Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1884, 1 October 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the annual report of the Wanganui Education Board, 92 of its teachers have gone on active service, while 11 have made the supreme .sacrifice. Mr Tver, who has entered into partnership with Mr Barr, was for several years a member of (he wellknown linn of Watkins, Tver and Toian, printers, etc., of Wellington. On Saturday night, Haira Himiona, a man about 60 years of age, fell into a scalding pool at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. He was alive when got out, but died an hour later.

The public schools of Xow Zealand afford “one of the worst .sources of immorality at the present time,'' says Bishop Averill, of Auckland. This allegation of the prevalence of juvenile immorality will come up for discussion on Saturday next at the meeting of the Palmerston North Headmasters’ Association, and the Manawatu Branch of the Teachers’ Institute.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure, X/6, 3/6.

Tlic vital statistics lor Foxton for the month of September are: — Births 7, deaths 1, marriage certiJieates issued ,2.

Bain fell uu 15 days during the month of September, the maximum fall, 1,-10 inch, occurring on .the oth. The total for the mouth was 2.03 inches.

As there were no objections lodged against the ratepayers’ list of the Moutoa Drainage Board, same was signed and settled by Mr E. Page, S.M., at Friday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court. The mortal remains of the late Miss Edwards will be transferred from Palmerston to Foxton by motor-hearse to-morrow, and will be taken direct to All Saints’ Church, and from thence to the local cemetery for interment.

All the bells were rung at noon to-day, and mills’ whistles screeched, in celebration of Bulgaria’s unconditional surrender. The Borough Band will further celebrate the great event by playing patriotic airs in Main Street this evening. The friends of Mr and Mrs Geo. Edwards are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of their late daughter, which will leave All Saints’ Church, Foxton, at 2 p.m. to-morrow, for the local cemetery.

A very special eiilertaiiiiuent will be given in the Salvation Army Hull on Thursday evening. The chief attraction will be the Gift Tree, for which the tickets are selling rapidly. Every gift on the tree will be worth one shilling. Each ticketholder can claim a gift. The effort is for a worthy cause, and promises to be a great success. The identity of the man, David Mudie Anderson, whose body was found on the Napier beach on Thursday, has been established. He was formerly a farmer, residing just out of Dunedin. He was released from an inebriates’ home some 18 months ago. According to his bank book, during the past nine months he has gone through about £2,000. Ripe Eijian bananas arc at present to be seen on the trees in Mr Clement Wragge’s garden at Birkenhead, says the Herald. Jt is considered that lhe production of ripe fruit in September after so severe a winter is claimed to be a unique achievement in the horticultural annals of the Dominion, proving what can be done by sclent ilk* methods and studying the local climate.

Mr Arthur Cecil Rolleston, who sustained a fractured skull through falling backwards in Manners Street, "Wellington, on Friday evening, died at (he Hospital shortly before 4 p.m. on Saturday. The deceased, who was a son of the late Hon. William Rolleston, of Canterbury, was a barrister and solicitor by profession, being admitted as a solicitor in 1891, and as a barrister in 1900. He was on a visit to Wellington.

Tilt' puur quality of bananas now being received from f’iji is 'the subject of complaint by both retail and wholesale fruit vendors in Auckland, says (he Herald. It is stated that an abnormally large percentage of the fruit received during (ho oast three or four months has consisted of small and immature bananas that will not ripen, and are consequently valueless. The result is that: the price of the marketable fruit has to be increased to compensate for the excessive waste, and the public of the Dominion has to pay a very high price for a common article of diet.

As from to-day the drapery establishment of Messrs Stiles and Mathcson passes into the hands of Messrs Barr and Tver. Mr Barr's drapery business was destroyed by the recent destructive lire, and he was arranging' for temporary premises until the new block of buildings to be erected on the old site was ready for occupation, but in the meantime negotiations were entered into, which culminated in the purchase of .Messrs Stiles and Matheson’s well-known emporium. .Mr Harr has taken Mr Tver into partnership, and the firm intend to make the business one of the most up-to-date soft goods establishments in the district. An announcement by the new linn appears elsewhere in this issue, in which Mr Barr thunks the public for past support and solicits a continuance of same bestowed upon the old linns.

