Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2204, 18 November 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.Mr Edwin Pei>l, aged 7i) years, ;m old mid well-known resident oij Mastertou, committed suieide by hanging, on Tnesdny lasi.

Mr and'Mrs Marlin (grandparenls of Mi's 11. Perry, of Eoxton) eelebraled I heir diamond wedding ,m( Pahialua veslerdav.

A! lire Police Court at AVanganui on Monday, a dairyman named Kennel It May was lined i'll) and costs for selling milk containing added water.

A,n lamest man a.ml a small .advertisement wore -tiny I'aets whereby a losl sum of money of a (air denomination was restored to its owner (his week. Honesty and advertising are two good qualifies.

In llte Hamilton Magistrate’s Court,,a farmer named John Seoll, of Xewstead, was lined £IOO for failing to take adequate- steps to destroy rabbits. Evidence was given that valuable bind adjoining suffered through the depredations of rabbits from defendant's property.

The 1020 (Jeneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was opened in St. John’s Church, Wellington, on Tuesday evening. The retiring Moderator, the Rev. J. A. Asher, of Napier, installed the Moderator-Elect, the Rev. S. W. Currie, of Balchilha. The Assembly is being at tended by approximately 200 delegates fully representative of the Cltureh from all parts of the Dominion.

“What kind of weather is usually experienced in England during the month of November.''" asks a correspondent of The Post. -Meteorological records show that the general experience in the Old Country during this month is dull and foggy weather. Thomas Hood, the poet, however, gave a- more detailed description of weather conditions in the following lines: “No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,; no comfortable feel in any member: no shade, no shine, no butterliies, no bee>; no fruits, no ilowers, no leaves, no birds —November.”

“We slept in the scrub that night with ojjly one rug over myself and four children,” was the statement by a wife in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, when asking separation from her husband and maintenance. The wife stated that her husband came home, broke through the window, and threw everything out of the house. They slept that night in the scrub. Next morning she found her • clothes had been burned. Her husband tried to drag her into the house, but her son fetched the police, who took him into custody. Needless to say, a separation and maintenance order was issued.

'No fewer than 30 commercial travellers (‘ailed upon a Peikling business .man in one week this month, all eager to unload. —Star.

Wo have to thank a local resident i'ur a parcel of left-off clothing appealed for on behalf of a local deserving ease.

Heavy stocks of boots and slices are being sent from Australia to New Zealand, say the Dunedin Star. They are of all grades. The Australians are seriously over-stocked. It is sai.d that this dnloading upon New Zealand has already brought about a reduction of prices in Wellington. Three respectably dressed hoys, just in their teens, were each ordered six strokes of the birch, by the Wanganui magistrate. They' bad been in (lie habit of visiting Lee Chong and teaching him English, but the'celestial found (bat his youthful tutors had relieved him of £l4.

The London correspondent of (he Dost stales that of congratulation was sent by Viscount •Jellicoe to an elderly relative, Miss Grace Emily Gardiner, of Kownham, near Southampton, who celebrated her 105th birthday recently. She was horn in the year of the Battle of Waterloo, and, although bedridden, is'still very bright.

The Minister of Internal Affairs stales (hat the census has been fixed f‘> be taken on Sunday night, April 17th next. A few hew. questions have been added. • Information is .'■ought as to the number of orphans under sixteen years of age. and the number of children under sixteen, dependent bn each man. Particulars are asked as to the amount of life insurance carried in each case, and (be birthplace of the father.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, ex-High •Commissioner Cor N'ew Zealand, reached Wellington aboard I lie Reumera on Tuesday. .After retiring 1 from the High Gommissionership. Kir Thomas accepted a trade mission to the 1 .’idled Slates on behalf of the Xew Zealand Government, and he has a report to present, to I lie Government. In the course of a brief conversation, lie indicated that lie would have something It) say shortly regarding Xew Zealand produce'and other matters of interest to the people of this country.

Mi's E. S. Symons, a well-known and highly-respected identity of this eoasl (says the Otaki Mail) passed away at the residence of her daughter, Mrs R. Gobi), Otaki, on Saturday evening, after a short illness. She mi me to lids colony in 18dt), and settled in '.Wanganui, where she resided for a few years. Afterwards she look up tier residence at Foxton, where she lived for a considerable period. Here her husband died. .Mrs Symons, who was of a most loving disposition, was (he mother of Mr G. Evans, of Eeilding.

As illusli’iit injr the growth and ex-’ pansion of Auckland, I lie Mayor, Mr J. FI. Gun.-on, (|uoled some figures at I lie supper tendered by the City Council to Mr A. d. Entrican. lie said that when Mr Entrican (irsi joined the council, in 1898. the population of the city was 37,090, while 10-day il was (18,00(1 Ihe area of the city wa> .1,700 acres, against 7,300 acres; (he annual ratable value of (he city was £313,000, as against £1,250,(UK) (o-day; the revenue was

only £03,000, as compared with £783,000 lasi year, and an estimated total of £1,000,000 this year.

