Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2316, 16 August 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mom hly meeting of the loon Fire Brigade- will be held to-morrow evening.

There way no mid-day train iron Palmerston to-day, owing to re-ar-ranged time-table.

Tho friends of Miss Duncan will regrot to learn that she is confined to ner ned with sickness.

Mr Williams, local taxi proprietor, has recently placed one of the latest Studebuker cars at the service of patrons. Miss Florence Turner, a cinema star, whj) is visiting London, was found bound and gagged at Hampstead. She was robbed of £I,OOO in jewels and money. Consent has been given the Bulls Town Board to raise a loan of £O,OOO for tho purchase of electric tight plant and works. The births registered in the four metropolitan areas of New Zealand during the month numbered 715, and the deaths 421.

Tho s.s. Kennedy arrived in. port early Monday morning, with a cargo oil benzine and general, and left for Wellington last night with a cargo of hemp. At the the annual meeting of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. on Saturday, Messrs G. P. Brown and It. Taylor, the retiring directors, were re-elected unopposed. At the local police court this morning, before Mr Hornbiow, -J.P., Charles Lawson was convicted and lined 10s for drunkenness, and Dennis McGill, on a similar charge, was lined ss, in default 24 hours’. Although I have got along somewhere near the top, I have never taken a prize for anything in my life for anything to do with brains. —lfeur-Admiral Clinton Baker, to the Chatham Dockyard School apprentices at the annual prize distribution.

Mr Walter Stewart Smith, manager of the Palmerston North Working Men’s Club, died suddenly at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning. The funeral, which took place yesterday, was a Masonic one. Mr Smith was most popular, and highly respected.

The Dorcas Society desires to acknowledge parcels <?f clothing from the following:—Mrs Duflin (Himitangi), Mrs Stukey (Oroua Downs), Mrs Hammond (Oroua Downs), Mrs Walton, W. Robinson, F. Robinson, Mrs Moorhouse, and “Anonymous."

Writing from Dunedin, a Foxton student who witnessed the OtagoSpringboks match, says that the game was played without any “beg pardons” on either side, and both teams displayed shortness of temper. Pahiatua cheese factories have received cabled advices of the following prices realised for cheese consignments:—lonic, 138 s white, 132 s coloured; Waimana 132 s white, 124 s coloured; Mahana, 138 s white, 132 s coloured; Remuera, 132 s white, 126 s coloured.

The annual congregational meet ing of the Foxton charge of the Presbyterian Church will be held at 7.30 p.m. to-morrow, when the various reports will he submitted, and office-bearers elected. At the conclusion of the business, a social hour will be spent. To-morrow the doughty Springboks play a combined Mana-watu-Horowhenua team at Palmerston N. ..The good performance put up by the combined team against Wellington B on Saturday came as a surprise, and there.is no doubt the coaching of Mr J. Ryan has made its mark. The big match starts at 2.30, and the gates will be open at 11.30.

Missionaries are accustomed to receive some strange letters froni natives. Here is a letter of gratitude, which arrived a short time ago at a well-known mission hospital in India : —“Dear and Fair Madam, — 1 have much pleasure to inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will be no longer under your care, she having left this world for the next on the night of the 27th ulto. For your help in this matter I shall ever remain grateful.—Yours reverently, f>

The reduced railway service recently announced came into operation this week. In the Wellington district the changes are few. The .midday trains between Palmerston North and Foxton are reduced to two days w week; the mixed trains between Woodville and Master!on will he reduced to three days per week, and the two motor trains between Lower Hutt and Upper Unit, the 4.45 a.m. train from Palmerston North to Waipukurau, and the 11.25 p.m. Welling!on-Johnsonville train will l)o cancelled.

Commenting on the causes o£ deaths, in a lecture in Wellington, Dr. \Y. E. Herbert said: “It appears to me unnecessary that 150 persons should have met their death by drowning during 1017, and that from the years 1917 to 1919 inclusive the total should have been 562. These figures do not include the number of those who decided to commit suicide in this manner. 1 know of no more health-giving exercise than that of swimming, and I would urge that ever greater encouragement he given to both hoys and girls by public authorities.”

