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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The den tbs are announced of the Rev. H. Allen, vicar of Banks Peninsula, and the Kev. \V. "Wingfield, of Dunedin, formerly vicar .of Owaka.

We have to thank Mr O'Brien for a, photograph of the mine washed ashore on the .Manawatu headland which was exploded on Wednesday last.

A repot lev who visited the Kurow, which arrived at Wellington from San Francisco on Thursday, was informed that the influenza epidemic at San Francisco was very serious when the vessel left there thirty days ago. The deaths averaged 90 a day, and citizens were obliged to wear masks similar to those worn by men at the front. Any person who was found in the street without this mask was severeiv lined.

In the House of Representatives, Mr Forbes (llurumii) asked (he Minister of Public Works: “Whether it is his intention this session to deal with the question of the improvement and maintenance of the main arterial roads throughout the Dominion ?” The Hon. Sir W. Fraser replied: “The Government fully realises the importance of this subject, which can only be effectually dealt with by legislation after careful consideration.'' 1

This is an authentic story, which, concerns a soldier’s family (says the Auckland Star). The husband came up from camp to nurse his mother, as his wife and their several children were all ill. While he was nursing the old lady he himself caught the sickness and died. An undertaker was called in, and look the necessary measurements. Then he Hally refused to go a step further until he was paid ,C2O. Entreaties wore of no avail: he delivered his callous ultimatum: “Money first, or no burial. 1 ' - The name of this un-' 1 derlaker is known.

The death took place recently of Mr F. G. Dorringlon, a well-known relieving manager of fjie Bank of Xew Zealand. At the. time of his death Mr Dorringlon was relieving at Tauranga, where he had been for about two months. He was (iti years of age, and was one of the oldest employees in (he service of the Bank - , having been stationed for some years on the West Coast, lie leaves a widow and grown-up family of (wo daughters afti one son. The deceased was relieving af the. Foxton branch of (he Bank of New Zealand early this year.

The American Consul al Auckland (Mr A. Winslow) has received (he following cable from (he Department of Stale, Washington, D.C.: “T.hc signing of the armistice makes it possible for considerable relaxation in the exportation ('f commodities conserved for war purposes. Tonnage, however, continues (o be the controlling factor on account of the need of supplying troops abroad, and of lifting commodities for foreign relief and re-con-1 nicl ion, Jj 1.-- impossible, therefore, lo determine now when there will be an increase in lonmure engaged in regulated trade.”

Mr Carl Ackerman (New York World) is at Viadivostock. Mr Ae.korman, who is investigating the fate of the Tsar, gives an account of (ho brutal and humiliating' persecution of the Koval Family by Bolsheviks, and adds; “An examination of the house al Ekelerinaburg where the Koval Family was imprisoned reveals innumerable bullet holes in floors and walls, but I believe, with most people here, that these are insullicient evidence to prove that (he family was executed. There is circumstantial evidence that they still live. The Tsar's fate is a conundrum.”

The reluctance of some people to aid their sick neighbours was illustrated in a case-in Auckland, where the patient, a man living ah me, had been very feeble and ill for several days. He seemed to make little improvement. The visitor (reports the Herald) noticed one morning that his outdoor clothes were in a different place from that in whicli >he had last seen them several days before. “Have you been out?” slid asked in surprise. The man hesitated, and at last confessed he had got up and dressed every day in or’der to go outside and feed Ids fowls. His neighbours had shown marked aversion to having anything to do with him, “and I couldn’t let the poor birds die of hunger,” he said. The visitor lost no time in calling on the people next door and expressing her personal views on the mutter, which were sufficiently strong to wring a reluctant promise to care for the birds until their owner was lit to leave his bod.

The Prime Minister remarked in the House that the-Government had work in readiness for 15,000. men on various public works. He anticipated that many returning soldiers would be thus placed satisfactorily.

A pioneer settler of the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay, in the person of Mr Norman Bectham, passed away at his son’s residence, Colyton, after a short illness. He was 05 ami came to (he. Dominion in 1855 by the ship William and Jane.

In order to wind up the estate ol' the late Mr S, B. Collins, the whole of the stock of books, stationery, toys and fancy goods are to be cleared at practically cost price. The shop is now open, and residents should not miss the opportunity of getting toys, Christmas cards, stationery, etc., at greatly reduced prie-

The steady diminution in the number of sick in the camps continues, and there has been nu increase in the number of serious eases reported. At Trentham there are Id serious cases, 11 being pneumonia and two cerebro-spinal meningitis. At Peathers(on there are 20 serious cases. Awapuni reports 16 eases, none of which are serious. One death occurred at Fcalherston, and one at Trentham.

Dr. Walker, of New Plymouth, has forbidden the visits of relatives to death-beds at the present juncture. It should be remembered, ho says, that in the last stages the danger of infection is greatest, and also that persons who have been hurriedly called to a bedside, and naturally in a more or less highly emotional state of mind, are probably more than ordinarily liable to catch the infection.

The oilier day a little lad walked into the Auckland Records Odicc, says (he Star). He was only a very little fellow, and he told the young lady he wanted to make arrangements about a funeral. The lady did not quite grasp the tragedy in the little fellow's eyes. She asked him why his father did not eome -along. “Father’s dead/’ the.little fellow said. “And your mother?" “She’s dead, loo.” The boy, with Ids father and mother gone before, Ids sisters and his brothers in trouble, too, had sturdily set about doing whatever was necessary.

Mr I). Rogers, of Timaru, proprietor of the fishing launch Pilot, oscared a monster iish last week. ]l. was captured by the .staff of the Pilot when the boat was about nine miles off the coast from Pareora. The lish is between lift, and lOfl. long, and it took its captors hours to get it on to the deck. As soon as the Tout reached port (he sea. monster was put into (he cool store, so (hat it may he preserved for exhibition purposes.

