LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1898, 2 November 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital slatisliees for Pox ton for (he month of October are as follow; —Kirlhs 8, deaths nil, marriage ccrtiticales issued 1. Edward Ernest Bright,, aged -1-1, living with parents at .Ashburton, was found dead. His body was hanging from a beam in a washhouse. The appeal of William Henry Dawson, storeman, of Eoxton, was dismissed by the Military Board at Palmerston on .Wednesday, leave being granted lo the May draft. The meteorological particulars for Eoxton for the month of October arc as follow: —Bain fell on .11 days,, the maximum fall, .GOiii., occurring on 29th. The total rainfall for the month was 3.OSins. A recent cable from Vancouver stated that thirteen Australian and New Zealand editors had arrived in New York, and would tour the Slates as the guests of the Committee of Public Information. “I hope the Oovcnmicnt is not going lo send any more married men away to I ho wai;.” remarked Mr <l. Willy (Kiccarlon), in (he House. He gave an opinion dial as (he war was nearly over it should not he -necessary Io send such men, especially as ‘‘any amount of single men had escaped.” William Cal ham, aged 55, a farmer and an old resident of Core, was shooting rabbits on Wednesday wilh a pea ri (It*., which exploded while he was gelling through a gorse fence. The hnleit lodged ahove (he right ear, and he was found dead shortly after. He leaves a widow and ten of a family, and has two sons at (he front. The 9th of November is to he celebrated in New York ns “British Day,” “in commemoration of the British Defence of' Ypres in 1911; and in recognition of the service so tong and so faithfully performed by the British Fleet in guarding the free sea of liberty.” A large committee under the leadership of Alton B. Parker is making the necessary a iTangenienls. “Twelve pounds! What about that; will we let it go at that?” said the auctioneer soliciting bids at the Opunake sale. “No,"’ said (he owner, “that is (he best cow in the herd: she easily tills a bucket night and morning; 1 Would not sell her only for (he bother of having to empty the bucket and go hack for more milk from her.” If gold medals were given for yarns, comments the Opunake Times, the saleyards would get plenty. A person who does not Jay up with an attack of influenza is not only acting foolishly in the interest of his or her health, hut becomes a menace to everyone else, said a well-known medical man in Wellington. While the inlluenza that is raging in Wellington now cannot he identified with the very severe Spanish inlluenza that is scourging (he Old World, saitl the doctor, it is not a form to he despised, and is pneumonic in form, as it is leaving eases of bronchitis, congestion, and even pneumonia behind it to a far greater ext mil than ever before. - Beplying to an inquiry by Labour organisations in regard to the Merchants’ Association, the Board of Trade slates: —“Respecting (he report of the Cost of Living Commission in 1912, in regard to the existence and operations of the Merchants’ Association of New Zealand, the hoard found that this association ceased to exist consequent upon the judgment given in the ease under the Commercial Trusts Acidic King v. the Merchants’ Association, the Colonial Sugar Company, Levin and Co., and others, Novein-ber-Deeeinher, 1912.” “Not a single note of patriotism” was Dr. Newman’s comment on Mr li. E. Holland's maiden speech in the Hmme this week. He had never listened lo a Labour speech, he said, without a feeling of regret that many of these men had not helped and were not out to help in the war, and when he was asked to vote for a Ministry containing such gentlemen he walked into the other lobby, although he thought it was wrong to postpone an election. Air Holland reminded him of the story of the man who said to another “Have you ever seen sausages hanging up in a shop?” “Many a time,” was the reply. “I haven’t,” said the first man, “I’ve seen them hanging down.” Mr Holland, looking at the National Government, always saw them hanging up. NOTHING BETTER. Don't trifle with a cold, is good advice for prudent men and women. It may be vital in ease of a child. There is nothing better than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and colds in children. It is safe and sure. For sale everywhere.— Advt.

