Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2447, 29 June 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local Patriotic Committee meet's this evening.

The monthly meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce will be held this evening.

Rain fell during last night and followed what promised to be a frost. The weather to-day is very cold.

Palmerston North has .just had a new valuation, and some property owners are vigorously protesting at the figures, which are described as wartime valuations.

The Palmerston North PatrioticSociety has decided to vote the sum of £4OO to the Borough Council, to be subsidised £1 for £l, for the special purpose of giving relief by way of unemployment to soldiers. The Hon. E. Short!, speaking in the House of Commons, said that Sir Henry Wilson’s murderers were Londoners. There was no evidence that they were ever in Ireland in their lives.

The Minister for Internal Affairs has arranged Wednesday next, .July sth, at 2 p.m. as the date for the first meeting of members of the newly constituted Fire Board. The meeting will be held in the Town Hall supper-room.

Four prizes have come to New Zealand in a reeent Tattersall’s sweep. A resident of Cheviot, North Canterbury, secured £I,BOO, and the sum of £SOO was received by a Taumarunui resident. The substantial amount of £5,000 was drawn by a Timaru syndicate, and another in Wellington won a similar sum. Mr Reid, the borough water works foreman commenced the continuation of laying the water mains in Main Street yesterday and splendid progress is being made. I’he work is being pushed on as quickly as possibly in order to cause as little inconvenience as possible to the public and business people. The Mayor and Cr. Whibley proceeded to Wellington yesterday to interview Departmental authorities in reference to the water and drainage loan. It is anticipated that there will be no difficulty in getting an advance of £IO,OOO instead of £5,000 for the current financial yen r.

News received in Oamnru on Tuesday states that Mr Thomas M’Quin, the well-known auctioneer for the North Otago Farmers Cooperative Association, was killed through a car capsizing on a snowy road near Kurow. A passenger named Mathcson had a leg broken. Details available are meagre.

The inquest on Sir Henry 1\ ilson reveals that the assassins were armed with service revolvers. The field-marshal had eight bullet wounds in his body, including one in each side of the chest, both fatal. The coroner paid a tribute to the inspiring lira very of law-abiding Englishmen, unarmed, chasing the murderers.

A youth who appeared before Mr Boynton, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court charged with having failed to attend drill, said he was emplovcd at a dairy farm, and worked from 3.30 a.m. until (i p.m. “If that is so,” said the Magistrate, “you are doing good work for the country and I would he inclined to exempt vou, for a year anyway.” The ease (states the Star) was adjourned to allow of inquiries as to the truth of the defendant’s statement.

Youth calls youth along life’s golden years, Within a maze of fevered hopes and fears. Love loves but one, tho’ many may adore — Love shrines the faded flower that beauty wore. Youth should be health and all the world to win, With vigor, hope and courage to endure. Love springs to love when health impels within — Remember Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 17

Marshal Foch’s wreath for FieldMarshal Wilson was inscirbed: “For his best friend.” Telegrams of condolence were received from the Italian and C/.echo-Slovakian Ministers of War, and from the Chief of the Japanese General Staff.

An instance of family longevity is mentioned by an Otago correspondent, who says that his parents arrived in Otago in 1853 with a family of 10. Since that time there were three births and four deaths in the family, and the average age of the nine survivors is 75 years.

Lady Wilson lias issued the following statement: —“I hope in time to thank thousands of kind friends throughout the world for the sympathy which I feel around me, but still more to thank them for the wonderful tribute to my beloved husband, who died for the Empire he loved so well.”

The death is reported from Nelson of Rev. Father Bowden, for many years on the staff of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, and Professor in the Ecclesiastical Seminary at Greenmeadows. The late priest also discharged parochial duties in Palmerston North, Timarn, Lees ton, Upper Hutt, Wellington, Blenheim and Nelson.

