LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2080, 20 January 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“The Herald” will not be published on Thursday next, Anniversary Day. Carterlou has raised nearly £3,000 for a fallen soldiers’ memorial. Continuous warm rains have been falling throughout this district' during (lie past two days, whii.% is greatly appreciated by the fanning community. A cable message from Chicago states that Reginald Do Koven, the operatic composer, is dead. Reginald De Koven was 5!) years of age, and served as musical critic formally New York publications. He composed 23 operas, and one grand opera, and also over 300 songs, ineluding, “Oh, Promise Me,” and “A Recessional.” An attraction is provided for those who do not desire to attend the races on Thursday, when an upriver picnic will lie held, under the auspices of the Methodist Sunday School, and through the courtesy of Mr Signal. Weather permitting, the punts will leave the wharf at about 10 u.iu.,. returning in the evening. Adults Is, children (id. Hot water provided free. An enjoyable outing is anticipated. CHAMHERLAXN'S' COLIC AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY. I The extreme summer heat, together with the sudden ami violent changes .of temperature, often give rise to bowel complaints, the most common being dysentery. There is no medicine that is safer or more sure for this complaint than Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Given, at the |irst unnatural It’oscness of the bowels it will prevent the attack. For sale everywhere. —Advt.

The Hoyal management lias secured the serial, “Fadher Adventures of hdingaree," whieh will be screened shortly. These are said to he 'nettor in every way., Until the lirst series—production, photoplay, direction, acting and plot, all showing a marked improvement. The housing expert to ho appointed under the Housing Act oC last session is Mr P. 11. (Iraham, oi' Gisborne. The appointment will he for two years, at a salary of .01,000 per year. Mr Graham will lie in charge of the praelicnl side of all I lie housing work to he canned out by the Government. It isn’t every man of 78 summers who can touch his toes with the utmost ease, but this is done by Mr Charles Dranslickl, a local seaside resident. Mr DraOslield is a he-' liever in physical culture, and indulges in a few exercises each morning. lie attributes his physical fitness to these! exercises, and to abstinence from alcoholic-liquors. In the 'Palmerston Police Court last week, a youlh named AVilliam Walker, aged 10, was charged with wilfully selling fire to a six-roomed cottage at Weraroa Slate Farm, the property, of the Mew' Zealand Government,• on 7th January. Accused, wjio was an inmate of .the farm, pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. Mr S. L. P. Free, S.M., gave his reserved judgment on Friday in a ease in whieh Annie Siuumix, of Carterton, claimed from Alfred E. Palmer, .of Palmerston North, and formerly of Carterton, a sum of £7B for alleged breach of warranty that certain cows, when sold, were in calf. After,reviewing the evidence, his''Worship gave'judgment for the plaintiff for £(i(i 12s, and costs £1) Is (id. ‘ The following eases of inlkienza were reported between noon on Sth January and noon on 12tb January: —Auckland, -13 mild, -1 severe; Wellington, 4.1 mild, 4 pneumonic; Canterbury, 1 severe. Tola I, !).*?,. Bel ween noon on 121 b January and noon on 151 b January Ibe follow - ing eases were reported:—Auckland, (io mild, 3 severe; Wellington, 52 mild, 4 pneumonic, 1 severe.; Canterbury, 2 mild. Tolal, 127. The following have passed (be Junior National Scholarship, examination held in November last: — Constance 14 Buchanan 1 (Palmerston High School), 58!) marks; A. E. Campbell (West End), s(io marks; J. Orgias (Palmerston High School), 513 marks; Frances Ena Rainforth (College Street), 525 marks; Marjorie A. M. Aldis (1 Alton Street, Feildiug), 519 marks. None of the local candidates were successful. .

