Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB. 6, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2199, 6 November 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB. 6, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large number of local people attended the (Show at Palmerston Vos lc rd a v.

The filial estimated population of the-Dominion “on 30(h September last was 1.24!), /jo!)—males' (Hi.-!,7.12, females (11d,847.

A. very heavy gale, accompanied In' heavy showers of rain, was experienced throughout Ibis district last night.

The death occurred recently ai Manchester, England, of Mr Alexander Owen, the noted* bandmaster and conductor of the Besses-o’-lhe-Barn Band.

The town presented a somewhat deserted appearance yesterday, and very little business was done by local storekeepers, who did not observe (lie holiday for People's Day at the Show this vear.

Europe is delighted to learn that Paderewski, who lavished his talents and prvate fortune for his native land only to learn the meaning of ingratitude, has again a prospect of becoming immensely rich by Hie discovery of oil on bis Canadian estate.

In view of the great success which attended the recent vaudeville interlude introduced here, Mr Reid has made further arrangements to bring more up-to-date acts to Foxton. . On Wednesday next Fred Holland. a most versatile instrumentalist, will present a musical melange, ranging from grain! opera numbers to ragtime and jazz selections, on the saxaphoac, trombone, banjo, cello, mandolin and ocarina.

British gas undertakings'aye. leading the way in the sale of gas on a .scientific basis. Henceforward, instead of selling gas at so much per thousand cubic feet, they will sell it according to its heating value. A new unit, christened the “therm,” will he used for this purpo.se. A therm is eipurulent to one hundred thousand British thermal units. Consumers will now pay something like lid per therm. The pressure of gas will he carefully regulated under penalties.

The courage of the men df the merchant marine was mentioned by the Rev. Cowle in his address at the “Jack Tar Market" in Auckland. During the war Irff came across a man who had Seen on five ships, each of which had been torpedoed, and was then shipping on the sixth. When he commented upon thisy the man said.: “Oh well, sir, we must keep going or the women and children will starve.” It was for these men he pleaded; for better accommodation ashore /ind afloat.

Yesterday was Gay Pa wires I) >y, ami t!io Youngsters celebrated the event by lighting bonfires and letting off fireworks last night.

The proficiency examination for St. VI. pupils will be held on Thursday next. Fourteen pupils from outside schools will sit with local pupils. All classes below St. VI. will not be required to attend school on-tlie above date.

"Mr Ij. F. de Berry, of Marlon, who has been appointed headmaster of Catbpbell Street School, will take up the latter duties on Ist February of next year. Mr F. A. Bates, at present first assistant at College, Street School, will assume the ■headmastership at Mail:on on the same date.

“In view of the great amount of profiteering going on in.tlie Dominion at the present time,” tlr W. D. Powdreli (Patea) gave notice to ask the Prime Minister whether he would introduce legislation making it compulsory to mark in plain figures t lie price 'at which they wore purchased, on all goods exposed for sale.

An unprecedentedly severe, electrical storm struck Mangaweka on Wednesday eveniifg. Many telephone connections were fused, the electric light installation was damaged, and the (own was plunged into darkness. One electric explosion was so severe (liar several windows were smashed by the concussion. The residents for a lime were greatly alarmed.

In some parts of the Dominion the cold op iho winter lias made a shortage in feed, Iml the Wairarapa Ims lieen fortunate* in lids respect. Plenty of rain suits the land. The lamb inf? lias been particularly good, some farmers saying it constitutes :t record. Peed is abundant, and the grass has come away so well (hat a shortage during the summer is not- likely to occur.

“Forty-six years ago i could put all my worldly possessions in a carpel bag. All my life I have' been working on bank overdraft —on other people’s money —and it is to that I owe my success,” says the lion, .loynlon Smith, M.L.G., of Sydney. .Now he owns big hotels, lacecourses, terraces, and has a good deal of money invested in "War and Peace Loans —he pul £20,000 in the last (wo Peace Loans.

Quite a vivid idea of liberty and its necoss'ary curtailment was given by Mr -L It. Hamilton (Awivrua), in the -Marriage Bill debate in the

House on Thursday night. “If I were to hit the member for Christchurch North on the nose, he would (jiiickly tell me that niy liberty ended where his nose began. The liberty of Adam and Eve was curtailed in Ihe Ha rdei/of Eden. And," added Mr Hamilton when the laughter had subsided, “it is just as well that the liberty of some persons is curtailed.”

