Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2252, 17 March 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Despite steps lakon Hy farmers, rabbits arc reported to lie on the increase in this district.

A meeting oT the Carnival Committee will he held I his afternoon to discuss the robin# of the queen candidates at the forthcoming carnival.

The Foxlon Chamber of Commerce has written to the Palmerston Chamber, asking for a conference to discuss matter- in connection with handling good- at the local port.

The Palmer-ton N. Borough Council has unanimously decided to increase the Mayor's honorarium from .C2(h) to £250. Foxlon allows it- Mayor £SO. which is quite inadequate to meet the calls made upon the Mayor.

Plans have been drawn up for gigantic Iran--Atlantic Hying ship--, driven by four fhou-and horsepower engines. They will he luxuriously fitted for a hundred pa—eager-. Starting from the Thames, they will be capable of reaching New York in forty hours.

An esteemed but long-suffering subscriber recommends the following recipe for the cure of neuritis: —Buy bottled horseradish, and put into a glass as much as would coyer a three-penny piece. Mix it with a eery little water, and till up with -tout. If the neuritis is very had, take this three limes a day. — M.l). Times.

It is reported that Sir Thomas Mackenzie. ex-High Commissioner for Xew Zealand, will be appointed to the Legislative Council during the present session. Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a member of the House of Representatives from 1887 to IS9(>, and from 1902 to 19] 2, He was Prime Minister for three months in 1912, and lie represented Xew Zealand in London from 1912 to 1920.

Recently a female with a child appealed to the Mayor of Masterton for assistance in her distress, and she told such a pitiful tale that his Worship, who has ever a soft spot in his heart for those in trouble, took her and the child to a boarding house and paid £1 for their hoard. The woman is alleged to have promptly borrowed half of this amount from the landlady, and to have disappeared with a male acquaintance, after having a goearl repaired and charged up to the Mayor.

Quantities of Xew Zealand produce, purchased by the Imperial Government, and held in store in Xew Zealand, for which no shipping space had been allocated on March 7th, amounted to 302,709 carcases of meat, and there were also about 300,000 hales of wool and 317,700 boxes of butter awaiting shipment on the same date. Payments made from l'.’ebruary 28lh to March 7th were, on account of meat £37,073; for greasy and fellmongeiv wool £8,904, for freezing eoinihuiibs’ slipe wool £107; for butter £432,115.

“Already in the country farmers ore dispensing with hands’' (writes the Mnnawiitu correspondent of the Farmers’ Union Advocate), “and the outlook for winter work is not reassuring. . . . The reflex action has affected all fanners. The plain fact is staring them in the face that their stock is not worth the values they have put upon them, but the surplus stock .must be got rid of to make room for others coining on."

An appeal is being made by Ilis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for a sum of £200,000 to assist in placing the Boy Scout movement on a sound footing. Circulars have been received in New Zealand, inviting subscriptions from this country. Mr W. 11. Field (Otaki) has given notice in the House of Representatives to ask the Minister of Railways if the dismissal of the" en-gine-driver was the only action tuken in the Hunterville railway incident, and if other precautions were being taken to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.

lion. Downie Stewart, Minister for Internal Affairs, lias received a telegram from Mr Moorehouse, conservator of fish and game at Ro-, torua, who is at the Bluff, stating that the wapiti and moose are well established on the West Coast Sounds. The -moose and wapiti were released, in Dusky Sound in 1900, and another lot in 1909. The Ashburton butchers have, (the Christchurch Press reports), made a further reduction in the price of mutton, but no reduction in the price of lamb or beef. Legs of mutton are now being retailed at 7.jd per lb., forequarters at Old, and chops (id. The prices for beef are: Rump steak Is 3d per lb., ribs Sd, and sirloin lOd.

According to the February Abstract of Statistics, the index number for the three food groups for the month of January showed a decrease of nine points as compared with the preceding month’s figure. The decrease, says the Statistician, was not so marked as had been anticipated. The increase per cent, over July, 1914, was 78.13, against 78.97 for the previous month.

