Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2054, 13 November 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At ;i meeting iif: Olaki on Saturday night: a branch of the Y.M.C.A. was formed at Ofaki, with Mr Byron Brown as president. A Vancouver cable states that the 11.M.5. New Zealand, wilh Admiral Jeilieoe on board, arrived at Victoria (British Columbia) on Saturday afternoon.

The session .just concluded was a particularly strenuous one, and Mr Edward Newman, M.P., has "one to Rotorua for a few days’ visit before start in" Ids political campaign in the Manawalu electorate.

At Tuesday night’s public -welcome to the Returned Soldiers of Fox ton and district, apologies for absence were received from Mr W. H. Field, M.P., Mr P. J. Henncssy, Chairman of the Foxton Harbour Board, and Mr \Y. Bock.

Patrick Homemck Reed was arrested at Palmerston yesterday on a charge of h.aving disposed of a motor car, the property of the Napier Repatriation Board.. The accused was remanded to appear at Napier on the 13th hist.

Considerable concern is felt at the Pnkeroa Sanatorium, near Waipukurau, over the disappearance of one of the inmates, who left the institution early on Saturday morning, clad only in his pyjamas (states an exchange). A careful search failed to locate the missing man. “You have shown that you are ready to die for your country,” said Brigadier-General Richardson, to the returned soldiers present at the Wellington Y.M.C.A. armistice function; “but perhaps it is more difficult to live rightly for your country.” lie urged every man to take his full share in the work of reconstruction. . . ■ ;

The wreck of the Tainui is gradually disappearing as sand silts it up, and only a lilllc twisted iron can be seen at high water. The Court of Inquiry . abandoned a visit to the wreck at Gore Bay, as it seemed improbable that anything useful would be learned owing to the battered slate of the hull. The wreck is said to have been sold to a local resident for a small sum, and he has been salvaging brasswork and other fittings, but the work has been arduous, entailing much haulage over tough country.

A Wellington vendor, for selling watered; milk, was fined £5 and £3 13s 6d costs, this week. At the Palmerston Supreme Court on Tuesday, Charles James Cookery, on. a charge of counselling two lads to murder Detective-Sergeant Quirke, was acquitted.

Mr Ed. Newman has forwarded a substantial cheque towards the’ Foxton. Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Fund. Donations may be forwarded to the Mayor or Mr Hoinblow.

In conversation with the Mayor, we were informed that the purchase and use of a tar-sprayer for the borough would not be as economical as the present method for street tarring purposes.

Mrs Waimvright, at one time a popular teacher under the Wellington Board, is tilling the temporary vacancy on the' local school staff caused by the departure of Miss Hav.

The dome entrance to the local State school building is almost completed, which breaks the otherwise barrack appearance of the building. The contractors arc pushing on with the work, and the building should be ready for occupation early in the new year. -

If it wove not for the tolalisator revenue,- many racing clubs would have to. put up their shutters. But the lota lisa lor comes a poor second to (lie bookmaker, who reaps a rich harvest, and occasionally pays a substantial line for his illicit trading with pleasure. James Golding and Frank Bax, two Napier bookies, were each find £IOO on Monday for competing with the tolalisator. A somewhat amusing incident happened in Main Street the other morning. The engine of a motor ear refused duty, despite strenuous crankings. An investigation of the internals by the owner and several onlookers, and an expert, failed to discover the fault. Finally it was ascertained that (here was no benzine in the tank. Even a Ford at times refuses to run on its reputation !

At I lie Palmerston sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday, Henry Joseph Lewis and Alfred Mervyn Cupp, two youths, came up for sentence on three charges of breaking and entering, (here being an additional charge of theft against Lewis. Both accused were ordered to come up for sentence, when called upon, and to notify the police' of any change of address during the next twelve months.

A correspondent writes asking whether a child can he punished for not possessing necessary school books, and whose parents cannot afford to bay them. Certainly not. It would be the duty of the teacher to report such a case, and the Committee have power to supply books in all necessitous cases. We may say that free books at the primary schools does not meet with universal approval. Home parents prefer their children to have their own books .first hand.