The monthly meeting of the local School Committee will be held on Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock. Mr Walker (Dunedin North) has given notice (o ask the Prime Minister “whether he will liberalise the Old Age and Widows’ Pensions Act in the following directions; (I) By making the period of residence qualifying for old-age pensions twenty-one years instead of twen-ty-live; and (2) by doubling the maximum amount of widows’ pensions?” “Glorified nurseries,” was the term applied by Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, speaking in the House on A\ ednesday, to certain endowed secondary schools. “You have bits ol chits of children attending these schools just because their parents are wealthy'enough to pay for them, and taking the places of others who have won their way.” The “glorified nurseries” should he done away with, lie contended,.and endowments distributed equitably throughout the country. One of the much-diminished ham! of survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, Sergeant .Richard Bradshaw, died at. Kerikeri, .Bay of Islands, recently. Sergeant" who was in his 88th year, joined the army as a youth, and served in the 17th Lancers during the Crimean War. He also served in the Zulu War. He was also for a time in the Royal Navy, serving under Lord Charles Beresford. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Sergeant R. S. Judson, of the Auckland Regiment, He led a small bombing party under heavy lire, and captured a machine-gun. Then he proceeded along the sap alone, bombing three machine-gun crews, and ordered a party*of two officers and ten men to surrender. They tired; lie threw bombs, and jumped down among them, killed (wo and pul the rest to flight. He captured (wo machine-guns, thus saving lives, and enabling Ibe advance to continue unopposed. Fifteen Xew Zealanders• have been a- ■ warded Distinguished Conduct Medals. Word was received by Mr ami Mrs P. Robinson, of Thymic Street, by cable dated Indian Office, London, October 301 h, to the effect Unit (heir son, Lieutenant Fred. C. Robinson,- of the Indian Army, India, was seriously ill, having been admitleel to Station Hospital, Bangalore, on sth October, suffering from influenza. Lieut. Robinson was previously serving with the N.Z. Wireless Corps in Mesopotamia, but recently accepted an appointment in the Indian Army, it being understood that he is permanently stationed in India. Hopes are expressed of his speedy recovery. A good deal of discussion was caused at (he conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, which (dosed on Thursday, on the subject of the issue of war loans free of income lax. The matter was finally left in the hands of a committee, which drafted the following recommendation, and which was adopted by conference: —“That this conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand affirms the principle that war loans should lie issued subject to income lax, and that the executive lie requested to place this resolution in the hands of the Minister of Finance, and to respectfully suggest to him that lie take into serious consideration (he representations made by this conference before issuing the next war loan.” Mr W. H. Field (Otaki), has given notice to move: “That, bearing in mind that this hideous war was forced upon the world by Germany, and by Germany alone, that in the awful struggle avo have had to tight not only the Prussian military caste hut the whole German nation, and that there exist in Germany natural resources, including coal said to lie worth two hundred thousand millions, amply sufficient to pay the whole, cost of the war, it be an instruction from this House to the representative or representatives of the Dominion at the Peace Conference likely to be held presently, that they shall demand, as one of the. terms of peace, the repayment by Germany to each of the Allied nations, ineluding every portion of the British Empire, the total war expenditure incurred bu such nation.” . Many ex-convicts have “made good” during (lie wav, and Sir E. Ruggles-Brisp, chairman of the Prison Commissioners, related at a meeting in Lodnou the ease of a man avlio had received three sentences of penal servitude. This man’s past showed him to he of violent character. On his release in 1916 he enlisted. Whilst hmilided after serving in the fighting lino he volunteered to save another man’s life by giving his blood for transfusion. During the operation he contracted blood-poisoning, hut lie recovered, and on returning to the front the man won the ALAI, and D.C.AL His commanding officer reported; “He is one-of the best n.c.p.’s, and lias rendered splendid service throughout, and, that after three months in the hottest part of the line.” 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 By taking I\ cods’ Great Pappermint Cure. 20 Let NAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. One dose a day keeps colds away. Good for old and youpg. Sixty doses 1/6.

