LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Potatoes wore selling in Christchurch on Saturday last at £2 per

Cr. Coley suggested at Monday night's Council meeting that Robinson Street should he treated with a coaling of tar. He said that at present this street was in real good order, and I lie tarring of same'would .-ave a groat deal in the Cos! of maintenance in the future.

A mother of twenty children, who has been a resident of Palmerston for thirty years, wrote to the Borough Conned (here, asking that her husband he given employment on the borough staff. It was decided to ask the husband to make application to the Borough Engineer.

The Baliiiei’.-ton Borough Council has appointed Air Frank Kennedy, of New York, an acknowledged gas

authority, to the position of engineer and -eeratary to the gas de• panmenl, at a salary of £I,OOO a year. Extensive new works arc contemplated at the existing plant.

An interesting ease i> to he heard in the Supreme Court at Wellington next week, when A. Leigh Hum, formVrly manager of the X.Z. Farmers' ('o-opera/ive DislriJniimg Goai/iany, claims from Joseph .). Bryce, of Marion, a sum of £3.000 damages for alleged slander.

At Monday night's Connell inerting a letter was read from Mrs Perrean, .-ecrelary of the LadieP Croquet Club, .asking (he Council to take into consideration ihe question of hiving down two croqne' lawns in Easton Bark. — 11 was decided to refer I lie matter to Ihe R(‘serve's ('ommil 1 ee.

At the Palmerston silling of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Join; William Met'lnn l , charged with hav-

ing on or about April Ist, at Palmerston North, broken and entered I lie shop of Laitehlan and Co., and stolen therefrom goods to the value of £lßl, was sentenced to I brer years' hard labour. Yesterday members of the Eoxton Harbour Board mafic an inspection of the river from Hartley's Bend In the heads. With the exception of a couple of small sand hanks, then 1 is a good channel right from the river entrance to the wharf. If was decided to const met it small hank, about two chains in length, on I lie south side of the river, beyond Ila ft ley’s Bend, in order to prevent erosion hv llood waters.

A letter was received from the Taxi Proprietors at Monday night's Council meeting, asking that the taxi stand he removed in Clyde Street, as originally iixed. as the present position was not a suitable cue. —fr was moved that the request he acceded to, provided that the taxi drivers paid the cost of removing the telephone to the new stand. This motion, however, was ruled out of order'by the Mayor on the ground that there was a motion already on the hooks fixing the taxi stand in Main Street, and this would have to he rescinded before the .-Rand could he altered. Notice watthen given to rescind this motion, and this will come up at the next meeting of the Council. To preserve ns from persecution, And unravel all plots profound, There's a wonderful “Secret Service” Which encircles the Empire round. Though hut Jew suspect its existence, It operates silent and sure, With the searching, resistless persistence Of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,—Advt, 22

The visit lu Eoxton hut of tlie Lyric Costume Comedy Company was arranged hy Mr J, 11. Reid, of the Town Hall Pictures.

In the ride of a newspaper reporter, Enid Bennett will he seen a I the Town Hal! on Saturday, in her latest Paramount; ‘-.The Haunted Bedroom. The prices will he (Id and Is Id.

At the Canterbury .Jockey Club's Grand National meeting on Tuesday, the Grand National Hurdle Race was won hy Coalition, with Cuauaeo and Oakleigh tilling the places. The Eoxton horse, Master Strowan, ran off during the race. The Winter Cup was won hy Killowen. with Heathersprig second, and Dainty Step !liird. Mr .1. W. O'Brannon, a New York mulli-millionaire company director, has been adjudged mentally incompetent, and ordered to he detained at Rivererest Sanatorium. He has been in the sanatorium under observation for oo days, and during this period Ids fortune is said to have increased hy ,(.’-1(1(1,00(1 ihrongli accumulated dividends and advances in Ids slocks.

Writing from Vancouver under dale duly 171 h, Mr Ernest Short, who is louring Canada and U.S.A. with Mr T. U. McLean, both of Redding, says; “We have jnsl spent three days going Ihrongli some of the finest Holstein herds in the West, near Seattle, and saw some very fine cal lie. One cow, which is going to heal the world record hy several thousand pounds of milk, has jnsl (Tone 1.0-i days” milking' for 22,0001))., and Ims half the lime to go lu heat about 33,2001 h. We met Air Bnckland here, from the Waikato. He has jnsl bought a nice farm, and has started a herd of 1101-le-ins near Vancouver.