The Government lias made a very excellent move in Canterbury by planting lucerne on the spare land alongside the railway line, where it seems to be well established and growing splendidly (says a southern paper). This is an object lesson that comes under the eyes of thousands of what can he done on very light land by proper tillage, and if taken up-will add greatly to the population on such lands, as the farmers will be enabled to go in for butterfiit as well as their other agricultural lines. At the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court recently, Harriet Edwards, a married woman from Porofi, was charged with having assaulted her 15-year-old daughter by beating her with a stick. The girl had been severely beaten with a supplejack, her shoulders being black and blue, and head cut. The child was not vicious. Accused was convicted, placed on probation for twelve months, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. £3 17s (id. The Magistrate said if lie inflicted a line it would fall upon the husband. He was determined to put down this class of offence with a strong hand. If the woman again ill-treated the child and infringed the terms of: the probation she would be brought up and sent to Mount Eden.

In view of the world-wide prevalence of pilferage of goods in transport, a suggestion recently made by the Shipping Department of the Federation of British Industries will be very welcome (says the Sydney Shipping List). The Department proposes that goods should he packed in wire-netting, the parcels being formed into hales qs usual, with hoop-iron bands on the outside. With this arrangement the parcel would have to be entirely opened up before an article could lie extracted, and it is reckoned that the delay and difficulty of this process would seriously discourage pilfering. The extra cost and weight involved would he trilling in cofuparison with the additional protection afforded.

“It i- time that members of the Presbytery realised that the Church should attend to its first duty—that of paying its ministers a living wage,” said the Rev. J. Paterson, at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery, the Sun reports. The Church to-day, said Mr Paterson, was the most unjust employer on the face of the earth. Despite the difference in the cost of living at the present time, most of the Churches expected their ministers to live on their old stipends. It was time the Churches did justice to their ministers before extending themselves on charities and altruistic schemes?. He could not,see how the blessing of (lod could possibly be expected where Churches did not do elementary justice to the men whom they employed to do their work. A great deal of the world’s work is done by men with negative ability, said the Rev. Wyndham Heathcote, in an address in Wellington. Two principles seemed to he truefirst, the dictum that the more man knew the less influence he had over the masses: and second, that in religion and politics it was advisable not to see two sides of any question, but only one. Hence great philosophers and great thinkers had no direct influence over the crowds. Before their thoughts could be understood by men they had to be recast and generally perverted. All the great religions had gone through the same experience. To have influence with the crowd a man should know not much more than they knew. Hence, great writers had to suppress their finest work to obtain a sale, whereas Billy Sunday and Charlie Chaplin did not need to suppress anything to meet the popular demand. The late General Booth was an instance of success through negative ability. He knew' no science or philosophy, and of all criticism he was profoundly ignorant. It was safe to say that if he had known them he could uoi have accomplished wliat he did.

Mr Bligh, of the White Cross Longue, was a visitor to Foxton on Thursday last. A meeting of the Seliool Committee will be held at 7.30 o’clock this evening. To-day is St. Patrick’s Day, and is being observed as a Bank Holiday. In the House last night the Leader of the Opposition’s Amendment to the Address-in-Reply was defeated by 39 votes to 25. The whole of the stoke hold crew of the ferry steamer Wahinc signed off at Wellington yesterday, on the grounds of insufficiency of food. The vessel is now laid up. Messrs Briscoe and Co.’s warehouse at Auckland was totally destroyed by lire yesterday. Stock insured for £33,000, stock valued at £OO,OOO. Building valued at £26,000 insured for £9,000. Caruso, the world-famous tenor, has been induced to act for pictures, and his first, “His Great Romance," will be the leading attraction in the Town Hall Saturday programme.

Mr T. K. Sidey was criticising the Official Labour Party in the House. “At any rate, it is an opposition with a backbone,'’ chimed in Mr Parry, “And no head,” rejoined Mr Atmore.

On Saturday afternoon the Royal will screen “A Gentleman’s Agreement,” featuring Nell Shipman, who will be remembered as the great star in “Back to God’s Country."

