LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2045, 23 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

inspectors Crawford and Adams visited the Ipcal .State school yesterday. So far (he Liberal Party has not decided upon a candidate for this (Manawatu) electorate..

Ponies up to 14.2 hands will be accepted in class 5 of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P, Association’s schedule.' Entries will be received up to Friday (to-morrow).

A married woman named Janette Lines, aged -12 years, the wife of a farmer at Kiwi, Nelson, committed

suicide on Tuesday by, hanging herself in a shed at the back of her residence.

In an interview at Christchurch this week, Sir James Allen prophesied a Reform victory at the forthcoming' general election. He considered the Reform Parly were gaining ground both in the North and South Island.

Services of an exceptionally bright and attractive nature are being held by the Salvation Army tin’s week-end. Captain Collin has been fortunate enough to secure the services of the Palmerston North Silver Baml, and they are being accorded a. reception at the station on Saturday night. The Band will be accompanied by Commandant Middlemiss, who is a very line speaker, and the services are being held in the Town Hall on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and evening, at 7, and in the Park at 3 p.m.

If Mr Massey had not elected to be a farmer and a Prime Minister he would have made a good journalist, writes Mereiilio. The compact programme issued by ' him a week ago shows that he possesses, a sense of word values and a power of condensation which politics hare not destroyed. It may nut be generally known that Mr Massey lias a' very critical eye for composition; Ih revising drafts of speeches or manifestos, he is punctilious about .punctuation; and any phrase that offends is either excised or amended.

Mr McLeay, manager for a coastal shipping linn at Gisborne, reports that the steamer Awahou look from Auckland 405 eases of benzine, and when the last of these were being unloaded this week, at the bottom of the hold, a paper box of wax vestas was found edged in between two cases. Mr McLeay slates that fortunately the vessel had an exceptionally smooth passage. Had she been labouring and the cargo niofnig, it was'quite possible there would have been another Taiuui disaster.

Says the Taranaki News; —In his appeal to the country in December, Mr Massey will be greatly .handicapped by the weakness of bis present Ministry. , Probably at no period in The bistory of New Zealand has the personnel of the Cabinet been so pour in quality, so. lacking in initiative, so slow in action, and generally •' so incompetent. Mr Massey Ims the fault characteristic, of.minty strong men of choosing weak vessels and then standing by no matter how conspicuous thcdiffiiults or how great their failures.*’'

•With the object in view of making Wanganui an educational and religious centre, the Society of Friends, who have decided to form a Quaker settlement generally, have purchased several properties on St. John’s Hill adjoining Virginia Lake; The land*is in area about 30 acres, and the dwellings purchased include those owned by Messrs D. Henderson, GJoyne,-Galbraith, and Aston. The Herald understands that Air Henderson’s residence, will ho transformed into a boarding school, which will be opened at the beginning of next year, KEEP THEM HANDY.

Always keep Chamberlain’s Tablets in the house. Directly you notice that your liver is sluggish and you have a tendency to constipation, take Chamberlain’s Tablets, They, are good for, the young as well as the ol.d. Chamberlain’s Tablets are the best laxative you can buy. For sale everywhere.—Advt. Got a cold? Don’t drug the stomach with mixtures. Let the soothing, .healing properties of NAZGD give you relief. 1/6 buys 60 doses.

“Never look through opera glasses or a telescope at the sun/’ says Mr Clhmcnt Wraggtk “Even with a

coloured glass it is highly dangerous, and mav result in the loss .of sight.” : According to Mr Clement Wragge, the eminent meteorologist,..there will be a particularly dry period from 1919 to 1923, and his advice to farmers is to lay in lucerne to carry them over the drought*

The death took place at Hiihatangi yesterday of Mrs Mary Fanned, one of the oldest residents of tlie district. The funeral will take place to-morrow, leaving Himatangi at 1 o’clock for the' Foxtou cemetery.

