Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2198, 4 November 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dill Hart will appear at the Royal in "Hell's Hinge.-.” on Saturday ncxl.

The Secretary of ihc Poxlon School Committee invites applications for the sale of three tanks, stand and windmill.

There is still a fair amount of Hood water on (he Poxlon-Levin road, bul the Poxlon-Shannon road is clear.

Larrikinisni is very rife at Otaki, and Chinamen arc proving marks for a gang of radians. They arc being assaulted and robbed wholesale, and extra police attention is to be asked for.

Sir das. Wilson and Air J. K. Hornblow have been re-elected unopposed to represent the combined district of AJanawalu County and Borough of Poxton, on the Palmerston N. District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

The repairs effected to the Shannon bridge approach are of a very temporary, nature indeed, and consist of ti few planks laid across that portion which is undermined, (in one side of same (here is a large hole straight into the river, and the approach is certainly not safe for heavy tratlie, A notice to tins ettect has been nailed up on each approach to the bridge, and the dangerous portion is lighted at night. It is to he’hoped that the llorowhenua County Council will lose no time in making the bridge safe for all truHic.

The Education Hill was reported to (ho House of Representatives on Tuesday from the’Education Committee. Very few amendments were made to the Bill, the most important consisting in the elimination of the clause giving %nuen teachers the rigid to go on leaching until GO years of age. The present age, 55, was retained. Another clause requiring - the transfer - of the school medical ollicers to the Public Health Department was withdrawn by the Minister, as it was- found that suf(lieient power in tins respect already existed in the new P-üblic Health Bill. There were no other amendments of any consequence. AVOID BLOOD POISONING. Cuts or wounds are simple to treat, and if treated properly are quickly relieved, but if neglected will sometimes lead to blood poisoning. Keep the wound free from dirt, and apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm as quickly as possible. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment. It will remove the pain and cause the parts to heal without leaving a scar. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

An .aviation company, which is making pi stall with three machines, lias been formed at Hastings. The Mamiwatu Show was opened in boisterous weather yesterday. The Governor-General will visit the Shove to-morrow (People’s Day).

The weather throughout this district yesterday was very boisterous. During tho afternoon a thunderstorm was experienced, followed by hail. The weather \vas very cold. A good deal of damage was done to fruit and garden crops. At a meeting of the local Retailers’ Association yesterday morning it was decided not (o observe a holiday for the Palmerston Show. The hatchers, however, have decided to close to-morrow, hut other business pro ibises will be open as usual. Mr Leonard Cox, a porter, 30 years of age, a single man, on the Kkclaliuna railway staff, whilst shunting on Monday night, fell from the cowcatcher of the engine. He was ran over by a truck'. He died from internal injuries in the Pahiaina hospital the same evening. It wa.s only after a'keen debating contest that the Podding District High School Committee decided not to close the school for People's Day of the Manawaiu Show. Reduced a.Uemlance at the school on account of sickness ami (he. bad weather gave (be required weight to (lie side favouring im furl hoi’..interference with school work. • •

‘■‘There are some of you people who ure trying to make yourselves young millionaires, and my advice io you is to spend your money while you are here, it you don't spend it now, Bill Massey will got it when you die.” —Chairman Woods, speaking on labour and the cost of living, at a recent meeting of the Manawatu Drainage Board.

Two sewing machines, the property of jVlysdames Hamer and Hawke, which were on loan to the local Dorcas Society, wen; destroyed in Hie Council Chamber (ire. The owners of the machines have noli!ied (he Society that it need not make good the loss. The Society decided to forward letters of thanks and appreciation to Mesdames Hamer and Hawke for their generosity in lids connection.

A correspondent writes to tin; Otago Daily Times: “I saw a striking illustration of the suction power contained in the tentacles of an octopus. The Slmhrislan was preparing to steam away from the Victorian wharf, when I noticed an octopus on the Hat surface of one of ihe blades of the huge propeller which wa.s protruding very nine!; above the level of the water. As i!k propeller revolved I expected to see this monster washed off, Iml, to my amazement, it (dung on for at. ieasl five minutes before il relinquished its hold."

The Wanganui executive of Iho P.P.A. liave challenged Mi 1 Holland to prove (bat I lie agitation against the ‘iniquitous No Temerc decree was the work o(:‘ one man.’ or that his statement concerning - the Rev. Howard Idliioi 1 is not wholly unfounded. if Mr Holland can prove either of these statements “we will pay to the Wanganui Hospital the sum of £1.(10, provided that gentleman will do the same should lie fail. Similarly, on tin 1 same terms, we challenge Mr McCallum to prove ids unwarranted and. offensive statements concerning the Rev. AH Elliott." ■

A banquet in honour of returned soldiers was held at Taihape on Friday. The Chronicle, in concluding a long report of.the proceedings, says Unfortunately, after the banquet had keen in progress for ahout an hour and a-half proceedings were marred by a number of those present getting out of hand, owing to indulgence in an overabundant supply of alcoholic liquor. The speakers (o the later (oasts were practically inaudible in (he din which was kept up. and after fruitless appeals for order the gathering had to be terminated. It was a matter for regret that such a well-con-ceived effort to dodumour to the returned men should have been so misdirected.

