LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2239, 15 February 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Blackberries are now rifie, and parties who have visited the various spots where the berries abound have gathered large quantities.

A reward is advertised for return of £5 r/te lost bet ween Clyde Street and Post Office, at about 1 p.m. today.

A Foxton fliixiuiller, whose cutlers are earning twenty-five shillings per day, was seriously approached on Saturday for a “hot weather bonus'!” says the M. D. Times.

Adults will be admitted to the illustrated lecture on Captain Scott's last polar exploration by Mr Leigh Hunt, in the Town ITall on Thursday afternoon, at 2.3 ft o’clock, by silver coin. All school children will be admitted free.

Mr A. Leigh Hunt, who is to deliver an illustrated lecture on Town Planning in the Town Hall on Thursday evening next, is the president of the Wellington Town Planning Association. An effort will be made to show Mr Hunt the outskirts and lay-out of Foxton.

“There is no question that it is an urgent call,” said Mr Massey to a Christchurch interviewer, “but if you ask me the reason for it I am not able to give it —it would be a breach of confidence, but you might get it in the cablegrams any day.”

Owing to the whole evening being taken up with the screening of “Male and Female,” Town Hall patrons are warned to be in their seats ai eight this evening, in order not. to miss the opening of tiffs fine picture. —Advt.

Tlic guard of the Wanganui train informed an interested passenger that Saturday’s consignment of six Maoris on stretchers and two on crutches landed at Ralana’s siding that morning was quite a common occurrence. Curiously enough, he remarked, we seldom bring hack a bed or a crutch.

Agnes Elliot Hendry, Iff years of age, was accidentally drowned while bathing at Tomahawk Beach, Dunedin, on Sunday morning. A heavy sea was running, and (he girl was tarried into the breaker.-. She was ,-een to be floating in the water, and was got ashore with some difficulty. First mnd measures were adopted, imt with no success.

The temporary Borough Council Chamber, with its roof and walls of corrugated iron, is redolent of: a pioneer mining township. The heat during the day within the building i> ferritic, and the Town Clerk carries on under literal sweating conditions, It is hoped that there will not be any undue delay in getting on with the new building. A suggestion lias been made that the corner .site of the old post office should be secured for I lie new edifice.

In connection with the fortlitepming Queen Carnival competition, a meeting of all interested in the Candida lure of the Fibre Queen (Miss Elsie King) will be held in the “Herald" Office this evening, at 7.30 o’clock. All interested are cordially invited to attend and a special invitation is extended to ladies. At to-night’s meeting a committee will be formed, and a plan of campaign mapped out.

The sanction of the British Parliament will be necessary to legalise I he changes in the* Prayer Book suggested by the Canterbury Convocation. Clerics regard the most important alteration that candidates for the deaconato in future will not be asked if they believe in the substantial infallibility of all the books in the Old and Few .1 estamenls, hut will lie asked if they believe that these contain all things necessary for salvation and- spiritual (health. # The Minister of Defence, in reply j„ a letter from Mr E. Newman, M.P., acknowledges all the valuable services rendered by home service men. but says it is impossible under the rules formulated by the Imperial authorities to grant the issue to them of war medals, and there must have been an actual passage overseas to qualify for a war medal. The Government, however, is considering the award of a commemorative medal, and Inis cabled to the United Kingdom for estimates. H lliis proposal is adopted it should meet the case of men who rendered effective service in New Zealand.

The following motion of protest ivas passed at a largely attended meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, I alineiston North branch, on Sunday: “Tlmt this meeting strongly proagainst the delay in granting members of the traffic staff at Palmerston North leave legally due, which is many months in arrears, and emphatically protests against the injustice these members are suffering front, and that the council request the General Manager to have arrears of leave worked olf at the earliest possible moment. ’