Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. Ai slier, district relieving officer, visited Foxton yesterday. Mr Delany, local postmaster, is on annual leave. During his absence Mr Bullard is acting-postmaster. The Silver Band (registered) desires to acknowledge donation of 5s from Mr L. Church.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board is being held at Palmerston to-day.

Mr W. 11. Coles pianoforte tuner, is in Foxton. Messages left at this office will receive immediate attention. Over £lO was netted by the local Plunket Society as the result of a shop day at the seaside on Saturdayr Mr Arthur Baker, who was operated on some three weeks ago for appendicitis, left the Palmerston hospital on Sunday. There is a demand for houses ‘in Foxton at present. In several houses two families are occupying the one dwelling. This week the reduced postal rates will eome into force, when letters will be delivered for ltd and newspapers for Jd each. Telegraphic charges also are to be reduced. Among the floral tributes forwarded to Mr and Mrs J. Desmond in connection with their recent bereavement was one from the Foxton Football Club which was highly esteemed by the parents. The flood in the Manawatu brought down large quantities' of drift wood which was carried out to sea and has been washed up on the south beach.

The summer bids fair to be the wettest on record. Already the rainfall for January has exceeded, by inches, any fall in the same month experienced in past yo.-us. The death took place at Napier on Friday of Dr. 0. 0. Evans, who was up to a couple of months ago in practice at Shannon. Tic is survived by a wife and two children. The police have been Mu formed that in an affray in a store at Ilororuta on Saturday night Harry Breeze was stabbed in the neck with a pocket knife. Basil Tyler was arrested and charged with assault.

The “Westminister Gazette” states that the King is contemplating tlie installation of a loud-speaking wireless set at Buckingham Palace, enabling him to address one million people assembled in t lie neighbouring parks. It is folly lo suppose that by the play of blind force the true value of life —intellectual, philosophical, seienlilu —could have been produced.—Earl Balfour.

The Board lias appointed Miss M. E. Purnell lo 1111 the vacancy on the local school staff rendered vacant by the resignation of Miss Mackie, until a permanent appointment is made.

One of the prettiest streets of New Plymouth, and one of the shortest, has been named “Incubator Alley” by an old resident there. lie lately counted over 100 -children whose parents lived in this street. — “Taranaki Herald.”

An unusual sight was witnessed on the Feafherston-Greytown road recently (says the Standard). On the tramp was a man, his wife, son and daughter, with all their worldly goods in a pram and child’s gocart. They had walked from Wellington, Maying- a few days hero and there, and according to (he man’s story, willing to work', Iml unable to gel any. In six weeks he had earned £4.

A marriage which took place at Yenlo, Holland, recently, gave the bridegroom the distinction of being a grandfather before he had come of age. The groom is 18 and his bride 45. She was a widower with several children, one of whom was married a year ago and has a child, which makes the groom a grandfather. The eldest son is 22, so'that the groom becomes “father” of a man four years older than himself.

Mr Massey does not favour the holding of an Imperial Economic Conference this year, as most countries within the Empire are at present in political difficulties. If, however, it was decided lo go on, he believed a conference would do a great deal of good. New Zealand would be represented though he at present was unable to say who her representative or representatives would

“Who are the leading baetevioligists in the world to-day,” asked Dr Adams, when speaking to the Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference held at Wanganui recently. “Germans,” was the reply. “No,” said the doctor, “they are Japanese. After them come Germans. Britain has only Sir Almroth Wright, who is working on tuberculosis and Ross, who is working on malaria. Britain must slep out, n 8 she is woefully behind in this important branch of medical science.”

The good old policy, “Self help is the best Help,” has evidently found n staunch supporter in a lady teacher at Brooklyn (Auckland) School, Miss E. McQuoid, who, with her pupils, was reported at last week’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board to have recently painted the school building. Members of the board were very favourably impressed with the energy and enterprise shown by teacher and pupils, and the secretary was instructed to forward a letter of appreciation. —New Zealand Herald.

Experts, we are told, calculate that Irish bogs are capable of turning out 50,000,000 tons of fuel per year for a thousand years, and if this were sold at the moderate figure of 5s a ton it would bring in £12,500,000 a year. When this sum is multiplied by a thousand it will be seen that Ireland is richer in undeveloped resources than is sometimes imagined. It is claimed lei the new fuel that it is practically smokleloss, Unit it has “no clinker or cinder, deteriorates but little by keeping, does not crumble by handling, and has a high calorific value.”

