LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1960, 3 April 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Casual labourers in Masterton are at present being paid from Is 4d to 2s per hour. The Queen of the South, from Tenjkohe with a cargo of cement, is due to-morrow. Air Edward Howard M’orrah, tmvnager of the Bank of Australasia at Palmerston, died yesterday after a brief illness, aged 54. Speaking in Masterton, Father Cronin said: This is the most respectable audience we have ever addressed. I might say we have had hostile receptions in some places, but, judging by our reception here to-night, there cannot be any representatives of the Trade present. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Mr 1?. A. MeVilly will take up the position of general manager of railways on Slay Ist, .

Sirs Alex. Ross entertained the members of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild at an afternoon at her residence yesterday.

Sir Healey left for Auckland on Monday to attend the funeral of his aged mother, which look place on Saturday. _

Mr George Seifert, of the Tokomaru Plaxdressing Company,' Ltd., has disposed of his interests in the company, and for the future, it is understood, will coniine his activities (o fanning in the Waikato, The number of patients in the Palmerston North District Hospital on March Ist was 7(i. During the month .110 ■ patients -were admitted, and a similar number were discharged, while three deaths occurred, leaving 73 patients in the institution on April Ist.

At the meeting of the Feilding Chamber of Commerce on Monday night, committees were appointed to report upon (lie necessity for improved railway services pi Feilding, and to inquire into the postal, (olographic, and .telephone arrangements of the town.

During a discussion at Tuesday's meeting of the Mauawatu County Council if was mentioned that a farm in the Awahuri district had recently changed hands at £ll2 per acre, and one at RongoteaJiad realised £79 per acre. As much as £G per acre was being paid in rent, it was reported, for land in the Rongolea district.

All women willing' lu join Hie local Volunteer Nursing Reserve are invited to send in their names to Mrs Rainc, the vicarage, Avenue Road, on or before Tuesday next. The first meeting for instruction will be held at'the vicarage at 7.15 o’clock on Tuesday next. The classes will afford a splendid opportunity fur all who desire to gain experience in homo nursing.

After some discussion relative to the necessity of having improved haulage facilities, fhe Manawatu County Council, at Tuesday’s meeting, decided to approach the Government, through the member for the district, ashing if there, was any chance of procuring motor lorries on behalf of local bodies on the cooperative principle, for metal haul-

Some April-fool joker started g rumour in Palmerston on Tuesday morning to (he effect that a mine had been washed up on the local beach in dangerous proximity to the settlement, which statement found its way into the Palmerston Standard. Our contemporary published the alleged fact,in good faith. Such silly jokes can be carried too far.

A meeting of local epidemic workers was held in the “Herald” Oftice on Tuesday night. The name's of those desiring (be certificates' to workers Avere handed in. Opinion was divided a;; to the acceptance of the certificates, but it was pointed out that as the Government had incurred the expense of printing the certificates as an acknowledgment and an appreciation of the voluntary work done, they should be accepted in the spirit so offered. Several expressed themselves as having undertaken (he work without desiring any public recognition.

As a result of partaking of the contents of a hot tic with a whisky label on it, a man named W. Whitfield, residing at To llapara, was admitted to (lie Cook Hospital in a critical condition. Whit Held was in a motor ear with a friend, who offered him a drink from (he hot lie, and afterwards had a drink himself. The bottle had a whisky label on it, but was afterwards found 'to contain a preparation for cleaning brasswork on the car. Whit Held's friend noticed (lie peculiar taste and vomited, but Whitfield did not, and soon became seriously ill. He ✓was removed to the hospital and treated by Dr. Craig. Next day his condition was much improved.

At a meeting of the. Palmerston North Social Democratic Party,, held on 3.15( March, an invitation from (he Peace Celebrations Committee to take part in (he peace, celebrations was considered, ft was decided unanimously not to ’accept' the invitation. The reasons furnished for refusing (he invitation are as lollows “That we (Social Democratic Parly) do not believe that these proposed peace, celebrations are in reality what they pretend to be, but are on the contrary merely the glorification of the victory of one group of capitalists over another. We believe tlial the peace of the world can only he secured by the workers of all countries uniting againsi (he common enemies of mankind, the makers of ail wars, namely, ) he capitalist class.”

