LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1961, 5 April 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Aueklaud Savings Bank Trustees have decided to invest £70,000 in the Government war loan, making the total in Government securities held by the bank £900,000. According' to tellers received in Palmerston, (lie Auzaes have liecome very popular in Germany, and large numbers of the New Zealand soldiers have been offered inducement to settle in that country. The Auckland Suburban Local Bodies Labourers’ Union, dissatisfied with the decision of the Arbitration Court in granting only 5 peij cent, increase in wages, has resolved to cancel its registration under the Arbitral ion Act and join the Federation of Labour. During the passage of (be Maori between Wellington and Christchurch on Wednesday night, a passenger, Mrs Robinson, of New Plymouth, died from heart failure. Deceased, who was 71 years of age, was accompanied by her husband, and they wore proceeding to Christchurch to visit a daughter. There have-been many clover definitions of the difference of opining between an optimist and a pessimist. A new one is that of Don Marquis in the New Yurie Evening Sun; (< Au optimist looks at an oyster and expects a pearl. A pessimist looks at an oyster and expects ptomaine poisoning.” DON’T GET INTO the way of taking active ca'tharlics. It is true they move the bowels, but in doing so they weaken the muscular action, and as time goes on a 1 stronger dose is required. Chamberlain’s Tablets do not create a habit, as they,do not weaken. Instead of this, they strengthen the bowels to act naturally. Chamberlain’s Tablets possess tonic properties that give relief without any of the bad after-effects which so often result from cathartics. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

This district was enveloped in a dense‘fog on Thursday night. The licensing,poll will be held on Thursday next.

The- hi-ennial election of Mayor and Councillors will he held on the 30th inst.

Sir and Mrs W. Signal and Miss Signal left this week’ for a motor lour through Taranaki.

Several Foxton families have acquired land in the Bay of Plenty district, and intend settling there at an early date. The Mayor acknowledges with thanks a donation of two guineas from Mr A. S. Easton towards the Peace Celebrations Fund,

The body of a child not fully developed was found in the Wanganui river yesterday, wrapped in canvas similar to a motor car hood.

The Minister for Defence has received advice that the New Zealand Division is now out of Germany. The last draft of New Zealanders was dispatched from Cologne to Rouen on March 2(>th.

The death is reported of Mr John Robert Hudson, at Hokitika, after a lingering illness. Deceased, who was 71) years of ago, was one of Hio pioneers of Westland, and had tilled many public positions in -former years.

Mr Joseph Hare, one of the oldest settlers of the North Auckland district, died at Whangaroa recently, aged !.)!) years and !U months. Ho was a native of the North of Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand in (lie ship Lancashire Witch, in June. 1855, and look up land at.Whangaroa. He leaves a widow, eight sons, six daughters, 6!) grandchildren and (it) great-grandchildren. A Wanganui resident has discovered, and proved, he says, a surji cure for influenza. The cure is remarkably simple, the ingredients being in almost common use in every household, and yet it is so effective that a change in the worst of cases can be effected in less than 20 minutes. The gentleman has offered his cure to the Government for the consideration of £5,000. -So sure is ho of its efficacy that he welcomes the most stringent tests. —Chronicle.

In view of the shortness of insulated tonnage, caused by what is considered to ho the unfair distribution by the Imperial authorities of the steamers designed for Australasian loading, the directors of tho New ‘ Zealand Shipping Company have sent an urgent cablegram to London, pointing out (he immense loss threatened to all the sheepfarmers in the Dominion, especially in Canterbury, where, by reason of the continued drought, there is no means of keeping up the condition of fat stock, for which there is no space in the freezing works.

Special Harvest Festival services are being held in the Salvation Army Hall to-morrow and Monday. The hall will be suitably decorated, and a choice display of produce on view, the. same to be sold on Monday night. Special music and songs have been arranged by Captain Coffin, and Mrs Collin will he giving seasonable addresses on Sunday and elocutionary items on Monday night, at 7.45 o'clock, (lifts of produce of a saleable mi I are will be thankfully received on Saturday, at the hall, by the officers. An advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue.