Mr.lames Desmond, who lias acted in the capacity of coach for the Crusaders football team during the past season, was last night made the recipient of a case of pipes from the members of the team, as a mark of appreciation of his untiring efforts on their behalf. Mr Desmond, who is one of the keenest football enthusiasts in the district, had given his time ungrudgingly, and they recognised that the success of the Crusaders was in no small measure due to the valuable tuition in all departments of the game received at the hands of Mr Desmond. Mr Desmond thanked the players for their mark of appreciation of his services, and assured them that he would always be ready and willing to assist them in every way possible. Any little assistance he had been able to give them hud been a great pleasure to him. COUGH IF YOU WANT TO. But remember it is very annoying to those around you, and it is anything but polite when you can get so ready an aid as Chamberlain’s Cough Kemedy. A single dose will relieve an ordinary cough. Very often throe doses will check an ordinary cold. For sale everywhere. —Adn,

A retiring collection in aid of the Red Cross funds was taken up in the Salvation Army Hall last night. There was a liberal response. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Hornhluw, J.P., Thomas Coaolly, arrested for drunkenness on Saturday, was convicted and lined 10s.

Considerable excitement was occasioned on board the turbine steamer Maori on Saturday night during the passage from Lyttelton to Wellington, -through a violent tremor shaking the vessel from stem to stern for two or three minutes, as the result of one of the blades dropping off the centre propeller. The following question was put to General Pan, head of the French Mission, in Sydney, a few days ago —“How exactly does one pronounce the name of General Foehf” “Fosh!” said General Pan, explosively. “Not Foek?” “No; Fosh!’’ reiterated the General, and that question should now be sent to its long sleep. A light between two well-dressed women was an unusual sight in Christchurch the other evening. Prior to the striking of blows, the women had been quarrelling Jiercely in a storm of words. Then suddenly their passions got the upper hand, and they came to grips. After a couple of rounds, during which no great physical damage was done, they moved up the street engaged in wordv eontlict.

“Look here, Tomlinson,” said the oflicer, “this is getting to be 100 much of a good thing. You’ve already had leave because your wife was scared of air raids, because your little girl had bronchitis, because you had to go to your moth-er-in-law's funeral, and because your youngest boy was being christened. Now what reason have you tills time?” Private Tomlinson was quite unabashed. “Jf you please, .-dr,” he replied brightly, “Pm going to be married.”

Were adulteration the only evil connected with liquor, then Slate Control might make the Trade a safe thing. But while adulterated liquors are doubtless worse than the so-called “genuine stuff,” yet the purest liquors contain the Alcohol which is so clearly a menace to efficiency, moral control, character sind reliability. But under Stale Control even adulteration is not necessarily absent. Government service has not always surpassed private enterprise in safeguarding human welfare. The only safe thing to do with Alcoholic beverages is to

prohibit them. 33 A peculiar accident occurred in Oamaru a few days ago. A report like a heavy gun was heard, and a large slab of concrete went up into the air to half the height of a telegraph pole. One of the telephone workers, it transpires, had been using a blow-lamp in a concrete well, and the llames ignited gas in the telephone cable container, which acted as a train to an accumulation of gas in a closed well. The operator of the blow lamp lost no time in getting out of the well, which assuredly saved him from severe .burns.

When Ceneral Sir John Monash was appointed commandant of the Australian forces in .Prance, (be president of the Auckland Hebrew congregation, 'Mr Alfred Nathan, cabled congratulations to him in the name of the Jewish communities of New Zealand. In a letter just received by Mr Nathan, Sir John expresses’ Ids warmest thanks, and states that he feels very much stimulated by the encouragement afforded to him by this recognition from the Jewish communities of a sister Dominion. “It has been my good fortune,” he adds, “to serve in close comradeship with (lie New Zealand Purees since the earliest days of the war.”

News lias been received by bis mother of the death on active service of Major J. J. Hammond, on September 23rd. The Star says: Joe Hammond was horn in Peilding 32 years ago. He was always known as a <juict, reserved lad, but one who knew not what fear was. In his youth he performed some of the most daring feats with a complete unconcern. It was with no surprise, therefore, that his people here heard, some little time after Joe had gone (o England on a trip, that he was Hying. That was 12 years ago, when the aeroplane was hardly out of its swathing bands, as it were. Joe came out to Australia with a British aeroplane, and was the first aviator in those Southern Seas. Returning to Europe, Joe was one of the first in the air when the Avar broke out. He had seen years of service. Some six mouths ago he Avas' reported as having been sent to ■ America-as an aviation instructor. It is not known yet lioav he lost his life. Major Hammond leaves awife, but no children.