LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2420, 22 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The “Helm Id” will not be published on Tuesday next, Anzae*Dny. The Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. paid out on the'2oth Is 4d, not Is (id per II)., as previously .stated, for butter-fat for the past month. We regret ha ving raised the hopes of suppliers. The Council of the New South Wales Rugby Union Ims empowered Ihe completion of negotation.s for the visit of (he Maori team. It is proposed that their visit shall precede that of lhe All Blacks, probably six weeks intervening between the visits. “Tine shortest and most pointed sermon that I have ever heard of,” ;i subscriber says in the New York Outlook, “was delivered at the funeral of a coloured man who was not at all what he. should have been. ‘lt was this: ‘Wc all hope Ihat'Brudder Epli’m is wlmr he thinks he ain’t.” A. N. Smith announces that he has just received a full range of new season’s suitings, consisting of over 300 full siy.ed patterns, to select from, including the very latest in browns, greys, striped and fancy worsted and tweeds; also heavy and fine indigo serges. A perusal of Mr Smith’s advertisement is recommended. An elderly man in corduroy coat and green vest is going round London teaching schoolboys, at a halfpenny a time, how to roar like a lion, whine like an underground train gathering speed, or bark like a dog (says the London Daily (Mail), A score of boys received instruction outside.a Stoke Newington school, and between them can imitate the entire zoo.

Mr Delaney, local postmaster, has returned to duty after his recent holiday. Last night’s gale blew down a large portion of,a pine tree in the girls’ playground at the local State School. A- westerly gale of great violence blew last night, which did a fair amount of damage to fences and gardens.

At the Presbyterian Church tomorrow retiring collections will be made to provide a wreath from the Church to be placed at the foot of the soldiers’ memorial in Main Street on Anzae Day. A Gisborne telegram states that Mr T. M. Wilford, Leader of the United Liberal-Labour Party, yesterday selected Mr George Wildish, ,the Mayor, to stand for the Gisborne seat at the next general election.

\ The Pull Mall Gazette asks: “Are the English cursed with Jack of imagination? One of the greatest of Britain’s sons lias dead in her Capital. Sir Ross Smith must be buried in the Abbey with others of our race who achieved great deeds.” A visitor to Foxton this week paid a fine compliment to the local drapery estn hlishments. ’ He said the artistic window displays and well assorted stocks would do credit to a much larger centre. The prices of good.- ■; he had inspected left the Foxton public nothing to complain about by comparison.

“The Bible is our moral guide ; on the seti'of life,” remarked Mr E. C. Cullen, S.M., when initiating several students of--Wellesley College intb the Young Citizens’ League at-:Wel-lington. “I recommend eaeli of you boys to study the Bible for the Bible's sake. It is the most beautiful literature in the English language.”

A Chinaman, evidently suffering from a fit of mental aberration, and •n semi-nude condition, Caused some excitement in Otaki the other evening by entering several houses and frightening the female inmates. Constable Satherley was acquainted with the fad and shortly before 8 .vehicle the unfortunate man was in custody, says the Mail.

A local resident* who recently returned from a holiday visit to Christchurch informs us that tli4 Cathedral City seaside resorts are not, in -his .opinion, to be compared with the FoxfoirlVeacfh for bathing, etc. The local seaside suffers by comparison, however, in the matter of conveniences.

In reference to Hannan’s statement that lie will not row a private match agaiinst Paddon, as the latter suggested, and will only row if the title is included, the champion says: “That ends it. Hannan can have a private'match or no race. If he (wants the title he will have to go to Australia. In any case Arnst will have the first race for the championship, ns his challenge was first in.”

Poppy Day is being celebrated in Foxton 10-da.v. Red poppies, made in,Northern France, are being sold us symbols of remembrance of dead soldiers. The proceeds of their sale will be devoted to the relief of un-' employed‘soldiers in the respective districts in which the money is raised. T! e demand for the large poppies was greater than the supply. In fact, Palmerston asked for the return of half the number forwarded. There is, however, a good supply of the Is poppies, find the sale of these closes to-night. Discussing the floor space allowed children in schools'at the quarterly meeting of the Auckland branch of (lie New Zealand Educational Institute, Air R Harrison said that in New Zealand 12 square feet was thought ample, because it was greater than that allowed in Australia. He had inquired from the Department of Agriculture how much floor space'had to be allowed in a fowl yard and found it was four square yards for each bird. “I deduce from that,” he said, “that we will have to have a new table in our schools — three chickens equal one child.” (Laughter.)