At Thursday night’s meeting of the Otaki Town Board Mr Byron Brown said that it was with a deal of regret that lie intended to resign from the Board, hut it was his intention, in the course of about live weeks’ lime, to leave for an extended trip to England and the East on business bent. He look the oppor-tunity-of thanking the members for (heir courtesy and assistance during his term of ollice, and hoped that during his ahseriee the town would progress. “The outlook Is just a little heller than it was,” Mr Massey remarked at Christchurch regarding (he coal short age and the “go-slow" shake. He said (hal negotiations were going on, and if (he miners, or I heir representatives, would go the leuglh of meeling the representatives of the coa[owners, he thought the <liHi<-ul(y would not last long. The I rouble occurred regarding representation at I Jit* conference, which had nol been taken in hand yot.

Advice from Morrinsville stales (hat the inspector of stock reports Unit between 90,000 and 10,000 calves have been killed in the Waikato this summer. .Banners find it does not pay to roar calves and trigs while the present high prices for liuller-faf continue. New country is not being opened up quickly enough to absorb young stock, and a tremendous shortage of beef is predicted. The slaughter of lambs and calves should he controlled —some suggest a prohibition until the depleted stocks are partly replaced arid prices reduced. Alexander Ellis Small, a farmer, was lined os and costs at Dunedin for working in a paddock adjacent (o (he Kaikorai Valley road last Sunday. It was staled that the defendant, .after wailing (ill the church bells had ceased ringing, went to work, drilling, manuring and sowing turnips with a team ol two horses, assisted by a small hoy. The work could have been done during the week, hut Ellis stated emphatically that as he had been delivering his milk, mid doing oilier necessary work all the week, and as the season was a late one, it was absolutely essential that, he should get his turnips in ns soon as possible, THE IMPORTANCE OF DICES - ' . TiON. To have good health it is important to have good digestion. To sustain life, the food you eat must be digested, and converted into blood. Whoa the digestion fails, the wiulle body suffers. ' 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 Chamberlain’s Tablets to-day, and test our assertions. For sale everywhere. —Advt. • Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s?*

A large number of visi ors motored to the local seaside last Sunday. ■ ■ SS-Si Owing lo the shortage of coal, the Maurieevilie Ijmo Works, which employ fifteen men, have been compelled to suspend operations for the time being. • For having disposed ,ol a race- “■. horse by ■ chance at the recent Catholic Bazaar al Palmerston, Mr I* 1 . L, Broad was fined £lO and costs at (lie Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday. A wedding ol .considerable interest to Foxlon residents took place on January sth, at St ~l’aneras .Church,- London, when Miss Ava Symons, daughter of the late Mr 1 J. N. and Mrs Symons, erstwhile residents of FoxUm, was married to Mr W. S. Prouse, of Wellington, sou of Mr John Prouse, the well- 1 known singer. ■ Some pretty substantial “rises” continue to he made off farms in (bis locality, says-the Levin Chronicle. About two months ago a Bruce road farmer sold bis holding, a Urst-class property,, at the rate, of £i(i() per acre.. It has now changed hands at an advance of , over £2O per acre, ■ returning the seller a profit of £I,OOO after two months’ occupation. In the course of a speech at a, social function held by.the,employees ’of 'the Wellington Farmers’. •, Meal Cpgipany, at Masterton, on Friday evening. Mr J. C, Cooper stated that: over a 'period of ten years there had not been the slightest'friction between himself and the Freezing Workers’ Union. He urged all employees to become members of the union. , In an interview', Mr A. D. McLeod, member for Wairarapa, staled that it was unlikely be would accompany the Parliamentary party to Samoa. While be was of opinion I ha t it was desirable for Ihe Labour and commercial members to go and make themselves acquainted with Samoan affairs, be I bought those members who were in touch with pastoral and agricultural pursuits had much lo engage their attention in making arrangements for shipping the produce of the Dominion in readiness for the lifting of the commandeer a few' months hence. It was; unlikely the commandeer would be continued over. Ihe t erm, and if provision wer# not made for lhai. eventually, a serious position would arise,.

