LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will he held on Monday evening, at 7.30 o’clock. A fine fourteen-pointer stag was seen at,To lloro last week, hut while a local resident was after his ,gun the animal crossed the railway line and made for the beach. The stag afterwards took to the water, and was drowned, the head being secured by a Native, says the Mail.

On the High Commissioner’s showing, the following are the ruling wholesale prices of butter in London: —New Zealand, Is !)d (in New Zealand it is Is Hid, plus 3d subsidy, at factory door); Australian, Is 7ld; Argentine,' Is 4jd; Irish, Is B|d to Is 10Jd; Danish, Is Old to Is 9Jd.

£7 15s Costumes for £3 3s. Blouses, Singlets and Millinery half-’ price. Men’s Felt Hats 355, for 10s (id. 7s (id Cashmere Socks for 3s lid. Is (id Handkerchiefs for 9d. Tweed Hals 15s (id, for 7s (id. 54in. Tweeds, were 12s (Id, for 5s lid. Ladies’ Hose, 9s lid for 5s lid, 5s 0d for 2s lid. Towels from l6|d each. At The C. M. 'Ross Coy.’s Sale. —Advt.

An instance of the drop in certain drapery lines was referred to at last Hospital Board meeting. The matron was able to purchase certain materials at a cash drapery sale in one of the Palmerston houses at much below wholesale rates quoted to the Board.

“Lime is not a fertiliser,’’ said Mr Cockayne to a party of fanners at the Central Development Farm. “Its influence is solely directed to making plant food more available. For that reason I would not advise farmers to use lime unless they also used phosphates,” He proceeded to explain that the continual application of: lime, by making the plant foods easily available, would in time impoverish the soils unless food in the form of manure was also added. A combination of lime and phosphates was always economical..

During the hearing of a neighbour’s quarrel in the Auckland R.M Court this week, between two women, plaintiff said defendant hat accused her of wanting her husband, and that, she was a bad woman. Defendant said she object'd: to plaintiff talking over the fene< with her husband. Rhe denied tHa she was either jealous or suspicious. Rhe desliked plaintiff coinin', lo the house with some lisli for hoi husband, and thought plaintiff wa? trying'lo ingratiate herself will they family. The magistrate said hi had little doubt that the cause ol the trouble was defendant’s jealousy. Judgment, was given foi plaintiff for £3O, and costs.

In a judgment summons ease at yesterday’s R.M. Court, counsel for claimant (Mr Bergin) closely crossexamined judgment debtor as to his earnings since last year. The latter stated that he did not waste any money,»but admitted that he had a drink occasionally, and had an occasional .bet, and visited Jlie billiard room . The Magistrate ordered payment to be made at the rate of Cl per month, The debtor applied fur further time to make the first payment, but was percmlorily cut short by the Magistrate, who advised him to cut out luxuries, as he spent enough on those kind of things to more than pay the monthly instalments, and added that “he had no time for waster.-'.”

The Marlon Advocate says in re gard to the Deviations Commissi olds report : — A (Joveriinu’iil tha possessed backbone and did no

shirk responsibility would have decided this (jiu'stion il-elf nml would not hnvo put the'country to the oxpenso of a costly farce. It would also not have decided so strongly against the deviation recommended by a former Kail way Commission. There are, however, more vines in the vicinity of Palmerston, which makes any explanations of reasons quite .unnecessary. Unfortunately at the present time it is useless for Rangitikci and Manawatu to do more than register a protest, because the Government can always resort to the plea that there is no more money in the Treasury. Still, some of Mr Massey’s new loan of live millions might reasonably be applied to shortening the distance traversed by the Main Trunk Line, and opening up the stretch of fertile country between Marlon and Levin."

There is need in New Zealand of a better system of inflicting penal-i lies for minor offences limn at present obtains (says the Manawatu, Daily Times). Only the other day a Palmerston firm was fined £5 for selling aerated waters containing saccharine. An Otaki firm was fined £1 for a precisely similar offence. [At Foxton yesterday a local firm was fined £2 10s.j It requires no argument to prove that: either the Palmerston penalty was too,severe or the Otaki penally too lenient. Different Magistrates may take different. views concerning the lines that are necessary to meet the ends of justice. But it is scarcely fair to the public that there should'be.such a disparity between the penalties as' that to which we have referred. The magisterial bench should hold periodical conferences, and arrange .-omethiug like uniform penalties for different classes of offences. Otherwise, it may happen that criminals, will drift to those localities where the penalties for offences are made the lighter. “A Daughter of Brahma" is to he screened at the Royal on Tuesday next. Don't miss it. —Advt.

Thursday night's benefit picture entertainment in aid of a local deserving ease netted the sum of £G. A'fine drama, filmed in the South Sea Islands, “The Adorable Savage,’ will be screened at the Town Hall on Monday, in support of the vaudeville act of Cecil Verne and Dorothy.—Advt.

A Himatangi farmer recently sent away three calf skins to the market. He has now received his return from the firm that marketed the skins, showing a debit of Is 5d against him.