Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2153, 22 July 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“To s go to Java for pleasure is like going to hell for pastime,” is Mr Byron Brown's opinion, of the island. , *

A football match "between teams from the Shannon and Foxton State schools will he played on the Easton Park ground on Saturday afternoon.

A. special moot big oik members of the local Druids’ Lodge will he held to-morrow (Friday) night, at 7.J0 o’clock. The Grand President (Rro. Flanagan) will he present, and a full attendance of membors-is requested. Mystery, jjitrigue, and, through it all, a beautiful romance —it is “The Grey Seal,” or the adventures of Jimmy Dale, the exciting photoplay serial to‘commence at the Town Hall on Monday.

The Prince of Wales has arrived at Hobart, and was enthusiastically welcomed. The route of the Royal procession was gaily decorated, and was lined by many thousands of people. The municipal taxi stand telephone has been installed, ami is now in working order. Residents or others wishing the services'of a taxi can obtain same by.ringing ’phone 134.

The Minister of Education 1ms 1 announced that the following grants have been approved for work in the Wellington education district : Martinhorough school, rebuilding in brick,'£l3)oo2; Te Ore Ore-School, rebuilding in brick, £3,918; Newtown West, purchase of site. £3,200; Palmerston North High'School hostel, rebuilding, £10,005. ’

The New Orleans Mardi Gras •.Carnival is famous (he world over. I Pis a riot of colour and pageantry —ga-y limits, gaudy., costumes, thousands of masked lignres, confetti, and an abandon which is superConlinental in its extravagance. The Mardi Gras Scenes are stariling. The programme at The Royal on Saturday will include a Him depicting these wonders. Mr C. A. K. Bradley, of Westport, credited with drawing the highest graluil.Voot any member of tyie New Zealand Expeditionary Forces (states the Westport; Times). The amount 1 draavn was £l3l odd —one day-Jor Is (id) off the possible. He left with the Main Body in September, lyi-t, an'd returned on Kith December, 1919.

A Business Talk Qviih Business Mon. —“There is a vast difference, between wishing and winning. Many'' a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where Ids hackhone ought to have been.” .Arc you wishing for more business, hut lack (ho winning.'’ .Advertising is a sure cumuli ‘winner, hut it needs backbone in the man dim-ting it. Advertising doesn’t tiring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but' (tie pressu'iT is constant, and increasing- all tiiep-ime. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth .going after. The best, ammunition is an advertisement in “The Mauawalu Herald.”*

Mr A. E. Adams, who has been appointed Crown Prosecutor at Dunedin, vice Mr W. C. MacGregor, who becoipes Solicitor-General, was born on a’ farm at TaierL Mouth in 1808. He was educated at the •“Stone” School, Dunedin, for about a year (Sir Robert Stout being then cue-of 1 lie teaching staff), and afterwards at Middle District School. He entered the olhee of his brother, Mr J. A. D. Adams, iu 1878, and was admitted a barrister and solicitor iu 1883. Mr Adams was last week appointed president of the New Zealand Alliance, a position tie has .hold previously. His only appearance in the political arena was when, in the interests of v AIr, Massey’s parly, he stood for Dunedin West against the late Hon.vJ. A. Millar.

The demonstration recently made by Europeans at Carterton against a party' of Indian scrub cutters is the subject of a letter to Tile Post by Mrs J.MMnaldson, local .secretary of the New* Zealand and Indian League. Those men, she points out, are British 'subjects, and she appeals to all fair-minded British subjects for that friendly help and protection which should be'the right of every British subject in any part'd; the Empire.’. -Mrs Donaldson adds that in the late war 100,000 Indian troops were landed in Marseilles in the early days of the struggle to help hold the Germans back. India also contributed 150 millions towards the cost. She’ hopes that we iu New Zealand wifi do nothing to irritate and estrange these lawabiding people.

j The best family protection is NAZOL; Prevents coughs, colds, sore throats and chests. No cold is Nazol-proof, Economical, I/O for 00 doses. *

Sugar is being retailed in the Wairarapa at 7d per lb., :

This district has experienced some hard frosts daring the past few -nights.

At the Police Court at Tauniaranni on Tuesday, John Michaelick was lined £SO on a charge of keeping liquor for sale.

It is reported that Gisborne farm-' ers are being offered lOd per 11). on behalf of American buyers foAiext season’s lamb.

Captain and Mrs Goffin have received notice to farewell and proceed to Invercargill, to take charge of the corps there. Captain Gofiin will leave Fox'ton next week.