The principle of differentiatmg between married and unmarried persons in the imposition of. incometax is making considerable headway abroad, say:- the Lyttelton Times. Iris recognised in the United Kingdom and tlie United Stales, and now Era nee has fallen into line. Under recent legislation the income-tax is increased hy 2:3 per cent, in the case of unmarried persons of both sexe> over the age of thirty, and the extra lax is also imposed on all married persons wlio after two years of wedded life have no children, a measure .obviously prompted hy the extremely low birthrate of the Ureneh nation. So far as New Zealand is concerned, what is needed is legislation more on the British, and American lines, adjusting existing luxation more equitably between married and unmarried, and between the large family and the small.

“A month’s imprisonment would not do him any harm, your Worship. I'm his father, and perhaps that is a hiird thing to say, hut he is a notorious villain." These were the sentiments expressed hy. a father concerning his eldest son, aged 21 next September, in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill, when his two son-- were sued for debts incurred at a country store. They had been working :!I a sawmill, and ran tip an account with cheerful disregard for con.-equenees. Apparently the elder sou had given his father some jusfiliealion for expressing himself .•is strongly as lie did. “He is entirely to blame, your Worship," said the irate parent when the ease opened. “lie collected his brother's wages on the pretence that lie was paying off the account, and he then list'd iht 1 money to spend on himself. He is a young blackguard." His Worship gave .judgment for the full amount against the declared “black sheep" of the family. The strict rationing of sugar to wholesale confectioners and biscuit m.-mufactnrei's Ims necessitated a certain amount of readjustment of work in Auckland factories. Otic tirm, reports (lie Herald, employing about I (JO hands, has lately found it. impossible to keep its works going more than four days a week on the present allotment, and other manufacturers have had to readjust their work, in order to keep their staffs in < onstant employment. To effect this, they have cm out certain confectionery lines which consume large amount of sugar, concentrating efforts on other varieties ot sweets and biscuits that do not take so much. They all state they could utilise several tons more sugar each week than the amount alloiled, hut they recognise that the authorities are doing their utmost to impose as little hardship as possible. Therefore the manufacturers arc doing their best to co-operate with the Board of Trade hy making the supplies obtainable go as far as possible.

The proportion of dead or unclaimed letters, letter-cards, and postcards to the total number delivered within the Dominion was 0.04 per cent, (stales the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department). Some 202,120 letters (ineluding letters addressed to sohlieiv and registered letters) were opened and returned to writers through the Dead Letter Office; 3(i,2(i9 were returned unopened to other countries, 2.1.2,308 ( including those addressed to soldiers) were re-issued: 32,247 were destroyed: 2(34,210 were returned hy chief postmasters to senders within New Zealand; 43,244 were returned hy chief postmasters in other countries; it total of 840,470, compared with 820,984 in 1918. Five thousand nine hundred and eighty-five other articles were returned to foreign countries'. 2.739 were returned to the senders through the Dead Letter Office, and 87.444 by chief postmasters; 10,360 were returned by chief postmasters to other countries: a total of .112,528 articles, compared with 122,948 in 1918.

Speaking al Inwt .Friday night’s uh’o[iiio 1 of ratepayers to consider tlic proposed. water and drainage seheme for the Borough, the Mayor said that Fox ion was one of the most economically managed boroughs in the Dominion. He lielieved in giving credit where eredil was due, and said that this satisfactory position was due 10 the excellent staff lhai the borough find.

Two hoys named James Lowry and Thomas Edward Prieston, who had escaped from tlie Weraroa Training Farm, were charged at the Palmerston Police Court with breaking and entering a store at Oban, and stealing two pairs of hoots, two shirts, and cigarettes, to (lie total value of (M 17s ‘2d. They were ordered jo he sent hack to (he (raining farm to receive punishment.

The Levin Chandler of Commerce is taking steps to popularise tin l seaside at ll'okio as a seaside resort. The president (?Jr [laswelll said lie did not think the public realised what a very line a-sei Levin had in its beach, and the splendid time visit os could have ilmre. He bad been there several years, and bad induced oilier families from outside towns to visit the beach, with the result (Iml they had returned in subsequent years and were surprised at the facilities afforded at Hokio and ihe small use made of; them.