The s.s. Kennedy is at present ashore jus) inside the bar. She left the wharf on Tuesday afternoon, fully loaded, for'Wellington, nnd in crossing the bar went ashore on the south spit. The heavy wind blowing forced her further ashore just inside the bar, and as a result she has lost one of the blades of the propeller, and broken the rudder. An attempt was made yesterday to get- the vessel off, but was unsuccessful, owing to the log to .which die line was made fast cutting through. To-day the weather is too rough to make any attempt at refloating her. The position the vessel is in is quite safe, and there is no danger of her receiving any further dfunage, and it is anticipated she will be got off as soon as the weather is suitable..

The following apology appears in a. contemporary: —“Mr O.*P. Skcrrett, acting for Mr Wyvern "Wilson, P.M., of Wanganui, has culled ©inattention to'the publication in the Wanganui Chronicle of a paragraph (copied from mf contemporary) which might ham been understood as referring to Air Wilson. We express our regret for the publication of the paragraph in question. We desire emphatically to say that the statements in it to which exceptidfi has been taken are quite devoid of foundation in fact; and, indeed,-eve said so when, some months ago, our attention was directed to the paragraph. We are sorry that the publication of- the paragraph should have caused annoyance or pain to Mr Wilson. —J. Ball, Editor of the Wanganui Chronicle.'’

Appoint moil is; and. promotions as per the teachers’ grading list is a, mixed hlossiag to Boards and Com-* miltees. Thcf Wanganui Board secretary in a communication to the Bedding District High School, in confirming an appointment, said “the grading list left the Board no option but to give an appointee this particular promotion!” „ Count von BornstoriT, formerly German ambassador at Washington, has assumed a new role, and turned lecturer, lie plans to 1 make a tour of the chief Gorman cities. lie starts at Crank furl in November, a ffd' will explain the relations of the United. States and Germany while he was in Washington.

Man is immensely ancient, and may oven antedate the mid-Tertiary period, says Mr Clement Wragge. Let the person who can prove that early man did not exist in Eocene times come forward. I say that man never evolved from the ape, and that the monkey was a “throwback” from man. Ardent evolutionist though 1 am, yet may the ghost of Darwin forgive mo! For ones I say that Darwin was wrong. The following returns of -notifiable diseases in town and country for October have been compiled by the District Health Officer; —Palmerston North: Diphtheria live, puerperal fever, pneumonia, tuberculosis and typhoid, one each. Tlorowhemia ; Diphtheria, typhoid, traehoma and puerperal fever, one each. Kairanga : Scarlet fever one. Levin : Pneumonia one. Bedding; Chickonpox two, scarlet fever one. Buxton: Puerperal fever one. Manawatii County: Tuberculosis three, opthalmia one. Orona ; Tuberculosis one.

“Many people say I lie world is getting worse,’’ said the Bev. \\. Elliott, at Auckland. “But it simply means that more sunlight is being let in. Our fathers never lived in.the glare like we are doing today. for there is no privacy now anywhere. We are all stripped hare, as "it were, and the world is able to lake knowledge of us. It is a true fact that men cannot hide their deeds nowadays, and the estimate of our character formed hy those with whom we associate is generally a t nth one.”

There is a grim humour —and apposileness—ahoiil the story recently told hy Governor Cox, the Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the l'nitod States, at a dinner of the New York Bankers’ Association. It concerned a certain hank president in Texas, who made a way with all (lie funds under his charge, and then posted on the door of Ids institution: “Bank suspended.” That night (said Mr Cox) he was interviewed hy a number of depositors, who left him hanging to a tree with this amended notice pinned to his breast: “Bank President suspended.”

An astounding instance of ignorance on (lyi part of a young mother is given in Progress, the new journal of the Great Northern Hospital. The mother recently brought her baby to the hospital suffering from convulsions, and was advised hy the doctor, in-the event of a similar attack. to put the baby into a bath of warm water. A few weeks later the mother again brought her child to the hospital, and the doctor discovered signs of the infant having been burned. It then appeared that tiie mother not having any warm water available at the moment, placed I lie baby in a bath of cold water which she put upon the (ire in order to bring the water to the necessary temperature.

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