LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2027, 11 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A parcel lost in the Avenue Road or .Main Si reel on Tuesday night is advertised for. Mr W. M. Hughes announced at a party meeting (hat Australia’s share of the indemnity would he £OO,000,0110. Lovers of terpsiehore are well catered for locally, there being no less than three dancing assemblies in full swing. An easterly gale lias been blowing throughout litis district during (he past two days. Last night (lie gale increased in violence, accompanied by heavy rains. The Maynr of Christchurch (Dr. Thacker, M.P.) stated on Tuesday that it was his intention to suggest |u Ihe Government the appfopriaieness of endeavouring to secure Lord Jellicoe as the next GovernorGeneral of the Dominion. Influenza eases reported in the Wellington Health District during the week ended September Bth numbered 22, of which 17 were mild, 1 moderate, and 4 severe. There were also two cases of lethargic encephalitis, two of cerebro-spina! meningitis, and 30 of diphtheria. A number of local Masons proceeded to Levin lasl night to attend (he Installation ceremony of Lodge Horowhcnua. The ceremony was conducted bv R. Wor. Bro, T. Ellison, Prov. G.M. The brethren were subsequently entertained at a banquet. ‘“Kinsmen First,” is the slogan of the New Zealand National Service League. The idea is to push New Zealand-made. goods, and to conduct a propaganda to that end, especially through the schools and homes. A call is made for £OOO to finance, the scheme. Everyone is asked to help financially and'otherwise. Work will he undertaken free. Mr Massey is patron of the league.

GOT THEM THROUGH THE WINTER.

Nearly every mother in your community .will tell you that she depends upon Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy when any of her family are attacked with coughs, croup, hoarseness, or whooping cough. Many will tell you that the timely use of Chamberlain’s 'Cough Remedy has enabled them to get their family through the winter without any of these ailThey will tell you that at the very first approach of u cold they themselves take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and ward it off. For sale everywhere,—Advt.

The friends of Mr C. F. Spiers ■will regret to learn that he is at present seriously ill. .

The Registrar of Electors fur the Electoral District of Manawatu notifies that the general roll is now open for inspection at all post offices in the electorate.

“I believe that the party system is breaking down, and that the people are realising this, and are determined to'have ii bigger voice in their own affairs. The people are out to destroy the party machines and the political boss, and do away with a system that enslaves them.” —Significant statement by an exMinister, the Hon. J. A. Ilanan.

Up to 31st August the businessdone by the Imperial Supplies Department in connection with the purchase of New Zealand produce reached £109,635,000. Up to 31sl March £32,869,318 had li-ien paid for frozen meat, for .wool £36,814,755, for cheese £U2,738,052, for sheepskins £1,581,413, and for butter £5,651,019.

The Government statistician reports Unit the value of New Zealand exports for the twelve mouths ended July 31st, 1919, increased by £11,903,385, the totals being respectively £29,372,954 and £41.276,339. Compared with the year ended July, 1918, (be imports also show an increase in value, but not in volume. The imports for (lie first seven months of 1918 were valued at £13,391,165, and those for the first seven months of 1919 at £17,583,778. The volume of goods has been greatly reduced, especially from America, wlicre the rate of exchange is against the Dominion,

Recently Sir Harry Lauder and Lady Lander visited Lon*? Bay penitentiary, Sydney,-where lh,e I’onner san"-to 400,inmates (men and women). A Sydney paper says llial it was "00(1 (o see the "rim, sjol J'ace.s of these poor human derelicts become wreathed in smiles, (he prelude to uproarious laughter, as the great little comedian sail" his inimitable songs and (old his dry Scotch stories. There was a touch of pathos, 100, when Lauder san" a simple little melody, “There’s Someone Waiting for You,” and the retrain was taken up gently at first, for more than one throat was choked with sobs. But Lauder, with (hat wonderful sympathy of under-landing of human nature which more than anythin" else lias made him "real, interpolated a few words of encouragement, and the audience rose to him as one man. Lady Lauder sang old Scottish ballads to the accompaniment of one-of the prison-, ers —a man who hold the Diploma of the London College of Music. At the conclusion a prisoner from the audience —doing a long sentence for burglary —walked on to the platform. and played “Auld Lang Syne,” after the manner of the artist born, and it was sung with a fine swing.

lii answer to a question by Mr Holland, Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence) staled: —“It is not possible to grant a general amnesty to all soldiers at present undergoing imprisonment for offences committed overseas, as these unfortunately include a small proportion of seri-. ons criminal cases, t and it is not considered that the declaration of peace warrants complete remission in all cases. Whenever a soldier arrives in the Dominion as a prisoner, his case is carefully reviewed, and, wherever possible, he is given his freedom. In fact, at present there is no soldier undergoing a sentence of imprisonment in New Zealand for an offence committed on active service overseas, but I am afraid there arc a few still to come out whose cases will not justify a complete remission. So far as the military defaulters and shirkers arc concerned, 1 may stale that while orders have been given for the release of all those who were classified as boualidc religious objectors by the special Board, and those who were serving a second or third sentence for offences under the Military Service Act, (he Government' does not at present intend to remit the sentences of those who refused service for other reasons or to cease (he prosecution of those who have so far evaded arrest.”