The February numbers of the “London” and “Grand” magazines are to hand from the publishers, and are now on sale by the local booksellers. The “London” is particularly interesting, containing the “Diary -of a Prison Governor,” by Sir Basil Thomson; “Wireless Wonders of To-morrow,” by Signor Alarconi; “Royalty at the Altar,” illustrated with photographs. The fiction section includes some fine stories by popular authors. The illustrations are excellent. The “Grand” is full of interesting short stories by such popular writers as Gilbert Frankau, Marjorie Bowen, A. G. Greenwood, Arthur Hornblow, Austin Phillips, and E. L. White —a most interesting number. The “Mercantile Gazette” of this week says:—“lf there is one thing that this country wants more than another it is an increase in (he number of houses available for the people; the fact is universally admitted. Thousands of children who have lived with their parents and now desire to make homes for themselves cannot • get them, and immigrants from London upon arrival find themselves unable to obtain the shelter of a Toof. We agree with Mr Holland the leader of the Labour Party in Parliament, that before immigrants for New Zealand are allowed to leave England, there should be some guarantee that upon arrival they at least have a reasonably comfortable habitation awaiting them. Each.of the New Zealand larger cities need at least, one thousand houses erected within the next 12 months.”

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

Burglars visited Maeky, Logan and Caldwell’s warehouse at Wellington last night. The office was ransacked, but nothing of value was secured.

The Mayor (.John Chrystall, Esq.) respectfully requests Returned Soldiers and the general public to attend the Anzac Day memorial service, to he held in the Town Hall at. 2 o’clock on Tuesday next (Anzac Day). The s.s. Kennedy, which left Wellington some days ago, is still unable to make Foxton port, owing to had weather, and is sheltering between ivaptti And the mainland. She is expected in about Sunday night.

As an indication of the saving effected as between railway and motor carriage between Wellington and Foxton, a local business man informs us that he paid 13s 8d for a 4 cwt. package per rail, with extra for cartage from the station, whereas a similar package by motor direct cost him Bs.

The delapidated Sanson school building, which is about to lie inspected by the Minister for Education, bears above its portals in bold letters the evidence for its own condemnation —1881. Had the material been subject to proper inspection, it would have lasted another 41 years. *

Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington. enjoys the honour of being the oldest bishop in the world, and the creditable record of 50 years’ work in the church in New Zealand. His Grace lias reaMied the age of 82 years, and is. still active for his years, as was demonstrated by his presence at the opening of the new convent school at Kaponga on Thursday, where lie displayed interest and vigour surprising in one of his age. “The early colonisation of New Zealand was one of the most remarkable exemplifications of individual pluck aiul enterprise that the history of the modern world affords,’’ declared Mr R. D. D. McLean, of Hawke’s Bay, when speaking at the Wellington Early Settlers’ Association reunion. “The men who came out to New Zealand in those days were heroes, ,aiul did heroic tilings. So much more so were the women who accompanied them, and shared alj the hardships and privations that they'had to go through.”

To illustrate the menace -of the willow, a witness at an inquiry at. Huntly stated that, practically all the willows on the Matahuru stream have grown in the past 30 years' to his knowledge (says the Waikato Times), "an some parts the trouble is so bad to-day that the stream is forced from its original bed, and in others hundreds of pounds have been spent to give a new course for the water rather than endeavour to clear the willows from the old stream bed. Where willows have been removed they have cost up to £3 pei 1 chain. The Levin Co-operative Dairy Co. is paying Is 2d per Hi. on account of lmtter-fat supplied .'during the month of March, representing an increase of 2d over the previous month’s payment; The latest “payouts’: by other dairy companies, in the ManaWatn are: N.Z. Farmers’ Dairy Union, Is 2d for cream but-ler-fat, and lOd for whey butterfa I: Awalmri Co--perative Company, Is 2d per lb.: Whakaronga, 11 Jd per llj. The Dairy Factory’s payment is an advance on February of 3d and the vwalmri Company an increase of 2d. Both are butter factories, while Whakaronga chiefly makes cheese.

It is told of a Feilding lady that slu* got the surprise of her life the other evening (says the Star). For onee, she actually found a man under the bed, - Did she grab her family and her jewel ease and run for it? Not any. She ordered the intruder to come out of it. He crawled out eringingly. “What do you mean by it —what were you thinking you were doing there?” she asked. “Well, ma’am,” said he, apologetically, “I was very hungry, and 1 thought I would come in anti get a bit to eat,” She gave hint a bit,of her mind, then a bit to eat —and then sent him for a bit of a walk along the road. At any rate, that is how the slorv was told to us.

New Zealand was singularly fortunate in the public men it had in the early days, remarked Mr R. D. McLean, of Hawke’s Bay, at a gathering of the Early Settlers’ Association at Wellington. “I know the history of some of those men intimately,” said Mr McLean. “I know perfectly well that those men sacrificed themselves and their own private affairs, to serve the country in the early days. I used constantly to meet them. T used to notice how interested they were in doing everything. they possibly could to promote the welfare of the country. Those men were some of the noblest men who ever served in any capacity in any part of the Empire.”

I first took Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure A croup-stressed child of three, Tho’ two decades have passed since then, i .It still tastes good to me. It needs no special praise of mine, It’s fame spreads wide and sure, And ev’ry home now holds a shrine For Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 1