Manawatu Herald ATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2303, 16 July 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald ATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Levin has been fixed as the headquarters of the 13 area of the Wellington Military District.

A complete change of programme is to be screened every night next! week at the Royal.—Advt. A fair amount of whitebait has been netted in the Manawatu during the past fortnight, and has been retailed at -Is per ib.

It is on the cards that Auckland will soon he able to witness a Lea-' gue football game played between two teams of ladies.

Ethel Dell's great story, “The Rocks of Valpre.” is to he screened at the Royal on Wednesday next. — Advt.

A heavy thunderstorm passed over this district last night, one peal of thunder making residences tremble, followed by a heavy hail storm.

Gaby Deslys is the actress who left her immense fortune to be given to the poor, and who danced to avoid a panic during the rail’ raids on London. At the Royal to-night. —Advt.

The Territorials and .Senior Cadets are notified that fortnightly parades will he held in the supper-room of the Town Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings next, respectively, and thereafter fortnightly. The recent heavy rains have caused innumerable pot-holes in thei Foxton-Palmerstou road, particularly between Bainesse and Rangiotu. Portions of the Himatangi road also need immediate attention. "This youth has no more need of a whisky and soda than a duck has of an umbrella." —Sub-Inspector Willis’ opinion, as expressed in the Wellington Police Court, when a youth of eighteen years was produced as having been supplied with a drink by a barmaid.

A young attendant of the Jubilee Memorial Home, Woolston, named Jack Flaherty, has just drawn £5,000 in “Tatts.” He took only one ticket. Mr Flaherty was brought up on the West Coast, and his ambition is to travel and see the world, and particularly to see the Melbourne Cup run.

“I strongly hold the opinioD that every book should be provided free to Stale school children," said Ml’ C. J. Ward, at the meeting of the council of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce. “"Wlmt is the position? The more children a man has the more he is taxed through the school hooks. Yet we are asking for big families!"

William Moore, dairy farmer, of Masterton, was fined £2O at the Police Court yesterday, for selliny milk adulterated with water.

The local ‘State School will he closed ou Monday, in order to allow teacher’s to attend a lecture by the Chief Physical Instructor, at Palmerston North.

Beef prices at the Westfield (Auckland) fat stock market on Wednesday showed a decline of about 2s per 1001 b., compared with the previous week’s rates. Mutton values were also easier. The local State School seven-a-.sidc football team journeyed to Palmerston this morning to take part in a seven-a-side tournament there today. The team went by car with Mr Fume.

Arrangements are being made to endeavour to get the Kennedy hero with a load of coal on Wednesday. Owing to the rough weather, the bar soundings have not been taken, but it is anticipated that the recent Hood has improved the entrance. Colonel Bury, of the Everest expedition, writing from Tingri Dzong, north-west of Everest, states: “We left Ivainpor Dzong on June Bth, and after a hazardous journey and num-' erous difficulties, reached our present position. Fifty miles away stood out the dark, beautiful lofty peak called by the natives ‘The Goddess Turquoise/ This vlis our first sight of our ultimate goal.” Damage to [he extent of about £5 was done at the drainage excavations at the corner' of Duncan Street and Lady’s Mile last night by certain persons. Several lamps were smashed, and the level sight bars removed. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police, and it is possible that more will be heard of the matter in the Magistrate’s Court.

The powerful kicking of the South Africans was a very striking feature of the big football match at Wanganui on Wednesday. On one occasion when a lusty kick by a Springbok back sent the ball sailing through space, one local enthusiast was heard to remark: “I suppose its living amongst the bloomin' ostriches learns them to kick like that.”

Coats, Hats and Costumes are on offer al The C. M. Ross Coy's. Wale at redieulous prices. Ladies' lndorwear can be bought for a song. No goods booked or sent on appro, during ibis Sale. Prices won't allow it. —Advt.

