LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mumps and colds are still very prevalent throughout- the Manawatu, Diphtheria is also prevalent. A bitterly cold wind was experienced from the snow-capped Tarani as y"sterday, and again to-day. Green peas grown at Nelson were sold at Wellington last wool; at the rate of f)s (id for 7 lb. Tin- brethren of Lodge Uangitikci (Bulb-) will pay a fraternal visit to 1 lie local Masonic Lodge- tin's evening. In the sale of an old house at (iiafi n valuer allowed -Cloo each for two very line Norfolk pines aoiaii JO feel high, and probably -10 years old. Advice ha's been received in Christchurch of I lie marriage ’in ..•erm-alem of Mr Gladstone Ward, third son of Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, to Miss Sophie llarb. of -!( riisak'in. . In the Dahnersion Magistrate's Court yesterday, four tobacconists ■.■ ere lined £2 and 7< costs each for failing to dose their simps in accordance with the Shops and Oilices Ad. Personal items in the daily papers will soon read so; ‘’Mr Brown, by kind permission of the seamen and liremen. will leave Wellington tonight for Lyttelton.”— I “Zamid" in I lie Auckland Star. The public is reminded of the euchre parly and dance to be held in the Town ITall this evening', under I lie aii-piee.-. of Si. Mary's (.’liurch. Euchre will commence at 7.J0 dm ip. A lirsl-class social evening is promised ail paim-is. Discussing the suggested incroa.-e in the price of bnllei', a Welling!on I nsim s- man said lie was prepared i<■ wa; er (bat if !he price of but ter is raised (o the local consumers over Js !d per lb. retail, that butler for export would lie declared black, id- added i hat I lie Government were a wa iv of iliis fact. Tim Anglican Bi-imp id' Nd-mn, Dr. \V. ('. Sadlier. says that ai present ;m clergyman in his diocese was receiving le-s Gian £20(1 a year. Till-, year the minimum would lie raised to £250, and later it would probably be increased to £3OO. The clergy were also curdled to a siib-.-mnliai pension on retirement. There won.' present al the monilily meeting of the Borough Council held Just night: —The Mayor (Mr. J. Chrysiail), and Grs. Hunt, Hand, Parkin, Coley, Bryant, Pearson and MeMurray, Apologies for absence, were received from Crs. \\ alker and Thompson.

Daly one tender-was received at last .night's Connell meeting for fencing in Easton Park, and litis was declined, as it was considered to be too high. U was decided to carry on the work by day labour, arrangements in .connection with same to be Jeft to the Mayor and Town Clerk. >

At Palmerston North on Friday last, about forty members of the stair of .Messrs J. JJetl and Bayly, Ltd., met Mr J-. Beit, the principal of tlie linn, and made a presentation to him to mark Ins recent marriage. fir 1C A. Falter, senior member of the staff, presided, and presented the guest with a smoker’s outfit, and a set of silver-mounted Jish knives and forks.

An announcement of special iutore.M to men in these days of expensive underwear is made by A. N. Smith, in his advertising space today, in which he sets forth four special' bargain lines, which will be offered for one week 'only. The goods mentioned include black cotton and all-wool sucks, heavy wool singlets, and llannel auulers.*

“This is not a political platform,” -ah! Dr. ti. H. Scliolelield, during a lecture in Christchurch, “but i don’t know whether 1 made it quite clear about indentured labour in Samoa. My own opinion coincides with that of '.’cry many others. It is a thing to be avoided, of course, if you can. manage it, jmt I think that at -the present moment it is necessary to .save the natives from something worse, and that the new conditions of labour will as far as possible eliminate the immorality attending the whole system.”

Accounts amounting to £427 16s Od were passe.d for payment at last night’s meeting' of the Borough Co-' uncil.

The poll of ratepayers on the water supply and drainage scheme proposal will be held on September Sib.

It is understood that under tho will of the late- Mr J. C. MeKillop, St. Patrick’s School, Masterton, benefits to the extent of £5,000. He, was an ex-pupjl of the school. Slates a Sydney cable: The Prince, discarding all ceremonial,has entered into a refreshing country holiday. Crossing the country mounted on the engine cab, he drove the train twelve miles, and later enjoyed a ten-mile gallop outside Bathurst before proceeding west. Mr le Hei, one of (he oldest natives of the coast., died at Utaki on Saturday, aged about 90

years. Deceased bad lived for many years at Olaki, and was highly respected. He leaves a widow —the well-known ehieftainess, Heni .te Pei —and three sons, Martin, W;lri and Wilson, all Olaki residents. A tangi is now in progress.

li’nhy .lose.])h, a Syrian woman, was charged at the Dunedin Police Court last week with smuggling into New Zealand drapery and other goods, of a total value of £6O, with intent to defraud the Customs Department by the evasion of the payment of duty. She wa's convicted and lined £45, and- it was ordered that the goods he forfeited.

When the Prince of Wales was laying the foundation stone of a public building at Brisbane hist week, lie was greeted with goodhumoured cries of “Good luck, Ted!” “Good boy, Teddy,” which caused the Prince to smile, whereupon a Digger shouted, “Teddy, smile again, lad!” The Prince could, not help complying.

At ihc Te Kuiti Magistrate's Court last week, D. 1C Corban and Co. were charged with selling benzine in excess of the price fixed by Drder-in-Couneil. The evidence showed that they bought the benzine at 22s lOd per ease, and sold it at from 19s 9d to 22s a tin. The Magistrate said the ease was such that lie must impose a heavy penalty. The company Avas lined £75 and costs.

A gentleman well versed in the colliery industry of the West Coast, interviewed by a Gi'eyniouth Star reporter, staled that the output in the majority of the mines was now normal, and that everything was calm so far as the industrial element was concerned. He considered that the facts that the Reeflon men now have the highest hewing rate on the Const should result in an increased output .from the mine.

A hide that is slated to lie a record for Auckland, so far as Avcighl is concerned, was disposed of at Wednesday’s hide sales. The hide weighed 127 lbs., and was sold at .15 [d'per Hi. Allowing sibs. for hair, this brings the price to £7 15s did for the hide. Had the hide been sold at the high prices ruling

:• few mouths ago, when stout ox was sold at 2s 3d per lh., it would have realised the substantial sum of £l3 14s (id.

Those who neglect to‘register the birth of children within the time provided by law were given a Avarning in the Wellington Magistrate’s Conn last week, when life fathers of two infants Avcre charged before. Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., Avith failing to register the births of their respective infants. Both were fined, and ilio .magistrate made an orde: l that the children should uoav bo registered, pointing out that Avillumt -iich an order they could not he registered after the 60 days alloAved by hiAV had elapsed.

“I Avish to comet an impression that has gone abroad from this House 11ml: (here are 20,000 more ■women in Ncav Zealand than men,” said the Prime Minister. Mr Massey announced that the Government, Statistician had supplied him Avith figures showing that on December 31st last the number of males exceeded the mrtnher of females by approximately 13,000. The figures regarding persons 15 years of ago and over Avere; Males, 406,880; females, 390,224; excess, of males over females, 16,656.

In a paper contributed to the Home Economics Association, Christchurch, Dr. Eleanor Baker described a school in Canterbury

■where the children are taught to cat their lunches properly, sitting on forms brought out by the elder boys for tins purpose, and supervised by a teacher, who-sees that they eat slowly and decently. ’When lunch is finished, two of the older scholars each bring a bucket. In one of these buckets are placed all the lunch papers, and in the other any scraps of food that may be left. This close supervision of the children's luncheon by a teacher serves many useful purposes., >

A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference .between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been." Are you wishing - for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all Hie year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*