The ilea Hi of Mr Charles Fredefiek Carter, which took place at Palmerston on Thursday night, came as a great shock to his many friends. The late Mr Carter was a member of an old Foxton family, unci was for some years in business as a butcher in Palmerston. He ..sold out to the Manawatu Meat Company, Ltd., •some years ago, and in addition to being a director of thee company, acted as buyer. He was a keen judge of stock, and was well known all over the Island for his keen judgment. He was only ill a very short time, and was compelled to undergo a serious operation on Thursday, from which he never recovered. He leaves a wife and grown-up sou and daughter to mourn their loss. Mr S'. W. Carter, of Shannon, and Mr W. S. Carter, of Palmerston North, are brothers. On Sunday last he was accorded a Masonic funeral.

The steamer Waropal will load at Gisborne the largest consignment of wool taken away from New Zealand by one vessel, totalling 26,000 bales.

An old English law legalises the gathering of mushrooms and blackberries, which law, however, docs not preclude owners of property from prosecuting trespassers, The local postmaster Ims issued a number of forms of application for absent voters’ permits to those who will he out of the electorate on the day of the licensing poll, 10th inst.

According to a note by Edward Jerninglmm Wakefield in a handbook on New Zealand, published in 1847, influenza prevailed at that period throughout New Zealand and the Australasian colonies.

At a meeting held in Wellington a AVellington branch of the New Zealand Welfare League was formed. There was a good attendance, over which Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C. presided. Arrangements are being made for the formation of branches in "other parts of New Zealand. Taranaki’s total annual output of butter and cheese was roughly estimated by the chairman of a meeting held at Hawera on Thursday to he 3,000 tons to 3,500 tons of butter and from 20,000 tons to 22,000 tons of cheese (states an exchange). There are between 70 and 80 dairy factories in the province.

A married woman named Rosamund Davidson was found dead in her home in Kilbirnie, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon. The deceased had been living apart from her husband, and was visited occasionally by a lady friend. When her friend called on Saturday at 4 p.m., she found deceased lying on the Hour of her room, fully clothed and quite dead.

The Minister for Defence (Sir ■lames. Alien) has received cabled advice from the Air Ministry, London, that two Bristol fighters and two D.H.4 machines, with equipment, two riggers and two litters, are proceeding to New Zealand shortly. The machines and equipment remain (he property of the British Government, and New Zealand will he held responsible for their custody. It is understood that the machines are presented by the Royal Air Service.

A meeting of representatives of dairy companies was held at Ifawera to consider (he question of the manufacture of milk powder, sugar of milk\ and condensed milk, when it was decided to send delegates ahroad to obtain information regarding these matters, ft was resolved to ascertain how many companies would ho willing to contribute towards (lie delegates’ expenses, the maximum contribution to he 2s per ton on the output of cheese, or 4s per ton on the output of butter.

Among the prisoners who‘came up for seuleuce before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) at the Supremo Court iit Wellington on Saturday was James Groves, a man of about 40 years of age, who had pleaded guilty to making a false declaration under the Marriage Act. Groves had represented that he was a bachelor, when he was a married man. The prisoner, who had been qommilled from Daimevirke, stilted ih extenuation that he had been at the front fur two years, and was under the inlluence of liquor when he committed the offence. He had not i.ippearcd before his Honour before. His Honour said the prisoner bad appeared live times before a Magisirale in recent years for the maintenance of his wife, which made his present offence worse. The prisoner also must not think that because lie had been p soldier he could do as he pleased when ho came back. He thought it was liquor that was the prisoner's 1 rouble, as it was the trouble, unforlinialely, of nine-tenths of (hose who came before bim. He sentenced Groves (o six months' imnrisonment, in the hope that it would drive (he drink out of his system.