It is understood that the Crown is appealing on a point of law in connection with the decision of Mr L. Stout, S.M., wherein lie dismissed a charge of keeping an alleged gaming house preferred last month against Robert William Davidson at Palmerston The requisite notice has been served on the Magistrate. Mr Loughnan is acting for the Crown in the matter. Canon Cradwell, of Brisbane, speaking at the Anglican Synod, stated that half the drink trouble was due to the temperance drinks which were provided. He suggested that temperance advocates should buy a brewery and retail cheap, light ale as a step towards a solution to the problem. The Synod passed a resolution that, in view of the conflicting evidence of the working of prohibition, a determined effort .should be made to find a solution in the direction of restricting the hours of the .-ale of liquor. When citizens lose property, stolen or “strayed,” they usually appeal to the police. It rarely happens that the police appeal to the citizens to help to find police property that has gone astray. Yet (says the Sun) such a case was mentioned at the motor-traders’ dinner at Christchurch. It was stated that when a police motorcar had been stolen, an appeal for assistance was made to the Motor Garage* Proprietors’ and Cycle Traders’ Association of New Zealand. The police had the ear restored to them within 48 hours!

A meeting of the executive of the Mana watu-Oroua Electric Power Board held on Tuesday, decided that as two power boards had withdrawn from the proposal to raise a join; loan, the local board should make its own arrangements, and formal application has been made to the Minister of Finance for the authorisation of the hoard’s loan, which totals £500,000. The necessary sleps will now he taken to place !'•(> proposal before a poll of the ratepayers in the various portion- of the hoard’s district.

“Tl.: t iny body be cremated and the a.-bes not preserved, but disposed nf by the crematorium, or used by any of my trustees or others to fertilise their potatoes,” was the grim instruction embodied in the will of .Tam - Christie, a retired schoolmaster and scientist, who died recently in London. He stated he did not wish anyone to waste time attending his funeral, as it would do no good to anyone. The absence of the usual formalities would give “poor Mr and Mrs Grundy something to talk about” lie added.

What is the test of a practical farmer? Possibly the test mentioned at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Union Trading Company’s shareholders, at Auckland on Wednesday, is as conclusive and as convincing as any. One speaker declared that he had six sons on farm.-, and several daughters married to farmers. They were all practical farmers and as good as any of the best farmers in the room. Three of them had been practical enough anyhow to sell their farms and retire in comfort, and three of them had motor cars. The chorus of approval showed that the test was quite impressive.

“Those who fought the Government's retrenchment proposals last session without being able to provide any other practicable alternative to financial disaster expected to win popularit ' their attitude,

and to a certain extent they succeeded. But the success is already seen to have been evanescent. It was earned cheaply, and it has passed quickly. After the lapse of four or live months, there is not enough of this cheap popularity left to embarrass the Government, and Mr Massey can go right on with the retrenchment programme in the confidence that lie will have the public behind him in his unpleasant task.” —Post.

“Impudence must be paid for.” — Sheridan.

All sufferers from chronic coughs and colds should benefit by the wisdom of thousands who have obtained permanent relief with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. Baxter’s Lung Preserver is penetrative, quickly rooting out deepseated maladies. In addition revitalise and reinforce the system and 2s 6d a large bottle at chemists and fortify it against future attacks, stores. —Advt. 1

Winter prices for cash are advertised by Bauckham’s, grocers.

A four-roomed house together with half-an-acre of land is advertised for sale or to let.

“Some of these men are perfect pests and go about terrifying lonely women into buying their wares,” observed Mr Poynton, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court, when convicting one of the hawking tribe for assault.

The debate on the Address-in-Reply in Parliament will be opened next week. Mr D. Jones (Kaiapoi), the chairman of the Meat Producers Board, is to open it, and his motion will be seconded by Mr Clutha MacKenzie (Auckland East). The primary producers of Australia have decided to make a strong stand against the Australian Workers’ Union to fight the union with its own weapons of combination and solidarity. The producers are to be organised into branches in such a way that a threat by combined Labour against one section of the group may immediately he neutralised by co-operation on the part of other members. Practically all the primary producers are interested in the move, which, when finalised will comprise an elaborate amalgamation of interests to combat the militant unionism, and also to improve the position of the producers in such matters as the distribution and marketing of produce.