LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1891, 17 October 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Patriotic* Shop on Saturday will he in charge of Misses lua Robinson, K. and S. Barber, Bryant and Christie.

Owing to weather conditions interfering with the top-dressing of the tennis courts, it has been decided to postpone the ollicial opening till next Saturday week.

Messrs I). \V. Bowe, fanner, MaI'otiri, and B. C. Symes, farm cadet, Pox ton, have been selected by lot from the Expeditionary Force Reserve, and are called up for service with the Expeditionary Force.

A Sydney cable says that the French Mission, discussing Australian horses, have expressed the opinion that they are kept in training 100 long. This applied to Desert Gold.

Mr Ed. Newman, M.P. for Raugilikei, has definitely decided to contest the new Manawalu seat at the general election. The southern part of (he K’angitikei electorate is inchided in the new boundaries, of which Fox lon will be the centre.

ft is rumoured that Hie Hon, \V, D. S, Macdonald will be a candidate for the Otaki seat at the next general election. If so, this will make an interesting contest, as Messrs W. 11. Field, M.P., Byron Brown and Major Samuels have slated their intention to stand.

A casually list issued on Tuesday night reported one officer and 43 men killed in action, five men died of wounds, seven men died of sickness, two men missing, believed killed, one officer died at sea, result of enemy action, one officer and three men prisoners of war, and two officers and 14 ! men wounded —a total of 201) names.

“You are going lo have people (ravelling from England to New Zealand by aeroplane after the war,” said Sir Joseph Ward. Tins was no flight of imagination, lie had seen at Cricklenork an aeroplane which could have carried 100 people at (he rale of 125 miles an hour. This machine could carry enough benzine for a flight of 1,000 miles.

“Tins war has carried the world on 250 years,” siaied Sir Joseph Ward, at Wellington. If a person, before the war. had predicted some of the things which had happened he would have been deemed a (it subject for restraint, with a straitjacket, in a certain kind of institution. He was convinced .that out of evil good would come. A better world would evolve out of the suffering of humanifv.

A new practice is being adopted to facilitate identifications and avoid confusion on the arrival of the recruits at Trent ham. Each man is provided with an identification card, which he will surrender in camp. The cards contain particulars of the recruit, and will be used to simplify the work of drafting into companies. Confusion is avoided also in the case of men who miss I heir (rains to (he camp and wander in two or three da vs laic.

AI ;i meeting' ul' Ihe Manawalu Master linkers’ Association and Restaurant proprietors, held n! Palmerston yesterdayt nl which .Messrs Perronu and Walls were present) it was unanimously derided to inerase I lie price of morning and afternoon tea in all eslahlishineiijs (n 9d, and other meals Is (id. These prices are to operate as from .Monday next. A noiilicalion to this effect appears alsewhere in this is-

1 idlers received from soldiers overseas stale that they were promised a fortnight's leave in New Zealand for each year of active service. ' Tims three-year men expected six weeks’ holiday in the Dominion. A question on this subject was put recently to the Minister of Defence hy Mr J. Payne, M.D. Sir ■James Allen replied: “Whatever the men were promised at Dome hy way of duty furlough will he granted to them. In future duty furlough will he 28 day*’ leave (in New Zealand) on full pay, with a free railway pass for three weeks.” d

Sir Joseph Ward remarked (not as a secrel) at the liinehe'On tendered to him and the Prime Minister, at Wellington on Tuesday, that the work of the British naval forces against Herman U-boats was marvellous; (he depth charges were wonderful things. The destroyers and other hunters of the Hun underwater craft had hearing apparatus which enabled them to pursue Üboats for da vs. When a U-boat wa.s

sighted it was impossible for it to elude the listeners. The fugitive could lie still on the bottom, but as >OOll as she began to move the pursuers could again locale her. The* desl met ion of U-boats had greatly exceeded 150, the total cabled recent! v.

The courage of the British soldier was referred to by the Prime Minister at a gathering at the Auckland Orphans’ Club on Saturday evening. “The British soldier is as valiant and courageous as any troops in the Hold,” said Mr Massey, “and he lias shown no deterioration from the spirit shown by his fighting ancestors. While in Britain I heard of an incident not imported in the cabled news. Nine hundred British troops with 70 officers were put in to hold a precarious position for four days, during the 1 retreat in March. They did their work, but only one officer and 70 men came back. That illustrates the mottle of the British soldier better than anything I can say.”

Mr Sydney Smith, the new Labour member for Taranaki, says he received 1(50 messages of congratulation—ami not one “lied Fed’’!

A Chinese market gardener named Kwok Lim was knocked down by a horse and cart in Auckland on Tuesday, and died shortly after.

Of 50,000 sacks of Australian wheat landed in Auckland, over 15,000 sacks were rejected by the millers un account of weevils. A number of brethren of (he local Masonic Lodge motored to Bulls last night, and attended the installation ceremony of Lodge Ivangitikei.

