Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2016, 16 August 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the next sitting of the local S.M. Court, several youths will be proceeded against for alleged theft from a local Chinese shop window, and two Oroua Downs residents will be charged with alleged theft and assault at the Chinese gardens, at Himitangi.

Last Saturday we published alocal to the effect that a white (kotuku) had been seen in the swamp land at Matakarapa. The Feilding Star informs its readers that Matakarapa is in the Wairarapa! , A conference of representatives of the Foxton Harbour Board, Borough Council, Chamber of Commerce, and Manawatu County Council, will meet at the local Council Chamber this afternoon to discuss the acquisition of the Round Bush as a scenic reserve. At yesterday’s sitting of the Palmerston Supreme Court, Cornelius Cuming Hammond (Mr Cooper) applied for a dissolution of his marriage with Rosina Hammond for al-. leged adultery,- Arthur Baker being named as co-respondent. A decree nisi was granted with costs against the co-respondent on the highest scale, which could bo made absolute in three months. Costs £4O and disbursements to bo paid by co-re-spondeiit to the petitioner, , A Patca baker has been lined £2O and costs for selling bread short of weight.- The Magistrate said the case was a bad one. Eighteen months or two years ago the defendant was lined £25. For the last thi’ee months defendant had known the bread was shorl weight, and yet had not taken steps to have the "bread brought up to full weight. People must not be allowed to sell short weight bread. If a defective -oven was used more flour must bo added. A proclamation is to be issued proclaiming the abolition of the Expeditionary Force Reserve, A general order will also be issued discharging from the Force as from August 7th all men in camp or who were under orders to proceed to camps on the signing of the armistice. The combined effect of the proclamation and order is that conscription in New Zealand has now both in letter and in fact ceased to exist.

The Feilding Chamber of Commerce has decided to write to the General Manager of Railways, suggesting that he indicates, so soon as he is able to do so, the probable date when the railway restrictions will be lifted. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., stated at a meeting of business men in Masterton that he had been informed by the General Manager of Railways that there was no hope of the railway restrictions being removed for at least two or three months.

“Werriraee” (in the “Bulletin”) apropos Judge Bevan’s struggle to fmd out what a hogget really is. In most sheds I have been in, a suckling sheep was a lamb; after it was weaned it was a .hogget until the second (or first adult) shearing. It was then about 17 or 18 months old. Its earliest coat was lamb's wool. People ask for la.mb chops, etc., at the butcher’s. I don’t 4 , think any lamb is sold in the shops. What passes for lamb is hogget —some of it ripe enough for common mutton. There is a majority in the House of Representatives in favour of passing a Bill to qualify women to lie elected to Parliament. But scarcely a member can be found who would favour his o\Vn wife standing for Parliament, One strong supporter of the measure has been heard to say Hunt ho, “would sooner see his wife dead than in Parlia-v merit,” The most of the M’s.P. think that a political career would be right enough for some other fellow’s wife, mother, or sister, but not for any of their own feminine relations.

The following remits were adopted at a meeting of the Wanganui Schools Committee, and will be sent on to the Schools Committees’ Association Conference, to be held in Wellington on 3rd September;—(l) Free secular education for all children up to 1(1 years, the word “free” to mean the provision of all books and material required for children in the course of their education. (2) The establishment of schools in the North Island for the education of backward children and deaf children, with free tuition for the children of parents in receipt of less than £2OO a year. (3) Employment of school children before school hours to be prohibited.

“I’m proud t o be here, proud to be back in New Zealand,” Sir Joseph Ward said at a function in Christchurch. on Monday night (states the Lyttelton Times). “This is one of the most beautiful countries I ha vie seen. It’s a, country worth living ii); it’s a country worth working for; it’s a country worth coming back to. I have been away on several occasions, and people sometimes said that I had gone for good; but it’s astonishing how a bad penny always turns up again, and so I’m here in these happy surroundings. It seems only yesterday since I was in Paris, a day or two ago in Loudon, then New York, then Canada, and finally I find myself back in young old New Zealand,” (Applause.)