A souvenir with a history hits been received hy (he Prime Minister from Mr John Hull, of Portland, Oregon. it is a New Zealand ensign, and its history is as follows: “The ensign was llown over Liberty Temple, Keturned Soldiers’ Hen d(| ua r( ers, Portland, Oregon, and in parades for oyer three years j during and after the war. in eom- A jinny wilh other dugs, and was the only one from the British Dominions or eoionies so down in Oregon. At the request of the Soldiers’ Legion, the Red Cross and ' Maorilanders, it is now returned for the Premier of its native land to witness its serviee in storm and shine, and (he advertisement it has proved to brave little New Zealand.” Mr Hall has taken a keen ’ interest in advaneing the Dominion in America.

In ;i spc'ci'h jit Cl iris I church at. a social gathering, Mr L. M. Isitt -mid Parliament liutj a very difficult task before it. These were days for a minimum of party strife and a maximum of effort for the weal 01. (he Dominion and. the nation, It, was in Mr Massey's power'to hold the balance even between eontendj 1I sections, to bring down legislation that would command' the support of all -who wished to see the reasonable demands of sane Labour met, and the ground cut from under the feet of the disloyal section, who sought to betray* Labour into mad courses, that: could only work hurt ■ (o themselves and the whole community, lie earnestly hoped that M r Massey would resolutely do (his, and so avert from New 'Av: land the unhappy conditions rife hr some other countries. . * A comprehensive account of the great inlluenza epidemic lias been , issued in a report by the Local. • (iovernnienl Board. A writer, tracing its origin, points out that an i epidemic of inllucnza was prevalent in Chinn and Japan in March, 1918, hut it was not reported iti • .Spain until May, 1918. He was of opinion that (he disease had originated in China, coining lo America, thence to Europe; or alternately it had originated in America, proceeding thence Bast and West,. lh Britain (he (Irand Fleet and Army were ' (he lirsl to suffer. Clasgow was the seal of the civilian outbreak, which occurred first in May, followed by the autumn eepidcmic. Portsmouth. Southampton and Liverpool; were (he first places affected, hut they suffered lightly, the inland towns suffering later more severely. The report adds: It docs not appear that one attack is invariably powerful in protecting against others. The results are contradictory, but may'' lie recognised by the hypothesis that there are several strains of in-.' fluonza virus, none conferring proled ion against; others, each waVft having a peculiar dominant Strain producing a certain wave of dndi- J viduality. ’ ■■ "/\ NO MATTER WHICH df 1!?, Whether it is a hard cold, a lingering cough, or a sudden aftaek of ' croup, there is nothing tnjual to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Experience has proved that it'is this, best medicine for coughs }i ud colds of any description. Chamaerlain’s Cough Remedy contains nothing injurious, and can be given with°perfect safety to the youngest’and most delicate child. For sale everv-' where.—-Advt.

