LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2129, 18 May 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A thrilling' story of the classic of the English turf, the Derby. See ‘‘Sporting Life,” at the Town Hall. The meeting to have been held this evening for the purpose of .forming a (ire police' body has been positioned mail .further notice. The famous Drury Lane melodrama that has 'smashed records every when*, ‘’Sporting Life,” to be screened at the Town Hall on Saturday. A largo number of schools in the Wanganui Education District have been closed owing to the prevalence of influenza in a mild form. A largo number of the teachers have also been afflicted. Mr Fred Seine's, our local highly esteemed manager of the local Bank of N.Z. retires at the end of dune. His successor is Mr S. 11. Poole, of Takaka (Nelson). We understand that Mr and Mrs Symes intend to take up their residence' in Wanganui. The installation of W.M. and investiture of officers in connection with the icoal Masonic Lodge will lake place to-morrow afternoon. In the evening the brethren will entertain visitors and lady friends al a social gathering. An old and respected settler of Bulls, in the person of .Mr Fred 'Webb, aged 8(i, passed away at Stratford while on a visit to his son, yesterday. The interment will take place at Bulls to-morrow. Deceased was a P.M. of Lodge Raugilikei. and will be accorded a Masonic funeral. The opening of the Fox ton session of the Workers’ Educational Association will take place in (he Council Chamber on Friday night next, at 8 o’clock, when Mr Douglas Seymour, M.A., Dominion organiser, will deliver an address on the aims and oh,joe Is of the Association. The Mayor will preside. All interested in the movement arc invited to attend. Evidence of cargo pillaging was forcibly brought to the notice of a Wanganui tradesman recently. A box of hats consigned to him originally contained 59 articles of headgear, but when the box tvas opened there were only two or three, much to the surprise of the shopkeeper. As these hats were valued at between £2 and £3 apiece the loss is a serious one. From another box received by a Wanganui firm a coat valued at £SO had been extracted.

YOU WILL SOON LOSE IT. If yon arc subject to bilious attacks take a course of Chamberlain's Tablets to begin with, and you will soon have lost all that bilious feeling. Then take an occasional dose of Chamberlain's Tablets, and you will be completely relieved of all bilious tendencies. Fpr sale everywhere, —Advt.

A distressing incident occurred at Gonville, Wanganui, on Friday night, when Robert Houston, a married man with three children, committed suicide by Imaging himself. The deceased was employed in the locomotive department of the railwavs.

The Ma liana, leaving England shortly, will bring a thousand girls to New Zealand, most of whom had become engaged to New Zealand soldiers during their stay in Britain. ' The New Zealand office is receiving a great: number of applications, and passages for emigrants are fully booked to September.

The Prime M'mister stales that (here will bo new education legislation in the coming session. At present the Government is getting ready for the session, and hopes 'to. put through a useful budget: of work. Parliament will probably open on 2-tlli .Jane, and it will lie a lengthy session. A Dargaviile telegram states that ihc eleven-year-old sou, of Mr Erasmus Hanson was killed on Saturday afternoon a,I Mangawlmre, Hargavilli', being run over by the county steam roller. The boy was standing in front of the roller when it moved and knocked him down, the wheel passing over his body, killing him instantly. At (he inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone.

Anioim' 11 10 souvenir* which the Prince of Wnles will hike away from Kew Zealand is a kiwi’s ess *ent 1° him by Mrs G. Permit, of Pokeno. Mrs Perrott lias had the egg in her possession for about six years, and learning that His .Koval Highness wanted to secure one she sent it to him. She has just received a letter from (he Prince's private secretary acknowledging receipt of the egg, and stating that His Koval Highness was very pleased to accept it as a souvenir of his visit to Xew Zealand.

In view of the present high cost of living, it is interesting to note (he prices charged for meat forty years ago. A local butcher at that time advertised ihe following:—Beef, prime roast bd. steaks sd, rounds, corned or fresh 3id, thinks and briskets 3d, legs or shins Id. Mutton: By the carcase 2d, by the side 2Mi, hind quarters 3d, forequarters 2i<h legs and shoulders 3d, chops 3d, neclcs and breasts 2id. Pork and veal 5d to (Jd. Bread at this time was advertised at ninepence the four-pound loaf.

The conference of school teachers and inspectors at Wellington last week carried the following resolutions;—That the whole syllabus of instruction be recast with the object of providing for: (1) the termination of the primary school course at approximately the age of twelve years: (2) the preparation of pupils for admission to secondary schools at the age of twelve years, and (3) the establishment of central schools whereat pupils who do not proceed to secondary schools will be able to continue their education tv) the age of sixteen years.

