LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2141, 17 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A picture for you: Hall Caine’s “Woman Thou Gavest Me,” to lie screened at the Toavii Hall on Saturday.

The. united church service Avill be held in, the Methodist Church this evening, in ('(injunction with the Methodist missionary meeting.

At Monday night’s Council meeting a. grant of £5 5s Od Avas made to the Foxtun Branch of the \\ orkers Educational Association, Cr. Coley alone opposing same.

Marriage to a young girl means the selling out on a voyage into the unknown. She brings to the man she marries hovscll, everything she is, everything she can he, to In; made or marred by him. Hall Caine’s “The Woman Thou Gavest Me,” at Ihe Toavu Hall on Saturday.

Consumers of kerosene and motor spirits will be interested in the arrival of the four-masted schooner William E. Burnham, which turned up, at Wellington on Friday with a cargo of case oil, alter a lengthy passage of 72 days from San Francisco. The cargo comprises 15,000 cases of kerosene and 10,0,00 cases of motor spirits.

The Hon. Mr Parr, Minister of Education, had a busy day iu this district on Tuesday. He inspected the school at Tokomaru, and received a deputation there upon arrival of the morning train from Wellington, avus then motored to Foxton by Mr NcAvinan, M.P., partook of a hurried lunch, received a deputation of Sancton School Gommif Icemen, opened the school, x'oceived tA\o more deputations, and caught the evening train at Shannon for M cllington. Upon arrival at Wellington important Cabinet business aAvaited him.

The question of the closing of shops at 5.30 p.m. daily Avas discussed at the quarterly meeting of (he Wellington Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants. While the large majority of shopkeepers in Wellington are uoav closing at 5.30 o’clock there are still a feAV. shops where Avork does not cease until 6 p.m., and an endeavour is to be made by the union to bring the latter into line with the others. It is uol considered Unit there will he any difficulty in the mailer, in view of the fact that such a large number of shops arc* already (dosing at ihc earlier hour.

At Monday night’s Council meeting a letter was read from the Retailors’ Association, advising that 'a canvass had been made of the property oAvners and business people in the brick a rent, to ascertain Avhat support would be forthcoming towards the cost of employing a niglitAvatchman, and as a result a sum of £2 per week was promised. It /was considered it would not be possible to gel a Folia 1)1 e man under £3 per week, and the Association therefore asked that the Council shnold increase its offer from 10s to £l per Aveek, so that a nightwatchman could be employed. It was decided on the motion of Grs, Coley and Walker, that the Council cannot increase its grant of ten shillings per week.

The hlow-(ly, poised on vibrant wing, That drones his.welcome to the

spring, Is housewife's most detested pest, And always an umvelcomc guest. But not a more abhorrent foe Than many other pests we know, Those coughs and colds we’d ne’er

endure Hud we no Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.- —Advt, 15

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced locally at about 5.10 o’clock this morning. On Saturday night, “A Lady’s Name,” featuring Constance Talmadge. At the annual Foreign Missionary meeting to be held in the Methodist Church to-night, the speakers will be the Rev. T. R. Richards and Rev. G. Cook. The choir will render an anthem, and the orchestra will afsu contribute an item.

The following letter was read from the secretary of the Fox ton Borough Brass Band at Monday’s’ Council meeting.—l wish to bring under the notice of the Council that the last quarter’s sub., £7 10s Od, due to the Band to March 31st, 1920 (expiration of agreement), has not been paid, so would thank the Council to give this matter their earliest consideration. —The letter was “received.”

At Monday night’s Council meeting the following remit from the Hawera Borough Council was endorsed: “That with a view to affording some measure of relief to the parents of families during the present abnormal times, and taking into consideration the fact that the New Zealand manufacturers are unable lo cope with the demands for! adult footwear, the Government be requested to’ immediately take the necessary stepsyfor the removal of the duly on children’s footwear.” . The alleged theft of £SO worth of timber from the local State school grounds during the erection of liie school, (he property of the contractor, referred to by Mr Pirani at the opening of the new school on Tuesday, is the first the Committee or police had heard Of the matter. Mr Pirani would have been well advised to have kept such reference out of his remarks on such an occasion.

Mr E. Jackson, of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, left. Foxlon yesterday for Bulls, where he will act as relieving manager of the branch there, during the manager’s absence. Mr Jackson will be away from Foxton about a. month. Mr McPherson'will temporarily HU Mr Jackson’s place, and lie has been replaced by Mr Gordon, of Palmerston North. Mr Shaw, lately at Levin,'has been transferred to Foxton, and has taken up his work here.

At the rick of disappointing the who are apparently working over lime in Wanganui just now, we deem it a pleasure to be able to “scotch” the particular scandal lo which such tree and widespread circulation has recently been given. No good purpose is to be served by the publication of unauthenlicated rumours; but once publicity has been given to a scandal it is desirable, in the interests of all concerned, that its truth should be publicly established at the, earliest possible moment. To that end we yesterday sought to ascertain the basis of this much-talked-of scandal, and our inquiries were not in vain. The nett results of our investigation may be .summed up in a phrase —“No girl, no twins, no doorstep, nothing but a tissue of wicked, cruel, and unfounded fabrications!” presumably having their putrid origin in the contemptible author of a series of vile and filthy and threatening anonymous letters. —A\ angauui Chronicle.