Last Friday was the eighth anniversary of the discovery of the bodies of Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson, and Lieutenant Bowers, the last surviving members of the British Antarctic expedition, who, after reaching the South Pole on January 10th, 1912, met with disaster, owing' In terrible blizzards, after starling on Aheir return journey. Pdty-Of-ticcr Evans died 'on February .171 h, and Captain Oates on March I.7th, the latter leaving his lent to meet Ids death in a blizzard, hoping (hereby to give his three comrades a better chance. Captain Scott's last, diary entry was dated March 25th. The bodies were found by a search parly on November 12th. The news of (lie tragedy'was brought-to New Zealand by the Terra Nova, which arrived al Oamaru on February 10th, 1913.

In a share-milking dispute til Te Aroha a sharcmilker entered into an agreement by which he would receive two-lifths of all payments for milk, cream or butterfat. The farmery employer received £42 as a shareholder's bonus for butterfat supplied to the New Zealand Dairy Association’s Manawaru factory. Ho. contended that this payment was not a bonus, but actually a dividend. The sharomilker claimed two-lifths of that amount. The magistrate gave judgment for flic amount claimed, with costs £7 Gs. In evidence it Wiis shown that the defendant was not actually a shareholder of the dairy company, but was paid as though he were a shareholder at the rate of Ifd per lb. butterfat more than other non-shareholders received. The magistrate held that the payment was actually a bonus within the meaning of the clause in the agreement between the parties. THE MOTHERS’ FAVOURITE. There is'no better medicine for babies than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Its pleasant taste, prompt and effectual relief make it a favourite with the mothers of small children. It quickly relieves their coughs and colds, and prevents serioufe consequences. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will ward off’ an attack of croup if given at the first symptom. For sale everywhere.— Advt.

The Evans-Jamito light at tlio Town Hall to-night.*

The ■ local Methodist Sunday School Anniversary Services will be held on Sunday, the 28th instant.

“A Sporting Chance," the Paramount Artcraft special, will he screened at the Town Hall on Saturday next. !

The Presbyterian Ladies’ Sochi I Guild intend holding :i garden party at an early date in aid of the orphanage funds. s At a meeting of the members of the local Croquet Club,- held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to affiliate with the recently formed Manawatn Croquet Association.

An elderly woman named Mary Moore, who keeps a soli drinks shop in Auckland, was lined £SO last week for siy grog •selling. She made the mistake of Selling a bottle of beer to a plain-clothes constable.

A very pretty wedding was solemnised' at St. Aidan s Church, Tokoniaru, on October 20lh, when Miss Phyllis Whyte, of Tukoinarn, was married to Mr Joseph 11. P. Liggins “Ashlea,” Tokomavu. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. C.. Abbott, vicar of Shannon.

The monthly silting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held to-morrow. The cases set down for hearing included nine charges for being illegally on ‘licensed premises, nine against persons for riding bicycles at night without lights, two defended civil cases, live judgment summonses, and several • underended civil cases.

One of the largest train robberies in the history of the Lnited Stales is reported from Omaha. The bandits escaped with gold, currency, and jewels valued at between a million and two million dollars. The train was on (he way to New Wirk from San Francisco, and it is understood was carrying gold from (he Lnited Slates mint at San Francisco.

Many people will be interested in the reason given by Mr Black' for the failure which so often attends an effort to transplant native trees. It was very necessary, he said, when removing the trees from their natural surroundings to cover the roots with damp moss, as the roots of: native trees, if exposed to the light for any length of time, would die. Mr Black' also said that when transplanting a native tree it was a good idea, if the tree was very high, to cut off the lop. The time to plan! a native tree was either Just before the period of active growth ceases (autumn) or just before It starts (spring). A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a. good man lias failed because' he had his wishbone where Ids backbone ought to have been,” Are yon wishing for more business, but .lack the winning?. Advertising is a sure enough Avinner, but it needs backbone in the man direeling it. Advertising doesn’t lining results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the lime. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just uow the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an unvorti.sement in “The Manawatu Herald.’’*

Much sympathy will he fell for Air William Hughes, until recently manager of the Bank of Australasia iu Levin, ami previously on I lie ■staff of the Bank in Palmerston North, in the sad death of his Avife at Temuka on JVlonduy. Only a short time ago Air Hughes was transferred to the southern township to manage the Bank's business there. The late Airs Hughes Aims an earnest Avorker of the Presbyterian Church, and during their residence in Palmerston North and Levin made many friendships. Besides her husband, deceased leaves three young children. In his charge of the Brand Jury at the Supreme Court at Auckland, the Chief .Justice (Sir Hubert Stout) staled that the attitude of the authorities towards (-rime and criminals had greatly changed in recent: years. It avus now recognised that the large majority of criminals suf-’ fered from some mental deficiency—among sexual offenders many Avere suffering from the sins of their forefathers. In regard to punishment, the old idea of “an eye for an eye, and a tooHi for a tooth’'' had been superseded by the idea of restraint and reformatimi. He was glad to say that the new methods were showing good results, and of offenders admitted to probation 1)2 per cent, were doing Avell, while the percentage of cases in Avliich reformative treatment had been successful was 70.

