LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2349, 1 November 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The recent strong gales have done a great deal of damage to orchards and fences in this district.

The monthly meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce will be held this evening, at 7.30 o’clock.

“Figures cannot lie,” said a counsel when cross-examining a witness at the Thames Harbour Commission. “But a liar can make figures turn some queer contortions.”

It is stated that the new retail price of! sugar will not come into operation until November 7th. The prices fixed by the Auckland Master Grocers’ Association are as follows: —Brewers’ crystals, 5d per lb.; Nos. 1, la, and 2,5 d per lb.; No. 3, 4-Id per lb.; caster sugar, Gd per lb.; icing sugar, 7d per lb. Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., who has just returned to New Zealand from a trip abroad, states that when in Constantinople he saw a man named Karo, who was reputedly 140 years of age. Karo, who was. recently married for a fourth time, kicked his son (aged 02) out of the home, for alleged disobedience. In the House of Representatives, Mr Massey read a cable received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor-General, in which it was intimated that the King desired that on Armistice Day two minutes’ silence be observed at eleven o’clock in the forenoon. The Premier expressed the hope that the people of the Dominion would comply with the desire of JTis Majesty.

Among the successful competitors in the dancing events at the Tallinnrunui Sports recently were two ex-Foxton girls, daughters of Mr and Mrs W. Robinson, of Ohakunc Junction. Jean Robinson, aged seven, was awarded a special prize for the Highland Fling, and her sister Vera came second in the Sword Dance, competing against dancers many years her senior. Both sisters (Jean by special request) danced at the concert in Hie evening. The girls are pupils of Miss McLellan, and as their performances are only the result of a short period of tuition, they' bid fair to gain a wide reputation. Mr A. Hawke, local postmaster, has (teen transferred on promotion to Levin, and will leave Foxton at the end of this month. Mr Hawke has discharged his public duties with courtesy, and to the satisfaction of the public, during his eight years residence among us. The public is an exacting taskmaster, and the lot of a civil servant in a small community is not a bed of roses. Mr Hawke, however, has been careful to avoid parochial public squabbles by keeping his own counsel. He is an enthusiastic bowler, and the Club will miss him. While regretting his departure, we congratulate Levin upon obtaining the services of a conscientious and efficient public servant.

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

The vtial statistics for Foxton for the month of October are: —Births

7, deaths 4, marriage certificates issued 1.

Rain fell on 11 days during the month of October, the maximum fall, .86 inch, occurring on the 21st. The total rainfall for the month was 4.18 inches.

Tlie s.s. Kehnedy arrived from Wellington yesterday with a general cargo, and will leave for Wellington at 10 o’clock this evening.

Hannan defeated Wells for the sculling championship of New Zealand on the Wairau river, at Blenheim, on Saturday. Mr F. Aisher, (he Hospital Board’s social welfare officer, is on a visit to Foxton to-day. He conferred with the local Dorcas Society this afternoon. Gifts of unused furniture, etc., suitable for furnishing the seaside residence for All Saints’ Children’s home will be thankfully received by Mr Bock, secretary of the local committee.

Wc are asked to inform local Territorials and Senior Cadets that all drills are cancelled until 26th and 27th January next. Official notice to this effect will be published later.

The Foxton Auctioneering Company report a good attendance at Saturday’smart sale. Prices realised were as follows: —Hen and 10 chickens 16s, hen and 12 chickens 20s, weaner pigs 15s, slips 275, Fruit and vegetables sold well at last Aveek’s rates. Entries for next Saturday’s sale are invited.

The House of Commons Channel Tunnel Committee has issued a booklet containing Marshal Foeli’s opinion that, had there been a tunnel before the Avar, it might have prevented the Avar, and that had the British and French possessed the tunnel in 1914 it would have shortened (he war by at least two years.

An old resident of Taranaki ,Mrs C. 11. Townsend, died on Wednesday in Auckland. Mrs Townsend, who was 71 years of age, came to New Zealand as a child, and for the greater part of her life resided at Waitara, leaving that place for a time and residing at Nelson during the Maori trouble in Taranaki.

Mr Aitcheson desires to state that in the recent court case in which he was charged Avith supplying liquor to a prohibited person, that he did not inform Constable Owen, as stated in the latter’s evidence, that he denied giving the prohibited person liquor. “I informed the police of the fact that I had given (he party one bottle of beer, and was mot aware that he Avas a prohibited person.”

To-morrow, commencing at 12.30 o’clock, (lie Foxton Auctioneering Company will conduct an unreserved clearing sale of dairy stock, goodwill of lease of dairy farm, implements, etc., on account of Messrs Ivinley and Entwistle, avlio have dissolved partnership. The sale will be held on the farm, opposite Mr Barber’s residence, Motuili. Full particulars appear in our advertising columns to-day.