The la lost strike is one tlial lias occurred at a boarding establishment connected. with a Wanganui scholastic institution. Tlio hoys considered that thoy had a number of grievances. and foil I hoy had a frm-h ono the other day when, a 1 dinner-1 ime, pudding was sowed up without milk. The next day that pudding made its appearance without milk it was refused hy all, and efforts to discover who was the instigator of ihis mild form of passive resistance failed. The sequel has been the deletion of pudding from the menu, a decision which is viewed wilh considerable misgivings by the bovs. —Chronicle.

At a public meeting held in the Town Hall at Westporl, Vo consider the Government's proposal to take over the Westport Harbour Board, a resolution was carried “That this meeting of the citizens of Westport does not disagree with the action of llie Government in taking over the hoard, provided: (1) If is made (dear (bat the retiring Harbour Board is not responsible for the present unfavourable financial position: and. (2) that revenue from the land held in trust by the present Harbour Board, under the Act of 188-1, is set a.-ide and used only for the development of West (ion harbour and lands connected therewith.'" .A further resolution was carried that the Government he asked to repeal clauses HIS and 100 of the finance .Vet of 1015, and refund to llie Board llie revenues taken under those clauses, amounting to some £07,0(0).

Ts the cost of living- -till rising? Orta inly further increases are spoken of on all sides, and nine nut of ten people would not hesitate to give an aflirtnalive answer to the question. Nevertheless, -ays a contemporary, a glance at at) authentic price list issued from month to month by one of the large importing (inns in Dunedin will hardly he found to justify the popular opinion. The list, which is issued at the end of each month, shows that during May the prices of 18 lines of general merchandise in common use were reduced, and seven advanced: in dune IS were reduced and 12 advanced; and last month 30 were reduced ami eleven advanced. During the past three months, therefore, this firm has listed (ill price reductions. as against 30 increases. Surely there is ground here for some satisfaction and a measure of optimism. The Olaki Mail, referring' to the death of the late Wei I’a rewhaiiaki, says: —‘•Wei was a noted rangilira of the Ngatiraukawas, who had lived practically all his life at Otaki. and had attained the ripe age of ahout 90 years. He was a splendid type of $e old Maori —honourable, straight-living, dignified and courteous —and was held in the highest, esteem not only by his Jellow-Mao-ris, but among 1 the Europeans also. He was educated at Auckland in the '.cry early days of the Native Mission work. Early in life he embraced Christianity, ami for a great many years right up to his death he was a most faithful worshipper and regular attendant at the local Native church services, lb' enjoyed good, health almost right up to (he lasi, ami was only laid aside a few davs before his death. Deceased leaves a widow—Henri te Wei, a, daughter of the late Tamihana Te Wauparaha, ami grand-daughter of the ceicbrted Te Wauparaha.

The largest and most, I’cpresoma ■ five def)iilation ever sent to Wellington from the Wairarapa will wait on Ihe Prime .Minis!or on the l!)lli inst. to press for the carrying mu of 1 lie Uimnlaka deviation. A special I rain has been engaged to convey the deputation to Wellington. A canvass of Mastertou tradesmen was made on .Saturday last, and there was an almost unanimous decision to close the busbies.- establishments for the whole day on !!)th August to permit the heads of the different (inns to join in the deputation. At the monthly meeting of the general committee of the Wellington Central Progress League on Monday nighl, the following were apointed speakers at the deputation, which will he introduced by Mr G. Mitchell. M.P.: Messrs C. H. Daniels. li. Malhewson, W. Thompson, W. Howard Booth, representing Wairarapa; the Mayor of Wellington (Mr J. I’. Luke M.P.), and tho chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board (Mr J. G. Harkness),

flood progress is being made the construction of the pontoon to carry 1 lie dredging ninehinery for Hr. 1 Foxlon Harbour, six men being employed on this work. As soon as (he pontoon is completed the machinery will he installed, and a start made with the dredging operations. At present the bar is good, the depth of water on same being most satisfactory, and the first work for the dredge will he to deal with one or two sand hanks in the river.

deferring to the increasing number of motor accidents, (he Auckland Star says editorially: “A man who endangers life in this way (he was driving a car while drunk) deserves to go to gaol, and to have his license either cancelled, or suspended for live years, al the end of which time he might get it hack on production of proof of improved habits. Nothing hut such drastic measures will cheek Ihe sellish and dangerous recklessness and carelessness of a, small minority of motorists. This urgent matter should lie dealt with by Parliament as soon as possible this session.”

