Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPTEMB. 30, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2183, 30 September 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPTEMB. 30, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Misses Ale Master (2) leave Foxtou next, week for Mataura.

There was a run of whitebait up the river yesterday, and some good hauls were made.

The lambing season is reported to have been very satisfactory throughout the district this season.

The cables indicate a feeling of unrest between the Cnilcd States and Japan.

The Stale miners have resumed work, ami il is probable that Ihe Pukemiro dillieully will he settled 10-da v.

The hy-eleetioii for Ihe Bay of Plenly seal lakes (dace to-day. The candidates are Messrs K. S. Williams (Government) and F. J. Lysnar (Liberal).

The sum of £(52,3*28 was registered as having passed through the lolalisalor al the Olaki two days' mooting, an increase over lasi spring meeting of £32,074.

The Foxton Football Club will hold their annual hall in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next. During Ihc evening the cups and trophies won during (he season will he presented.

Al (he Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. Frank Lawton, charged with the alleged Ihcfl of 22 cases of benzine, was, on the application of the police, furl her remanded for one week.

How do you know that you are making your husband a heller wife Ilian some other woman would have made? For Hie answer see Clara Kimball Young at the Royal on Saturday night."

New potatoes are on the .Auckland market, and are selling readily at 5d per pound. Southern potatoes from last season are, on sa.le at Auckland nt from £(5 to £7 19s per lon, as compared with from £l2 to £ls this lime last year, and are reported to he a glut on the market.

Messrs G. T. Woodroofe and Co. have some very desirable house properties for sale, on terms to suit purchasers. The linn s olliee is now located in the Council Chamber (Mayor's room). Don'l miss their change advertisement next issue.

A number of local .Masons were present last night at the installation ceremony in connection with the Horowlienua Lodge, at Levin. Bro. ,J. F. Young was installed as W.M. The ceremony was conducted by R. Wor. Bro. Russell, I’rov. G.M.. ol the Wellington District. Visiting brethren were present from all parts of the district. At the close of the ceremony a haiujuel was held in the Town Hall, when the usual toasts were honoured.

Air P. C. Welih, aii unmarried lit man of military age. who refused to go to the front when the nation was lighting for its very is president of Ihe Slate Miners’ Union. lie has been deprived of his civil rights because he was not willing (o servo his country. The miners’ executive, which controls the men. want Air A\ebb to have hiscivil rights restored, and to force the Government to give way the strike at the State mine has been ordered. —Hawera Star. A Business Talk with Business Alen. —“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 lack 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 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'.”*

An early yolonist of Canterbury, Mr Wiliam John Guy, died on Sun-

day, at the age of (53 years. Another Canterbury pioneer, Mr John Keir, died recently at Gore,'where he had lived in retirement for live years past, aged 72. Samuel John Thorn, who was arrested on September 11th on a charge “that at Pukekawa, on August 24th, he murdered Sidney Seymour Eyre,” was brought before Mr Poynton, S.M., at Auckland, on Tuesday, and was further remanded for eight days.

“Some years ago, if I had been asked which grass 1 would keep if I had to let all others go, I would have said perennial ryegrass. Today, after more experience, I would choose cocksfoot," said Dr, Ililgcndorf, when addressing a farmers’ meeting at Ashburton on Saturday. A job is more than a meal ticket —it. is more (ban something to do. You don’t play billiards, or baseball, or golf, just for something to do. You play because you love the game. And every man ought to feel that: wav about his work.

In sentencing a waterside worker to three months' imprisonment at the Magi--(rale's Court at Wellington, for theft of properly from a steamer, Mr E. K. Hunt, S.M., said thill if pillaging did not cease he, would make the penally heavier in future eases, and would impose no more lines. '■

The most severe southerly storm for many years visited the Ashburton district during Tuesday. There was a record rainfall of almost four inches, with snow on (lie foothills. Tile weather lias had a serious effect on lambing, which is proceeding. The hisses arc estimated at thousands of pounds. Approximately £2OO eo;-ts were awarded by Mr Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court, Auckland, againsl Hugh CToskery, railway porter, who was recently respondent in one divorce suit and co-respondent, in another. A jury found that in the ease of Mitchell v, Mitchell the respondent. Sarah Ann Mitchell, misconducted herself with (Toskery, and thereafter the latter abandoned his defence in a petition against him by his wife, Catherine Crosk-

When thanking the Wairarapa i»ralicit of the Returned Soldiers’ Association this week for its invitation to he present at the annual reunion, Colonel Mitchell, M.P., said he felt certain lie had some friends in (he Wairarapa, for on the day after his election to the House he received the following telegram:— ‘‘floppy, M.P., Wellington.—You lined me £2 once, hul 1 made £l9 on yon to-day.“ (Laughter.)

