LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2008, 29 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“If then we want peace in the world we must discourage tyranny, Avhether the tyrants be capitalists, militarists, democrats or socialists,” —Sir Robert Stout. The Masterton Chamber of Commerce lias passed a motion urging that the ferry service between the North and South Islands of New Zealand should form part of the State railway service. Cabled advice has been received to the effect that the Prime Minister and the ,Minister of Finance arrived safely at Honolulu on 24th July. Both Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward are well.

Professor Gautier has reported to the Academy of Sciences that the use of the chemical flourinc will increase the average yield of wheat thirteen, oats twelve, and potatoes fifty-eight per cent.

An inquest was held at Woodville on the body of Phillip Carrigan, w T ho was killed in a motor acident on Thursday night. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased came by accidental death, eaused by the motor coming into collision wdth a bridge. The car turned upside down, pinning deceased under water in a creek.

Having noticed on the trip from Auckland to Rotorua that inordinately long stops were made at many stations for no apparent purpose, a passenger decided to take a record of the running time, and of the stoppages on the return jouxmey. The train left Rotorua at 6.10 a.m., and reached Auckland at 6.20 p.m., having taken 12 hours and 10 minutes on the run. Of this time, stoppages consumed five hours four minutes, the actual running time being only seven hours sis minutes. The longest stop was at Frankton, where the train remained for 52 minutes.

The Rev.- J. H. and Mrs Breclin were entertained at a farewell social at Rangiotu last night. The basest hypocrite is one who sacrifices a friend in order to purchase the fleeting limelight of a spurious popularity. Included among the speakers at the Town Hall to-night will be Chaplain Colledge, who has just returned to New Zealand.

“What sort of a man would you say I am?” a witness was yesterday asked by the defendant in a separation case heard at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court. ‘Well,” replied the witness, “I should say you’re no man at all. There are three kinds of people I don’t call men—liars, crawlers, and two-faced men, and you are all three.”

Included among the successful candidates at the recent Trinity College musical examinations appears the name of Margaret Hynes (a pupil of the local Convent), in the preparatory division. Margaret was seven years of age when she sat for the examination, and her success is considered a very creditable performance for one so young.

An old journalist of New Zealand, in the person of Mr Thomas E. Hamerton, passed away at New Plymouth on Tuesday, at the age of seventy-eight years. The deceased conducted the Patea paper from 1894 to 1901. He then went to Inglewood and took over the Record, which he managed and edited up to the time of his death.

At the last Trinity College theory examinations, Miss Hilda Thompson and Miss Hazel Newth passed the junior division with honours. Both were pupils of Mrs H. J. Richards (nee Symes). Amongst the many valued gifts to the latter on her recent marriage was a beautiful silver vase. This presentation was made to her by Miss MeMurray on behalf of her former pupils, “Fair Play” writes to the Auckland Herald: “In justice to Professor von Zedlitz, I think it ought to be generally known that he is the son of an Englishwoman, has been entirely educated in England, and (if I am rightly informed) has never lived in Germany, except as a visitor, since he was seven years of age. There are others holding responsible positions in New Zealand who arc much more German than Professor Von Zedlitz; his crime is his name.”

In a speech at Wellington, Miss Mae Lean, Director of the Girls’ High School, described some of the biggest of the institutions she had visited in the cities of the United States, and also in Toronto. She said that the Americans spent millions on education, and provided for their schools on a scale undreamed of in this country. Most of all she emphasised the great use made of school libraries, and these libraries, she said, were really wonderfully fine.

Quite an eventful time will be held at the Town Hall to-night. Commissioner and Mrs Hodder, Brigadiers Hoare and Toomer, “Padre” Bladin, and Chaplain Colledge (just returned) will review and inspect the Life-saving Scouts and Guards. A very enjoyable time is promised. Captain Goffln cordially invites the public to be present, and complimentary tickets may be obtained at the entrance to the Town Hall. The time of commencement is 8 o’clock.

A Dunedin merchant last week gave to the Otago Daily Times his idea of the chief cause of the high cost of living. He stated that the large amount of borrowed money, and the increased issue of paper money by the banks, had caused an abundance of what might be termed artificial money, and that as a result there was a tendency to pay more than its actual value for land, for instance, with a general upward trend in the price of produce. Another point put forward for the high cost of living was that no matter how high prices soared, the average housewife exercised no restraint in purchasing in the face of the heavy prices asked. The merchant went on to say that if the general purchaser would only refrain from buying at high values, and ask for an article of a more or less similar value at a lower cost, the tendency must be to lower the price of most high-cost commodities.

