Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. MARCH 1, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2245, 1 March 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. MARCH 1, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. The following are the vital siatisties for Foxton for the momh of February:—Births 8, deaths 1. marriage certificates issued nil.

Rain fell on three days during the month of February, (lie maximum fall, .42 inch, occurring on 23rd. The total for the month was .80 inch. The total rainfall for the same period in 1920 was 3.90 inches.

The finest fellow you ever knew —that's Dr/ JckvJl. The vilest 1 brute .that was ever called man — that’s-Mr Hyde . And both are the same man in “Dr. Jokyll and Mr Hyde,” at the Town Hall Thursday. —Advt.

A young man,‘t't stranger to Foxton, was arrested by the local police last night on a charge of obtaining goods and cash to the amount of £lB from A. X. Smith, draper, by means of a valueless cheque. The accused was brought before Mr Hornblow, J.P., this morning, and remanded to appear at Palmerston on Monday next, A disastrous lire, involving the loss (if about 21,900 cases of benzine, the properly of ihe Hawke’s Bay Trading Co., and £6,000 worth of wool and wool-scouring apparatus, occurred at McDonald’s wool wash, Eiverhcad Road, Napier, at an early hour on Sunday morning. When discovered the fire had a good hold, and it was impossible to save anything. The ejt'orts of the neighbours saved a house in the vicinity. Scouring operations had not beep) in progress for some months past, and the absence of fires of any description makes the origin of this outbreak a mystery. There were several bales of wool on the premises, and these were insured. The insurance on the benzine was not obtainable, but it is understood to bo in the vicinity of £30,000. The plant was insured for £3,000. The conflagration presented* a great sight.

The Palmerston branch of the Labour Department has received notice that the Saturday half-holi-day has been gazetted. The altera - don takes effect, as from March Ist. At the Carterton Police Court yesterday, Thomas Goughian, a man with several aliases, was convicted of drunkenness and fined £5 for illegally wearing military ribbons. According to the police, Coughlarj never left, the country, yet wore three imortant ribbons.

“One advertisement in the ‘Herald’ brought me a purchaser.for my property,” said an advertiser to us recently. Similar quick sales have also been recorded, also the recovery of lost money and other articles by judicious advertising. Hence, it pays to advertise.

What is probably a record price for full-mouth ewes although hardly one to bring joy to the vendor —was paid at a recent sale in this district, when 80 odd sheep sold for Od a bead. The sheep were, a fairly good lot, and the purchaser lairY sold a number of them privately, with the result that at the end of the day he found himself with-49 ewes, having actually paid only Is 0d for the lot.

A Feilding woman, pushing her bicycle, was so absorbed in reading a letter this morning when crossing the line in Kimbolton road that she failed to bear the warning from the onrushing Wanganui train. The driver gave a final blast when Iho woman was actually on the line. Spectators were paralysed with fear. Death seemed inevitable. The woman looked up, unconsciously took a step backwards —and fell just clear of the juggernaut. The bicycle also escaped.—Star,

Some months ago a man named Jack Austin agreed to buy. a farm and stock at Egmont Village, subject to his being financed under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Acts. Before the purchase was completed Austin, on the plea that he wanted to pay his lawyer's expenses, sold three head of stock, and disappeared. Constable Longbottom, of Inglewood, being in the Auckland Court on another case, luard a charge of drunkenness alleged against Jack Austin, with the result that Austin appeared in the Inglewpod Court on Friday charged with obtaining money under fatso pretences. He pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence.

The death occurred at Ekclaliuna on Sunday morning of Mr Thomas Parsons, Mayor of Eketalmna. at the age of 80 years. The deceased gentleman arrived in New Zealand 50 years ago, and resided in Master! on, and for the last 33 years ip Eketalmna. lie was a prime mover in co-operative dairying in the Wellington province, chairman of the New Zealand Fanners' Dairy Union for 23 years, a director id’ the Dairy'Produce and Cool Storage Company, and also look a prominent part on local bodies and associations. He was formerly chairman of the road board and county council. and was also chairman of the first land settlement association. Mr Parson.- was one of the firs* councillors of the Mnslerlon Borough. Council.

The 2nd November, 1920, markmi the passing of Woodrow \\ ilson front the active political life of the United Stales. On 4th March he will leave the While Ilou-e, and all the mystery and moment with which, lie has hedged it about will disappear. It- gales will stand open agnin; and -peculators are already buying property in Washington in the belief that the city of magnificent distances will once more become the social centre of America, under the courtly and benevolent direction of President Harding and his wife. “Government is a very simple thing after all,” Harding lias said. But on the day when the senator becomes Dresden!, above the tumult and the shouting on Capitol Ilill, a small, unattended group will leave the White House. In their midst will be carried a man with snow-white lmir, bowed back, distorted features and emaciated frame —a man with body broken and heart broken in the service of A great ideal —a man who knows that government is not a simple thing after all." —Round Table.

