LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2400, 4 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sharp earthquake was felt at about 0.10 pan. last evening. Mr .1. Banks, the new bead master, will lake up bis duties at the local school on Monday. Const able Owen, who has been on holiday leave, resumed duty on Friday. monthly meeting of the local School Committee will be held on Monday evening. Mr Coles, pianoforte tuner, of Palmerston N., will visit Foxton next week. Orders left at this office will be attended to.* The Rev. Mr Walton returned from Havelock North to-day*whith-er lie had been called to* visit his sister, who was seriously ill.

A woman named Gertrude Parker Sorenson-Hatch was fined £5 a,nd costs at Wellington yesterday for undertaking to tell fortunes. Don’t- put up with ink or fruit stains, etc. Delete them with Combination Stain Remover. Price 3s, at “Herald” Office.* Eggs at present are a glut on the market, and the retailers in Wellington have dropped the price from 2s (id to Is 9cl a dozen in an attempt to clear the stocks they are holding.. Wheat cargoes are firm despite lower American advices. The demand is still fairly active, with about a sixpence advance states a, London cable. “There is nothing doing in land,” said a South Taranaki farmer, giving evidence in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, on the question of property values. “Even a Prime Minister likes a little encouragement now and then.” -—Mr Massey in the course of his speech at Palmerston North on Thursday. “No architect ought to be allowed to plan a family house,” said Lady Astor recently, “unless he is married and has three children. And he should submit the plans to his wife.” A Wellington telegram states that burglars entered the premises of P. Schneideraann, tailors, and got way with loot valued at £l5O. Other attempts at. burglary are reported in the city. An Otaki Ala it representative was informed bn Thursday by a genleman in a position to know, that flax to the value of at least £2OO per acre had been cut from the Makerua llax lands.

A number of local Masons were present at the installation of Lodge Huia, Palmerston North, on Thursday evening, when Bro. S. W. Ollivei- was installed W.AI. for the ensuing year, and the other officer’s were invested.

Some harmless allusions to local people at the panto, last night greatly tickled the audience. One person named caused amusement to performers and audience alike by proclaiming that he was the person alluded to.

A Waitara telegram states that the strike of fellmongery hands at Borthwick’s works has been settled, the employers having agreed to supply the overalls asked for bv the men. Work was resumed yesterday morning.

They were in a railway train, and were discussing Dickens. “Well,” said one, “John puts ‘Bleak House’ first, and ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ second.” “Excuse me, gentlemen,” said a husky voice from the seat behind. “I don’t know your pal John, bin. you’ve bein’ steered. There ain’t no such horses runnin’.

“Taking all things into consideration (remarks the Pastoral Review) the New Zealand woolgrowcr is in an infinitely better position than he was a few months ago. His wool A worth mueh more than he anticipated, and ho has been inspired with hope that tho limit has not been yet i (-ached.”

R was stated by the police at thoOtaki Ala gist rate’s Court on Thursday that some unaccountable acts involving the damaging of private properly had occurred recently at a country township in that district. At a flaxmill two large holts were cut through a little time ago, besides ads of mischief to other people’s property. Every effort was being made to locate the offender.

Sergeant Wade of Wairoa received a telephone message on Thursday that Leo Oates, a labourer aged 57, single, who was working on a road contract at AYaipunaka, severed his windpipe with a razor early that morning. Tic whs brought to the Wairoa Hospital where an'op 7 oration was performed. He had previously received treatment for delirium tremens.

The Methodist Conference at Auckland resolved : “That, in view of the licensing poll next December, the conference calls attention of ministers, circuit officials, members of Methodist Churches and congregations, In tin* importance of using all means in their power t (insecure a great and notable victory for Prohibition.” A collection at the public centenary gathering realised £IOO.