Farmers are often doubtful as to the saving to be effected- by having good roads, and are unwilling to rate themselves to provide for improvements to roads. Interesting evidence on the subject is given (says the Taranaki Herald) by the experience of settlers at the White Cliffs, where a road was recently metalled by means of a special loan. As the result of the improvement in the road surface, carting from the faetpry is now done at 5s per ton less than the old rate. The sum thus saved is enough to pay the special rates of all the suppliers and leaves £5 over. Besides this gain, the suppliers themselves have a good road instead of a bad one, and thus save much time and wear and tear to vehicles.

An unclaimed horse was recently sold for one shilling at the. EketaKuna pound. The County Council lost £2 15s on the transaction.

The Fox ton friends of Mr C. flood, of Rangiotu, will regret to learn that he is confined to his bed with rheumatic fever.

Mr and Mrs Thompson have received word that their son, Sergt. Arthur Thompson, will arrive in New Zealand on September 20th. Local State school boys journeyed to Palmerston to-day to take part in the seven-aside football tournament for the Pirani Shield. We are informed that it is the intention of the Rev. Mr Halliday, of .Lansdowne, Masterton, to accept the call to the pastorate of the Foxton Presbyterian charge. Master Roy Bullard, who recently passed the Public Service entrance examination, has been given a cadetship in the Public Trust Department.

A two-year-old Holstein-Friesian heifer, owned by Mr It. Melvin jun., of Masterton, has produced 19,599 lbs. of milk and 074 lbs. of butterfat in a year’. This is a record for theJDominiou.

Mr F. C. Berthold, who has been a music teacher in this district for many years past, has decided, for health reasons, to take up his residence in Wellington. Mr Berthold’s ability as a teacher of the pianoforte is -well-known in this district, and the Wairarapa. A Palmerston High School boy:— “What is periphrasis?” Father: “It is simply a circumlocutory and pleomastic cycle of oratoral sonorosity, circumscribing an atom of idealty lost in a verbal profundity,” Sou: “Thanks! I think I’ll take a job in the llax swamp.” '

The District Inspector Mr M. O’Brien) reported to the District Hospital Board on Thursday that during the month of July the following cases of infectious diseases had been notified throughout the health district: —Palmerston North, scarlet fever 3, diphtheria 11, opthalmia neons torum 1; Feildiug, diphtheria 2; Levin, diphtheria 1; Otaki Town Board, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 4, pneumonic influenza 1 (a girl 13 years old, death resulting) ; Horowhenua, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1; Manawatu, diphtheria 4; Kairanga, diphtheria 3; Eongotea Town Board, diphtheria 1; Oroua, pneumonia 1. Disinfection had been carried out in all cases save where the patients were nursed at home. The total cases dealt with was 35, being considerably less than in the previous month. Last night’s bill-of-fare at the Town Hall merited a bumper house. The first portion of the programme was taken up with the screening of a picture, “Hose Taylor’s Ghost,” featuring June Elvidge. . The second half was devoted to a variety performance full of merit, and which was keenly appreciated by the audience. Miss Billie Leslie’s vocal items were vociferously encored. Louis Alsace, a master of stringed instruments, was a host in himself. His items on the violin, ’cello, and obe were a treat. The .Koval ’Logos, two Japanese,- kept the audience spellbound with their feats of skill. Their star feature was walking up an inclined rope attached from the roof to the stage, and sliding down same —a marvellous performance.

The public have an extraordinary idea that the politician is responsible for national success or failure, international credits, victory or defeat, soldiers’ pensions, or the lack of them, coal crises, and all the rest of it. The average politician is most emphatically merely an average man who has had the courage to emerge from his busincss—which may or may not have paid—into a business in which he juggles with funds that you help to supply. The heckling of men who have been pachedermatous enough to chance public obloquy, or to obtain public applause, is as common as lingers and toes or the bark of the dog. The average politician lives his short political span not knowing what a wretch he is. He is not a superman. He is subject to all the ills that flesh is heir to, all the temptations, all the trials, all the family worries. He often stands the whips and arrow's for many years, and dies of overw'ork.—Auckland Observer.

