Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2015, 14 August 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of local Ala sons motored to Ashhurst last night (o attend the annual installation eerenionv.

Mr and Mrs W. Xye, of Fox ton, have received a cable advising that (heir soil, Private W. Xye, has left England for Xew Zealand.

Mr Clement Wragge says a new Antarctic disturbance, “Ivion,” may be expected to manifest itself this week.

Eilher Mr Pi rani must have misunderstood my remarks, or I must have been seriously misreported, for ho calls me (o task for two alleged .statements which I did not make,” writes Mr Bates, a schoolteacher, to the Palmerston Times. Please blame the reporter, Mr Bates!

Alexander Humphries, aged about 00 years, a travelling saddler, was found dead on Tuesday, at the farm of Mr \V. H. Miller, at Barrhill, Ashburton. Deceased had been employed by the latter for a few days, and evidently died at work after midday on Tuesday.

A man, who pleaded guilty to a charge of evading payment for a railway ticket between Taiimarunui and Ohakunc, was lined £2 and costs. The accused slept from Taumarunui to Ohakunc, where he purchased a ticket to Marton. "When challenged by the guard, the accused first denied his offence, and then paid the fare ,and gave a wrong name.

Patience and industry combined Will o’er all obstacles prevail Wher’er resistance you may find, Persist and you will rarely fail. If chronic cough by night and day Should rack you till you scarce endure, , No longer suffer by delay— Resort to Woods’ Great Peppermint. Cure. 23

Colds are very prevalent at present throughout this district.

The value of a good sow on the farm was shown in a forcible manner at a clearing sale at Linton on Tuesday last, when 13 pigs five months old realised £3 12s Od each, a total of £47 2s Gd, being one Utter from one sow. This animal was then, put up, and was sold at £l9 10s, not a bad return from one animal, which in the old days would have been worth £5 to £G. “There are hundreds of schools waiting to be erected, and I think they will be taken in hand. We don’t feel it so much in the cities, but they feel it very badly in the outlying parts of the Dominion, and the work of school construction cannot be delayed any longer. I am glad to be able to say that there will be no difficulty in finding the necessary cash for schools or for public buildings.”—Mr Massey, at "Wellington. ' A mastiff named “Jerry” has been decorated by the Massachusetts S.P.C.A. with a gold medal because he suffered,, to be gassed that men might live. He was one of the many dogs in the United States who, at the rate of 800 per month, endured or died in the awful gas tests of the chemists at the Camp American University. Jerry somehow survived all the tests, but had cruel sores on his forehead, and burned ears. He is now to spend the rest of his life in ease and comfort on a pretty place at James-River. Whilst returning to New Zealand on hoard the troopship Kaikoura, Trooper Guy Edwards, of Eoxton, when about ten hours out from Hobart, put a message in a bottle, with the request that tiie finder would return same to him, and threw it into the sea. This was on April 15th last. This week lie received the message back, with a note, from Miss A. M. Kinane, Houhora, North Auckland, advising that the bottle was picked up on July 29th, on the coast south of the Mongonui Bluff, about 30 miles from Cape Maria Van Dienum.

The establishment of church day and secondary schools was discussed at the meeting of the Wellington School Committees’ Assciation on Monday night. It was moved “That this association considers that the growth of denominational church day and secondary schools may eventually become a menace to the present national system of education, and urges the executive of the asscialion to give the matter its best consideration.” After a lengthy debale an amendment was carried, instructing the delegates to bring the matter before the various school committees prior to the next meeting of the association.

The only living aboriginal black bishop in the Church of England (Bishop of Olmvolo) is on a visit to England after 12 years’ absence in Nigeria. lie told a Daily Chronicle representative sumo thing of his work in assisting to smash up the German gin trallic in that country, which threatened at one time completely to demoralise the primitive peoples of West Central Africa. Nearly everything was bartered in liquor, he said, and the Administration at the lime thought that not only the revenue but the trade of (he country would be stopped if prohibition look place; bat the last live years have proved almost completely that the liquor trallic was unnecessary. - An “industry" which, as far as wo can learn, has not yet been carried on to any extent in this district, and which should prove to he a good paying proposition, in view of the large number of rabbits that infest the land in the district, is the collecting of rabbit skins. In conversation with a resident in the Waiouru district last week, our representative was informed that real good money is being made there by people engaged in catching rabbits and marketing the skins. The price that can be obtained for skins in the Dominion ranges from six shillings to seven shillings per pound, according to quality, and as they average about six to the pound, each “bunny” secured is worth about a shilling for the skin alone. According lo a statement made by the manager of the Waikato Flaxmilling Company, the tlax industry is in danger of dying out in New Zealand, owing to the increasing value of land, and high cost of labour. The difficulty New Zealand hemp has is to compete with Manila and sisal —the product of cheap labour. There is also the increased freight charges. The company is going out of business in that, dis-

triet, mid 179 acres of flax country is being- converted into dairying land. Another miller confirmed these statements (stales the New Zealand Herald), and said that flax hemp could only be prepared in paying quantities where the mills were run by water power, and where the tlax was bought from farmers who had it growing wild on their property. The industry has been affected by the railway restrictions. Over 400 tons of uninsured hemp is lying in store in Morrinsville, and cannot be removed until the restrictions are lifted. 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.