The very high eo.-d of petrol in this Dominion —al present il is ahoul -is a gallon—was the subject of di>enssiou al a conference of (lie New Zealand motor trade held at Timaru last week. Jt was staled (hat a very large proportion of the eosl, so far as this country is concerned, is entailed by Ihe bundling of the oil in tins and eases, instead of in bulk'. Delegates asserted that if the oil were brought to this country in laid: steamers, and stored in suitable tanks at the principal ports and'distributing centres, the reduction in freights, handling, and distribution charges would amount to Is (id per gallon at present rales, reducing (he price to 2s (id per gallon. The conference decided to approach (he Government for assistance in reforming shipping and dstrihution methods. As New Zealand is now spending about a million n year on pel nil and other motor fuel, the matter seems well worthy of attention.

Jn spile of an elaborate system of tribunals created lo prosecute eases of profiteering, a system which has thus far proved unsuccessful, the cost of living in England is gradually increasing, though prices for eggs, hultcr, milk, and vegetables arc temporarily somewhat lower. Government officials predict that for at least two years prices will he higher than they are at present. A. boost in household coal of 12s (id per ton became effective recently. This, it is said, will bring a proportionate rise in everything else. All foodstuffs ami canned goods are increasing 25 per cent, owing lo the difference in exchange. and the promised decrease in meat prices has not yet materialised. although warehouses are glutted with meal. “Do you class hatter as essential?” asked a member of the Legislative Council when the Hon. Colonel W. F. Collins remarked a few days ago that he hoped the people would not he driven lo taking margarine. “1 do most certainly,” he replied. “It is one of the most e--.-ential things.” Colonel Collins said lie would like the Health Department to make inquiries into (he result of the health of the -people of Denmark of the exportation of large quantities of butler. He had reason to believe that the exportation of so much butler and the consequent shortening of supplies for home consumption in Denmark had been followed by the developing of certain diseases. That was the point he would IjJje the Health Department to investigate. NOTHING RELIEVES SO QUICKLY 7 . No one living in the country should he without a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Dysentery, Diarrhoea or Colic are liable to attack your family at any time. When this happens you want a medicine on hand that will give immediate relief, and nothing will do so More quickly than Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale everywhere.—Advt,

‘ft is notified by advertisement that I lie wood, coal and coke and general carrying business conducted by Mr W. G. Nye lias been purchased by Messrs Petrie and Thompson, who enter into possession as fro in to-morrow.

Mr IV. 11. Field (Otaki) has asked the Minister for Industries and Commerce whether it is true that softgoods dealer's arc being allowed to charge a gross profit of about 40 per cent, on sales of blankets; and whether, in view of the great demand for, and ready sale of, this class of necessaries of life, this is not an undue rate of; profit?

The oldest inhabitant of Masterton informed a Gaily Times reporter that the present winter is the worst ever experienced in the Wairavapa. Usually the winter commences in June and finishes at the end of August, but this year the bad weather set in early in May, and although the month of October is in sight, the wintry conditions still exist.

“The Problem," 7 in other words ‘The Cost, of Living, 7 ’ is ihe subject of an article in the last issue of the Public Service •Journal. The writer makes the following points;—“lt was as a relatively united nation that we did our part to win (lie war. Can it he said that to-day we have any evidence of the same spirit of unity and mutual sacrifice in our dealings with each other as we had m dealing with the Germans? Almost daily class is striking against class, adding bitterness to life, piling up the cost of living, and particularly embarrassing Ihe man of small means. To-day the farmer, whom everyone thought had done exceedingly well 'out of the war, furnishes the latest symptom of the spirit of exploitation. Not to be out of-the prevailing fashion, he demands from I lie community (he war-made London price for bis butler, and the Minister for Agriculture, also mi! to be out of dale, is reported as saying that if people couldn’t pay the market price they should go without or cat less. If the farmers' demand is granted, the cost, not only of butter, but of milk, go to heights which will leave many a. wage-earner with a family of children faced with the very simple alternative suggested by the Minister”