LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2253, 19 March 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sir Thomas* Mackenzie has accepted a call to the Legislative Council. It is understood Sir Janies Carroll will shortly be offered a seat in the Council.

The s.s. Kennedy is expected from Terakohe on Monday with a cargo of cement. In the event of the bar not being suitable she will proceed to Wanganui. The artesian bore for the borough water supply is down to 155 feet. The contractors anticipate to strike a flow at 170 feet, by Monday or Tuesday next.

A press message from Auckland states that the master butchers have decided to further reduce the retail prices of beef and mutton by amounts varying from Id to Id per pound. Members of the local Presbyterian Choir motored to Himntangi this afternoon for a picnic at the homestead of the Barber Estate, the residence of Mr and Mrs Renton; The party were motored to and from the. locality by Messrs Hopkins, Speirs and Stevenson.

A special general meeting of members of the Pox ton Racing Club was held last night, when the rules drawn up by the special .committee set up at the annual meeting were submitted for consideration and adoption. Several slight amendments were made, and the rules were adopted and ordered to be printed.

The Minister for Public Works, in a corrected statement in the House, says that the Mangahao hydro-elec-tric power works will be completed in two years and nine months. Mr Coates added that the indications were that any curtailment of expenditure was unlikely to affect Mangahao, and he therefore thought the work would he finished at the date originally planned.

The following story is vouched for by the Hawke's Bay Tribune. A Napier dentist had as a patient a union individual. At the moment of an injection of cocaine pending the drawing of a tooth, he had arrived at the assertion that he would not work after 5 p.m. for anyone. “By jovc, 1 believe you’re right!” remarked the dentist. “It is 5 p.m. now. You can come hack and get that tooth out to-morrow.”

Wanganui exports for 1920 totalled £4,037.110, a record for the port, the amount being considerably in excess of that for the previous year —£3,975,354. The port is now fourth in the Dominion so far as exports tiro concerned. Notwithstanding record shipments of meat and wool, the stores tire practically full, approximately 3,000 hales of Imperial wool being still in store, in addition to hist year’s clip. The Taihape correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle relates the following: While driving sheep to last Wednesday's sale, a well known resident was asked by a friend passing to have an apple. “Certainly,” he said, “I will give you three sheep for two apples.” This is a fact, and shows how the farmer at present values his sheep. Later in the day a friend on the wayside asked him to partake of a little refreshment, which he did, and considered that also worth a fat lamb. There are at present live candidates in the held for (he Wellington Mayoralty, namely, Messrs T. Hislop, Len McKenzie, C. J. B. Norwood, R. A. Wright, M.P., and P. Hickey, the last named being the official Labour nominee. There is also a possibility that Mr T. Shader Weston will he a candidate. Efforts have been made to persuade some of the candidates to retire from the contest, so as to avoid vote-split! ing, hut so far without

success. In his speech directed against the Labour Party, in the House, Mr Atniore recalled statements that men who went to the war were “mugs,” “Point of order,” said Mr Eraser. “Did I understand the member for Nelson to say that the Labour members of the House made these statements?’’ The Speaker did not hear the question, hut Air Atmore said “No.” “Am 1 wrong?” asked Mr Fraser. “Of course; you’re always wrong. I could he quite certain of that without knowing what you said.”

A witness in a land valuation case heard at the Christchurch Supreme Court gave it flatly as his opinion that it was impossible at the present time to sav what land values were. On Saturday last his firm put up several properties and never received a hid, while the previous Saturday some £50,000 worth of property was .sold under the hammer. Ilis Honour said the present condition of the market was no criterion at all either as regards stock or land. People were holding, and did not know what was going to happen. The witness said he had never before experienced anything like the present position of affairs.

The following resignations were received at this week's meeting of (he AYnnganui Education Board: — J. A. McDonald, head teacher, Tiritea; C. McConachie, head teacher, AVhakaronga; E. McCormick, assistant, Turakina; L. H. Fletcher, assistant, Awahuri; O. M. assistant, AYaverley ' J. McMurray, assistant, Carnarvon; M. Carr, assistant, Hunterville; M. A. AYhite, assistant, Ohingaiti: J. Me Lea y, sole teacher, Mama; R. Rees, teacher, Rewa; C. AY. Harre, sole teacher, Coal Creek; A. L. AYilson, sole teacher, Mangarimu; S. P. Foster, sole teacher, Mangaeturoa; F. C. Renyard, special assistant, Feeding D.H.S.; G. L. Burraister, draughtsman, Education Office; H. J. Thornton, assistant secretary, Education Office.