Said Sir Joseph Ward in Wellington:- “I am quite satisfied that in New Zealand conscription is not necessary, and should not he continued. There could he no justification for its continuance except for the purpose of enabling us to : fight for the freedom of the Empire of which we are a part. Jn saying that I am quite satisfied that it is necessary to train the youth of the country and pass them on to a defence reserve, without anything in the nature of a standing army. I have not had an opportunity of reading or examining what has been proposed in this country, but my own view is that we do not require to continue a system of anything approaching the nucleus of a standing army. The training of youth in order to enable them to be lit fqr the defence of their hearths and homes is quite a different matter .from the maintenance of anything in the nature of a trained army.”

Iced drinks in summer fill the bill When days are burning hot, However deep the draught may be We always mop the lot. But when the winter months are , here , Such cold drinks don’t allure;,. For then, indeed, our urgent need Is Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —24

A ten-acre paddock belonging to { Mr J. Oak, of Ohaii, cut 22 i t»u»of oaten chaff, about 2} tons (o the acre —a return that is not often beaten in this district. —Cj|py>*u(3c. y, The result of the > tion with selecting a candidate to represent Labour for the Tauma- - runui seat at the next general election is as.follows: —F. Lang-don<fri. W. Dengate 2, J. J. PinkingtonS. Messrs •Canton and Shadbolt lied for fourth place.

A young man, abouL twenty-two, named E. Dexter, who was riding a motor cycle, collided with a batcher's curt yesterday morning, on Heads road, Wanganui, sustaining a j broken thigh and lacerated leg. He . died in the hospital during the after- >, noon.

A disease is at present attacking ■ horses and cows in the Te Horo district, and one fanner has already , lost a cow and two horses. Other farmers have suffered in a smaller way, while on some farms efforts are being made to save the lives of animals which are down. —Otaki Mail.

The ballot for the selecting of a Labour candidate for the Waimarino electorate resulted in Mr F. Langston, of Taumarunui, being ~ chosen by an absolute majority. There were live candidates. Mr Langston is well-known in Labour . circles, having been president of the Central Labour Party in Auckland : for many years. ?

Latest demobilisation figures of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces are as under: —Strength in France, 13; in the United Kingdom, 4,976; in hospital in the \Mted Kingdom, 608; men with wives*and families in the United Kingdom, 1,107; nurses and Bed Cross work-

ers to be evacuated, 50; total number evacuated since the signing of the armistice, 41,550.

Considerable interest has been created locally in the letter sent to Captain Goflin asking for information concerning the destiny of the soul. Mis Goffin gave a very comvincing address in the supper-room of the Town Hall on Sunday night last, to a fairly large audience. , Many who were kept away because of weather conditions will hjj# an opportunity of hearing Mrs Goflin in the Salvation Army Hall to-mor-row night, when part two of the subject will he dealt with.

At a largely attended meeting of the Wellington branch of the Social Democratic Party, at Wellington, a motion was carried unanimously expressing horror at the reintrodne- - tion of flogging in Ncav Zealand by Mr Justice Stringer, and emphatically protesting against the JrnWjuj attempt to cure brutality with raff" tality, or to end'outrage with further outrage. The meeting furl her expressed its sympathy with the child victim of the Petone outrage, with the little girl’s parents, with the relatives of the condemned man, and with the unfortunate prison ollicial who may have to carry out.“one of the most revolting of tortures.”

Lord Swansea stales that lie has decoded to sell his ancestral homo,)**. Singleton Abbey, Swansea, owing to rates, taxes, and the general increase of the cost of upkeep. The • whole estate of 250 acres and the mansion, with its priceless contents • of seventy fully-furnished rooms, will bo offered shortly, “I don’t want to do it,” said Lord Swansea, “but it is a sad necessity. To keep up the place as I should like would entail £IO,OOO a year, and I have not the k t| means to do it. That accounts for j my living, away from Swansea so J largely. It will be a great wrench | to part with the place, but it is in- i evitable.”

A tally of motor traffic over the dangei'ous Paekakarikj Hill was kept by the city motor inspector, Mr L. S. Drake, while he was superintending the recovery of a motor lorry which went over the bank some days ago. On Thursday last GO motor vehicles going one way or the other passed the scene of operations. These included two or three big lorries, but the majority were touring ears. Mr Drake states the road, all the w r ay from Wellington to Paekakariki is in a shocking condition, and he specially mentions the Ngahauranga Gorge as being sitively dangerous,” The task of hauling the lorry on to the road w r as a very arduous one.