LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2234, 3 February 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Cosmopolitan six-reel masterpiece, “The Cost,” will he the star attraction at the Town Hall on Saturday night.* The head'teacher of the local State School (Mr Furrie) desires to acknowledge with thanks three pieces of Samoan tapa cloth for the school museum, front Mr S. Seville, also, geological specimen from Mr Geo. Cull.

To-day is the anniversary of the United States breach with Germany in .1917.

It’s all about jewels. She’s a jewel of a girl; it’s a jewel of a picture. See the “Tower of Jewels,” at the Royal on Friday night.* Upwards of 500 firearms of all descriptions, have been registered by the local police. Those who have failed to register are now liable to prosecution.

The many friends of Mr J. 11. Robinson, of Beach Road, will regret to learn that he is seriously ill with an internal trouble, which is causing his relatives grave anxiety. “What we call rates in our New Zealand towns are about double in the Canadian and, American cities .which I visited,” says Mr Hope Gibbons, who has just returned to Wanganui after a world tour. “The “Lone Wolfe’s Daughter” is a production that will make any audience sit up and take notice. See it at the Royal on Saturday, and don’t forget the singing, it's a treat.* The latest Palmerston combine is of Celestial origin. The Chinamen have increased the price of laundering collars to 2LI, a rise of 25 per cent. It is fully time that a Housewives’ Union should be started in Palmerston to keep a check on this class of profiteering - , says the M.D. Times.

An interesting race to Australia between the six-masted barquentine E. R. Sterling and the four-masted schooner Helen B. Sterling was commenced from Auckland on Sunday. The vessels left port within 40 minutes of one another, the former bound for Sydney and the lattr for Newcastle. The barquentine car-' ried a cargo of sawn timber, and the schooner was in ballast.

A fatal accident occurred on Saturday at To Ton, near Karioi, to a single man, a returned soldier, named. S. Negus, employed driving a timber waggon for the Wanganui Sash and Door Company'. By some means a log oil the waggon rolled off and pinned the unfortunate man to the ground. He died 20 minutes later. ‘

Merchants are having a somewhat “tough time” just now. Many of them have goods arriving some of which are costing wholesale, more than they were recently being retailed for in the Dominion. Business is a good thing to lie out of just now, for the worries arc never ending. If >oine of those who howl

against the employer capitalist tried his job they would.quickly reach Pori run. —Ellluun Argus.

The thunderstorm which visited the .Maslerton district hist week was the most violent for a number of years. For an hour Mnstevton was deluged with tropical downpours, and shaken by thunderclaps. The intensity of the rain may lie gauged from the fact that 42 points tell during a single shower. The rainfall in the northern an,d eastern districts was even heavier than m the town. ■

“The New Zealand Government is the best T have ever known,” said an immigrant who was delayed in Australia by the stewards’ strike, and who landed the other day. “It treated us really well, and gave us money to keep us going in Sydney, and also enough to send Home to our wives. You would not get any other Government to do that. We were surprised when we were granted this relief, and we won’t forget it in a hurry.”

A youth named Arthur Edward Atkinson was arrested at Palmerston North yesterday on charges of unlawfully taking a motor car, and having stolen a gold watch ,1 ho property of A. C. Gallon, of Matarawa, Wairarapa. s -Accused was remanded to appear at Carterton on FebruaryDili on a charge of having unlawfully taken a motor car, Hie property of Alexander Cruickslumk Gallon, from Matarawa. Accused was also remanded to'appear at Carterton on a charge of living stolen a gold watch, valued at £9, from Mr Gallon. In the meanwhile lie will bo accommodated in Wellington gaol. A further charge is pending against accused of forging and uttering two cheques of .CIO each in ITawent, and lie will be remanded to that town to atmwor this charge.