The late Mr Charles T. N. Trower, who died at Wakefield, was about the fourth Huropean horn in the Nelson district. At different times he carried on the pursuits of brewing, butchering and farming, and he was welt known in the Wakefield and Murchison districts. He left a widow, two sons, and three daughters. His son Conrad died on the night of (he day on which his father was buried, and another son, Edward, was killed at (he war. William is still in Europe, and the other surviving son is at Murchison. The daughters are married, and reside in the Duller district.

It seems almost out of place to speak of humorous incidents eonnee ted with the epidemic, but nvor(heless they frequently occur. A lady wrote to one of the Auckland committees, asking if they would supply her with an enamel bowel. The committee had had many demands for all manner of things, but this hist request proved a poser. However, they entered into the spirit of the thing, and got; into touch with a chemist, putting the query to him. What his reply was is not recorded. 'What was wanted, of course, was an enamel howl.

An old resident of the Waihi district, Mr .John Xcwth, died on Sunday. tic was a member of the first Waihi Borough Council, formed in 1902. Six years later he was elected Mayor, which office he held for four consecutive terms, He was for some years president of the Waihi Miners’ Union, a member of the Waihi Hospital and Charitable Aid Hoard, and chairman of the Waihi School Committee. Mr Ncwth succumbed to an attack of influenza. He is survived by Mrs Xewth, four daughters, and six sons. The deceased was a brother of Messrs William and James Xowth, of Eoxton, and Mr Mark Xcwth of Moutoa.

There are so many people rendering unselfish and noble service a( present that it is hardly fair to discriminate (says the Taranaki News), yet the services of one woman in a coastal district should be placed on record, for she has -behaved like a perfect heroine. When the epidemic started there she threw herself heartily into the work of helping her afflicted neighbour- and making arrangements for a temporary hospital to accommodate the cases. She had her cows to milk night and morning, hut they did not deter her from going to her neighbours, cleaning up their places, feeding the stock, and attending to the sick. One day last week she had just finisher! her ministrations when the dock indicated 3 a.m.! Her cows were bellowing, and she filmed to and milked them. Then away she went again to her neighbours to give them help. And this went on for days, Al last she got,a little sleep, and is now working away as hard as ever, thinking no effort too great so long as she can help her fellows.

A question to the Minister for Defence, given not ice of in the House of Representatives by Mr J. Vigor Brown, was ‘‘whether he will state the names and nationality of the officers who constituted the courtmartial' when Private Thompson was sentenced to imprisonment for staling that Div Hotop was drunk while on duty V’

Never before lias the local death rale been so high (says the Christchurch Press). A well-known under! akcr slated that in all his years* of experience (here has never been an epidemic of any sort anything

jike so serious- as the present one. The undertakers are rapidly becoming unable to cope with the demands made on their services, and he himself had had to decline no fewer than seven funerals, while other undertakers wore having a similar experience.

The Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A.. of the Victorian Methodist Church, and erstwhile of Now Zealand, has resigned from the church, and has been appointed to take charge of the religions activities of the Y.M.C.A. in London. Ho is one of (he most brilliant preachers and aide writers of the Australasian Methodist Church, his hook, “The Cali of the Paeilie,” being one. of tbs finest works written on mission work in the Southern Seas.

It: was ;i IVlaori case, and serious. The doctor hud come, and told the nurse (hat, as (lie case was hopeless, it would not matter now what he ate or drank. So the nurse, bending over her dusky patient, asked him if he would like anything’. Yes, he would. “Give me'ti whiski.” The whisky hot He was brought, and e small, medicinal nip poured out. Alongside was another Native in bed. He appeared indignant. “By korry, that no good. He komati soon; you give him picul i.” And the glass was tilled. Wanted water in it? The patient shook his head. Me would have it neat. He gulped it down, and it was thought his lasthour had eome. But not a bit of it. He lived through the night, and is now out of danger! True story.—. Taranaki News.

“Bystander” writes to the Southland News as under: —I see just, now notices in public places slating that ladies are urgently needed to do small duties to lighten the burdens of families stricken with influenza, and that there is not enough assistance forthcoming. Now, at tlie beginning of the war a few women were very fond of easting in--nlls at hoys who did not enlist, thousands of whom have since hiid down their lives for these same women. This is surely war work; where are (hose ladies/ 1 am not of military age myself, and I quite recognise the yeoman service done by women in (his war. 1 write, not against the majority, hut against the minority, some of whom 1 saw worry two boys of nineteen into y. camp. One is now dead, and one is

in France. Now that their chance Ims come this type of lady is exline t.

•Sir Joseph Ward stales in his Budget ilia I (here is no necessity (his year to increase (he harden of taxation tor the purpose of meeting the immediate needs of (lie country. “Judging from present indications,’’ lie said, “and from information obtained during my recent visit to England, I do not think 1 can he accused of being unduly optimistic if I say that (he prosperity of the country is not likely to be adversely affected after the war, and that in consequence it will he then possible, by a review of our whole financial position, to reduce in some measure the heavy taxation which necessity has forced upon the country, and which has been so cheerfully borno' by the taxpayers. The vital importance of reducing taxation and, charges in some branches of the service, where we can legitimately do so, must commend itself to every one, including those in the ranks of the workers as well as those who are employers of labour. All classes of (he community arc vitally concerned in furthering the advancement of our country after the war troubles have eompletely ceased, and it is essential to the welfare of the Dominion that agricultural, industrial, commercial and social life should lie promoted and worked under the freest conditions possible.”

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1909, 30 November 1918, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1909, 30 November 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1909, 30 November 1918, Page 2

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