Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2560, 27 March 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald will not be published on Easter Saturday.

Sir William Kerries had a majority of 1,400 votes when elected for Taurangn. at the general election, The result of the Tanranga byelection should be received betweer 0 and 10 o’clock to-morrow night.

A Socialist is a democrat with his heart cut out, and a Bolshevik is a socialist with his brains knocked out.'*—Dr French Oliver.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held at 7 o’clock this evening to deal with tenders for the erection of Borough Council Chambers.

A very successful dance was held in the Masonic Hall last night in aid of the Fox ton Citizens’ Queen candidate in the Oroua Downs Carnival. There are now only three men surviving who received the Victoria Cross for deeds done in India in 1857—Sergeant-Major C. Coghlan (Gordon Highlanders), Colonel Sir E. T. Thaekery (Royal Engineers), and General Sir Ctighton Probyn (Indian Army).

“There is not another colony ii the British Empire that is so wise ly and sanely governed as this lit tie Dominion of New Zealand.

have been travelling the world for years, and I mean it.” Mr E. Philpot Crowther, who lias arrived in Wellington from Sydney. Sir .Joseph Ward, in the course of his speech at Tauranga last week said that if'lie were in office to-day he would put penny postage into operation within 24 hours because he considered it would be of general benefit and would increase the postal revenue. The Western Star, Riverton (Otago) lias been shown two nuggets of gold reported to have been taken out of Sloan’s Gully, in the Longwood ranges. The prospects of opening up an alluvial claim in that locality are said to be bright. Good gold has been obtained from several shafts put down. Recently our representative was shown a mamoth apple grown on Mr I’. McLean’s property in the Marton district. The apple, which was quite firm, measured 16£ inches in girth and tipped the scales at lib. lOoz. 'The tree from which this monster came was well loaded with an exceptionally large crop.

The Smedley homestead at Waipawa of eleven rooms on the property bequeathed to the Government by Josiah Howard for an agricultural farm, was totally destroyed by tire last night. The inmates had a narrow escape and lost everything. The property was in the hands of the Public Trustee. The insurances are unavailable. One of several aggressive questions was set as a trap for the Reform candidate at Mr Massey’s meeting at Morrinsville the other night. This was an inquiry whether Mr MacMillan had been defeated for the Tauranga Mayoralty on one occasion by something like four to one. “May I ask,” countered Mr Massey, “what happened to the Liberal candidate when he last stood for Awarua?” (Laughter and applause). As the result of inquiries that have been proceeding for some time, Frederick Marryatt, late manager of the Boys’ Training Farm, at Weraroa, near Levin, was arrested on Saturday afternoon on a charge of theft of £2 Us (id, which should have been credited to the Post Office Savings Bank account of Cyril Robertson. Accused was brought before the Court anti remanded to Wellington. It is understood other charges are pending. Wanganui was elated one day Inst week when its dream of seeing an overseas steamer berthed at the wharf came true. The pioneer is the Hannah, 360 ft. long, with 50ft. beam and 27ft. depth. She came to Castleclift'e under her own steam, berthing as easily as any coastal steamer. The Hannah loads 3,000 bales of wool. The people are very gratified with the success of the Harbour Board’s policy, there now being a depth of 23ft. at the entrance. Other big boats are expected shortly.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., lias beeen invited to open the Dairy Farmers’ Union Conference, which takes place on May Oth.

Smoking; and games have not done girls any harm. I see no objection to girls from Newnham playing football if they wish to,” said Miss Clough, Cambridge, who is retiring. The Right Hon. E. G. Pretyman, in moving the second reading of a Bill, as illustrating the need for marking eggs, said that a Nottingham lady bought so-called new-laid eggs, put them under a hen, and in due course hatched out four lizards. These were Chinese eggs.

Ridiculing a statement that he had given a mountain climber permission to name a mountain peak “Mount Massey,” Mr Massey said in his speech at Kaitaki, “personally he did not care if, after he had gone they called New Zealand Masseydonia!” “Sinbad” in the Christchurch Star says:—“An irate Christchurch hubby was upbraiding his spouse for squandering his hard-earned cash in facial adornments. Exasperated, he exclaimed: “You are nothing but a thing!” Swiftly she replied, “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever!” The chairman of the Associated Ranks advises that in future the size and colour of notes will be uniform. All notes will be practically the same size as the Bank of New Zealand ten shillings, or the Commercial Bank one pound. The colours will be: 10/-, yellow; £l, velvet ; £5 blue; £lO, brown; £2O green; £SO pink; and £IOO olive green.

