LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2414, 6 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A list of entries fob Saturday’s marl sale is advertised by the Foxlon Auctioneering Coy. to-day. An unregistered barmaid was fined £5 at Auckland last week for accepting employment in a bar.

Faster week’s business hours at Ccdlinson and Cunninghame’s, Palmerston: —Open continuously from !) Monday morning until !) Thursday night. Open Faster Saturday until 1 o’clock. Orchestra each afternoon in tearooms.

The Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild met at the residence of Mrs Alex. Boss yesterday afternoon. . There was a good attendance, and a most enjoyable social time was spent. Final arrangements were made to hold a social afternoon in the Masonic Hall on the 26th inst. Mr Alex. Ross has acquired the bJacksmithing, coachbuilding ' and wheelwright business lately carried on by Mr H. B. Cresswell, in Main Streep and solicits a share of local and district support. All work entrusted to his care will be promptly and efficiently carried out. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails.*

The children of AH S.imt>' Home, i’a'iner.-lon X., will arrive to-mor-row to spend tlu* holiday at the Beach Home.

A Wait ant telegram records the death of the Rev. Alex. Gow, aged 51 years, a well-known Presbyterian minister, whose last pastorate was at Waikaka Valley, Gore. Deceased never really got over his strenuous work during the influenza epidemie. “It is the curse of New Zealand that too many sons work on farms for nothing,” remarked Mr O. T. J. Alpers, of Christchurch, in the Court- of Appeal this week. “It is unfortunate that too' many sons work for father without getting

wages.” A severe attack recently made by the Rev. A. A. Murray on the theological colleges isj-eferred to in an article in the April issue of the April Church Gazette. Mr Murray asserted that these colleges arc spreading agnosticism and infidelity, Knox College, Dunedin, coming in for special condemnation. Mr Murray further declared that “the devil had got hold of education from ilie Sunday school to the University. The Gazette ridicules this “hysterical outburst,” and points out that, measured by .Mr Murray’s standard of orthodoxy, conservative theologians like the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Gore, would he rank infidels.

In reference to a paragraph wlpcli, appeared in, Tuesday’s issue re the magnificent view of the ocyjin aiql surrounding district obtained from the half-completed water tower, Mr F. H. Murray, who lives near the locality, called on us and expressed the opinion that the tower could he made revenue-producing to >the Council. He says that the Council could make a charge on certain days for persons to ascend the tower and obtain a view of the surrounding districts and ocean for miles. A splendid opportunity would he thus afforded visitors to get a panoramic glimpse of this district, as the view would take in Shannon and Levin. Post cards or booklets could also he sold as mementoes, which would serve to bring Fotxon into prominence. Mr Murray’s suggestions are worthy of serious consideration by the Council. May we add that the Beautifying Society should take a hand in laying out the site with suitable shrubs and garden plots.

' “Money matters” was given by a petitioner in the Divorce Court at Wellington this week as the-cause of a separation from his wife. “Now, what (To you inean by thatf” asked Mr Justice Hosking, “Well, your Honour,” said the claimant, “when I was away live months bushfalling, she was living at Puketolu, and when I came back she had- been spending money pretty freely.” “While'you '“were trying to get a nest-egg bnshfalling?” “Yes, your Honour. She was giving tennis parties and running fancy dress entertainments.” “Where?” asked the Judge. “In Pnketotu.” “And where’s that?” “Somewhere in the Never-never,” your Honour,” said counsel. “Oh, I see,” said his Honour, “she thought a little recreation was needed to enlighten and enliven the society of Pnketotu." And not being able to get free, play for her social aspirations, the petitioner explained, she went away, and he had never seen her since.