Manawatu Herald SATURDAY! SEPT., 2, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY! SEPT., 2, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The* local rainfall for last month was 5.7 inches.

A meeting of All Saints’ vestry will be held on Monday evening at 8 o’clock. During the past week about 50 tins of whitebait have been railed to Wellington. A special meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board was held this afternoon. Mr .1. McCall’.-- tender for laying sewerage connections at the C. M. Ross Ooy.'s buildings, Main Street, has been accepted. The vital statistics for Foxton for last month with the figures in parenthesis for the corresponding month of last year, are as follows: Births, 7 (0); deaths, 3 (1)"; marriages, 2 (4 ). Mr Newman, .M.P., speaking at the meeting of the Producers’ Cooperative Freezing Company at Wellington on Thursday, instanced £IOO,OOO in one month as cleared hv one British provision firm out of New Zealand dairy produce. “We must remedy that kind ol thing, added Mr Newman.

Overheard in. a railway carriage a? tin* train drew up at a station not many miles from Auckland. New Churn's daughter: “Oh. mother, look at the name of this station, Papa Kura. Isn’t it strange, because we enure out on the Mil Kura. It would be funny if the next station i. Little Kura; we would then have seen the whole Kura family."

A natural freak, in the form of a two-legged land) was horn on the farm of Mr F. Smith, of Clevedon, lasi week. The legs, which were perfect I v formed, were on one side there being neither shoulder-blade nor hip oji the other side. The face of the lamb was also of the freak order, the nose resembling the beak of a parrot. The little animal was dead when il was found.

In the course of a speech in the House the Hon. W. Downie Stewart referred to the Arbitration Court and sitid that there was only a small section of the employers and workers who did not realise its value, and he though! those who criticised the court should try to mend it rather than end it. He hoped that both sides would exercise patience in regard to the court because il it could win through the present stress he felt confident it would ultimately he found of great- benefit to both employers and employees..

If Mr Bumble is correct in saying that “The law is a bass,” it is certainly a very costly animal to feed, and the layman has very little idea of the amount of money repaired to dabble in lawsuits until he buys his experience, remarks the “Taranaki Daily News.” Some indication, however, may he shown by the fact that a recent civil case at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth will cost the parties concerned something in the vicinity ol £550, of which the greater portion will have to be paid by the losing side. The winner will receive all his expenses, but will have to make up his solicitor’s fee to the amount agreed out of his own pocket.

A black Pomeranian dog is advertised for sale.