LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2279, 21 May 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Huggins, public health officer, visited T’oxton yesterday. The Yanks said “I was tickled to death.” So will you be if you see Harold Llovd at The Koval to-night. —Advt.

The Levin Chronicle records the death at St. Joseph’s Convent of Sister Mary Cecilia, after an illness lasting several weeks. A prisoner at the Ml. Eden gaol was given ten days on bread and water for attempting to escape by medium of a telephone wire. A witness in a separation case at Christchurch was asked her relationship to a certain man. She said be was her “sister's husband’s brother's wife’s brother.” The question of relationship was not pursued. A Masterlon young man who addressed the Governor-General and the Acting-Prime Minister on matters he considered of vital importance l o the Dominion, has been committed to a mental hospital. The Rangiora branch of the Farmers’ Union on Tuesday passed the following resolution: “That the Farmers’ Union take no further action in regard to shipping until the Government contract with the shipping companies expires.”

You are entitled to ask any question that is relevant to the dispute, or that is relevant to anything that is relevant,” said Mr Justice Adams to counsel in the Auckland Supreme Court. “But women’s disputes and women’s talk very often are not relevant to anything.”

A correspondent writes complaining about the quality of coke obtained from the local gas works, etc. While we are prepared to give full publicity to matters of local general interest, complaints of this nature should be lodged with the Town Clerk.

Lovers of good choir music arc cordially invited to attend the Methodist Church to-morrow evening, when the choir will render the anthem, .“The Rivers of Babylon” (Carmen). The choir will also lead in several favourite well-known mission hymns. A spirited address on “The intensified Vision” will he delivered by Rev. L. Minitie. A very bright service is guaranteed to all a Bending. » The evening train from Wellington was considerably delayed on Thursday night between Waikanao and To Horn. The engine collided with a cow. and threw it up the bank. Thorimimal rolled back and ■ truck the leading bogie of one oi tlie waggons, Biro wing the vehicle off the line. It took a eon-iderable time to gel the waggon hack, the train reaching Levin at H 1.30, three hours late. —Chronicle. The Bank of Now Zealand in New Zealand ha- received a first eon-.-igmuent of the new i—tie florins, shillings, sixpences and threepenny piece- to the aggregate value of C 10,000, and ihe-e will soon he in common u-e. The florins are alteady in circulation locally. They have a -omewhat “dead” sound when dropped, and a coppery sheen i- noticeable.

A period ot falling prices is a time of trouble because of the difficulties of readjusting the relations of capital and labour, of employer end employed. We shall, of course, learn some wholesome and muchneeded lessons from the trials that must be endured. Those lessons are being learned in Britain, the United States, and oilier important countries. Strict and rational economy in the administration of the Government must be insisted upon. Expenditure of money on political jobs to milch votes must cease, and the Government mu-t sever itself from commercial and industrial aitairs. The control hoards, prohibition of imports and exports of certain (-lasses of goods, and such bureaucratic interference with commerce and industry must cease. —Mercantile Gazette.

The “Humane Death" Bill has been passed by both Houses of the State Congress of Nevada, providing that condemned criminals shall be painlessly pul to death by tlm introduction of lethal gas into their (■ells while they sleep. Governor Boyle says he favours the measure, and will sign it as soon as it is presented to him. At present condemned murderers in I lie Stale ol Nevada are given 'the choice between hanging and shooting, but (here have been instances of danger and inefficiency in carrying out the sentence. The new law is designed to eliminate all uncertainty. A special cell will be built in each penitentiary in which persons sentenced to die will be placed. The judges are required to designate a certain week in which the sentence is to be carried out, and the warden will select one night when the prisoner is peacefully sleeping to introduee deadly gas into his cell-. Sentences of death in the Slate have been .rare, it is claimed, because juries arc opposed to' the present method of execution. arid under the new law it is hoped the extreme penalty will be enforced more frequently and capital offences discouraged. “Trifles often change us.” —Thomas Bracken.

A cheerful disposition is sometimes changed into a peevish one by a cough or cold. Chest and bronchial troubles often follow. All are quickly relieved by Baxter’s Lung Preserver. “Baxter’s” offers the surest and shortest way to regain health and protection from fiu-ther illness. Thousands gratefully testify to its exceptional merits. Insist ou Baxter’s Lung Preserver. Get a big 2s Gd bottle of this sterling tonic and remedy to-day. All chemists and stores,—Advt, 1

Hear tlie five Musical Lubowskis at the Town Hall Monday. —Advt. The body of an unknown man has been washed up on the coast of Waitoitoi, Taranaki.

The Rev. W. Walton, vicar of All Saints’, Foxton, is arranging to issue a monthly parish magazine. At an early hour last evening a lunar.rainbow was witnessed in the southern sky. •

Benzine supplies are very plentiful just now, and prices have a tendency to ease. The accumulation of stocks is attributed to a slackening'off of the demand, combined with heavy importations.

“Desert Love,” featuring _ Tom Mix, is a rip-roaring romance of daring and vengeance in which two generations of strong men fight for dominance over the Western country. To be shown at The Royal on Mondnv. —Advt.

At the Palmerston Sittings .of the Supreme Court yesterday, in the case of Herman Thorn Graham (Mr limes) v. Tliurza Jane Graham, an application for restitution of conjugal rights, counsel asked leave to withdraw the petition. This course was agreed to by His Honour, and the case was accordingly struck out.

The National Dairy Association lias been advised from London by cablegram of the following prices of cheese: N.Z. white, 138 s per cwt. to 140 s per cwt.; coloured 154 s to 150 s; fair demand. Butter, Danish, 192 s to 108 s per cwt.; N.Z. 154 s to 1955; steadier market on reduction of prices. The gas engine which generates the electric light at the Town Hall, refused duty last night, for some cause or other, up till about 8.30, and as a consequence the hall was not illuminated until that tune. Many people were of opinion that the Pierrot entertainment had been abandoned, owing to the hall not being illuminated. A number of people assembled in the engine-room and assisted to coax the engine into action, and their efforts were subsequently rewarded. Georges Carpeniicr. interviewed before be left London for America, said that he was of the opinion that bis tight with Dempsey would last

:;{ the most five rounds. “I have no obsessions regarding Dempsey,” he said. “He is-a lighter in appearance and temperament, and by choice, and is the strongest man 1 have yet encountered, and the tight will lie to the last until one or other of us takes the count.” Carpenli,‘Fs entourage includes a chef, A 'Business Talk frith Business. Mem—“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many n good inau 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.” *

0, (limes ;itid dollars! 0, dollars and dimes! Life is a struggle in these hard limes. I'ranth- linaiieiiig wrecks caste and class, Soon we'll he living on leaves and grass! Wages increase, but we wince, you bet, When we consider the goods we gel. But the goods are as good as the

cash, be sure. When buying Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 7