Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APHID 5, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2259, 5 April 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APHID 5, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local State School re-opened this morning after the Easter vacation. A public holiday will be held tomorrow, in honour of the Carnival Sports to bo held on the racecourse. The result.- of the various art unions and the winning queen will be announced at the Town Hall tomorrow night. At the local police court this morning, before Mr Tlornblow, •DP., Harry Dredge, a first offending inebriate, was convicted and discharged.

In the Auckland Police Court last week, Mr Poynton, S.M., fined John Fairley .C 25, or two months’ in gaol, for carrying a pistol without a license, and with refusing to leave a hotel when requested to do so. Fairley and another man were refused liquor, being under the influence at the time. When they were got out into the street they threatened the licensee, and Fairley drew a pistol, which he flourished.' Air A. H. Vile, who has been editor of the Maslerton Age for several years past, has joined the literary staff of the Manawatu Daily Times. Both the editor (Air P. C. Frceth) aml Mr Vile started out its lads on their journalistic career from the same office, the old ‘‘Daily” in Masferton (now the “Wairarapa Daily Times"), which was the training ground of some of our bestknown find talented New Zealand journalists and commercial printers.

“We have now in New Zealand a Parliament of: really earnest .men," said Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., at the social to celebrate the entering of Spreydon into Greater Christchurch last week'. "The spirit in Parliament to-day is so good that, while we may differ, there is not a snob in the House. Though we may differ (in the floor of the House, those differences are not carried into the lobby. Much as 1 may differ in opinion from the rest of the House, 1 can safely say that the men in Parliament now are absolutely clean men. We have as clean a Parliament as can be found in any part of the world to-dav.”

An indication of what can he done in the way of soil improvement by a single individual, E afforded by a returned soldier, who has by no means fully recovered from the effects of poison gas at Passchendele, says the New Zealand Herald. Using a four-horse team on his land at Tokoro during the past 12 months, lie ploughed, harrowed, disced, and drilled 100 acres for turnips, disced, harrowed, and drilled 100 acres for grass, and ploughed, disced. harrowed and drilled 20 acres for oats. lie fed and looked after his own horses, superintended a certain amount of stock, did his own cooking and housework, and then found time to attend a few lectures on agriculture, and to visit some of the agricultural demonstration plots in the Waikato,

The borough poundkeeper inserts an impounding notice elsewhere in this issue.

Nominations for Wellington Harbour Board election are advertised elsewhere in this issue. The annual School Committee election takes place on Monday, April 25th. Nominations close on April 18th. The Italian warship Leonardo da Vinci, which was sunk by an explosion at Taranto in August, 1916, and was recently refloated upside down, was righted recently, and the work of refitting her is to be started shortly. Admission at the Town Hall tomorrow for the drawing of the artunions and queen contest result is adults Is, children half-price. Good vocal and instrumental programme. The admission for the Coronation ceremony on Thursday night will be 2s and Is; plan at Heath's.

In reply to his inquiry as to the intentions of the Government in regard to the establishment of a system of toll gates throughout the Dominion, Mr Edward Newman, M.P., has received a reply from the lion. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, to the effect that it is intended to refer this question to a committee for full investigation. At about 11.45 on Sunday night the town was aroused once more by the fire-bell and siren. The outbreak was ft seven-roomed cottage in Avenue Road, occupied by Mrs Free senior, and owned by Mr R. T. Betty. Although the brigade was promptly on the scene they found that it was impossible to save the building, and concentrated on the adjoining house premises. The (lames, aided by the dryness of the timber and a strong easterly breeze, soon enveloped the building, making it impossible to salvage anything. The Brigade did good work, however, in preventing the fire from spreading, and in saving the outhouses. The outbreak was probably caused by the igniting of some dollies left in front of the lire to dry. The house was valued at £450. The insurances are: Mr Betty £2OO in National Insurance Office, and Air Free £l5O on furniture and effects in the Royal office.

The recent reappearance of the fashionable buttonhole, more especially among middle-aged men, might well indicate a tendency toward brighter masculine decoration. Both in the city and the West End it is noticeable that this pleasant, if old-fashioned idea, which fell into disuse nearly a decade ago, is regaining popularity. A sure indication of the buttonhole revival is afforded by the number of neat little nosegays to he seen in the black coats of any largo suburban station. There is one man in South London who claims to have worn a fresh buttonhole every day for the last 60 year.-. He probably hits few rivals, though the late Mr Chamberlain's orchid buttonholes were a famous complement to his monocle. Lord Lonsdale’s favourite gardenia is also well known. According to florists, (he most popular buttonhole is the unobtrusive bunch of sweefstuclling violets.