Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB, 12, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2354, 12 November 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB, 12, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The will of the late Bishop Nevill has been filed for probate at under the value of £38,000.

The Rev. Mr Minilie returned from Napier last night, where he had been attending the Methodist Synod. Owing to another meeting being held on Tuesday night, the ordinary monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade will be postponed.

The sale of a line of four-year-old bullocks at this week’s Levin sale represented a loss to the owner of over £BOO.

On Thursday, in the Palmerston Supreme Court, John Joseph Saunders was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour for theft. Frederick Courtenay, for theft, was sentenced t<» eighteen months’ hard labour. A calamity was just averted by the quick action of the stationmaster at Fealherston one night this week, when a man attempted to board the train as if was moving, and got dragged along and was almost falling when the train stopped.

At. the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, Pereiva! Richard Wadd.v, who had been found guilty of an indecent assault on a little girl tit a picture show, was sent to gaol for two and a-half years with hard labour.

In the month of October, 251 patients were admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital. Of this number, 125 recovered, 14 were relieved, three were unrelieved, and six had died. At the beginning of tin's month there were 103 patients in the hospital.

A telegram from Wanganui reports the death of Mr James Dempsey, aged 82 years, who was one of Wanganui's oldest settlers and a Maori War veteran. He was formerly a prominent member of local bodies, and the Caledonion Society and Agricultural Association.

The medical superintendent of the Palmerston North Hospital (Dr. 0. A. Forrest) reported to the Board on Thursday that twentynine cases of infectious .disease were admitted to the hospital during October. Sixty-four operations were performed during the month.

“The Chinese of this town are the freest givers of any to our hospital," remarked Sir James Wilson, at Thursday's meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. A list of Chinese donors was presented, showing the total subscription to be £3l ss. A vote of thanks was passed to the donors.

Interest in the discovery of a fossilised skull in Rhodesia, which was forwarded to London, has been intensilied by a declaration by Professor (trafion Elliott Smith, Professor of Anatomy at the University of London, that it belongs to the most primitive type of mankind, a new species of 4he human family, quite new to science.

At the Wellington Supreme Court on Thursday, Cerrard Corvissiano was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour on the charge of false pretences, to two years’ hard labour on the charge of forging a hire-purchase agreement, and to four years hard labour for uttering forged promissory notes, the sentences to he concurrent^

The hope was evpressed by Mr E. Newman (Manawatu), in bis Budget speech 'on Thursday, that the Minister of Health would be able to effect some alteration in the present system of hospital contributions under which great injustice was done to country districts. He referred to the Rangitikei County as an example. That county paid £8,500 to the Wanganui Hospital, and lie did not think that the county would be prepared to put up with that very much longer.

Mr H. S. Wycherley, of George Street, Palmerston N., inserts an advertisement of interest to tennis players. Having had 22 years’ practical experience in repairing and restringing racquets, and guaranteeing his work, the most exacting players may get satisfaction. Only the most approved methods used, which ensure equal tension on every string and even strain on the frame, to avoid twisting and warping. Racquets intrusted to him receive progipt and personal attention, and returned per post or rail.

A Shop Day in aid of the Plunket Nursing Fund was held in Main Street to-day. v Considerable delay in the railway service down the Manawatu line yesterday was caused by the derailment at ‘Manakau of a “works” train. A rumour which ha d no foundati-, on in fact was circulated on Thursday evening to the effect, that a local resident had been knocked down and seriously injured by a motor car.

The value of fowl manure as a fertiliser, is exemplified at Mr M. H. Walker’s local poultry farm. Two small areas, portion of the runs, were put down in rape and oats, and the growth is prolific.

The Minister of Education states that during the past live years only three cases of ill-treatment of children boarded out in foster homes have been brought forward although there are over 2,000 children in such homes.

The 80th anniversary of the first three ships at Nelson, with the New Zealand . Company’s “expedition” party, occurs this month. The vessels were the barques Whitby and Will Watch, of 437 and 214 lons respectively, and the brig Arrow, of 200 tons. ’

The estimated population of New Zealand ("exclusive of Maoris) on September 30th was 1,220,833, of whom 027,340 were males and 001,493 females. The increase during the quarter was 0,713, of which 4,189 was due to excess of births over deaths, and 2,524 by excess of arrivals over departures. The increase" of 0,713 was made up of 2,549 males and 4,104 females. At (lie instance of the editor of (he Wanganui Herald and the Herald Company, respectively, Iwo writs for £I,OOO each were served (in the Wanganui Chronicle on Wednesday for damages for alleged libels contained in a leading article on the 25th nil., entitled “The Fallen Herald,” and t wo leading articles on the 28th ult„ headed “Misleading the Ratepayers” and “Intentional Deception.”

“Freetra.de,” said Mr W. A. Veikdi, ALP., in the House of Representatives, “is like Christianity. II would lie a. very good thing if everybody practised it. But if you are a really good Christian, and you are living alongside a chap who has no principles, it will take you all your lime to hold your own with him in I his wicked world.”

On inquiry into (lie allegations oi assault and robbery from a young man and woman at Raetihi. the police discovered that part of the story was a fabrication. As a, result of their investigations, they charged the man, Anderson Bruce Aitehesoii, with assaulting the young woman to whom he was aImut In lie married. Accused was in bad health, suffering from nervous trouble, and had struck the girl with a piece of three-by-two timber and then jumped ilito the river. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.

Miss Anelle Kellerman, who es-

sayed three times to swim the English Channel, and who is at present in the Dominion, told a reporter I hat to trv to swim the Channel was a frightful job, and she did not think that any woman would ever gd across. There was no woman who had the speed, plus endurance, who could get across in twelve hours, because of the tides. “No, it is a colossal undertaking, and for Hindrance it was I lie most ghastly thing 1 have ever done,” said Miss Kellerman. “The ordinary layman does not understand what one,goes through. Willi the exception of one day a week, 1 swain from six to twenty-four miles a day for training. That is work! The woman who gets across will be a superwoman." Tn expressing satisfaction at the further instaliliont of British preference given in the Customs tariff, Air E. Newman (ManaWatn) recalled the fact- that, the first Customs ordinance issued by Governor Hobson in 1841 gave preference to (lie Mother Country. The earliest Tariff was for revenue purposes, and contained no protection designs. The first attempt to introduce reciprocity was in 1870, when the Government obtained power from Parliament to conclude reciprocal Customs arrangements. Tn 1903 Imperial protection was introduced. In ]895 llic Tariff became protective, and the protection was increased in 1900. Tn the early days of New Zealand the proportion of revenue obtained from <lie Customs and Excise was greater than to-day., The change in the proportion was due to the increase of other forms of direct taxation, and to (tie changes that had been made from time to time by the removal of the duties from the necessaries of life with the idea of maintaining what was practically a free breakfast table.