LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2458, 25 July 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning the twelfth successive frost was registered locally. The Tennis Club dance will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow night. The annual meeting of the Foxton Volunteer Fire Brigade will he held this evening. August the Bth has been fixed as the date of execution of the murderers of Sir Henry Wilson. The Shannon Daily Company paid out 1/7 per lb butterfat for the June supply. For interfering with a bailiff in the execution of his duty a man was fined £lO at the Hamilton Police Court last week. “My wife has always been sporting. She actually tossed whether she should marry me or some one else.” —Husband in the Bow County Court.

A food depot has been opened by the City Council at. the Wellington Town Hall, where those in want are .supplied free. The goods consist of donations, largely of vegetables. During the last quarter the exports from New Zealand totalled £l4-,729,79C>, being £700,000 more than they were for the same period last year.

“If I had known a street in Martinborough had been called after me I would have made it my business to officially visit you long ago,” said Lord Jellieoe, when speaking at Martinborough.

One of the old identities intorduced to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral at Grey town on Tuesday last was a Maori centenarian, Ahitnna (Ashton), whose years are said to number 102.

A well loaded sewing stall, backed by produce, and jumble stalls; a bran tub for the kiddies; afternoon tea and supper rooms, together with several novel competitions form the foundation of a most attractive sale of work to lie held in the Methodist school hall to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon and evening. No charge whatever is made for admission either afternoon or night. The many friends of Mr Thos. Henderson will regret to learn that lie is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. The seizure apparently came on some time during the night. The picturisation of “Over the Hill” drew a large attendance at the Royal last night. During the screening the songs, “Mother O’ Mine,” “Home Sweet Home,” “End of a with Me,” were sung. The vocalists were Mrs Hunt and Messrs Head Perfect Day,” and the hymn “Abide and Hinds. For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.®

At the local police court this morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., Frank Wilson Norfolk, a first offending inebriate, was convicted and fined 5/-. Dr. Truby King is conducting a health campaign throughout the Dominion, under the auspices of the Plunket Society. He will visit Foxton on August 2nd. Further particulars will be advertised later. A wedding of local interest is to he celebrated a_t All Saints Church to-morrow at 11.30 a.m., the contracting parties being Mr C. V. Jewell, son of Mr W. T. Jewell, of Marotiri, and Miss Stella Barber, daughter of Mr and Mrs W. E. Barber of Motuiti. A shooting party at Bainesse during the week-end discovered in the lupins at a spot some distance from the Foxton Road, an abandoned motor cycle, which had evidently been there for several months. The engine and front tyre had been i*emoved, and the frame of the machine was much rusted. Up to the present the police are unable to trace the history of the machine. It is announced that the Red Feds of Wanganui (as aforetime) have decided to oppose Mr Veitch at the general elections. Reminds us of wluit the greatest of England's Labour leaders, Mr Cr. H. Thomas, M.P., said of the enemy in the midst of the masses at a recent meeting: “It is the mad, blind, insane policy of allowing craft and class differences to divide us that has ruined the working class movement industrially, and if it be pursued it will damn' the movement for all time. —Feilding Star.

Many people who grow rose.-, make the mistake of removing the strong red roots that come up from their rose trees just below the soil, explained Mr Waugli in his rosepruning exhibition at Wellington recently. These strong growths should be eared for and preserved, a> it i> from such that une gets their best blooms next season, It is only the suckers that come from the roots that should be removed. These suckers are seldom seen nowadays, owing to better methods adopred by nurserymen who produce the plants.

‘Some excitement was caused in Willis Street, Wellington, at about a quarter to seven on Saturday evening through an affray on a tramcar. It is alleged that one of the passengers was giving trouble and assaulted a tram official. He leaped off the tram, and ran down a lane leading towards the municipal library, with the official in hoi pursuit. Meantime a number of Iranis came to a standstill, waiting for the return of the offiical. The alleged offender was captured and will he charged at the Court with drunkenness, obscene language and assault.

A verbose gentleman, wln» announced himself as an “Aussie," had command of the floor on a train journey from Timnru, and displayed and explained various samples of cocoa la his fellow-traveller- (says the Ashburton “Guardian.”) Very little attention was paid him, and fin-

ally he nestled beside an elderly lady in the corner, and poured forth his opinion of New Zealand. “In Dunedin,” he said, “they give you nothing: in Christchurch they take your money; in Wellington they take your clothes; in Auckland they murder voirf*