“I will bet you a new hat that you can’t tell me anything new about the matter,” said the Prime Minister, jestingly, when Mr \\. H. field, M.P., introduced to him on Monday a representative Mauawalu and Taranaki deputation to urge the necessity for afforesting Hie sand dunes on the west coast, of the North Island. Mr Field frankly confessed that lie could not say anything new upon the subject. All had already been said. He claim-' ed to have been one of the first to realise that Ihe real solution of the butter-box question in New Zealand was-the planting of pinus insignis on the sand dunes; and he had been advocating it for twenty years past. DON’T WORRY. Do not think that the rule that the bowels should move every day must, under no circumstances, he broken. It is better to go. a day without a movement than to worry yourself mentally and irritate your bowels by improper and. excessive cathartics. If the bowels fail to move one day, no matter. They will most likely move the next. If not, don't worry, hut take two of Chamberlain's Tablets just before going to bed. They will cause l an agreeable movement of the bowels. The use of Chamberlain’s Tablets is not followed by constipation. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

The Greytown 'Borough Council has adopted Saturday as the statutory lmlf-holiday.

Mrs Parkes entertained the members of the local Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild at an enjoyable afternoon yesterday. » Mr A. N. Smith informs us that he is now making a reduction in the ,price of sewing cotton, which he will in future retail at fid per reel.*

Warena Hunia, a well known Maori in this district, and a chief of the Parawamii tribe, died suddenly while sitting in his motor car tit Bulls on Tuesday morning. He was 70 years of age. The search for the bodies of the remainder of the crew of the Omaha continues daily, but so far with no success; The wreckage and cargo is strewn along the beaches inside the heads. The masts of the illfated vessel were recovered yesterday. Strange to say, Hot a vestige has been discovered on either Somes or Ward Island.

When a motor lorry conveying thirty-five cases of benzine was going from Gisborne to Pulia, and was :t mile outside Gisborne, the consignment, became ignited in some unknown manner. The flames rose to a considerable height, and soon destroyed the cargo and lorry. It is not known whether the benzine was insured, but there was it policy of £3OO on the lorry, in the Yorkshire Office.

A young woman, Miss Florvic Ford, aged 23, employed as a lady Help at Pei'ia, Matamata, died from the effects of poisoning. She called out to her employer that she. had taken poison, and when asked why she replied that she did not know. Emetics were administered, but .she died within an hour. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased met her death by poisoning, selfadminislered, while in a state of mental depression.

The estate of the late Mr William Wood, of Christchurch, merchant, who died on January 15th, has been sworn for purposes of probate at under £280,000. The testator has made a bequest of £I,OOO to Christ's 'College, and another of £250 to the Girl’s Friendly Society fit Christchurch. Both bequests are free of death duties, and are unconditional. Mr Wood was a pupil of Christ’s College from 1871 to 1874. The executors are Messrs B. B. Wood, son of the testator, and C. C. M. Oiliver.

During his remarks at the opening ceremony of Queen’s Park School, Wanganui, the Minister of Education stated that out of the 200,000 children attending the prinuit'v schools of the Dominion, fully 190,000 required dental treatment and were not getting it. The parents must know what that meant to the health of the children. It was necessary that they should have good health in order to have sound minds and strong frames in order to tackle the problems of life, and that was one of the reasons why he was going to have this dental treatment. A farewell social and presentation was tendered to Mr and Mrs 11. Beveridge by St. Mary’s congregation, in the schoolroom last night. The . Rev. Father Forrestall, in handing Mrs Beveridge a handsome handbag and Mr Beveridge a silver ink stand, expressed the congregation’s regret at the recipients’ departure from Foxtoy, and conveyed the best'wishes of all for their future success. Two large boxes o:t chocolates were also given to the children. Mr Beveridge feelingly responded to the kind expressions and tokens of esteem. During the evening vocal and instrumental items were contributed, and dancing indulged in. The continuation of the go-slow at the Northern Coal Company’s mine tit Kiripaka culminated yesterday in the mine closing indefinitely. Recently a liquidator of the company visited the mine, and entered into an arrangement whereby the men undertook to produce over 100 tons ti day, and in the meantime communicate with the Federation on the question of discontinuing the go-slow. The Federation replied that the. go-slow was to continue, and on Tuesday evening the manager informed the men that they must either call off the go-slow, or take their tools out of the mine. The men adopted the latter course, and fifty aye now idle. The go-slow was continued at the three Waikato mines yesterday.

