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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the reticulated area of Invercargill the average daily consumption of water per head is 42 gallons. Mr 11., Witchell, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Otaki, and late of Foxton, is at present spending a few days in Foxton. Mr G. H. Richardson, Government Audit Inspector, is at present in Foxton in connection with the annual audit of the accounts of the local bodies.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held locally to-morrow. The cases set down for hearing include two eases against Natives, one a female, of using obscene' language. Fine wmather and keen prices are bringing a larger number of buyers every day to the C. M. Ross Coy.’s Sale. If you have not visited the Sale of the Season yet, do so today while the big bargains are going.

If proof is wanted of the growing virulence of cancer and the decline in influenza, the Monthly Abstract of Statistics affords it. In the four metropolitan and nine suburban areas (here ai’e 57 deaths from cancer and only 12 from influenza. Peace was celebrated half-heart - edly in the West and South of Ireland, where, as a protest against the nonsetllemcni of the Irish question, business was carried on as usual. Many houses flew a black (lag. The Peace celebration in Dublin was enthusiastic. Lord French, Lord Lieutenant, look the salute of six thousand troops and a thousand demobilised men who took part in the march past.

The dentil occurred suddenly on Saturday afternoon, of Mr X. Andrew, editor of the Rangitikei Advocate, at Marlon. Mr Andrew was visiting his nephew’s place at Tawa Street, Gonville. lie complained of feeling yinweli, and medical aid was sought, but ho expired before Dr. Wilson arrived. Mr Andrew was (10 years of age, and bad been in indifferent health. Ho was a man of quiet disposition, hut was well read, and wielded an able pen. At the Polieo Court in Christchurch on Friday, Catherine Colmrn was lined £lO for permitting the premises she eondneted as a restaurant to hccoine a nuisance by reason of offensive smells and the accumulation of injurious and offensive matter. The City Inspector said (hat decaying lish were lying ahout, and there was tilth everywhere. It was the worst place he had seen for fifteen years.

AA r e (dip the following from the Hnglish periodical, “The Garden,” of April 2(ith of this year, under the heading of “Daffodil Shows and Doings in New Zealand in 1918”; — “Foxton Horticultural, Floral and Industrial Association's Spring Show includes daffodils, toffee, apple pies, ducks’ eggs, and cakes. In all there were 154 classes. I should like to .fly there one fine day to have a look round. In having something for everyone to try for, there seems much common sense. It is the great Shrewsbury Fete mutatis mutandis.”

An interesting' ease was heard at the Magistrate’s Court at Eketahuna last week, in which W. Duff claimed from J. S. Patterson, formerly a drover, of Masterton, a sura of £133 10s for hoard and lodging. The defendant counter-claimed a sum of £142 for various items specified. It appeared from the evidence that the two parties were friends, and that Patterson was invited to go and stay with Duff for a week or two. The invitation was accepted, and Patterson remained a guest for nineteen months. In giving his judgment; .Mr Free, S.M., said defendant went as a guest, and there was no clear evidence as to a change of relationship. The matter of hoard was undoubtedly spoken of, without an amount being fixed. It was significant that no steps were taken to collect until after a domestic rupture took place. He would have to non-suit plaintiff on his claim. On the counter-claim he would give judgment for Duff, each party to pay its own costs and each to share Mrs Duff’s witness expenses.

The question as to the relative consumption of coal by a vessel such as (he Pateena on the trip from Onehunga to Wellington and by a railway engine from Auckland to Wellington having been raised by a correspondent, inquiries on the subject were made by a representative of (he Auckland Herald from competent authorities. It was stated that on an approximate calculation the Pateena burns about 25 tons a day at full speed, or roughly one ton an hour. According to her timetable the round trip from Wellington to Onehunga and back will occupy 57 hours, that is, 2S hours each way, and the hour’s stay at Onehunga. Consequently she will consume about 57 tons of coal each trip, A railway locomotive on the journey from 'Wellington to Auckland, or vice versa, consumes about 15 tons of coal on the 18-hour trip, a consumption for the round trip of 30 tons,,or about 27 tons less than the Pateena’s requirements. It should be noted, however, says the Herald, that whereas the locomotive consumes only a special class of steaming coal, the steamer can utilise a far inferior kind. CHILBLAINS. x'

