LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2255, 24 March 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The weather‘conditions have been very boisterous of late throughout this district. A fierce gale perienced last night.. In response to the wishes of a large and representative deputation, Air -T. A, Nash, ALP., has decided to again offer his services as Mayor of Palmerston X. Cr. C'rabb will also contest the Mayoralty. The Rev. Mr White, vicar of Rongotea Anglican parish, completed a series of mid-week Lenten addresses in All Saints’ Church, Foxton, last night. The addresses wore much appreciated by the congregations. Mr Matheson, Mayor of Levin, informed bis" Council at last meeting that, owing' to pressure of business, lie would not take the position as representative on the Fox r ton Harobur” Board at the forthcoming election. DON’T BE ANXIOUS.

i! Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is always kept on haml there need be no anxiety in a home where the children are subject to croup. If given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. For sale everywhere. —

, A Master ton lady has 'just presented her husband with the third set of twins, The trouble with the firemen and trimmers on. the ferry steamer Wahine has been settled, and the vessel has taken up its usual running, between Wellington and Lyttdton. Judging by its aroma, the coal which is being buined in the Palmerston gas works just now must have been mined at Nauru Island, says the Times.

See the Robert W. Chambers secret service story, “The Dark Star," at the Town Hall on Saturday, and the Gaumont Continental picture, “The Man in The Mask," mi Easter Monday.

At Palmerston yesterday the wedding was • solemnised of Miss Hazel Bett, second daughter of Mr John Bett, to Mr John Alexander Grant, of the legal firm of Messrs Loughnan and Jacobs. In the recent examinations, Mr Roy Bullard gained a partial pass in the accountancy preliminary. Roy is an ex-pupil of the local State and Palmerston High Schools, and is noAv a cadet in the Public Trust Office.

“We are getting back to pre-war conditions here," writes an American to a friend in Hamilton. “Prices are being scaled down to where they should be. Common wages, which were from 5 dols. to 6.50 dols. per day, are now 3.30 dols,, and men are plentiful.”

An outbreak of lire that was confined to one room, caused (it was estimated) some • thousands of pounds danpige, at Wellington last evening, to the stock of A. Levy, Ltd., clothing manufacturers, in tlie Colonial Mutual Buildings. Customhouse Qpav. Owing to the backing up of the river, due to the prevailing heavy winds, boring operations for the water supply have been temporarily suspended. Good progress is, however, being made with the trenching from the river site towards Union Street. About 50 yards of pipes have been laid.

Replying in the. House of Representatives to an interjection by Air W. A. Ycitcli (Wanganui), Mr Massey said that be was not opposed to State shipping. In fact, be was not sure that it would not be his duty before many months were over to move in that direction. But he wanted io see, rather, a service in which the State would be a partner. Subscriptions are being obtained in Feilding for a fund to assist the widow and family of Foreman Earns worth, of the five brigade, who lost bis life in a collision with a railway train when proceeding to a lire on a motor bicycle. So far £325 lias been obtained as a result of the “Star's” appeal.

A Maori was an interested spee■lalor at the Levin sale yesterday (says the Chronicle). Noting tlie low prices ruling for sucker and store pigs, and the thought of past tangis rising in bis mind, he was deeply stirred. “By eorry,” he said, “this, le hard luck. When le big tangi on le meat be dear; now te meat cheap there no tangi."

Born, baptised, confirmed, married, and buried in one village is the record of an old and respected Otahiiliu resident who lias • just passed away —Alis Elizabeth Victoria Hair. Bho was the daughter of the late Sergeant-Major John McAnulty, who arrived in Auckland in the year 1847 with sixty soldier pensioners to form (lie village of Otabuliu, Alls Hair was GO years of age.

There was an amusing interlude during the bearing, by Air E. K. Hunt, X.AL, *!n the Magistrate's Court (Wellington) recently, of a claim for maintenance. Counsel for the defendant, in the course of his address, said that his client was “between the devil and the deep nea." “In that case," remarked the Magistrate, “I shall push him into the deep sea,” An order was made for the plaintiff.

At the inquest- at Auckland concerning the death of the victims of the accident at Henderson on March sth, when a motor 'bus fell through a bridge, the Coroner (Mr Boynton, S.M.) said he .intended to inquire only into the cause of the deaths, and he would not allow evidence as to the state of the bridge, which was the subject for other proceedings. After hearing the evidence the Coroner returned a verdict in connection with the death of Airs Anne Harden and Miss M. * Wilson in accordance with the medical evidence. The Coroner added that no blame was attachable to the driver of the motor ’bus.

In the course of his reply in the House on Tuesday to member’s wishes for a pleasant trip to the Imperial Conference and a safe return, the Prime Alinister referred to the proposed renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. “I am not forgetting," said Air Massey, “that whatever may be said.to the contrary, the Japanese were thoroughly loyal to us during the war, and there is one point which is not generally recognised; it is that according to the existing treaty the Japanese were not compelled to go into the war. There is a special limitation to the effect that it only refers to the possible defence of India and (be For East. In spile of that, Japan with its naval strength 'came to oitr assistance, and was undoubtedly useful.” He reminded members of the big Japanese cruisers which came to Wellington to escort the New Zealand troops on their voyage, making it perfectly safe for them to leave. All New Zealanders owed Japan a debt of gratitude for this service.

A Musterton farmer, in discussing with an Age representative the pessimistic tone of-some people-, said it seemed to him to be like a person going into a sick room and saying, “Here, old chap, you are looking desperately bad) it seems to me you’re going to peg out.” If things were bad, said the farmer, it was no use making them worse by constantly croaking. A few cases of ekiekenpox and mumps are reported locally. The Commission on the Palmerston Railway Deviation took the evidence of Messrs Maxwell and Pillion, experts, yeslcrdayfwko strongly opposed the Palmerston deviation.

Yesterday afternoon the Foxton Auctioneering Company held a clearing sale on behalf of Mr W. Neville, when the firm’s auctioneer, Mr F. D. Yfhibley, ma'de his first appearance as a “knight of the hammer.” Practically everything submitted was There were several pens of poultry sold, while leghorn pullets bringing from 5s to. Os Os each, hens from 2s to 3s each, and ducks 3s each. The auctioneers are prepared to conduct sales in any part of the district. The popularity contest has resulted in Norma Talnmdge heading the poll, with Mary Bickford a had second. Norma Talnmdge appears at the Royal on. Saturday. —Advt. Tom Mix appears at the Royal on Monday next in “Fighting for Gold,” one of his most exciting pictures. As an extra, Peggy Hyland appears in “The Girl with No Regrets.”—Advt. Says the Mercantile Gazelle editorially. after commenting on the falling market for meat and wool; “It can be accepted as axiomatic that with the heavy fall in the values of our primary products there must be recessions in other directions. The inflation has been squeezed out of the values of these primary products, and so the inflation must he squeezed out of land values and out of wages. If the process of deflation is not helped along in a careful manner there will he trouble, and the trouble would he greatly intensified were any effort made by an section to retard dellation. Deflation is inevitable, as it is imperative, and we can make it easy and comfortable in ils operation, or we can make it serious and decidedly harmful. The point that must be grasped is that deflation must go on, and that it is beyond our power to .stop it.”