“Are yoir in favour of women doing men’s work!’’. was a question asked’ the Labour candidate for Wallace at one of*his meetings last week. . “Not in all cases,” replied' the candidate. “For instance, that day, on a certain railway station, my attention was called to two dusky damsels kissing each other rapturously. There is another.example of unfair competition—two women doing one mail’s work.” (Laughter.) . , A gentleman visited town to make some purchases. His wife, amongst other things, had requested him ,to buy an illuminated text, but in his hurry he omitted to make a note of the one she wanted. He therefore wrote to her, asking for particulars, and got a reply by telegraph to save time. Imagine the astonishment of the telegraph clerk at receiving the following;—“Unto us a child is born, three feet long and two feet broad. Am feeling fairly well. —Mary.”

One of the regular attendants- at the Cast lee lilt’ “two-tip. school” escaped inclusion in the captures in the recent raid by the police through delaying at home in order to set a broody hen. -Starling out later for (he usual resort, he had nearly arrived there when he met another habitue running like a hare. Quito unaware .that the latter was Hying from the-police, the late-comer inquired, “Hallo, Ginger, what are you running for?” “Ginger" did not stop running, but shouted hack the answer, “Because I can’t tly!" As an instance of the -Japanese progressive spirit it is interesting to note that the authorities in that country give a subsidy of £I,OO for every motor car manufactured ,in Japan, -and £SO for every hum who imports a car. Possibly Henry Ford is unaware of the new Japanese law, otherwise he might think of transferring his works eastward. Turning out “Tin Lizzies” at (he rale of three a minute with a subsidy of £IOO on each would he a very prolitable undertaking.

The Christchurch. Sun says: —In the enervating heat "of a recent afternoon a brewery lorry on which three- brace of barrels of beer rocked contentedly, proceeded quietly along Oxford Terrace. The delegates to the Baptist Union conference were tiling out of the Oxford Terrace Church, a score or more standing on the steps as the beer approa-ched. The delegates surveyed the evil with a cold, disparaging scrutiny.' But the lorry did, not pass. The hirsute driver was not without his humour. Directly in .front of the main entrance the lorry came to a standstill, and the driver asked the simple, unanswered question, “Where do vou want them to go'?”

Recently an historic cannon was landed from the Westralia at Gisborne, having been brought from Queensland hy Mr 0.- J. Black (says an exchange). After leaving New Zealand in March, 1770, Captain Cook sailed up the eastern coast of Australia, and in June the Endeavour ran on the Barrier Reef. As she was in danger of sinking, six of her guns were thrown overboard, as well as stores and ballast, and as a result the vessel was relloated. About ten years ago the gun now at Gisborne was found hy hoche-de-uirr fishermen diving on the reef, and eventually became the property of Captain Thompson, of Port •Douglas. Being the one cannon recovered, it is a valuable, trophy. It is known as a four-pounder, is about 4ft. long, and weighs 4cwt. It .has been returned to Gisborne 150 years after the Endeavour visited Poverty -Bay.

Several speakers at the wholesale provision, produce, and manufacturing trades dinner at Wellington on Saturday night strongly condemned the “soap box oratory” indulged "in by some people.; “They talk of profiteering,” said one speaker, “but what -of-their own at-, titude? If all adopted the tactics of (lie wharf labourer what would happen? 'Well it now costs three times as much as it previously did to do certain work on the wharf, and taking the recent flannel ease as an example, if the same tactics by the wharf labourers had been followed, the cost of the. flannel would have been, not three, but nine shillings per yard. It’s all.right enough to talk of profiteering. , It’s such an easy term to use—so easy to shout ‘Down with the profiteers’! But there, are very few of those who wildly shout who know or want to know of the economic conditions—of what it would cost, the seller to. replace the article —and so many unjust charges are made and many an injustice done.” ' , ■Thoughts in absence ever wander

Where fond recollections cling; Making loyal hedrts 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.

Among those who secured'passes r ( at the recent Trinity College musical examinations was Miss Ynes Easton, who secured 75 marks in Iho intermediate section.