LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1916, 17 December 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

( I :tf>i ll (■ t has agreed to ten deni;!* bursaries of ,i'so cadi For (iio coniin,‘4 year, ami ddil medical bursaries r.i: .emo cadi.

-At (lie local police courl ycs(crday, before Mr Uloniblow, I'Vank Davis, charged will) drunkcniicss and disorderly conduct, was convicted and lined lids.

The F. ;nul S. liner Dorset, which went abound on Hope Shoal, <>('(' Ward Island, Wellington, on Tuesday morning last, while entering Wellington Harbour, was refloated al 1.15 o'clock yesterday morning.

Colonel Lucas, the Cnionist candidate for Kensington, died after l.he date of his nomination. Jlis widow will stand in his place. The pollinyal Kensington has hcen postnojied till 20lh December.

The ilium;]l yeneral nieetiny of members of Ihe Foxton Kaeiny Club will bo bob! in tlio Council CbamlKT mi Friday eveniny next. at S o'clock. Business; To receive annual report and balance-shoe!. election' of officers, iiml general. .A juiblio nieeiiny will l»e held a( liie ifaeiny Chib office on Friday, 20lh in-d,, iii nan., To receive 1 Ik* report and balance-sheet of the Manawahi (FoxCm) Baee Course Trustees. The Minister for Health has approved a recommendation of the Advisory Board of War Belief Associations that free hospital treatment should be available to dependents of undischarged returned soldiers who have served at (he front. The Department inis been instructed to act accordingly. A correspondent in (he London Mommy' Dost narrates (hat a Britisn prisoner of war reached Tournai niter the armistice. The word “Germany" was branded across bis forehead, and his lonyue was mutilated. renderiny 'him speechless. Ihe linyer- of both hands were missiny. Service ribbons showed that he was one of (he Old Contempt ibles, and a victim of German Ivultur.

A prominent Native at Ilokianga, Heremaie Te Wake by name, has died from inllnenza, aged SO. He had a very interesting career, ft is recalled by an exchange that in the early days of settlement in New Zealand Te Wake and his tribe had a land dispute with the members of an adjoining tribe, and as a result of an affray between the parties, </iie oJ Te Wake’s opponents was killed. Subsequently Te Wake was persuaded to go t„ Auckland, where he was placed in gaol. As lie had been led to believe that lie was to receive a free pardon for bis part in the disturbance, Te Wake considered his incarceration ft breach of faith on the pact of the authorities. He {here!ore planned an escape, and with two other prisoners managed to scale (he gaol wall ami gel away. His companions were both wounded and captured hy the warders, but Te Wake made .good his escape, and finally reached Ho-, kianga, where he remained for the rest of his days. He was actually pardoned in 1874. He wielded a good influence among the Natives, and he was highly respected by both Natives and Europeans,

Mr W. Petrie, local flaxmiller, a victim of the recent epidemic, was about town this morning. The Mastcrlon fund for the relief of sufferers by the inilueuza epidemic lias reached £3,200, A heat wave passed over tins district yesterday. To-day is overeast and much cooler. Local business people are now getting into 1 heir si ride for the Christmas trade, and are displaying seasonable goods. The Parliamentary by-elections in connection with the Pnlmciv-ton and Wellington South seats will take place on Thursday. A meeting of (he Foxlon Harbour Board will be held in the Council Chambers, Palmerston North, at 1.30 p.m.' on Friday next. The Manawain County Council will meet to-morrow, when, in addition to ordinary business, the Chairman will be elected for (he year. Constable O'Donoghue, who lias been relieving at Shannon and Alarton for the past six weeks by reason of the constables in those districts being laid aside with influenza, resumed bis local duties to-day. The friends of Air Cbas. Simmons, who has been an inmate of a private hospital in Palmerston for the past fortnight, will lie pleased to hoar that he is making satisfacloVy progress towards recovery. The headmaster of the local State school has not yet received, the list of successful proficiency and competency candidates from the Board. The names will be published upon arrival. During the recent lire the house occupied by Dr. Alandl caught alight several limes, but the flames were extinguished. The house is part of a wooden block, and had the (lames not been checked would have made a clean sweep of the premises.

“I'd sooner vote for (he devil than yon,'' was the curl reply to a Parliamentary candidate's request for support from an elector. “Well," said the candidate, “suppose your friend should withdraw, will you feel disposed to alter your mind ?’’

We are informed there is ay agitation afoot to procure a chemical lire engine for Fox!on. If something is not doin' soon to combat tires there is not the slightest doubt that Foxlon risks, at least in Main Street, will not be accepted by insurance companies. Southland suffered severely as a result of the influenza epidemic. In the Southland Daily News alone there were 331 death notices from November Dili up to one day las! week. Of that number, 102 persons were between the ages of 21 and 40 years. There is more in imagination than people may suppose. One of the male occupants of a temporary hospital in Masterton was suffering from insomnia, and iinplored the charge nurse to give him an injection of morphia. The nurse injected water into his arm, and he slept like a to]). —Wairarapa Age. Some men evidently have a pretty good time at their work'. Evidence in the Magistrate's Court'at Masterton showed (hat an employee in a furniture factory had been found asleep on a kapoc bed during working hours, When he was awakened by the foreman, the tired individual resented having his slumbers disturbed, and talked light.

Evidence of the fact ilial sovereigns luive been hoarded during I lie war period was found in a cash remiKance recently received by the Auckland Post Office Savings Bank from-a <‘ountry otlice. The remittance included 200 sovereigns, all of which were discoloured, evidently lying in the ground for a

considerable period. Apparently the cessation of hostilities accounted for (he hoard being dug up and banked.