A Maslerton rcsidgnt, discussing the ease with which outsiders found positions in the public service in New Zealand, said it was a dillicult matter to.secure the same treatment in Australia. He informed us that he made application for a job over there in the public service for which he was qualified, but was informed that members of the A.N.A. (Australian Natives Association) took precedence. Some day we may he compelled to adopt similar protective measures here. A Tc Kuiti business man, who went to Auckland ' for the races, was rather disgusted to lind that lie had to journey from Auckland to Pliers lie in an open cattle truck', the carriages being reserved for the ladies. But, seated next to him, smiling and happy, he discovered the ex-Ministor for Justice, Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., and after that the journey did not seem half so undignified. ’A good many petty thefts have been reported locally of late. At the sca.side womenfbJk, while enjoying a dip in the briney, have bad their underwear taken, while in the townslil}) fruit and vegetables have changed ownership. Now a harness thief is operating. It is hoped that an example will he made of one or two of these individuals. Uis Majesty the King, if we maybe permitted to judge by the registrations under the (diallets Securities Act, as published in the Mercantile Gazette, is the biggest money lender in New Zealand —nominally, of course, as the head of the New Zealand Government. The advances arc all to returned soldiers, at a , uniform rale of live per cent, lute res I. A swamp lire started sonic weeks ago near Patelonga spread to (lax land owned by the Torolmpe Fibre Company, and destroyed about 2,000 lons of standing ilax valued at £2,000. There was no insurance cm the properly, and (hr loss to the owners, who are I’aletonga workmen, is heavy-. The whole of the season’s slock was burnt out, and tile company has had to make other arrangements to keep the mills going. At Dm Town Hall cm Thursday night a MaiT Bickford .super-fea-ture him will be screened. This shows the popular screen actress in a dual roll, as the daughter of, love and Dm child of hate. It is said to be the best Mary Bickford pic-lure yet released. Bresident W ilson said after witnessing a private exhibition : “1 have to thank you lor the opportunity of witnessing ‘Stella ’Maris,’ a production which i am sure will hearten the nation at this crisis. Hs theme of woman’s lofty ideals Ims an irresistible appeal, and its portrayal of all phases ol ’ life must bo an inccmlive for good and loving deeds.”, A solicitor was endeavouring, 10, prove in a case beard m Dm Magislrate’s Court, Strut lord, last week, Dial some ol the articles mentioned in an account, and purchased hy the wife of defendant, were unnecessary. “There is an item,” lie said, addressing plaintiff, “six combs. Do yon think il was necessary for a woman to have six combs.'” The' draper's face expanded as he replied: “those combs were combinations,” W'hat the solicitor bad understood to be Dm name of a toothed instrument u.-md in the adjustment of the hair was really a shop s ordinary contraction of the name ot an un-der-garment. f> “And do the Americans still believe that they won Die war '-' was asked Mr J. C. Ward, vice-presi-dent of Die Wellington Industrial Association, who returned .from the United Whites recently. "Not only do they believe they won the war on laud, hut on Dm .sea, and limn afterwards they performed Die incredible feat of clearing Dm North Sea of mines in a miraculous period of time. I was reading of the “incredible’ feat in a paper, and noticed’on Ihe same page a cablegram where a captain of a steamer reported having sighted a thousand mines oil the Danish coast, which kind of threw' doubt upon the thoroughness with which they performed the ‘incredible’ feat.” —Dominion.

, A meeting bf Iho Commit!ee set ‘ up nl Ibe recent public meeting to further the formation of a Giver Board was held yesterday morning. It was reported Ilia! in order to form a river board il was only necessary to get (he consent of a majority of the ratepayers in. the Proposed area, not two-thirds as previously stated. The Committee is .'"of opinion that no difficulty will be ' experienced in getting the petition signed by the necessary number. The first matter to be dealt with, however, is the revising of the estimate of the cost of the proposed cut. and the Committee is coueentfating on thi-~ meantime. At Moli I real girls pur-ued Ihe ; Prince of Wale.-'' ear, defying Ihe panting police. Two of them rode Triumphantly on the step to the very door of ihe pavilion ai the fop of Mount Royal, while ihe Prince, holding iheir autograph hook- on his knee, wrole hi.- name. One daring girl .-lurmed Ihe. car suddenly while ii, wa.- moving and kissed the Prince, in Ihe delighl of ihe crowd. The Prince, polite hut pink, remaned his salutations amid a hurricane of cheers. The simm—s' of this attack quickly became known, ami half a dozen determined girls made ■ -a rush for the ear when it returned to the station after lunch. They were, however, out Hanked, and one was literally curried away in the fvd'e"'jO‘in jiy-y ■

Tin'* Sydney Sim ml vertices itself :is follows: There is a disreputable old cockatoo living in Balmain (Sydney), who indulges in the.most atrocious language on the smallest provocation— -without any. Sometimes he gets restless -at uncanny hours of the night, and brings everyone out of bed for half a mile round with raucous cries of “Murder! Police!” The other evening the lady of the house where this dissipated fowl resides presented her lord with twins. It was an anxious time. The doc-tor gave strict injunctions that the house should be kept as quiet as possible. Cocky’s cage was kept carefully muH'lcd, ami he was banished to tiie bathroom. Some time later when the doctor pronounced all danger Over, someone took the blanket off eoekey's cage, and just then the twin wail of a newly born infant was wafted downstairs. Coekey put bis head on one side and querulously demanded; “What the h ! s that'?” Then, as two baby voices shrilled out on the midnight air cocky appeared to be enlightened, for be at once screamed, out; “Sun! Second edition! Second edition!’’