Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2142, 22 June 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Skating at the Town Hall this evening. At the loeal police court yesterday a prohibition order was granted against W. Robinson, for a period of 12 months. The Town Hall management announce the screening on Friday next of the Carpentier-Beckett light for the championship of Europe. A Wanganui correspondent to a contemporary state's that alleged scandals in which two well-known professional men are said to be concerned are being investigated. Recently il was slated that Mr Justice Chapman, having reached retiring age. went Id soon take his final leave of the Supreme Court bench. There is said "to be a probability also of two other judges retiring in a while.

The wedding is to lake place at Palmerston to-morrow of Mr Deo. Coley jnnr.. and Mrs Blanched. The contracting parties are well and favourably known locally. The bridegroom-elect is the second son of Cr. G. C. Coley.

The Wellington Education Board has taken out a policy in tluyamount of £SOO cohering the whole of the school children under its jurisdiction against accidents occurring within the precincts of the .schools, or whilst conveyed to and from their homes.

A statement showing the disbursements of moneys by the Palmerston Patriotic Society during the months of April and May respectively is as follows: —Relief for soldiers, £lßl and £244; smokes, fruit, etc., for hospital, £3 and £0; accommodation and train fares for returned soldiers, £4 and £3. Totals, £215 and £277—£402.

The loeal School Committee desire to acknowledge a donation of ten shillings towards the school Jihrary from. Mr James Ross, and also the gift of about forty suitable hooks from Mr Win, Langley, of Manawatu Heads. These donations are most gratefully received, and the kindness of these gentlemen is much appreciated.

The police arrested live members of the crew of I lie Arawa, which arrived at Auckland from Southampton on Thursday, on charges of embezzling the ship's cargo. The articles stolen were six hales of cloth valued at £40!) each, 30,000 cigarettes and a- quantity of liquor. A search of the vessel at sea, and also in port, resulted in some of the articles being recovered.

The projected formation of a company to export llax from Japan is reported. As the revival of the iibre industry in Western Europe is rapidly absorbing the visible supplies, other interests in Japan are opposing any exportation of the raw material on the ground that Japan does not produce sufficient llax to more than meet its own demands, and will inevitably suffer from a shortage if any considerable amount is permitted to leave the country.

Speaking at Wellington, Mr Massey said he wa- non-political, he did not belong to any party —he belonged to the country as a whole — but the events of last December had left him in the position of being the senior member of the House of: Representatives. He had been a member of Parliament for a larger number of sessions than any other member in the House, and he expected to see a great many more. (Applause.) Ho trusted that when the session ended three, four, or five months from now, that they would be able to look back and. say that his prediction regarding the new Parliament had been verified. (Applause.)

When recently congratulated by the Wellington Presbytery on the attainment of his ninetieth birthday, the Rev. James Paterson made a feeling and memorable, reply, in which he recalled some of. the main incidents of his lung life. He dwelt especially on his vivid memories of the disruption period of 484-3, his early ministry in Paisley and Liverpool, his call to New Zealand in JBGB, his pastorate of 35 years’ in St. John’s, and ids long journeying* in the days when as far north as Wanganui was included in the boundaries of the presbytery. His eoneluding words were especially memorable, when he acknowledged that lie. could say with truth that “goodness and mercy had followed him all the days of his life.” Mr Paterson recently paid a visit to the Wanganui and Manawatu districts, during which he made no fewer than 4G pastoral calls, in many eases on those whose parents he had known in the early days, and whom he had married years ago.

SAFE, PLEASANT, DEPENDABLE. The great popularity of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is due to the fact that it is safe, and at the same time so pleasant and agreeable to llie taste —the. children like it. It contains no narcotic of any description. It can always be depended on to relieve coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. There is no better medicine for children than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale tverv where. —Advt.

Mr .J. B. Him.', ox-M.P., who was recently beaten for the Stratford sea: by Mr Masters, was entertained at Inglewood mi Friday and presented by enthusiastic supporters with a cheque for £650.

For an hour cm Saturday two sewers were unable to carry away the water in lower Queen Street, Auckland, which was flooded. The water entered the cellars, but no damage was occasioned.

The. death occurred at Otaki on Saturday of Mr George Sadler, who had been a resident of Otaki for many years. .Recently he entered the hospital, but failed to make progress.

While a contractor was excavating a road near Whakatane his men came across an old Victorian shilling some live feet below the surface. They also unearthed several human bones, presumably those of a Maori, and an old muzzle-loading gun with a brass trigger-guard. It is assumed that llicse have been under ground since the earlv ‘sixties."

