LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2112, 8 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. G. K. Aitlcen, of Methvn, is paying a brief visit to I oxton friends.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Eoxlou Borough Council will he held on Monday next, at 7.39 p.m.

At the local Presbyterian'Church on Sunday evening next, the Rev. Halliday will lake for his subject, “What's Wrong with Poston?” Some people are found crying out, “tainted money, tainted money,” but their chief grievance is that "’taint theirs.” —Judge Alden. An American Mint employee stole £IOO every day, and hid them in his wooden leg. He will go to gaol, hut profiteers without wooden logs won't.

The local School Committee intend to wait on the Borough Council at its ncxl meeting with a request (hat a footpath he constructed fronting the school grounds. Mr P. Robinson lias invented an ingenious device for renewing t ho life and .usefulness of cups and other crockery utensils which have lost handles. The invention should find a wide market.

The annual communication of the Orange Grand Lodge has just completed its meeting at Wanganui. Delegates were present from all parts of the Dominion. The usual loyal resolutions to King and Constitution were passed, and largely attended public meetings bold.

On Sunday evening a boy two years of age was lost at Takapan. The boy was walking along a road with his mother, lagged behind, and twenty minutes later was missed. A party of Boy Scouts searched for the wanderer, who was found on Tuesday morning sitting on the bank of a river. He was apparently quite well, despite the fact that he had spent the night in the open air and had been without food for two days.

The Feilcling and District Patriotic Society has decided to distribute half its accumulated funds (£8,000) amongst the men in Feilding and district who have suffered or are suffering or are likely to suffer in the future again from the effects of wounds, malaria, gassing, and the loss of a limb or eyesight. The grants range from £3OO (given to an Anzac who had lost both eyes) down to £25. In some cases the grants are to be paid in the way of a .weekly pension, and in others so much per year for two or three years. Other cases are still being inquired into. The general run of the grant is £SO. The society still holds £4,000 for future use. The list contains the names of all men who thought themselves entitled to help, names being advertised for, and the list is still open for claimants, if any have beep. missed.

The rainfall Ideally for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m, this morning totalled LBB inches. •

The Stratford by-election is causing a good deal of interest in Taranaki. It is anticipated that Mr Masters, the unseated Liberal candidate, will regain the seat. At last night's School Committee meeting it was decided to endorse the Hawke’s Bay Educational Institute’s recommendation for a woman censor for picture films. The weather up to yesterday morning was very muggy, hut heavy rains commenced to fall in the afternoon, and have continued since, and the weather has turned much ;; older.

Mr Ed. Newman, M.P. for this constituency, who has had a very strenuous lime during the past two years, is leaving for a month’s wellearned rest prior to the opening of Session. Upon his return he will visit this end of (he constituency.

A report from Wanganui slates that owing to the shipping shortage and the consequent congestion in the local cold stores, there is every possibility of the two local -freezing works placing restrictions on the purchase of Lit stock for the remainder of the season.

Mrs Edith L. Bourne, wife of J. A. Bourne, collapsed after bathing' at Worser Bay, on Sunday. Mrs Bourne had been in (he water for some time, and bad just veaebed the beach when she collapsed. Dr. tune was in attendance immediately, hut could only pronounce life to ho extinct. The cause of death was heart failure.

The latest epidemic l to worry the Dominion is “school op( balmia,” which was i'C])oiled in Wellington a little while ago, and is now more or less prevalent in Christchurch. The scientific name of this painful eye disease.is “epidemic nmeo-pnrnlenl conjunctivitis,” It is caused by a mierohe, and is highly in Feed ions. The principal symptoms are severe inflammation, accompanied hy a bloodshot condition, and the eyesight is aiVected. As the popular name of the epidemic indicates, it is mostly caught hy children at school, but it is easily transmitted to adults, and the creates! care should he used to ensure that persons a (fee ted do not transmit contagion through towels or otherwise. The common treatmcnl is to bathe the altected eye nr eyes with a solution of boraeie acid. The symptoms usually continue for a week or ten days.

A man named James Dreaver, a returned soldier, employed as a nightwatchman hy the Farmers’ Freezing Company, Auckland, was seriously assaulted the other night. Dreaver says that, just after eight, while in the course of his rounds, he met two men in Ihe alleyway between the freezing works and the cheese store. He asked them what they were doing, and one replied, “Nothing." Thereupon the watchman advised them to clear out. The immediate reply of one of (he men was to send a smashing blow to Dreaver’s head, which knocked him down. The men then ran away, and as they (led (he prostrate watchman called out that if they did not stop ho would shoot. The men ignored the threat, and continued their Hight. flood as his word, the watchman tired a couple of shots, hut the fugitives disappeared behind some bricks, and got (dear away.