Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2269, 28 April 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

If you didn’t see “Sooner or Later," at the Royal lasi night, dont’ miss it to-night. Ask your friends who did see it. —Advt. See “The Fall of a Saint" and “The Sins of St. Anthony,” both screening at the Town Hall next week. —Advt. The annual meeting of the local Patriotic Society will he held in the Council Chamber this evening, when ilie* report and balance-sheet will he submitted, and officers elected for the ensuing ve.ar.

Did you >ee Anita Stewart in “In Old Ivon lucky"? If so, see her in “The Fighting Shepherdess,” ;ii Iho Royal on Saturday. It is even bigger, brighter and bed or. And don’l miss “The l.osl Cil v.” —Advt.

The Town Clerk ha- asked us to slale I hat all electors wit li residential qiuililiciilions (not being ratepavers) who did not, vole at the present election of councillors, will lie struck off the roll, and that in each such case a fresh claim for enrolment must be made before their names can be included in future rolls.

At the I’almerston Magi>lrate's Court yesterday, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M.. Andrew Bezzant, alias Deer, alias Anderson, was charged with unlawfully converting to his own use a motor ear, the property of Messrs Goldingluun and Beckett, Ltd. To this charge he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Bezzant was further charged that, on February 28th, be did cause I lie death of David Davidson, of Bunnytlmrpe. Accused reserved bis defence, and pleaded not guilty. He was committed for trial at the sitting of the Supreme Court, commencing at Palmerston North on Mav 10th.

An untoward incident occurred during the address given by bis Lordship Bishop Julius at the united memorial service in the King Edvard Barracks, Christchurch, on Monday afternoon. Mr Albert Bidgood, who conducted the combined Christchurch Professional Musicians’ Orchestra and the Woolston Band, was sitting a little to bis Lordship's right, when suddenly, while the Bishop was in the middle of an impassioned and eloquent appeal to his hearers, his hand came down on Mr Bidgood’s bead. No one was more grieved at this unpremeditated “laying on of hands” than his Lordship, hut the conductor appeared none the worse for it.

The Presbyterian Church Social hold in the Masonic Hall yesterday afternoon proved a highly successful function. A number of visitors from Rangiotu and Glen Oroua were present. Tlie result of the afternoon's effort was very successful financially, £35 being realised as a result of tlje effort. The ladies of the Church are to be congratulated upon their good work. During the afternoon vocal items were rendered by Mrs Dickson jar., a recent arrival from Scotland, Miss McEwati, and an instrumental item by Mrs Barton. The Rev. Mr Hajliday conveyed the thanks of the Church to all who had assisted to make the effort such a signal success.

Anzae Day celebrations at Levin were a great success this year. The main thoroughfare was crowded to witness the procession, and the memorial meeting was crowded out. A number of Foxton bandsmen assisted. It is Imped that next year Foxton will organise a similar celebration.

Mr Charles Francis, proprietor of one of the largest printing businesses in New York, who is on a world's tour, is at present in Dunedin. Mr Francis went to Dunedin from Hobart in 1894, and started the Otago Punch two years later, afterwards leaving for New York, where he is now known as.the “dean of American printers.”

“The question, of course, arises: Why should the local landowner he taxed to pay for the benefit of the peregrinating motorists?” asks the Farmers’ Union Advocate. “This is the problem which the Good Roads Association has set itself to solve. If is obvious that at least the main highways should he made and maintained out of public moneys, so that the city dwellers should hear their proportion equally with the rural inhabitants. Taranaki has proved that good roads are possible, and it is for the Government to follow the example and give us highways tit for modern traffic.”

A dissertation on snobs .appears in The Gentlewoman, where the writer states that not only are there adult snobs, hut small children have been found to He “exceedingly snobbish and bragged about their possessions as offensively as their elders." This is open to question, as sometimes children like to “go one better” than their companions without any snobbish intention. For instance, two New Zealand children were having a bragging match, and had compared possessions more or less angrily, when one said triumphantly, “Well, I have a dead grandmother!” The oilier one was dismayed only for a moment, hut rushed within the verandah door, and said breathlessly to her mucliamused grandparent, “Well, I shall soon —shan't I, grannie dear!’’ The Gentlewoman goes quite a long way in looking for snobbishness, and finds it in a Manchester terrier, who, liis mistress found, was hated by the servants. At last she asked why. A Scotch housemaid looked dour, and said, “You couldn’t expect us to like him Ma’am. We’ve been here five-years, and lie never comes down to the kitchen. No, but just comes to the top of the s Fairs and harks for us to bring up a meal. We tried to coax- him to come downstairs with kindness, hut it was no good.”