Manawatu Herald SATURDAY JULY 12, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2002, 12 July 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY JULY 12, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Afi 1 Hamer informs us that ho hopes to have his new picture house, the Royal, open in six weeks’ time.

The German National Assembly has ratified the Peace Treaty by 208 votes to 150.

Motorists state that during the past few evenings they have passed through thick fog hanks along the Himatangi road. Mr T. E, Maunsoll, late of Carterton, and recently a partner with Brigadier-General 11. E. Hart, C.M.G., D. 5.0., and now a resident of Nelson, has been appointed S.M. for Westport.

Pictures to adorn the walls of the Red Shield Club-room will be thankfully received by Captain Coffin. Also reading matter.

A number of farms in (his district have changed hands recently. The high price of land is tempting all and sundry to dispose of their property while prices' are so favourable.

Aii appeal for £l5O to furnish 1 lie Red Shield Club-room is being made by (he board of management. Capt. Coffin and Mr Perronu are authorised lo receive cheques, etc., which may lie made payable to the Reel Shield Club.

’ A wedding was celebrated-at the Tokomaru Presbyterian Church on Thursday, by the Rev. Mr Whecldon, the contracting parties being Mr R. Barber, eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. E. Barber, of Fox!on, and Miss Edna Reicbel, eldest daughter of Mr and Airs O. Reicbel, of Tokomaru. After the ceremony a large number of guests and relatives were present at a reception at. the residence of the bride’s parents, when the usual toasts and felicitous speeches were made.

According to a statement made by Hoh. W. D. S. MacDonald to a Labour deputation, the question of State ownership will come up very prominently in the next few months. ■The,-Minister said he would be pi’eparing a mining Bill, which he hoped would be made law. One of bis schemes was to advance money to miners, to work small mines on their own account, possibly in co-opera-tive companies.

Mr Geo. Hawke,who was postmaster at the Featherston Camp for a lengthy period, and who is now stationed at Marton, is on a visit to his brother, our local postmaster. The Government has purchased from Mr J. R. Murphy the Kepongaere Estate, of 2,00 u acres, for a soldiers’ settlement. It is situated twelve miles from Gisborne.

We have been asked to publish a suggestion, that the fireworks display on Peace night take place on the Cemetery Hill, adjoining the school, instead of the sites suggested, viz., Government Hill or the paddock at the rear of the school. Some doubt was expressed at Wednesday night’s meeting, as to the carriage of toys, etc., from Wellington by rail. Mr Furrie said the difficulty could be overcome by placing the goods in a barrel and labelling it “liquor,” “What this country urgently requires,” said a Welfare League delegate, at Wellington “is honest work —not by one section, but by all classes of the community. We must have no artificial dream of.politics founded on personal prejudice. We must be practical, honest, earnest, and unselfish.” “If we arc to succeed in our mission,” said a delegate to the conference of the Welfare League, at Wellington, “it is essential that we must put the interests of the country before our'own personal-interests, and (this emphatically) we must have no truck in any way with the Bed Fedders,”

Amongst New Zealand officers recently decorated at Buckingham Palace were Major IT. Barrowclongh, D.S.O. and M.C., and Lienton- ! ant W. Sic vers, M.C. The former officer is an ox-pupil of the' Palmerston North High School. Lieutenant Sievers, who lives at Levin, .returned to the Dominion this week.

Mr M assey, interviewed aI. Toronto, said llial lie was generally salistie/l with ilio Peace Treaty. Some articles possibly might be improved. Mr Massey wait! that lie did not think the ex-Kaisor should bo executed or commit led to prison, but unless the ex-Kaiser was punished it was impossible to punish the lesser offenders.

Mr W. C. Bo veil, an old Taranaki pioneer, died at West own, New Plymouth, last week. Deceased, who was about 94 years of age, arrived in New Plymouth by the William Bryan on April Ist, 184.1, being one of the earliest settlers there. With his parents he engaged in farming in the Waiwakaiho district, and went all through the Maori War. He married a daughter of the late Air Joseph TLnvke, of New Plymouth, and some time after the conclusion of (he Maori trouble he went to Nelson, returning to Taranaki after the death of his wife a few years ago.

