LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1985, 3 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following are the vital statistics .for Foxton for Hie month of .May: —Births 8, deaths I,marriage c ertitigates issued 1.

During the month of May rain fell locally on six days, the maximum fall, ,88in., being on the 19th. The total for the mouth was 1.90 inches.

A shag shot on one of the Wailaki islands recently was found to contain 11 young trout. Perhaps this is where the missing millions of salmon fry have gone (says the Oamaru Mail). It certainly seems to account partially for the poor trout fishing last year, as the river is dotted here and there ail up i tsi course by clumps of shags.

The ordinary meeting of the Fox ton Borough Council well bo held on Monday next, at 7.30 pan. Business: Ordinary, and to consider notices of motion by his Worship the Mayor, “That the resolution of the 13th January, 1919, re strip of land to he fenced oft: section -177 be rescinded.”

The American manufacturers are getting a great hold upon the markets of the Dominion, and the .Brit - ish manufacturer will find it difticult to shift In’s American competitor. But much of the American produce is very poor quality. A Wellington medico traces appendicitis cases to the chipping of enamelled goods, the said chips being swallowed by people who eat meats cooked in enamelled dishes. Everyone knows, or ought to know, that American enamelled goods are rubbish. The British article is immensely superior.—Eltham Argus.

One of the most extraordinary trials in the history of the country began this month before the Native High Court at Eshowe, South Africa, 174 natives being charged with the murder of 35 natives, who were killed in a tribal fight at a wedding feast. In all, about 800 men were in the affray. Owing to the large number of licensed persons, the court was held outside under the trees.

THEY PREVENT BILIOUSNESS

For the prevention of biliousness nothing 1 is equal to Chamberlain’s Tablets. They stimulate your liver, which has more to do with your bilious condition than any other organ. Take a course of Chamberlain’s Tablets to get your liver and bowels into a healthy condition. Then take one at regular intervals, and you will no longer be troubled with biliousness. For sale everywhere-. —Advt.

Mr Fume staled at last night*.School Committee meeting that Mr Hodge, architeel to the Wanganui Education Board, had informed him that the new school would not be ready for occupation until March Ist. ’

A seven-aside school football to-- 1 * imminent is being played at Palmerston North to-day. The Foxton school is represented by two (emus, the members of same, in charge of Messrs Furrier and Gabites, being motored through this morning. The head teacher desires to thank Messrs Fraser, Gabites and W. Boss for providing cars. In discussing the question of the overflow of artesian water at the Mouloa Drainage Board meeting on Saturday, it was stated that there were KLitells in (ho Board’s district, and at a low estimate of 20 gallons per minute from each well,; the quantity of wafer that would How from these would be 1,152,000 gallons every 24 hours.

A special enquiry into war wages was made towards the end of last year by the Government Statistician’s department, and the results ap-pear-in the recent issue of the Now Zealand Year Book. They show that in the occupations subject to awards and agreements the increases granted during the war period averaged 17.55 per" cent. Thirtythree trades are covered by live enquiry, and the majority show considerably more than the average in-

c-rense.

It was stated at a meeting of the Education Board in Otago recently that there were in the district some |orty 'residences of teachers which were unoccupied. If" appears that this state of tilings is not confined to'the Otago district. The IMinister •of Education has recently not been regularly approving applications for grants for teachers’ residences unless special reasons were advanced for the building of a house. Careful 'inquiry is being made in every case. It is provided in the salary clauses and schedules of the Act that a teacher in charge of a school must receive a house allowance if no house is provided for him. AVben we are told by our Professor of Pathology that of the women lie has seen in the streets of Dunedin since his arrival here two and a Atalf years ago a( least one in ten have the thick neck that indicates a goitrous condition, it is about time to give the subject serious tbo'ught. Dr. Drennan was very outspoken in his lecture before the Plunkct Society and Dr. Fitehett followed with the arresting statement that several of the ladies present are affected by goitre as lie could see by a glance at their bare necks. It is about time that such evidence was seriously heeded. Dr. Fitehett added that Dr. Drennan had a scheme for research into the subject, and lie remarked that, whatever such a scheme cost in money, the outlay would be small in comparison with the loss to the State from the disabilities that goitre brought in its train. —Dunedin Star.

It is reported (says the Christchurch Press) that Mr -1. J. Graham,/a former Mayor of Woolston, and a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, will contest the Lyttelton seat in the Liberal interest-. Present indications point to the possibility of quite a small army of candidates seeking the suffrages of the Lyttelton electors. The sitting member, Mr James McCombs, M.P., will be a candidate; Mr W. T. Lester, Mayor of Lyttelton, has announced intention to offer his services; and other candidates spoken of are Messrs Orton Bradley and MV G. Armstrong, J.P. (Mayor of Akaroa). Mr H. G. Ell, M.P. for Christchurch South, has also announced-his Candidatnre for the Lyttelton seat. Regarding the Ellesmere seat, represented at present by Colonel the Hon, R. Heaton Rhodes, it is staffed that Air James Coop, Lift 1c River, lias been asked to be a candidate in the Liberal interest.

