Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2461, 1 August 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The main electoral roll for this constituency closed last night. The local rainfall for last month was 1.31 inches.

The vital statistics for Foxton for July with the figures for the corresponding period of last year in parenthesis was as follows: — Births 7 (6), deaths 3 (nil), marriages 1 (nil). The Rev. and Mrs Frank McDonald have arrived in Foxton and have taken up their residence at the Presbyterian manse.

Mr A. N. Smith has presented the local State School museum with a German steel helmet picked up at Paschendale by his brother, while on active service. during the war. The Committee extends its thanks to Mr Smith for his gift. The wife of Mr -J. R. Whyte, of Tokoinnru, underwent an operation for apendieitis at Palmerston on Saturday morning. Her Foxton friends will l>e pleased to hear that she is making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

There was a large and appreciative audience at the Diggers entertainment in the Town Hall last night. The show from start to fir--isli was much appreciated. The funnyisms of Joe Valli and Frank Moran kept the audience in fits of laughter. Mr D. Gray, a member of the local Post Office, has been transferred to Feilding and his position has been tilled by Mr Henry Robinson who entered the service at Foxton some years ago and who has been transferred from the Eketahuna district to his home town.

An inquest oil the body of the, child Roderick Alan Donald, who was fatally injured in a collision with a motor car on the Bunnv-thorpe-Feilding road on Friday afternoon, was formally opened at Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon and then adjourned.

‘‘Mv experience tells me.” .Milled Hie Rev. DmGibb, in the course of an address at Wellington, “that in a minister's life the first year after the settlement the curate is regarded as an angel with wings. The second he is an angel who has lost his wings. The third year he is a mere man. The fourth year the congregation are not certain whether he is a duffer. The fifth year they are certain he is.” (Laughter.) The Palmerston bankruptcy statistics for the month ending yesterday show that more people filed their schedule with the Deputy Official Assignee at Palmerston North during July than in any other month of the present year. The monthly total is seven, making an aggregate of 23 for the first seven months of 1922. The total for the corresponding period of last your was 15, including four for the month of July.

Some time ago a lost bicycle was advertised for and subsequently the matter was placed in the hands of the local police with little evidence for them to go upon. They lost no time in making enquires and tillimatelv the bicycle was tracked, after passing through three hands and recovered. The thoroughness of this investigation is much appreciated by the owner and is a tribute to the efficiency of our local const a hies. “It is "time the best, brains of this country gave more consideration to securing more permanent work on the waterfront. The uncertainty of' unemployment was the bane of the watersidor's life.” said Mr W. J. Rogers at the Arbitration Court in Wanganui, when discussing employment conditions on the waterfront. He went on to say that when one or two men possessed the labour power of over a hundred it placed them in positions of petty czars, and perhaps compelled the men to sink their manhood, and ask them what they had done that they were not getting a fair spin. “They laugh that win.” —Shakespeare. There is nothing more gratifying than relief from irritating coughs and chronic colds —and certain ease is always effected with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. This grand specific is rich, warming and dependable—an invaluable antidote for bronchial, lung and throat affections. In addition, “Baxter’s” is an admirable building up tonic. 2s 6d a large bottle at chemists and stores 6.

A record number of frosts have been recorded in this district this winter.

Mrs Colonel Porter is shortly to visit Foxton on behalf of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Mauawatu County Council’s stone-crusher shed on the bank of the Rangitikei river was destroyed I,v tire on Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The Beautifying Society is protecting the plane trees planted in Park Street with manuka —giving the triangle guards a hideous appearance and wasting, money unnecessarily. The plane is not a delicate shrub and the guards should provide it with sufficient protection from stock.

An interesting lantern lecture is to lie given by the local headmaster (Mr Banks) in the Town Hall on Tuesday night next, in aid of the School sports fund. The subjects: “Around the world with a Camera” and “the Empire on which the ,~.un never sets.” Admission 1/6 and 1/-, children half price. Full particulars in connection with the entertainment to be given by the Moutoa Merry Makers in the Town Hall at an early date will appear in our next issue. It is hoped that the public of Foxton will support the effort for the erection of a public hall at Moutoa as Moutoa has given liberal support to Foxton in all public money-raising objects.

A gang of hoodlums interfered with a standing motor car. in which was a lady, on Saturday night in Auckland. Un two male friends of the lady arriving on the scene a melee ensued, one of them being seriously assaulted with a. bottle carried by one of the roughs. A newspaper reporter also went to the assistance of the party and was rendered almost unconscious by a heavy blow from another bottle.

At tlit- Palmerston S. M. Court yesterday thefts of bicycles, two from Shannon and one from Foxion, were admitted by a young Maori, Leonard Richard McAllister, for whom Mr Cooper appeared, and pleaded a degree of irresponsibility on the part of accused owing to injuries sustained to his head while serving with the Expeditionary Force. Accused was admitted to prohat ion for two years, ordered to return the machines, and pay off £l4 advanced on them, and £5 6s costs, at the rate of £2 a month. At Palmerston on Sunday morning a man of 78 years, named Eduard Tamplin, committed suicide by hanging. The body of deceased was found suspended on a rope hanging from the fire escape of a boarding establishment in Cuba Street. The deceased, who is said to have been residing with relatives at Fitzherhrrt, camp to Palmerston North on Saturday and booked a room at the boardinghouse. For some time past the deceased had been in a very, poor state of health, which is supposed to have been responsible for i::> action. U the Wellington Supreme Court ' esterday William Parker, who de.iberatelv smashed plate glass windows in a- .jeweller’s shop, and who is now serving a month tor making a sedilious utterance, was ordered ihvee years' reformative detention, Ihtvid Davies, who was caught redhanded burglarising Chief-Del eel - 'ye Kemp's residence, admitted this and thirteen other charges of burglary. and was sentenced to reformative detention for five years. David Broughton, a Maori lad, for breaking and entering at Weraroa, was ordered two years’ reformative detention. At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday John Linonel Turnbull, a man with a list of 22 previous convictions for false pretences, was charged with having obtained goods to the value of 30s from Edith C. Thomson, at Foxton, by means of a valueless cheque, signed with his own name. Mr McGregor, who appeared for accused, asked His Worship to treat the case leniently. Accused had no! been in trouble for about three years, and he had a wife and infant child dependant upon him. jT-e would plead guilty to the charge. The Magistrate said, in view uf accused's bad record, he could not take a lenient view of the offence. Accused had already once been declared an habitual criminal and lie was going the right way to. he declared an habitual criminal again. On this charge accused would be convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.