Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2382, 21 January 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chris I church City Council has decided lo hold a nil drive on a Sunday morning in The near future.

The reduel ion in Ihe freight on wool lhal has jus! been announced will represent about £200,000 per annum lo Ihe woolgmwers in New Zen land.

On Wednesday next, commencing al 1.30 )).m., Ihe Uoxton Auclioneerinsr Coy. will hold a clearing sale of freehold house properly, furniture and effects on account of Mr W. Saps ford, on Ihe premises, Whirokino Road. Full particulars are advertised.

The Rev. Thos. Holliday will conduct a service in the Beach ITall tomorrow evening, at 8.15 o’clock, when the Boy Scouts, who are camped at the seaside, will he in attendance, and a special address will be delivered to them. All seaside residents are cordially invited to attend the service.

The Prime Minister staled in the House of Representatives that he was not very confident that he would get anything this year by way of German reparation. Anybody who read the daily papers could not be very optimistic on that point. Germany owed us £26,000,000, and he was quite prepared to take 10s in the £.

The Rev and Mrs Bredin paid a brief visit lo this district on Thursday.

The Rev. T. and Mrs llalliday rein rued l his week from a holiday visit to Christchurch.

A large number of visitors arrived in Foxtpn last night for the week end in order to attend the annual race meeting.

A meeting, of the Council of the local Chamber of Commerce, to have been held last night, was postponed until Thursday evening next. The Rev. Father Schaefer, of the staff of St. Patrick’s College, and at one time in charge of the Foxton Catholic parish, will leave next month to connect at Sydney' with the Ormonde for London.

Recent prices at the stock sales in ihe Wairarapa, although showing no decided improvement, are anough lo make breeders look a little more cheerful, and hopeful for an improvemont Intel' on. The optimistic outlook (says The Post’s correspondent) is attributed to the meat pool proposals.

With regard to the damage being done by the river at the Shannon bridge, the chairman of the Horowhenua County Council, with a member from each riding, have been appointed to meet the Manawatu Council lo discuss the best means of putting a stop to the erosion which has threatened Ihe approach.

“We commemorate and revere today Ihe memory of those from this district who gained for our armies, in a just cause, a great and glorious victory. Let us not be deceived into imagining that we can reap the fruits of victory unless in our daily lives we in our turn act up to the high principles of those great and gallant men whose* memory we honour to-day."—lT is Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Jellicoe), at Pnhanlnnui, on Tuesday.

A fire occurred at Shannon on Tuesday in a house occupied by Mr Joseph Feet ham. The outbreak was caused by jam boiling over in the process of making. One roojn was badly gulled. The damage is estimaled al £SO. The prompt action of neighbours prevented Ihe destruction of Ihe house. Mr Feetham is a returned soldier, and still a military patient, suffering from severe shock.

A 17-year-old boy, licensed out from the Weraroa Stale Farm to a Kohinui lady farmer, broke into Ihe residence of the schoolmaster (Mr Thomson) at Kohinui, and also Mr Lowe's house in the same locality. Consequently he came before Messrs A. Barrell and J. Hughes, .J’s.P., in the Pahialua Magistrate’s Court this week on a charge of theft of articles belonging to Mr Thomson. He v. as convicted and ordered to be returned to Ihe Stale Farm.

Mr Harvey Phillips, formerly a newsboy in Chicago, and now a millionaire as the result of Mexican mining ventures, recently re-visited Chicago and created a sensation by Ids methods of celebrating his return. From his hotel window he rained money down on the crowd below, and afterwards threw silver money right and left from Ihe window of a taxicab. Mr Phillips then gathered a party of bootblacks, and bought for each boy a pair of expensive* boots. Tn (he evening he gate a dinner to a hundred Chicago newsboys, saying: “T want the boys to have the best there is v When I was a newsboy I was often cold and hungry, and I know bow it feels.” Mr Phillips is 30 years of age.

' Says the Paten Press: —“The Palea Borough Council and Ti'adesmen’s Association recently protested against the Hospital Board inviting tenders and accepting a Wanganui lender for groceries for the local hospital. At the last meeting of the Hospital Board one of the members (a farmer) in reply concluded his remarks as follows: “I would like to say that the Board is not a charitable institution for the benefit of the Patea Borough Council or the Tradesmen's Association. 1 would like the Press to take particular notice of this fact. 1 find the Tradesmen’s Association asking us to spend our money in the town, and i notice from the accounts before me that most of them were printed outside the town. The irony of il l Why do they not keep their own money in the town, and do as they wish us to do?”

The Mercantile Gazette says:— Wo have every respect for the work of the Government Statistician in computing the very many interesting tabular returns which he issues every month, and which require both expert knowledge and special aptitude, but we cannot subscribe our unqualified adhesion to the deductions which lit* draws from his own figures. Assuming that one article of food such ns he gives, new potatoes, came into the shops and are for sale at a high price, it cannot be suggested that everyone bought, except a very few people who have money to burn, until they fell to a reasonable price; they do not, therefore, increase the cost of living. The market rate of mutton has nothing to do with the price of Christmas turkey.