Messrs Thorpe and Tongs are now well established in their business recently purchased from Mr E. A. Oxley, and are carrying a large and well assorted stock of crockery, glassware, etc., aluminium ware, Mason jars, brush ware, as well as fresh, clean stock of groceries and confectionery. Orders given personally or per telephone will receive prompt and courteous attention. A representative of the firm will wait on householders for orders, and goods will be delivered where required.

A Post correspondent writes: — One hears a good deal these days of the prices obtained for New Zealand produce. From an advertisement published in a Palmerston paper, dated' 10th August, 1805, I quote the following prices advertised by a Palmerston butchery, and place in parentheses the presentday prices:-—Log of mutton. 2d lb. (7d); loin of mutton, lAd (Gd); fore-quarter mutton,-Id (3d); hindquarter mutton, ltd (sAd);*dde of mutton, lid ( ltd);-prime rib beef, 2Ad (Gd); rump steak, 4d (Is); prime dairy fed pork, 4d; roasts beef, 2d and ltd (8d and Gd). “If there is one thing more than another that Her Excellency and I like,” said Lord Jellicoe, at Manaia last week, ‘‘it is to gel to one of the country districts of New Zealand. It is a real pleasure to meet some of those who arc producing in New Zealand, because everything depends in (his country on what is brought up out of the soil. I lake this opportunity of wishing the farming community of this district the best of luck in the future, and I hope they will not be hit by bad luck, like some other parts of New Zealand. I also hope that the price of butter will —her Excellency says ‘go down,’ because she is a housekeeper (laughter); but I hope it will go up for the producers and down for the consumers.” (Renewed laughter). —Witness. “Timely acts save the day,”—' Ragge. \ Whenever you get the first symptoms of a cold or chill, act quickly and at once. Call Baxter’s Lung Preserver to your immediate aid. A dose in time is an invaluable preventive of spring and summer complaints.

Baxter’s is a rich, soothing specific, pleasant to the taste, and a firm favourite with the kiddies, as well as with all grown-ups. ’Tis also a grand building-up tonic that keeps you fit and well always. A large bottle of “Baxter’s” costs only 2s Gd. At all grocer’s and chemists. — Advt.

A small Jish with a large head, Avhich is found round the English coast, and is knoAvn as the bullhead, has the power of barking to frighten off its enemies. Archbishop Cattano, the Apostolic delegate of the Homan Catholic Church for Australasia, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Marama, on his first official visit to New Zealand. He is to remain about a month in the Dominion, during which time he will visit the four centres only. Archbishop Cattano is accompanied by Archbishop RedAvood, of Wellington, and Bishop White, of Dunedin (successor to Bishop Verdon).

A large proportion of the teaching profession is loyal to (he backbone. What is required is a definite movement in the direction of removing from the service any teacher or university professor Avliose vieAvs are dangerously communistic. The country cannot afford to alloAV the rising generation to be corrupted by propagandists of this type. The school committees, head teachers, and education boards should exercise a vigilant Avateh over all teachers suspected of disloyalty, and where evidence of a communistic predilection is forthcoming, should insist upon effective measures being taken to rid the service of such a menace. —M.D. Times. The AvidoAv of Mr Jack London is publishing a biography of her husband. In his early correspondence, London pays high tributes to England, remarking: “When England becomes so decadent as to. lose her colonies she will fall. Then the United States will be shaken to its foundations. But England is not going to fall. We are the salt of the earth, and because avc have it in us to say so frankly avc really are so. The other European coumtries stand ostensibly alone, but really stand together Avhen it comes to bucking the Anglo-Saxon. The United States neA-er had but one fight, and that Avas Avhen it fought itself. Then England never bothered it, for England’s hands Avere full Avith other things, fighting in every quarter of the globe.” Mr W. H. Field, M.P .(Otaki), is asking (lie Minister of Internal Affairs whether, it Avould not be possible to meet the difficulty as to increased racing permits by reducing, say, by one race, the number of races to be run in any one day; and if this reduction could not conveniently be made throughout the year, Avhethcr it could not, at any rate, be made to apply to the winter months —-say, between April Ist and October 31st. “The number of races saved,” states Mr Field, “would be about ninety-eight, Avhich Avould thus provide another fourteen days of seven,d-aces each. At present the number of races run in one day in England is usually five, and in Australia. six, or at most seven, whereas in NeAv Zealand it is eight, Avhich is too many for a short Avinter’s dav.”