LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2325, 6 September 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The dredge “Hennessy” is now working on a sand bank about a mile below the wharf.

The monthly meeting of the local School Committee will be held on Friday evening next. Don’t forget to-night’s concert, in the Town Hall. A splendid programme, and the funds are for a very deserving cause,, in which we should all assist.

A reward of £250 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person who murdered Constable Dorgan at Timaru.

The s.s. Kennedy arrived in port this morning Avith a cargo of general Horn Wellington, and will leave tomorrow for Wellington with a cargo of hemp.

Ex-Mayor Styles Avas in Foxton to-day. In conversation Avith our representative, he paid a fine tribute to the Avork done in beautifying the old cemetery.

At St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Christchurch, on Wednesday, Air - Justice Herdman Avas married to Mrs Alice Elizabeth BroAvn, of Aikman’s Road, Merivale, Christchurch. The Rev. John Paterson officiated.

According to the “Mercantile Gazette,” Avhich Avrites strongly against a State Bank and a Farmers’ Bank, “NeAv Zealand farmers are mostly speculators, and most of the farms in NeAv Zealand are for sale.”

For adding 9 per cent, of water to milk Avhich he sold to a Feilding milk vendor, a farmer of the Feilding district Avas lined .€lO, with costs amounting to 17s fid, Avhile for selling (lie adulterated milk the vendor Avas mulcted in the sum of £2 Avith costs.

At the local police court yesterday, before Air HornhloAv, J.P., F. MaDougal! Avas convictedj and his hail of 10s estreated, for drunkenness, and Charles LaAvson, alias MoFa dden, for a second offence of drunkenness, Avas fined 20s, the amount of his bail.

A meeting of whitebait- fishermen convened to discuss the Avhitebait net regulations, to have been held on Saturday, lapsed. There Avere only tAvo present. The local fisheries inspector, Constable Owen, informs us that the fishermen as a a Avhole arc satisfied Avith the regulation size of the nets.

Regarding the Maori population of the Dominion, preliminary figures show tho Maori population to have increased from 49,7_7fi in 191(1 to 52,55-1 in 1921. The latter figure includes 3.055 half-castes living as Maoris. Of the total Maori population, 50,47(1 (males 2(1,(172, females 23,804) n'rc located in the North Island, and 2,078 (males 1,090, females 988) in the South Island.

An old lady, avlio Avas the recipient of the dinner put up for competition at Saturday’s shop day, and finally purchased by Air Chas. Spiers, called on ns yesterday to publicly express her own and husband’s thanks to the donor. “Aly old man said he Avas as pleased Avith the dinner as if some one had given him a £lO note,” was lioav she expressed herself.

In answer to a question at last week’s meeting of shareholders of the Shannon Dairy Company, the chairman said the company has not sold their output for the coming season, but intended to consign it. They had not bound themselves in any Avar, and would be prepared to consider an offer for the output should one be made, but up to the present they had received none except for the August-September supply, and even that was not very definite.

Air R. 11. Mead gave a little homely advice during the course of his address to dairymen at Levin on Thursday. lie commented on the way in Avhich coavs were sometimes allowed to be rounded up by dogs and brought in to the bails at the run. Next they were leg-roped and compelled to stand in the most uncomfortable Avay and the machines clapped on to them. The coav was an animal in which the maternal instinct Avas strong. She should be gently handled, and the milk taken from her Avithout recourse to main force and roughness.

There’s a clever sneak-thief in Fusion who lias been operating .successfully for some time past. When the new school was in course of erection, timber disappeared, together with other articles. The school bell also' went amissing after the lire, and recently a gas ring and tubing was taken from the old school house. Residents have also missed a variety of articles, from clothes to firewood. Ilis storehouse wherever it is, must be well'stoeked, and should resemble the immortal “old curiosity shop.” One of these times this cunning kleptomaniaca! night prowler will be gathered in, and the subsequent disclosures will be interesting. TTis Honour Mr Justice Frazer made some interesting remarks in the Arbitration Court at Wellington, at the conclusion of the shop assistants’ dispute. He was referring to .statements as to men having made money during the boom period. He said that even at the height of the country’s prosperity it was said that no one would make money when everything was washed up. Those who were apparently making money were only making it for a time. “The only person who can lie said to have made money,” said His Honour, “is the person who sold out when things were at their best, and put his money into war bonds and And even then he’s lost, so far, 17 per cent, on his bonds, which are down to £B3. But New Zealand, T am sure, will not come out of the affair badly. Some sav the darkest time is before us still.”

