LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2405, 16 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Palmerston Police Court on Tuesday, Theresa Russell and James Malkin were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for using obscene language. Mr Goldsmith, clerk of the ITorowhenua County Council, has been temporarily appointed secretary to the Horowhenua Hydro-electric Power Board, pending a permanent appointment.

Saturday, 18th inst., is positively Ihe last day of the most successful sale yet held by the C. M. Ross Coy’s. Eoxton branch, and on this day ihe public will he offered some sensational bargains. Shop early and secure the best.*

Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., speaking at a public function at Palmerston yesterday* said Palmerston North was destined to become a very large place in the course of ten years, and the population would probably number 25,000 people. When (lie Premier visited the Wairoa dislrict school he was buttonholed by the infant mistress, Miss Burns, who had displayed on her blackboard a simple sum in arithmetic which effectively showed how her department/really was?. Mr Massey was surprised at the lady’s originality, and also at the crowded state of the school.

The 'ball to he held in the Town Hall to-morrow night promises to he a. huge success. No expense has been spared in order to ensure this. The best of everything will he provided. and as Ibis is the first: ball of the season il should he well attended. Mr Larkins, assisted by Mr Basil Walls, will provide the music, while the supper arrangements are in the hands of a capable ladies’ committee.

Sex determination was a problem discus.sed by Aristotle and Plinv two thousand years ago. Members ' of the poultry conference held in Palmerston North last week, with all (he gravity of the ancient prophets and astrologers, discussed the exploded theory wifh regard to eggs —not in conference, but in groups of men who‘ought to have known hotter. Many of them still held that a piece of suspended metal will tell the secret, by swinging in a circle for the futurist hen, in a line foilier natural mate, or appropriately hanging it dead over an infertile egg. As a matter of fact, the mind suh-conseiously controls the moveuri.cnt of the string, which, if suspended from an inanimate object, remains rigid. Science has demonstrated that the sex is developed in the embryo, not less than seven days ■ after incubation commences.

On page 4 of this issue arc- published the handicaps in connection with the various trophy competili.,us under the auspices of the local Tenuis Club.

The Presbyterian Sunday school picnic will ho held in Victoria Park on Saturday next. The children will assemble at the Park at 11 a.m. Parents are cordially invited to he present. Gifts of cakes, etc., will be appreciated. An enjoyable outing is being anticipated by the children.

Favoured by a wet season and the apathy of those in authority, the highly noxious pennyroyal has spread as never before in the Manawatu District. Next year it will give the same appearance as the purple heather in Scotland.

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie (Minister for Lands and Repatriation) accompanied by the Kapiti Island Advisory Committee, is to visit Kapiti Island during the coming week-end in order to study on the spot the conditions obtaining on the island.

The recent decline in the price ot (lour, coupled with the lower price for sugar, should bring about an immediate reduction in the price of all lines of biscuits, states the Lyttelton Times. Some retailers are haying cautiously in anticipation of lower prices at ah early date. Says the Manaia Witness: — kPaxton continues to suffer from outbreaks of "fire. At' the present rate, it looks as though the old town must dsiappear shortly, unless a building lioom sets in.” We can assure our contemporary that, Phoe-nix-like, from the ashes of the destroyed buildings, new and modern structures have arisen, which would reflect credit upon any metropolitan centre, beside which Manaia’s business area presents a sorry spectacle. .4 j.

Honeymooning up to date. During their travels in Taranaki’s back- , blocks, the .Chamber of Commerce party came across a young couple “doing” the country in a Ford, the, hack part of which was litted-up;as, a combined living and sleeping room. They slept wherever they happened to he at nightfall, and cooked their own meals, or had them at an accommodation house, as it ■suited them. To combine business with pleasure they sold to the settlers as they travelled through the country.

“If people would only return to the home-spuns they would get clothes a good deal cheaper,” declared Mr Edgar Lupton, a Yorkshire woollen manufacturer, at the annual meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce a few week’s ugo. Mr Lupton said tluTt he had recently seen a circular from a German firm offering suits free on rail at Berlin which worked out on the rale of exchange at 9s, and overcoats at 7s fid. •

The incpiest concerning ihe death of Thomas George Miller, who was picked up in the street on the morning of the second day of Ihe last ■Woodville races, and died subsequently in the Pahiatua Hospital, was-concluded a t Pahiatua by Mr J. D. Wilson, District Coroner. In giving his evidence the Coroner said he had carefully considered the evidence. He returned an opep-verdict that the deceased died from hemorrhage resulting from a fractured skull, there being no evidence to show how Ihe fracture was caused. The Coroner reviewed the evidence, and said in his opinion the man was drank, when lie was allowed to leave the Masonic Hotel. Although no one saw him, it is reasonable to suppose- that he fell while in that condition, and was fatally injured.

In the course of his remarks at tilt)- opening ceremony of the Central School at Palmerston yesterday, the Minister, Hon. C, J. Parr, dealing wifh the work of school committees, said he had the greatest respect for them. So long as lie held the portfolio he did he would never do anything to reduce their powers; indeed, he would do his best, to increase them. Referring to the teachers, he said he believed they were all his friends, and during his office he had endeavoured to do his best to raise their status and uplift a profession which had never received its just dues. As for salaries, lie hoped tin t When the finances were in a better position, the inductions would he given hack. Tie would do his best in this.direction.

The South African Labour Revolution has been quelled by Ihe Government forces. The total number of casualties is yot vet ascertainable. Two of the rebel leaders have been killed. x The greater part of the population of Johannesburg, from roofs, walerlanks and every point of vantage, watched I lie Eordsbufg drama. Everywhere Ihe khaki lines intermingling with police blue, with big guns, machine guns and ambulances, while a tank waddling down past (he\Kioek Exchange completed a weird sight. Shells and bullets were whistling over the heads of the spectators. When the Government forces rushed the house white flags began to flutter. The infantry went forward and surrounded the Trades Hall, then the fighting died down, though an aeroplane continued the clearing up of sniping posts. Infantry dealt with stragglers inside the wide cordon, and a stream of strongly-escorted prisoners began to flow into Johannesburg. BE FIRM.

When you ask for a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, do not allow the dealer to sell you a substitute. Be firm in vour conviction that there is nothing so good. This medicine has been tested in the most severe and dangerous cases of cramps, colic, and diarrhoea, and has never been known to fail. For sale everywhere.—Advt.