The. lota! funds of ihftManawatu Patriotic Society amount to £04,815 7> (id. which includes the sum inve.-Jed in the Soldiers' Chib. This announcement was made by Mr J..A. Xasli, M.P., at a meeting of tlie Society in Palmerston North on Monday., The amount paid during the past year for the relief of soldiers (including clothing allowance) and dependents totalled £5,019 2s, and, in addition, grants were made to institutions doing soldiers' work, and regular supplies of cigarettes, fruit, etc., were sent to soldiers and those pas-dug through by train to other districts. The following were elected an executive committee for the ensuing year; —Messrs J. A. Nash, \V. Blackmore, M. Cohen, F. H. Cooke, T. 1C Trench, A, J, Graham, T. R. Hodder, E. H. Crabb, J. M. Johnston, J. Linklater, 0. Monrad, J. Strang, S. R. Lancaster, A. Mathieson, P. A. M’Hardy, E. Akers, J. A. M’Leavey, J. H. Stevens, D. P. Jones, and B. J. Jacobs.

The Rongotea. Horticultural Society’s Show, which was to have been held on the ‘241 h and 25th of tins mouth, has been postponed until December Ist and 2nd.

The death Occurred at 34 a sled or, yesterday afternoon, from a heart seizure, of Alexander Wilson Hogg, for twenty-three years representative of Masteilon in Parliament, and for a period he was also Minister of Public Works in the Ward Ministry. Deceased was seventylive years of age, and had been ailing' tor some time. He leaves a widow and four daughters, one of whom is Mrs Wainwrighl, late of Foxton.

An unusual incident occurred in the Auckland Supreme Court on Friday, at the conclusion of a case in which a young man was charged with cattle-stealing. When the jury delivered a verdh4 of not guilty an emphatic “Hear, hear,” came from the body of the Court. “Arrest that man,” ordered the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, hut the police were unable to locate the owner of the offending voice. His Honour remarked that if the offender had been identified he would have been sent to gaol. “Only on one occasion have I had to deal with an offence of this nature,” aded jsir Robert, “and I sent a man in a good position to gaol for if. 1 will not have the Court turned into a theatre.”

Whilst encased in historical research work in Sydney, the Kev. M. ,A. Rugby Pratt found the original’ manuscript notes of the leciturcs and addresses on New Zealand that were given in England by the Kev. Samuel Leigh when advocating the establishment of a Methodist mission to the Maoris. This mission was subsequently startml by Mr Leigh in 1822. Mr Pratt also located and made extracts from the original manuscript journal of the Kev. lames Watkin, who was the first missionary to the South Island of New Zealand. The journal covers the first four years of the work of the pioneer, missionary, and throws much light on early conditions of .Maori and whaling life in Otago.

A press telegram from New Plymouth announces the death of Mr Henry Weston, proprietor of the Taranaki Herald since 1807. The late Mr ■'Weston, who was born in England, was about 83 years of age. He came with his parents (o New Zealand in 1850, and the family settled in New Plymouth. For some years he engaged in commercial pursuits, and then acquired the Taranaki Herald, later establishing in connection therewith The Budget a weekly journal. He leaves a widow, hut no children. His brothers, Mr T. S. Weston and Mr Warwick Weston, predeceased him. Messrs T. S. Weston (Wellington), Claude 11. Weston (New Plymouth), \V. ('. Weston (manager of the Taranaki Herald), and George Weston (Christchurch) are nephews of (he deceased gentleman.

Wry complimentary reference was made by Cr. hk 11. Crabb, at the Palmerston Borough Council mooting on Tuesday evening to the good work the Mayor (Mr d. A. Nash, M..P.,) haul accomplished for the UiAvn during the last session of: Parliament. It Avas not saying too much to say that the town iiad never been so well represented as it had been by Mr Nash, and at no time had it received a quicker response to its requests in matters requiring the attention of the member. He moved a very hearty vote of thanks to tile Mayor for his work. —Cr, hi. L Broad said that Palmerston N. was to be congratulated mi having such an indefatigable member. They had never had a man who showed sued i an interest in the loavii ipid district as (he Mayor had shown during his short period in olliee. Tin; motion was carried unanimously, and the Mayor briefly returned thanks. —Times.