ITCHING PILES CURED. Mrs T.W., Lower Valley, Wairarapa, writes :—“I suffered from Itching Piles for five years. I tried various remedies, but at last procured your Zann Double Absorption Treatment, which cured me after using two lots.” This is typical of many similar letters. Write-to-day for copy of new book on Piles, telling about their cause and treatment. Enclose three penny stamps. Address, the Zann Proprietary, Box 952, Wellington. —Advt. 5

The local business premises will re-open at 5 o'clock this evening. On Monday they will close all day.

The ratable value of the City of London has been fixed at £6,227,124, of the Inner Temple £26,352, and of the Middle Temple £15,853.

The friends of Mrs G. Scadden will regret to hear that she is at present an inmate of the Palmerston N. Hospital, having undergone a serious operation on Thursday last.

The Belgian Government is going to construct a big wireless station near Elizabethville, Katanga (Congo). Through this station, which it is expected will be finished in 1923, direct communication with Belgium will be possible. A female costermonger was fined 5s at Willesden for causing an obstruction with his barrow. A policeman said he had frequently cautioned the woman, but she always burst into tears, eauin" a crowd to collect, so that he had not previously arrested her.

Referring to the Beach Road recently, we stated that leaseholders at the seaside paid a road maintenance' charge of 12s fid per annum, plus rates. The 12s fid is not for road maintenance, but to meet interest and sinking fund on the original loan. The maintenance of the Beach Road'is a charge on the Awaliou Riding. “Did it take nine days to overhaul this car?” asked counsel in an action at the Napier Magistrate’s Court. On being assured that the work occupied nine days, counsel said he thought he could overhaul his car himself in that time. “A lot of people think that, sir,” replied the witness. “That’s how we get our business, when people start overhauling their own cars.”

The latest census of the Maori population shows an increase of 2,9-75 as compared with the returns for 1911). The first census, taken in 1874, gave a Maori population of 45,470. This year’s shows that there are 52,751 Maoris in the Dominion. Tn past years there was generally some doubt about the accuracy of the Maori census. Though the figures for last census (1921) show a substantial increase when compared with those for 1916, this is to some extent probably due to the inclusion of returned soldiers.

Further information concerning the peculiar tastes of some rats was given by a local resident to a Christchurch Press reporter. It. appears that a certain kind of rat, known locally as the “fruit” rat, has a special liking for fruit, lettuces, and flowers such as carnations. Even where fruit is stored away in a house the rat will go to no little trouble to gain access to it, as some residents know to their cost. It is thought that the food in question has a particularly sweet taste pleasing to this kind of rat, which is generally black in colour, and very long and thin. Whether this is the correct explanation of the disappearance of carnations, or whether these were used for nesting purposes, it would be interesting to ascertain.

A peculiar complaint, somethin!? akin to colic, has been prevalent ahout Dunedin for some time past, lair, though it has been fairly common, the health authorities have not so far been able to find a common cause to which it might be attributed. The disease, which is thought to be stomach influenza (states the Otago Daily Times), is not a notifiable one, and the difficulty about making investigations is that complaints do not usually reach the authorities until after the patient is convalescent. The disease is accompanied by stomach pains and vomiting, but it appears to be mostly of a very mild nature, lasting only a few hours, though some people have been ill with it several days. A number of fresh cases occurred this week, and the Distinct Hen It 1»» Officer (Dr. Boyd) is making further investigations into the nature of the (rouble.

A good deal of interest in the experiments with electrified seed wheat has been manifested in the Ashburton County this season (says llie Guardian). A linn of Christchurch millers supplied equal quantities of electrified and ordinary Tuscan seed to be grown side by side for comparative purposes. One favourable report, from Mr D. J. M’Tnlyre, Digby’s Bridge, has been received concerning the test, lmt other farmers are not favourably impressed. At the Ashburton Experimental Area there are four plots, two grown from electrified Tuscan, and two from the 'same variety of wheat simply treated with formalin in the ordinary manner. The verdict is plainly for the ordinary seed. The electrified plots are both later and thinner. On this first test it may he supposed that the electric process of treating seed wheat is not. going to increase or accelerate germination, or give better results in the final return.

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Bolton Watch Committee has decided to purchase two periscopes for the police.

A cab horse, blinded at Mons, has been decorated with the Blue Cross Medal tit Brighton.

At the local police court this morning, before the Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) and Mr Hornblow, J.P., a young man, a stranger to Foxton, was charged with converting a bicycle to his own use, the outcome of a foolish prank, and was convicted and fined £3 10s, and costs 10s. Constable Owen stated that cases of this nature were becoming too frequent of late. The maximum penalty provided under the Act was £lO. A charge of theft was withdrawn. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Care.*