Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1999, 5 July 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is ,expected that the German National Assembly will ratify the Peace Treaty on 12th July. Owing to the holding of the combined thanksgiving service in the Town Hall to-morrow, afternoon, between 2.30 and 3 o’clock, the Sunday schools will be closed. The secretary of the local branch of the Workers’ Educational Association desires to acknowledge a donation of £5 5s Od from the Manawatu County Council. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, stated that the .ex-Kai-ser will shortly be placed on. trial, the tribunal sitting at London. Groups of officers would also be tried.

A cable from the Secretary of State for the Colonies is as follows: —The German delegates at Versailles have been notified that the Allied and associated Governments are ready to raise the blockade as soon as officially advised of the regular and complete ratification of the Peace Treaty by Germany. The. Chief Justice recently quashed an indictment for bigamy against James Jackson (states a' press message from Wellington) in consequence of a decision in a previous case, where the second marriage had been Contracted beyond the shores of New Zealand. An. announcement has now been made by the Minister of Justice that authority, lias been given for the Judge’s First Division Court of Appeal to sit with Judges of the Second Division, to have the special ease submitted to them of the King v. James Jackson, Special authority has been given by Order-in-CounciJ.

■ ■The ; offertories at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be given to the Cathedral Building Fund. • The schools under the Wanganui Education Board will assemble on Monday, after a week’s vacation.

The compassional e allowances granted by the Railway Department to dependents who died during the influenza epidemic now total £5,635.

The Manawatu River is in flood. Yesterday the flood water was over the road between the bridge and Shannon, but traffic was not interrupted. ' Captain Goffin will conduct meetings in the Salvation Army Hall at 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m., to-morrow, to which all are heartily invited. Special singing and orchestral accompaniment.

At Thursday night’s special meeting of the Borough Council, Cf Hannah, who has been absent from Poxton, since shortly after his election, made the statutory declaration and took his seat.

The Masonic Hall, which has been leased to Messrs Levin and Co. for some time for hemp storage purposes, has again reverted to the Trustees. We understand that it is intended to renovate the interior for future public use. The number of patients in the Palmerston North Public Hospital on June Ist was 75, and 114 were admitted during that month, making the total 189. The counter figures were: —Discharges 98, deaths 9, in hospital on July Ist, 82; total, 189. A meeting of the Dorcas Society will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday evening next, at 7 o’clock. Owing to the indisposition of Mrs Raine, there will be no meeting of the nursing guild on that date. All ladies willing to assist in the work of the Dorcas Society are cordially invited to be present.

Considerable anxiety is being felt over the disappearance of Mr William Smith, of the firm of Smith and Smith, Ltd., oil and colour merchants, Wellington. Mr Smith left his home at Day’s Bay on Saturday last at 11 a.m., and reported at the office as usual. He was with some friends during the afternoon, and was last seen at about 5 p.m., when he left to catch the Day’s Bay boat. For some considerable time past Mr Smith has been suffering from illhealth.

Mr F. W. Gardes, of the Family Hotel, oilers a reward of £lO for information that will lead to the conviction of the person or persons, who broke into Ids fowl house and stole- a number of fowls. Mr Gardes informs us that this is the second time (hat a similar theft has been committed. On the first occasion 12 hens were stolen, and ten recently. The lock was broken off the door by the person committing the theft. Mr Gardes says that he is informed that n good deal of petty thieving is going on in (he borough, and the substantial reward offered may lead to the conviction of wrong-doers.

Speaking at the opening of the Dominion Winter Show at Hawera, the lion. J. A. Hanan, Minister for Education, said that in the history of this Dominion,-if ever there was a time when the foundation of production required to be increased and the quality of our staple products improved in order to meet the liabilities associated with the increase in the national debt and the interest it entailed, it was now. He forcefully stressed the need of closer settlement and the application of science to farming'. As Minister for Education, he said, he was extremely interested in the closer settlement of the country, and he was anxious to see the fertile lands of the Dominion so well used that a reflection would be seen in our increased export trade.

The London Daily Telegraph thus refers to the dual match of football for the King's Trophy, which was won by the New Zealanders: “We would have no Rugby football that was not all iron; this about which I write was tremendous in its insistence that there should not be a single breather. It was n succession of banks, and to the mind not more than ordinarily imaginative, it supplied the secret of many of the imperishable stories the war has given us. There were moments when the two packs set one alight with enthusiasm. They ran and worked like Trojans. The New Zealanders did not suggest a perfect machine; most of their movements were plain and conventional —their packs, especially, did not bring out the poetry of Rugby -football—but as a team brimful of determination and indifferent to all else except to finish winners of the most memorable tournament in the history of a great game, they were giants even' one of them.” Certain of the Home forwards would often hold up the New Zealand pack as they came tearing down the field in a body, generally ahead with either Singe or Beilis at the head, but they failed to change the character of the play in such a way as to px’omise a victory for that side with any degree of certainty. The New Zealand pack after the interval was positively great. , THE FIRST DO SB of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will take the rough corners off that harsh, rasping cough, and one bottle will leave you so you will forget what your cough was like. Every , time you cough you strain your entire system, inflame your throat, and weaken your vocal cords. You owe it to yourself to get rid of that cough as quickly as, you can, and for this you can take nothing better than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, For sale everywhere.—Advt,

Farm properties continue to change hands at high figures in the Levin and surrounding districts. It is stated that an Oliau property, bought some years ago by an Otaki resident at £7 10s per acre, recently found a purchaser at £l2O per acre. Another property at Levin sold at £95 per acre, and a few acres of farm land at Otaki was disposed of for £IOO per acre.

There was a good and representative meeting of the Foxton Presbyterian congregation last night to discuss the call forwarded to the Rev. J. H. Bredin from the Mara ekakaho congregation. It was decided to inform the Wanganui Presbytery that the work of Mr Bredin was keenly appreciated throughout the charge, and that as an inducement to-retain his services the stipend would be increased. A deputation will also wait on Presbytery in connection with the matter.

A “Herald” representative had occasion to visit the Wairarapa this week, and experienced, with other travellers, the inconvenience caused to the travelling public through the curtailment of the railway timetable. It happened on the first day of the restricted time-table, and many of the travelling public—and some of the railway officials—were a bit hazy as to the vagaries of the cut. Passengers for Wairarapa from Palmerston boarded the Woodville train at 2 p.m., and arrived at the latter town at about 3,, and were then informed that the next train to Wairarapa would leave at 2 pan. the following day, and would proceed as far as Masterton only. The third day they could continue the journey south. We were informed that upwards of eighty passengers, including women and children, had to re-arrange their mode of travel from Woodville* on Wednesday. We are not going to place on record the dissertations and abuse heaped on the Commissioner of Railways, Government, Bolsheviks,etc., by groups of travellers. However, motor ears were commissioned to continue the journey. Our representative left Foxton on Wednesday morning for Wairarapa, desiring to return to Foxton on Friday. In order to accomplish this, he had to motor from Woodville, take the train from Masterton to Wellington on Thursday night, and catch the 8 o’clock Wellington-Palmerston train the following morning.