If you have had Chilblains each winter in the past, take the precaution after a cold snap of bathing your feet in very hot water, and then rubbing in Chamberlain’s Pain Balm freely. _ You won’t have any Chilblains if you do this. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

Lovers of dancing arc well entered for locally, there being llneo separate assemblies catering for followers of Terpsichore. Mr David McDougall, ex-'Mayor / of Gore,(has announced that he will contest the Mataura seat as an opponent of the present Government. 7 /

Never have the people of Foxton been offered such real savings in drapery, men's and boys’ clothing, • as are now to be had at A. N. Smith’s Great Winter Sale. All goods absolutely new and thoroughly dependable. Everything reduced. Ladies’ hats and all remnants at practically half the usual prices. Cut out special advertisement in this issue, and call to-day.

The Government Statistician reports that the returns of actual threshings received to. June 20th from threshing mill owners showed that, so far, 4,972,071 bushels of oats had been thrashed out. The average yields per acre in cases where particular areas were furnished work out at 33.56 bushels for wheat, and 42.01 bushels for oats.

A local high school boy mot a painful accident at Rangiotu sta-’ tion yesterday morning. While walking in company with two other lads, beside the train, a stone was , thrown by one of a grovlp of lad's, which struck the lad on the temple and caused a deep wound. The wound bled profusely, and was attended to at the Palmerston Hospital. The matter is being enquired into.

The‘death occurred suddenly at Pleasant Point, Tiniaru, on Sunday, of Rev. J. T. Gunn, Presbyterian u minister, who had arrived only a few <' weeks ago from Roxburgh. Ho had held a morning' service at Kawahn, and was to have taken one at the Point in the afternoon. As lie did not arrive, a car went for him, and found him lying 1 dead beside his bicycle. Heart failure was the (muse of death, lit 1 leaves a widow and five children. $

Mrs Tevioldale, who has disposed of her stationery business, leaves for Wellington this week. During Mrs Teviotdale’s residence in Fox- . ton she lias been a valuable acquisition at concerts and social func-^

lions. Her vocal talents have always been at the service of the public, and in ibis connection she will bo missed in tbo community. Wo join with her many Fox-ton friends in wishing her health and prosperity in the fntnro.

Many a male resident of Wellington may often have wondered why the harbor to whom lie entrusts his face and hair is so persuasive when the matter of a massage or a shampoo is mentioned (says the Post), A possible clue to the reason was gi on at the Arbitration Court, when a journeyman hairdresser said that ' for every massage or shampoo trcfitment lie gave he was allowed a commission, which totalled for the week from 15s to 255. Incidentally, this .witness considered that the average journeyman’s takings for his employer for all classes of work were about £lO a week. Mr Xoel Wilson, a sou of Sir James Wilson, of Bulls, was the victim of an extremely painful accident while out shooting on Saturday, It appears that Mr AVilson, in company with some others, went out quail shooting on Dr. AATitson’s property at Bulls, and as he was walking up a hill one of the party bred at a bird. One of the shots from the charge rieochetted off a stone and entered Mr AATlson’s left eye, causing a very serious and grave condition. He was brought into Palmerston, where the wound was X-rayed, but it was found to lie of such a serious nature that the injured man was taken to AVellington for treatment.

As the result of a district courtmartial held at Trentham Camp on July 12th, 71,911 Private Thomas McGee, late cam]) quartermasters department, was sentenced to 48 hours’ detention for absenting himself without leave, and losing by neglect his equipment, clothing, and regimental necessaries, and to be placed under stoppages of pay until he has made good the following articles of kit: One jacket, Kid; one hat, Id; two titles, 7d; one pair braces Id; one pair drawers, sd; one working shirt, sd; one undershirt, sd; one denim trousers, Id; two pairs socks, 2d; total value, 3s Id. [No one would suggest that the values placed on the clothing are excessive.]