There is likely to be considerable objection to the holding of (he Territorial (raining camps next year, according to a Wanganui paper. Most local bodies have approved of (he dales, hut (he coming of tin* epidemic has altered the outlook on such things. Although having previously consented, the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting vigorously protested againsl the holding of the camps in view of present conditions and their effect on business, and decided U) circularise all Chambers in the Dominion. Dialling more directly with tbe needs of peace, in an address at Wellington, on Sunday night, (be Chief Just ice (Sir Boh. Stout) said: “We tind that our funded debt has enormously increased, and. unlike some oilier portions of our debt, it has been increased for works that will give us no direct return. Heavier taxation is in front of ns, and we must meet our new burdens in the only way they can he met by honest people, namely, by hard work, thrift, and enterprise. If we do not proceed in this way to meet our liabilities, we shall suffer much privation. We must expect (hat after a while Hie prices of our exports will fall, and this may entail the reduction of wage.-. Of course, the fall in places will mean that, the cost of living will lie less, hut our capital for production will he restricted, and it may mean that living may have to be reduced to a, lower standard. Everyone must deplore oven the suggestion of such a thing, and the only way to keep the standard high is to resolve not to expend our means for that which profiteth not.”

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

Mr P. Skellcu sends the editor and staff season’s greetings, which wo heartily reciprocate.

Railway, excursion arrangements for Christmas'and New Year holidays are advertised elsewhere in this issue.

The demand for- houses at the local seaside this year is greater than the supply. We are informed that a number of people who are unable to secure cottages intend to pitch camp at the beach during holidays.

Palmerston retailers have decided to keep the shops open on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Monday before Christmas until (J p.m., instead of 5.30 pan., and to close altogether on Boxing Day, The day after New Year’s Day will also be observed as a close holiday.

The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that the Postmaster-General, Mr A. S. Burleson, has announced the invention of multiplex'telephony and telegraphy, by whiMi live simultaneous telephonic conversations, or forty telegraph messages, can he sent over a single pair of wires. The practical application of (be invention lias been successfully tested.

Mrs Liddell, who occupies the old County Council ollice, nearby (be buildings destroyed in the recent lire, knew nothing of the conliagratiun until later in the morning. The old Indy had slept unconscious of the happening. Several persons went to the building and tried to arouse her, but not getting any response concluded that she was absent. Fortunately the wind blew away from the building Airs Liddell occupied, otherwise (here may have been a tragedy.

Lloyd George, in a striking speech on the eve of (he election, violently allaeked the Labour Parly, and said it was being run by Pacilists and Bolsheviks. If the country had listened to Hanisay MacDonald, Philip Snowden, Stnillic and others, the Channel ports would have been in the hands of the Germans and not a single British ship could have passed that highway of commerce. We would now have been,Germany's bondsmen and slaves. Those extreme Paeilists pulled Labour out of the Government at a moment when Labour was in most need for reconstruction.

The attention of electors is drawn by advertisement to section 7 of Dm Licensing Amendment Act, IDIH, whereby it is provided that a valid ground of objection to the retention on the electoral roil of any district; of the name of any elector is the fact that such elector dues not reside at the address staled on the roll as the address of such elector. Every elector of this district who is still residing therein but at a diff-erent-address from that stated on the roll should at once notify the registrar of his present address.

The “joy riders” are again in evidence in Palmerston, says the Times. On Saturday night two cars standing in the streets wore taken for joy riding purposes and were later found abandoned in remote parts of the town. No less than six cars have been removed in this manner during (he past few weeks. Some were driven quite lengthy distances and then abandoned, while others have suffered considerable damage. Owners are advised by the police to take.precautions.

The newspaper Merchant Service Keview recalls Air Winston Churchill's statement: “We were within an ace of the greatest victory at the Dardanelles the world has ever seen.” The journal states that the cargo steamer Ereslilield was sent with water for the troops landing at Silvia Bay. When it arrived some-, body told the captain to clear out, as it was not wanted. The captain obeyed and returned to Mudros. The troops landed and wandered about the Peninsula between the Turks and Constantinople. They saw the Dardanelles, but in (he blazing sun could not advance without water. Parched with thirst, they were obliged to withdraw.

After many preliminary protests, Wairarapa appears to be taking the transfer of V.D. patients from Port Chalmers to FealhersUm Camp with resignation. “It scorns,says the Wairarapa Daily News, “that there is already a V.D. isolation hospital at the camp —has been for some time, but naturally little has been said about it. The additional number now sent to the camp will apparently make very little difference. They are said not to be incurable. The point of the whole subject, however, is that with many ships and thousands of returning soldiers, some wounded and sick, coming soon to New Zealand, every available quarantine station must be in readiness. If this precaution were not taken, and, as is almost certain to happen, some of these ships bring influenza, or other affections needing quarantine detention, .there would he a far greater and well-de-served outcry over such criminal neglect. We have, during the last tew weeks, had an experience, and suffered a loss in death and sutler- ' mg', which is a suflieient warning against uu preparedness in the future. However repugnant it may be, ,aml it is indeed very repugnant, to have an addition to the VCD. eases in the Featherston Camp isolation®* hospital, it is evidently a case of; necessity, as ships from overseas will begin to arrive in a few days. This being so, we may as well resign ourselves to the inevitable with as good a grace as possible, feeling that the Government is doing the best it can under the eireumstuu-i ccs.” ,

Mr J. Stewart, Government hemp grader, is temporarily relieving Mr Scollay, who is grading at Invercargill.

We regret to report the death, which took place last night, of the infant sen of'Mr and Mrs A. Stevenson, aged three months.

The Minister for Public Health says that exploitation has been practised during the recent epidemic,” to use his own words, “some of the worst cases.” In several centres exorbitant prices were charged for medicines and disinfectants, while certain undertakers are alleged to have made the prices very hot.