LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2218, 21 December 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P. for Hutt, is on a short holiday visit to Foxton. Mr and Airs G. 0. Burlier and -family, of Auckland, are on a holiday visit to Foxlon. A house which was purchased in Masterton a few days ago at £750 was recently placed in the hands of a house agent for sale at £3,000. Women arc always finding each other out, which accounts for the appalling mortality among feminine friendships all tho world over. At the conclusion uf the hearing of the ease of alleged assault at the local Magistrate’s Court on Friday, Constable Owen mentioned that complainant had had to pay two guineas medical expenses as the result of the injuries to her arm. The Magistrate said that on this occasion complainant would have to bear the expense herself.

The Horowhenua Racing 1 Club Club made a profit of £801) as a result of its meeting.

Me ackhowledge, and heartily reciprocate, the Season’s, Greetings from the local post office staff.

The (Inc weather on Sunday attracted a large number of visitors to the local seaside from all parts of the district.

At the Royal Picture Theatre on Saturday night, the Maori choir contributed a lullaby song and “Annie Laurie,” which was- much appi’eeiated hv the audience.

The Pahialua police have been advised that a returned soldier named Andrew Francis Watson Ramsay has been found drowned at Glenora station, Akilio. . The shortest complete wi 11 on record is that of a lieutenant, who was killed in the war. It was written on the hack of a photograph of a girl. It read; “I leave all to her.”

Jeremiah Costella, licensee of the Waimate Hotel, single, aged 80 years, was drowned., iff the Waihao River on Sunday, in an effort to rescue a companion who fell into the water.

A peculiar form of cold is prevalent in Ma.slerion just now. The malady manifests itself suddenly, usually in the throat and lungs, afterwards developing into a head cold.

I*. Joyce, aged 12 years, was drowned in the Aparima River on Saturday while bathing. When the body was found there was a marie across (he forehead, and it is surmised that the child struck a rock when diving in shallow water. .

It Is reported (says the 'Wanganui Herald) that three prosecutions arc pending by the Health Department against manufacturers of butler who are alleged to have added more than the regulation quantity of moisture to the butter.

Their is a considerable quantity of long gra».s on (lie borough streets, which will prove a menace t<»- the safety of property should-it become ignited. We suggest that the Council authorise residents to cut and gather it for hay.

“The boy who slouches along with his hands in his pockets and his eyes on his boots usually slouches through life with his hands in someone clse’s pockets.” —Professor B. E. Murphy, at the “breaking-up” ceremony of Ranks’ Commercial College, Wellington. At Wanganui on Thursday night. Mr J. Aitken, who has been a lonelier for over 50 years, twenty years of which have been spetfi at Victoria Avenue School, received a number of presentations from parents and children, including a cheque for £BS.

The Chairman of the Manawalu Gorge Board of Control (Mr J. A. Nash, M.P.) has been advised that the Government grant of a £ for £ subsidy up to £I,OOO towards improving tho Gorge road, will be paid as soon as the engineer's plans and report have been considered by the Public Works Department.

Mr T. M Wilford, M.P., ami exMinisler tor Justice, is spending a few days' holiday in Foxtou. Mr Wilford is accompanied by .Mrs and Miss Wilford. Mr Wilford is a keen disciple of Jzaac Walton, but the Manawalu in lids locality does not afford sport for anglers, although some splendid sea-run trout have at limes found their way into local lishermen's nets, and ‘caused much damage thereto. Anyhow. Mr Wilford whiled away a’pleasant time at (he local howling green yesterday.

Vn congratulating the prize-win-ners', at a Wellington school ceremony last, week. Professor Murphy said: “There is one class of boys in 'whom I lake a special interest, those are the boys who have tried hard and failed to win a prize. It is a tine tiling to work hard and win, and then bear one’s honours meekly, hut it is still liner to strive and lose,, renounce without becoming biller ,aml try again. That is the type of boy that docs most for himself and the world in later life.”

No fewer than eighteen undefended petitions for dissolution of marriage were brought before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), at the Supreme Court, Veiling!on, on Saturday, and in each instance a decree nisi, to he moved absolute at the expiration of three months, was granted. Eleven of the proceedings were founded on allegations of adultery, in live eases, desertion was alleged, one ease was based on a charge of drunkenness, cruelly, and failure to maintain, and in the remaining suit habitual drunkenness was the stated cause for notion.

“Tor the present age," said the. Rector of the Palmerston North High School, in his annual report, “it seems to me that our schools can render no finer service to the community than by using one and all ofetheir curricula to develop a spirit of healthy, hard, honest endeavour; and it should be a characteristic of the normal civic eonseien.ee to demand such a system. The lesson of the past few years has taught us that education is no panacea for national Ills, but in a State that is .-Guild at heart (and we believe that we are such a State)’ it provided the means through breadth of outlook, sympathy, and understanding for promoting ■ peace, and it furnishes safeguards through community of interest, soundness of knowledge, and sanity uf judgment against those troubles that have been causing so much unrest in all parts of our Empire —our own little corner not excluded. Not less education, but better education, fuller, better organised, more complete, is always what will be needed.”