The Auckland police gleaned some information in Court the other day which should prove of particular interest to them. A witness in a theft charge gave evidence that lie and the accused were at a two-up school on a certain date. “Were there many there?" asked Sergeant Rowell. “Oil! it was a big school,” replied the witness.. “There were a hundred or more there.” lie added. “Oii!" said ilie Sergeant, grimly. The witness hastened to explain that lie did not play the forbidden game; he was merely there to look on. This statement was received in smiling silence (says the Star).

“I am one of those people who are called ‘wool kings,’ ” said MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell, in a speech at Auckland, when referring to (lie distance of his home from a town, and to his difficulty in keeping in close touch with the organisations with which lie was connected. “There’s not much ‘king’ about it. he continued, with a shrug and a .-mile. “There is some wool, of course, but no one seems to want it just now. Really, I’m hard up. I’ve about twopence in my pocket.” In stantly a voice interjected: “Start a two-up school, sir,” a joke which was greeted with a great outburst of applause by the men who remembered the pains and penalties of “the ring."

During the hearing of a divorce case in Christchurch, in which the petitioner had been separated from ids wife for three years on his wife s application, Judge Herdman said: What makes me hesitate about these cases is whether a wrongdoer has a right to come into the court and ask for relief. A wife is helpless. She is a good and innocent woman, for instance, she does her duty attending to the home and the children. Her husband wants to break oft'. She does not. He says: “I'm going to leave you.” lie leaves, against her will. She is forced to take out a maintenance order against him. If the order is in force for three years he can petition for dissolution of the marriage. His Honour said he would consider his judgment in tho case.

HOW COLDS ARE CONTRACTED. Colds are due to bacterial germs that are usually present in the air passages of the throat and nose. Under ordinary conditions they do no harm, but when you get chilled or very tired, which weakens your resistance, they are quick to take advantage of it, and almost before you know it, you havo a cold. Get a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and .take it according to directions, and you will soon be rid of it. but when you neglect it, look out. Some serious ailments result from neglected colds. For sale everywhere. —Advt. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

Speaking of the standard of living in ail address at Auckland, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell said the only standard of living that a country deserved and what it got was what it dug out of the ground. -“I do not. believe in the bogey,” he said, “that the Eastern nations will lower the Western standard of living because they can live ‘on the smell of an oil rag.’ We are not going to be submerged by the East, because we are superior in those qualifications which go toward the building up of a nation.”

The financial editor of the Lyttelton Times says : —There is grave doubt in retail circles about the Government wisdom in prohibiting the importation of Australian jam and fruit pulp. The result is not likely to be satisfactory to the consumer. Australian jam is produced cheaper than New Zealand join, and the quality is good all round. Cheaper sugar would give the New Zealand manufacturers a chance to compete on even terms. The head of a large grocery and produce house remarked 'that, he was not satisfied with the embargo. He said that if the Government was to continue on these lines the people would soon not know what to do. He had not a great deal of confidence in the local jam manufacturers, nor had he much sympathy for them. He did not consider they had faced the position as competent business men. A coup which takes some beating is said to have been enacted by two pals, strangers to the.se parts, on an express train that steamed into Auckland on a recent morning (says the Auckland Star). They were evidently pressed for money, and decided upon the novel scheme of one making the journey in a sack. Camouflaged with this covering, he was hoisted on to his mate's shoulders and deposited under a seat in a “smoker” adjoining the postal van. There he remained until the city was reached, and the journey so far having been negotiated without interference, he was once again hauled on to his mate's shoulders and in a few moments was released from his hiding place to walk away with his companion. A party who saw the pair said they undoubtedly appeared to have been down in their luck. He judged from their appearance that they were immigrants. Inquiries regarding the affair were instituted in several quarters. A pathetic example of ail unfortunate habit was presented at the Police Court, when it good-looking, well-dressed woman, whose age Was given as 39, and who spoke in ladylike. accents, was charged with drunkenness'-for the third time,within a few weeks (says the Auckland Star). She was said to be the former wife of a wealthy man in a New Zealand town, who divorced her some year.-- ago. The woman admitted, numerous previous convictions for drunkenness, and that she had spent. 12 months at Rotoroa Island without resultant good, hut she pleaded for another chance, saving she intended going to another town, and would try and improve in the future. “I will promise never to come here again, if you let me go,’ 1 ’ she said. The Magistrate was moved by the appeal. “Against my better judgment, I will give you another chance,” said Mr Bundle. “You are convicted and ordered to come up for sentence in seven days. If you go to another place, it will be all right: if you don’t, you will be brought here for sentence.” The following apology has been made by tin* Maoriland Worker, organ of the lied Feds: “In a recent issue the Worker stated that it knew of a ease iu Palmerston North where a school child had been several times flogged for refusing to sing more than ‘Three Cheers for the