The question of whether the restrictions on the milwny service in Xew Zealand nre to he lifted in a lew weeks will he determined hy the result of n conference between the miners and owners, which is to be held at the end of the present month. The miners are demanding' a shift wage, shorter hours, ami more concessions, which, if granted,, would result in a diminished output from the coal mines of the Dominion. It is considered in well-informed circles that the demands will be rejected by both the private owners and the Government. If this happens, it is not at all improbable that a strike of coal miners will occur. This is a development which the Government and the Railway ment are fearing, and it is one of the " reasons which have prompted the conservation of coal supplies and the building up of reserves. The whole Dominion is looking forward to the conference with profound anxiety.—Age. , STOP THAT COUGH. i A Stop that cough. Cut it out entirely. Get rid of that throat irritation. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy stops the cough by loosening the phlegm and allaying the irritation,, , For sale everywhere.—Advt,

Mr H. Holland, who was Mayor of Christchurch for seven years prior to the present terra, will be a candidate for a Christchurch seat at the next elections.

Mr Massey, Sir Joseph Ward and

party left Vancouver on July 16th, and should be in the Dominion by • August sth or 6th. The session will not commence for at least a fortnight after their arrival. w

When men of scientific mind get on to a popular belief they usually dismember it. At the Otago Institute meeting, Professor Waters set one of these beliefs on its feet. The topic of the moment was Australian ants. The professor said that when he lived, in Australia hisquarters were invaded by ants. Having heard that these ants would not cross a chalk line, he drew such a line on the table, and the ants stopped at it and tried to march round it. He and his mates thereupon chalked circles round the legs of the tucker cupboard, and other articles of furniture, and the experiment succeeded. Ho did not know’ the explanation, but could vouch for the fact that the ants would not cross the chalk.

It is slated by the Christchurch Sun that the soldiers’ poultryfarming settlement which it is proposed to establish on what is known as the Beadel property, at Fendalton, will cos! the Dominion between £40,000 and £50,000; but it is hoped, according to what Mr A, W. Jamieson told members of the Canterbury Repatriation Board, to make it a credit, not to Canterbury alone, but to (he whole of New Zealand. Mr Jan/ieson staled that while in AVellington recently he had waited upon the officials who would be shortly coming south to put the scheme in band. Mr Kirk and Colonel Young, who with others had been deputed to carry out the scheme, were most enthusiastic, and were keen to cooperate with the Repatriation Board to make this settlement as great a success as was possible.

Sergeant Leslie Loveday, who won the Kind’s Prize at the roeent rifle shooting competition at Bisley, is 28 years of age, and has for some lime past boon considered one of the host of the Dominion’s marksmen. He was a member of iho New Zealand loam that visited Bisley in 1911, when lie secured several prizes and was amongst those who were in the limit stage for the King’s prize, while in (lie same year lie competed successfully at the meetings in New South Wales and Victoria. Sergeant L. Lovcday was the youngest marksman to win the championship of New Zealand. His father, Mr George Loveday, has been well-known in New Zealand as one of the Dominion’s best marksmen for over 20 years past, and was a member of the Woodville team which established a world’s record at a gathering held in Oaraaru in 189 G.

In an article on the Peace celebrations published in the Christchurch Press, Sir Robert Stout says: “Some people write and talk as if the very existence of trained and armed citizens meant an encouragement of war. Have they ever seen or read of Switzerland, It is one of the most democratic republics in the world; all its citizens who are tit to be trained are trained to tight. It has never gone to war. It has been a country of industry, of enlightenment and of peace, and has striven to uplift humanity. Training its citizens to defend their country has not made it militant, in policy or feeling, and if we have ever before us the need of settling our disputes by appeal to arbitration, why should the nations that have trained citizens require to go to war ? Every young New Zealander, even if health reasons onlywere considered, would be better for discipline and drill for a month a year, and would be belter if taken away from town life, and trained and drilled in the open air and sunshine. There should be in addition to their drill, lectures on some educational topics. A yearly camp might become in every district a summer school for our youths. They need discipline, and a training in patriotism, in sell -sacrifice, and in the open air,”

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 2

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