LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1958, 29 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At (he local police court yesterday morning, before Air Hornblow, •1.P., John Kinky, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and fined £2,

Air Perreau has mi view in Ids window a sample of the bread Avliieh won first prize at the Master Bakers’ exhibition, held at Christchurch recently. The Avimiev was Air Gould, of Balelutha. All who rendered assistance during the recent local inlluenza epidemic are invited to meet at the “Her-* aid” Office at 7.30 o’clock on Tuesday evening, when the matter of certificates Avill be discussed, and the formation of a nursing reserve. The cash received for the Anglican Cathedral fund amounts to i'9,103, in addition to definite promises of £25,000 ami also £2,200 from the old site for the cathedral. The total to date is £G0,06'3. Plans are being - submitted to Sir Aston Webb, President of the Royal Academy. IE YOU HAVE A cough, cold, bronchitis, or influenza, and you are looking for a quick, safe and certain remedy Avith Avhieh to fight them, nothing will. giA T e such quick and sure relief as Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The first dose soothes your throat, stops the tickling, and gives relief. For sale everyAvhere.—Advt.

Mr J. P. Luke, in response to the request of a deputation, said ho would stand again for the mayoralty of Wellington. A number of farmers from Rangiolu and Bainosse, together with their wives, motored to Levin yesterday for the purpose of visiting the Government experimental farm. Le Matin says that when Colonel House asked Marshal Foch why he had signed the armistice when he had ordered a decisive offensive within three days, Marshal Foch replied that the conditions assured a complete victory, and he could not permit the unnecessary death of a single soldier. The steamer Oooma, now loading at Lyttelton, will take away a cargo of tallow and edible fats of the value approximately of £500,000. This is claimed Id be a world’s record shipment of fat. The clearing out of the stores and the release of railway trucks are proving a boon to the freezing companies and the Railway Department. Sergeant B. V. Emirali, of Auckland, who has returned home after four years’ service, has the.unique record of never having been absent from his unit since he left New Zca- , . • . , laud. He saw lighting at Gallipoli, and was in the evacuation, and fought in the battle of the Somme, Ypres, ■ Armcnliercs, Passchendale, and others.

Doctor Reed, Chief Quarantimi. Officer in Sydney, has officially notified Cabinet of the excellent results achieved among the influenza patients at North Head, following the treatment of lift ecu gram doses of calcium lactate every four hours, and vaccine containing 125,000,000 influenza baccilli and 80,000,000 pneumococci,.No deaths had occurred last week, and 230 cases were treated.

Mr 11. A. Parkinson, who has resigned the headmastership (if the Newtown School to take up the position of secretary of the N.Z. Educational institute, was on Wednesday presented with an oak Morris chair, bearing a. silver tablet, setting forth the good wishes of the Newtown residents. Eulogistic speeches were made by the Mayor of Wellington, Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, and others.

A party returning to W’anganui from Bulls races by motor on Wednesday evening met with an accident at the foot of (he Marangai Hill, in endeavouring to avoid a. trap, a collision occurred, and the car swerved over a bridge, and capsized. The occupants of the car escaped injury with the exception of a returned soldier named J. Green, who was cut about (he legs and rather badly crushed. He was removed to hospilal, where he is progressing favourably.

(hi 22ml November, a molar driver named Harold Jacques ivas engaged to drive a man named Budd, from Adelaide to Chryslal Brook, Jacques’ body, Ihe head battered to a pul]), was found buried beneath his own ear in premises at Port Pirie, where Budd lodged. Budd's landlady stated (hat Budd dug a hole, stating that he intended clearing (lie under-gear of the motor car. Subsequently the car was brougl.it in and a shed erected over it. Budd was arrested on a. charge of murdering Jacques, Me slated Unit he bought the car for .CKHt. Thm week Budd was found guilty of the murder of Jacques, and sentenced to sleuth.

Concerning (he CovernmenCs policy in regard (o forestry, I lie following new regulations are gazetted: — (1) il shall mu he lawful for any person w sell any limber standing on any public or private land of any tenure, or to grant a license to i ni any timber standing on any such land, except pursuant to a license* issued in (lint behalf by the Gover-nor-General-in-Council. (2) Any license issued by the Governor-Gen-eral-in-Council under these regulations may be in like manner revoked. (3) Every person who sells any standing limber, or who grants a license to cut any standing limber contrary to the provisions of these regulations commits ;m offence against these regulations, and shall he liable for each offence lo a (ini' of ,030.

Good news for those Who eat Iood; uni so good, perhaps, for those who grow it. Owing to tho long spell of tine weather throughout New Zealand (says (tie Dunedin Star) I lie harvest of cereals and potatoes are exceeding expectations, and in consequence of the big yields onr traders ■ anticipate having to handle a much larger volume of held products than, seemed possible two months ago. Brices are therefore on the down grade, ami at.present merchants seem to be holding off, in the expectation that when the full harvests 'come on to the market thq values will approximate normal or pre-war rates. This hesitation on the part of the merchants is making the marts very dull, for they do not know what the drop will amount to. The compensation is that the position is such as to indicate a possibility that the cost of living will be reduced to the general public. As an example, the Star mentions that oats have fallen from 5s 3d to 3s 9d, f.o.b. DON’T. Don't'put in another day of distress with an upset stomach, lazy liver, and constipated bowels. Chamberlain’s tablets will cleanse your stomach, remove the excess, bile from the liver, and carry off all constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A course of Chamberlain’s Tablets will make you feel great. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

*ln the list of donations in connection with the Workers’ Educational Association, that of Mr F. J. Mantell, 10s lid, was inadvertently omitted.

