LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2014, 12 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mvs Robinson, Tliynne Street, lias received word that her son, Pte. Henry Robinson, will return to New Zealand next week.

Accounts amounting' to £633 8s 2d were passed for payment at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council.

The Mayor mentioned at last night’s Council meeting that the cost of the Peace Celebrations locally was £145. The Government subsidy would amount to £72 10s od, after receiving which there would be a balance in hand from the voluntary subscriptions of about £l3.

Among the eases set down for hearing at the sittings of the Wellington Supreme Court, which opened yesterday, is Percy Sherratt v. The Colonial Fanners’ Co-operative Trading Co., Ltd., declaration that agreement validly rescinded; possession of title deeds, etc. At a meeting of the Otaki Town Board last week, Mr Byron Brown stated he had no intention of contesting the Otaki seat at the coming general election. It was once-his ambition, he said, to be a member, but at present he had no wish to be a representative of the people.

At the Town Hall on Friday night there will be a special attraction, in the form of a vaudeville, entertainment, headed by the Boyal Togos, the wonderful Japanese acrobats, who have drawn record houses throughout the Dominion. Other artists include Louis Alsace, the master musician, and Billie Leslie. Prices of admission are 3s, 2s and Is, plus tax.

At last night’s Council meeting' Ci 1 . Kami asked if tin* ..Manawatu County rangci’ Ifad llie right to impound stoclc from the borough roads or collect lees. He said the ranger from Kongoloa was in Foxton recently and had taken .stock in charge on (lie borough roads, and collected lees from the owners. The flavor replied that the County ranger had no authority to do so.

A special picture entertainment is to he hold in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Foxton Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party. The proceeds are to be devoted to the election campaign fund for the Manawalu seat at the forthcoming general election. Mr A. C. Hillier, the seleeted Labour candidate, will bo present, and will be introduced to the public. The prices of admission are Is and lid.

Under the heading, “Beer, Glorious Beer!’’ a correspondent; says in the Dunedin Star: The Kailway Department is now urging Women, children, and men, not travelling on urgent business, not to use the railways, on the plea that the trains must be cut down to the lowest limit. But beer and whisky still ride on the rails. The breweries consume large quantities of coal, and the people cannot get enough coal to keep their homes and children warm. The coal consumed in the breweries in and around Dunedin would “keep the home fires burning’-’ in hundreds of dwellings of the people. Beer and spirits occupy on the public railways t he place of essential goods.

Says the Dominion: —The first thing necessary the dangers which confront the Dominion is a plain and unequivocal declaration by (he Party leaders that they recognise and admit the heed of establishing a new order in New Zealand politics. While such a declaration is withheld the outlook must he unpromising, and those who withhold it assume the heavy responsibility of subordinating the interests of the Dominion to those of faction. Both leaders have had something to say in general terms about the desirability of co-opera-tion and setting aside petty divisions, but the occasion calls for plain speech, and not only for speech, but for action.

CAUSES OP COUGHING. Coughing is only necessary to remove 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.—Advt.

Ih referring to the bad state of the footpath along one of the ■streets, at last night's Council meeting, one Councillor stated that it was so had that he had slipped off it into the drain one night recently. This brought forth the advice from another City Father “to-take a lit-" tie more water with'it!”

Imaginary conversation in the office of a railway official bearing claims to be allowed to travel: “I want to go to Christchurch.” “What for?” “To attend my grandmother’s race meeting—no, I hog your pardon!—l mean my race-mother’s grand meeting. That is ——” “I think you’d better postpone the entertainment —I mean the funeral. Next, please.”

Since the bowling season closed some very extensive improvements have been made to the local Club’s property. The croquet x lawn has been thoroughly, top-dressed, levelled and sown. The seed has come away well, and the lawn looks particularly well at present, and should be in real tip-top order for the coming season, A verandah has been added to the pavilion, and the whole building painted. A start has been made with the erection of a rustic 'summerhouse, and further work will be carried out in connection with this to-morrow afternoon. All members able to do so are requested to roll up about 2 o’clock and give a band with the work, so that same can be completed and ready for use on opening day. The practical cessation of pricefixing having played into the hands .of the profiteer, the cost of living naturally is on the up grade (says the MelbourncAge). According to statistics furnished by Mr Knibbs, the prices of commodities in June last showed an increase of 0.6 percent. over those of the previous month. All the States showed increases, except Queensland, where prices remained stationary. In South Australia the increase was 1.3 per cent., and in the other States less than 1 per cent. Compared with June, 1918, the cost of living in June last increased in all tlfe States. The greatest advance was 21.9 percent. in Western Australia, followed by 15.2. per cent, in Queensland, 14 per cent, in New South Wales, 6.6 per cent, in South Australia, 5.5 per cent, in Victoria, and 3.7 per cent, in Tasmania. .The average increase for the Commonwealth from July, 1914, to June, 1919, was 46.6 per- cent.

