LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1939, 13 February 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.Mr W. 11. Ferris, chief hemp grader, is on an official visit to Foxton. -

Mr A. E. Shadbolt, an erstwhile Foxton resident, is at present on a visit to this district.

At Christchurch on Wednesday, Sir James Allen (Acting Prime Minister) stated emphatically that the present Parliament would not bo continued until next year.

A scarcity of manual labourers is being experienced in the Wairarapa. Some employers have been offering 14s and 15s per day, and cannot find men.

Expert assessments put the total cost of the war to the Allies at over JO,OOO millions, of which the British Empire's bill amounts to 7,000 millions. Nearly a thousand millions of Ibis represents the losses of the Dominions and the colonies.

“The public dearly love a quack,” -aid Dr. Cockayne to the Industries Committee, at Wellington. He was referring to (he lack of encouragement of young men and women, brilliant in science and other scholarship. “I know a man,” he continued, “who complains that he is being ruined because he pays £5,000 a year in income tax, Iml he employs a quack to attend to his cows.”

Speaking at a complimentary dinner at Winton, the Hon. D. H. Guthrie stated that the Government had settled soldiers on about half a million acres, at a cost of £1,000,000. About half a million acres of Maori lands bad been acquired, and 700,000 more were under consideration. This hind was being held absolutely for soldiers, for whom the Government was doing probably more than any other eounlry.

Aii inquest on the death of n mule child, :il Nelson, revealed that it was born in a motor ear en route From the Mureiiison district to the Nelson Hospital. The other occupants were unaware of the event. The verdict was that the child met its death at birth through want of proper attention [The above reminds us (hat in the coaching days between Eketahuna and Pallia hie. a Maori woman gave birth to a child in (he coach during the journey, without serious results. —Ed.M.J Mr Hodge, the Board’s architect, visited the school site yesterday, and informed the Chairman of Committee that tenders would be called for the erection of the new school in about a week’s time. He said that it would take about eight months to complete the building, but one wing would be ready for occupation before then. He informed the Chairman of Committee that his suggestion of a dome over the main entrance had been adopted in thq principal plan, which will add to the architectural appearance.

A very serious accident occurred on Wednesday, in the factory of Petrol it e, Ltd., Wellington. A young man named Ivan Bentley, who lives at Petone, was engaged in putting paper into a power-driven mincer when his right hand was drawn into the machine, and his arm torn otif at the elbow. After he had been attended to by Dr. Shand, the unfortunate young fellow was admitted to the Wellington Hospital, where lie is reported to be doing, as well as can be expected. His parents Jive at PeUding,

“The Chief Justice decided that men called up for active service are not by that fact relieved of their obligations as Territorials while they arc in a position to perform those obligations.” Such was the statement by which Mr J. E. Wilson, G.M., at Auckland last week, impressed on some young men that, even though they have been called up for service in the Expeditionary Eoree, and are on indelinite leave, they are still required to attend the territorial drills and camps, in view of the fact that there has hitherto been some doubt about the position, the defendants were not lined.

The death occurred at Levin on Sunday of Mr James Prouse, who was one of the most respected residents of the district. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some lime past, but had continued about his work as usual. On Sunday morning he attended church, and seemed to be in good health, but a heart attack in the evening caused his death rather suddenly. Deceased, who was very popular in the district, was a well-known farmer and sawmiller, and for many years was a member of Hie Ilorowhemm County Council and Levin Borough Council.

Two Palmerstonians, one a wellknown journalist, were unable to get sleeping aeeoiumodation in any of the Wanganui hotels on Tuesday night, owing to the influx of visitors, in the town. They spent the night on the grass under the starry vault of heaven, The experience turned their thoughts and conversation away from mundane things—the worship of Desert Gold, the strife of politics, petty parochial bickerings —to the infinity of space and the marvellous works of the Creator, Old Mother Earth, while offering no rest to their tired bodies, breathed e’er them the spirit of the Orient. Yes, the hold-up was a motor breakdown !