Speaking in favour of the proposed water and drainage scheme tor the borough, Mr J. P. Smith, at ihe public meeting on Friday last -ad ihal ratepayers should gel rid of the idea that "whal was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us." He was convinced thai F-ixlon had a good future before it if the people would only bestir themselves and go in for a hold progressive policy. The installation o! a water and drainage scheme v. as an absolute necessity, and lie urged .atepayers noi to let the questhm of iin increase in rales prevent, them from supporting I lie The advantages to he derived from the scheme would greatly outweigh (lie small increase in the rail's.

A man named Arthur Sullivan was charged at llie Palmerston Afagisi ra le's Conn wilh having occasioned a breach of the peace by using insulting language in Scaudia Street, and wilh having wilfully trespassed on the 'promises of De-tective-Sergeant Qnirke. and refusing to leave when warned to do so. The detective staled that Sullivan had come to his residence, and asked about a private information that: was being laid against him. Tic fold accused lie had n<< right to come to a private house about such a mailer, bail should see witness at the police si a lion. The accused then used insulting language. Sullivan was (hied £2 on each charge. Ihe alternative of seven days' sonment.

The Auckland Preshy!cry has- decided to suspend the Bev. A. A. Murray from exercising the rights and privileges of a minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. and to dissolve the pastoral tie between him and St. Andrew’s Church. The committee which report ml on the subject to llie Presbytery staled that “for nearly a year it had borne with Air Murray, in (he hope that he would lake the honourable course and resign, but Air Murray was determined to remain a minister of the Presbyterian Church, in spili* of his declared disbelief in her doctrine and practice in (he mailer of baptism, and of his refusal to baptise children of the members of the church. He has thus forced his brethren to discipline him."

Answering 1 ?dr \\ ill<> j‘i 1, lltf Auckland Herald s;iys; The increase in (lel.l due lo Iho \vjii'—which in New Zealand, hm not in Britain represents prnol ieally Iho whole \\ ;i r expenditure—’is ,CBO,OOO, (100, and -mnelhing over CT.OOO.OUn.UOU for the rospi'olive countries. Tint- the British war debt represents hot ween c.ue-thii'd and one-fourth of the national wealth or the national in-c-onie for about a year and threequarters. Tin l Xew Zealand war debt represents only one-sixth of tin* public wealth, or exactly one.

year's national income. This is probably as fair a statement of our liabilities as can be pul into a sentence. Tin* burdenJs heavy enough —especially when pensions are added —In*l il is obviously one which is not beyond the capacity of the country to carry.

The Christchurch Bun claims to have received exclusive information that the Hovernment lias decided lo collect income tax from the racing clubs for as far back as 1010. An Act was passed in 1010 permitting tins to be dom>, but it was not till 1020 ilia I a lest ease was taken to -ee if it wms legal. Mr Justice Chapman ruled that Ihe Act meant what il said. The Commissioner of Taxes lias been apparently sitting on bis hands all this time, and has now decided to go ahead, or, rather hack. The racing clubs pay sdven taxes already. Tills is tin' eighth. If the Government perseveres with the idea some of the clubs will have to pawn all their as-el-. Olliers will have to put up I lie shutters. The Manawatu Waving Club gave-all its profits during l lie war to patriotic funds. “Willil lie taxed on llio.-e, too?” a>ks I'a liners! on Time.-.

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, hut luck the winning.'' Advertising is a sure enough winner, hut 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 lime. The open season for him ling business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisemeut in “The Muuawatu Herald.”*

An unreserved clearing sale will bo liobi at Oroua Downs next Wednesday on behalf of Mr .1. I l '. Reay, wlio is giving- up dairying. For full particulars see advertisntne.nl.

