LOCAL AND GENERAL
The “Hernl#’ will not be published on Easter Saturday. Mrs Ryder. Purcell Street, advert ises furniture and household effects for private sole. Robert W. Chambers’ great novel, “The Dark Star,” will be the special attraction at the Town Hull on Easter Saturday.—Advt. At the Methodist Church on Easter Sunday, Miss Sawyers, of Wellington, will render three sacred solos, A memorial service in connection -with the late Airs Win, Ross was hold in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. The Rev. Ah Halliday referred in feeling terms to the Christian character of the late Airs Ross, The Maori Queen Carnival Committee are anxious that the funds they are raising in The Queen Curnival for beautifying purposes will be expended on beautifying the old Maori cemetery, where many of their ancestors are interred, The local Maori Entertainers are to appear at Levin on Thursday night in aid of the Maori Queen candidate in the forthcoming Carnival. Arrangements are also being made to give their entertainment at Pal--1 merston.
The Manuka and -Aralmra are taking up the AYabine’s ferry service. At last night's Council meeting it was hinted that a farther rise in the price of gas might be necessary if gas works expenses were not kept within reasonable limits. An emergency Bill to prevent a run on the deposits held by local bodies, iirms and companies other than banks was passed bjT the House last night. The Rev. A. T. Thompson, N.Z. agent of the British, and Foreign Bible Society, who is visiting Foxton, is the guest of the Rev. and Mrs Walton.
The Education Board has notified the Chairman of the School Com-' 5 mi-ttee that Mr H. F. Gabites, first assistant at the local State School, who has accepted a transfer to another school, will relinquish his duties at Foxfon at the end of this week. The Board is taking steps to fill the vacancy.
The Minister of Industries and Commerce announces the suspension of the building regulations in the meantime. As supplies of materials have now improved, the necessity for obtaining permits for supplies of building materials has now been waived, jhc building committees will now be disbanded except in Wellington.
A small line of old merino ewes was sold at the Ashburton yards last week at Is per head, bulyAVaipiata, Otago Central, easily lowered this record, some sheep at a sale there realising only 9s a 'dozen. This fact was mentioned at a meeting of the Ashburton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board by a medical man who had returned from it visit to AVaipiata.
A point of interest to husbands whose wives run up hills was emphasised by Air >S. E . .McCarthy, S.AL, iit a recent sitting of the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. He said that the law (dearly laid it down that where a husband made a yvife a regular and adequate allowance she must not use his credit to obtain goods, and if she did tradesmen could not recover from him.«
Not many years ago, it is truthfully said, a well-known Ohakune resident sold liquor openly over the counter. Two wags wandered in one evening, and after a demand had been made for liquid refreslimonls, the "unlicensed'’ hotelkeeper stated that he would serve one but not the other, as there was a prohibition order ont against him. Raclilii Call.
Claude Gruppelaar, aged live, son of a railway surfaceman, was killed by the south express at Templeton on Saturday. He was walking on the line with his little sister to meet his father, and was struck by the cowcatcher. AA lien picked up lie was dead. Neither child heard the approaching express. At the in<me>i tlie verdict was that 1 death was accidental, no blame being attachable to anyone.
A rowdy street scene followed Ihe arrest of an intoxicated man til Wellington on Saturday night. The man stoutly resisted, and the assistance of other constables had to be enlisted, the prisoner still fightini’' and calling on the crowd, who became threatening. The police handcuffed the man, and, followed by a large crowd, carried the prisoner to the police station. Some stones were thrown, but no one was injured. At ■the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, the licensee of the Commercial Hotel was lined .110 and costs for selling liquor after hours, and the barman £5 and costs. Twq persons were fined £2 and costs for having been on the promises after hours. A similar charge against the licensee of the Grand Hotel resulted in his being fined £2 and the barman £5, and three persons found on the premises were fined £2 and COSls.
