LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2173, 7 September 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a drop.of Is per lb. on whitebait yesterday, the retail price being 3s yesterday, as against 4s last week. Mr J. Robertson, formerly M.P. for Otaki, has been appointed manager of the Crystal Palace Theatre, Christchurch.

Business premises are very scarce in Masterlon, A business man who wanted to commence operations there recently paid nearly £3OO for the right of a lease of a small shop, A child who picked up a purse in Maslcrton containing £47 in notes, and restored it to its rightful owner, was rewarded in the munificent sura of one shilling!

Wellington is. at present a sick city. There is scarcely a shop, factory, or warehouse whose staff is not more or less curtailed owing to an epidemic of colds, “Hu,” mumps, or chest complaints. Shortage of eoal, very cold weather, and bad housing accommodation, is reported to be responsible for the discomdiseonyforts.

The Chatham gift cruiser ii> New Zealand, has been overhauled a I a cost of £73,000. She undergoes an eight-hours’ full. power speed trial oh September lOih, and then will be commissioned for New Zealand.

The intermittent snow storms on the Tiiraruas are responsible for continuous frosts in' this district, which is unusual at this time of the year. Early vegetable crops have, had a severe set back.

Mr Charles Symons, of Foxton, underwent an operation at a private hospital in Palmerston North yesterday. His many friends will bo pleased to hear that he is progressing favourably. The polling hours to-morrow on the loan proposals fur water and drainage are frebn 9 a.m., to 7 pan., in the Borough Council Chamber. There are 090 nilmes on the roll, and it is anticipated that nearly 500 will record their votes.

A cablegram from London states that the New Zealand Government has commissioned Sir Thomas Mackenzie to exhaustively investigate the prospects of New Zealand trade and commerce in (he United Stales and Canada.

In connection with the water and drainage loan proposals, some ratepayers are under a wrong impression that the rale in connection with same will be Is std. To clear up this false impression, we may slate that the water rate will average s£cl, making (he total rates Hid in (he £. *,

A farmer named William Kells, of TV Rapa, was driving a waggon down the hill near (ho Hamilton sale yards, when the horse cut the corner 100 quickly, and the waggon capsized, pitching Kells to the ground. When picked up'lie was found to-be suffering from a very bad location of the elbow.

The wife or husband of ratepayers are entitled to vole at to-mor-row’s poll. Il is as Avell to s(?ile this fact, as if has been freely reported llml only ratepayers are allowed to vole. If the husband is the ratepayer, the wife is also entitled to vote in her husband's right, and

vice versa. i In Hie course oi' :i meeting of Hie 1 'aliin(un branch ul‘ the New Zeahmc! Farmers’ Union one speaker said dial he supposed that lliere was no man making more money than the. land agent. The land agent had no capital invested, except in a motor car and an office girl. There' was no donhl about it that the land agent was responsible i‘or the speculation in land to-dav.

The Secretary of the Horticultural Society has asked ns to announce that he will he at his office until !• p.m. to-night, for the purpose of receiving' entries. Late entries will he received up to 0 p.m. on Wednesday night—not, as previously announced. No entries will lie received on Thursday morning.

A conference oi‘ representatives of (ho dairy euiupanies in Wellington province met at Palmerston N. yeslei'day. A. motion was carried endorsin'’’ the recommendation of the Putter Committee to accept the offer of 2SOs per evvt. from (lie Imperial Government for the exportable surplus, and also recommending the committee to impure into the position regarding the points payment in the Australian contract, so as to include the same system in the New Zealand contract.

Any one doubting (he qualities of artesian wafer for tea .making will be afforded an opportunity of testing a cup of lea made from artesian water at Mr Pererau’s tea rooms tomorrow, free of charge. The water will l)e obtained from the artesian supply at Mr Me.Murray’s mill, which is identical in quality with that of the proposed borough supply.

“Please post mo a copy of the circular that was sent out to sheepfarmers asking us to give up our wool prolils to the British Seamen’s Fund,” wrote a northern farmer in a, letter read at a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Navy League. “I, like many others, signed under a misapprehension as to the position, and in the belief (hat nearly all would do the same. Now I find I hat a great many of our richest men are giving nothing. If this is carried through it will do a great deal of harm to all future appeals for patriotic objects. The _ willing horse will then be willing no more.” The secretary reported having replied that he thought the circular was issued by Mr Edward Newman, M.P., who would no doubt supply a copy of it. The chairman (Mr H. J. Marriner) said he thought that dis 7 mission of the letter was inadvisable. ..