Whilst mortals- vainly probe and eon To learn their goal sublime, The wheels of fate roll darkly on Adown the aisles of time! True happiness is found on earth When we vain hopes abjure, And seek the aid that proves the worth Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 23

The last census showed that there Avere 3,222 inhabited dAvellings in Palmerston North, 1,009 in Feilding, 839 in Dannevirke, 259 in WoodA’ille, 314 in Pahiatua, 368 in Foxton, and 452 in LeA’in. The death occurred to-day of a Avell-knoAvn and highly respected resident of Himatangi, in the person of Air John Yanko, after a lengthy illness. The funeral takes place on Thursday next, leaving deceased’s late residence for the Foxton cemetery at 1 p.m. “Why shop in Palmerston?” is (lie query contained in A. N. Smith’s change advertisement in this issue. Air Smith maintains that you can save money .by purchasing drapery and clothing in your oavii toAvn, especially at his establishment, Avhere there is being offered at the present lime a great number of bargains in all goods. A list of prices are set out in his advertising space to-day.

Much amusement Avas caused over the comparative prices realised for sheep and foAvls at a recent clearing sale in the Fortrosc district (says the AYyndlmm Herald). While 12s 3d to 19s Avere the prices offered for sheep, foAvls sold at up to 14s fid, and 41 birds brought the extraordinary sum of £22 Bs. One lot of six old foAvls Avent for 11s fid, and the average price for the rest was about 12s fid each.

The Rev. \ T . G. Bryan King Avrites as folloAvs to a Dunedin paper: — “In vieAv of the deplorable murder of a constable in Timarn, it seems to me that the time has come when the public should demand that the members' of the police forme should lie armed Avith something more effective than a baton. The fact that officialdom refuses to allow the police to carry arms, except Avhile on special duty, helps to embolden men of the criminal class, avlio themselves are usually provided with death-dealing weapons. Had the constable been properly equipped for self-defence ho AA-onld probably lie alive noAV, and would not have had to stand as a helpless target before bis murderer. When the Government sent our soldiers forth to wage Avar against our foreign foes, they suav that they were properly armed; lint the police are expected' to protect themselves, and us, from murderers and criminals of the lowest type. Avith hits of wood and bare fists. I hope that something Avill he immediately done to give a greater measure of protection to the splendid body of men to Avhom Ave look to safeguard our peace and safety.”

At the inquest on the body of Edmond Jorgensen, of Kimbolton, evidence Avas given that the deceased, avlio had been gassed at the Avar, had strongly protested his innocence of the charge brought against him of stealing a heifer. The folloAving letter Avas found in his coat pocket: —“Kimbolton, Wed., 31/8/21. — Just a note to say I am very sorry for Avhat is done against me. I have heard a big lot said about this heifer, but they Avill have a lot more to say by to-morroAv about me and the heifer. . . I suppose they Avill say I took her, but let them say Avhat they like. Look after my dogs. Plenty of meat in the little shed alongside aahare. The dogs are tied up. You will find out why I have done this later on, not over the coav. Let my brother know. . . And now I shall say good-bye to all. —E. Jorgensen,” On the back of the letter was Avritten: —“I am just about out of my mind. Don’t laiOAv Avhat I am doing.” “You Ncav Zealanders ought to be happy,” said Lord Northcliffc, in an interview in Auckland. “I have not! seen a single beggar, white or broAvn, and I have not. seen poorlooking persons. You have a glorious country of sunshine, Avithout snakes or venomous reptiles. You have not imported any of Europe’s dangerous beasts, and I hope you will keep out dangerous European bipeds. One glance at the record of American crime aa- ill slioav that the chief criminals are those avlio have entered their gates in the last feAv years. They are being barred from the United States to-day, and they will naturally make for this happy land unless you keep them out, and fill up Avith suitable people from Britain. Look at your sparsely-settled countryside; its comparative emptvness of people strikes one from England. It is a great heritage to be handed down from those stahvarf pioneers avlio came Avith courage to the unknoAvn.”

“A faithful friend is the medicine if life.” —Proverb.

s Wouldn’t you gladly change from experimenting with untried cough and cold remedies if you knew of one that was prompt and certain? Baxter’s Lung Preserver is a friend, indeed, when you ai’e troubled with cough, cold, or sore throat.

Besides “Baxter’s” is more than merely a cold cure. It possesses invaluable tonic properties which rebuild and invigorate run-down systems and jaded constitutions. Act at once! Get a. large 2s fid bottle from your chemist or grocer to-dav!