At last night’s Council meeting Cr. Coley questioned‘whether the average cost of household connections to the drainage sewers could be carried out for the sum mentioned, viz., £4O. In some cases, he said, the house connect ions would be at least j wo chains from the main. He facetiously added that it would he cheaper for householders to erect conveniences directly over the main (laughter). Air Murray scad he had every reason to believe that the average cost* mentioned would not be exceeded.
•Sounds of smashing ghrss from the direction of the Christchurch Cathedral at about one o’clock on Tuesday morning aroused the Dltenlion of a few people in the vicinity at that lonely hour. There were several crashes, suggestive of a window being broken. A few minutes later a policeman escorted a woman and a girl from the shadow of the Cathedral to the central police station. It transpired that the woman had apparently -thrown bottles at the Cathedral, for some reason. undisclosed, The girl, aged about Hi years, was her daughter.
The Rev. A. T. Thompson, N.Z. agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, conducted services at the Anglican and Methodist churches on Sunday last. He* dealt interestingly with the work of this world-wide organisation. To-night in the Masonic Hall, Mr Thompson will deal with the subject in greater detail. The Mayor will preside, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Miss Miller, who accompanies the agent, addressed a meeting of ladies in All Saints’ School yesterday afternoon, with the object of forming a local branch, and to interest the children in this great work.
The annual meeting of the local ■Horticultural Society was held last night. Full report will appear in our next issue. Mr J. P. Brandon has been elected unopposed to the Mayoralty of Otaki, while for the council no fewer than 10 candidates are nominated for the six vacancies. •The Shop Day in aid of the Maori Queen Carnival candidate attracted a large number of patrons on Saturday. During the evening the Maori songsters kept the crowd amused with vocal items, which were much appreciated. Councillors got a slight foretaste at last night’s Council meeting of what the temporary Council Chamber would be like in the coming winter, and suggestions were made for the erection of heaters behind each councillors’ chair.
Replying to Mr Field in the House, Hon. Mr Xus worthy said that the question of freights on hemp was being looked into by the Premier. The. question of encouraging the growth of llax was under consideration by his Department. The Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce has notified the local Chamber that it will be pleased to receive a deputation on Monday evening, April 4th, to discuss matters in connection with the Fox ton port. The local Chamber has asked the Harbour Board to be represented at the meeting.
The Taranaki News remarks that a lately returned New Plymouth resident states in January he paid 15s per day at a London hotel equal to the best in New Zealand. Boots of good quality cost him 255, tyid shirts (is (id each. l The dearness of living at Home, so far as clothing was concerned, was all a mvtli.
Green or ripe tomato chutney (Australian recipe): Six lbs. green tomatoes, cut up in slices.'(if ripe, should be scalded and peeled before cutting up); four large sliced onions; 111). I reach 1 or brown sugar: 1 quart vinegar; tablespoon mustard; .1. dessertspoon white pepper; 1 dessertspoon cayenne; T dessertspoon cloves, and foz. small chilies (the two latter to be in a muslin bag). Boil altogether for one and a-luilf hours. Bottle carefully.
The Mayor stated'at last night’s Council meeting that the Royal Commission set up to take evidence re the Palmerston railway deviation would sit at Wellington to-day. Expert evidence would be given in opposition to the Palmerston deviation, bin no further local evidence would lie required. He stated further that Mr Leigh Hunt would give evidence against the Palmerston deviation, and probably Mr Carr, president of the Wellington. Chamber of Commerce.
Speaking in the House on Iho Ad-dress-in-Reply debate last week, Mr Isiil protested against a statement by M r Parry referring' to t]<o possibility of war between England and America. Mr Isitt considered Ibis was an eventuality not conceivable by any ordinary person. While lie credited Labour men with humanitarian ideals, he could only deprecate most strongly the Labour members’ continual sympathising with movements inimical to British interests. [What we cannot understand is why these extremist cranks remain within the Empire when there is such a crying need for their activities in Russia'?]
