LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2032, 23 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Financial statement will be submitted .io the House to-day. It is anticipated that (lie general election will lake place in (he first or second week in December. AVc regret to record the death of the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Coley, which took place on Sunday last.. Auckland Savings Bank subscribe ers have invested' £100,0(H) to the Liberty Loan, making its total of war loan subscriptions £850,000. The Rev. Tlios. Holliday conducted bis first services as minister of the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday. There were good attendances at both the morning and evening services. Mr Kinley, the new lessee of the Target Reserve, is carrying outmarked improvements to the properly. Tie laud is being cleared of scrub, and a portion is already under cultivation. The white crane, after a few days’ absence, lias again made its appearance on (lie river bank. In the mornings it may lie seen perched on one of the pine trees at the rear of the Presbyterian manse. At the Palmerston Supreme Court sit ting yesterday, a young man named Albert Kdward McKenna, on four ebarges of theft of motor cycles, was sentenced to reformative treatment for (wo and a-balf years. The Piako County Council has decided to expend £5,400 on • roadmaking machinery, including two (lump (rucks, roller, scarifier, ami grader. This decision follows the recent visit of the committee to Taranaki to inspect the methods of road-making in that province.

A head-on collision between two cavs going in opposite directions look place, on the straight road lids side of (he Tiakitalmna road on Saturday evening. Both cars were put out of action, hut fortunately none of the passengers were injured. It appears that each, car endeavoured to cross (he small bridge ahead of the other, hence the mishap. One of the cars contained Foxton passengers, and the other was occupied by Palmerston residents. Padre Bladin conducted special week-end services on behalf of the Salvation Army. On Saturday night a large crowd attended the open-air meeting in .Main Street. On Sunday morning the Life-Saving Scouts and Guards paraded at the Methodist Church, and the. building was crowded out. In the evening the supper-room of the Town Hall was tilled to overflowing. All the services were conducted by (be Padre, and were much appreciated.

The Women’s Parliamentary Bights Bill, introduced by Mr Massey, was circulated on Friday. The Bill has one operative clause which is as follows: —“A woman slialFhot be disqualified by sex or marriage from being appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Council or of the House of Peprcsentutivcs, or from sitting or voting as a member of either House of Parliament, anything to the contrary in the Legislature Act, 1908, or in any other Act notwithstanding.”

Lady Helen Fergusson, wife of the Governor-General of Australia, told a mooting of girls: “I want you (<i .avoid commonplace slang, and not endeavour to make one word do for half-a-dozen 'others. It you fail in the a I tempt to do something, you may perhaps say it is ‘rotten,’ and when you only mean that it is tiresome; or, perhaps, some person may be just ‘decent,’ when, all the time, you mean she is kind. It is not unlikely that the person who is listening will form a depressing idea of your mental capacity. (Laughter.) My advice is, read good literature, learn good poetry, and remember that it is by our doing things in the best way possible that you can make the very ordinary moment in life ornamental. "Whilst elders are talking about the great 1 business of reconstruction you ‘have your hand already at the plough. Endeavour to become thinkers and scientists and the cultured women of the future in building up a great nation.” (Applause).

In this age of competition, When men toil with hand and Brain, Spurred by soul-inspired ambition, Or by sordid lust of gain, We have need of health and vigour

Through life’s struggle to endure, That’s just why for colds in winter : We take Woods’ Peppermint Cure. ; --21 ■-

: Mr and Mrs W, E. Barber celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday last, and entertained a number of guests at their residence.

The Tainui, from London via Panama, arrived at Wellington on Sunday morning, and berthed at- 3 p.m. Sh.e brought 393 troops and 00 wives.

' ' The Rugby match between teams representing the North■ and South Islands was played.at Wellington on Saturday, and resulted in a win for the North Island by 28 points to 11. On Monday next, commencing at 1 p.m., Messrs Mounsey and Co, will hold an unreserved clearing sale on account of Mr R. D. Kempster, Avenue Road. The whole of Mr Kcmpstcr’s household furniture and effects, including an English piano, will he submitted under the hammer. Full particulars will be advertised next issue.

The voyage of the transport Tainui from England was marred by a tragedy. On the morning of 12th September, soon after the vessel left the Panama Canal, No. 23707 Far - rier-Sergeant J. 11. Joseph, New Zealand Engineers, was lost overboard, and endeavours to effect a rescue were fruitless. Deceased’s wife was accompanying him on the voyage. All on board were deeply affected by the loss, and the sympathy fell for Mrs Joseph was expressed in a practical manner by the raising of a substantial sum, which was banded to the widow. Tire late Sergeant Joseph came from Timaru, but has a brother living in Wellington.

“You have only to pick up your newspaper to see the strange ideas of worship of God which people have to-day,” said Canon Hamilton, speaking at Chris!church last week (says the Star). “You will see (hat someone said in the City Council (hat Sunday concerts were the very best sort of thing. He defended the payment of'musicians, saying that organists and clergymen were 1 paid to entertain their congregations.’ Tn Australia they are going to show moving pictures on Sundays. The ‘enlightened Christian conscience’ regards this as more satisfactory than church worship. Well, 1 don’t, and 1 think the children must have impressed upon them that the purpose of going to church is worship —not to hear sermons and music, estimable as (iiev may be.”

“Party (.Joverumen! is absolutely the curse of Now Zealand.” staled Mr H. D. Vavasour (Marlborough), at the Farmers’ Conference, when the Otago delegates moved: —“That the union approves the principle of government by an elective executive.” Those who opposed the remit alluded to the National Government as an example of what might be expected from an elective executive, namely, legislative stagnation. MrM’Leavey (Wellington) said that an elective executive in New Zealand would be about as useful,as Home Rule in Ireland, There would be more commotion and a greater number of deadlocks in six months than New Zealand could do with in twenty years. Mr E. Maxwell (Taranaki) moved to endorse the principle (hat all the members of the party in power should elect the executive. Both (he remit and Mr .Maxwell's, amendment were defeated. ,

AVoll-moiinin**; citizens arc frequently lioni’d to deplore Hie fuel that tho'Maoris, through the sale of their land, become possessed of largo sums of money, which, in a few weeks, or months, are fritted away in riotous extravagance (writes the Tangoio correspondent of the Napier Daily Telegraph). Why not pay them annuities in proportion to the value of their land instead of giving complete control of lump sums, and so providing an irresistible temptation to indulge in wanton waste? Tins suggestion has been

made frequently, and at first sight appears reasonable and humane, but actually it embodies a policy which could not but completely demoralise the Native race. Imagine, then, the result! In a few years there would be hundreds of Maoris in receipt of a type of “remittance’'’ enabling them to live .without any incentive to work. In fuldilioa to this, we would still more be postered by the objectionable hanger-on ‘tPakelia-Maori;” Give a Maori driblets of money and idleness, and his downfall will surely follow. For preference let the Maori spend his money as he pleases. This would not be as bad as the problems arising from a Native population in receipt of pensions derived from the sale of (heirlauds.