The experience of a one-legged returned Australian soldier who applied for a job that was vacant at a suburban golf club suggests the existence of a new and shameless form of profiteering (says the Melbourne Age). It is related by the 1 soldier that having registered at the Repatriation Department for employment, he was instructed to see a -representative of the golf duly in question will) regard to the position that was vacant. He did so. When he got there lie Avas questioned as to the amount of his pension. He stated that he was receiving 22s Od a Aveek, Avherenpon he Avas told (hat another £1 a Aveek should he enough to live on, and he Avas offered the job at a cost to the club of £1 a Aveek. It seems inconceivable that any organisation or club, presumably consisting of sportsmen, could have been guilty of such a discreditable action. Yet (lie soldier came straight to this office with the story, boiling with indignation at the, treatment he had received. The matter should he looked into by tho repatriation authorities. The returned soldier particularly the crippled disabled soldier —must be protected, and an example should be made of any employer Avho attempts thus- to make use of the pension scheme for his oavh ends. The songs my mother taught to me I learned while perched upon her knee; / And though they he but simple rhymes, I croon them fondly still at times, ’Tis then I realise and know The debt of love to her I oavc ; And how well-justified and sure Her faith in Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. .9

The F,lt ham Bowling Club m- •' having improvements .made, to their green. All the old kerbing along the ditches is being lifted and new •* kerbing of totara. Substituted. Tho green is also being re-levelled top-dressed. The soil for the topdressing has been brought from

Foxton, some ten tons of it being, procured, the Foxton soil being considered particularly suitable. >

Eltham Argus,

Some remarkable love, dope has allegedly been used by, New Zealand soldiers on furlough in England to induce English girls to come out with them. The talc of the man who said he had a farm on ■ Lamb--ton Quay is well known, and here are two others. One is to the effect that the Maorilandcr told his fiancee that he owned one-half of the North Island.' The other is a champion “talc,” the soldier staling that he was “boundary rider on a hoc farm,” and the job was such a good one that he was going hack to it. Would she cornel She did.

On Thursday evening, at the Town 11;!II, Surgeon Captain Adams will deliver a war lecture, under the auspices of (he local Patriotic Soci-, ety, the proceeds from which will bo devoted to the War Memorial Fund.

Captain Adams has been connected, with the Army Medical Corps right Horn the outbreak of war up to tho present time, and his lecture , should be particularly interesting. He first served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was afterwards, at his own request, transferred to the New Zealand Medical Corps. lie has seen service at tho li'uiil, and in hospitals in France and The lecture on Thursday night will commence punctually at 8 o’clock.

Mr J. Walls, baker and confectioner, is now well settled in the new premises in Moutoa' Buildings, and the luncheon and afternoon tea rooms are again in full swing. The new premises are up-to-date in every particular, and compare favourably with similar establishments in the larger towns. Our representative paid a visit of inspection on Saturday afternoon, and found the refreshment room well patronised, a big open tire added to the comfort , of the room, and the afternoon tea* was served promptly and well. The kitchen is well arranged and convenient for providing for a large number of people. The up-stairs portion of the building is up-to-date in every particular, the rooms being well, lighted, well ventilated and roomy. In this part of the .establishment Mrs Walls has accommodation for about 14 boarders. Altogether the establishment is most up-to-date, and we feel sure the enter! prise of Mr and Mrs Walls in eat- 1 . >

ering so well for the people of the district will meet with the support it

deserves

A daring yet simple course of action enabled a prisoner named Charles Duffy to make his escape from the Lithgow (N.S.W.) lock-up the other day. Not only did he regain his liberty, but in doing s(f he managed to lock the lock-up'keeper in the cells. Duffy was arrested in Sydney on a charge of stealing £3O, and came before the Court at Lithgow. The case, however, was not proceeded with, and Duffy was remanded. He was taken to the lockup from the courthouse, and was lodged in his cell. At about 5.30 Constable Biddle, the lock-up keeper, left Duffy in his cell and went out to get him a cup of tea. The outer door of Duffy’s cell was open, and so were the dodrs of all the other cells. Still, as one end of the lock-up finished in a dead end, and the other has a. heavy door that opens on to a yard and bolts on the outside, there was no risk in so doing. During the absence' of the lock-up keeper, however, Duffy left his own cell and walked into the cell nearest to the outside door of the lock-up. He hid behind the door of the cell. When the lock-up keeper returned with the cup of tea for his prisoner he went straight (o the cell that Dully had formerly occupied. He had barely crossed the threshold when he realised (hat something was amiss, and turned round quick!y, only to see Dutty disappearing through the outer door of the lockup. Once outside, Duffy pulled the door to and bolted it from the outside, thus confining (he lock-up keeper within the lock-up. There the lock-up keeper had to remain until his shouts wererfheard, and he was set at liber tv.