LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2296, 30 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The barque Rona was refloated yesterday morning, at Wellington Heads. Sir James Wilson hus donated £SOO to the St. Helen’s Hospital Fund for Palmerston N.

Tho monthly meeting, of the local Patriotic Committee will be held at 7.30 o’clock this evening. Wanganui’s tramway system is still in trouble. One of the engines in the. power house has broken down, and the .gas-producer plants arc proving too small. The schools under the Wanganui Board break up to-morrow for the week’s winter vacation. They will re-open on Tuesday, July 12th. Miss Ray, infant mistress at the local State school, who resigned from the Board in order to take up a position on the staff of the Wellington Normal School, completed her duties to-day, and was the recipient of a presentation by the children and staff.

Mr R. A. McDonald informs the Levin Chronicle that Saturday last. June 25tli, was the forty-third anniversary of the wreck of the Hyderabad on the Hokio bench.

At Monday night’s Council meeting Mr O. P. Walker’s tender for felling and removing fourteen trees in the Cemetery was accepted, subject to a guarantee of £IOO against damage. Good progress is being made by Mr McMinn with.the*concrete fence round the old cemetery. Planting and improving the enclosure will probably be started next week. A hint as to the date of the opening of the next session of Parliament was given by the Minister of Health (the Hon. C. J. Parr), in replying to a deputation at Wellington yesterday. He suggested that the House would possibly meet early in September, which might mean a continuation of business after Chris’tinas.

Speaking at Palmerston North, Mr AY. 11. Field, M.P., said that amongst the important problems which the farmers had to solve wert tho doing away with preference to unionists, the regulation of waterskiers’ work, and the supply of phosphates at cheaper rates, as well ns the matter of cheaper-freights for getting their produce to the Home markets.

An employer in the Levin district stated that lie had received a numl>er of applications for manual work of late. In all his experience he had never seen so many men come on the job without a swag, their only worldly possessions apparently consisting of what they stood up in. These men, he stated, appeared to be from the centres, and had been forced out into the country owing io the scarcity ol! labour.

Speaking at the ceremony at Rangiotu in connection with the opening of the new post office there. Mr E. Newman, M.P., stated that the Minister of Railways had written to him. stating that the present site of the railway station there had been reported upon by an officer of the Department as being unsuitable, and that it was proposed to build a new station at a place where it would be immune from floods, The cost of the new station would ho about £6.000.

Mr Justice M’Cardle, in the King’s Bench Division, delivering a judgment recently, said: —“I deem it the duty of a Judge to take serious notice of all perjury committed before him. This offence is on the increase. Men are losing their sense of sanctity of the oath. They swear falsely with levity, because they imagine that consequences do not follow. No one save perhaps a Judge can appreciate fully the gravity of this crime of perjury. It strikes at the very root of the power of tho Court to give justice. It strikes at the very foundation of right as between man and man.”

The Palmerston North Borough Council on Monday night passed a resolution rescinding a former resolution .grunting an application for the use of the Opera House for a lecture bv Air P. Eraser, ALP. The rescinding resolution was, however, subject to the advice of the borough solicitor. The Town Clerk informed a Times representative that the opinion of the borough solicitor had been taken, and as a result the rescinding resolution could not take effect. Ah* Eraser will, as a consequence, be permitted to give his lecture on “The Crucifixion of Ireland.”

The executive desires (states the annual report of the Country Racing Clubs’ Association) to bring under, your notice the advisability of all acting together to put au end to the complimentary or dead-head ticket business. It hus reached such dimensions as to become a serious drain on the resources of club finances. The Thames Club put its foot down on the obnoxiouy system at its last annual race meetingj with the result that the receipts at the gates were.exactly doubled, although there were no more people prosent than at the previous meeting. 'l’lie gate at the 1920 meeting was £628, and at the 1921 meeting it rose to £1,256. The totalisator receipts which the “dead-head” was expected to boost up were some £3,500 over the previous meeting when the “dead-head” was in strong evidence. These figures are worth studying, and the fact they illustrate worth following. Members of committee, stewards, and officials of sister clubs only should receive the compliment.

The Beautifying Society Committee will confer with Mr Black at the Council Chamber to-morrow, at 1.30 p.m., re beautifying and planting in Easton Park and the old cemetery.

A Palmerston North resident of thirty years’ standing informed a Times representative that he had not.'experienced a shake of such violence .as that of Wednesday morning.

Shortly before four o’clock yesterday morning a fall of meteors was witnessed from Palmerston N. About half-a-dozen shot across the western sky in rapid succession, creating a magnificent spectacle, and illuminating the whole landscape. The men employed on the railway staff had a particularly fine view of the meteoric display.—M.D. Times.

Miss M. Jellicoe, aunt of Viscount Jellicoe, the Governor-General of New Zealand, has died at Southampton, England, aged 90 years. Miss Catherine Jellicoe, a sister of the deceased lady, was 100 years of age last September.

The death occurred on Wednesday at Bulls at the age of 78 years of Airs Hammond, widow of the late Mr Frederick Hammond; Airs C. H. Flower, of Bulls, is a daughter of the deceased lady. “The Wellington Regiment, when it left for Gallipoli, was one of the very best I have ever seen,’’ said Major-General Sir Edward Chaytor, at Alasterton. “That is no disparagement to other regiments, because Wellington had a much larger population than the other districts, and could pick and choose a good deal more. That regiment when it left for Gallipoli was something to marvel at.”

In n sermon at Alorrinsville on Sunday night, in the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Alorgan Richards referred to the godlessness that was existent in the country to-day, as wa"s evidenced by the many thefts that were occurring everywhere. He dwelt upon the subject of theft for some time. When the members of his congregation dispersed, ’several of them found that their coats and been stolen from their vehicles while they were in church, one found that clothes had been stolen from his shop, and when the minister returned to his manse he discovered that several articles, including shaving equipment, had disappeared

An unusual gift was mado to the Melbourne Children’s Hospital a few days ago, when Mr John Santos, wharf labourer, of Hope and Straw Streets, West Brunswick, transferred to the institution £(500 in cash, the deeds of two lots of real estate, and the contract of sale of two other lots. The gift, the total value of: which is about £2,000, was made on condition that lie was allowed to live in one of the cottages which he transferred. Air Santos, who is a Portuguese by birth, is of the opinion that hospitals, especially children’s hospitals, should be cordially supported by the public, and lie has accordingly done his share.