Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2503, 7 November 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Meeting of the Foxton Kin! Board was lield this afternoon. The cantata “The Holy City" will he given in All Saints’ Church on Thursday evening; next. The last of the series id' euchre parties held under the auspices of St. Marx’s Church, will lie held in the Town Hall Supper-room this evening. At the local police court yesterday morning, I adore Mr [lornhlow, •1.1*., I’cter Petersen, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and lined A -. A cold snap was experienced in this district last night followed hv a white frost early this morning. The frost nipped potato crops and gave the vegatalinn a wilted appea ranee. The writs for the (tenoral Election will lie issued on Thursday, Kith November —three weeks prior to the polling. The second and final supplementary roll will close at (i p.m. on the day the writs are issued. As n„ cstill of a motor accide.nl Mr S. Williams, AI.P., is now lying in a private hospital at (iishorne, suffering from shock and seven l hruiscs about the back and chest, and face. Mr (I. I). Ayson, who was seriously injured in tin 1 recent motor I’alalily on Bowen’s road, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery, but will not be aide to leave Ihe Ma-ierlon hospital for some tune. Tli annual meeting of the Royal Society of St. George adopted a resolution in Sir Rudyard. Kipling's name advocating the systematic teaching of patriotism, not only in t lit* schools but ill the universities, by founding chairs of patriotism. With regard to the rendering of the “Holy City" at All Saints’ Church on Thursday evening next we are asked to stale that there will be a fair number of fi re seats ava liable for those who have not been able to reserve them. The ex- Kaiser’s wedding with Princess Heftnione took place on Saturday. The wedding ceremony was brief. Crowds assembled at Doom, despite tin 1 bad weather but saw little, as the bride and bridegroom left in a closed ear. A> a result of the shipping hold up at Auckland the crews of the Northern steamers Arapawa and Waipori were paid oil following their notice given on Saturday. The ships affected a total of 7 l nion 14 Northern and 2 Richardson vessels. Mr A. I). M'l,eod, M.P., speaking a; (Ircytown in reference to the manifestoes issued by Mr Massey and Mr Wit ford, said that a stranger to the country, oil reading them, would want to kiiow what two sets of men, with almost the same political principle were quibbling about.

Who i- Huy Fawkes.' New English History. Answer: A British hero, son of Father Christmas, who has died in llamas a thousand times a year for the pasi four hundred veal’s for British kiddies all over the world, and who performed again for the youngsters ol loxton on Saturday night.

“Are voll in favour ol a lax on bachelors ! ' was a question put to Mr -I. ('. Kollcsion, at the opening speech of his campaign at Mangapeehi. “No, certainly not!" was the quick reply. *Tve been a bachelor for over forty years myself, and 1 know what the floor devils have l» put u ll with. (Laughter.)

The conjugal condition- of the sexes above l(i years of age in New Zealand, when the (•eususjvits taken in April, 1921, were as follows: Males, unmarried. l(i(>,Id"); married 228.497; widowed, 17,3(>1: divorced 1,(i92: unspecified 3,215. Females, unmarried, 131,542: married, 225,373: widowed, 3t>,509; divorced, 998, unspecified, 2.043.

It is interesting to note, says the Star, that the lirst Wesleyan service ever held in Feilding was conducted by the Rev. T. G. Hammond. the veteran Maori minister (now residing as a supernumery on Ids farm at Putarwru) in the year 1877. The Rev. P. W. Jones, still Jo,le and hearty and still taking services. commenced the Primitive Methodist cause in Feilding in 1871.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails.*

We are going to have 'a living ■ il this time. If we have to s:f up aH the night before the day of election we are determined to see that only those who have a right to vote arc on tin 1 roll,” said the Rev. J. Dawson, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, at the Town Hall. \Vi llingloa. on Sunday.