During Ibe course of an interview with a Daily News representative, Mr A. Morton, chairman of the National Dairy Association, remarked that the imports of cheese into the United Kingdom had decreased very slightly since the outbreak of war, and the Imperial Government now found it had ample supplies on hand. 'Phis no doubt was the reason why the Government was allowing an open market for cheese, while continuing the restrictions in regard to butter.

“What ii fetish oducalion Ims become,” said General Booth, of the Salvation Army, in an interview'in Christchurch, “it is all on the intellectual and the mental side, instead of being partly directed for the training of character and the instruction of the soul. This concentration of the intellect was the great blunder of Germany. She became material. That was one of the principal causes of the war we have just won —Man without God!”

It is a long way hack to the days when Hone Ileke made his raid on Kororareka and cut down the Hagstaff, and it seems like a page from (lie far past to learn that then 1 died at Tauranga on .Monday a lady who remembered the occurrence (says the Auckland Star). Mrs Baker, wife of Mr Joseph Baker, was the youngest daughter of Mr John Bedgood, and was horn at Waimale Xorth 80 years ago, before Hone Heke's outbreak. She was one of those who escaped down the rive}’, the boats being rowed with muffled oars. Mrs Baker was a great Maori scholar. She had resided at Bethlehem for (lie last 18 years. In September, I!)1S, Mr and Mrs Baker celebrated their golden wedding.

There was a full house at the Town Hall on Saturday night, to witness the pieturisation of Hall Caine’s well-known novel, “The 'Woman Thou Gavest Me.” Both book and picture have eome in for a good deal of criticism, which seeks to justify a violation of the marriage vow. The him portrayal of the various scenes and settings is elaborately depicted, and, in fact, apart from the (heme, is one of the best screenings witnessed locally. The management is to be congratulated'upon the excellent screening and musical accompaniment of the picture, and last, but not least, the splendid provision made for the comfort of the audience.

Mr L. 4. Furrie, headmaster of the local Slate school, was conveyed to Palmerston on Sunday, and underwent an immediate operation for appendicitis. The operation was successful, and we are pleased to report that Mr Pnrrie is progressing' 'satisfactorily. The trouble was an old-standing one. It's recurrence could not have happened at a worse time, as Mr Furrie was in the throes of an important term examination. 11 may be mentioned that the first assistant was under medical advice to take a rest, as be is slid suffering from the after-ef-fects of influenza.

A veteran of the Maori wars, Mr Thomas Ellis, died at Palmerston on Saturday, in his 84th year, in a house he occupied in Taonui Street with another aged army pensioner. The late Mr Ellis, who passed away in his sleep, had been, up to the time of his death, in robust health for one of his extreme age. Deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1855, binding at the Bay of Islands with the 05th Regiment. He served in the Taranaki war 1800-01, and later in the Waikato 1803-64. The Regiment then returned to England, but the late Mr Ellis accepted a discharge in Xew Zealand, and joined the Armed Constabulary Field Force. While attached to this force he carried arms against Titokowaru in 1808-O'J. In addition to the Xew Zealand military pension deceased was in receipt of the Imperial long service pension.

Referring to the,education of children in the baekbloeks, the Hon. C. J, Parr. Minister for Education, told the Canterbury Education Board he thought the time had conic for the Department to review this problem. lie had had the idea for some time past that the Government would have to provide hostels as a better, more efticient and more economical method of solving the problem. He meant a hostel near one of the larger schools. He did not want to bring the children into the town schools. He believed this method would be quite as cheap as increasing the capitation, which was the only other way, and which would not get over the dillieully of inefiicient teai-hers. He intended to recommend that steps be taken in the direction indicated in one or two districts.

Eltliam business men are endeavouring to “boost’’ that by calling attention to its advantages by means of posters, etc., which are to he erected in (he neighbouring country districts. The Board has notified the Chairman of the local School Commiflee that AOs Jamieson will take up relieving work at (he school during Mr Furrie’s absence. Air Gahites, first assistant, will 'lake charge of the school during the head teacher’s absence. By the way. the actingheadmaster is now the only male member of the stall'.' “Increased taxation is like water; it finds its own level. It is always passed on to the consumer. He always pays. When the heaven-born genius who can devise ways and means whereby increased taxation can he levied without it being passed on to the consumer happens along, (hen that man will be able to reign in any country in the world until he dies." —.Mr R. A. V\ right, M.F.

Our representative had the pleasure of a chat with Airs Langley -enr., on Sunday. The old lady, who resides with Iter -an, Mr Geo. Langley, ai the local seaside*, is in her eighty-fifth year, and although her body is wracked with rheumatic pains, sho possesses a wonderful cheery disposition. Mrs Langley'mentality is unimpaired, and a conversation with her discloses a mind stored with years of literary -Indy. Airs Langley is one of the fasl-dis-.appearing pioneers. Shall we evei see their like again?

