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

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2111, 6 April 1920, Page 2

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

A number of local sport,-, were in attendance at I he, Redding races vesterdav and to-day.

Tiff weather was perfect for the Easter holidays. Every tram was crowded with excursionists.

The local seaside at traded a huge number uf visitors during the holidays.

Dew pit c the shortage of: benzine, motor traffic on the district arterial roads must have broken all previous records during' the holidays. t A special discourse by the liev. Halliday will be delivered in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening next on the subject ‘‘What’s At the local police court /ni Saturday, John O’Neill, arrested for drunkenness the night previous, was convicted and fined 10s.

The united service to-night in the Salvation Army Hail will be conducted by the Rev. Thomas Ilallidav.

The. following arc the vitaj statistics for Foxton for the month of March :Births 1, deaths 1, marriage certificates issued 4.

The business people whose premises were destroyed during the recent conflagration are now settled in new- and temporary premises and business is being carried on as usual.

The Town Hall pictures announce that they have made arrangements to screen here a serial, for which is claimed the distinction of being right away from the uma.l style of such pictures both in plot and production.

Constable Groggnn, of Levin, lias been honoured by selection as one of the special police force to accompany the Prince of Wales during his visil through New Zealand. ■ The annual general meeting of the Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held in the Anzac Club, Palmerston, on the 13th inst, at 8 p.m. A hearty invitation is extended to all Foxton members to be present. Messrs Jones, the contractors for the Soldiers’ Memorial in the Triangle Reserve have the foundations for the monument laid. It is hoped that the work will be completed in time for the unveiling on Anzac Dav.

During the month of March rain fell locally on seven days, the maximum fall being on the 18th, when 93 points were registered. The total for the month was 2.13 inches.' During the corresponding month or last year 2.31 inches were registered.

It is reported that the Palmerston Patriotic Society has £u(),00() of accumulated funds. It is not yetdecided whether to distribute it to ihc men in the district or pool it will; other funds under the Government proposals.

It has been estimated that the centre of the earth has a temperature of 195,000 degrees Centigrade —a concentration of heat which will reduce to a state of vapour all the substances that enter into the composition of the globe.

Speaking aP a -gathering 1 in Wanganui, Mr L. MTlvride stated that a girl at one of (he woolen mills in New Zealand bought some material which she had helped to make at 8s Gd a yard. Later she went to a Mop to buy two more yards of the same material, and found the price was ,C2 5s a vard.

A largo number of people wort! attracted to the local Methodist Church on Sunday night to hear Miss Sawyer, the talented young Wellington vocalist, sing (he sacred solos “My Redeemer Liveth,” and “With Verdure Clad.” The interpretations of those masterpieces wore a revelation to (hose who listened to this gifted young woman.

The Pahiatua County roads between Mangatainoka and Konini, including the IVihiatua borough main thoroughfare, is easily the worst for motor Ira (lie between Wellington and Taranaki, yet, strange to say, metal in unlimited puantities is to be found close handy all along this route. The-ducal authorities governing (hose mads - require - galvanising- into action.

We are indebted to Mr 11. Xmolsen, of Otaki, for a .plan of the township of Foxton surveyed by Messrs T. Stewart, J. Thomson, J. Knowles and M. Carkcek in IBGG. The firebeil site is shown as part of the Government Reserve upon which •is erected the court-house. The old cemetery is shown running from Parle Street to Duncan Street, adjoining the school, and is no doubt treated in the plan as a reserve.

Messrs M. Griffin ’and Colin Campbell, members of the Wellington Caledonian Society, enlivened the proceedings of Main Street on Saturday night with the skirl of the pipes. Quite a large crowd followed the pipers as they marched along. Mark Griffin is a local hoy, and although a comparatively young player, has succeeded in manipulating the pipes with considerable skill and lias annexed two medals in recent competitions. His ambition is to make the reeds articulate the Gaelic speech. Anyhow his performance astonished and delighted (he natives.

We have to acknowledge receipt of an interesting' booklet from the Olaki Hail, entitled “Otaki and Acj'oss (he Tara runs.” The booklet graphically describes the beauties unfolded to those who desire to make this wonderful trip across (ho mountains from Otaki to (troytown. it is amply illustrated with views of the huts erected on the track, and other scenes, including the beautiful mountain (lowers. The book contains valuable information and advice to prospective tourists, and to those unable to, .enjoy the outing, and (o a If lovers of nature, it affords pleasurable reading, and should hoi]> to advertise what in the near future will be one of our grandest attractions to tourists. Historic Otaki comes in for a share of the letterpress work. Mr Penn is to be commended for publishing the booklet in an endeavour to advertise this national asset. The booklet may be obtained for the modest sum of Is Gd, and we recommend it to every lover of nature.

Under the scale of income lax impose*! by the recent Revenue Bill, every American in receipt of £30,000 or more a year must pay at least half of it to the Stale, if his income is £40,000 a year, his annual contribution will he a few hundred pounds over £20,000; the tax on a yearly £60,000 will be £33,000; and so on, in ascending scale, until the man who has £200,000 u year must pay just under £130,000 in incometax alone, while the fortunate possessor of a million pounds a year must contribute the enormous sum of £705,419. Mr Henry Ford, for example, is said to have an income of £5,000,000 a year, of which the revenue authorities will claim between three and four millions —a sum sufficient to keep 1,000 families in modest comfort for ever. But even Mr Ford gets oft lighter than Mr John D. Rockefeller, who is re-* puted to have an income of £20,000,000 a year. Mr Rockefeller’s contribution to the exchequer, it is said, will not fall short of £16,000,000 for the current year —a sum winch represents two thousand times bis own weight in gold.