Carpentier states that he has ■signed a contract to fight Dempsoy in New York State on the 2nd July. You’Ve all heard Caruso’s fine voice on the gramophone. See him in “The Splendid Romance,” at the Town Hall to-night.—Advt.

A division taken upon Mr Holland’s amendment to the Address-in-replv was defeated by 58 votes to to 8, only the Labour party voting for it. At the Methodist Church on Easter Sunday evening ,Miss Sawyers, of Wellington, will render three sacred solos. Miss W. Harding, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs Harding,-of Foxton, has received intimation that .she has passed her 13. A. degree. At present Miss Harding is a student at the Wellington Training College. There were 75 applications for the position of Town_ Clerk of Levin. The interview with the two selected applicants will take place on Monday morning next. Applications were received from all parts of New Zealand. The name of Miss Walker was inadvertently omitted as one of those in charge of the refreshment stall at the recent Methodist Sale of Work. As a result of the effort the church funds will benefit to the extent of over £7O. The new sensation of the screen, Buck Jones, appears at the Royal on Monday next in “The Square Shooter,” also Gladys Broekwell in “Flames of the Flesh.” Usual prices, fid and Is Id only, will bo charged for the double programme. —Advt.

At the local police court yesterday. before Messrs Hornblow and Perreau, J’s.P., Samuel McGregor was charged with drunkenness and committing a grossly indecent act. Accused, who was allowed out on bail, did not appear. On the first charge he was convicted and lined 10s, and on the second charge convicted and fined 20s.

The Rev. A. T. Thompson, AI.A., 8.D., organiser for the British and Foreign Bible Society,, will be staying with the Vicar of Foxion during bis three days’ sofbnt he will have a ready response to his efforts on behalf of the work, which is of very vital importance to the Churches. We owe ouv religious freedom and liberty to those who gave us the Holy Bible.

Meat is down, but there is a bigger slump in meat in New Zealand than at Home, stated a city commercial authority to the press. It lias boon caused by the shipping congestion, and we arc not getting the stuff away. All exporters are loaded up with meat, and the date ol' shipment of anything killed now is so uncertain that nobody is going to buy it. A great deal of the financial trouble in this country today is caused by the shipping congestion.

Air F. D. Whibley, who has been associated with The “Alanawatu Herald” Co. for many years, has accepted the position of auctioneer and manager of the Foxton Auctioneering Co., which commences operations next week. Apart from his journalistic career, Air Whibley lias had a wide experience in commercial life, and is well and favourably known throughout the.district. His many friends will wish him and the new firm every success.

In answer to a plea for lenient treatment for a prisoner who admitted having embezzled some £4OO from his employers in the hope of making good his gambling losses, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert: Stout) remarked in the Wellington Supreme Court : —“Some people seem to think that the bookmaker is a man to be honoured, a man who should not be punished, hut the bookmaker is ruining hundreds of our young people. So hookmaking and racing go on. as if everything was right and proper, but the community pays and the weak ones suffer."

At Thursday night's meeting;.of the local School Committee a letter was received from Mr 11. P. Gabites, first assistant, stating- that lfe had accepted a transfer to a similar position at Hylton Street School, Feildinpr- The Chairman said not .only the Committee, but the staff, parents, pupils and ex-pupils would regret to hear of Mr Gabitcs' de-. parture. They had come to look upon Air Gabitcs as a permanent fixture at the school. He asked that any further reference to his departure be left over until definite information was received from the Board. The head master, Air Furrie, stated that it was probable that another member of the staff, Miss V. Ray, would accept a transfer to the Marion school.

A correspondent sends the following to the Nelson Mail. —Considerable interest has been aroused locally during the last few days by the marvellous and instantaneous cure of a great invalid. It was classed as quite a hopeless case, but through “the miracle man,” Ratana, of Wanganui, she lias been raised up, to the amazement of all who know her. For over nineteen years it has been impossible for her to hold up her spine, and she has been encased in a steel frame from head to foot. Now she needs no support at all, and has no pain, and is daily increasing ill health and strength. When so remarkable a case occurs at our doors, it certainly demands serious and impartial attention. The lady in question will be pleased to give full information to anyone requiring it (her address mav be obtained at this office) savs the Mail.