Ai ;i conference between the (An-' lerbury Education Board mid the Hon. G. J. Parr (Minister of Education), the minister promised assist - iiuee in eonnoetion with the rebuilding and renovating of several country sehools. Dealing with the request that the Department's pracliee of subsidising sehool ’oaths be continued, the Minister said that swimming and life-saving should be part of every child's education, and lie would find £1 for every £2 found for swimming baths up to a. limited amount. He promised to give careful consideration to the request for Hie erection of a new training college in Christchurch. When asked for his opinion of the present great increasing interest in psychic phenomena and spiritualism, General Booth replied scathingly: —“What do they know? They cannot tell us anything we don’t know. There is nothing in what spiritualists say that is not lamentably behind what the New Testament says. I am not prepared myself to support the view that familiar spirits were evil spirits. There is nothing in it: they can tell us nothing about heaven, and they have never mentioned hell, and the fact remains that they are more in the dark with all their rappings than we are without them. They do not give happiness or words of guidance on human problems. My advice is; Let them alone. To quote my father’s words: ‘lf the spiritualists did the washing instead of the rapping they would do some good.’ ” According to the chairman of the Bank of Xew Zealand, all borrowers, both Government, public and 1 private,•must be prepared to pay higher rales for future accommodation. The fairly certain contingency of higher future rates should, says Mr Beauchamp, prompt a very careful scrutiny of the circumstances surrounding all contemplated undertakings, Avhatever their nature may be, involving the employment of borrowed capital, in order that wouldbe borrowers may first satisfy themselves that the project in hand is likely to prove sufficiently profitable to justify the heavy handicap which the cost of the necessary capital is likely to impose. In the case of Government undertakings, it is important that the authorities should be on their guard to resist any political pressure designed to force them to embark in ventures which could very well be left to private enterprise.

A prominent doctor in Chicago, writing to a friend in Dunedin, says; —“J think we are agreed that conditiims everywhere could be greatly improved at this time. 1 personally feel that the United Stales has missed u great opportunity to he of great humanitarian service to all the world. Conditions here are the outgrowth of the war, and it will be some lime before we are back to normal. Financial conditions are very uneasy. Everybody is overliving, and conditions generally are highly inflated. There is a general feeling among the big business men that the next month will see a decided indeJlalion on all sides, a,ml that will serve to stabilise matters. My only hope is that the break downwards comes slowly, and not in the form of a mad tumble and

panic. ” In connection with tenement eases it has been .stated that the duly is now cast upon the magistrate to decide upon which side the ■hardship lay. One Auckland solicitor, as he walked into court with the owner and tenant side by side, remarked: “I am sorry for both of you, because you are such decent chaps.” The owner had bought another house rather than turn out. an old tenant, then found lie could md get possession of the newly-pur-chased bouse. A lady said she had tried to get a two-roomed fish shop that was empty, hut was too late. Had she secured it a family of six were going to crowd into it. A working man said he had nine children, and found he would not he let into an empty house if he found one. Hr Poynton, the magistrate, lhereupon dryly remarked: ”.\o! Children, I suppose, are not wanted now.”

The friends of Dr. and “Mrs Adams will l»e interested to know that they are leaving England by IJie Aryshire for Now Zealand this month.

International Attractions will present Mary Bickford’s great picture, “The Hoodlum,” at the Royal next week. It is said to surpass “Daddy Long Legs.”

The Borough Council and hum I Chamber of Commerce will confer this evening re the steps to be taken to revive the agitation for linking up the Main Trunk line between Marlon and Levin.

There was a good and appreciative audience at the Royal on Saturday night to witness the favourite actress, Constance Talnmdge. in “A Lady’s Name.” The double attraction last night also proved a big draw.

The annual meeting of the Mana-

v.atu Schools Committees' Association was held at Palmerston last night. The local committee was represented by Messrs Hornblow, Claris and Jno. Ros.-. A lull report will appear in next issue. Heavy and continuous rain- have been experienced throughout this district during the past 2-1 hours. The Manawatu and smaller riverare gradually rising, and if the present warm rain continues Hoods are inevitable.