A smart-looking young follow named Houlihan, hailing’l'rom Kata, was eharged with using obscene language on (he train between Fcilding and Marlon. The language complained of was used by the accused when asked by the guard to produce his ticket. Constable Hoyle, of To Awamulu, described the profanity as hot enough to blister the paint on the carriage, the worst he had ever heard. Accused said he was drunk, and knew nothing about it. The S.A!. said that was no excuse, and talcing into consideration that accused was a relumed soldier, lined him £5.

Home time back (he'Chairman of the local Slate School Committee was asked by (he Secretary of the Education Board to secure tho Town Hall for Monday, April 28th; for the annual meeting of householders and the election of a school committee for the ensuing year. The lessee stated (hat (he hall could notbo obtained for the night, but the supper-room would be available for the purpose. It has been suggested that the supper-room will not suffice for the purpose, and the election is set back for the following day, 291 h inst., when the hall will he available.

At the, Palmerston Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, before Mr E. Page, S.M.. Leslie William Kichards’

pleaded guilty to a charge of sup-plying-a returned soldier with intoxicating liquor, hut pleaded absolute ignorance of the fact that in doing so ho was committing any offence. It appeared that he is a returned soldier himself, having only arrived back in New Zealand about a month ago, and that be met the man to whom lie supplied the liquor at the railway station. The man, stating that he did not wish to leave the platform, asked Richardson to purchase the liquor for him, giving him the necessary money. Richard - son went to an hotel, made the purchase, returned to the platform, and openly handed over the liquor in the actual presence of a police constable. His Worship said it was evident the defendant had been quite ignorant of the provisions of the War Regulations, under which he had rendered himself liable to a heavy penalty. Under the circumstances, Mr Page added, only a' fine of £l, with costs 2s, would be imposed, but he hoped the ease would be a warning against similar offences in the future.

Captain Lambert, a well-known Union S.S. Ch. skipper, died af Wellington last night.

On Thursday Mr G. A. Spring, of Mouloa, met with a very painful accident. Ho was feeding 11ax at the Paiaka Mill, and got- his hand caught in the rollers, with the result that the little linger was amputated.

A hoy named Alfred O’Reilly, sou of Mr and Mi's M. O’Reilly, of Foxton, had misfortune to break a leg this morning. He and another boy were double hanked on a horse, which on turning Whyte Street corner into Main Street, slipped and fell, O’Reilly’s leg being caught under the animal, and was fractured.

Some people are of the opinion that the fees charged patients who were treated in the Convent temporary hospital (luring the iutluen/.a epidemic are handed over to the Convent. This is wrong. The temporary hospitals wore under Hit; supervision of the District Hospital and all patients’ fees are collected and retained, by the hospital authorities. The Nuns gave their servicesi voluntarily, and derive no financial benefit.

At present the compensation paid on pigs condemned at public ahal-i loirs is twopence per lh. The Palmerston North Borough Council considers that the compensation should he increased to 50 per cent, of the value of (he pig “as a, further inducement to have pigs killed at public abattoirs.” Wellington has agreed to support Palmerston North in requesting the Minister foj< Agriculture to have this change effected.

The Christchurch Sun slates (hat. the Court of Bishops which sat in Dunedin recently to hoar I lie appeal of (lie Yen, C. IT. Gossct from Bishop Julius' decision on the charges of breaches of ecclesiastical laws which were laid against the Rev. C. K. Ferry, of St. Michael's, Christchurch, Ims decided to defer its decision until it lias an opportunity to confer again when the General Synod is silting in Napier, about the end of this month.

A keen demand exists at the present time in England and Frauen fur New Zealand tinned jam. A Dunedin firm (says the Otago Daily Times) recently secured an order for 3,000 eases of assorted jams for England and France, and the first shipment was sent away in the Verdun. A further parcel will he placed on the Eiii'iua. The order represents 180,000 Jh. of jam, and the demand is quite unsatisfied in the meantime.