LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2474, 31 August 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Hunt lias commenced the work of laying down concrete paths at the old cemetery. The local Plunket Society are to hold a social afternoon next Wednesday. Full particulars in next issue. We are asked to request any citizen who notices a conflagration at night to ring the lire bell tor a period of at least two minutes, to •bnsure a sufficient alarm being given.

The monthly meeting of the local committee of the War Funds Coun-

cil will be held this evening. The local Presbyterian Ladies Social Guild spent a most enjoyable afternoon in the school liall yesterday. The hostesses syere Mesdames ■John Ross and Perreau.

A large number of people, of all ages, were out whitebaiting yesterday and some good hauls were made. Some fairly large consignments of the little fish have been forwarded to Wellington. Ten female drapery assistants and a ship’s officer were charged with theft and receiving stolen goods valued at £l5O in the Police Court at Wellington on Monday. The cases against the six youngest defendants were dismissed. Three were lined £lO and two £5 each.

A man’s dead body was found hanging to a tree in the Auckland Domain, it being suspended from a branch by a strap around the neck. Ir had apparently been there several days. Letters in the pocket bore the name “11. Cooper.”

Mrs Also]), who is shortly to pay a holiday visit to Australia, was entertained by Mrs Cannont at her residence, Johnston Street, on Tuesday afternoon. A most enjoyable time was spent by all present and the guest was made the recipient of an ebony-back hair brush, as a token of esteem.

A visitor to Auckland recently lust a wallet containing some valuable non-negotiating documents and £BO in notes. An advertisement offering £2O in notes failed to secure a response, but last Saturday the wallet was returned to Hamilton through the post. It contained the documents but all the notes were missing.

We are informed that it is the intention of the Education Board to establish a side school at the local seaside in preference to paying the cost of carrying the children in the locality to and from the local school. The cost of maintaining a side school will be greatly in excess of conveying the children to Foxton.

The “Gazzas” showed before a fair audience al the Royal Theatre last Tuesday night. The aerobatic feats of the “Margaret-Willie Trio” were much above the average standard and they acquitted themselves a-, juvenile "wonders in ttiis respect. The musical items and the juggling was also very good. The performance on the whole proved to he quite novel and entertaining.

Shortly before midnight on Friday hist, a cyclone passed across Okato, Taranaki, and left a track of desolation, says the “Herald.” Striking a portion of a pine plantation, the storm snapped off nine trees, estimated to be about four feet in diameter, and stripped others. A sited about two chains from a house was demolished and the debris piled against the house, where an iron chimney and a portion of liic verandah were carried away. Two 400-gallon tanks, both full of water, were upset and crumpled like paper.

“People in this country eat far 100 much,” said Dr. E. 11. Wilkins, chief schools medical officer to the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. Coining from Wellington in the train, lie said, In' had noticed that the people at Paekakariki, being deprived of food for nearly two hours, rushed the refreshment rooms to consume tea and sandwiches. They repealed the performance at Palmerston North, Woodville, and Waipukurua. He looked at them “guzzling” these things, and he could not help thinking how wrong and contemptible it was.”

Reparations received from Germany thus far have failed to pay for the actual war damage in France and Belgium, Lloyd George told the House of Commons recently (says the “Springfield Republican.") But what is worse is that they have hardly paid for the maintenance of the foreign armies of oci upatioii since the war, the bill for which exceeds by a third the entire indemnity paid by France after the Franco-Prussian War. “Overhead” has been allowed to pile up, and France thus far has got practically nothing for reparations.

A witness in a case at the Supreme Court at Napier (says the “Herald”) was being questioned concerning .« certain conversation which took place in the bar of an hotel. The witness was a barman in the hotel but said the day the conversation took place lie was off duty. His Honour remarked that it was like a lady in a book lie had recently read, who made a living by sewing. She took a day off in the country, but took her sewing machine \\;ith her. Mr Dolan: “You can't always take a bar with you, your Honour.” His Honour: "Instead of standing on one side of the bar you stood on the other."

The good old days—and nights—of long shop hours, not so very long ago, were recalled by Mr T. Forsyth while speaking at a gathering of members of the drapery trade at Wellington recently. There was a time, he said, when there was no half-day, when kite nights were late nights —till 10 and half past —and when Christmas Eve shopping went on till a quarter to 12, but those days were done away with altogether. His sympathies had always been with the employees, and he believed that when the trade was thoroughly organised it would get there just (he same with shorter hours. There had been strong objection to the alteration of the halfholiday from Wednesday to Saturday, but he did not think that anyone would want to go back to "Wednesday now.

The testing of the water tower is now in progress and will continue for a fortnight. So far no defects are noticeable.

It is the intention of Mr W. H. Field’s supporters in Levin to entertain him at an early date in recognition of his work for that portion of his electorate. Under the alteration in the electoral boundaries, Levin is no longer a portion of Mr Field’s district.

Stewart Cecil Harland and Heather Bell Harland, his wife, who were acquitted at the Dunedin criminal sessions recently of a charge of murder of an infant, were arrested yesterday, states a Press Association message from Invercargill, on a charge of concealment of birth and remanded to appear at Dunedin on September sth. Bail was allowed. It is stated that there are one or two ambitious aspirants for Parliament in the Reform interest at Levin, which place has been taken out of the Otaki electorate and added to Manawatu. One of the aspirants lias decided to oppose Mr AY. 11. Field for the Otaki seat and there arc still others who think that the official Reform candidate for Manawatu could be improved upon. At a recent meeting it was decided not to support Mr Linklater at the present juncture.

Mr Park Benjamin, of New York, tlie father of Enrico Caruso’s wife, cut off Mrs Caruso and his four other daughters with a dollar each, iti a will in which he bitterly assails his children for their lack of filial spirit. He had opposed his daughter's marriage to Caruso in 1018. Mr Benjamin leaves his complete estate, valued at half a million dollars, to an adopted daughter, who was at v ong, time governess to Mrs Caruso.

At Lyttelton yesterday, cases arising out of the recent raid on the premises of the Lyttelton Club when a quantity of liquor was seized. were dealt with. Thomas Gallety, Thomas Victor Tuohy, Peter Hamilton and Daniel Bamford were each fined £f> for having sold liquor, and Walter Toy and Charles Frederick Smith £1 each for having assisted in the sale of liquor. The cases against six others were dismissed. Confiscation of the liquor was not ordered, rlie Magistrate sayiny the Club was a corporate body and bad not been convicted. Mr If. Holland. ex-Mayor of Christchurch, in discussing hydroclectricily at Palmerston recently stated that, in his opinion, a standby plant was not necessary. The longest period that Christchurch bad been without power from Lake Coleridge was four days. This happened in July, 191fi, during the heavy fall of >now in the back country. The failure of the power was due in a large measure to the insulators iii use on the line, the formation of these permitting the snow to lie on the wire, thus causing a short circuit when the snow melted. This would not occur with the type of insulators that, would be used in the Mangalmo scheme. The death took place in Wellington on Tuesday night of the Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, a member of the Legis lative Council, and formerly M.P. for Selwyn, aged 79. Deceased attended a meeting of the Renown Masonic Lodge on Thursday, when (lie Prime Minister was present in bis capacity of Worshipful Master. After the proceedings, Mr Hardy was seized with n sudden illness and ii was seen that he had suffered a stroke. The Premier took part in attending to him and lie was removed to bis residence, but he never rallied. The House adjourned on Tuesday night as a mark of respect to the deceased and the (lag was Mown at half-mast at the post offices throughout the Dominion for the same reason.