Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1021. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2344, 20 October 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1021. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Factory hutlnr is being re!:iilod in Palmerston North at Is 8«I per lb. Entries for Ute,Eoxton Auctioneering Company’s mart sale on Saturday are advertised to-day.

It is reported that a Maslerton dairyman is selling milk at 5d a (piart.

A young Chinaman named Joe Clm was found hanging in a house in Plaining Street, Wellington, on Tuesday morning. The fortnightly meeting of the loeal Borough Couneil.will be held on Monday evening next, at 7.30 o’clock. At Christchurch on Monday, the Tail Tapu Dairy Company was lined £3O, and the Central Dairy Company .115, for selling under-weight butter.

At the local police court on Monday, before Mr Horn blow, J.lb, Joseph Daniel Boyle, a week-end visitor, arrested for drunkenness, was convicted and lined 10s.

A petition has been signed by live hundred people in Marlon, praying that I lie half-holiday ho changed hack from Saturday to Wednesday. , At the local police court yesterday, before Messrs Ilornblow and Perreau, J’s.P., Samuel Robinson and Alfred Thomson, arrested for drunkenness, were convicted and the amount of their bail, I.os and 5s respectively, estrea ted.

The Mercantile Gazette says: “It is quite evident that wholesale houses have done their best in the way of liquidation, but the retailers have not done their part. There are many lines of goods that are stiil being sold at fancy prices, for which there is no warrant.” Elsewhere in this issue we publish a local professional and trade directory of “Herald” advertisers, which should remind the local publgvtliat they can get all their requirements catered for locally, and on whose behalf we solicit local patrojnage. The Great McEwen entertained a fair audience in the Town Hall on Tuesday night. The first portion of the programme was devoted to a practical demonstration of telepathy, and the second half to hypnotism. The antics of those under the hypnotic spell caused considerable amusement.

I Mr P. Skellcn is at present visiting Wellington, and is the guest of Mrs J. Breen, Brooklyn. The Levin Chronicle says: —A pen of-aged bulls went, begging for a bid at. the local sale yesterday. After a lot of persuasion, one of the auctioneers was rewarded with an offer of Is per head for the line, but no business resulted.

Many ake ake hedges in the Manawatu have this year been attacked by a disease which causes the stem and leaves to turn black, while the buds become calloused. The cause of the "disease is a fly, and the effect of its ravages was plainly visible on a small piece of ake ake shown to a Standard reporter.

At the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday, Clive Oakenfull, alias Erie Jackson, for making a false declaration under the Marriage Act, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in addition to 18 months he is now serving for false pretences at Timaru. Harry Brittcliff, for theft from his employer, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.

During the past few months there has been a considerable falling off in the totalisator returns at most of the meetings held in the Dominion. At Masterton on the first day the sum of £17,203 10s was handled, a decrease of £IO,OOO compared with last year,, while on the second day the totalisator receipts came to £18,732, showing a deficiency for the two days of £19,300. At Dunedin the figures for the two days’ meeting came to £4S,GSO, compared with £59,500 last year, a decrease of £10,850. Master John Mc-Knight, a local State School pupil, who possesses a decided literary bent, has succeeded in sharing honours in an essay competition on “Co-operative Trading,” in a trade magazine published by the Co-operative Union and Wholesale Society of N.Z., Ltd. The editor sends the following encouraging note to John: “It is quite evident that you are fond of writing, and I am pleased to hear that literature is a study you like. You have a natural gift which only needs to be very carefully developed to be of great service to yourself and a pleasure to your fellows.” A few useful hints are also given as to the class of literature to read. We congratulate John on his success, and hope it will encourage him to further efforts.

The death took place at Palmerston last evening of Mr 11. 11. Wollerman, aged 74 years. Deceased was born in New Stetlin, Pomerania, and arrived in New Zealand in 1875. He first resided at Foxlon, and afterwards at Palmerston Jforlhj where lie acquired considerable property interests. In those days it took eighteen hours to travel from Poxton to Palmerston in a hush tram. He was engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Palmerston North for a number of years, and afterwards became a wine and spirit merchant in Wellington and Palmerston North. He retired from business in 1910. He was for nine years a. member of the Palmerston North Borough Council, lie was also a prominent Freemason. As a young man lie served in the Franeo-Prussian war in 1870. The late Mr Wollerman leaves a widow and family of six. He also leaves eighteen grandchildren. A circular from a New York firm of merchants, that lias just reached Palmerston North, referring to the cotton market, says: —“The rapid advance in the price of raw cotton, which lias almost doubled compared with the lowest quotations of a few months since, should prove helpful to the prosperity of the Southern States, although in its larger aspect the circumstance is to be deplored as tending to increase prices for cotton goods throughout the world.”