An old veteran of many campaigns passed away at New Plymouth on Sunday, in the person of Mr Michael O’Donnell, aged 102 years. He joined the Imperial Army early in life, and the extent of his campaigning may be gathered from the fact that he held the British medal (with three ejasps), the Balaclava, (Sebastopol, Inkerman, and the Turkish medals, while later on his soldiering brought jiini to NewZealand, 'and he received the New Zealand medal. The Maori War brought the late Mr 'O’Donnell 1o Taranaki, and he was engaged in the lighting around New Plymouth, notably at Sentry Hill. When the war ended Mr O’Donnell decided to settle in New Plymouth,’ and though all his life had lieen devoted to soldiering he started business as a bootmaker. He made his last pair when he was nearing his hundredth birthday, Pour of the deceased's grandsons served in the recent war—Harold, James, Leonard, and Michael O’PoxmeU.

Sessile Hayakawa, the great Japanese actor, appears at the. Royal in two diffemit plays on Friday and Saturday next.

We are informed that a thorough inspection of the back yards of residences is to be made shortly by (he Health Officer.

Air T. R. Hutton, of Foxton, has received a Government appointment as a. draughtsman in Samoa, and will leave New Zealand on the 21st instant, to take up his duties there. Snaps taken at tho, Old-Timers-Junior football match will be screened at the Town Hall to-morrow evening. 1 * Some of the old-timers were eaught»in distinctive poses.

The great classic of the Arabian Nights, “AU Baba the Forty Thieves,”- is to he shown in all its entrancing mystery at the Royal on Monday next.

“When a man' contends that he is adhering to a principle, whether he he right or wrong, if ho is conscientious, he is a true sportsman, and to be admired.” —Mr R. A. Wright, M.P., during a speech in Wellington. Robert I). Wursfold, a middleaged gardener, was crashed into by a motor car at Terrace End, Palmerston North, yesterday evening. He was terribly injured, and died in the hospital. The New Zealand warship Chatham is leaving England at tho end of October for the Dominion, arriving at Auckland in January. She will call at Fiji and Samoa on the journey.

Peter McPherson, aged 33, single, was found dead in a wasWiouse at Masterton on Sunday morning, with a wound in the breast, and a rille bosi tie him. He left a letter, which indicated that he was of unsound mind.

Residents of Wanganui —particularly suburban residenK—were pleased to see the trams running on Friday, although the service was Aery much of. a “Irp out” nature. Considerable improvement from hoav i.n should, lie the order of things. — Chronicle.

The Borough Council is Iferbing and forming a footpath from Hav-en-worth Place to Robinson Street, on Ibe West side of Park Street. The work, Avlien completed, will be greatly appreciated by the school children. The path on the opposite side is kerbed, and while the Avorkineu, are on the job it Avould be a good move to have this done also, Bins completing a very necessary work along this thoroughfare.

Unless a better way is found of sharing burdens, profiteering will sink deeper and deeper into the soul of the people, says llie Post. Overcharging and under-supply will contaminate everybody who sells anything —the faun who sells 'adulterated milk, the worker who sells limitable labour, the thinker who sells imponderable thought. This puestiuu of priee-limitatioii opens up all aspects of the social contract, ’ lu this connection the Government has not sufficient courage to frame a, comprehensive .policy, but lias it enurage enoSigh to allow the House oi' Uepresentaiives a non-party debate and division? Js it: not lime that, on a subject so vitaC the country should ascertain the conscience of its representatives, unmanaeled by parly bonds 1 ? Or is the spirit of (lie famous “Progressive" wing ns dead as Julius Caesar !