The Rev. Mi' MeAra, who recently resigned the pastorate of the Kaikonra Presbyterian Chnrcli, after a ministry of forty-one years, occupied the pulpit at the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The Rev. gentleman is at present spending a holiday with his daughter, Mrs Gerrand, of Palmerston N., prior to taking up his residence at Sumner, where he intends to live in retirement. Mr MeAra. was trained as a medical missionary for South Africa, but owing to health reasons was sent to New Zealand. His ministry in Kaikoura was a splendid record of service, and his departure was regretted not only by members of his own chnrcli, but by the whole community. Mr MeAra will probably till the temporary vacancy in the Presbyterian Church until a new minister is appointed.

“Anglo-Saxon” writes to the Auckland Herald: In my opinion, (lie above-named professor (von Zedlitz) is suffering for his name. How many that his wife is British and the daughter and sister of prominent New Zealanders? Her father was Sir William Fitzllerhert, Premier and Sneaker in the Legislative Council. Her brother was member of Parliament, for the Hull from 1887 to 1890, Besides, she has other distinguished colonists closely related. Professor and Mrs von Zedlitz have a fine family, who will be as good New Zealanders, if look's go for anything, as some of their ancestors. If the R.S.A, want to distinguish themselves, let them inquire into rumours concerning an Auckland public works camp, where ail the officers talk German. If we must have Germans an the public service, it is up to them to study the feelings of their subordinates and cut the German language out of their conversation.

“It’s ihe fliin end of the wedge,” said a speed a tor at a recent costume ball in London on seeing slim maidens pouring in clad in various types of trousers and breeches. “And the other end of the wedge you’ll see in a few minutes.” The “other end” was soon personified in a “pixie.’’ There was no back to her dress, there was very little front, and nothing to speak about in the way of sides. The skirt came to an abrupt end well above the knee, the only other article of dress were a pair of black stockings and a pair of shoes. She was not alone in her daring, either, for the general tendency was all in this direction. There is liberty enough in the streets and thoroughfares these days; theatre dresses become scantier each night, but the climax is reached at the costume ball, where the minimum.of concealment is aimed at, and what Would once have been considered daring on the beach at Ostcnd in the bathing season now passes unnoticed in the general outbreak of “undress” costumes.

Thoughts in absence ever wander Where fond recollections cling; Making loyal hearlfc grow fonder Of a person, place or thing. Tender thoughts of dear ones vanished In our hearts for age endure— Gratitude for bad colds banished, And for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 22.

For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods Great Peppermint Cure,

A notification of .considerable in-* terest to property owners-is contained in a recent issue of the Government Gazette. It fixes the maxi-* mum prices payable in respect of. ~ the half cost of erecting certairf jfr' kinds of fences under the Fencing Act, 1908, as in respect of the half cost of erecting a fence of the kind described in clause one of Part U of the Second Schedule to* the said Fencing Act, 1908, the sum of nine-

ty shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause two of Part I.

of the said Second Schedule, the sum of ninety-nine shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause three of Part I. of the said Second Schedule, the sum of sixtyfour shillings per chain; of the kind described in danse four of Part I. of the said Second Schedule, the sum of thirty-nine shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause five of Part I. of the said Second. Schedule, the sum of thirty shillings per chain; exclusive of half the reasonable and proper cost of felling and clearing bush along the line of such fence. “There are clouds on the trial horizon, but if we have learned the lessons that we should have learned from the results of the war, I see no reason why we should not overcome or surmount those difficulties,” slated the Hon. J. T. Paul, president of the New Zealand Labour Party, at Wanganui last week, “I have heard men in high places suggest that a strike has to come, and that it is better that we should ' have it now. In my opinion, these people believe that if Labour can be involved in a strike it will dally affect their chances at this, coming election. I emphatically suggest that neither Labour nor Capital has any right to involve our country in any such struggle as a strike would be in the temper of the people, for the sake of helping any political party. The romper of the -people of the Western world is dangerous, and I hope that whenever industrial difficulties arise every effort will be made to settle them on equitable terms, without an appeal to force by either side, for disastrous results may follow such an appeal.” Says the Dunedin Star: —Itil said that Dean Swift once preached a charity sermon in these words; “My text is this: ‘He that giveth to the poor lendeth unto the Lord.’ There is the security; if you approve of-it, out with your money,” Whether the Dean did or did not so preach is neither here nor there. The story gives us the idea of direct giving without the trumpetsounding'which the. Great Teacher forbade. There is. such direct giving to-day, and not a little of it, An instance comes to our knowledge. On Armistice Day a Dunedin citizen went round the and public institutions, including the Hospital and Benevolent Instiution, and expressed his personal thankfulness to God for the deliverance , by leaving with each manager a cheque for a substantial sum; and* then, instead of carrying a fiag. about the streets, he went home and ) worked in his garden for the rest of the day.

A Dunedin merchant a few days ago gave 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 prices 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 x’estraint in purchasing in the face of tiie 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 character at a lower cost, the tendency must be to lower the price of most high-cost commodities.