Twenty German civilian residents of Samoa have arrived af Auckland, and have been interned at Moluihi. ranking as second-class prisoners of war.

The approximate number of deaths from influenza in Capetown and the chief suburbs to the 13th is 5,000, 75 per cent, being natives and other coloured people.

Mrs W. 11, Beetham, of Masterton, died at Maslerton on Monday of heart failure. She was a native of France, and had lived, in Waive - rapa for forty years. At the Wellington Police Court a man named John McCook was convicted on a charge of throwing indelible ink over the cdothes of two ladies walking in the street. Accused was also ordered to pay the amount of the damage done, uameIv .Cl 3.

Waitara Borough linance is reported to be in so unsatisfactory a stale that economy imist he practised even to (lie extent of reducing expenditure on current road work, ft is thought that all the road workers except the foreman may have to he discharged, as, according to the Mail, the one thing to he avoid'd is an increase in the rate's. Tin' general rate is now at its maximum.

The appointment of a woman inspector of factories for the Auckland district has been decided upon by the Department of Labour. Miss Emerson, who lias been on the clerical staff of (he department fur several years, has been appointed, and has taken up her duties. Her attention will be given chielly to (he working conditions of women and girls in factories, shops, and other premises. The appointment has been made for the remainder of the war period.

Sweden, in endeavouring to solve the Liquor problem, opened Government Liquor Shops, hut by Local Option most communities abolished them. A vote of the people, after having tested Government Operation, voted recently by 100 to 1 to have Prohibition. In its own birthplace in Northern'Europe the system of Government Operation has been entirely discredited. No country to-day is following in the path which Sweden herself is repudiating. Why should New Zealand even consider a proposition which has failed everywhere? America proves the true solution of (he Liquor menace to be' the Prohibition of the Manufacture. Importation, and Sale of Alcoholic Beverages. -It)

“Why 1 think (hat (lie war news, so line on I he. lace of it. which has .just come lo hand hy cable, is not only good, hut probably a great deal heller Ilian il looks," said Sir ■Joseph Ward, upon arrival at Wellington, “is because for 1 he last six monlhs the whole concentrated effort of the men in the front line and of the .reserves in .support of I hem, to my knowledge, has been directed towards the achievement of what these cables advise ns is actually being done. lam not at all surprised to (hid that Germany is prepared lo agree to the terms of peace indicated by President Wilson, because the fresh forces that have been added to those on our side, both from Britain and the Overseas Dominions, and especially from the United States of America, have unquestionably made it apparent to Germany that the determination of I lie Allies to end (he war in our favour is fixed and unalterable, and that (lie light will be continued until Germany either capitulates or receives the final knock-out blows, which arc now being . administered by the masterly strategy of FieldMarshal Focli.’’

A sad accident occurred on u farm al Woodvillo on Monday aflcrnoon 1»y which a girl named Hachc.l Zoo Hailstone, nearly three years "of age, and daughter of Mr J. L. IJarlstone, met her death. The eidld had been riding on Hie back of a roller driven by her father, and was sitting on a sack nailed across between the back and front beams of the frame. The father had been proeeeding with the rolling for about 20 minutes, when he missed (he child, and on looking back, saw her lying face downwards about 10 feet away. The child wars dead, the, roller, having evidently passed over her. The only way in which he could acount for the accident was that some portion of a coat, which had been wrapped round the girl to keep her warm, had become caught between the rings of the roller and dragged the child off in front of it. He said he had often given his children rides on the roller, and had not realised that there was any danger. Just before the accident occurred he had gone over a dip in the ground, and this may have taken his notice away from the child for a short time. At the inquest, Dr. Mules stated in his evidence that the injuries were such as to cause instantaneous death. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner.

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreuu’s ? *

We acknowledge with thanks and best wishes wedding favours from Mr and Mrs Lionel Bullard.

A return shows that 281 doctors in Mew Zealand have been taken from ordinary practice for purely military duties.

The practice hitherto followed of issuing casualty lists through the Telegraph Department and posting them up at all office.- has been abandoned, and no more will be lated bv the Government.

Captain Malcolm Boss, in a recent message, says: About Lesdain there were many German dead. On a piece of Hat land to the left of Fsiies road the enemy dead were thickly strewn, all killed by one Now Zealand platoon. But the grimmest sight of all was in a sunken road beyond Lesdain, where lay a New Zealand private and twelve dead prisoners whom he was taking hack, all killed bv the one German shell.

The Naval authorities destroyed the mine which was washed up on the beach near the Hydra bad, at 1.30 yesterday afternoon. The report was distinctly heard in Foxton, and the force of concussion rattled windows and buildings. Many residents mistook (he explosion for an earthquake. Foxtou is distant about eight miles from the spot where the mine was stranded, so that will give some idea as to the f'-, .’csive power of the mine. The hipping authorities are well advised to dispense with night eoastal

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