LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2238, 12 February 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Allied air raid on Zeebrugge, in .1915. These are “Dangerous Hours” wo live iii, and the big. feature at Hie Town Hall to-night shows Russia's Dangerous Hours. —Advt. Mr lluggins, district health onicer, visited Foxton on Thursday. At a later date Air Huggins intends (o make a thorough inspection of the borough'. The Australian Workers' Union convention lias resolved that no member of the Masonic institution will Jic eligible to hold ail official position in the union.

At the Wellington Supreme Court mi Thursday, Andrew Murray Boggs, found guilty <$ incest, was sentenced to live years imprisonment with hard labour. Mr F. A. Jacobsen, Government Apiary Instructor, asks us to warn bee keepers that it is an offence to keep bees in box hives, mid proceeding-- will be taken against any person' so offending. In the Boliee Court at New Plymouth on Thursday, William Patrick Noary, described as .a labourer belonging to Auckland, was lined £2O, in default-two months’ imprisonment, for playing two-up in the mail train on December 22nd. A third body from the wreck of the auxiliary schooner Omaha, lost, at the Wellington Heads on Sunday,. January 30th, was found on the foreshore at Eastbourne, Wellington, on Thursday. The remains were blentilied last evening as those of ■‘William Leonard Watson, llu/ acting-male. The wages received by coal miners have often been discussed, and the other day a man interested in Ml. Linton mine told a Kouthhmd Times reporter that two men al that mine for eleven days in December earned £B2. falling £4l each for their eleven days' work —an average of £8 i-i - fill a dav.

If our existences could begin ngaiu! If to-morrow we could live, as male and female only, in a world where wen It It, laws, conventions, morals, classes, meant nothing! Who then would rule, who serve, who love? See the answer in “Male and Female," the all-evening pieluro, at the Town Hull on Tuesda v.- —Advt.

“If one takes oil.' one's coal in a hairdressing saloon in Sydney, and hangs it up while getting attended to,” said a New Zealander, who has just returned from a visit to the other side, “you can be sure, when you come to put it on, that the pockets will be filled with Bolshevik and I.WAY. literature. It is placed in vour hand at every turn.'’

A Feilding bowler, in speaking to the Palmerston Times of the new green at Bulls, remarked that its position is quite unique, being situated on the extreme edge of a cliff, over 100 feet high, and overlooking the bountiful delta of the ffaiigifikej River. No other bowling green in New Zealand i- mi situated. The green is watered by an electric motor.

Mr J. F. Dickson, solicitor, was again before Mr Boynton, S.M., at Auckland on Thursday, charged with contempt of court arising out of comment made as to the Magistrate's . conduct of a ease. Air Dickson still maintained that he had committed no offence, and that the Court had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter. The Magistrate said he would not place a, black mark on a young muiTs career by lining or imprisoning' him. It would be sufficient to state that his eonduel towards the Court was conduct ..unbecoming to a gentleman and unworthy of a member of the legal profession. This censure was made solely with the object of vindicating the authority of the Court. A seed ion in the Health Act, as amended and consolidated during the last Parliamentary session, will he of great advantage to the police or other authorities under whose notice eases of aged, destitute, or Infirm persons living without proper care and attention may be brought. The Act gives the authorities power to take such a person before a Magistrate in order that an order of committal to some suitable home or institution niay be made, and further to enforce compliance with such order as may be made. In the past ntfuty difficult eases have cropped up, both'of aged people who refused to go to an institution, and.' strangely enough, of difficulties which have arisen through the refusal of .the authorities in charge of charitable or other institutions to take such person- under their care,

“A Romany Lass,” to be screened at the Royal to-night, was taken in the Highlands of Bonnie Scotland,> The scenery is so beautiful that you can easily imagine you can smell the heather in full bloom. —Advt.

A Fox super-feature starring Tom Mix must be something out of the ordinary. “The Terror,” to be screened on Monday at the Royal shows Tom Mix in more daring stunts than ever, before. —Advt.

It is rumoured that a young man who was recently accused of paying attention to another man’s wife was so incensed at the false accusation that lie took the law into liis own hands and severely dealt with the husband.

A picnic'was held by the Scandinavian community at Palmerston on Wednesday to commemorate the return of Siesvig to Denmark- under tlie terms of the Versailles Treaty. It is intended to celebrate the day. everv year in a like manner.

The ages of three Mnsterton settlers who met together recently aggregated 230 years. They were all Scotsmen, anjd possessed remarkable vigour. They attributed their good health to “hard work and burgoo.’’

At Thursday night’s meeting of the local Beautifying Society votes of sympathy were passed to Mr At. E. Perreau and Mrs-da J. Robinson, in tlieir recent bereavement. The vote was carried in'.silence, members standing. The death occurred at Wellington on Thursday of Air Georgrj Lenliam, late of Foxton.-. The deceased, who has been employed for some years as barman at the Post Office Hotel, left Foxton about a week ago on a holiday, and was taken ill in Wellington, and removed to the hospital, where lie died.

At the Wanganui ■Supreme Court: yesterday, Stephen Harris, .for-at-tempted murder and suicide, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Michael -I. Delaney. Thomas J. O’Brien and Frances Flanagan, for breaking and entering, were sentenced, the former to three years, and the other two to two rears’ each.

That portion of the local Courthouse set aside for the public was quite inadequate to accommodate the crowd which assembled yesterday to listen to the alleged two-up charges. Standing room only was available, and a number tilled the porch. Those in front were asked to sit down by those in the rear. The legal arguments were listened to with marked interest and whispered comments.

In order to protect the public ngaiusl adulterated or imitated vinegar, regulations have been gazetted which stale that the word “vinegar" and expressions which include the word “vinegar" shall not be written on or attached to a package which contains an acetic mixture sold for the purpose of being used or which may be used as vinegar, unless it be conjoined with the word “imitation.”

Infantile paralysis has made its appearance in Wanganui. During the past six weeks nine cases have occurred in Wanganui (exclusive of Gonvillt’ and Castloeliffe), and three have been reported from outside places (says the Chronicle). On Tuesday one death occurred at the Wanganui Hospital. Subsequently four fresh eases were reported in the borough. A number of the cases are under treatment at the hospital, mid a ward has had to be cleared to make room for patients.

On Tuesday evening a small party of Master!onians, bent on a “joy ride" expedition, appropriated a well-known settler’s motor ear, and set off for Afarlinborough. Within a mile of the township the ear overturned, pinning the occupants underneath. It was necessary to summon medical assistance from Aiartinborough. One young lady was somewhat severely knocked about, so much that she was unable to return to Mnsterton next day with the other members of the party. Another received a nasty gash on the face. The car was severely knocked about, one expert assessing the damage at approximately £2OO. — Age.

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A good story concerning Mrs Asquith, whose recently published “Memoirs”, have roused such a storm of criticism, is fold by Colonel Repington in his book, “The First World War,” It was soon after the sinking of the Lusitania, and feeling over here ran very high because America did not at once “come in”' on the side of the Allies, Hardly anything else was talked about, and at one society dinner party in London, while an animated conversation was in progress on the topic of the hour, someone happened to mention the name of Christopher Columbus. “Had 1 been Christopher Columbus,” chipped in Mrs Asquith, “and had discovered America, I would have taken .jolly good care not. to have (old anyone.”—— Pearson’s Weekly.