An article setting forth the aims and objects of the Now Zealand Educational Institute appears page 4 of this issue, which should read by all interested in educational g, reform.

The Harvest Thanksgiving services in connection with the Methodis') Church will be held to-morrow by the Rev. A. Harding, at 11 a.m. and 7 pan. On Monday evening, commencing at 7 o’clock, the sale of gifts, consisting of fruit, vegetables, plain and fancy needlework, woodwork, baskets, etc., will bo held. Strange things find their way into farmers’ milk cans occasionally, but who would expect to see a stick of blasting gelignite in a milk pail. This actually happened at the Raetihi Dairy Co.’s works recently. As gelignite “goes off” with concussion, it is a case of “what might have been.” —Ohakunc Times.

A breach of promise action, in

which both plaintiff and were septuagenarians, was heard in Nelson recently. After lengthf evidence the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for £SO damages for broach of promise, and damages for loss of situation. One member of the jury dissented.

Chinamen, as a rule, are very abstemius, and when one war brought before Mr J. W. Poynton, G.M., in the Hamilton Police Court recently, on a charge of drunkenness, the magistrate remarked that it was most unusual. Senior-Sergeant Cassels said the offender was ed, but was always drinking, and made up for the rest of the Chinamen in the town.

The Governor-General has been asked by His Majesty’s Government to convey to Ihe school children of New Zealand the thanks of the lighting forces of the British Empire and the Allied nations for their message on the occasion of the signing of the armistice between the Allied Powers and Germany, and to assure Gie school children that the sentiments to which they have given expression are much appreciated.

A returned soldier of nearly three years’ service, who was a defendant ill a judgment summons case in, the Court at liawera, slated that he. was out of work and was advised by his doctor not to take any hard work for twelve months. He had not a pension because of a pre-war disability.- The magistrate remarked that evidently (he authorities considered the man to be good enough to send away to fight, but after ids service did not think he was worth a pension, which he deserved after his lengthy service. He desired to congratulate the man upon his service, and he thought the would not have been asked for if the' whole of tiie circumstances had beep known. Counsel, who appeared for the creditor upon instructions from a New Plymouth firm, agreed with His Worship that the order would not have been asked for had the debtor’s position been fully explained. No order was made.

The editor of the “Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.” one of the ablest and most successful of the journals devoted to the amusement of the troops at the front, announces the appearance of the last number which is to be produced “on this side of the earth” (.states the London Times of 31st January). The editor himself, Trooper Clutha (Mackenzie, who has entirely lost his eyesight in the war, is an example of how an indomitable spirit (mu triumph over the severest physical penalties of a soldier's lot. He makes very little of his suffering that he has undergone, and announces cheerfully that Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F. is to be continued in New Zealand, “when no stone is to be left unturned towards making it a paper worthy of a foundation on the old Division.”

“The Maoris are a thoroughly ar-j tistic and cultured race —more- so than we arc,” said Mr Hurst Ecuger, in his lecture on town planning at Auckland. Throwing on tho screen sonic tine examples of .Maori carving on a meeting house facade, lie said (he am-icut Maoris had always aimed at (lie beautiful. New Zealanders had a beautiful country, amt with, the beautiful art of the Mauris and (he traditions of (he past, (hero was small excuse for them to neglect the beautiful in their towns, ami villages. The Government,. be declared, bad been one of the worst sinners in this respect, and .to.illustrate his meaning he showed on the screen a view of the ' Government village at Lake Coleridge, situated on the shores of tho lake, and surrounded by majestic mountains. This “village” was a. haphazard and widely scattered collection of plain cottages ami primitive “shacks.” The result of this unscientific building, added tho speaker, was that (lie workmen were only too glad to leave it, instead of being- a .satisfied eonimunitv.

FAR KEACHIJTO. Try to, realise the danger, of al- ' lowing your bowels to become dogged. Nature Ims provided that aUj|| poisonous matter shall be expelled from the body, but when you aro. constipated these poisons aro absorbed into the blood. The results range from headache to serious organic diseases. Chamberlain’s Tablets are the safest and best medicine for constipation, Tfiey effect permanent- relief while violent purga- * lives only aggravate the trouble. A course of Chamberlain’s Tablets will strengthen your bowels and gently stimulate them to perform their functions voluntarily. For sale everywhere.—Advt, • - ■

In referring to a visit to Westport by the Industries Committee, in an interview with the Carterton paper, Mr J. T. M. Hornsby M.P., says:—‘‘lt is nothing short of a national crime that while there aro millions upon millions of tons of coal ‘in sight,’ is it is called (most, of if is the best steaming coal in the world, and millions of tons of the best household coal), our people, our manufactories,, our shipping, and our railways are all being starved for the want of fuel. Some of the revelations made to (he Committee are of a startling nature, and Hie blame will have to be laid on the right shoulders. The evidence chas been published in part (it was open to the newspapers to give it in full), and so I am not giving anything away improperly when I tell you that we were led to believe that the coal measures of the Coast were ‘petered out.’ Why, as a matter of hard fact, there is more coal in sight than has ever been mined, or can he exhausted in hundreds of years. Good household eoal could be landed —under proper arrangements — on the wharf at Wellington for ten shillings per ton! Yet wind have we? The winter coming close to ns, a coal ('amine threatening, and nothing being done to overcome the trouble. I admit there are some difficulties in (he way; but these could be overcome if (he desire to overcome them were present. Where there's a will (here’s a way.”