LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1910, 3 December 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Patriotic Shop will be reopened on Saturday next, and will be in charge of Mrs C. Robinson. The late Mr Large’s business.premises are open again todav.

There are a few more lemons avariable at this office for those requiring same.

The schools throughout the Wanganui Education District will not reopen until Tuesday, February 4th, 1U11).

The Xew Zealand Times says; ‘‘Mr John Robertson, ex-M.P. for Otaki, who is now a liaxmill worker, is mentioned as a candidate for (he Otaki seat at next general election.” Mr Cowdrey, of (he Health Department, visited Foxton yesterday. He was particularly pleased with tjie apparatus in the inhalation chamber. and advises the public to go in for inhalation once a day. It is the best preventative against influenza.

A score of gentlemen were asked their opinion separately as to the effect of the temporary closing' of hotels during the epidemic. The wittiest reply was deemed to be: “At least is has weaned many of us.” — Palmerston Times.

A case was reported yesterday, says (he Masferton Age, in which a single girl in business in Maslerton left the house where she was boarding to attend to a family stricken with the influenza. Imagine her surprise when she returned for a change of clothing to be absolutely refused admission to the house by the proprietress, and she was perforce compelled to seek lodgings elsewhere.

Lasing conclusions on the income lax returns, (he best paying profession in the I'niled States is that of engineering. It excels even that of the law, which long held the record, and is far ahead of those of theology and medicine. The reason for (his is not difficult to find. This is a constructive age, even though the war would seem to contradict such an assertion. After the war, when reconstruction generally sets in, the engineers bid fair to become ■i class of plutocrats.

A whole i'.-imiiv of seven .Maoris was wiped out through liie in epidemic ;i! Da lea hist week. They lived in ;i pielures(|iie little bungalow on n rise overlooking the beautiful valley through whieh the Dalea River Hows. When (he old mother was taken from her home to Hie hospital, although very ill, she refused to stay there, and got haek to the steps of her own house, where she sal and wailed. She was again taken haek to the hospital, with Hie same result, and in a few hours was dead,; her a grid husband soon followed, a son and his wife had already died, and then the oilier three members of the family died in one dav.

A warning against (he danger of persons travelling while suffering from influenza was given at Dannevirke on Thursday. A man arrived : n Napier on Wednesday morning by the Arahura from Gisborne, and that night lie was attended by a doctor at a Napier hotel, and found to be suffering from inlliienzii. Next morning Hie man, while still suffering. caught the express train for Wellington. The Napier health auHiorilies, on learning that the patient had departed, immediately communieated with the police and heallli. inspector, and insirueled that he should he removed from the train. Acting on these instructions, (he police made an inspection of the train at Dannevirkc, located the man, and transferred him to the* Dannevirke Hospital.

“Absolute ignorance” and “criminal selfishness'’ arc terms that have been frequently deserved lately by persons who had so little concern for their own recovery, and, more important, for the health of others, as to appear in public while still sufferin'’: from influenza. The backs of such persons are well oiled, and moral suasion and even pointed remarks run off easily, so it becomes necessary that the law should step in. An information has been laid against a Christchurch man for travelling on a tramcar while suffering from influenza. The man, it is said, had just recovered from an attack of the disease, but had not undergone the necessary period of isolation in his own home. The tramway officials say that in any further cases that come under the notice of the Tramway Board similar course of action will be taken.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/0.

The following are the vital statistics for Foxton for the month of November: —Births 9, marriage eertiticates issued nil. '

During the month of November rain fell locally on 15 days, the maximum fall occurring ou the (itli, when 1.30 inches was recorded. The total rainfall for the month was 3.34 inches.

The Government, offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on 25th, 20th, 27th and 28th December (Christmas holidays), and on Ist and 2nd January, 1919 (New Year holidays.

“Investigation of the mosquitoes of New Zealand, £100,” i* an item on the Estimates. The Hon. G. W. Russell said that the Government had an exceedingly competent officer, scientifically equipped, ami this vote was put on the Estimates in order to enable him to carry out an investigation in the mosquito infected parts of New Zealand, if his report helped them to get rid of these poisonous little insects, it would ho well worth the expenditure.