Pilot 8011, who left Gisborne at: 11.85 a.m. on Saturday morning in a Haviland machine, in an attempt, to tiy to Hastings, descended at Waikare owing to benzine trouble. A message received on Sunday night stated that the aeroplane from Gisborne to Hastings passed over Napier at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning. At the last sitting of the S.AI. Court :tl Levin, no fewer than 25 persons were lined 10s and Ts costs each for allowing slock lit wander, while five weig fined 15s cat'll and costs Ts. For failing to send his child to school, P. Horne was lined 10s and costs 7s; for obstructing a railway right-of-way, R. E, Porter was lined £1 and costs 28s: D. Simeon, for using obscene language on :t fool bn 11 field, was fined i‘2 and costs 12s, while, for breaking his prohibition order, Tatnali was lined £2 and eosls 7s. Letter- from Mrs Freeman, from Panama, slate they had a splendid voyage, and neither she or the elvldron suffered from sea-sickness. On the fourth day out, Walter started to pack up, and said: “1 am going to get off at the first station, and go back to Daddy.” Airs Freeman’s concert party of six gave, entertainments each Tuesday and Friday, which were much appreciated. The song most in favour was AirFreeman’s “Coming Home.” Air Freeman has since had word they all arrived safely in Stevenage in time for tea on Snturdav last.

The Prime Minister recently announced 1 Imt the Government has entered into a new agreement with the Colonial Sugar .Refining Company, whereby the raw sugar will he purchased in Fiji by the Government, relinetl at its expense, and distributed throughout Now Zealand. This new system will operate as from the Ist July. It is anticipated that the rpiantity available will probably lie in excess of that refined last year, and the refinery at Chelsea (Auckland) will be kept going at full capacity. The necessity for allocating supplies will still exist, and will be continued under the control of the Board of Trade.” A Palmerston Xorth lady has returned from a visit to the South Island with a souvenir of the trip in the shape of a giant potato, says the Standard. A tape run over the abnormal vegetable showed its dimensions to be 13 inches round the waist and 23 inches round measured lengthways. Its weight i- 2ozs less than 3lbs. It was grown among a crop that yielded lb tons to the acre by .Mr F. Barker, Woodend, Christchurch, and when dug had 15 kindred tubers dangling to the same root

The lady is anxious to sen I he potato exhibit at the Show this week, in order to compare the vegetable with locally 'frown ones.

One of (he recent arrivals it) Xew Zealand was a hid from Ireland. He had left his own farm behind, and wits bringing some capital. His conversation was rather interesting. Had brother in Greymoulh: understood it was a coal district down there, .and the Auckland Star man wtis somewhat surprised when he mentioned the word “snailways’' in connection with certain means of communication. He told how he had ridden in England over live hundred odd miles in less than twelve hours, and evinced no surprise at till when he was told a trip from Auckland to Wellington would take about seventeen hours. But he asked whether Cook Strait was a dangerous place. Stiid he had heard that there were often misfortunes occurring in that piece of water. Wellington (telegraphs The Post’s Wanganui correspondent) is earning for itself a very bad reputation in respect to cargo-pillaging, and many local business men who have had serious losses from that source have come to speak in hard term- of the Wellington wharves. The depredations arc carried on so cleverly and with such impunity that importers consider it is time the waterside question was settled in such a way that only a regular permanent stuff should be employed in handling cargo. Business people here are continually losing goods, the latest theft being that of a valu-

able clock which was sent by a Welling! on warehouse to a local watchmaker in fulfilment of a special order. The ease arrived, hut -when opened there was nothing inside except the packing.

The united religious service will be held in the Presbyterian Church to-night, at 7.15 o’clock, and will be conducted bv the Rev. A. Harding.

After (he Napoleonic wars the National debt of Great Britain was equal to £45 per head. The average debt per head to-day is £l7B, nearly four limes the burden laid iqVn the country after Napoleon's, defeat. Commenting on the fact, the chairman of tlie Bank of New Zealand says: —Against this present day indebtedness there are, of course, some assets to be set. To her Allies and the Dominions Britain has lent £1,700,000,000. Of this, however, about £000,000,000 has been advanced to Russia, and this may presumably be classed as a doubtful debt; of the balance, she will be fortunate if she recovers 50 per cent. Before the war the British nation was undoubtedly saving

money, and every year bad a surplus of nearly £40(1,000.000 to invest. The aggregate of its wealth was estimated to be at least £17,000,000,000. Against tin-. Britain has had to raise a national mortgage of £8,000,000,000. it is estimated, therefore, that she has borrowed up to 40 per cent, of her accumulated heritage. In a normal year of peace Britain must raise £400,000,000. or more than double her pre-war revenue, for the service of the war debt alum —that is, for interest on the War Loans and the sinking fund of 1 per cent, connected therewith. 'Facing taxation of, say, £1,000,000,000 annually, Britain is hack at the Napoleonic standard of taxation.