lied. . .' This statement was ■ made to us by a reader whose reliability we saw no reason to doubt. The Worker subsequently received from the Education Department a communication asking fo_r the name of the child and the school at which the alleged Hoggings have taken place. Me have made inquiries, and we are now satisfied that our allegations are incorrect. We therefore withdraw them unreservedly, and tender our sincere apologies to tin* Education Department, and to the teachers whom we thus placed in a false position.”

There are but few left who can remember dearly events away back in 18-11 in Wellington. Yet such a person was met stepping briskly aloug Hamilton Quay, Wellington, looking a picture of healthy old age. This was Mr John Waters, probably the oldest Wellington resident who is still to be found out and about prepared to exchange genial greetings with his friends. Mr Waters is now 86 years of age. He arrived in Wellington Harbour with his parents by the ship Slain’s Castle, which dropped anchor in the harbour on January 22nd, 1841. Wellington was exactly one year old, and the event was being celebrated in the old-time way by a regatta, in which Maori canoes, ships’ yawls and whaleboats took part. Mr Walters can dearly remember being interested in the animated scene, for after a long sea voyage the sight of Wellington’s then picturesque foreshore and heavily-bushed hills, with the boats racing on the harbour, was one that made an ineffaceable impression on the mind of the six-year-old lad.

There’s a dreamland phase of beauty, When dame Nature gems her crown With the glory of the autumn, As the leaves turn golden brown. But it brings a sense, with sadness, Of grey winter to enduree, Which would banish all our gladness But for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 24

The bamboo sometimes grows two inches iu twenty-four hours. There are thirty varieties of this tree; the smallest is only six inches in height, and the largest 150 feet. The turfing of the slopes on the old cemetery hill will greatly improve ifs appearance, and prevent the wind from boring into tne hillside. It will also prevent an outcrop of lupins, which would have followed had the slopes been sown iu grass seed. So far no further cash donations have been made towards the establishment of a St_. Helens’ Hospital at Palmerston N. for the hospital district. The Mayor has donated ten guineas, and we hope that at least £IOO will he raised as Foxton’s quota. The object is a most worthy one.

The Rotorua Rugby Union considered the case of a player who struck a union official during a match, and it was decided that he be disqualified for life and be debarred from attending union matches. It was also decided to prosecute him for the alleged use of obscene language and disorderly behaviour.

The advantages of running pigs on fern country is shown on Mr J. W. Todd’s farm, at llmkara, near Levin. Sections of rough land were fenced off twelve month ago, and the pigs turned on. In a few weeks flie pigs had all the fern rooted out and the land cleared. The pigs were (hen moved to the next lot, and so on. The ground was then harrowed and sown in grass, and is now in splendid condition. Fern root forms excellent feedings, and except for this the animals had no other fodder, yet they are in condition at present. —Levin Chronicle.