Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2468, 17 August 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly .sitting' of the local S.M. Court will be held to-morrow.

The Moutoa Merry Makers will repeat their performance -at Shannon on Tuesday evening next. Evidences of spring weather are noticeable in local gardens and orchards.

The All Blacks romped over the Manawatu reps, at Palmerston yesterday by 45 points to 11. A meeting of the Presbyterian congregation will be held in the church to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock.

A lire destroyed a garage and motor car, the property of Mr 11. T. Jensen, at Terrace End, Palmerston North, last night.

Of the recruits who offered themselves during a recent 12 months for the British Army, the medical officers rejected only 23 per cent.

A verdict of tobacco poisoning was returned at an inquest at Feildiiig (Durham) on an eleven-year-old hoy who, after smoking nine cigarettes in ninety minutes at a picture house, was found dead in bed next morning.

Mr Dclany, the Registrar of Electors for Manawatu, and his efficient staff, are pushing on rapidly with the completion of the main electoral roll. It is anticipated that a fairly large supplementary roll will follow.

It is not often a bankrupt estate realises 20, - in the £ for creditors and in addition a. surplus for the bankrupt. That, however, is the ease in the estate of Thomas Dignan, Auckland, a meeting of whose creditors confirmed a resolution granting him the surplus remaining after the claims had been satisfied. The Foxton Tennis Club Ball will be field in the Town Hall this evening. The committee has made special arrangements to cater for the enjoyment of patrons. The music, floor and catering will leave nothing to be desired. A large number of visitors from adjoining districts have signified their intention of being present.

At Monday night’s Council meeting the ranger reported that 15 horses and 29 cows had been impounded off the borough roads during the month. Cr. Martin objected to the ranger driving stock to the pound along the main thoroughfare on a recent Saturday night. The Town Clerk said the Act provided that the ranger should use the nearest road to the pound.

At the Palmerston Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Reed, an application was made by Mr Cooper, on behalf of John Neylon, of Levin, for a writ of dissolution of partnership and accounts to be taken, and an order that the business be wound lip, in respect of the partnership of John Neylon and William Joseph B. Neylon, of Foxton. lTis Honour granted an order as requested.

At a social gathering of the Moutoa Merry Makers at Moutoa the other evening, Mr Upton said he had received an invitation from the J. C. Williamson directors offering the company a six months’ engagement on tour. Amid roars of laughter lie explained that lie had replied to the effect that as the dairying season was coming on, the Moutoa milkmaids could not be spared.

Two young fellows got the surprise of their lives on a recent evening in an Auckland suburb. A Salvation Army officer started to preach at a street corner, which was also a tram terminus. He had then no audience, but two young men came along, and after some words, started to handle the preacher roughly. The tramcar was just si aiding when a Jack Tar aboard requested the motorman to delay a moment. This request being complied with, the man of the sea walked straight over to the young fellows, landed first one and then the other a skilful blow on the jaw, sending them sprawling in (he roadway. He then briskly regained the tramcar, calmly took his seat, lighted a cigarette, and proceeded on his way to the city as unconcernedly as though nothing had eventuated to disturb his placid and serene composure.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails.®

Heavy rains have wrecked Curate, a town on the Adriatic coast, by sinking into the subsoil and undermining the foundations.

No fewer than 117 dairymaids entered for the butter making contests at the Royal Counties Show held at Guildford, Surrey.

The Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department notifies that sealed tenders for inland mail contracts for 1923-24 will be received until noon on Monday, 11th September. A list of the services concerned is exhibited at the various post offices.

Fairly large catches of whitebait have been secured from rivers and streams in the Poverty Bay district during the past three weeks. The fish are running earlier this year than last, and the Maoris look upon the circumstances as the heralding f an early spring. Evidently the day of big families is not entirely past, says the Auckland “Star.” A case came before the court there in which the plaintiff admitted he had nine children. Later, when the defendant was giving evidence, she mentioned casually that she was the mother op seventeen children, of whom she had reared nine.

Replying to a question by Dr. Thacker, M.P., the Hon. E. P. Lee (Minister for Justice) said that it is not the intention of the Government to establish “farm colonies” for “wife-deserters and maintenanceorder dodgers.” The question of dealing more drastically with the class of offender referred to bv the honourable gentleman is receiving the attention of lhe department concerned.

A simple but effective method of dealing with aphis was shown a Chronicle representative the other day by a local fruit-grower. He gave his trees a liberal treatment of lime up to a height of 18in to 2ft above the ground, and scattered lime freely round the base of the tree. He maintained that the insects lodged in the soil at the foot of the tree in the winter, and the use of lime in this way killed a large percentage of the pest. He had got good results from this treatment.

At the meeting of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy C'o. on Saturday, the question of the dairy pool came up. It was recommended by Mr Chrystall that the meeting should strongly support the Dominion Executive in any effort to obtain a. compulsory dairy pool. It was pointed out by Mr Jewell that il was quite impossible for the Government to do anything while the two Islands were divided on the mailer, and after further discussion it was decided to reject the recommendation. The meeting strongly objected to the proposal of monthly sales of dairy produce being sold in Now Zealand.

Don’t wear gaudy sox next time you seek the seclusion of the Bankruptcy Court. A bankrupt with very few assets and a doleful tale was being cross-examined by counsel for one of the creditors (states the Auckland “Star”). “I would ask you, Mr Fisher, are those the kind of sox that should be worn by a man coming into this Court and asking for 7>roteetion?” This unexpected and unconventional appeal fell like a “throw-down” on the somewhat peaceful atmosphere. Casting bis optics on the bankrupt’s foot adornments, the Official Assignee bad to admit that they did verge on the flamboyant. “But,” suggested the bankrupt’s solicitor, with a note of insinuation in Tvis voice.

“perhaps be got (hem at a job-line sale." “They don’t look the kind you pick up at such sales." countered the legal man who appeared for the man who wanted his money. Attention was also called to the style of bools worn by the bankrupt, and (o add to his sartorial sins one of the creditors present spoke sadly of an unpaid account for a suit worn out several years ago. The bankrupt was a foreigner, and be stood up to these personal remarks very well, finishing up with the same imperturbable air with which he answered to his name.