“•Vy* experience of the coal miner is that he is a good fellow," said the Hon. E. W. Alison, in the Legislative Council. *■] have never met the representatives of a union on a single occasion on which we have not been able to come to a satisfactory selll'emcnt. The difficulty has always arisen when the-federation has interfered. That has always been (lie trouble. We have a very lino body of miners, and if they were only properly led there wotdd not be all the difficulties and (he troubles that we have had from time to lime.” “Why should New Zealand’s careful and thrifty housewives be prevented from gelling it good, wholesome and palatable substitute for butler when sueh an article is procurable in all-other civilised countries ” Such was the puery propounded to the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce by Messrs A. Busek, in a letter asking support for repeal of the margarine laws in view of the high price of butler. It was stated that a margarine works was about to be started in Auckland. The mailer was referred to the dairy committee.

Tlu* Loudon Times correspondent al Paris slates Hml a deathbed conressiou has (mused a sensalion in Paris, and lias resulted in (he arrest of two 'men and two women who were implicated in a huge robbery oi' German nmrks, winch were bought by the Government from refugees and Alsatians at the pre-war rate of exchange. A former lover of one of the women was the informant. He said-: “I cannot die with a'clear conscience unless 1 tell all. In September, 191!), 3,000,000 marks were stolen from the army post otiice,. and they don't realise it yet." The marks were stored in sacks in the Treasury, and were carried away among a lot of rubbish.

The deutli occurred at Butiki, Wanganui, lasi Saturday, of Hori Kerei (George Grey), a Maori War veteran, aged ninety-four. As a young man lie was on the stall' of (he late Sir Gedrge Grey when Governor of Now Zealand, and held the position of native aide-de-camp. At that time he held a commission in the New Zealand Defence Forces, his rank being that of an ensign. He remained with Sir George Grey until the end of his term of Governorship. In 1862 or, 1866 Hori returned to Wanganui, and in 1868, when - the-. Native trouble began on this coast, he joined the “Kupapas” (Native Contingent'), serving as an officer under Major Kemp, who was the officer in charge of: that Contingent. The deceased was on active service with this contingent, serving under the lute Colonel T. M’Donnell up this coast at Te. Ngutu o te Mann and other plages, also on the East Coast, Taupo district, and within a short distance of Tauranga. For these services he received the New Zealand War Jledal.

Tlfe scow Echo is expected with a general ■ cargo.from. Wellington on Tuesday or Wednesday next. '

Seventy-seven divorce eases have been set down fur hearing at ’the Supreme Court sessions which begins at Auckland on Monday.

At Auckland on Thursday, Mary Wright, a eortilieated nurse, was awarded £350 damages against Charles William Dennis, a builder, for breach of promise. Albert Edward Thompson, farm labourer, aged 50, was drowned at the portage at Marlborough. Sounds on Thursday, through falling Into the water between the steamer and the wharf.

Robert and dames Flanagan, (‘barged at Palmerston with assaulting a Chinese storekeeper and damaging fruit, were each lined £5 and

ordered to make good the damage, in default one month’s imprison-'’ me nt.

The wholesale softgoods houses of Sydney are reducing prices by 15 to 20 per cent, in Manchester goods, cotton, and woollens. It is explained that there has been a fallmg-yfr in demand, and holders are,anxious to reduce slocks.

Power is proposed to be given municipalities and borough councils, under a new clause added to the Municipal Corporations Bill, to raise, special loans for tin* improvement and development of endowments and reserves.

Referring to further elnims fur higher salaries for Civil Servants in the House, the Premier said; “1 want (o (ell the House quite plainly that I eannot possibly go further. 1 may say that the linaneial outlook is not nearly so good as three or four weeks ago.” “We have missed the ehanee of elosing this week,” said the Prime Minister in the House of Represent tatives on Thursday night. “That is perfectly certain, and J don't care if i have to spend another week here to get the • business of Parliament linished properly. There has been no rushing this session.”

Hortieiihurisls avIII be inlereSled in the following dates of tloAver slum's, to be held within the next month or (wo; —Marlon, November Kith and 17th; Otuki, November l!)lh; Hastings, November 10th; Levin, November 23rd; Bulls, - November 2 llii; Lower Hull, November 25th; Wanganui, November 20lb; Ash hurst, December Ist; Eeilding, December 10th. Advertisements (stales the Post’s Loudon correspondent) appear in the principal newspapers, calling for suitable applicants for the positions of Director of: Education in New Zealand and Professor of English Language and Literature, I Diversity of Otago. Ju addition, the Auckland University College invites applications for the Chair of Mental tptd Moral Philosophy, for the Chair of Physics, the Lectureship in Civil Engineering, and the Lectureship iit Electrical Engineering. The Australian Government has given a large order to (he AngloPcrsian Oil Company, Avhich is putting up.a large oil relincry in Australia, and supplying cheaper oil lo Australia than any in Ncav Zealand, slated -Dr. Newman in the House. Would the President of the Board of Trade see if cheaper oil could not be. supplied to Ncav Zea*land through this company? The Hon. Mr E. P. Lee promised (o haA r e the matter looked into.

