LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2066, 11 December 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A complete list of Parliamentary candidates appears on page 4. The continuous winds are playing havoc with local flower and vegetable gardens. j\l.r P. Skellen forwards us some Jfine samples of potatoes grown in his garden, an evidence of what the local soil is capable of. producing. The annual prize-giving social in connection with the local Presbyterian Sunday School will be held tliis evening. The tea will take place at 6 o’clock, and a social evening will be held in the schoolroom, commencing at 7.30 o’clock. Fur children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6.

A meeting of relumed soldiers will be held in the Town Hall supperroom to-night, at 7.30 o'clock. As important matters are to be discussed, a full attendance is requested. i On the local croquet lawn on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs Kirk and Miss Whittaker (challengers), of the Levin Croquet Club, succeeded in wresting the Gold Stars from the Foston holders, Mesdames Perreau and Bryant. A Masonic service will be held in the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening next, to which all brethren, local and.visiting, are cordially invited to attend. The service will be conducted by Bro. Rev. Thos. Hallidav. A maleyehoir will lead the •' , singing. A edrdial invitation is also extended 'to the public to attend the service. The annual prize-giving in connection with the local State school will take place on Monday and Tuesday afternoons next, in the Town Hall. On Monday afternoon the prize-giving will be for the infant department, when there will be • a Christmas Tree for the children, and on Tuesday afternoon the prizes for the children in Standards I. to VI. will be distributed. Parents and friends arc cordially invited to be present at both ceremonies.

A correspondent writes, congratulating those Councilloi’s who objected to pictures on Christmas Day. ‘‘Surely, Sir, we can keep one day free from mercenary matters. If we had many men like the Councillors who supported this application we would soon have the Continental Sabbath in this country.” Reference is made to a Councillor “breaking out in a fresh place in making a preference for Sunday pictures, in place of sermons, and asking the Mayor to state in how many places in New Zealand a similar concession is given to picture shows.

In a divorce case heard at the recent sitting' of the Supremo Court at Wanganui, before his Honour Sir W. B. Edwards and a common jury 6f twelve, the jury gave an unmistakable proof of their strong disapprobation of the conduct of those men who have taken advantage of’ the absence of husbands upon military service to seduce their wives. The suit for divorce was by a young storeman at Utiku. The sum of £I,OOO was claimed as damages from the co-respondent, a farmer at Utiku, who had seduced the young wife of the petitioner during his absence on military service in France. The wife admitted her error, and did not defend the case. The corespondent did defend the case, but the jury marked their appreciation of his conduct by returning a verdict against him for the full - amount claimed. It is to the credit of the petitioner that after the verdict had been returned he, by his counsel (Mr Treadwell), disclaimed any desire to profit by his wife’s slip, and applied to the court to settle the damages upon her and the child of their marriage. *