LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1991, 17 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Shipping- Company advise that the s.s. Rem'nera, for London, is expected to sail from Wellington on Ihe 19th in.st. “If the priec of clothing advances, much more we,will have to wear a suit of blue paint,” said Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court in Wellington.

A conference of returned soldiers, held at Palmerston N. on Saturday and yesterday, decided to appoint an organiser for Wellington district. Conference affirmed the policy of large associations and sub-associations in as many centres as possible.

The mine-sweepers coming to New Zealand from Britain are to sweep areas of the New Zealand coast where the German mine-layer Wolf sowed mines. These areas have already been swept repeatedly, hut the work will lie done again, and so added assurance of safety will be given to mariners. The new vessels will be more efficient than the trawlers, and the trawlers will he released for fishing.

At Wellington on Saturday morning, Elizabeth Jean Rosenna Conrad (twenty-one years of age), and Emily Ethel Conrad (twenty years of age), who were arrested at Palmerston on a charge of stealing £6O 10s from William Gett, a Chinese, of Wellington, appeared before Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M. The girls cried bitterly when in the dock, and on the application of Senior-Sergeant Willis they were remanded till June 18th. Bail was allowed each accused in a sum of £SO, or two sureties of £25 each.

In an interview with a press represent alive, the Hon. A. M. Myers said he expected Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward to return to New Zealand in the middle of July. It was important that they should he here, and they could not return too soon, to face the present period of unrest with which New Zealand was confronted, politically and socially. Very grave matters of finance would have to be dealt with, and the sooner thoy wore gone into the better. It would he seen what these were from the statement ho had made in Auckland. The extreme Labour Party was urging on Bolshevism, and an appeal to the country was urgently necessary. The Bulls, Sanson, Ohakea, and Lower Rangitikci War Relief Fund, recognising that the time had arrived when an estimate could be made of the men who enlisted from this Patriotic District and have returned maimed and disabled, their cases were considered on Wednesday evening last, and the following interim votes were passed for payment, as some small recompense for what they have suffered in serving their country: Three permanently injured men, £2OO each; nine men who have lost an eye or limb, £IOO each; three partially disabled men, £SO each; making a total of £1,G50 granted.

The (loath was announced last week of Mr David Hughey, a 'wellknown settler of the Manawatu district. The deceased, who was 91 years of age, had of late resided with his daughter at Waikanae. He arrived in Wellington when only twelve years of age in the ship Martha Ridgway, in November, 1840. He went with his parents to Karori, and later moved to Taita, and then on to Foxton. Af Foxton he opened a store and engaged in the flaxmilling industry, but subsequently took an active part in the opening up of the Pohahgina district. During his long life he earned the respect of a wide circle of friends.

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The Auckland .Chamber of Commerce passed a motion in favour of a universal half-holiday on Saturdav.

Dr. Mandl visited the volunteer nursing reserve in the Council Chamber last night, and delivered a short address, which was much appreciated by the class.

A wedding which created eonsid-" erahle local interest took place in All Saints’ Church this afternoon. The contracting parties were Air Richards, of Bulls, and Miss Symes. A full report will appear in our next issue.

Mr Semple last night .staled that the unimproved land values in (lie country had gone up by £32,000,000 during the war period. This, be hold, was robbery, and said landowners did not pay one-third in taxes what they should. At the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Thomas Childs, licensee of (he Commercial Hotel, was fined £lO for exposing liquor for sale. Henry Downey Jones Mitchell. was lined £2, with costs, for being illegally on the premises.. The name of Miss Majorie Hunt, one of the dainty little Maypole dancers at the recent Children’s Ball, was inadvertently omitted from, the list of performers which appeared in a recent issue. The defence Department, advises that the Prin/.essin, with Returning Draft No. 258 on board, is due to reach 'Wellington about 25th June. The draft comprises 461 of all ranks.

The Flaxmill Employees’ Union has agreed to the Conciliation Commissioners suggestion lo send delegates to meet the employers’ delegates under his chairmanship, and discuss the tlaxmills dispute. The three trawlers, Mallow, Marguerite, and Geranium, have sailed,

from Sydney for New Zealand, where they are due about Friday or Saturday, to commence minesweeping. Those trawlers are of a serviceable size, and are specially fitted for the work of gathering in stray mines.

With regard to the outbreak of lethargic encephalitis, the Minister for Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) stated that during tho week ended June 9th there were two cases in Auckland district, one at Stratford, one at Palmerston N., two in North Canterbury, and one ill Otago, a total of seven cases.

A returned soldier named Delhunty, who was under treatment at the Kamo Sanatorium, Whangarei, went into the “Champagne” mineral hath (notwithstanding orders to the contrary) on Friday evening, and was subsequently found dead on the floor of the bath-house, He had previously been suffering from disturbed action of tho heart.

The death occurred on Sunday at Levin of Major John Liddle, aged 86, one of the few remaining Crimean veterans. He served with the Royal Scots Greys in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, also at Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastopol. lie was decorated in the field for distinguished conduct, and mlso held the Crimean Medal, with three clasps, and the Turkish MedaL Mr George Petone Carter, who, it is claimed, was tho first European child born in tho Wellington district, died at his residence in Russell Terraco, Newtown, on Sunday, aged 79. His parents were among the first lot of immigrants to land at Petone. For many years his father was in tho Customs in Wellington. The late Mr George Carter was at one period of his life a builder, and afterwards he engaged in fanning at Reikiorangi, but for some years before his death he had lived in Wellington. He has left a widow (a daughter of the late Mr George), and eleven children.

A ease heard in the Dunedin Police Court on Wednesday ■ disclosed a remarkable mistake in the giving of change, if the allegations of (ho police are correct. A man named Charles James Arnold was (dunged with stealing £l5O, the property of Henry Hodge. Chief Detective Dishop, in asking for a remand for a week, said that the accused had gone into the Metropolitan Hole], and had tendered a £lO note. The assistant, who was unable to change it, referred the accused to the complainant, Hodge, and the latter by mistake paid over three £SO notes, one £lO note, and six £1 notes.