A committee of the Danish residents of Palmerston North have decided that as soon as the territory of Schleswig has been officially handed to Denmark they will despatch a cable to his Majesty, the King of Denmark, congratulating him and the Danish people upon the event. Later it is proposed that an illuminated address, in a New Zealand floral design, shall be procured, and the names of as many Danish people as possible be affixed thereto. It is also proposed to present his Majesty with a suitable souvenir of New Zealand origin. It has been further decided that a reunion of as many Danes as possible from all over the Dominion be held at Palmerston North, and also that the Danish consul and acting-con-suls lie invited to attend, when the address and souvenir would be open for inspection.—Palmerston Times.

There’s nothing like butter for bread, - There’s nothing like leather for hoots, There’s nothing for bullets like lead, There’s nothing grows timber like' roots. On foregone conclusions like these, To argue is cussedness pure; ’Tis as certain for colds you’ll find ease In Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 12

It was stated by Mr 11. I’. Too good, C.E., at a meeting of delegut es of Wairarapa local, bodies las week, that the cost of tar-sealin: roads was about £1,200 per mile and the cost of upkeep about’ £BC The cost of maintaining some of tli metalled roads in the Feathers to; County was about £212 per mile. “The farmers arejhe .tightest fisted men in the universe,” said M H. Bond (Rangiotu), when speak ing on the question of subscripts to the Farmers’ Union at the meet ing of the sub-provincial exeeutiv in Levin on Saturday. “The onl; way to get the subscription out o them is.to ask for it, and if the; don’t pay, keep on asking until the; do.”—(Laughter and applause). The will of Lieutenant Verno: Hollington, R.N.V.E., of Enfield, wh left £29,703, reads: “It doesn’t mat ter much to me what happens if I ‘g under.’ You know quite well what want done with everything of mim The governor won’t want it, and would rather it was divided betwee: you two chaps and the girls.” Thi refers to his brothers and sisters^ A fire occurred on Sunday morn ing in a boardinghouse in Cargi Street, Dunedin, reulting in th death of Duncan MacDonald, waterside worker, from sulfocatior while another man named Doehertj formerly on the Marama, was s badly burned that he had to be re moved to the hospital. The uppe storey of the building was gutted. When replying to the deputatio which interviewed Ministers at Wei lington concerning the restricte railway services, Hon W. H. Herries Minister for Railways, stressed th fact that there was no ulterior mo tive in the restrictions. “Som people think we want to do this t give Labour a smack in the faei but that is not so,” said Mr Herries “That would have been suicidal.”

The coach from Napier to Wairoa went over the bank on Saturday afternoon, about seven miles on the Napier side of the Mohaka, near the roadman’s hut. There were four people aboard. J. Fleming received a broken shoulder-blade, and the other passengers were badly shaken. A doctor went out from Wairoa, attended to the injured. One horse was killed, and one suffered a broken leg, and was destroyed. The mail matter was covered with mud, and is

very wet. .When Sir Andrew Russell was in Napier on Saturday, taking part in the Peace celebrations, he made no secret of the fact that he had definitely decided to stand for the Hawke’s Bay seat (states the Times). Sir John Findlay, the sitting member, will not be a candidate. It is considered improbable that there will be any opposition to Sir drew, although Mr Nat Beamish has '• stated his intention to stand all comers.

Speaking at Newport, Isle of Wight, Brig.-Gen. H. S. Davey, who was in the last, ship to leave Gallipoli at the evacuation, said as soon as the order to be silent ceased the British troops sang “Good-bye, Johnnie, I must leave you, though it breaks my heart to go.” “This was supposed to be a beaten army!” he said, “You may kill the British soldier, but you can never beat him. He has a spirit which is indomitable.”

A novel means of locomotion for one person, and new to Gisborne, was seen in the streets there last week. It was a motor scooter. The machine is a short platform on two pneumatic-tyred wheels. It has a steering handle to which is attached the controls of the small petrol motor which gives the propelling power. The driver stands on the platform, and the speed of the machine enables him to maintain his balance.. On good roads a “scooter” is capable of developing considerable speed. It was seen travelling smartly and easily along the somewhat bumpy surface of Gisborne’s main street, states an exchange.

The question of punishment for offences committed by men who have been on active service was the subject of a statement by Mr J. E. Wilson, S.M., in the Auckland police court recently. “The Courts will . have to impress on returned soldiers,” he said, “that they must not expect to be sluelded from punishment by the fact that they have been on active service. Universally the Courts have dealt very sympathetically with men who , have served their country, but these men must now realise that they have to conform to the laws of the Dominion, and in the event of their committing acts of violence they must be treated as ordinary civilians.” Mr Ward Price, interviewed Marshal Foeh, who frankly assuufed that there was a possibility of another great war. He described the development and achievement of Kitchener’s army as “marvellous.” He added; “Next time it will be better done, but England won’t be ready; we must wait for her.” Asked what should be done, Marshal Foeh exclaimed, “Oh, how can I say?” but added that “the next war more than ever will be a war ofy machinery. It will be essential have reserves of material, and the laboratories and inventor’s must keep abreast of the times continual- v ly, and if possible ahead on the mechanical side.”