LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2443, 20 June 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

This morning’s frost was the severest experienced in this district so far this winter.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will he held on Thursday next at 7 p.m.

Chicken-pox, medically described as “varicella,” is no longer a notifiable disease in New Zealand.

The Mangaramarama Co-opera-tive Cheese Company, which was the pioneer company of its kind in the Pahiatua district, is to be wound up. The number of adult teachers in the Wanganui education district, excluding relieving teachers is 423. Of these, 127 are uncertificated. An accident happened in the .Manawatu gorge on Sunday evening. A gig containing two young men went over the bank. William Cornthwaite had his leg broken and bis companion got oil with a few abrasions. The horse was destroyed. Practically no interest is being evinced by school committees in the election of members to the Education Board this year. The powers of Boards have been so whittled down that more useful work can be done by capable men on committees than wasting time by attending Board meetings. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

In its annual report the Wanganui Education Board says: —“It is only necessary to compare the condition of the mouths of those children who do tooth brush drill, with the mouths of those who do not, to be convinced of the value of tooth-brush,drill os an aid to good health.”

There is a boom in rabbit-skins at the present and there is. a decided upward tendency in values. One buyer in Clyde, Central Otago, according to a Southern paper, last week, without even seeing the skins, paid £4 7s 6d per 100 for them. Over 100 per day is a common catch. The Dunedin “Star” says : —“A reasonable Labour Party-in this Dominion might sweep the polls at the next election. As things are, the allegiance which they owe to Mr H. E. Holland’s party promises to be u millstone round the neck of Labour candidates.”

A correspondent writes to the “Manawatu Times”: —The two lads lost on the Tarorua ranges, were evidently not Boy Scouts, neither had they a knowledge of Maori customs, otherwise they to be without matches at the mountain hut for several days should not have troubled them. They would have resorted to the use of the Awalii, or rubbing of the tire stick, and so produced fire.

On Sunday .evening in the local Presbyterian Church the Rev. Alex. Doull, M.A., of- Palmerston North, (who is filling the vacancy until a settled minister, is appointed) commenced a series of sermons oil St. Paul. Last Sunday night his subject was “Paul the Pharisee.” His address was a masterful exposition and character sketch of this great Biblical character. Next Sunday evening he will speak on “Paul, the Convert.”

The gold rush fever is growing in Taunummui, and rumours are current to the effect that a number of our citizens besides visitors are prospecting in the back country in pursuit of,the elusive metal. It is staled that prospecting is being carried out on the hack of Ongaruhe up to the Taringamotu Valley, and in the Punga Punga.—Taumarunui “Press.”

The death has taken place at Matapu, of Mrs Jane Phillips, at the advanced age of 91 years. The deceased lady was born in the Bay of Islands but had resided in Taranaki for many years. Mrs Phillips was a sister to Sophia, the wellknown guide at Rotorua, whose death took place some time ago. Mis, W. M. Clark, of Levin, is a daughter of the deceased lady.

Mr T. M. Milford, Leader of the Opposition, was very much in evidence in Feilding last Friday afternoon and evening, doing the rounds if the town with his candidate for Orona. Mr Richard Cobbe. MrWilford met n number of returned sol-, diers, by appointment, and confer--ed with representative Liberals, 'sked by a Star man if he had anything for publication, Mr Wilford smiled So we reported.the smile.

A speaker at the “Salary Cut” meeting in New Plymouth said that “a sail cost £l9 and a pair of boots £2 10s." Bur such prices need not be paid. Good suits of clothes can lie obi. 'lied for much less than £lO. and l>o "Is are obtainable for much lower <"’s': than £2 10s says the Eltham ' rgtts. If people insist on having site most expensive goods on the market there is no sense in them afterwards squealing about the cost of living.

Mr C. Leiirli, of Martiuborough. recently observed a strange bird in that locality, and wrote to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society regarding it. The society ascertained from the acting-director of the Dominion Museum that the bird was without, doubt a specimen of the royal spoonbill, an accidental visitor from Australia, which has been recorded in New Zealand on but three previous occasions. These were in 1875, at the mouth of the Manawatu river, 1892 at the Buller river, unci in 1005 n t Grey town North.

“They call me a wowser." said the Mayor (Mr R. A. Wright, M.P.,) at the annual meeting of the Bible Society. “I tell them that I do not know what the word means, but I am sure it is something good, or they would not use the term. If it means a man or woman who stands for the things of God, then we are ‘wowsers’ every time. I have no time for the man or woman who is ashamed of their colours, whatever they may he. They do not understand or. realise their position in the community. We admire men who stand for what they believe although they may he wrong. But people who are everlastingly wobbling with no more spine than a jelly-fish, who run, at the first sign of criticism, are not worthy of consideration.” —Dominion. Those who read the,story of the rescue of Kime saw that he had his Bible in his possession, says the N. Z. Times, and, the search party had every reason to believe that he had derived considerable comfort from the Good Book. Have you ever been up in the mountains? If so, your thoughts will have ran along lines far different from everyday life. Thoughts of greater and deeper things come to you on the mountains. . Kime had been there before and-he knew. Others-have been also, and they know. For the sleepless and the hopeless Who endure affic'tion’s blight There are grim and gloomy shadows “In the silence of the night.” But for weary gasping mortals With bronchitis to endure. Cheering light spreads thro’ the portals * Where there’s Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 15

It is reported that Mr-G. H. M. McClure, Commissioner of -Crown

Lands in the Wellington district, has resigned his position and that he will be a candidate for the Otaki seat- at the forthcoming elections, in the Liberal-Labour interest. We have been asked to intimate that the Centenary Rally at the Methodist Church on Wednesday evening is open to all who desire to attend. The meeting commences at 7.30.

Force of habit was responsible for an amusing interlude in :t boys’ football match in the Levin district recently. . A local milk boy was in the thick of the fray when lie took the ball on the full, but instead of “mark” he called “milk” at the top of his voice, to the intense amusement of spectators and players alike. After all had regained their composure, “rnilko” had his mark and the game went on. —Chronicle.