A Maori girl, 1.3 years of age, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at a sitting of the Palmerston Juvenile Court yesterday. She pleaded guilty to the theft of a gold pendant and neck chain, valued at £0 ,13s, the property of Jane Allen, also one gold brooch, valued at 255, the property of A. Bailout, ft appears that the girl, who is a native of Dannevirke, came to Palmerston North on February 23rd. having run away from her uncle, with whom she had been living. She alleged tci Mrs Allen that she had been illtreated, and that she was going to work in Palmerston. She was given shelter for the night, and in the morning was advised to return home. Instead of doing so she went to the home of Mrs Bailout, and inquired if a certain person resided there. Afterwards she stayed about the house, playing with children of the locality, and later Mrs Bailout found her in the kitchen with the children belonging to the house. It was not until the girl had gone that the brooch was missed, and by this time Mrs Allen had also discovered her loss. When taxed with the commission of the offence the girl did not deny her guilt, and -he told the police where to locate the jewellery. The Magistrate said he would give the girl another chance, and if she behaved properly during the next six months onthing more would be heard of the offence, provided that she remained under the charge of her father.

New Zealand’s flagship, lI.M. light cruiser Chatham, arrived af Wellington yesterday from Auckland. The Chatham is to remain at Wellington for about three weeks. The Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) entertained the delegates who attended yesterday’s meeting of "the Levin-Mart on , Railway League at afternoon tea at Perreau’s.

Mr John Rowe, of Gladstone, celebrated his 103rd birthday on Saturday last. Mr Rowe is still hale and hearty, and attended the Early Settlers’ Association function at Carterton on Thursday, af which he made an interesting speech.

Danes in New Zealand who were born in that part of Schleswig' which, .by the Peace Conference, lms been restored to the Danish Crown, and who hitherto have been German subjects, can now be renationalised as Danes if they submit the necessary identification papers to the Danish Consul in the Dominion.

A miraculous escape from serious injury occurred to a motor party on the Tangowahine road (Dargaville) on Sunday afternoon. Mr A. -J. Finch and two ladies and live children were in a ear that fell down a bank 25 feet. The occupants were still in the ear when” it arrived at the bottom, and they sustained shock and bruises. The car was smashed.

Last week, -ays the Mount Ida. Chronicle, a farmer showed us the result of the sale of a cow likhq which he looked upon as a firstclass hide —viz., Price it brought, ss, costs deducted 3/6, net return Is Gd, amount which he considered did not pay for the salt he used in' its preservation, so that he got nothing for his labour; in skinning, etc. That problem again: Who gets the profits?

To cross the Tararua ranges “on, his own" is the novel experience of. Mr K. Griffin, of the Victoria. College. Although only just out of his teens, this youth left Woodside on Saturday night, camped at the Tauherenikau but, and finally reached “The Forks” at 5 p.m. on Sunday—a fine performance. He encountered foggy weather and got off the track in the early stages of the journey. He arrived at Otaki on Monday morning, and proceeded to Wellington by train. —Mail. Mr Massey stated that the greatest demand for trucks just now was from the coal mines. At the State coal mine last week the miners established a record, and other mines had been turning .out large quantities of coal. Seaborne coal was exceedingly plentiful, and procurable at a price much lower than had been the ease for years past. The shipments arriving from time to time were an extra call upon the limited supply of trucks. » The lot of a municipal officer, like that of the policeman, is not always a happy one. It was stated at a recent meeting of the Woolston Borough Council that the ranger, after speaking to a certain man regarding some breach committed by him, was about to get into his trap when the horse, played up and smashed the trap to bits and kicked the ranger on the shin. While the ranger was lying suffering eonsidnlile agony, the man came up and said: “it’s a pity you didn’t break vour neck."

“The Government: service is where the highest engineering brains should lie, and a stop should be matte, of the great leakage in the Government service,” said the Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C., at the civil engineers' conversazione, which was held at Christchurch. “We have had some of the best brains in the Government service, but they are all gone” —a statement that raised much laughter that interrupted the speaker's remarks for some time. At a later stage the chairman (Mr Cyrus Williams! remarked that the statement that the best engineering brains had left the Government service bordered on the libellous. Yet he had to admit that men gave their services to the Government for what was next door to a pittance, and lie; could only assume that there was something apart from the salary that made the Government service attractive.