The energy and enthusiasm shown in the Cambridge Show by some of the elderly people should put many of the younger generation to shame. One keen exhibitor in th garden produce section, hailing from Hornhora, will celebrate, his ninetysecond birthday next month. This old gentleman had quite a number of exhibits of his own growing.

An enterprising undertaking firm wrote to the Wanganui Hospital Board asking for permission to erect. their business sign in the morgue at the local institution. “In the what?” asked one of the members in tones of surprise. “I move that permission be not given” said another member, and the resolution was carried unanimously.

A youngster in a Dannevirke school made a name for itself the other day. The class had received a lesson on cereals, wheat having been the chief topic of instruction. To test the knowledge of her pupils the teacher asked if any of them knew of another cereal. One mite responded with “Yes, Miss, Robinson Crusoe” —a picture serial which is now running. Such is the educational value of pictures!

Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable? asks the “Taranaki Herald.” One indignant champion of the fruit theory once said: “The tomato grows on a tree, or a grape vine; it comes from a flower in the same way. Of course it is a fruit, just as the carrot is a vegetable.” The only answer he received was: “What a luscious fruit is the pumpkin!” Another argument for the fruit side was that a fruit is eaten raw, or can be eaten raw, whereas a vegetable, except by the youthful, is not eaten uncooked.

A practical evidence of the need for dehorning was painfully revealed by an occurrence at the Wyndliam sale recently (reports the local paper). A steer was set upon by its mates in a pen, and its sides made to bleed freely. Blood is an attraction to cattle, and as it began to flow from the steer’s sides the animals attackpd it more severely. It was gored along both sides, and would doubtless have been killed if it bad not been released by a humane spectator.

There are two sides to the experiment in transporting stock by motor instead of by road. It is said that several fat bullocks were recently shipped on a large motor lorry to be brought into Masterton. Negotiating a corner at rather a quick pace, the lorry swung off its centre of gravity and rolled down the hillside. The experience was such a convincing one for the bullocks that they absolutely refused to be loaded into lorries again, and a triumphant drover was enlisted to conduct them on their journey by road as in the days of old. —Exchange.

The story is told of a farmer in the Tukupau district who recently had a dead horse lying on the roadside. The farmer refused to remove the nuisance and those who had to use the road made a wide detour to avoid it, horses particularly objecting to passing it. At length the Health authorities were invoked and it appeared that the owner was liable to a line of £2 per day for every day the dead horse lay on the road, and as it had already been there for a month the owner considered that £6O was a big enough tine to pay and got busy right away.

Many people have strange beliefs and superstitions. In fact, some mothers believe in cutting their baby’s hair at the waxing of the moon. This ceremony dates back for thousands of years to the days when people regarded it as a safeguard against evil. Another silly superstition is that of giving children live frogs to suck. This is supposed to prevent and cure “thrush” or injury to the throat. Again, there are still women who think that they will improve their children’s health by eating raisins and placing the stones on the baby’s stomach. Modern science is rapidly abolishing these old ideas but they still hold their ground in certain places.

On Good Friday the services at the Anglican Church will be held as follows: 11 a.m. and evening at 7.30 Stainer’s “Crucifixion.” Combined choir.

Asked to-day by pur representative for an expression of opinion as to the probable result of the Tauranga by-election, Mr Ed. Newman said he would not prophesy. He added, however, that it would be almost impossible for the Government to carry on should the seat be lost to them. His experience in Parliament as a member of the Government with a majority of one was very unsatisfactory from a legislative point of view.

Mr Rudyard Kpling was in the habit of selling his old school books to a dame who kept a curiosity shop at Bideford. In recent years many people have visited the shop, hoping to pick up a volume with an early composition of the great man scrawled in the margin. They have been disgusted to hear that the old dame had rubbed out everything of the kind. “No,” she said on one occasion, “Master Kipling was always fair to me, and he may have written things not so good as those he has sold since. I wasn’t going to have them poking fun at him.” Which shows the popularity Mr Kipling enjoyed in his schooldays.