The Marlborough Express states that up to the end of last week the Pirano party laid captured seventeen whales this season. The Jackson party operating from Kaikoura, have caught throe. The C. M. floss Coy. announce that on Saturday next (hey will commence their Great Bargain Sale. The premises will be elosed on Friday to facilitate arrangements.

Mr ami Mrs W. H. Simcox, of (Haiti, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday, and entertainedon Tuesday evening some .300 friends, including old identities of the district.

Mr T. KY. Seddon, M.P., Ims presented the (own of Greymouth widi 200 young' oaks, wliich will be planted in the form of an avenue as a war memorial. In all cases of these trees will be attached brass (ablets bearing (ho name, rank and place of death of Greyraouth soldiers who fell in the Great War. The Marlon Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution viewin;t',,jni(h alarm that members of Parliament contemplate legislation making a distinction 'between private individuals and legislators by exempting members’ honoraria from income tax.

The Hon. C., JV Parr, Minister for Public Health, stated in the House that lie intended starting a Department of Child YVelfare, and that he had asked the Prime Minister to release Dr. Trilby King from his present work in order to allow him to become Director of the new licpartmeilt. A youth of sixteen was charged at Wellington S.M. Court yesterday with'wilfully detaining 258 telegrams during May and June, and also with the theft of a brooch valued nl 30s.' Accused was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment on the charge of theft ('prisoner to be kept a pari from oilier prisoners), and later lo be transferred to Weraroa Training Harm. On the other charge he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months.

Al I lie last meet ins 1 of the Beautifying Society, the question of raising funds was discussed, in order to take advantage of the present planting season. Mrs Percy Easton was appointed to organise a concert, and in conjunction with the.'Secretary, Mrs Moore, has arranged a double attraction, to be hold in the Town Hail early next month. The entertainment will consist of vocal and instrumental items, to be followed by pictures. One or two performers will he new to a. Pox ton audience. *lt is hoped that, the effort will result in the raising of at least £2s'. Pull details will appear later. Mr Percy Smith, of Pew Plymouth', late Surveyor-Genera 1, has given (lie following account of his discovery of K^iiraiu; —“I was conducting the triangalation north of Auckland in 1870-74, and on one occasion was in advance of my men, they carrying the instruments, and myself using my long knife to cut a trad: up one of the south-east spurs of Tu-ta-moe Mountain, when i saw (out of the corner of my eye, as it were), in a slight depression, what I look to he a'cliff! But as I advanced a few peaces I saw that I could look round it, and then it dawned on me (hat it was a kauri tree of enormous size. I think one of the men measured the tree with Ids arm, and, at ‘any rale, we came to -the conclusion that it was just -a chain (GGft.) round. Some years afterwards I got Henry Wilson, then Crown Lands Hanger, from Whangarei. district, to visit the tree and measure it. "- This he did, and found it to be. just GO ft. in circumference.”

Shimmering delects were refer■rec] Id by llig J3irector of the Sumner School for the Deaf (Mr -I. E. Slovens) in a lecture in Christchurch lust week. “Stammering,” lie said, “is terrible and painful. When I hear it made fun of on the stage, 1 feel sick at heart. Stammering arises from no defect whatever in the vocal organisms. Generally it is caused by fear ,in the first place, or by shock, or by imitation. It is just as difficult to cure when it arises from imitation as when it arises from fright. It is a peculiar thing that you never know when it is cured. The best way is to MpMhe to gain ■ self-confi-dence, treat him gently and encourage him to read aloud.'"' Asked if lie believed that stammering could he caused by forcing,left-handed children to write with the right hand, Mr Stevens replied: “No, I do not. It is more likely that the child is made to stammer through fright.” The queenly rose knoVs Ho decay, Though- spurred unci crushed it lies, And while it slowly’ wastes away Its fragrance never dies. With other gifts that make life glad, And in our thoughts endure, It cheers our hearts when sick and

sad “tike Moods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt, 10

The holding of toothbrush drill in schools was objected to al a school ■ committee meeting in another town on the groTmd that it was a task that should bo carried\»ut at home. That is no doubt correct in a sense, but how many homes are there even now where parents never think to see that their children clean their teeth at least before going to bed! —Taranaki Herald.'

It is quite impossible at present, stated Mr Massey yesterday, replying to a question by Mr W. H, Field, M.P., to make a satisfactory arrangement with shipping companies trading between New Zealand and United Kingdom whereby parents and other near' relatives shall he enabled to visit, at a substantial reduction on the enormous rates for passages now ruling, the graves of soldiers who lost their lives in the war.