‘‘Margarine is all right wheir it is coloured, hut it does not appeal when served quite while.” said Mr Bernard Tripp, who has just returned from England. “I ate nothing else I lie whoje time I was there, and never found it different from butler —except in price. Butter ranged from 4s to 5s per lb. retail, and good margarine could he bought for Is 3d per lb. In England it is legal to colour margarine, and being beautifully made, I would defy anyone. to lell the difference between margarine and butter.” In an editorial article headed “The Vicious Circle," the New Zealand Times says; It is high lime to end the vicious circle* of wages and prices. The mainspring of this perpetual* motion towards disaster is that provision of the law which compels the Court of Arbitration to be added to its vfages awards periodically according to the official statistical reports of the rise in the price of necessaries.- The latest move is the addition by the court of nine shillings a week to Us awarcls because of the las! report of increased prices by the Statistician. The legal provision thus obeyed brings the. country appreciably nearer to disaster. •

There is now n steady output of coal from the Waikato mines (reports the New Zealand Herald). The Taupiri Company’s Extended and Jlolowaro mines have %een working sinee 7lh October, and a normal output of 1,000 tons a clay from these mines is now being maintained. The total amount of coal made available to the public from this source since the strike was declared off is about 19,400 tons. Work was resumed at the Pukemiro mine last week. A full complementof miners was not available, nor has the mine yet been fully manned. The normal output from this mine is 500 ions a day, but up to the present the daily average has been 350 tons, the total to date being approximately 1,900 tons. The company expects shortly to have the mine working at its full capacity. During the last 21 clays 21,300 tons of coal have been won from the Waikato mines, but this has not been sufficient to meet requirements, and the community is dependent very largely upon supplies from outside sources.

Sir Arthur Comm Doyle is expected to arrive in Auckland on December 6th.

At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, Cyril Clarence Beazley pleaded guilty to attempting to procure a noxious thing, knowing the same was to be used for an unlawful purpose, and was tiued £25.

The local Methodist Ladles’ Guild will hold a jumble sale in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday, 17th instant, afternoon and evening. Full particulars will appear in a later issue. A meeting of the committee of the -Hamilton Railway Officers’ branch passed a resolution that the time has arrived to approach the Government for £3O bonus to compensate partially for the increased cost .of living. The greatest depths of the ocean, about six miles, are a little greater Ilian the highest mountain on land, and Sir John Murray, of the Cba!-' longer Expedition, Ims ealenMed that if all the laud were washed down into the sea the whole globe would bo covered by an ocean averaging about two miles in depth.

The circus tent used by Scott Bunlap, director of Miss Shirley Mason’s first William Fox feature, “Her'Elephant Man,” is said to be one of the sensations Of the .screen, .it is the biggest tent ever shown in a motion picture-—a standard .threering tent 'with sure-enough circus stunts done in all three rings. ’’At the Royal on Monday evening.*

A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference botAveen wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because hehad his Avishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you Avishing for more business, but lack (he Avinningf Advertising is a sure enough Avinner, 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 hunting business lusts all the year round, but just uoav the game is particularly Avell Avorth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The MaiuiAvatu Herald.”*

In March, 15)15, Harry Morris, a jeweller of HaAvera, mysteriously disappeared, and all trace of him was lost. He left llawera for Wellington on business and nothing furtlter avus heard of him, though inquiries Avere made in Ncav Zealand and Australia. Mrs Ettic Morris, his wife, has uoav received news of his death on September 29th at Caulfield Military Hospital. It appears that Morris volunteered Avith the A.I.P. in July, 1915, and served through the war. Just before fye died he made kuoAvn to a Jewish chaplain his identity. Deceased had expressed a desire lo partake in the Avar. He avus most enthusiastic in the formation of the local defence

corps.. For some years he was a borough Councillor.

The death i- report eel of the celebrated i’£iciiij? sire Advance, and recalls an episode in the life of-his breeder, the !ale Donald Fraser, of Rangitikci. When Advance was at the height of his career his quaint old Scottish owner unsuccessfully contested the Rangitikci seat, and at a dinner given to celebrate the opening of a new post office at Dulls, was congratulated upon being the owner of a Chi]) winner, hut was also chaffed somewhat severely by an ex-Premier for having changed Ids political party adherence. The reply came in characteristic bluff fashion, sharply, and to the point, “1 wad rather breed another horse like Advance than he Premier of this colony, an” what’s more, I’d rather be a live, farmer than a dead Premier any day." Curiously enough, Advance’s pedigree was deemed to have ,a missing Hide on his chan’s side. ■

