LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2206, 23 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During Dr. MamlFs iemporary absence from Fox lon, Dr, Bryson, of Levin, will act as locum tenens.

The Sunday telephone service came inlo operation on Sunday last. The extension was much appreciated by subscribers.

The re-hearing of }he alleged perjury case again,'! F. S. Easton takes place at the sitting of the Wanganui Supreme Court this wt’ek.

Dr. .Mandl received a message from Auckland yesterday, announcing the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Mr 11. Picket t. Deceased was at one lime bank manager at Ivumara, and since his retirement has been residing in Auckland.

The railway working account for both Islands for the period April Ist to October .Kith is as follows; — Revenue ,0,399,1-15, expenditure .C2,8(54,1)99. The respective figures for the corresponding period last year were 0,792,0(41, and ,1.1,979,OKi.

Smart work by the Defence Department. —After a lapse of six and a-quarter years, a Feilding resident has just received a cheque for the balance of payment between territorial and expeditionary forces rate of pay on account of his son, now deceased. —Feilding Star.

One of the worm pieces of arterial road Tor motoring between lids district and Wanganui i> that portion Iron: the top of" I luy W angaehu hill to the Wanganui Borough boundary. The Manawalu and Hang!likei County roads are kepi in very good order by the inainlenanee stuffs.

Several local Masons motored to Wanganui yesterday, and were present at the constitution, consecration and dedication oi Bodge Wlmnganui. The ceremony was performed by Ihe (brand Master, MTV. tiro. Titos, Ross, and ollicers olVOrand Bodge. The installation of (he new W.M'. and investiture of his ollicers followed. Bodges were represented from the various provinces. Al the conclusion of the ceremonies a banquet was held, rft which the usual loyal and fraternal toasts were honoured.

A motor parly had a miraculous escape while driving to Pukeokahu (Taihape district j on Wednesday. Three straying horses were galloping'from (he opposite direction, and although Iwo passed the ear, the third took a leap at the ear and crashed through the wind screen. It cleared the two people in the front seat and landed on its back in the rear seal, pinning down the two occupants, who were badly knocked about. The injuries to the horse necessitated it being shot. Maoris are Hocking from the Main Trunk to Turakina to do honour to it- new prophet, Wirimu Hatana, who bases his beliefs on the New Testament, and who is an exponent of psycho-suggestion. In this Jailer branch of his art he is credited with two wonderful cures, both with well-known Te Kuiti natives. John Held, who lias been on crutches for twelve months, and Hand Paid, who Inis never walked without crutches for years, are walking about the streets of To Kuiti apparently hale again. The Railway Department is drawing a handsome revenue from the pilgrims. About a thousand have come from the King Country alone.

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 his backbone ought to have been.” Are ypu wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but 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.”*

Don’t miss the Tennis Club Benefit-, Town Hall to-morrow (Wednesday)/'' The weekly united religions service will bo hold in Ihe Methodist Church to-night, hy the Rev, T. Ilalliday. Yesterday the. llorowhenua County staff effected repairs to the Shannon bridge, and the structure is now open for ordinary Ira (lie. A rare visitor (reports the Palea Press) in the shape of a white heron, is at present to he seen in the swamp of (lie local domain. Torrential rain fell throughout this district on Saturday and. Sunday, and yesterday a tierce westerly gale was experienced. The rivers .are in a Hooded condition, hit I are rapidly falling. Mr .1. A. Nafd). M.P., has received advice from Viscount Jellicoc’s private secretary, conveying His Excellency's approval of the arrangements which have been made for his ■reception in Palmerston North at the end of this week.

The dead body of Mrs Margaret Moss was found at the foot of a cliff at. Tomahawk Head, Dunedin, yesterday. Deceased was the wife off Cornelius Moss, engineer, and was thirty years of age. She had been undergoing treatment for depression, following an illness.

With a new (loss printing machine and the necessary incidental equipment, our .Palmerston North morning contemporary, the Mahawatu Times, yesterday came out in permanently enlarged form as a twelve-page daily. M e heartily congratulate the Times on its progressive enterprise.

