LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2056, 18 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Carterton has raised over £2,000 I'o i' a la Hen soldiers’ memo rial. Hurry up, Fox ton! A meeting of all Ivel'ona.supporters favourable to Air Kid. Newman’s Candida lure will lie held on Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock. A meeting of all who subscribed or are Interested in the appointment of a night-watchman for Foxton will be held in the lied Shield Club at IU.-J5 to-morrow (Wednesday) morning. The Post Office Savings Bank was the best gauge of the.prosperity of the people, said Mr Massey, at Papakura on Saturday, and its returns showed that in 1018 the excess of deposits over withdrawals was £3,302,000, against £005,000 in 1011. Two girls went to the Maimwalu Show. One lost a gold watch (borrowed), and (of course) advertised for it, and spent a sleepless night. The other found it, and (of course) advertised it in the same paper, and slept drcamlessiy. IK ext morning both read the paper and. smiled pleasantly. They were next door neighbours —from Master ton! —Times. “1 am going to make it a rule that I will take no excuse of sickness in these eases, ’’ said Mr J, L. Stout, S.M., at the Police Court, Palmerston North, yesterday morning, when parents pleaded that they had not sent their children to school because of that cause, adding; “Parents'will have to get exemption certificates; I won’t; take any other excuse.” The veracity of the Teimysonian adage: ‘“in the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thong) its of love,” scorns to be more and more borne out (.says the Tiniaru Herald). In the newly-publish-ed number of a local church magazine it is staled that “spring has come, and with it many >marriagc.s. Since last issue the minister has hud live.”

Mis Julia Bauekham, of Ashhurst, passed away at an early hour yesterday morning, after a fortnight's illness.*. Mrs Bauekham was a pioneer of the district, having resided at Ashhursl for nearly forty years. She leaves a husband, Mr Arthur M. Bauekham, and a daughter, Mrs Walter Barnes, of Ashhurst. Mr W. D. Bauekham, of Foxton, is a .nephew of deceased. A ■/splendid civic reception rvas accorded Major-General Sir Edwahl Chaytor, K.C.M.G., C. 8., D. 5.0., and aide-de-camp to the King, when he arrived in Palmerston North yesterday morning, accompanied by Lady Chaytor, by the Main Trunk express from "Auckland. The shops were temporarily closed, and speeches of welcome were made by prominent citizens, and feelingly responded to by the General. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The Palmerston Patriotic Society made a grant of £75 towards a circulating library- in connection with the Soldiers’ Club.

The by-election to (ill the vacancy on the local Borough Council will be held to-morrow. The candidates arc Messrs T. Henderson and T. W. Hunt. The polling hours are from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Said Lloyd George, recently: I don’t want to see Britain sitting in its armchair with the stuffed trophies of its victories around it. I want it to reclaim the wilderness, to clear the jumgle of slums, poverty, drunkenness, ignorance, wrong and tyranny. That is a great career, not merely for a man, but for a. people.

If anybody doubts that Now Zealand is in the throes of a land boom, let him take a train journey at the present lime! (says the Mauawatu Times). The first-class carriages are filled with opulent-looking men of the farming type, and all the talk is about bargains in laud and the large sums of money 'which have been made in deals of various kinds, It is said I bat the lawyers in -various country (owns are being kept very busy indeed in drawing up deeds and documents. The death occurred on Saturday evening of Dr. Edith Huntley, of Miramar, Wellington. Dr. Huntley graduated in England, practised for several years in India, and then came to Wellington, residing in Kelburu Parade. Later, the purchase of Miramar Home enabled her to extend the scope of her work. Upon the Defence Department leasing the home for the use of convalescent soldiers, Dr. Huntley, whose health was failing, gradually retired from active practice. "The thing that. strikes me most about this, is the absolutely criminal way in which storekeepers cash cheques,” said'Mr Justice Stringer, in the Auckland Supreme Court, when sentencing William John Davidson, who pleaded guilty to live charges of forgery and uttering. “This man steals a cheque book, and seems able to cash cheques for very considerable amounts, and no one makes the slightest inquiry. Such negligence is a direct incitement to crime, and people who are so lax richly deserve to lose.” Davidson, who had previously been declared an habitual criminal, was reinstated to that rank, and sentenced formally to two years’.imprisonment on all eburges com-urrenlly.