This picture 'will be screened at Saturday’s matinee only.—Advt.

A veteran champion has been discovered in Pahialua. At the swimming sports, Mr A. Martin, aged 83, who has just celebrated his diamond wedding, was the winner of the Dash Handicap. There is no need for youths of 50 to despair after that. The old gentleman is grandfather to Mrs 11. Berry, of Foxton.

A welcome social will be tendered in the Salvation Army Hall this evening, at 7.30 o’clock, to Ensign and Mi's Shilton, the new officers appointed to succeed Captain and Mrs McCullough in charge of the Foxton Corps. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present. Owing to the illness of their child, Captain and Mrs McCullough have had to apply for a transfer. One of the best sporting dramas on it big scale ever seen here is the First National super-attraction, “In Old Kentucky,” starring Anita Stewart, and produced by Marshall Xeilan. As a spectacle alone it is worth while, and when you add rapid action, superlative direction, magnificent scenes, and hundreds of actors, both human and equine, something out of the ordinary may be expected. To be shown ai the Royal on Saturday.—Advt.

Inquiring “llow is this for the speed limit,” a correspondent writes to the Lyttelton Times: —Mr d. Cook, of Oxford, threshed three stacks of wheat at Oust on Monday, 71 h March, 450 bushels, carted the grain to the mill on Tuesday, Bth March, where It was ground into flour oil Wednesday. The (lour was pul in trucks on Thursday for transit to Auckland. It was expected to be put in the boat on Friday, so that it will be bread within a few da vs.

Mr H. H. Daniel I, of the legal firm of Messrs Cooper, Daniell and Co., who has been in practice in Fox (on for the past twelve months, has entered into partnership with Mr H. Hart, of Masterton, and will leave Foxton at the end of the month. During his residence "in Foxton, Mr Daniell has taken a keen interest in local affairs, and among other activities tilled the position of secretary of the local Horticultural Society. Mr Daniell’s many Foxton friends will wish him every success in his professional career in Masterton.

A recent, cable states that unemployment has produced a tragic change in thousands of South Welsh homes. The war-time earning- enabled the people to live in comparative affluence, and they furnished their homes in some degree of: luxury. Now forty thousand are idle in the Rhondda Valley alone, and acute distress exists nmong large families. The Daily Chronicle states that the reverse of fortune is pitiful. Pianos are sold for £l2, and good kitchen chairs at a shilling each, A collier always insisted on buying the best available piano. Now the same homes are often reduced to hare requirements in furniture, and some even of these have begun to vanish.

There was a large audience at the Royal last night lo witness the screening of “Mind the Paint, Girl,’’ half the proceeds from which are to be devoted to the queen candidates. As a special attraction there was a chorus and orchestral items. Mr J. Colder composed (he music for the chorus, and is to be congratulated upon the catchy air and the success of its rendering. A slide showing the juvenile queen and maids of honour in connection with the first queen carnival in Foxton was thrown bn the screen at the close of the programme, and depicted the elaborate robes worn on that occasion, and should prove an inspiration to those responsible for file carrying out of similar work on this occasion. An excellent picture programme was screened, the principal item, “Mind the Paint, Girl,” featuring the universally popular actress, Anita Stewart, in a drama of the stage. The Band contributed several selections from the Royal balcony prior to the entertainment. The entertainment will he repeated this evening,

Rather a comfortable-looH&g ear was pulled up in a Napier street and a bystander drew the attention of the driver to the fact that he had lost his number plate. The obliging individual promptly offered ¥5 get a piece of chalk to mark the number on the car, in order to MM the owner being fined three He went into a shop and with the chalk, aiuMTcir-the lowing dialogue occurred: your number?” “I haven’t got one.” “Well, you’ll be tined.” “Look on the back of the ear.” The bystander did so, and on seeing a crown, said: “Oh, you travel for a brewery?”' The driver then explained that the crown represented Royalty, and that the car belonged to the Governor-General, and was not governed by the laws of the land. — Taumarumn Press.