The president of the local Beautifying Society (Mr M. Perrcau), and another local member, visited Wanganui yesterday, and made a brief inspection of the excellent work done by the Wanganui Beautifying Society along the up river bank on both sides of the river, between the town and Aramoho, which inspired the idea that similar work could be done in certain localities on the local river bank.

At last night's meeting of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce, Mr L. 11. Collinson gave notice of mol ion :—“That the Chamber of Commerce move to have the name of Pa liners lon North changed to Manawatu.'' He said that till the most important husiness’es and societies in the city had adopted Manawaln in the registration of their names, and the post office officials had told him that it would a lot of confusion in their work. Mr •I. M, Johnston strongly supported Mr Collinson.' —Times.

While advocating that ministers’ stipends should lie u( (he rale of not less than ,C3OO a year. Professor Davies slated, at the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday, that In* had been informed on good authority that the purchasing value of the sovereign Avas now as low as ten shillings and nlnepcnce three-farlh-ings. "I may say,” he said, “lhal ministers are not in the ministry for Avlml they can gel out of it. If n minister really thinks so, then I think it is a case for medical examination.” ( Laughter.)

A serious accident, but fortunately one not fraught with fatal results, befel Kric Vautier, a boy of .15 years, and the son of Mr P, Vantier, of Palmerston North, til Whakaronga, on Thursday afternoon. The lad was riding his pony out of the local blacksmith's shop when a ■car coming from Ashhurst, driven by Miss Palmer, came full upon him, killing the horse and indicting severe injuries to the rider. The boy's right arm was deeply cut from elbow to wrist, severing an artery, and causing great Joss of blood. Miss Palmer also had her face cut through the smashing of the windscreen, and the car was damaged to a considerable extent.

Fame of the Maori faith-healer, Wiremu Palana, has spread over the North Island, and most of the trains running into Marlon bear a considerable Native contingent on the way to seek cures or alleviate curiosity. A large party came down from Rotorua and the Waikato by Friday night’s Auckland-M ellington express, and conspicuous on the platform at Marion Junction on Saturday morning were a number of the sick and halt, tired with the light of faith and hope. Among them was a singularly attractive young Maori girl, carried in the arms of a stalwart brother, wailing for the local train to lake them north to Katana. As the girl was obviously very ill", there was something pathetic in the last forlorn hope that faith might accomplish what medical science had failed to ,achieve. •

By a curious coincidence* (says the British Australasian), Lord Liverpool, on his way home from Now Zealand, passed his successor, LorS Jellicoe. outward hound. Speaking to his tenants, Lord Liverpool referred to the military effort of the Bominion during the laic war, and here we think that he,might have spoken with a little more enthusiasm than the reports of his speech give him credit for. From New Zealand, he is reported to have said, 98,000 men had gone oversea, “and, everything considered, the total was ;) fair proportion of the population.' 1 Such language is much too depreeiatory. New Zealand's population hardly exceeded a million; she sent nearly 10 per cent, of her population to the front, and for a new country to send this proportion of its people to u European wartwelve thousand miles away was really a magnificent performance unequalled by any other Dominion of the Empire. *

The family of a Welsh traction engine-driver, named Henry Jones, had to leave their bogie owing to ihe discovery of snakes. • In the nfrernonn, Mrs Jones found two log .-makes under ihe doormat, ayd three others, crawling under the dresser. She killed them all. On retiring to bed, two big snakes were found .under the baby's cradle. With considerable ditlicully these were also killed, hut .the family thought it unsafe to 'remain in...the i bouse.

While a taxicab containing a passenger was being driven along a Paris him levard, one of the tyres burst. The eliautlenr, without slopping ins eak, leaped info the road and made otl as fast as his legs could carry him. The eak was eventually brought up with a jerk against the kerb, and the fare steplied out safe and sound. On the advice of a policeman to whom he explained the incident, Ihe man went to the nearest police station, where to his astonishment, he found the driver, trembling and excited, explaining to the police that his fare had fired at him with a revolver, and lint! only his splendid presence of mind, combined with his agility in leaping from his cab, had saved him from being punctured with bullets.