It is not an uncommon occurrence for a man to discover money- in an old suit* and judging by the echo of a past investment that has lately been heard in Invercargill, it is not impossible to become a shareholder, and to forget all about the investment, even though the venture is lucrative. Fifty years ago a young man came to New Zealand from Scotland. He settled in Invercargill, and prospered. He lias been dead.for many years, but recently a communication was received from Aberdeen in connection with the winding-up of a local railway company in (bat shire. The loiter was opened by (he deceased man's son, who marvelled to rend that Ids father had been an early shareholder, before leaving Scotland half a century ago, in a company, the existence of whieh he had evidently forgotten. -A search produced an original share certificate, and as a result, the estate benefits by a good sum. The following is a copy of an essay written by a Maori boy in Standard HI., at a Wairarapa school, and is a quaint and interesting production ; —“A Day at,School. —Some time I go to school, sometime I don’t go for I had to slop home and work or go for a message. I don't always slop away for work and going up town for a message only. But sometimes when I get the cold. When 1 am all right and has no work to do and does not has to go for a message Igo to school. When 1 come to school I often go on the i-oad instead of'on the footpath. When I get to school I go straight to the back yard to play marbles. Before I .get to the place where the boys are playing I call out good boys give us a game. When I get to where they are I stop there and watch them playing until they finish. Then they say to me right oh you can play then some one else calls out no to many then another calls out never mine more the merrier.”

The one town that is going ahead faster than any oilier in. New Zealand at the present time is Masterton. Notwithstanding the extraordinary high cost of building material, houses are going up in every direction, and the supply is by no means equal.to the demand. Particularly good taste is being displayed in tlie architecture of the new residences, and in the manner in which the. grounds are being laid out, and a very noticeable feature is the number of beautiful gardens which surround the residences new and old. The presence of a number of spring-fed streams in the higher parts of the borough has been taken alvautage of in many cases to enhance the landscape effects. Wealthy settlers in the neighbourhood are acquiring land and building town residences on a more or less elaborate scale. The Soldi-, ers’ Club at Masterton is a residential one, and the Citizens, by weekly socials organised by a com-' mittee of ladies, promote entertainments for the returned men and the soldier students at the Penrose training farm. —Exchange. “Forewarned is forearmed. ’’ .Your best weapon against a bad eold is NAZOL. It will quickly and easily rout the enemy. Sold everywhere, 1/6 a bottle.

The first line of “fine'’ hemp seen in the local stores for some considerable time was graded Ibis morning. Jl was a line of “Kapai,” milled at Mr It. Me .Murray’s mill, and was awarded 80 points by the grader. The by-election for the Blenheim Borough Council vacancy, caused the unsealing of William Carr through non-attendance, resulted in the return of Mrs Ada Redwood. There were three candidates, Carr being at the bottom of the poll.

Everyone is invited to contribute to the Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial to be erected in the Triangle Reserve, in Main Street. We feel sure a generous public will erect a monument which will be a credit to the town. It will contain the names of all men in Foxton and adjacent district who made the supreme sacrifice.

The Prohibitionists of the Dominion are not easily daunted, says the Eltham Argus. Referendum* results have merely caused fresh outbursts of e.nergy. In the various large cities the prohibition campaign is again in full swing. Suggestive posters are liberally displayed on hoardings, and many public meetings are being held. A ding-dong light Prohibition v. the Trade is again waging.

Mr Len. Podmorc, who recently returned from the front after service with the New Zealand Forces, has pux’ehased Mr E. J. Murphy’s carrying and forwarding agency business. In connection with same he also conducts the stables at the rear of Whyte’s Hotel. Mr Podmore solicits a fair share of public- support, which we feel sure he will receive. He intends running a wagonette to the Beach every Sunday, leaving Foxton at 10.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. .

Inquiries of chemists were made by an Audi hind Star reporier an Thursday as to whether gastric influenza was prevalent or not in the northern oily. Ilis first informant told him that it was undoubtedly “gastrie inlluenza," and that ils activity laid been steady for months, but that it could not be traced to the influenza epidemic. In form it was the same as ordinary inlluenza with the exception that acute pain in the stomach accompanied the oilier symptoms. People affected invariably had to lay up for periods extending from a week to a fortnight. The second authority on the matter said that the symptoms outlined were prevalent both before and during the epidemic, but at no time was it called “gastric influenza.” ft was, nevertheless, one of the-most distressing forms during the recent epidemic. It created weakness of the stomach and inability to retain food, with the result that the general tone of the person affected was lowered, completely eradicating tiny inclination foxfood. The symptoms could quite easily be due to the prevailing atmospheric conditions. He had come in contact with quite a number of eases, and a doctor who had bis rooms in the establishment had also handled a number of cases. In conclusion he stuted Unit the answer as to wliat.it might be was that it might he the effects that followed on inlluenza. Another chemist had only met with one ease in twenty-six, and another, after eliciting information in his own establishment, and another in another part of the city, said that he had not met with any of the cases.