If the complaint of Mr R. W. Smith (Waimarino) against the Railway Department was not accepted as emphatic, it was not the fault of Mr Smith. He gave instances in the House last week of the way in which timber, produce, and stock were held up. "I do not blame you," he said to the Minister of Railways, “but 1 do blame those who have allowed the railways to get into their present condition. 1 hope that when you do go Home, you will place the portfolio of Railways in the hands of a strong man, who will not have too much to do." Does Mr Smith know anything of Mr MoYilly, the General Manager? When a juryman named Morris was called at the fl'a-millon Supreme Court this week, he put in a long written statement of several clauses. each commencing “I believe.” ■Among them were: “I believe that in the Divine order which undoubtedly exists the New Testament statement is true, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.’ I believe my duty in regard to all delinquents is bear and forgive, even as Christ commanded. I believe 1 must not explain away or postpone the duty laid -on me by conscience, but must put it into practice at once, here and now." Mr •lust ice Hosking said: “It is no use arguing with you. I do not think you a safe man to have on a jury. You are excused on that ground.” Says a writer in the Post: My advice to all workers, be they watersiders or ribbon-sellers, waitresses or ledger-keepers, carpenters or iron-moulders, if you’ve got a job, hold it down, and hold it down with both hands, and hard, for the wartime jazz and big profits, high wages. great turnovers, lovely prices, are over. It will not matter how much cheaper things may become, to any man or woman, if they are not earning money or enough to lmy them! Get this idea clearly into your head that New Zealand lives on wlia.t it sends away to other markets; that the bulk of this is meat and wool, which are well down in price: that markets arc being missed and the flow of money into the country is stopped by disputes —no matter who is to blame —get these ideas firmly fixed in mind, and then hold down your jobs, and nail them down if you can.
Mr E. Dixon, Mayor of Hawera, has been selected as the Reform candidate for the Patea seat. The new Counties Act now in force provides for future county elections being held on the second Wednesday in May, instead of in November, and the annual meeting for the election of chairman on the fourth Wednesday in May. Another provision in the new Act is that any ■■ ratepayer six months in with his rates would be. debarred from voting at a county election. The Fox ton Auctioneering Company will hold a clearing sale on the premises, Whittaker Street, tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon, at 1 o’clock, on account of Mr W. Neville. Further entries of furniture or goods of any description are solicited. Particulars of any goods that it is desired should be .submitted under the hammer should be furnished to the auctioneers on Wednesday morning. In the House last week Mr Holland asked the Premier if he would give‘the House an assurance that when he went to the'lmperial Conference he would not be a parly to pooling the resources of the various countries of the Empire in connection with, the war debt. Mr Masseysaid lie wished the lion, gentleman to understand that when he (Mr Massey) went to the Imperial Conference, or whatever it was called, lie would not go as a delegate. He would go as a representative of the people of New Zealand and with a free hand. He would not take any instructions from the lion, member for Bujler. Mr Holland: “Very well, we know how to take that.” There was a sensation at a Roman Catholic annual concert in the Empire Theatre at Dargaville on Thursday night (says the New Zealand Herald). All went well until the last tableau, “God Save Ireland,” when the Very Rev. Dean Van Dyk .-.poke on the Irish question, and bitterly attacked Mr Lloyd George. He accused the British ol “lying and treachery,” and of outrages in Ireland, his remarks provoking great resentment. He asked the audience to join it) singing the Irish national song along with the children, and this they did standing. The dean then went off the stage, and the curtain fell, whereupon Dir Calder called out for the curtain to be raised while they sang the National Anthem. Still no move was made by the dean. Then Dir A. E. Harding took charge of the concert. There was tense excitement. He said the dean had not played the game. They had come for a concert, not for an address on the Irish question. The dean had spoken very ill-advisedly and at a most inopportune time. Mr Harding then called upon tluf audience to sing “God Save the King,” and this was done heartily by most people in the hall, but the dean did not make his re-appearance. There is great re|. sent meat over the dean’s remark^* and attitude.
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