LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2390, 9 February 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

After strenuous opposition by the Labour Party, the Arbitration Act was passed by 38 to 9 in the House at 5.25 yesterday morning. Ernest Jesse Phillips, 40, a farmer at Ngatea, Thames, was admitted to the hospital after being badly gored by a bull. He died on Tuesday morning.

Benzine is being carried by motorlorry from Wellington to Palmerston North at 2s (id per case. The cost by railway is 3s per case, plus the cost of handling at each end. As showing the accumulation of drift wood at the entrance of the Pa tea River port, it is reported that the small crane on the town side of the river lifted no fewer than 1,200 logs on Monday last. The port is now clear of obstruction.

“There is no other medium in New Zealand that will give you the same results at the same proportionate cost as newspaper advertising,” Mr Will Applet on I old the Nurserymen’s Association’s Conference a! Christchurch recently, when discussing “Co-operative Advertising.”

Recently a Protestant chapel was opened in the City St. Leon, Spain. The local authorities at first prohibited the proceedings altogether. Appeal to Madrid resulted in the cancellation of the prohibition, but only on condition that the chapel must not show any external indications of being a place of worship, and that no attempts at propagating Protestanism must be made from its pulpit.

A device that automatically makes an early morning pot of tea is the latest invention. You set an indicator to the time you want tea in the morning. When that time arrives the apparatus turns on the gas under the kettle. When the water boils the tea is immediately transferred to the teapot, and the gas is automatically turned off. A bell is rung, the electric light switched on, and the sleeper awakes to find a pot of tea ready.

“I travelled between Waimarino and Te Kuiti the other day,” said Mr H. Uobbie, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Railways and Development League. “Our running time was two hours and a-half, and our standing time six hours and alialf. It takes longer to travel by train to Onehunga from the city than it did forty years ago, notwithstanding the fact that in the period £240,000 was spent to'improve the line.” A tribute to Mrs Samuel Leigh, wife of the first Methodist missionary in Now Zealand, was paid by the Rev. A. C. La wry, in an address at Greymouth last week. Mrs Leigh, said Air La wry. dealt a shrewd and effective blow at infanticide among the Maoris of the North a hundred years ago. She promised a set of English baby clothing for every Maori girl that was brought to her and proved to be a fortnight old at the time. None could be found in that district, but the prize induced mothers to spare their little girls, and after cherishing them for fourteen days, even Maori women of that brutal time learned to love and guard their daughters.

A large party of Syrians, who have for some time been resident in our midst, departed by the second express on Thursday for the land of their birth (says the Otago Daily Times). The farewells were of an unusually affectionate character, doubtless heightened by the recognition that in many cases the parting was regarded as a permanent severance. The explanation of the exodus lies in the fact that when conditions were bad in their native land a number of Syrians came to the Dominion in search of occupation and a larger measure of liberty. Conditions have now changed for the better in Syria, and those who departed last week have been influenced by this change, combined with their natural love for their homeland.