‘‘.lt was held in a ease in New Zen land that a woman whoso husband was continually, day after day, week after week, making groundless charges of misconduct against her, and thus rendering her miserably, had sufficient cause to leave his house,’’ his Honour, Mr Justice Herdman, said in the Supreme Court at Christchurch. “But when a woman marries a man she marries him for good or ill. Were tils of temper, threats of suicide, petulance of manner, rudeness, are not suflieient reasons to justify a woman in taking that step. If they were, women would be leaving their husbands every day in the week, and (his Court would have a busy time listening to petitions for dissolution of marriage. The sanctity of the marriage tie must be observed.”

“They are all round the country like blowflies,” said Mr G. Mitchell (Wellington South), in condemning the operations of land speculators and land agents. He commended the work of the Minister of Lands ami those patriotic men who had assisted the settlement of soldiers; but be appealed to the Minister to ■slop the speculation. The Minister was sincere, and could, he believed, slop the speculation. If the price of butter wen! up to 2s 9d a 11). there would be a further orgy of speculation. 'The farmer would not have the benefit, but the speculator, who Was no use to the fanner or the country. The* Minister (Hon. 1). IT, Guthrie) said that he was as much against speculation* and aggregation as the hon. member. He would have no dealings with land agents in the purchase of land for soldiers.

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 the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald”’ ' * ■

A Gore merchant lies received a communication from a Swedish Jinn

which shows the anxiety of European merchants to open up new trade channels in this part of the world. The writer, one 0. Hj. ITohnberg, while not a master of English style, has evidently keen business instincts, for he -states in his letter that if his prospective client desires it he is willing- to make a trip to New Zealand.

It is stated that another company Js’being formed in the North Island for the purpose of* growing and making up tobacco in New Zealand. The company intends to supply the ever-increasing demand for tobacco with a Now Zealand grown product, and lias obtained the services of an expert as manager. The soil in various parts of Now Zealand is considered suitable for the- 'cultivation of all grades of leaf, and most: of the work in connection with tobacco culture is so light that it could be performed by partially disabled soldiers. In connection with .to-mor-row's water and drainage, poll, thefollowing is (lie analysis of artesian water from Mr McMurray’s properly, which will he the same, as that for Foxlon's proposed water supply, (he results being expressed in grains per gallon: —No. 1, temporary hardness 17, 'permanent hardness 5, chlorine 1, total solids 27.3-; No. 2, temporary hardness 15.5, permanent hardness 5.25, chlorine 2, total solids 23.5. Iron, less than one part per million. No. 1 water was taken from the dam, which is exposed ,aud No. 2 was taken direct from the bore.

“Tlu‘ reasons, both national ami economic, for New Zealand maintaining its wheal production at least sufficiently to supply local requirements have been further strengthened by the recent course of events,” says (he Minister of Agriculture, in his annual report. “Australia has demonstrated-its unreliability as a source of supply," and shipping facilities in these waters have Jailed to keep up with the demand for tonnage, while the outside price of wheat has risen to a level almost prohibitive, judged on the standards- of this country. A total area of some 8(H),000 acres of wheat at a normal average yield is sufficient: for the Dominion’s present consumption, a,ad with reasonable encouragement this average can he readily grown. Reports indicate that Hie area sown and to he sown in wheal for the ensifing season’s crop in Canterbury and North Otago will show a substantial increase on last season's acreage. 'With (he increased minimum prices guaranteed by the Government for the crop a reasonable, ret uni should .be secured by growers, given fair seasonal conditions,’’

The death is reported from Dawlish, England, on September Ist, of Mr Edward Noel Bhrraiul, a former resident of Palmerston North. The deceased gentleman, who was hornin (he Dominion, was for nine years in the employ of Messrs Krull and Coy., merchants, _ of Wellington, when he left to join the Wellington staff of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Coy., for twelve years filling [lmposition of accountant and managing clerk. In 1892 Mr Barnaul joined with Mr L. A. Abraham in purchasing the seed and general goods department of Messrs Slovens and Gorton, in Rangitikei Street, and founded the present firm of Barnaul and Abraham, Ltd. Several years ago deceased retired from active business- life and took up his residence in England. A keen art student, and one (lever in his brushwork, helms left, several works of more than passing note. His demise at the age of 03 years was due to heart failure. During his residence in- Palmerston North, Mr Barnaul was identified with all progressive movements. Much sympathy will he fell for_Mr Arnaud Barnaul (who is deceased’s only son) in his sad bereavement.