A motorist at Auckland was racing back to headquarters one day last week, when he happened to glance to the roadside, and saw two very small kiddies standing hand-in-hand, crying bitterly. He pulled up, but all the two forlorn little ones did was to look back into a house. They were too young to talk, so.the motorist went inside, and found both father and mother were dead. The two little toddlers were removed right away to a Kindergarten, and arrangements were immediately made for I he burial of the parents.

In connection with the epidemic, it is a striking peculiarity that some houses give out infection to all who enter them. There is one house in New Plymouth where every per-am who lias called, including a medical assistant, has taken the disease. In a house situated towards Alokau, and another on the Opunake coast, the same has occurred. It would be interesting to know if there is any cause for this, or if it is merely coincidence that ail visitors to the houses have been infected, says the News.

“The l.W.W’s have long been the most impudent lot of males loose in Ihe country,” remarks New York Life. They had fairly definite ideas of what they wanted, and proposed to have it or destroy society, or both. The female militant suffragists have 1 been of much the same sort. It is a sort that looks for trouble, and glories in proportion to the amount it finds. The militants have never yet found a complete supply, but when about a hundred l.W.W.'s were convicted the oilier day of conspiracy to upset the war programme, their aspirations as trouble-seekers were fairly well fullilled.”

Some funny experiences are related by (he medical assistants. It was on one of the country roads, and the lady of the house was reporled to be very ill. The medical assistant looks her up and lakes her tempera I lire, etc. Just (lien in comes the daughter of the house, who promptly proceeds to sit on the bottom of the hod. The old lady lets out a scream. “What’s wrong;” meekly asked I lie ALA. “She’s sit - ting-on the chicks!” Sure enough, in (lie same bed as the patient was a brood of chicks, put there to keep them warm! No amount: of expostulation on the part of the ALA. would make the old lady remove the chicks, which utc still there! —Taranaki News,

The question of the likelihood of efforts being made to obtain a remission of the sentences passed on ■those reservists who refused to perform military service when called upon, and on persons convicted of sedition during the war period, was considered by the executive of the Retained Soldiers’ Association in Auckland. Motions were carried emphasising the opinion that there should tie no remission of such sentences, and that the Government should use every means at its disposal to bring to trial all men who have been called in (he ballot and who have failed to parade, also all men who may have deserted after being attested. The resolutions have been forwarded to the Minister for Defence.'

A lad under thirteen years of age has been found in the heart of the bush in the Nelson back-blocks, where he had been living in a slump 'note covered by a sack for the past fortnight, It appears that: the unfortunate youngster ran away fr<vu home, where, he alleges, he was illtreated. He remained hidden during the day, and at night came forth and obtained his food supplies from roadmen's huts in the vicinity. The lad, according to his own story, has had very little schooling—two months, 1m says—and latterly ha> been doing pick and shovel work on the roads, in addition to helping on the farm. The blistered nature of his hands lends colour to his ,-tory. In Hie meantime the lad —who appears to he bright and intelligent—is being cared for at the Stoke Training Farm, and in a few days will appear before (he Court on a charge of not being under proper care and control. DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT. Some say that chronic constipation cannot be relieved. Don’t you believe it. Chamberlain’s Tablets have relieved others —why not yon. Give them a trial. They cost only eighteenpence. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

Let XAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. One dose a day keeps colds away. Good for old and young. Sixty doses 1/0.

Reports from Christchurch indicate that some sixteen cases of measles have been reported in that city. At first the District Health Officer (Dr. Chessou) was inclined to be anxious in regard to the outbreak, but now, it is stated, he is more assured as to the position.

Measles having been declared an infectious disease, information is being received from various parts of-the Dominion as to the number of cases that are in existence. The Minister for Public Health (lion. 0. W. Russell) stated yesterday that ivv a few days' it will be possible to dc-'-—'

terminc the position as to this epidemic, which ho sincerely hoped would not become serious in (he Dominion. “1 have received a communication from a gentleman in Auckland,”, added Mr Russell, “who informs me that the epidemic is serious in the Mount Albert district.”