LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2237, 10 February 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Miss Mackie has been appointed 7th assistant on the local State School staff, not sixth, as previously mentioned.

A. X. Smith notifies that during the last few days of his Great Realisation Sale all remnants will be further reduced 10 per cent.

Mr Bauckham intimates by advertisement that he now has plenty of sugar for jam-making, and customers may purchase any quantity. A meeting of all committees and others interested in the Beautifying Society’s Gala day, are reminded of the meeting to be held in All Saints’ schoolroom at 7.30 o’clock this evening. Mr Maurice Hickey, an employee of the Palmerston X. Borough Council, died at the District .Hospital yesterday from injuries received on Saturday as the result of a collision with a motor car. The inquest lias been adjourned.

As evidence of the curiosity af riparian law, Sir James Wilson on Tuesday mentioned a case to the Manawatu County Council meeting on Monday. A settler on the bank of the Rangitikei rivej* had a valuable fiat below the cliff. One day lie woke up to find the current had come into the cliff and cut off the fiat, dividing his land. But he still owned the (tat according to the law. Had the river gradually eroded the fiat, and thus taken it away, however. the settlor would have lost his title to the area.

Partial success, with the.promise of a better future, has been achieved by the Manawatu County Council in its search for rails for the tram line; Hearing of a line of rails for sale in Auckland, Mr A. K. Drew, County Clerk, hurried to that city last week, and on Monday was able to report to the Council that he had concluded a purchase at a satisfactory figure. Mr Drew also got on the track of a further tonnage of rails, and may have a further report for the Council in the near future. The Council recognises the pressingneeds for renewing and strengthening the tram lino.

An extraordinary story was told a( Bombay Criminal Sessions during the heaving of a ease of assault by an Indian woman on her 10-ycar-old daughter-in-law. The evidence showed tlint the woman treated the girl with systematic cruelty, starving her and branding her periodically on the face, tongue, and body with red-hot irons. For the defence it was urged that the reason for the torture was that the girl had brought bad luck, and there had been frequent loss of cattle. The judge regarded ibis superstition as mitigating the eimimstanees. and imposed 18 months' imprisonment and a heavy tine.

Women are hard to please (states a writer in the Greymouth Star). I know of one who bought a frock coat in a city shop for 39s lid, and was so delighted with her bargain that she could not get home fast enough to try it on. It suited her so admirably and was so smart and comfy and cheap that every woman in the house was a wee hit jealous until it wa< discovered that the shop ticket was marked 30s. The bar-gain-hunter rushed back to the shop in a fury, hut the haughty young saleswoman was quite cool and collected. “That ticket was for the h,s[ bargain sale; it should have been removed,” she said contemptuously. “You were just a week too late.” It seems to be a case of the huntress being caught in her own trap.

Writing on the question, “What is the sex of an egg?” the New Zealand Poultry Journal says:—“Every now and again someone comes to light with the belief that he can determine the sex of an egg. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing. Even inn fertile egg there s no sex. Years ago we exposed this fallacy, and our readers have been spared the loss of time and absurd claims made along this line. Australia does not appear to be so advanced. One of its leading poultry journals and Ilawkesbury College have been wasting their time with experiments of a method that was tried out in New Zealand ten years ago. The test ended as we thought it would. To any students of biology it is well known that sex is not determined till tiie sixth day of incubation. The joke of the whole matter is that the test we put the instrument to somo years ago allotted males and females to infertile egg'. It is time wo got away from these absurd ideas and revealed a greater iutelligenee in our work.”

On February 10th, 1918, Russia withdrew from the Great War — three years ago to-day. The Salvation Army Harvest Thanksgiving Festival will be held at the end of this month. Particulars will be advertised later.

See the great, strike, the nationalisation of Russian women, the crimes of the Red Guards, the sitting of the Soviet.* All in "Dangerous Hours,” at the Town Hall on Saturday.* Mr -Charles Rock " (who played "Old Bill” in "The Better ’Ole”) ap - pears in "The Romany Lass,” to be screened at the Royal on Saturday. Scotsmen will appreciate this picture, as the whole of the scenes were taken on "The bonnie hills o’ Scotland, we’ the heather in bloom.” 6

A Fox super-feature, "The Terror,” starring Tom Mix, is to be screened at the Royal on Monday next. The many followers of this cowboy athlete will not miss seeing this latest Western thriller, in which the dare-devil Tom Mix outdoes all previous stunts of daring.

