Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Auckland Grammar School won the final in the Moascar Cup panics hy It) points to 9.

The “Dippers” re-organised company of 25 performers, including .10 gills and their ever popular orchestra will appear at the Town Hall, Eoxton, on Tuesday, 26th September.

Good, wholesome, high-class entertainment is always looked forward to and highly appreciated by the public and such is the class of entertainment which will be provided at the Town Tlall by the Jubilee Bellringers and Entertainers on Monday night. The public may attend with - contidence.' Popular prices are advertised.

A man who had owed tlie llawcra Hospital Board an account (says the Star), and had been regularly bombarded by the secretary with reminders, eventually made payment, adding 2s to the amount due, which lie informed the secretary he might keep to recoup him for expenditure on stamps in his efforts to colled the amount. “There are still some decent people about," was the comment of one member of the Board.

At Tuesday night’s committee meeting of the Horticultural Association. Mr J. Chrystall moved a sincere vole of sympathy to the relatives of the late Mr Thus. Henderson (lion. Treasurer). Mr H. (’. Paitei'son, in seconding the motion, spoke feelingly of the long and faithful services of the deceased on behalf of the Association. The motion wa> carried in the usual manner. .Mr Patterson was then unanimously elected to the position of lion. |rensiirer.

Two old settlers sat. smoking in a rabin far away in the backwoods. No feminine presence ever graced that settlement, and domestic ar-

rangements were primitive and rude. The conversation drifted from politics to cooking, and one of the eonlirmed bachelors said: “I got one of them there cookery hooks once, but I never could do nothin’ with it.” “Too much fancy work about it?” asked the other. “You’ve 'it it. Every one o’ them recipes begun in the same way. “Take a clean dish —’ and that settled me at

At a committee meeting of the Horticultural Association, held on Tuesday night, the final arrangements were made for the Spring Show on the 15th inst. Stewards were provisionally- appointed for the various sections. Mesdames Moore and MeMurray were authorised to purchase a rose howl for the Citizens’ Trophy, price not to exceed £3 3s. The president stated he, had successfully arranged for a community sing to he held during the evening of the show. The Mayor (J. Chrystall Esq.) acceded with pleasure to a request to open the show at 3 o’clock.

Perhaps one of the most remarkable inscriptions on tombstones is that to be found under the stairway near the east end of St. Mary’s Church, AVhihy. A modern marble flab is there to be seen which contains the copy of the original inscription on a tomb below. This rcadli thus: —“Here lie the bodies of Francis Hunlrodds and Mary, his wife, who were both born on the same day of the week, month, and year (viz.) September ye 19, l(i00, marry*<l on the clay o±* their birth, and after having 12 children born to them, died aged 80 years on the same day of the year they were horn September ye 19, 1080, the one not above live hours before ye oilier.”

A curious little experiment by means of which ice can be formed even in a hot room is carried out on the following lines. Make a tube of blotting paper, about a foot long, of such a size that it can be placed over the end of a pair of bellows. Cut the end farthest away from the bellows into a. fringe. Soak the fringe in benzine, petrol, or any volatile spirit. Then blow down the bellows, and in a short while ice crystals will appear all over the fringe. In time the strips which form the fringe become still with frost. This is due to the intense cold brought about hy the rapid evaporation of the spirit under the blast of air freezing the moisture always present in the atmosphere. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

Owing in Christ mas live and New Year Eve falling this year on a Sunday, Saturday becomes the last shopping night, a similar position to last- year. A movement is on foot in the North Island to secure the same holidays amongst the retailers as obtained last year, when Friday night was the' late night and Saturday a half holiday.

We regret to report the death of Mr Hugh Kinley, a respected and well-known resident of Foxton, which took place at the Palmerston North Hospital this morning. The late Mr Kinley was suddenly stricken when carrying out liis usual duties on his farm at Motuiti last evening, and was later removed to the District Hospital, but death ensued not long after his admission to that institution. Deceased was a married man and the third son of the late Mr James Kinley, a well-known sheep farmer of Kaiapoi and Christchurch, and had resided in this district for some years. His death was unexpected, and' is a severe blow to Mrs Kinley, who will have the sympathy of friends and of the public.

Jumping excitedly on to a chair, a supplier, at the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company’s annual meeting of suppliers at Waikato recently, caused a halt in the discussion that had been proceeding from one o’clock until nearly six, by calling out for silence, and waving wildly above his head a cutting of an article which had appeared in the 'Waikato Times’, entitled “the Cookie,” in which the reporter gave his impressions of a typical dairy suppliers’ meeting, that might have happened anywhere in the Auckland province. "When, after a time, he managed to securo a hearing, he told the meeting he had come there specially that day to comment on the article, which he considered a big “take off” at the dairy farmer, arid be had intended asking the meeting to pass a vote of condemnation on the “Waikato Times” for publishing such a satire on the poor, hard-working euckie. “But, gentlemen,” he declared with great emphasis, and again brandishing aloft the offending article, “after sitting here and listening to the tawdry discussion and the silly questions asked this afternoon. T am satisfied that every word in it is true.” The rest of his remarks was drowned in the outburst of applause and laughter that followed.