Considerable interest is being manifested among pou I try-breeders in i ho minimi conference of the Now Zealand Poultry Association, which opens in Palmerston North on Tuesday next. Government experts will be present, and will give addresses. Exhibitions of poultry - plueking will*also he held. During tlie week a motor tour of the district will he made, including Levin, Foxton, and other parts. Tin* “Mercantile Gazette” says: — Wool is to-day selling at less than its cost production, that is to say i Ik* wool-grower is making a loss on his clip. The dairymen are getting more tlym pre-war prices, and they are feeling the pinch, because taxation is heavy, wages are high, and commodity "prices are high. The farmers have not the spending power just now, and boiled down it comes to this* that unless the cost of living is reduced with a corresponding reduction in wages, there will he increased unemployment, with labour unrest and industrial crisis.

Speaking at the reception to the Prime Minister in Palmerston North on Thursday, Air W. S. Glenn, AL P., paid a warm tribute to the member for Palmerston, whom he described as one of ihe most energetic members in i he.Afonso. Ah’ Glenn v said ihere was one question upon which be did not agree with Air Nash, and he told how lie had sought to find if ihere was a sum on the Estimates for the Palmerston North deviation nfler Mr Nash had declared that he Imd no interest in (lie Estimates. The money was there alright, and Air Nash had scored. The discrepancy between the census record of t he number of Aletlio(lisls in New Zealand and the Church, amounting to no fewer than 4(>,000, was referred to by the Rev. C. IT. Laws at the Methodist Conference in Auckland. According to the census returns the number was 121,000, while Church returns gave the number as 75,000. This discrepancy was partially explained by I he* fact that the Church had not taken any account of children under live, totalling 15,000, who <lid‘ not attend church or Sunday School, and by the fact that many people described themselves as Methodists who never attended church.

Among the trips taken to the summit of Mount Egmont recently was a midnight journey from Dawson Falls. The party, headed by Air George Ateuli, of AVanganui, consisted of Mrs Phillip Asioli, of Sydney, and Miss Dinning and Aliss Sara Dinning, of Melbourne. The most arduous part of the trip was undertaken by moonlight, the party arriving in the crater to see the sun rise. A glorious view, including the South Island was obtained. So mild was the morning that they stayed in the crater until mid-day, returning to the house in time for afternoon tea. The mountain is in splendid order l'or climbing.

A Pallia I ua telegram says:— Ivararaina Wliitu, a native woman 52 years of age, resident of Holmwood, with her husband and daughter, visited Ratana for pains in the heart and legs. She was there aboul a week and her condition Improved. She left on Saturday and got worse on the journey. She left the train here and went to Manganiutu, and was assisted to bed. She had faith in Ratana and thought she would get better. No doctor was called in, and the woman died on Tuesday. At the inquest, the medical evidence was that death was probably due to heart disease and dropsy. The coroner, Air AYilson, told the natives not to rely on Ratana, but that they must call medical aid for organic diseases. Deceased was attended by a Master-

The London Hospital decided no longer to admit women students, because of the difficulties of teaching which arise in a mixed students’ school. Lady doctors, when interviewed, claimed that the decision was due to the men’s growing opposition to women doctors, who are steadily increasing.

The Prime Minister, in the course of his speech at Palmerston North on Thursday:—“l am glad to say that the member for Palmerston is one of those who sticks to the Government through thick and thin. He sticks to it when it is right, and when it is wrong. (Laughter.) But I wish to say that it is very seldom wrong.” The death took place at an early hour on Friday morning of the wife of Mr W. R. Bvne, at her residence, Norbiton Road, after a brief illness, at the age of 36 years. Up to a few days prior to her death, deceased was in apparently good health, and her passing came as a great blow to her husband and little dabbler, aged fi years. Deceased only armv ed in New 'Zealand with her husband, from England, about eight months ago. The funeral took place yesterday, the Rev. Mr Abbott (in Ihettbsence of the Rev. W. Walton) conducting the service at the graveside. The sympathy of the Foxton public will go out to Mr Byne in a verv special manner in his bereavei won i.