Regulations governing 1 I ho iimcnilo<l scale of allowances Vo school committees for incidental expenses are gazed.led. .They operate as from April Ist, 1!)20, and are as under; — Yearly average attendance: 1-8, 14s for each pupil; !)-2U, £l4; 21-35, £2l; 30-80, £33; 81-120, £45: 121-100, £SO; 101-200. £O7; 201-2-10, £7B; 241-180. £88; 28.1-320, £08; 321-300, £108; 301-400, £118; 401.-440, £127; 441-480. £130; 481520, £145; 521-500, £154; 501-000, £103; 001-040, £172; 041-080, £181; 081-720, £1.8!); 721-700, £107; 701800, £205; 801,840, £213; villi an additional £8 for each 40 or part of 40 in average attendance.

There was an unrehearsed incident at the Carterton railway station daring the reception of the Prince of M ales. He had just received the l address of welcome from His Worship the'Mayor of Carterton, and was preparing to acknowledge ir according to his arranged programme. “Where is my reply?” he whispered to his companion, Captain Halsey. “The reply,” whispered this gentleman more loudly.' immediately there was a frantic scurrying amongst (he retinue, hut nowhere could the address be found, nor yet the man in charge of it. He had got lost in the crowd. “Never mind," slated the Prince, “1. will give them something ’off my own hat.” And he did.

Darin”’ his visit to Hastings the Prince of Wales lost a pipe which lie greatly prized. The pipe was found by Mrs W. Geddes, of Kuranm Road, and was restored to the Prince through the Mayor of Hastings, Mrs Geddes is now in receipt of a letter from Lord Chlud Hamilton, the Prince’s equerry, statin" that he is desired by the Prince to thank her very much indeed for find in" and forwarding the pipe, which his Royal Highness is most pleased to get back again. Accompanying the letter was a photograph of the Prince in military uniform bearing the Prince's signature, with the addition of the words. '‘With grateful (hanks for finding my pipe.”

The salvage steamer Racer has gone to North Ireland to salve three million sterling remaining in the hold of the Lauren tic (says a cable message). The treasure is twenty fathoms deep, where the pressure is 501bs. to the square inch, and the divers can only remain below half an hour. The Racer contains a pump capable of lifting 700 tons of mud per hour. It will lie necessary to explode the ship’s plates until the safes are reached. The decks of the liner were so crushed in that the height of the wreck is now only ten feet, and the hull is so battered out of recognition that it took over two months to discover the locality.

Dr. Joseph Strickland Goodall, heart specialist, in acknowledging a ■ presentation at the Middlesex Hospital—of which he is the loctnrer in physiology—recalled his schooldays in Australia. The schoolmaster, he said, wrote to his mother and reported that he was the most idle, most stupid, and most obstinate bov he ever had.

The Hon. G. J. Anderson, the new Minister for Internal Affairs,. was sworn in as a member of the Executive Council, at Wellington yesterday. He left for the South Island last night, to take part in the welcome to the Prince of Wales in Southland. He will return to Wellington at the end of the week, and will then commence his Ministerial duties.

A new grandstand- at the racecourse was suggested by a member of the'carpenters' deputation to Mr .Massey, at Wellington yesterday, as one of tin 1 buildings which might well wail a year or two till the house shortage was overtaken. “There appears to be a chance," replied Mr Massey with a smile, “of sportsmen having to do without races for a year or two."

A somewhat sensational occurrence tool; place at Aslilmrst a few days ago. A little lad. son of Mr John Currie, was found hanging by (he neck. The little chap had climbed a tree, and evidently had fallen. Having his school hag over his shoulder when he fell, it had caught in the tree and tightened round his neck. He was in .this position for some considerable time before being found by his sister. He was then quite blue and almost strangled. At the inquest at Auckland on the body of Colonel Whitmore, of Hastings, a returned soldier, the evidence showed that deceased entered a shooting gallery and got a loaded rifle from the attendant, who was looking at the target when he heard a shot, and turning round found Colonel Whitmore with a wound in the abdomen. It might have been an accident. Deceased on the way to the hospital was asked if it was an accident', and replied “Yes.’’ A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Butler distributors in the Dominion expect a substantia! rise in the price of butler after -July 31sl, when the Imperial Government purchase conies to an end. The control retail price to-day is Is 8d per lb. for first grade butler, or Is od at the factory door. But on the basis of the current British retail controlled price of 3s, it is expected that by August Ist next New Zealand butter will be worth fully ‘2s 3d per lb. for export, and that this will make it worth all 2s (id per lb. retail for local con.sumplion. a rise of 10d per 11). on the present, controlled price in New Zealand.

