LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2207, 25 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There Avas a largo attendance at the Toavh Hall last night at the picture benefit entertainment in aid of the funds of the local Tennis Club. The body of an unknoAvn man, apparently middle-aged, Avas found on the property of Mr Hugh Morrison, Awatbiioi, Masterton, on Tuesday. Deceased Avas evidently a swagger.

A meeting of the Fuxton Harbour Board is convened for Monday, 29th inst., at 3.30 p.m., at the Council Chambers, Palmerston North. Business: Important.

The annual conference of the Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand opened in Wellington yesterday morning, Mr Walter Gow (Dunedin) presiding. The Poxton delegates are the Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) and Mr Barr .(president of the local Chamber).

Fred Holland, , the 'vaudeville ■musician who was a big success at the Town Hall recently, will make a return farewell appearance on Monday next, introducing new instruments and items..

The Rhodes’ Scholarship Selection Committee met at Wellington on Tuesday, the Governor-General presiding. Two scholarships were awarded as follows: For 1920, N. T. L. Airey, of Auckland; for 1921, H. J. Ryburn, of Otago. Both the successful candidales are returned soldiers. /

The heavy frosts in parts of the South' Island have caused orch'ardists to have an anxious time. Some fruit growers, more especially I lie smaller ones, have nightly taken the precaution to project their trees. In order to do so, every portion of the family wardrobe has been (-ailed into requisition.

We hear of profiteering in many classes'of trade, bn I have not heard of a ease ,as yet in -the nurserymaids business. It is reported that a Palmerston nurseryman is to appear before the court shortly on a charge of profiteering, it being alleged that he charged a client about double the recognised scale of prices for rose (rees supplied.—Olaki Mail.

The Grand Master of the N.Z. Masonic Grand Lodge (M.W. Bro. Thomas Ross), accompanied. by Grand Lodge officers, paid a formal visit to the local lodge, while pa-s----ing through Iho (own yesterday afternoon. The Grand Master expressed his pleasure at meeting the brethren personally, anti briefly addressed them on matters of interest to the craft.

A returned soldier, John Amos, whilst working in the bush at the Mangapnrua Soldiers’ Settlement, Wanganui River, foil on a sharp :-upp!ejaek stake, which entered the abdomen and pierced the internal organs. The injured man was brought to Wanganui by the river boat, a distance of 70 miles, and taken lo the hospital, where an operation was performed. His condition has slightly improved.

A correspondent writes to tiic Palmerston Standard: “If the people of Balls are genuinely desirous of shortening the distance to Levin, 1 suggest (heir deviation should start from Kakariki, going past Sir J. G, Wilson's old woolshedt 1 don’t know if it is still there),-, direct to Sandon. This route would get to Sandon at about four miles, as a.gainst eight miles via Bulls, and would cut out the expensive bridge required at 'Bulls. Approximate saving, about £100,()U0.”

The value of building permits issued for the year 1919-20 in Palmerston .North was £148.(159, while for the first six, months of I lie present year the value was £133,193. In ((noting (hose figures at the annual meeting of. the Chamber of: Commerce, Mho retiring presided! (Mr E. 11. Crabb) referred to the importance of the town as a railway centre, staling that on'the average (13 trains passed through per day.

A charge of having wilfully mingled with Hie public while she was suffering from scarlet fever was admitted at the Auckland police Court hy a young 1 woman, Elsie Babich. It was staled that defendant had gone to the Auckland Hospital for tin operation. A rash was. noticed on her body, and she was placed in isolation for observation. She left the hospital the same day, without permission, and wont to her home at Henderson. She was convicted and lined £2, with costs 11s.

“The infusion of the Native race in New Zealand with the Hindu has begun,” remarked "i Presbyterian missionary at Saturday’s sitting ol (he General Assembly. “How do I knoAV? Well, I have officiated at the first wedding between a Maori woman and a Hindu. It has started properly. Just what sort of success i( N going lo he, however, 1 cannot tell.” The speaker added thiil. the possibility of an infusion of these two races called for serious consideration.

in the ease in Avhieh Thomas Richard Quinn and James Albert North Avere tried at the Auckland Supreme Court on Tuesday, on a charge of stealing £4 and falling to make the necessary book-keeping entries while they Avere employed as lotalisainr clerks at the Avondale races on 2nd October, the. jury failed lo reach an agreement, and a mcav trial was ordered the following' morning. On this occasion the jury, after an hour’s retirement, brought in a verdict of not guilty, and'accused Avere discharged.

There passed away at Rongotea on .Monday afternoon a very esteemed and respected resident of that toAvnship in the person of Mrs Sarah Maria Glover, Avil'e of Mr J, C. Glover, The 'deceased lady was a native of Birmingham, England, and-came to the Dominion Avitli her parents 43 years ago. After a short residence at Napier, Avhere the family landed, they removed to Bulls, Avhere Mr and Mrs Glover’s Avedding took place, and the then neAvly-marricd couple resided there for upwards of 10 years. Thirty -years ago Mr and Mrs Glover took up their residence of Rongotea. Until her long and trying illness (lasting over .10 years) overtook her, Mrs Glover had been a keen Avorker in ,all branches of Christian Avork, and her Avide circle of friends A\ill regret to hear- of her demise.. Her illness avrs borne with a marked fortitude. Besides her husband, deceased leaves four sons and three daughters, avlio Avill have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.