A Palmerston sufferer from the after effects of rheumatic fever, which has affected his limbs, was ordered by his medical adviser to drink ten glasses of water daily between meals. He finds it wonderfully beneficial to his general health, and says it gives him freedom from pain.—M.D. Times. In both bookmaking cases before the Wellington Supreme Court the jury failed to agree, and new trials ordered for Monday. In Livingstone’s ease the jury was out for over six hours. In Mart indale’s case the foreman intimated that if the jury was out for a.week there would be no chance of agreement.

The Town Hall management wish it known that "Male and Female,” the ten-reel special coming to the Town Hall, is not to he confused with any inferior picture of a like theme or title. This is the only picture adapted from Sir James Barrie's "Admirable Chrlehton,” and produced under the author’s supervision.

The Ash Wednesday services were well attended yesterday in All Saints’ Church. In the evening the Rev. B. R. White, the new vicar of Rongotea, commenced his course of Lenten addresses. There was an excellent congregation, and the Mission hymns were heartily sung. The addresses will be continued every Wednesday during Lent, at, 7..'3() p.m.

As the result of a quarrel iff a servants’ breakfast table at a private hotel, Frank Dclsie was arrested at Christchurch on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to Clarence Ilalin, who was gashed in the forearm by a table knife. Delsie appeared at the Magistrate’s Court, when the police were granted a remand to February Kith. An application for hail was refused.

Following' upon nil announcement of the employers in Wellington in giving a week's notice, to carpenters that henceforward their wages would l)e reduced to 2s Od per hour, several men have left their jobs, and there is considerable unrest amongst the remainder. The notice, which will expire on Friday, applies more particularly to men employed on suburban work.

A distressing lire occurred on Mundav night at teaming!on, near Cambridge, by which an old eightroomed house owned and occupied by Arthur Lilterson, with the contents, was totally destroyed. Nine children,Jhe eldest 12 years of age, were saved with difficulty in their night attire. There were no insurances, A youth who pleaded guilty at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court to the theft of a wallet containing £3 10s, said to the Magistrate, Mr S, E. McCarthy: “Can 1 have my name kept out of the papers, sir?’’ Air McCarthy replied: “Everyone is asking that now. 1 only grant that concession on special occasions. You’ve been here before. The publication of the name is part of the punishment.”

“Can you do anything to shake uj) the Borough Council to do something to improve the footpath in the Avenue?’’ was a question put to us by a resident ratepayer of the locality yesterday. He went on to say that the track used as a footpath wa> impossible for perambulators, and uneven for pedestrians, while certain portions' of the road was covered with stone patches of unrolled Belmont metal. This thoroughfare, he continued, is used by a number of people who visit the cemetery, and the residents are entitled to as much consideration in the expenditure of their rates as in other localities. We pass his request on to the Council.

Air McLeod, ALP,, speaking at Masterton on Saturday, referred to the Prime Alinister. “No previous Minister has carried the burden, of my friend Air Massey,’’ he said, “and no man could stand up to the work he is doing, as he is working very often 18 hours a day. Is it •any wonder that some matters should escape his attention at times? He is a man imbued with.-strong humanitarian ideals, I am not here to defend him, but as one who was elected to support him. I have not regretted that decision, and would do so again,” On the occasions when AH Massey had been called in by the Labour Committee of the House to give his decision, it had always gone in the direction of labour as against capital. The Prime Alinister was the friend of labour, and not its opponent. For Children’s Hacking Cdugh, Woods Great Peppermint Cure.

Clothing factories in Auckland are experiencing-a slack period now. A fair number of. female workers have been put off employment. Iu„-

some eases, it is reported, factory staffs have been reduced, but moi'e often hands have been put off temporarily. This week one factory proprietor received applications for work from 15 girls, mostly costume hands.