I In these days of free and eomI pulsory education if is mmsiial la i hear of a comparafiveiy young man j who has not had at-least a fair amount of schooling’, hut in a case at the Supreme Court at Palmerston yesterday, says (he Standard, counsel mentioned that his client —a mid-dle-aged man —was illiterate l , being 1 unable to either read or write. “Where has he been living,” asked his Honour, and counsel replied that his client had been in the ba(deblocks of New Zealand, where it was impossible to get education. “Very extraordinary,” was his Honour's comment.

Some days ago ii was reported from (In 1 south (says the (tishorne Times) that a numher of mysterious cases of temporary paralysis had arisen .amongst ehildreu. Inquiries made in Gisborne by a Times reporter go to show that at .least (wo cases of a similar (diameter have occurred locally. A Kaili resident slated that one of her children one afternoon recently complained that he could not walk., She undressed him, put him to bed, finding that his feel were 'icily (add, although his legs were particularly warm behind the knees. The little chap fell no inconvenience when very hot water hags were applied to. his feel. -Massage was also carried out for a, lengthy period. Next morning all signs of (he malady had completely disappeared.

The local Express is very pessimistic about sport in Eketaliuna. “Club after club,” it says, “has started with a flourish of trumpets and everything looking bright, hut there have been no stayers. Time was when football in Eketaliuna was exceedingly strong - with veteran teams, now there is diflieully in keeping one team going, and (his is only a scratch one as compared with past records. There was a racing (dub —it is defunct. A held sports day was held by the Farmers’ Union —it is no more. Athletic

sports gatherings are relies of the past. Tennis has developed into private play. The croquet club keeps going with a minimum of support. Last night even the bowlers were pessimistic. Hundreds of (murids have been spent on grounds and fixtures, and much of this money stands practically wasted.”

There’s gold in the rock where the miners flock, There’s gold in the sands of. the sea; ( There's gold in the very air we breathe, Could science Rut set it free. There’s hidden gold in the pirate's hold; Aiid we'll find it some day, I'm sure; There’s ease worth gold for a cough or cold In Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.- —Advt. 2 Sure and certain, "WADE'S M ORM FIGS. Children like them.

Muster Montoa has : been deslroyetl, says a Sydney message. .Messrs Cooper, Daniel! and Co., solicitors, have removed !o prcmises lately .occupied by Mr Ingle, dentist, in Fraser’s Building.

Mr It. Hay doc!;, of Francos Street, was yesterday afternoon removed to the Palmerston Hospital, suffering from pleurisy and pneumonia.

Messrs Woodroofe and Co., land and Commission agents, notify that they have taken otliees in Fraser's Building, Main Streets (upstairs).

Some lime Saturday night the plate glass window in Mr G. G. Kelly’s temporary premises in Main Street, was broken, and a pearille, revolver, and a quantity of ammunition. stolen. The glass was broken with a large stone, which made a hole alumt a fool across, through which the goods were removed. The police have the matter in hand.

A man named James Kyle, who was wanted on a charge of alleged assault on I lie licensee of (he Commercial Hotel, Woodville, on the 3rd instant, was arrested by Constable O'Donoghue at Foxlon on Sunday. He was taken to Woodville yesterday, and appeared before two Justices 'of the Peace, and was remanded, on bail, until Thursday.

The manner in which a councillor has lost his seal on the Feilding Borough Council is given by an exchange as follows; —In 1919 lie had renlaced a broken window at the abattoir residence, and in the following year he papered the Mayor's room in (he Council Chambers. Owing to delay in paying for Ihe first work, the two account's became entries into one financial year, and as (he total exceeded £lO the Audi-tor-Genera! notified his automatic loss of seat.

A good haul of mit t’ was recently secured by a Wyndham resident; (says the Herald). The destructive little erealttres had got in amongst; his ehal'l’ and done a eonsiderable atnonnl: of: damage. They had evidently made their home in a ease. He earei'nlly removed all (he eonlent s excepting a sack, under which they sheltered. With prompt assistance a delude of water was poured in, and no fewer than 45 mice were by (hat means destroyed. It was quite a (dean sweep of the whole eolonv.

We regret to record the death of Mrs Webb, relict of the late Mr Henry Webb, who passed away at the -residence of her son-in-law, Mr F. Robinson, Coley Street, on Sunday last, aged dS years. The loss of.deceased’s husband was a severe blow to her. However, she expressed a desire to visit Palmerston and. join in the welcome to the j

Prince of Wales last week, and caught a chill, which proved fatal. Mrs Webb was much beloved by all who knew her. The funeral took place this morning, the Rev. IV. Raine officiating at the graveside. Deceased leaves two daughters, Mrs P. Robinson, Foxton. Airs M. McKegney, Auckland, and one son, Mr ■I. Webb, Palmerston North. One sou, Mr D. Webb, was killed at the war.