Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2493, 14 October 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A mild form of influenza is very prevalent throughout this district.

Some prime lamb was on view in Mr Bryant’s butcher’s shop yesterday.

Heavy rains accompanied bv a high wind have been experienced in this district during the past two days. A gift of' £SOO has been made to the Palmerston North Hospital by a person who wishes.to remain anonymous, reported Sir James Wilson at Thursday’s meeting of the Hospital Board. The body of a man identified by hU papers as John Patou Miller, was found in the Auckland Domain last evening. Deceased was about 50 years of age and was formerly in the detective force. Death is supposed to have been due to poisoning.

The third of the series of euchre parties and community singing (under the auspices of St. Mary’s Church) will be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Tuesday evening next. These social functions arc becoming very popular and this one promises to be even more so than the rest. The University of Pennsylvania after several experiments with serum, supplied by the University of Toronto, has announced that the indications are that the serum is practically nil absolute cure for diabetes,

Albert Edward Goodman, aged 47 years, a market gardener, was found dead in bed this morning with a gun-shot wound in his head. De-c-eased, who had been in ill-health for a considerable time, leaves a widow and two children.

Tile town of' Timmaninui was shaken almost continuously by an earthquake on Thursday night. A heavy shock was experienced about midnight and numerous others thereafter of varying length and intensity. There was boisterous weather Hie next morning and a heavy thunderstorm.

Superintendent MeDermid, of the local Fire Brigade, is giving his men some strenuous training and the brigade is becoming very efficient in its work. It is hoped that the Fire Board wifi hurry up with the erection of the* new fire station in order to have the plant and equipment properly housed.

The Wanganui Education Board notify that a. side-school will be opened at the seaside for pupils up to and including Standard IV., on Tuesday, 24th inst. Miss M. E. Purnell will act as relieving teacher pending the appointment of' a permanent teacher. The chairman of Committee has been notified that the school will be under the .jurisdiction of the committee.

The member for Wanganui is drawing the attention of the House to the breeding of noxious weeds on Government reserves in his eonsttucncy. The complaint may well apply to every part of New Zealand, lmt the spread of gorse on lands adjacent to he main roads leading to Wanganui should receithe attention of the County Councils. There are thousands of acres covered with it.

When the Breeze was between ten and twenty miles off Wanganui on Tuesday on her way from Wellington. a fish of the same species as the famous Pelorus Jack was seen. The visitor, which was exactly the size and shape of Jack, though a trifle lighter in colour, sported around the steamer for some time. Members of the ship’s company who were well acquainted with Pelorus Jack are satisfied that their visitor is of the same species.

The Auckland police on Thursday, armed with a search warrant, visited the residence in Grey Street, of Thomas Nelson Mellons, aged 35 years, who is suspected of being connected with the recent circulation of counterfeit coins. Mellors, wlio occupies a portion of an apartment house in Grey Street, is stated to have been discovered in the act of making coins, and was arrested. About fifty counterfeit helfcrowns and florins, and five moulds for making these coins and shillings, together with the constituents of coins, were discovered on Hie premises, which Mellors had occupied for about six months.

At the re-opening of the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincare, replying to the critics of France’s Near Eastern policy, explained that the troops were sent to Chanak without his being consulted, and later withdrawn after consulting Marshal Foeh and the sending of the ultimatum by Britain. The sole object of the decision was to avoid conflict with the Turks. These troops were in danger and the first shot would cause n general war. To avoid this a general withdrawal was ordered. M. Poincare’s statement was loudly cheered. The Board of Directors of the Wanganui Woollen Mills Company has decided to go light ahead with the construction of the new mills. It is expected that the machinery will he in position inside a year. The plans provide for a complete and compact mill of between 35 and 40 looms. Tt is proposed to manufacture a type of goods not hitherto attempted in New Zealand. The general manager, Mr Porteous, leaves by the Corintliio for England to order plant and engage foremen operators. Of the three applicants in the final selection for the position of sec-retary-manager who were interviewed by the Palmerston North Hospital Board at its meeting on Thursday, .Mr G. Eraser, of Dunedin, was appointed. Mr Fraser is relinquishing the position of accountant to the treasury of of the Dunedin Corporation to come to Palmerston North. He is a New Zealander, married, and an old student of Otago University. He saw 34 years’ active service with the 11th and 6th Batteries of the New Zealand Artillery, during the world war. Mr Fraser will take up his duties at the hospital in about n month’s time. Mr Mansfield, the present secretary, has been granted three months leave of absence on full pay.