Thomas Robert Saywell, Deputy Public Trustee at Groymouth, charged with failing to forward a return of his income to the Commissioner of Taxes for 1921-22. pleaded guilty. He -latcd iha! lie had no intention of avoiding payment. He was fined fit) and costs. This was the firs I ea-c of ihe kind in the di~t rid .

Al the Wellington Supreme Court vesterdav John Arthur ( minor was awarded L'Bso damages, aga in-! the owners of llowden's Building'. In .June 1921, plaintiff endeavoured 1“ call down a lift hv leaning over the barrier, which broke, so that be fell down the well and was seriously in in red.

James Walkington Smyllie (who is not unknown in this district) charged with arson at Kaikoura in May last was sentenced by Mr JusDee Adams at Christchurch on Fa l - unlay to five years’ hard labour and declared an habitual criminal. His previous convictions were mostly for” false pretences and forgery, dating back to 1911..

A block of four simps, owned by Mr A. E. Jail, was gutted at A\nipawa on Sunday night. The fire had obtained a good bold when it was discovered, but ilie brigade made a splendid save of the adjoining properties. The building was insured ii: the National Office for £3OO and in the Loudon, Liverpool, and Globe for £350. The insured shopkeepers are as follows:—Mr Wells (conficlioiiif), £SO in the National Office; Mrs Knnpmnn (restaurant). £l5O. Norwich Union: Turner (linker). £3OO. Alliance: Mrs Butt (f’aiicv goods). £3OO, Yorkshire.

William Nelson Mellnrs, o 4 yearof age, wlm pleaded guilty to making counterfeit coin, was sentenced a I Auckland on Saturday to two years' haril labour and three years’ reformative treatment at the Supreme Court. The Judge said the sentence would have been heavier hut for the fact that the prisoner .bore a previous good character. The offence was a serious one with life imi ;■jsoiimcui a< the maximutn penalty. and ii must mu he encouraged by a light sentence.

Mr T. D. Burnett, Reform candidate. .speaking- at Teinuka, said Mr Massey did mu favour “the big mail.” Tn 1900, Mr Sedilpn's time, a farmer owning land -valued at £IOO,OOO and making 10 per cent, mi bis capital, paid £531 5s in land lax.- and no income tax. In 1912, Sir Joseph Ward’s time, he paid £054 13s 9<l land tax and no income lax. fa 1921-22. Air Massey’s time, hr paid £1.310 13s 4d in land tax

uml income tnx to the amount of £2.482 —a total of £3,798. Yet tlm opponents of the Reform Party charged them with specially favouring the “big man.”

Under this heading a few details have been given of the beggars’ lives in New York, particular mention being made to one, who, a legless beggar, was a nabob at home. In "working” lmurs ibis man. Horton Malone, who lost both his legs in a train accident five years ago, pushed himself along the streets ol New York on a board mounted on a roller skate. Unshaven, and with a mournful look on his face, he sold pencils lo |he pedestrians. At night he returned to his home —a four-roomed suite in the Marlborough Hotel — greeted his wife, and dressed for dinner. After dinner, attired either in n Tuxedo or a dark suit, as his fancy struck him, he called his chauffeur, and Air and Mrs Malone went out for a drive down the uvenuo. A correspondent writes to the ••'Post" as follows: —“Can you tell me and many other interested people why (he price of whitebait is so high? New Zealand is well endowed with rivers ami the people should, in the ordinary coarse of events, be aide to enjoy this diet at a reasonable price. Is I here a shortage of whitebait this season, or ithere anv restriction on the supplies t : i |he consuming public?" Iminirios on this matter were math 1 by a •Posi" reporter, and it was nseerinineil that whitebait for the North Island is only coming from Westporl at present because the North Island season has now closed. Il was slated by a retailer that supplies of wbilebnil were forwarded to Wdliuu’ton mi consignment and were I laced on the market in restricted quantities just ''sufficient to meet Gs.ilv needs, the balance of shipments being held in cool siorage. As supplies were only available in limited quantities the absence of competition naturally tended to higher nriees than when whitebait was to lie had in plenty.