Mr John Colderwood, chief engineer on the White Star steamer Culie, which arrived in Auckland this weelc, from St. John, is one of the survivors of the ill-fated steamer Delphic, which was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay two years ago. He relates an interesting story bi: the disaster, lie stales that on the afternoon of Kith August, I!H7, they were about 120 miles south of Si. .Mary, near the Bay of Biscay, and shortly after J o'clock a. violent explosion look place in Hie engineroom and stokehold. This was the (ii’sj intimation (hat a submarine was in the vicinity. The vessel immediately Jilted up over the engine t room, and the crew were obliged (o take (o (lie boats. Four men wen 1 killed in (be engine-room—the third engineer, a greaser, and (wo tiremen. Wireless calls for help were immediately sent out by the wireless operator on the Delphic, and ■shortly afterwards a torpedo boat arrived on the scene, and immediately tired a depth charge, but no sign of Hie submarine could be seen. The Delphic continued to float until the Friday, when she turned over and sank.

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A number of local vocalists are assisting at a concert to be held at Rangiotu to-morrow week.

The main and supplementary roll for this (Otaki) electorate contains the names of 6,343 electors. The. roll' used for the general election of 19.14 contained 6,629 names.

More than 1,000 interned enemy***? aliens a week Ore being repatriated from the great camp at Knoekahoe, Isle of Man, which is expected to be cleared this month. Many do not pvanl to go hack.

Last week a skull was found by some children when playing in a yard of a house in Denbigh Street, Feilding. It now transpores that the gruesome trophy was the cherished treasure of a resident in Denbigh Street, who found it some years ago on the Coast.

One of the things found out in the Dunedin Hospital during the influenza epidemic was that the less they moved a. patient, the better chance he had —so said Dr. Bowie in a lecture in Dunedin last week. He added that the attendants were careful to move the patients as littie as possible, even in bed, because it was found (hat in the moving some patients tried to help themselves, and suffered a relapse.

Any electors who will be absent from the electorate in Avhieh they arc enrolled on April 10th, should apply for an absent voter’s permit;, which will he issued by the Registrar of Electors at Levin. Forms of application may be obtained from any postmaster. These permits can be issued up to and including April. 9th —that is, if there is time for the voter to get delivery before, the 10th from the local postmaster.

“There is no provision in the Act tor any other poll to be taken, but a future Parliament can make it possible,’’ remarked (he Rev. 4. Dawson at a Prohibition rally at Wellington, in referring lo the coming referendum on the liquor question, in the event of Prohibition being carried. “We will have to see to it that no man shall go into Parliament \fho will bring back the liquor gallic into this land. Our business will then be to keep it out.”

A New Plymouth hoy, writing from Cologne, stales that the German Iradesmen are very anxious to please the New Zealanders garrisoned there. A German (who had had three years’ service at the war) repaired his watch, imt refused to accept any payment:.- Like other Germans in business, this tradesman expressed satisfaction with I he presence of the Now Zealanders, They were mortally afraid that' the French or Belgians would be seat there instead.

Senator Pearce, in an interview in London, said that a pleasing feature of the effect of compulsory training in Australia had been thu abolition -of the larrikin, who formerly lounged in (ho streets, addressing rude remarks to women. This unlovely type had disappeared. Instead of spending their time unprofitably, the Australian youths had turned into men of splendid physique, who had made Ihe Commonwealth’s name glorious in the annals of war.

A pea-rillc accident occurred aj Wellington on Sunday afternoon, the victim being a lad named Gordon "Wilson, aged 15 years, residing at 19, Alma Lane. It appears Unit the lad was walking along the road iit Wadestown, about 4 o’clock, whoa he erne within range of a rifle with which a parly of hoys were amusing themselves, and was struck in the left hip ami received injuries which necesHlalcd his removal to the Hospital.

The lion. W. J. Geddes, managing editor of the New Zealand Times, who formed one of the journalistic delegation to Europe, in the eourso of an address to I lie Napier Chamber of Commerce, said Ihe delegates went to Ireland to realise something of the Irish question. There were two sections of'the Nationalists and Sinn Coiners. Messrs Dillon and Devlin admitted to the delegates that their (muse was lost because their followers had all, turned Sinn Seiners. They expected to loso all (heir seats but six. and actually lost all but eight. These Sinn Seiners were not men with hair on their teeth, but (hey vert, educated men, and some were university prolessors. Defore the delegates arrived in Ireland IT of the ltd believed in Home Kale based on the colonial I'lan, but (he Sinn Eciners wanted a republic, their own Hag, their own unity and their '>wn navy and (reat-

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