The Headmaster of the heal State School wishes to acknowledge with thanks a donation to ‘the school museum bv Mr E. Healev.

A woman sentenced to imprisonment for begging at Kingston: I aske'd for a halfpenny to make up threepence for a reel of cotton.

,At the local police court yesterday prohibition orders werc.grnnted to a local couple on their own application.

Altogether forty Labour unions with liondqiuirlers Jin Wellington have decided to apply to the Arbitration Court for the new bonus of Iks per week. The death took place at Upper lintt on Monday of Mrs Lucie Mountier, relict of Mr Ernest Mountier, of Napier, and sister of: Mr Fred Pirani, of the Feilding Star. At the Napier Supreme Court, Thomas Milne was found guilty of indecently assaulting a girl live years of age, and was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. In “Back to God’s Country,” the special- super-feature to be shown at the Royal on Tuesday next, sixteen, kinds of wild animals play natural parts. Charlie Chaplin’s “Sunnyside” is also on that programme.*'

'flic Foxton Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild will liuld a Garden Party at the residence of Mrs duo, Ross, Thynne Street, on Wednesday afternoon next, in aid of the funds of the Wellington Presbyterian Orphanages, Admission will be. by silver eoin. See advertisement.

Donations or gifts for the ton rooms in connection with the loon! Horticultural Show, to ho held next Thursday and 'Friday, will he thankfully received by the secretary. Gifts of cakes, etc., may lie left at the hall.on the morning l of the Show.

Five hundred Union Bank of Australia unsigned .Cl notes have been stolen from the mails in transit. They are numbered 4/N, 331,50.1. to 142,000. The Bank warns the public to look out for these notes, which will not ho honoured hv it.

A leu-year-old son of Mr E. T. Young, of Marlon Junction, was the victim of a painful accident a few days ago. , As the result of a slick being poked in his eye by an older hoy, septic poisoning followed, and the lad has now lost the sight of an

The business people of Invercargill have decided to purchase a set of >ilver instruments for lju* Salvation Army Band there. This Is a public appreciation of Captain Cfoflin’s musical talents. One firm contributed £l2O, representing 10 per cent, of its gross profits for a week.

‘AVliai is your real capacity for drinking whisky?’’ was a question put to a witness in the New Plymouth .Magistrate’s Court. The answer was that at one period lie had taken two bottles per night for over a month, not counting what he took in the dav.

A Kurd motor oar, belonging (u Mi- .1. Renwick, of To Horo, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday, on the Tasman road, 01 aid. The ear was being- driven by Air Tim Bevan at the time. Tt is thought' that Die tire, was due to a leakage of benzine. All efforts to extinguish the flames were unavailing, and the ear was completely wrecked. —.Mail.

At the llorowhcnua County meeting yesterday, the chairman and two other councillors, together with the engineer and clerk, were deputed to represent the Council at the visit of the Premier and others in connect ion with (he proposed LevinGreat ford railway deviation. • Christina Kate McDonald, who posed in Auckland as the daughter of a New York diamond merchant, pleaded guilty in the Auckland Supreme Court to obtaining- money by false pretences with intent to defraud, involving the sum of £13(1. The Chief Justice (Sir .Robert Stout) siiid that the case was remarkable: From the account of her goings on she did not look to he a sane person. He remanded her till Saturday for examination by a medical expert. A most romantic marriage is reported to have occurred in Hastings on Tuesday morning. A young; lady, who was being taken by rail to Wellington in order to.wean her affections from a certain swain, who found no favour with her family, covertly made her escape from h. ladies’ compartment on the arrival of the train in Hastings, and, joining her waiting knight, they both

speeded to the place made and provided, where they married with all convenient rapidity. In the meanlime the train steamed south on its way to Wellington, bearing in a smoking compartment (he unsuspecting escort of the enterprising maiden. —Tribune.

Replying to a reception accorded him at the .Scottish Fair at Wanganui, Premier Massey claimed that he was a better Scotsman than most of that nationality. Hoav many in that building could claim to be a Freemafi of the City of Edinburgh, (he capital of Scotland,’or an L.L.B, of Edinburgh University, both of Avhieh honours had been conferred upon him —a fact Avhieh he Avas very proud of indeed. “In these respects,” said Mr Massey, “I can claim to be a better Scotsman than most.” Mr Massey Avent on to say that he belonged to a race of people who had been banished from Scotland to the North of Ireland.' His people had been Covenanters, and lie claimed to be descended from Covenanters on the one side and Borderers on the other. Get rid of that stubborn cold. Take NAZOL,” the penetrating, prompt and pure remedy. 1/6 buys GO doses, ' ,

As -well ns'Hie high cost of living, (lie high cost of dying afflicts some New Zealanders... Or at any rate the high cost of coffins. Before the Auckland Prices Invest ibation Tribunal’the other day a complaint was read as (o the price charged for a 'coffin, a country resident asserting that a neighbour had been supplied at a much cheaper rate. Another complaint was that against a doctor, who was alleged to have sent in a bill out of proportion to services rendered. Yet a third was concerned with the supply of firewood to Auckland. Profiteering was alleged as between the price at which the wood was procurable in (he country and the price at which it was retailed in the eitv.