The annual meetings of householders throughout the AA'anganui educational district, I’m* the purpose of electing school commit lees will be held on the evening of Ah 01day, the 19th inst. The local election will.take place in the Masonic Hall.

Two American newspaper proprietors have offered 25,000 dollars in gold for a specific cure for influenza. The only limitation is that the specific must be approved by the John Hopkins Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The year 3851 was the famous “year without a summer.' 1 It followed the greet eruption of Mount Tomboro, at the east end of Java, which destroyed 56,000 lives. For three days darkness prevailed over all that region to a distance of 300 utiles.

The world's deepest well is situated in the neighbourhood of Gobelins. Boring was started ,in ISO2. and continued intermittently up (ill the outbreak of war, when the extraordinary depth of 18,000ft.'had been readied, at a tola! eo.--( of ■nearly £IO,OOO.

Shaving was introduced among the Romans about 300 B.Cf, Pliny says Ceipio Africanns was the first Roman who shaved everyday. Subsequently the first day of shaving was regarded by the Romans as the entrance upon manhood, and celebrated with great festivities. Bad translation has been responsible for many strange things. On the map of the British Isles is the Island of lona. This used' to be called loua, meaning simply the land of I, but somebody once mistook the u for an n, and it has eyn’ since been called lona.

French forests are suflgving not only from the ravages of war, hut from destruction by parasitic growths. The oak seems to suffer especially from the fungus oidium, whicji appeared in the Province of Champagne about 1907, and is doing such damage that- the extermination of the oak in France is foreseen.

A house built of beer bottles was once an interesting feature of Tnnopah, Nevada. It was on account of the local scarcity of timber that a miner conceived the idea of building himself, a dwelling from a huge stack of beer bottles. Over ton thousand bottles were, incorporated in the dwelling.

The present-day freight on a (> 011;. mutton carcase (o (ireal Britain is 9s (id. The pre-war freight was 3s sd. That was the increase to which Air D. .Jones, MB’., drew attention to at the Canterbury Farmers’ Fnion meeting on Wednesday, as illustrating what the producers would have had to boar bad the Dominion's produce not been commandeered'(says a. Christchurch paper).

Because of a dispute whether workmen should wash their hands in their own or (heir employer’s time, a. strike occurred at Pcrigeux railway workshops in France, and it spread to oilier shops on the Paris(Means line. The Minister of Public 'Works intervened, and ton minutes for hand-washing are In he allowed until washstands have been installed.

A wedding was celebrated at the homo of Mi' and Mrs A. Gardner, Oi'oua Downs, yes!onlay by (ho Hev. Thos, Holliday, when Mr Francis Thomas Johnson, of Karamea. Nelson, was uni led lo FJsie Harriet, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Gardner. A large minda'i' of guests were present a! (lie ceremony and the bride and bridegroom were (lie recipients of many tokens of esteem and good wishes. Mr and Airs Johnson will take up their residence at Karamea.

The public are warned llml forged £1 notes, of the National (Sank of New Zealand are still in eirenlalion, and if they, accept them they will only have valueless paper on (heir bands. The notes are genuine, ox-

c-ept for the signature, which is forged. They are those which were

sl.olmi some months ago from, a' : package of unsigned noles on their way out from. England. The numbers mu from 200.0(H) onwards, 600,801 to 020,000, and 000,201 to 001,000. A few days ago one of these numbered 000,900 was accepl - ed by Mr Thomas Arthur, sailmakcr, of Wellington, and on being handed in at the National Bank was returned a* a forgery.

This story is told by Mr Stanley Walling', of the Anchor Hotel, Coltishall, Norfolk.' Fishing' on Barton Broad, he says,'his son Jack hooked a large pike which scaled close on 201 b. This occurred at noon. When the pike, was opened —til 5.30 p.tn. — ‘kin apparently dead bream” ( : /Tb.) was found inside it. It was being examined when some one noticed a slight quiver of the tail. ‘’Thereupon,” said Mr Walling, “I poured a drop of brandy down its throat, and fixed it up in a bait can so that it could not turn over on its batik, changing the water every. 20 minutes. It soon began to revive, and at 7.30 was .swimming round the can.” Mi* Watling says five other people can vouch for the truth of the story. SUFFERING MAY BE AVOIDED. Constipation brings many ailments in its train, and is the primary cause of much sickness. Keep your bowels regular 'by taking Chamberlain’s Tablets, and you will escape many ailments which make life a misery. Constipation is a simple thing, but like many simple things it may lead to serious consequences. Nature often need* a little assistance, and when Chamberlain's Tablets are taken at the first symptom of any irregularity, much suffering and distress may be avoided. For

The Auckland Observer has a joke at the. expense of Fusion iu which "the writer gives his imagination free play.. Here it is :Foxlon the hisiori(‘ village in the Manawatu, alternates between Hoods and tires, . It has lately had its periodical lire in the Alain Street following another ' periodical lire of a few days previously. In between the fires it catches lish in the river, but at times the population has to got on the roof to catch ’em, because the Hood covers the country for miles round, and a gentleman may sit in the topmost branches of a willow tree whipping-, the paddocks for tinny treasures. All Foxtonians keep boats and row over the top of the fences in Hood time searching for the cows. People row across the paddocks iu Hood time to catch the coaches, all of which are driven by ex-sailors who drive with the reins in one hand and a compass in the other, .and have a curious dialect of mixed nautical and horse talk. They held a splendid race of children there and the local doctors have been surprised to notice the presence of web-foot among them. AVhon Post on hasn't had its main street burnt down for six months the natives become discontented. They have 3,000,000,000,000 million gallons of water handy so they squirt a burning main street with a chemical engine, which saves labour —but not the town.