An “outlaw” sheep which had evaded capture for three years, and had been living on the sea coast at Point Matai, -Kaipara Harbour, was cue of the interesting exhibits at the Helensville Show on Saturday. The sheep, which was owned by Mr 11. Mather, of Glorit, was missing from the flock at shearing-time three years ago. The flock was sold, and lie refused to associate with the next lot, taking refuge among the mangroves when chased by dogs. During the next two seasons he was seen only at intervals, and evaded capture by clambering down a precipitous cliff to the coast. A few months ago Mr Mather and his companions waited for a spring tide, and went out with the dogs. The sheep ran for the mangroves, but was cut off by the tide. The dogs, cornered him, but could not get him back up the cliff, and were obliged to swim him for a mile. The sheep was of tremendous size, the live weight being over 2001 b., and the wool, which was clean and free from tangle or brambles, was pronounced a perfect fleece, weighing about 351 b. In places it was 24in. in length, and unbroken. Mr Mather presented the sheep, to the association, which held a guessing competition regarding his weight-.

At Wanganui on Tuesday Benjamin Cleggett, of Patea, was fined £lO and costs £4 2s 8d for driving a motor car in a negligent manner in Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. The accused collided with Mrs Shepherd, a Feilding resident, who was visiting Wanganui, with the result that her clothes were torn and she suffered injuries to a leg. To the editor of the local News a farmer at Morrinsville wrote: — “Dear Sir. —1 saw in a paper that a Waipauku farmer planted flax with potatoes, and it kept the beetles off. I planted flax and potatoes, and the flax came up first, and the beetles roosted on it, waiting for the potatoes to come up. Could you give me the address of that Waipnku farmer?”

“One of the great Grecian philosophers has told us that the human mind is only developed 10 per cent,” said Miss Sumayeh Attiveh, at her Chautauqua lecture at Dannevirke. “It means that we have 00 per cent, going to waste. That is the trouble with the world 10-dav, for statistics prove that 10 per cent. Of the people only arc a success, and 90 per cent, are failures. This was because the 90 per cent, cannot realise what they'can accomplish.” “I meet a boy along the road,” said Mr Joel W. Eastman, at the Palmerston Chautauqua, “and I say, ‘Good dav, my boy.’ He answers politely, and 1 know, to some extent, wliat sort of a home he came from. You tell a tree by its fruit. I meet another lad, and greet him. He looks up with a scowl, and says ‘Huh,’ or something like that. I don’t blame the boy or his parents. He is, and they arc, and that’s all there is to it. The moral is: Don’t go home and beat up the fruit, but go and spray your family tree.” The Chinese of Oiaki gave a novel entertainment in that town recently, when the “Prodigal Son” was staged. The dialogue was in Chinese. The acting throughout was of the best, each performer doing his or her part splendidly, while- the introduction of Chinese musical instruI meats aroused a certain amount of interest. The play showed “The Prodigal Son” inducing his father to give him money so that he might go abroad, showed where he lost all by gambling, his poverty, how he obtained work on a pig farm, his return home, and the welcome by bis aged father,

Hearing suspicious noises in the night, Mrs G. M. Rowe, widow of an officer killed in the war, who occupies a Hat 'at Elmdalc road, Bristol, threw on a dressing gown, and, switching on the electric light, found in the cupboard under the stairs a burglar who stood about (ift. and was broad in proportion. On Mrs Rowe telling him lie had better get out, he asked: “How do you get out: ” She showed him the door. “Then before he left,” continued Mrs Rowe, in an interview, “he kissed me, and asked me to kiss him. Of course, 1 didn’t kiss him. He then said: ‘Shake hands, madam; good night,’ and went away.”