A loud report which rent the air in Palmerston North al about 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and th f vigorous pealing of the fireball shortly afterwards, caused a large crowd of people to assemble outside Mr Berry's engineering foundry in Ashley Street. It was ascertained that the explosion was caused through the bursting of a cylinder of the acetylene gas engine. Fortunately, no material damage was done, and nobody was injured, ns the employees were at the time not working jn close proximity to the engine.

A few weeks ago eleven councillor.-, and ex-councillor.- of the Napier City Council were served with summonses claiming, jointly and severally, the sum of £SO, being the amount of an illegal payment made to an e.\-Mayor, Mr Henry Hill, for the second year of his period as Mayor. Ten of the councillors have paid their share of the £SO, approximately £-t Us each, hut one excouncillor, Mr E. Mulvanah, lias established to the satisfaction of the Auditor-General that he was not present , when the vote was paid. Therefore lie is not liable for any share in the refund. The details of ihe meeting, as set out in the minutes, show that Mr Mulvanah left the meeting, when I lie Mayor had ruled attainsi Mr Mulvanah on a point of order, and lie did not attend again at the Council Chambers until the business of the meeting had been concluded. It is expected that (He other ten gentlemen will now be called upon to make their respective contributions up to .Co each.

Mr Alex. Taknrangi scored a decided “hit” ai the dinner tendered !< (he Springboks at Wanganui on Wednesday night. When he was called upon to respond io the toast of “The Ladies," he rose seemingly in a state'of bash fulness and confusion, and, in broken English, intimated that he needed an interpreter to help him out of his difficulty. To the Springboks this doubtless seemed a perfectly natural request, and whey the necessary interpreter was forthcoming they listened with evident pleasure lo Takarangis Maori eloquence and to the translation into English of his really poetio tribute to the fair sex. The Springbok’s 17-stone “baby," Mr Royal Morkel, was sitting immediately opposite the Maori orator, and he probably got the surprise of his life when Takarangi, having concluded all that he felt inclined to say in his native language, leaned across the table, and in faultless English exclaimed: “Put it there, ljay good friend.” And “Baby” put it there. —Chronicle.

£5 will buy you £lO worth of goods at The C. M. Ross Coy’. Stocktaking Sale. Hundreds of useful remnants all marked down to half-price. 50 pairs Sheets, were from 25s a pair to 40s, now exactly half-price. Just- fancy, a good pair of sheets for 12s 6d!—-Advt.

A HOARSE COUGH

A hoarse, metallic cough indicates an approaching attack of croup. The attack may be warded of by giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy freely as soon as the cough appears. For sale everywhere.— Advt,

In pointing out some of the anomalies of the present times, Mr Evelyn McDonald stated in an address at Ihakara on Tuesday that whilst wool had actually been sold for less than the charges against it,, shipping companies and banks had paid dividends of 20 per cent, or more. The wool kings had had to knuckle down, and the' speaker predicted that the “butter barons” would get their turn unless they had provided against the rainy day. Meetings in connection with the formation of the proposed Mana-watu-Oroua River Board will be held at Kairanga and Glen Oroua on Tuesday. The proposal.is a very important one to all those having land liable to flood by the Manawatu or Oroua rivers in those vicinities. Should tjje board be formed as proposed, there is every probability that many acres of valuable land at present subject to flooding will be materially benefited.

Early on Friday morniug an outbreak of fire occurred at the Palmerston railway gasworks, The lire is attributed to the leakage of the oil. Owing to the prompt action of Mr W. Rogerson, the only man on duly at the time, in cutting off the oil and gas supply, serious damage was prevented. Later, he secured assistance, and the Department's great gas tank, fully charged and mounted on its truck, and also several trucks containing 240 cases of kerosene, were removed to a safe distance, his promptness undoubtedly checking the spread of the fire. The brigade quickly extinguished the flames, which had got a hold in the wooden lining, but the machinery and a large portion of the building, which is of brick, was not damaged.