“Encephalitis Icthargiea” (sleeping; sickness), the latest disease, lias made its appearance in the Palmerston North hospital district. Tw ■o cases of this strange disease occurred in the district last month, one in Palmerston North (an adult) and the other at Levin (a child of four years). Another rather disquieting feature of the return of the District Health Officer is the fact that during June no fewer than 43 eases of diphtheria were notified in (he district. Two deaths occurred from (his disease.

In connection with the visit of H.M.S. Now Zealand to Wellington next month, special arrangements for the school children’s visit: to the warship are contemplated. On the last occasion when the warship was is port and children from all parts of the. district went to the city, there was next to no organisation, with the result that children were lost for a few hours, many of them laid to go hungry for the greater part of the day, and the total lack of conveniences caused some distressing scenes. It is not intended that this sort of thing shall he repeated. An idea put, forward is that there shall he one day for the city State school children to visit the warship, and another for the children from the country. With respect to the latter, it is proposed that the children from the various schools shall pass through the hig shed on the King's Wharf, where they will he fed; then they will pass out by a single exit on the warship’ by one gangway, pass through the ship, and leave hy another gangway, and so to a defined reassembling point. It is said lhai an organised scheme snch as has been proposed by Captain Mmiro (chief warfinger of the Harbour Hoard) is (he only way to handle large numbers of children without confusion and discomfort.

Collinson and Cunninghame, of Palmerston North make an unusually interesting announcement, to the effect that they are holding a “Happy Week/' which begins to-day and continues until Friday next. During this period they are making several unusually attractive offers to purchasers, among (hem being the following:—With every Axminster and Wilton Carpet square purchased a Torrington carpet sweeper will be given free; to every purchaser of 8 yards of linoleum, a polish mop will be presented. “Happy Week” price of the popular Rotoscillo sewing machine, £8 15s, Showroom bargains during “Happy Week” include ladies' cream serge corals, smartly tailored, 2-lengths, 27/6; ladies' blanket coats, this season’s large collars, 75s;costumes and frocks in various materials, now 3gns, ; maids’ skirts, in serge, smart plain styles, •sizes 24 t 0.30 in., 7/11, Enquiries will receive' prompt attention from Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd,

At Otaki -this week, Charles Bell, charged with the theft of a bottle of beer, was convicted and fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment, and on a charge of using obscene language, a similar fine was imposed. Edward Cootes, !( for inciting Bell to resist the police, was fined £3 or 14 days’ imprisonment. • Advice has been received that the Port Hacking, with Returning Draft No. 275, left the United Kingdom on July 4th for. Lyttelton, where she is due on or about August 14th. She has 833 troops on board. A wireless message received from the Kigoma (Returning Draft No. 262) states that she will reach Wellington at daylight on Tuesday next. From July 3rd to 7th, states the Minister for Public Health, 25 cases of influenza were notified. Four of the cases were pneumonic, aijd one was severe. The cases 'in the different health districts were: — Auckland, 6 (1 pneumonic, 1 severe) ; Wellington, 13 (2 pneumonic); Canterbury, 6 (1 pneumonic); Otago, 0.

Staff-Sergt. James Chrystall, a member of one of the early Reinforcements, ■ who recently returned by the Tahiti, is on a visit to his brother, Mayor Chrystall.* Sergt, Chrystall was aboard the hospital ship Marquette when she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, and was one of the recused after being several hours in the water.

A rat her smartly-dressed young fellow, wearing a returned soldiers’ badge, was entertaining several passengers, including' two or three young ladies, in a railway carriage, on Ihe way up from •Wellington recently. He graphically recounted several stunts. In a seat nearby sat a man in mufti, prematurely grey, with a portion of a sea]’ showing beneath his hat. Apparently lie had been listening to., the recital. After a time he turned to the hero and quietly said: “Yon wore couneeted with the A.M.C., weren’t yon?” The young man faltered some reply, and a few moments later left: (ho carriage.