Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2473, 29 August 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An eurih<|iinke occurred shortly Lifter 5 o’clock this morning.

A local youth netted two kerosene lias oi' whitebait one day hist week and quitted the catch for £lO. Some good hauls have been recentlymade.

A Bill designating the daisy as the. national llower of the United States was introduced in the United States Units* of Representative* on •June 21.

The Gazette announces the increase in the fee for grading butter from one penny to 1.00 pence per box, and for cheese from 1 l-3d to 1.10 pence per crate, to take effect oil Sept ember Ist. The local seaside committee have planted a number of silver birch trees at the seaside. All the trees planted during the past two or three- years are making splendid growth. The I’aimerston Chamber of Commerce have set up a small committee to investigate methods of adequately advertising the resources and attractions of ‘‘Marvellous Maim wains' Fi\e sears ago a party of Wellington bowlers, while on the way to Kelson by the Kaiton, threw overboard in (took Strait a bottle containing their names. The bottle lms been found at Takutea, a small island in the Cook group. Says nil - Australian paper: — Dick Arnst, the big Mew Zealander, who, after gaining recognition as a champion cyclist, twice held the world’s sculling championship, has taken up wond-ohoppilig. He will compete in the championships at the Kyde A. and A. Society’s carnival this month.

Mr Alsop. of the locomotive branch of the railway .sendee, retires on superannuation next month, alter 35 years active service. Mr and Mrs Alsop intend to pay a visit to Australia and upon their return will probably take up their permanent residence in Foxton. Mr Alsop’s successor is Mr Yardley.

“Now i hope you will all sing' ami make the service hearty,” said the Rev. Frank McDonald at the community hymn singing at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. “I haven’t much of a voice myself and probably there are others like me, but the croak of a raven is as acceptable as the song of the blackbird to the Creator, who made them both!" The congregation joined heartily in the service of praise.

The Feilding Star says that the doughty Prohibition leader from America, Mr “Pussyfoot” Johnson, will make a very early appearance in Feilding—within three weeks, although he is in Australia at this moment. Is it just coincidence that on the day Mr Johnson arrives in Feilding there is to be an eclipse of the sun! Feilding is not to lie allowed to see two bright lights on the same day —Seeing double is prohibited by Prohibitionists.

Mr L. J. Currie, headmaster of the Stratford School, lias been appointed delegate by the Taranaki Primary Schools Union, to meet representatives of -provincial teams at Palmerston North this week, to discuss the extension of the primary schools’ tournament next year to include Taranaki and probably other provinces. At present the tournament L confined to Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui and Manaw a tu. 'flie following appears in tha Auckland papers: “Collins. —Michael Collins, Leader of the Irish people, patriot, statesman, soldier, brave as a lion, tender as a child; brutally murdered by American gunmen. Every State outside New York loved him. A sweeter disposition, a purer-minded Irish patriot and gentleman I never met. Long live the memory of his' great work for Ireland. —Inserted by Ilall Skelton." Mr Skelton was Auckland’s delegate to the All-Ireland Conference held in Paris recently.

The main roll of electors for the Manawatu electorate has left the

hands of the printer. The roll contains 4,875 names as against 5,990 on the 1919 roll. Since the last election there has been a change in the electoral boundary, which has increased the work of the Registrar and his staff. It is anticipated that there will he a large supplementary roll.

Money spent in Bolshevik propaganda in Great Britain is not receiving the returns expected, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, one of whose corresnondents declares he has seen special secret instructions issued from Red headquarters demanding larger returns. These instructions as described by the correspondent, call for an intensive campaign among the youth of the British Isles and are of a sinister, far-reaching character. “No stone is to be left unturned,” he says, “to corrupt the religion and loyalty of: British boys and girls and to secure them as pawns to tiring about a proletarian revolution.”