NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2296, 30 June 1921, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Austen Chamberlain said that Germany had either actually fulfilled, or was jn the course of fulfilling, all the terns of the Allies’ recent ultimatum.

The Board of Trade representative has received an official telegram regarding sugar as follows: — “There is no truth in the statement either that the importation of Java sugar has been prohibited, or that the Government has entered into a new agreement with the Sugar Company at £37 per ton.” Mi" C. P. Agar, who. recently resigned from the Christchurch City Council owing to a difference of opinion with the Mayor (Dr. Thacker, M.P.), states that he will challenge Dr. Thacker to resign and submit the matter to the judgment of the electors. Mr Agar states that if defeated he will pay the cost of the election out of his own pocket.

At the conclusion of a lecture, on “The Economics of the German Indemnity,” at Christchurch last week, Professor J. B. Condliffc was asked to define “economics.” The lecturer said a great many people had little idea what was meant by “economics.” lie would define it as the study of the acts of men and women in the ordinary business of getting a living, and a study of the ways 'in which they organised in order to provide themselves with goods and services’ Three vessels from America are at present discharging 30,000 cases of benzine at Auckland, and a consignment from Sumatra is expected this week. The present price for standard oils in the northern city is 31s Gd per case. If you see an editor who pleases everybody, there will be a glass plate over his face —and he will not be standing up. Hector Grey, the N.Z. jockey, won the British Dominion Plate on Paradise Duck, owned by Mr T. 11. Lowry. The papers give prominence to Gray’s riding as a triumph. School Committees in the Wellington district have been suggesting to the Hon. C. J. Parr that teachers and employees of the Education Department should be required to take the oath of allegiance. An Awapuni settler has lost sixteen stud ewes in an inexpicable manner, says the M.D. Times. He brought the animals up from liangitane and placed them on a piece of land near the river. Within a few hours they were dead. He wonders whether the animals were poisoned with goatsrue, which is very plentiful in the vicinity. A case \yas heard in the Magistrate’s Court at Levin on Friday .last in which Frank O’Hagan, farmer, of Koputaroa, claimed from K. McDonald, of Palmerston North, land salesman, the sum of £3O 7s fid, being £25 wages due, £5 which had been improperly deducted from the plaintiff, and 7s 9d for telephone bureau fees paid on behalf of defendant. After hearing evidence, Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £0 3s costs. The plaintiff complained that he had been summarily dismissed without sufficient r Jason.

A baby who is claimed to be the youngest passenger so far carried by air between and Paris, was on board a Handley Page passenger aeroplane which reached London recently. The little one enjoyed the flight, for when the pilot looked round to see how his young faro was getting on in the saloon, baby was smiling and waving its arms.

Out among the Chi'ltern Hills, Miss Isabel Fry, a daughter of the famous judge, Sir Edward Fry, has started a farmhouse school where young milkmaids go a-maying, and so mix their work, play, and lessons that they do not know which is which. Each scholar has her own animal to care for, and her own practical open-air and indoor duties to perform —work as pleasant as fun and so inwoven with teaching that nobody feels where one ends pud the other begins. Some queer styles in millinery have been created recently, and we may shortly expect to see ladies ■walking down Regent Street in hats that are strikingly reminiscent of the head adornments of savages. There are some small close-fitting models made entirely of rows of ostrich feathers. Each row is in a contrasting colour, while a deep fringe of feathers sweeps right down over the brim so as to obscure the eyes. It gives a wild and dashing appearance to the wearer, Even in the larger hats there is a tendency to place feathers so that they hang over the brim. On one model the quill of the ostrich.feather was attached to the brim so that the feather hung down until it reached ' somewhere near the waist-line.

The re-trial of Te Kahu on the charge of murdering Elliott *at Ongaroto has been lixed to commence on August 2nd, at Hamilton. Captain John Prideaux, master of the intercolonial collier Maindy Lodge, now at Wellington, was decorated bv the King for h’aving sunk a German submarine during the war.