What will be, it is claimed, the most luxurious flying ship in the world, with a perfectly equipped electrically operated kitchen capable of providing meals for 100 passengers, is under construction in Italy. It is the new Italian airship Napoli —far larger and more powerful than the Roma, which has six engines. each of 500 horse-power, and which Italy sold to the United States. [The Roma recently exploded in Virginia, nearly forty lives being li st.] The Napoli is to be driven by twelve motors, each of 300 horsepower. In addition to an elaborate restaurant and lounge, there is to be glu.-s-windowed “terrace,” -from which the passengers will obtain magnificent panoramic views.

A letter received from the London docks by a resident of Otago from tin officer of a steamer which carries meat cargoes from New Zealand, makes reference to the delays in the discharging of these cargoes and to ilit 1 deterioration the meat suffers in consequence. “Apparently,” the letter says, “the stores are full of meat, v for they have left ours in as long as possible. There is a ship lying near us with a cargo of meat gone bad. When they opened one hatch they found that (lie meat had sunk down about five feet. Judging from the smell that is coming from it, it must he absolutely rotten. The cargo-men taking it out arc working half-hour shifts and getting about live shillings an hour for their work.”

Nol a liiile excitement was caused in (Esk Street, Invereargij.l, on a recent Sunday afternoon lmmediately after the arrival of one of the special trains from Bluff run in connection with the visit of the Chatham. A very loudly dressed young woman, "sparing no effort to show the attraction she evidently felt for the Chatham’s sailor hoys, clasped a sailor who had sprinted down the street towards her, and implanted a number of resounding kisses on his cheek. This ostentatious passage was kept going for some minutes, the while many spectators ricked their necks. Then the whisper went round that the young woman (or “that young woman,” as she was called by many in icy tones) was really a young man from the Chatham who was finding something to amuse him ashore. The performance then lost the piquancy that it had previously held for the many not “in the know."

A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”* !

“Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,” seems to have been asleep in New Zealand yesterday. An intoxicated man driving a motor car near Hastings runs down a child and kills it. He is so paralysed at the event, or so bemused with drink, or so scared or perhaps so callous, 11m the drives on and leaves the victim on the road. He is convicted by a jury of manslaughter, and —admitted to probation! Two men at Lyttelton are caught in the act of tapping some beer that did not belong to them. They had appropriated a couple of shillings’ worth of the amber liquid in a bucket when they were discovered in the act. They were sent to prison for a fortnight. In the one case a man had consumed sufficient liquor to make him .so incapable that he killed a child. In the other the culprits were merely preparing to drink at somebody else’s expense. This, of course, was a criminal act. The beer was stolen,” and punishment was due. But if fourteen days’ imprisonment is a fair penalty for this offence, what is to be said of the case in which the killing of a child is allowed to go unpunished ? Lyttelton* Times.

The Daily Mail records a touch-, ing incident at the signing of Royal marriage register. As the.little party passed through the dtOor from the altar, Viscount La«<plfes» turned and kissed the bride. The blushing Princess Mary turned towards the Queen with one word, “Mother.” Kissing her fondly, the Queen said: “God bless you, Mary.” The King then kissed his daughter and shook hands with Viscount Laseelles.

Thursday night’s torrential rain replenished the housb tanks for the local domestic supply. Prior to this, water was being carted to a number of residences from the borough aytesian bores. The water supply will be a great boon to resi-dents-when completed.

A charge of wilfully damaging a bicycle at Waikanae on February Dili, was preferred agaihst George Alexander Hill, at Otnki on Thursday, the damage being assessed at £3 10s. “There is a little love romancet attaching to this case,” said Constable Salherley. “It appears that there is a young girl in that district, and the defendant, who is elderly, and a young man are paying (heir attentions to her. It seems that on the day in question young* man was visiting the when the defendant came along find saw his rival’s bicycle outside house. He took the machine and smashed and.hid it.” The const able added that he went down and made enquiries about the matter, lie taxed defendant with doing the damage. He denied it at first, hut afterwards admitted that he did do it, and expressed regret for what he had done. “He can’t be allowed to do this sort of thing with impunity,” said his Worship. Defendant was fined £2 and costs 14s fid.