LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1924, 9 January 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A farmer in the .Mustorton district lo>t £2OO worth of hay through bad weather in the holidays. Statistics that have been published go lo' show that, according to population, 1 lie 'dealh-rate in Masterlon during the epidemic was al< most the smallest in New Zealand, ‘‘God loves I lie Irish,” said Miko to Pat, as they were taking up the pavement in Fifth Avenue. ‘‘lie does that,” answered Pat, as he looked up and saw Andrew Carnegie whizzing by in a big limousine, “but He seems to help the Scotch.” The Munich correspondent of the Politiken (Copenhagen) states that complete anarchy prevails in Berlin, and civil war has begun. The banks are barricaded, and the Spartacusians hold many of flic public buildings. Thousands of armed worker,- crowd the streets, and machine-guns are being used in all” quarters. Hundreds of people are lleeing from the city.

It is definitely understood Hint the Peace Conference proper will not assemble until February. i\l r Ingle, who has boon spending a holiday in the Marion district, returned home yesterday. The sketch plan of the proposed new picture theatre to be erected by Mr Hamer is on view in his shop window. Hostilities in the great war ceased at 11-11-11 —eleven o’clock of (hi 1 eleventh dav of the eleventh % month, Mr Dixon, Mayor of Hawcra. is mentioned as a probable candidate for tiie Patea >eat at the general elections. I’p to 3.1 sf December, members of the New Zealand Expedit,ionary Force had returned to the Dominion. Albert Marshall, a. returned soldier, aged twenty-three, was killed by falling over a cliff at Taylor’s Mistake, near Lyttelton yesterday. The Marine Department received word that the Hinemoa, which Avas sent to search for the barque Aryan’s missing boat, arrived back at (he Chalhanis on Monday night. The search was unsuccessful, but it was intended to resume it. The amount to be paid over by the Imperial Government under the butter equalisation scheme on profits on New Zealand butter in London will be 17s per cwt., or 174 s per cwl. in all. The present season’s butter has been sold at 181 s per cwt. Colonel U. W. Talc, G.8.E., Ad-jutant-General to the New Zealand Defence Forces, will lake over the duties of Colonel U. Logan, C.R., .Administrator of Samoa, while that officer is on leave. Colonel Tale will leave for Samoa, at; the end of this week.

The sequel to :i water-divining excursion ol' u nurse u( Ihe Kaikoura 11 ospit:il was (lie sinking ol' a deep well, from which an adequate supply ol' water, sufficient for all the needs of the institution, has been obtained. The well was sunk in the hospital grounds, in an un-likely-looking’ spot. 11 is stated in the Wanganui Chronicle that the demand for limber is so great that scores of pine trees have been cut down on private estates in (he Auckland district, and milled. Thousands of feel have* been used for making fruit cases, apart from substantial shipments to Australia. Mr Harry M'lnlyrc, who was at one lime in the forefront of h’ugby fool bailers in Wellington, died in (lie Hamilton Hospital on Monday night, after undergoing an operation. Deceased is survived by a widow, live sons, and three daughters. Four of his sons went to the front, and three of them are still away, the other being in Few Zealand on duly furlough. Fie, Harold Hamer, who was gassed in action during one of the big drives, is making a satisfactory recovery. In a letter recently received by his parents, Harold slates that he is alright, except for his eyesight, and hopes to be home shortly. He writes interestingly of the big engagements towards the end. He also tells of the excitement and doings among (he hospital patients when (he news of the armistice reached them. The manufacture of potato flour has been introduced into England as a new industry, and in view of its possibilities the Ministry of Food is arranging to supply the necessary machinery on favourable terms to those who have suitable buildings in potato-growing districts. Tin; machinery will produce potato Hake, which can be ground into Hour in existing Hour mills. This industry was carried on in Germany prior to the war, some live hundred potato Hour machines being in use. .1. Brock, forty-eight, a resident of Faeroe, disappeared at Rotorua on Monday night. He went with his son for a bath. The son got out lirst, and after waiting, returned to the bathhouse, and found his father had gone. Brock was in bad health, and subject (o sudden attacks. He was found at Xgongotnha on Tuesday afternoon. It is supposed he is suffering from mental aberration. Ai the reception of the French .Mission in Wellington, Captain Barclay welcomed the parly on behalf of the French residents. In replying, General Fan said: “Let me protest to yon, Mr Mayor, jmd to you, Captain Barclay, that you have given too great praise to my poor person. Yon have spoken of this military career of mine, which began in a terrible war and ended in 11)13, to be renewed in another terrible war. Wlial 1 have been all my life mostly and essentially is a soldier —a devoted and modest servant of France. (Applause.) The young officer of 1870 does not exist now any more. Xow new great chiefs have come who have put me in the shade; but if there is anything of which I am proud, it is that to a, large extent I have been the master and teacher of the great French chiefs of to-day —(applause)—and that now 1 remain, though n disciplined subordinate, their personal and devoted friend.” DON'T LET YOUR LIVER RULE YOU, Don’t let your stomach, liver and bowels rule you, or they will make you miserable. Insist on your stomach and liver acting naturally, then your head won’t get a chance to ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets to-night, and see what relief you will got. Take a course of Chamherhiin’s Tablets, and you will be a new being. For sale everywhere— Aclvt,

