Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2074, 6 January 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. Kennedy sailed for Wellington last night. She is due back on Thursday with general.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the JFoxton Borough 'Connell will be held on Monday next, at 7.30 p.m. During next week two great super-features will be shown at The Royal, “Tamm of the Apes'’ and "The Lure of the Bush.”

Constable O’Douogliue. proceeded to Eketahuna, this week on relieving duty. He will be absent for about a month.

The local Friendly Societies have under consideration the question of holding a picnic and sports in Victoria Park on St. Patrick’s Day. A committee has been set up to go fully into the matter,- and report to a meeting to be held shortly.

As a result of the concert and dance* held at the local seaside on New Year’s Night, the funds of the Beach Improvement Committee will benefit to the extent of £2B 4s lid. A dance held on Boxing Night netted £5, and a, children’s function last Saturday night realised £2 10s Od for the piano fund, RELIEVES SORENESS.' Soreness of the muscles, whether due to violent exercise or injury, is quickly relieved by Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. For muscular "rheumatism, pains in the side and chest, nothing gives such quick relief as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

Thu next transport is the Kigoma. due in a day or two with 311 soldiers on hoard.

A very large influx of visitors is expected for the races on the 22nd and 23rd instants, and no doubt accommodation will he taxed to its utmost capacity,. In this connection the secretary of the Racing Club will be pleased to receive applications from residents prepared to provide accommodation for visitors.

The Beach Improvement Committee desire to thank all those ladies and gentlemen who assisted in connection with the successful' concert mid sports held on January Ist, especially Mr K. McDonald and Captain Miller. They also desire to express their appreciation of Mr McMurray’s kindness in supplying teams free of charge for work in laying down the tennis courts. A new disease has appeared araongst the apple and pear trees in Tauranga. district (says the Farmers’ Union Advocate). It kills the young fruit and leaves surrounding the fruit. Mr Paynler, orchard instructor, says duringMiis twentyfive years’ experience he lias never seen anything resembling this , disease. He is having the matter investigated by the bacteriological division of the Agricultural Department.

According to a statement made by the Prime Minister in Auckland, the housing scheme adopted by Parliament last session is now well in hand. Mr Massey said that large numbers of applications had been received from local bodies anxious to secure Government aid in financing their building schemes, while the Labour Department bad let contracts fox - about 150 bouses in different parts of the Dominion., The greater proportion of the. latter were in and about Wellington City, where the need for additional housing was more apparent than elsewhere.

The inner harbour at Gisborne lias silted up to siudi an extent that the tender ean only work the river at half-tide. When the Tuatea, with the Wanganui erieketers on hoard, was leaving the wharf for the Arahura in the roadstead on Tuesday night, considerable delay was occasioned through the fairway being blocked by the Putiki, which had become stuck in the mud, and lay broadside on to the channel. Eventually, with the help of the Harbour Board’s launch, the steamer was hauled,into the wharf, and the lender with the outward passengers was enabled to pass down the river entrance. Time was when (he Takapuna used to berth at the Kaiti wharf almost daily, and good-sized steamers used to work the port at any state of tide;, but Gisborne’s dreams of •making a success of the inner harbour seem to have been quite dispelled. The dredge Maui is tied up on the Kaiti side of the stream, and lias been thus out of commission for many months.

The London correspondent of the Christchurch Press says that, in view of the boisterous reception accorded to the Prince of Wales in Canada ,the “Yorkshire Observer says, apropos of a talked-about visit of the Prince to -Australia, and New Zealand: “There is a little uneasiness in otlicia! minds as to the treatment that he may receive at. the hands of Ihe high-spirited Auzacs. At the same time, 1 do not think the people of Australia are likely to overstep the bounds of propriety; certainly nut, die New Zealanders. Long experience of the Dominion troops in Prance, both relieving and holding the line alongside them, bred a profound respect for all of them, but more than .others did the brawny wearers of the sugar-loaf hat impress me with their good behaviour and discipline/’'' December 17th has come ami gone,' and —so. far as we can learn

—none of the disasters predicted for that day lias been realised (writes Mr P. G. Hogg, P.ILA.S., in the Weekly Press). The interesting “conjunction” of the planets which formed the starting point of the prophetic warnings issued by Professor Porta and Air Clement Wragge, has occurred frequently within historic times, and probably anyone well versed in the literature of astrology could supply us with instances of scares based on similar “conjunctions’' of the planets, ft certainly seems strange that at the present time anyone should, like Air Wragge, regard the recent “conjunction’’ as “very ominous and significant.” The attractive action of the planets Mercury,. Venus and the earth —whether separately or combined —on any part of the solar atmosphere is exceedingly small in comparison with that exerted by the sun itself on this part of its atmosphere; the action of the'other planets is absolutely negligible. Two out of the three planets named are frequently in conjunction with the sun, and all three are occasionally so, up to the present time one may eoulidently assert that so far no correlation has been shown to exist, either between such conjunctions and terrestrial phenomena of a catastrophic nature. It may be added that the sun’s disc for some days before the 17th ult. showed no spot of any magnitude.

