NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2203, 16 November 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Massey: “As far as I am able to judge, there will be it tax on racing dubs,- including the totalisator, this year of £600,000 or more. I don’t think we can tax them any more than that at present.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has conchuh'd !iis lecturing season in Victoria, wliere keen public interest was aroused in his spiritualistic mission. Bookings for (lie hi’st Sydney lecture indicate similar interest. After the Australian tour he will visit New Zealand. All proceeds are to be devoted to istie propaganda. Sir Conan Doyle’s mission has roused the churches into an active anti-spiritualistic campaign.

“It seems to me/’ said Mr G. Sheat, at last week’s meeting of the Canterbury. Threshing MachineOwners’ Association, “that the Dominion will never have peace .till eight or ten legislators, half a shipload of agitators, and the rest of the cargo completed with discontents and disloyalists, are induced to leave these shores to found a new colony elsewhere. If this desirable event ever takes place, the cost of living will be immediately reduced, and a thanksgiving service might well be conducted the following Sunday in all the churches, the text suggested being, ‘And the laud had i peace.’ ”

Two young Natives, a boy anti a girl, were charged at the Police Court at Te Kuiti with having attempted to commit suicide at Te Kami. It was stated by the police that they had wanted to get married, but their parents objected because the girl was the aunt of the boy. The young couple disappeared, and left a message saying, “Good-bye; farewell,” and were found in the bush, having drunk some rabbit poison out of a tin. They were ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, and were also told not to see each other again.