A Press telegram from Camara states that Louis Gilbert Reilly, headmaster of the Livingstone school, who was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with indecent assault on three pupils, wps. discharged. The Magistrate severely commented on the destructive character of the evidence of the various witnesses. “It might he suggested/' Mr Bartholomew said, “why should children say these things?” Often he regretted to say, in his own experience, and in that of others, children got depraved ideas in their heads, and their imagination ran a-, way with them, and they said all kinds of things which Avere found to be false. There was no case against, the accused, and the information was dismissed.

Says the Sydney Morning Herald: —Probate has been granted of the will of the late Mr John h’eltham Archibald (generally known as Jules Francis Archibald), owner of the Bulletin, who died on Septelnber Kith last, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, He appointed as his executor and trustee the Perpetual Trustee Co., Lid. The net value of the estate is £BO,OOI, of which £29,141 consists of shares in public companies, £28,300 mortgages, and £21,050 real estate. The testator directed the division of his estate into 50 equal shares. He devised 20 of these shares to his trustee, with directions to pay the income therefrom to Ruth Archibald, Avidow of his brother Joseph, for life. After her death the capital and income of these 20 shares is to be equally divided helAveen testator’s nephews, Harry and Walter Archibald, and his niece, Gladys Archibald. Three shares are left to halfsister, Lucy Archibald, of St. Hilda Victoria; the income of one share each is left to two old and faithful servants —Mary MeCullouch and James Buck; the income of five shares to Ruby Linda Bertha S(liman, of Neutral Bay, the income of .five shares to the National Art Gallery of Ncav South Wales, for pictures to he known as the Archibald prize; the income of seven shares is to bo accumulated for seven years to provide a war memorial commemorative of Australia and Prance fighting side by side in the late Avar. The charitable bequests are ’. Income of four shares to the Sydney University I'or cancer research; one share to the benevolent fund of the New South Wale* branch of the Australian Journalists’ Association for distressed journalists: one share to the Warrnauibool Benevolent Asylum, to provide tobacco for the inmates. In the event of failure of certain bequests, the remainder of a number of them is devd-sed to the New South Wales branch of the Australian Journalists’ Association.

The “Herald” staff acknowledge wedding favours from Mr and Mrs B, "Withers.

Mr A. C. Hillicr, Labour candidate for the Manawalu Electorate, will speak in Main Sti’ect on Saturday night. The secretary of the local W.E.A. Class has received an invitation for members to attend the wind-up” lecture of the Levin class to-morrow night. Those in the habit of using obscene language should take warning by the line imposed on a'liian named James Songster, by Mr Page, S.M., at Wellington on Tuesday. Accused was fined £2O, in default fourteen days’imprisonment. Mr W. H. Ferris, chief hemp grader, is at present in Foxtou carrying out the grading work at the local stores, Mr Seollay, the resident grader, having gone to Napier and Wairoa to grade the hemp in store there. Mr Ferris will be here until the end of the week.

Mrs Elizabeth Wilton, an old colonist, died at Masterton on Sunday afternoon. The deceased, who had reached the ripe age of 8(5 years, arrived with her parents, Mr and Mrs Francis Jones, at Wellington, in the ship George. Fife, in 184:2. She leaves a family of five suns — Henry (Pahiatua), Paul (Masterton), Jacob ■(Vancouver), William Thomas (Masterton) and Joseph (New Plymouth)—and Jive daughters—Mrs J, W. Whittaker '(Palmerston North), Mrs George Townsend (Waikanae), Mrs Joseph Ranby (Waikato), Mrs Oliver Fiesl (Martinborough), and Mrs Willie McGregor (Gladstone). The deceased leaves tifty-onc grandchildren and thirty - two great - grandchildren. ■Seven of the grandchildren were on active service, two of them making the supreme sacrifice.