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A Stoke (Nelson), fruitgrower has this season taken over £l2 worth of fruit from a cherry plum tree. The tree was planted 50 years ago, and has never received any cultivation* The following arc the latest additions to (he local telephone exchange:—No. 92, Mr W. Petrie; No. 123, Mr W. T. Sapsf'ord; No. 124, Captain Guilin. A new geyser lia- appeared at Whakarewarewa, near Polmla. The geyser played to a height of tifleen to twenty feel on Friday night and Saturday morning and afternoon.

The monthly'meeting of the Cp- ; une.il of the; Foxton ■Cnamher of Commerce will be held to-night, at S o’clock. As some very important matters are to come up for discussion, a full attendance is requested.

Mr 11. W. Richmond met with a painful accident on New Year’s Day. He was on a ladder, picking fruit, when the ladder collapsed, and he fell to the ground, injuring his back. He will be eonlined to his room for some days.

In view of the continued increase in the price of standard silver, it is now regarded as practically certain that the Australian Commonwealth Government will he compelled to issue 5s notes. There is also a possibility that half-crown notes will be issued later on.

The unusually dry weather being 'experienced in North Taranaki is having a serious effect in the country. There has been but very little growth, and pastures are becoming dried up. Hay crops, too, are very light, paddocks in some, instances hardly being worth saving. An Auckland returned soldier drew his gratuity, amounting to £OO, early last week. At the end of two days he had nothing left. A waitress was charged with robbing him during a motor drive, hut she alleged that the soldier had given her money with which to buy a new costume, and the case was dismissed. The announcement was recently made that the Prime Minister has been advised that the Imperial authorities are prepared to make arrangements tor the shipment of 00,000 cases of apples during the coming season. The Nelson Mail states that the guarantee of Parliament, means that the grower gels at least 3s 4d a case for the fruit, clear cost of ease, packing, wood wool, paper, shipping, and all other charges. The winter prospects in this district, from a dairy fanner’s point of view, are not encouraging (says the Ell ham Argus). That there will be a shortage of hay is already plainly apparent, for paddocks that have- been kept closed for hay are still almost bare. The'carrot, crop, usually so sure, is not up to the' average, being very patchy. Mangolds are fair, but not as good as usual. It will lake a, lot of alternate hot weather and rain to bring grass along now. A London cablegram to Australian papers states: —Fashionable ladies are being terrorised by a novel form of theft, valuable fur coats being cut off their hades while they are gazing in West End shop -windows. Several cases have occurred in Regent Street, where ladies have been robbed while standing at crowded shop windows looking at the fashions, the. deed being so cleverly done that the victims were not aware of their loss. One lady reached home, ami, feeling cold, only, then discovered that £4OO worth of furs had been cut, out of the hack of her coat.

While iu Now Soulli Whiles, Mr X. C. Siavoloy, borough engineer of Wanganui, who has just, returned, saw plenty of evidence of I he" drough I. which .is devastating: part ul. iho country area of the Sate; for mi Ids and miles nothing in the way of grass: hut nailer trains running on lhe railways, and that was a rather ominous sign. The whole country was composed of red earth, which made a particularly penetrating- dust, he informed a press represent a live. Most of the country roads were earth roads, and in one district he noticed a road a mile wide. This road was used as a slock route, the purpose of it being so wide was to afford sustenance lor travelling stock. It was covered with trees and scrub, and it would he (piile a simple matterXo lose cue’s self while crossing it.

Nobody cun miy definitely whether it was lost, stolen, of strayed, but the Dcl'cm-e nnthorilics hove declared that somebody has captured a German machine gun in Melbourne (says Hie Sydney Sun). Frantic baste lias not been observed in the search Cor it, as (begun disappeared on July libli, when the Peace Day procession was Judd. A collection of onus captured by the Australians from the Huns attracted much attention, and the soldiers of the 58th Battalion, and their relatives and friends, looked with particular pride on machine gun 10129. It had been taken in battle by the 58th from the Germans, and was one of 24 that had been on loan from the Australian War Museum for display in the peace celebrations. THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGESTION. To have good health it is import ant to have good digestion. To sustain life, the food you eat must be digested, and converted into blood. When the digestion fails, the whole body suiters. Take Chamberlain's Tablets, and stimulate your digestion. They purify the blood, strengthen the stomach, and tone up the whole digestive apparatus to a, natural and healthy action. : Try ChamberlaiuA Tablets to-day, and test our assertions. For sale everywhere. —Advt; V v A AM;!; ' ;V;

A lew day> ago Mr ami "Airs Alex-. under Orr pa id. a. visit to the Rev. G. K. Ailkon, chairman of the Methven School CommfUee, and presented him with a cheque for £I,OOO, as {l j gift to Hie school, in con adoration of the good work (hat. the coumiit- , V toe and the leaching .M all had done >m and were still doing. "‘"* y A public meeting v ill he held H< the Council Chamber on Friday next, at 11 o'clock, to discuss river improvement:-, hanking and Hood prevention. .y .-Ars Aker;, Seifert and Jiekcll will he in' attendance, and will furnish maps, etc., and uinlinc a proposed scheme in this connection. All interested should make a point of being present.