Mr Len. Freeman brought us a locally groAvn mammoth gooseberry this morning, about two inches in length and one and a-imll inches in girth. At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, John Joseph Smith, a fireman, Avas sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for the theft of a hat from cargo off the steamer Kent. The police stated that a large quantity of cargo had been stolen, and the articles missing from one case alone were valued at over £SO. T’.v an overwhelming majority the members of the Police Force have decided In remain attached to the Public Service Association (remarks the Associations Journal). The exact Acting Avas: —Against any association, 35; for a Police Association, 87; for the Public Service Association, (>!)7. A “mere man” avlio Avalked into a. Wellington post office on a recent afternoon to send a telegram aAA'ay, had to Avail quite a long time before he was attended to, because (avo of I lie girls behind the counter Avero. engaged in an it lereMiug discussion as to Avhether they should send out and purchase a shilling’s worth of loose chocolates or a box of Cadburv’s. -Wind the “mere man” said to himself about the telegraph department employing girls is not really lit for publication. It was with mutual delight that two old schoolmates met in Palmerston on Sunday —General Pan and Mr J. B. Pascal. In the short time at their disposal they were able to recall with pleasure incidents of the davs so long ago in France. Mr and .Mrs Pascal Avere prominent amongst the guests at the civic luncheon in honour of the French Mission. and they were a.bit* interpret for Ike benefit of the guc.-is who Avere not hi-lingual many of the interesting and complimentary remark's Avhieh our visitors iei! called upon to make. General Pan was also interested to he introduced to Mrs A. A. Martin, widoAV of (he late Dr. Marlin, who was killed in France, and he expressed to her in (he inimitable French maimer his {•cry special and sympathetic regard.—Times. An uncompromising frankness is displayed by a Japanese trade journal in relinking merchants for their carelessness in trade Avith the South Pacific. Remarking (hat (he war has cast “a lucky chance” in I heir way, the. paper declares that Japanese merchants have been “deceiving and robbing their customers,” and cites Japanese mulches, bind polish, and Avriting ink. “Such goods, on arriving al destination,” it declares, in its quaint English, “were found of no use to (be users, and yet the dishonest Japanese never stop to think the future of Japanese trade Avith the South Setts is til stake. Just make them imagine Avhat fate Avill befall the Japanese exporters after the Avar is over, Avhen the Europeans and Americans will come Mowing into the South Seas market, taking in (heir anus superior goods, heralded by the banner of just and uprightness. It makes us shudder to think of (he future.” The Taihapc correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle Avrites: “Tire rabbit pest is becoming more and more pronounced in this district, and localities Avbich were practically (Tee from the pest a few years ago are being over-run. Every effort is being made to keep the pest in cheek, hut in spite of all precautions the rabbits continue to increase. One station manager in this district states (hat the yearly”expenditure to keep doAvn (he rabbits on his station amounts to £1,01)0. It is only reasonable to assume that other station-owners are Diced with similar expense every year; but in spite of the enormous number of rabbits which tire exterminated by the poison gangs, the pests are more numerous now than they have ever been. At one time only the big holdings Avere troubled to any great extent, but hoav rabbits may be seen close to the town, in localities which had never previously been troubled by the pests.” Referring to General Pan, head of the I*reach Mission now passing through New Zealand, the Palmerston Times says:-—A veteran, old in right arm given in his country’s service, this brave old Avarrior, General I an, in blue-grey uniform and sear-} let e;t|), has a striking and magnetic peiNonality. \\ ith his kindly smile and the innate courtesy of his race, he swept away all harriers, and as heJmwed in gracious acknmvledgement, kissing the hand of each lady to whom he Avas presented, chatting in I’ rench Avith the representative of the Syrian race who came to welcome him, extending a comrade’s hand to the veterans of New Zealand, or the soldier avlio fought on the soil of his beloved France, ho made a host of friends cA’en in his Mrief sojourn. Children strewed roses in his path, and although he yannot speak English, ‘his address, interpreted by Hr. Siegfried, roused his hearers, and they cheered Avith warmth and enthusiasm. Boys cumbed upon his car to take snapshots of him, and people fought their way through the crowd for (he privilege of shaking hands with him. i