The Patriotic Shop to-day is in charge of the lady teachers of the State school. Some interesting competitions arc provided. At Auckland on Tuesday a returned soldier who had violently assaulted a clergyman because ho “thought he was Howard Elliott/’ and had incapacitated a policeman with a beer bottle, was awarded six weeks’ imprisonment. A deputation, representive of the merchants and llaxmiilers, waited " on (he Prime Minister to-day, requesting that representations should he immediately made to the United States Government, asking that the embargo on the importation of Xew Zealand hemp into that country bo removed. The figurative representation of the doom of Turkey and the coming downfall of Germany were conspicuous in yesterday's procession at Palmerston yesterday. A turkey tied (o a stand and carried tail foremost hearing the inscription “this is (ho end of Turkey,” represented yesterday's news, and a German sausage suspended from a miniature gallows had a savour of prophecy, the liullilinent of which is anxiously awaited. As the American papers have for weeks past, been printing photographs of (lie supcr-Dreadnought of (he air, its appearance on the Western front, it is disclosing no secret to the enemy to say (hat it: this gigantic bomber is only half as formidable as it looks the Gormans are in for a particularly dirty time (says Lloyd’s Nows), It would not be surprising if one of these monsters, which in length extends lu what the Americans call a “block,” was the first machine to cross the Atlantic by air. They have on trials covered more than I lie distance between America and Europe, at an average speed of ninety miles an hoar. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say (hat each of them could carry a platoon of “Yanks" across the ocean, in addition to petrol and provisions. An indication of the work* that will remain to he done by the men at: the front after peace lias been declared is contained in a Idler from a Christchurch boy who is with the motor boat patrol (says the Christchurch Press). He writes'.-—“You must not forget this; that should the war end to-morrow, it will be the best part of (wo years before (he hoys over here get home again, and, speaking for myself, probably longer. A Bill has been put through here authorising R.N.V.R, men to be kept on for live years after the war, if need be. You can imagine what work is (o In l done. In Prance, trenches, etc., have to he filled in, towns squared up, and a thousand and one jobs finished before troops are dismissed. With us, wo have millions of mines to sweep up, and my opinion is that all R.N.V.R. men will be drafted to sweepers on the declaration of peace. One mineHeld I know of took nine months to lay, and it will take as long to clean up.” In reply In predictions of doom and death for the National Cabinet, the Hon. G. W, Russell said that I hose phopheeies reminded him of a. recent cable message reporting a remark attributed to the Kaiser (in answer to abdication rumours) (hat “it was rather tedious to discuss a funeral in (he presence of the corpse.” (Laughter and applause from the Labour benches.) Mr Russell added that: the predictions about the impending death of the National Government also reminded him about an incident which happened (so it had been alleged) at ChrLtcliureh years ago. A very energetic undertaker had called at a house where a man was sick, and had asked the wife how (he husband was. When the visitor was informed that the man was still ill, lie remarked: “ I heard lie was dead. While lam here 1 had better measure him.” Ho immediately went into the sick room and ran the tape over the man, hut the patient did not die. “Threatened men live long,” concluded the Ministelr, in the words of an old proverb. The London correspondent of the Sydney Sun says: —The drink traffic is dying a natural death. The stocks of whisky are gradually being exhausted. Life must he a, misery for the tippler, because whisky has been so diluted that unless it is drunk raw it is no better limn lemonade. No hotelkeeper will sell a bottle of whisky. The price has been fixed at 9s fid a bottle. Air Landlord squeezes 20 nohhlers out of this thin imitation, which he sells at a shilling a nobbier. Hence his reluctance to part with a bottle. Beer and stout are names which have little moaning, fur both are mostly water, and would not even stimulate a teetotaller. Yet the Londoner must have his beer,-and the bars quickly run dry, and daily one can see the pathetic legend posted outside the more popular hotels, “No beer to-day.” Of wines there is still a fairly large stock, perhaps because prices do not permit of the multitude enjoying them. Champagnes, 1900 vintage, are retailed at 255, sparkling Burgundies at Os (id, Chablis 3s (id, from which, it will he seen that prices are very moderate. HOW TO TREAT A SPRAIN. Sprains, swellings and lameness are promptly relieved by Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. This liniment reduces inflammation and soreness so that a sprain may be relieved in a-, ijout One-third of the time required by the usual treatment. For salq everywhere.—Advt, ,