LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The School Committee meeting to have been held last night was postponed till Friday evening next. Throughout yesterday’s loeal celebrations, which lasted from noon till 9 o'clock, there were no unseemly scenes by inebriated individuals. Mr Fume acknowledges with thanks donations of one guinea each towards the school Games Fund from Air J. Harvey and Airs A. Saunders, Aioutoa. A good seam of coal has been struck in the mine recently opened in the Staveley district, Canterbury. During the last week fairly large quantities of coal have been sent away by rail. A social will be held in the Presbyterian schoolroom on Thursday evening. A programme of vocal and instrumental items will be given. Refreshments provided. Admission Is, children (id. The month of November was heralded in at Okoia with a severe frost, a white mantle reminiscent of the days of winter was presented to the sight of early risers in the valley. On Alunday next, commencing at li a.m., .Messrs Alounsey and Co. will sell by auction the balance of Messrs Walker and Furric’s slock' and plant. Everything will be sold without reserve. It may now be definitely stated (says the Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star) Unit the railwayiuen, who are insistently demanding an increase in wages, will soon receive an advance of Is per day. , A gentleman who lias just, returned from a visit to England, in speaking of the restrictions in travelling during the war, staled that (he 2(1,000-ton steamer Carpathia, in which he crossed the Atlantic, had only eleven passengers instead of her complement of 3,000, Mr das. Slovens, speaking at yesterday’s local celebrations, paid a. line tribute to the Ala oris. He contrast ed their clean lighting with Germany’s dirty methods. After the Alaori War we could shake hands with (he Maoris as clean lighters, but we could never do the .-ame with the Germans. “When I arrived in Foxton yesterday,” said Air -las. Stevens, during (lie course of bis address yesterday afternoon, “1 met (be ’benzine band,’ and wondered whether it meant that Germany had surrendered. I would have been disappointed if that were so,” continued Mr Stevens, “because she should be given back a little of the punishment she has given to others before that lakes place.” A message from Auckland announces the death of the Rev. C. 11. Garland, Principal of the Alethodist Training College. The late Air Garland entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1881. He was elected president of the Wesleyan Church in 1901, at (be conference held iu Wellington. He was one of the most outstanding ligures in the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and bad achieved valuable results as bead of the Training College at Auckland. The distinction of having the lirsl lady member of a Chamber of Com - merce has been proudly claimed by various parts of the Dominion, but as a matter of fact the credit seems to belong to Woodville, says the Examiner. It is well known that Airs Grant lias been a member for a manlier of months, but another Woodville lady has enjoyed the privileges of membership for nearly three years. This was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Chamber, the secretary adding that the most important point was that the lady in question had paid her subscription with exemplary regularity. When Hamuera, one of the oldlime Ala oris, mounted the box to say a few words on behalf of the Alaori race, at yesterday’s celebration, he received a great ovation, indicative of the close ties which hind pakeha and Maori. “Sam” spoke in broken English, and said that he was only a little boy when the pakeha and Maori were at war. But the Alaori helped to feed the pakeha and didn't: play the German game on their enemies. Now they all lived together in peace, and sein ed the one God who was highest over all. A London pressman was told of a miner who was tunnelling under No Alan's Land, mud heard a German picking with Ids pickaxe in a counter-tunnel approaching the British lines. The English miner waited hours in the dark until the German tnnneller broke into the English tunnel; then there was a tight to the death with knives, and the Hun went west. The victor got into the German tunnel and walked towards the Hun trenches, and succeeded in Wowing up a part, of them. This grim light below No Alan’s Land, between these two soldier miners, is one of the grimmest and most striking combats ever recorded. I canvass around with packet tea, Which takes me everywhere, you see; And where I go, both far and near, The same familiar name I hear. Especially in winter lime, When coughs and colds are at their

prime; I liear at every door, I'm The praise of Wood's' Great Peppermint Cure, 31

The Versailles Council has reached a full agreement as to the terms of the German armistice. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Eoxton Borough Council will he held on Monday, lith November, at 7.30 p.m. Business; general. Dr. Mandl entertained the Borough Band at supper in Perreau's last night, after the evening programme. The youngsters refused to purchase lireworks yesterday, owing to .the increased prices, so there was an absence of “crackers,” “double-bangers,” and rockets in yesterday’s celebrations, for which many people were thankful. All business places closed yesterday, and the school children were given a half-holiday in order to celebrate the Austrian surrender, The youngsters commandeered tin cans, and marched in procession through the main thoroughfare. The Band threatened to “Dead .March” any place of business which did not join in (lie local celebrations. The Prime Minister has been advised by the Governor-General that immediate steps are being taken by the Imperial Government to investigate the condition of Gallipoli graves, The British Army is dispatching a Graves Registration I. nil as early as possible to mark graves, to which an Australian ollicer and a New Zealand ollicer will be attached. The Duke of Sutherland, who is selling a quarter of a million acres of his estates, is described in “Who's Who” as owner of “about 1,358,000 acres.” That is rather more than the entire county from which he takes his title, so that it is easy to credit the statement that “he can walk across Scotland without stepping off his own estates,” seeing that Sutherlandshire itself extends from sea to sea.—The Observer. Air de Berry at last night’s meeting at the Palmerston Opera House, strongly protested against the practice of pupil teachers (learners) being classed as effectives on the school stall's. He said numbers of girls were employed in I lie rural schools who had not oven got proliciency certificates. This was unfair to them, but more unfair to (he children. In New Zealand the proficient teachers Hocked to (he (own schools where the pay was better. In America they had overcome this handicap by paying llm rural teachers higher salaries than the urban teachers received. It has been well-known for the past few months that shipping space for export has been very scarce, and the storage spam 1 provided for meat, butler and cheese has been quite inadequate, in sidle of the large additions (o (he several freezing works. It will be satisfactory news to producers that (here are at present three large overseas vessels, which arc loading full cargoes of frozen meat, cheese, butter and wool for the Old Country, and in view of the new season’s operations this fact should materially assist in casing the position. A local young Assyrian business man, Mr Sam Ala. Bar, desires that prominent local citizens shall rejoice with him in the downfall of Turkey. He says that his people have for hundreds of years groaned under Turkish tyranny, and the recent victory over the Turks by the British and her allies means the liberation of the Syrians. What the Turkish defeat means (o him and In's people is not understood by local people. He desires to entertain the Mayor, Councillors, Borough Baud, and prominent citizens to a dinner in (he Town Hall supper-room on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock. Air Maltar says that turkey will figure largely on the menu. “You are tilling your schools iu this country with the rejects and culls from the Civil Service and other walks of life. At one time it was said (he fool of (he family rvas. put in the church; now the fool of the family is put in the school. . . I know of a case in which a man who was dismissed from (he Police Force is now a teacher in charge of a school. Anybody can (each, no matter who he is. They needn’t even be sane to be teachers. So long as you can convince an Education Board or a school committee that you’re It you can be a teacher.” —Mr do Berry, at last night’s education meeting at Palmerston. —Times.