LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2277, 17 May 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A handsome three-decker wedding cake is on view in Perreau’s window.

The Horowhcnua County Council has at present an overdraft of £2,000. The Moutoa School Committee advertise for competent man to lay down an asphalt tennis court at the school, Moutoa.

During the month of April, 510 passengers were carried by aviation companies in business in New Zealand.

Counterfeit florins aro at present ■n circulation in Palmerston North. They are an excellent imitation <•{' the genuine article, says the M.D, Times.

Good progress is being made with lhe laying of the sewerage pipes, which arc now almost completed a’ong Johnston Street. Tenders are invited by Mr S. Hudson for the purchase and removal of the Diggers’ Fruit Shop in Main Streot. Mr Hornblow returned from a visit to Auckland on Saturday, where ho attended the annual Communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge. “The Life Line," a romance of 'and and sea, will sweep over you in waves of delight and excitement. See ii at the Town Hall on Wednesday.—A dvt.

Fifty-two motor cars and twentysix motor trucks have been registered with the Horowhenua County Connell during the last twelve month.-.

At a sate of Rangitiekei Swamp land at Tc Teko, about fifteen miles from. Whakatane, last week, the highest prices realised for farms were £47 10s per acre.

Mr F. Newman, M.P.. has been informed by the Minister of Public. Works that the question of tollgates is to be investigated by a committee of inquiry. Sir James Allen will, according to a London cable, visit France this week to select sites for the New Zealand memorial columns at Les Quesnoy. Messines and Longucval. Mr Darcy Ball, who recently underwent an operation in the Palmerston Hospital, speaks in high terms of praise of the splendid treatment he received from both the surgical and nursing staffs. A special meeting of the local School Committee will be held at 7.30 o’clock this evening, to appoint a caretaker. The committee has received a fair number of applications for the position. George Vincent Keys, who escaped from the Mt. Eden prison, Auckland, on April Bth, was recaptured near Riverhead on Saturday. He was surprised in an outhouse, when having his midday meal, and did not resist, arrest.

A Maori boy at 'Wanganui tied a rope round a kitten’s neck, dragged the cat about, threw it down a bank, and then dug a hole and buried it alive. The Magistrate ordered the boy to receive six strokes of the birch as a corrective.

A youth named Donald Timms, aged seventeen, was admitted to the Masterlon hospital on Friday night, suffering from a fractured skull, a broken arm, and other injuries sustained through a tree falling opon him. Distant fields look green to shoppers. Our representative had a look round many of the principal drapery establishments in Auckland last week, and was convinced that prices alround were higher in the Queen City than in Foxton.

Get rid of that stubborn cold. Take NAZOL,” the penetrating, prompt and pure remedy. 1/6 buys 60 doses.

The Foxton Auctioneering Company solicit entries of live and dead stock of all descriptions for next Saturday’s mart sale. It is requested that particulars of entries be submitted by 10 o’clock on Thursday morning, so that same can bo advertised.

The great all-British sporting melodrama, featuring Bombardier Wells, “The Silver Lining,” has been secured for early screening at the Town Hall. The sporting events portrayed in this picture include the Ascot Gold Cup horserace, the Diamond Spulls at Henley, boxing match and aeroplane race. The latest Selzniek picture starring Olive Thomas is entitled “Youthful Folly,” and in it Miss Thomas appears as both star and author. Sho not only plays the leading role, but is solely responsible for the plot which is developed by the action. — Wednesday and Thursday, at the Royal.—Advt.

Although a number of men previously engaged at the llnxmills have left the district, there is still a number of unemployed in Foxton. The borough drainage works have given employment to a fair number, and those offering in this connection are in excess of the number required. The closing of the mills has imposed hardship on a number of families.

In the course of a conversation with a “Herald” representative, an Englishman said what he missed most in New Zealand was the twilight. He added that he had played cricket and other outdoor games in the twilight in England up to 9 'o'clock at night. Here in New Zealand the change from light to darkness was very sudden, and after sunset, particularly when motoring, the light was very trying to the sight.

Our representative, when in Auckland last week, paid a visit to Air Clement. Wragg’s observatory and tropical garden at Birkenhead, and was shown two large storms raging in the sun. These were interestingly explained by Ah' AYragges who stated that as a result the earth was at present being bombarded by ether waves. He added that among other manifestations we would get magnificent views of the aurora. His propresy was accurate in this respect, for on Sunday oveneent spectacle in the southern sky, and again last night. A Business Talk with Business Men—“ There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*