INSECT BITES. If an insect stings you on the hand, apply Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It will prevent any swelling or painfulness.

Bain fell throughout the district this morning, and the weather is much cooler. A number of local Masons intend to motor through to Marten to-nigh j to attend the installation ceremony (here. It is announced that Ernest Alexanderson, an American inventor, lias perfected a device making possible wireless telephony between New York and New Zealand. The device assures perfect hearing for a distance of 12,000 miles.

“Something for nothing” seems f o bo the common expectation in New Zealand in scientific research. For example, Dr. Cockayne, president of the New Zealand Institute, remarked, at-Wellington, that the grant for the investigation of the disease which was making havoc among tlax in certain parts of New Zealand was sufficient only to pay travelling and hotel expenses. In Dunedin there was a very clever young woman scientist —he believed the most talented woman that had gone through the Otago- Fnivei'sity. She was allowed a total of only £IOO a year to maintain herself while doing research work of immeasurable importance. "Just enough to 'starve on,” interjected Mr Hornsby.

Says the Palmerston Times: —A Palmerston man who was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday describes the Crampton Court-Martial as something very spectacular. He says (he tribunal itself is composed of seven heavily upholstered and batted military potentates wearing swords. The attackers are Captain Baldwin, strongly supported by Captain Hudson; (be defenders arc Mr Loughnan and another counsel* and Crampton is supported on bis left by another military officer. The light-weight prisoner giving cvD donee is guarded by a heavy-weight warder, also in khaki, and there is a uniformed orderly in attendance, while (wo warders in uniforms are guarding the prisoners outside the precincts-—our -informant reckons the show is probably costing £SO or £OO a day, “but as a spectacle it is worth the money, and Wanganui is enjoying it very thoroughly.” The man who is milking in (he hackblocks to pay flic taxes to keep the game-going may think differently, hut what does he matter ;’

The theft of a British secret by Germany was described by Professor Bayliss in a speech at University College, London. In November, I!HS, Professor Bayliss advocated at the Koval institution the use of gum arabic in physiological experiments. Last May a captured German circular advised that the use of gum arabic, as suggested by Professor “Kessler,’’ was preferable to blood transfusion m cases of wound shock. “There has never been suc!< a person as ‘Professor Kessler,’ ” Professor Bayliss added. General Sir Wilmot Hewingham said Professor Bayliss had saved the lives of thousands of men. An injection of gum had been given in steel ambulances, close to the firing-Jine, and within an hour of wounds being received. The Auckland Observer docs not take Mr Levy’s Moa story seriously. Our contemporary says; —. Ivan M. Levy has been shipping reporter on Wellington Times for about a dozen years, a life without adventure, although he may have dabbled in sea-serpents. He lately invaded the Irewera country on a holiday, and the long years of peace were broken like a cotton thread. The Wairarapa Age tells the terrible story, A moa, observing the journalist, lay in wait for him in a valley, rearing its head 14 feet above the scenery, attacked him, and indicted severe injuries. Mr Levy I omul it necessary to hide in a cave. He escaped by being swept down some rapids, into which he was thrown by Hie bird, and was resell-' cd by a shepherd, who took him to (he homestead and called up medical aid. Mr Levy has told his adventures to the Orthenofogical Social v, and an expedition has been sent to (ind the moa. The expedition consists of live scientists, a surveyor, three zoologists, four expert keepers, and a big game hunter from Africa. The record ends here. Mi' Levy is a native of Balranald (N.S.W.), and a son of a former Mayor. Together, His Worship and his son slew the Tantanoola tiger, Hie skin of-which was stuffed, and is now placed in a special room in the Xarrandera National Museum. Mr Levy also possesses tin; largest bnnyip skin ever obtained, having lassooed it from his launch, in the hills of the Spe-waa count rv. He was once carried for 1)5 miles down the Murrnmbidgee by a giganthf Murray cod, and thrown ashore near a hillabong. Being an amateur engineer, he damned the Mumimbidgee.