Speaking in the House of Representatives, the lion. A. T. Ngala said it had been whispered that (he present Minister* of Native \\ (fairs (Sir W. 11. Merries) might not he holding that portfolio next session, and he wished to record his high appreciation of Sir Wm. Merries’ work for the natives. At one lime he had thought the Minister’s policy cold and callous, hut in recent years he had revealed a spirit of justice and mercy in dealing with native affairs that evoked the inspect of the natives. The Hon. Xgata said he hoped Sir Wm. Merries would see his way to retain the portfolio. He concluded hy hoping that the consolidation of the native land laws would he completed al an early date. Sir W. H. Merries said he hoped tin; legislation passed during Ids term of office, providing among other things for the establishment of a Native Public Trust Office, would do a great deal towards clearing up many of (he difficulties connected with native affairs. Jlo believed he could leave a “clean sheef’if he retired from office. He also referred to the visit of the Prince of Wales, who had expressed his great appreciation of the wonderful welcome given him hy the natives. He (Mr Merries) wished to thank the native members, Sir James Carroll, and .other native leaders, for "the line assistance they had given him in this connection. NEEDS ASSISTANCE.

The stomach is -,\ most delicate organ, and often in the strongest person it needs assistance in order to keep it clean and healthy. This assistance can be given by taking Chamberlain’s Tablets. There is no preparation in the world equal to Chamberlain’s Tablets for correcting disorders of the stomacji and bowels. For sale everywhere.—Ad.

Bill Hart in “Hell,V Hinges,” at the Royal to-night.

The death occurred at Levin on •Thursday of the well-known farmex’, Archibald Gi’ay, of lhakara, near Levin, under circumstances which point strongly to suicide. He left his house with the intention of catching a horse to drive to Levin, but shortly after a shot was heard, and Gi’ay was found dead in the orchard with a bullet wound in his head, and a revolver by bis side. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned.

Fifteen tons of tabic potatoes in a pit were sold on Friday at a clearing sale at Christ church tor 10s, and seven and a-half tons in a pit on the same property were sold folios. The purchaser was (he man who bought the farm. -There were not other bidders, as it was stated that after bagging them and.carting them there would be nothing in them for the buyer. The sale took place at Russley Hoad, not five miles from Christchurch.

“Can a hospital hoard take shares in a dairy factory.'” was the question which cropped up at the Cook Hospital Board’s meeting at Gisborne last week, wheij the Farm Committee reported that •the surplus over the milk supply to .the hospital was being separated and •sent to the factory. It was a question as to whether or not the hoard should lake shares in the factory the farm was then supplying- to, so as to secure the bonus of 2d per lh., or supply it to the other factory and secure a belter price for it. it was decided that the chairman and secretary should go into the question, and see whether the farm could take shares in the factory and thereby benefit by the bonus and other privileges.

Mr Carr, President of the Wellington (Chamber of Commerce, made pointed reference to tin 1 grading of butter. When the buttei> producing' industry was in its infanev in New Zealand, he said, the

Government set up a grading system, with the result that the product exported Imre the hall-mark of the !Noav Zealand Government, and today New Zealand hut ter had a reputation second to none in the world. The producer to-day was getting the whole of the benelit, but

Avas it not reasonable to ask that those who got the benefit of that hall-mark should pay for it. He Avas informed that at present the wholc*of the expense of the grading system Avas borne not by the producer, but by the peopje of New Zealand. He believed it was necessary to give a helping hand to the industry at the commencement, but in regard to butter he asked Avhether the time had not now arrived when the producer should pay the expense of grading his produce, from which he derived the whole heneiil.

The Leichhardt (N.S.W.) police .had reported to them on 14 Hi ult. a case in which a man was so amused at the present high prices compared with (hose ruling a few years hack that he burst into laughter, and kept it up till it affected Ins heart, and he died. The man, reports the Sydney Sun, was Mr Arthur Cobcrofl, a well known trainer of coursing dogs, who lived in Lottus Street, near Foster Street, Leichardl. He was 50 years of age. He was looking over a Sun of 3 915, and began to read some of the advertisements. “Sheeting Is Id a yard,’’ he read. “That sounds pretty cheap.” “Yes, that’s live years ago,’’ said his wife. “You can’t get decent sheeting now for less than 8s 6d a yard.” Then Mr Cobcrofl turned to 'curtains. “Fight shillings and sixpence to 10s (Jd for curtains,” he said. “1 suppose they’re about 21s-now'.” They were the last words he spoke. Immediately he burst into laughter, and all efforts of his wife and little child to stop him were, futile. Eventually he sank down and died. Dr Nixon subsequently 1 announced that death was due to heart failure, following on the strain of excessive laughter.