Among the many articles which will be reserved for the Dominion from IT.M.S. New Zealand (says the Post’s London correspondent, writing on December 7) will be a picket boat, a motor launch, several 4-inch quick-firing anti-aircraft guns and two-pouncler guns, six searchlights, a steam steering wheel and rangefinders. These articles, no doubt, will be put to practical use by the New Zealand Navy. Articles of a sentimental value include silver bugles, a New Zealand drum; pic.lures, presentation plate, liqueur glasses,, boars’ heads, tikis, and scrolls with Maori inscriptions. Mr Walter Armstrong, an old Greytown sporting man, was present at 1 lie recent running of the Wellington Cup at Trentham. He says tlie first man lie met on arrival was Tom Hill. He won the Wellington Cup with Pasha, bred by the late J. C. Vallance. C. Winteringham was also present (although he did not see him) therefore he knew of three Wairarapa sportsmen being at Trentham on Saturday, who were present on the Hutt Park racecouise and saw Flying Jib, ridden by the lnle John Walker, win the first Wellington Cup of 100 sovs., two miles, run in 1870. In those days there were only a few hundred attended, now they roll up in thousands.

At the Palmerston >S.M. Court yesterday, two young men, Sydney Ryan and Fredrick Lewis appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., charged that on November 28, 1922, they created a disturbance at a public meeting held in the Opera House. Each defendant was convicted and fined £2 and costs.

Superintendent McDermid of the oeal Fire Brigade has a team in practice for the annual fire brigade competitions to be held at Dunedin next month. The local boys are becoming very proficient in their work and should give a good account of themselves.

A farm at Elliesland, where Robert Burns resided from 1788 to 1791, has been made a gift to the Scottish people under the will of the late George Williamson, an Edinburgh merchant. The farm will be handed over to the Burgh of Dumfries to he maintained as a centre of interest in the poet. A business man of Troyes, while returning home from Paris, fell asleep in the train and leaning,against a door which opened, lie fell on tlie lino and was seriously injured, Fortunately, however he came in ionlad with a signal, causing il lo work, thus stopping an express coming in (lie opposite direction.

Hokio residents had a fine sight of a four-masted schooner under sail off the coast yesterday morning (says the Chronicle). The vessel was heading south and stood close in under a fresh northerly breeze on her starboard quarter. After passing Hokio she changed course to gel to windward of Ivapiti Island, and soon drew off-shore in a westerly lead.

A daring attempt at burglary at (be residence of Mr J. IT. Bradney of Sherwood road, Mt. Eden, at midnight, on Sunday, was frustrated by Miss Bradney being awakened by a noise and calling out to her father that there was a strange man in her bedroom, who escaped. He had put over Miss Bradnev’s face a. piece of but soaked with chemicals, which rendered her temporarily helpless.

A lady visitor to Foxton the other day had reason to believe that the days of chivalry have gone, so far as that seaside locality is concerned (says the Wanganui “Herald”). Hundreds of holiday-mak-ers were caught in a sudden drenching thunder-shower. Many of the ladies wore light dresses, and many were without, coats. There was a general rush for cars, char-a-bancs and motor lorries, but nearly everyone got wet through. One lady who sought shelter under a veranda of a store, found the narrow space crowded wth men, many of whom wore overcoats but no one offered her his place.

Six officers of (he Jules Mechelet visited the Weraroa Slate Farm yesterday as the guests of the Government. The party were accompanied by Messrs W. H. Field, and J. Linldater, M.’sP. and the. Mayor of Levin (Mr Matheson). The parly were entertained at lunch at the farm and \Vere subsequently taken on a tour of inspection of the environs of Levin. The Levin butter factory was inspected and the-soldiers’ memorial at the Park. Here one of Ihe officers paid a graceful tribute to the memory of those who had fallen in the great war and expressed surprise that GO young men had paid the supreme sacrifice from so small a district. The Mayor suitably acknowledged the graceful tribute. The visit was quite of an unconventional character and other than this small oration there was m> speechifying. The visitors expressed keen interest in all they had seen and returned to Wellington by (lie Napier express.