Combined Preshy Serial!, Mel hodis( and Salvation Army .services will be held on Christmas Day, at 11 a.m., in the Presbyterian - Church, and 7 p.m, in the Methodist .Church.

The Royal will show a change of programme on Wednesday, Thaws., day and Friday. The serial, “Myslery of No, 13,” will be shown sa usual on Wednesday and Thursday; “Smashing Barriers” on Friday.* At Wellington S.M. Court yesterday, Danis Driscoll and Reginald John MeEwan, printers, charged with keeping 1 a gaining, house, were each lined £IOO, in default three' months’ imprisonment.

The six men who were arrested on a Wellington wharf on Friday while playing “hazards” appeared before the Magistrate on Saturday. Four were lined £5, one £3, and another released on hail pending the.hearing of |he charge against him, it -being adjourned for two days. “I saw more pigs in Germany than in any oilier country I visited on my (rip there were thousands -of them,” said Mr J. C. Cooper, at the meeting of farmers at Master! on on Saturday. Though pigs literally swarmed in Germany, Mr Cooper said, he saw eamparalively few in I’higland. In the sugar beet districts of Germany the pigs were fed on (he waste of the#beel crops. Mr Furrie, head teacher of the local State School, has received a cheque from Mr Ed. Newman, M.P., of one guinea towards the. school prize fund, with a covering message wishing the scholars the compliments of the season. The prize came too late for distribution this year, hut Mr Furrie intends to make it a- special prize for next year.

Serious aljegalions of cruelty to (wo girls, aged twelve and eleven, were made at the Christehureh -Juvenile Court on Saturday. The evidence taken showed that- the father, who is in good financial circumstances, owning two farms, forced his | wo eldest children to do all the housework, besides' milking twelve cows daily. Their hours of worlc per day averaged sixteen on occasions. He thrashed them for falling asleep at their (asks. The magistrate adjourned the case in order to give the father an opportunity to answer the charges. Meantime the children will be placed in a leceiving home, and the father will not he gllowed access to them. Fred Stone in “.johnny Get Your Gang at the Town Hall to-morrow night. Usual prices, (id and Is Id.*

The cabled announcement that a scheme "was being considered in England for (lie utilisation of the tide in the Severn for the production of electric power was mentioned at a meeting of; the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, it was suggested that as the Mannlean and the Waitemata offered certain possibilities In (hat direction an endeavour should lie made to obtain further information concerning (he project. Some doubt was cast upon its feasibility since schemes for harnessing the tide had always proved prohibitive in cost in the past. It was decided that Ibe secretary should endeavour t<> obtain any further information possible concerning the Severn scheme.

.A reader of Tlu> Post writes to inform holiday makers of a cure for seu-sickness, lie suys lie is not prepared to guarantee it in every case, but that he lias used il himself, and others have used it, with most satisfactory results. He obtained the proscription in France many years ago. The dose is; 20 grains bromide of sodium, 20 grains bicarbonate of soda, 1 drachm of compound tincture of cardamons, in two ounces .of green mint water, to lie taken two hours after each meal, with fruit salts or Seidlit/. powder. After about four days on board the bromide should be reduced to 5 grains. -The course of medicine should be begun about 24 hours before going on board.

Describing the scene at the Auckland Presbytery when censure was pronounced upon (he' Rev. J. J. Murray, the Star states: —‘‘When his name was called, Mr Murray walked up the dais and stood silent before the Court of the Church in which lie was ordained. The Rev. James Patiisun said: “As Moderator of this Court it is my exceedingly painful duty to pronounce upon you the censure of the Auckland Presbytery, recently confirmed by the'General Assembly. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the presence of this Court., I solemnly declared hat you are now suspended sine die from the exercise of the functions of (he ministry in the Presbyterian Church of Xew Zealand. The reason for this censure is that in belief and practice you have departed from a vital doctrine of our Church, a doctrine which at your ordination you solemnly covenanted to teach and uphold. This pronouncement is myde in all humility, and in the hope and prayer that it may *bo for the purity and progress of the Church and the glory of our common Lord.’’ Air Murray without speaking retired from the Presbytery.

MORE TO BE DREADED. Diarrhoea is more serious than many ailments over which ranch fuss is made. It attacks all, ages. Death from diarrhoea is generally due to lack of proper treatment at the first stage of the disease. Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedj' is a reliable and effective medicine, and if given in time will prevent serious consequences. It is pleasant to take. For sale everywhere, —A’dvt. Bran tub for the children at Walls’ on Christmas Eve.*