A Manawalua farmer has let a section of live acres at (Uaki to a Chinaman at JLTb per acre. There are no buildings, and the fences are dilapidated.

No damage, but a magnificent exhibition of night attire worn by citizens with seared faces, followed two sharp earthquake shocks at Los Angeles at 4 o’clock this morning (slates a cable from Vancouver, (luted duly 2(ith, published in the Svdncv Sun).

Very large lots of potatoes are stacked in the Willowbridge (South Canterbury) district, and there is no present indication of a market for them. Some growers have not dug yet, and it is their intention to save the cost of digging unless an outlet can he found Cor the tubers.

According to reports received by Mr W. D. Lysuar, of Gisborne, from experts on I lie site, oil-boring operations at Wailaugi are proceeding slowly, but steadily. The bore for

some time past Ims been passing through limestone formation, progress of a few feet only being made daily. The Imre tip to the present ha- been sunk to a depth of 2(H feet.

An (dd resident of Carterton, in Die person of Mrs Lorimi C’onradsen, passed away recently. The deceased, who was bin'll in Norway, arrived in the Dominion in 187(1. She was married in Grey town in 1878 to her late hu.-ham]. Deceased, who was 82 years of age, was a cousin of Captain Amundson, Dm noted Arctic explorer.

In 1 aiding the interim return of sheep in New Zealand, Die Minister for Agriculture informed Die House that although they showed a decrease of 1.871,.‘>5 I, this was only an interim report, and he was hopeful that when the (inal returns were made up (hi- delieieiie.v would he reduced considerably. The report shows that the decrease in the North Island is !I!.)8,U02, and in the South 837,b’>2.

At ;i meetiny of Ihf Levin Chamber of Commerce the question of the increased telephone eharyes was discussed. Object ion was taken to I lie proposed cxli'a eliarye for subscriber.-' over hall' a mile from the e.veliuitye. One result would ho that many country people would cut on! 1 heir lelenhones, and that would

mean a lit of inconvenience from a business point of view. It was decided to object to the increases, and nrye the adoption of a lint rale lor tin* whole telephone area.

The pas-lny of anolher pioneer resident of Palmerston North in the. person of Mrs Maryan;! Jolly, relie! of the late Mr James S. Jolly, lookplace at the Hospital on Monday last. The deceased lady, who was in her 7Slh year, had resided in Palmerston North for 42 years past. She was born in Kdinlmryh, and ar- # rived in Palmerston duriny its period of infancy, when the present

Square and its siirronndinys were covered in bush. -Mrs Jolly took an active part in public life in tbo-e and I’nlnre days, malerially assf-i----iny in the welfare and advancement of the township. Df a yenerotts nature, she freely assisted in till charitable objects, and earned Ihe hiyhesl respect and esteem of all whom she came in contact with. The deceased lady leaves a family of Ihree danyhfers, Mrs W. 'l. Wood, of Sydney (wife of Mr W. T. Wood, former member of Parliament for ,Palnters!on), Mrs 11, ( avell, ol Wellinylon. and Mrs W'. P. Davis, of (lisborne, and one son. Mr W. J. B. Jolly, of ’Palmerston North.

The increase in postal and leloi;rapliie ral(* Ims led ;m Nilerprisinir Cbrislcbnreli resident In announce, )>v advertisement, In commercial and business Mien, bis wiHinyuess to <leJiver nioiillily accounts. circulars, (‘to., at less cost than postage. It jimy not be generally known Unit tin; privilege, or monopoly, ol carrying - Jailors enjoyed li.v the Post mast er(ioneral is very jealously guarded. Sub-sect ion I of soot ion 20 of the Bod am! Telegraph Act, 100 S. stnlos llmf; “No let lor slmll be carried for hi re or reward otherwise Ilian by post;*’ ;ind Peculation B> oi' the 4'osl. mul Telegraph IXypulalions dales thill ‘‘any poison oonvoyiny (othorwiso limn by llm post) a Idler not exempted from tlio oxolnsivo privilege ol the Postmaster-General, inouvs by law a penalty of IJ2O for (■voi’V Idler >n conveyed," Whether ‘‘monthly accounts, circulars. do. ('omi‘ under the delinition ol' “Idler" appears to be a moot point- (. hrislelinreii Press.