LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2013, 9 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Prince of Wales has sailed for Canada aboard 11.M.5, Renown.

The sparrow nuisance is being severely felt by vegetable growers in Masterlon at the present time.

The Tararna ranges, mantled in snow, presented a 'magnificent sight this morning.

The sequel to the alleged theft from a Chinese shop window last Sunday night will he heard at the next sitting of the S.M. Court. Air Campbell Johnstone, chairman of the Raglan County Council, has announced himself as a candidate for the Raglan electorate. In the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said that the Allies had not altered their decision that the Kaiser's trial should he held in London, but'no action would be taken until the Peace Treaty had been fully ratified. The death took place at Tikorangi (North Taranaki) on Tuesday of Mr George Jupp, who was in his (list year. He served in the Maori War, and had resided ever since at Tikorangi-, He leaves,, a family of three sons and five daughters. For® .Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods Great Peppermint Cure.

The Chief Postmaster notifies that the New Zealand mail despatched from Wellington on the 25th of June arrived in London on the 2nd instant.

The total number of'sheep in (be Dominion on 30th April last was estimated at 25,828,554, a decrease of 700,748. The total number of horses was 303,902, as against 378,050; dairy cows, 820,451, as against 793,215; total cattle, including above, and 2,80 J 9,465 respectively. The number of pigs was 235,222,'as against 258,094 for 1918.

- The announcement is made in this week’s Gazette that 99,794 acres of Crown lands are to be opened for selection during the present month. In addition, 8,488 acres are to be opened in September. Further notices proclaim 1,340 acres of settlement land in the Wellington district for soldier settlement; 4,010 acres in the Hawke’s Bay district; and 2,170 in Canterbury,

The five-day week for brainworkers on the London Times' has been inaugurated by Lord Northclifi'e. It includes editors, proofreaders and reporters. The system shortly is to lie extended- to the Daily Mail, and his other publications. Fleet Street is aghast at the carrying over into daily newspaperdom of the Northclilfe methods long in vogue on his weekly and monthly publications. 1 The raising of loans by various local bodies has been approved by the Government as follows: —Clifton County Council, £1,800; Hobson County Council, £3,500; Horowhenua County Council, £500; Newcastle Road Board, £10,000; Stratford County Council, £90,000; Waitemata County Council, £820; Waipa County Council, £4,000; Feilding Borough Council, £3,000; Waikato River Board, £100;-Waikato River Bn fil’d, £SO, ‘

Mail advices from Australia report the at the age of 62 years, of the Kt. Hon. W, P. Schreiner, High Commissioner for South Africa. The deceased was born in Cape Colony, and married a sister of the ex-President Reitz, of the Orange Free State.. He was educated at Gape University, Londoil University, and Downing College, Cambridge. Mr Schreiner was admitted to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1882. He was a member of Mr Rhodes’ second Ministry in 1893, being twice Attorney-General, and Prime Minister of Capo Colony in 1898-1900.

“It is very difficult to say what is going to happen to the Kaiser,” said Sir Joseph Ward, at Auckland, in reply to a question on the subject, states the Post’s correspondent, “He oi|ght to be thoroughly punished for the crimes the people outside Germany were plunged into, as well as the people of his own country. No reparation that could be made in the shape of punishment could over adequately make up for the crimes perpetrated or the diabolical and unjusliliable methods adopted, which spared neither unprotected men nor helpless women from the consequences of what, as 1 the head of the nation, the Kaiser was directly responsible for.” At the advanced age of 96 there died at Waikaraka, near Whangarci, this week, one of the earliest pioneers of the North, Mr John Adam Edwards. Deceased was wellknown as a most competent boatImildor, and was at one time sole proprietor of limestone Island, till be sold out his interests to the New Zealand Portland Cement Co. For the past 60 years he bad,re,sided at Waikaraka, on Whangarei Harbour, Up to his ninetieth year it was his custom to pull the 16 miles to Whangarei’ and hack in a rowingboat, treating the feat lightly. Mrs Edwards, his late wife, died ten years ago, over 90 years of age. The offspring consist of two sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren, and a number of great-grandchild-ren, all of whom reside in the locality of Whangarei Harbour.

The restrictions on railway traffic have added another to the long list of worries which confront local bodies, especially County Councils, in the administration of their duties (states The Post’s Wanganui correspondent). Traffic, particularly motor traffic, on (he main roads has increased enormously within the last few weeks. One local authority expressed the opinion to-day that so far as the main north-western road was concerned, the increase would be near 100 per cent. This increased traffic is having' a bad effect upon the road, the wear and tear being, considerably in excess of normal. All County Councils through whose"'districts the main road runs from Wellington to New Plymouth are suffering, although some are not so bad as others. Most of the traffic is through traffic. The Waitotara County Council uses a large quantity of broken metal procured from Belmont, near Wellington, but as the carriage of this class of goods on the railways is prohibited a number of metalling contracts’are held up, and a good many men are idle in consequence. CAUSES OP COUGHING. Coughing is only neecsspry to re-, move phlegm that';',accumulates in the throat and on the lungs. You can get rid of this phlegm by taking Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, If you do this you save the wear and tear on your throat, lungs and nervous system caused by coughing. Not only does Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy get rid of the cough, but it leaves your throat and lungs in such a healthy condition that you are not so likely to catch cold. For sale everywhere.—Advl,