Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2588, 2 June 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The slips in the Mnnawatu Gorge have now been cleared and the road is safe for traffic.

Foxtail’s lotal rainfall for May registered 4.31 indies. Rain fell on 17 days during the period.

Several pennies, silvered over, have been passed as florins reeentlv in Palmerston North.

At the Beautifying Society meeting on Thursday night the Mayor said local people were using the Borough Council as a savings bank.

The vital statistics for Foxton for May with figures for corresponding month last year in parenthesis, are as follows: —Births 3 (5); deaths

2 (nil); marriages 4 (nil). On Monday next (King’s Birthday) the local Post oilice will be open from 9to 10 a.in. and 7to 8 pan. for telegraph business only. All mails will close at (i,30 a.m. The telephone exchange will be open front 9to 10 a.in. and 7to 8 p.m. Jackie Off, aged four, is declared by American medical men to be “the most perfect formed four-year-old child.’’ He was one of 1,500 children examined at Miami, Florida, lie weighs 501 b. and is 41in. in height.

Ninety per cent, of the vegetables that conic to the Dunedin market are grown by Chinese. The bulk of this 90 per cent, is grown on the fiats in and about the city-, and there is also a supply from Chinamen in Ashburton, Milton and other places.

The primary teacher was instructing her smali charges. “Name one tiling of importance that did not exist a hundred years ago,” said the teacher. An only child, who was seated in the front row, promptly arose and answered, “Me!”

Pigs at the present time appear to be very hard to quit at the saleyards, says the Clutha “Leader,” but it must be confessed that in the form of bacon they still command a ready sale at high retail prices. Evidently the farmer misses somehow the benefits of the apparently “stabilised” prices of bacon.

James Reynolds Hayne was charged at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday with the illegal use of an instrument, to procure a miscarriage. He was remanded to June Bth. Bail was fixed at £I,OOO and two sureties of £SOO. The police stated that it is not definitely known whether the girl is yet out of danger.

It is staled (says the Daily Telegraph) that a well known Napier commercial traveller, on being awakened to his danger in a recent lire, insisted on following .out a long standing custom, that of preparinga proper toilette. When emerging from the burning building he stepped into a puddle of water, when he discovered that he had omitted to nut his trousers on.

Mr John Wood, inspecting engineer of the Public Works Department, who is also chairman of the Waimakariri River Trust, was in Foxton yesterday and in company with Mr Hay, engineer to the Manawatu Oroua Drainage Board, inspected the Manawatu River and the of the proposed “cuts” in the scheme which is being prepared to deal with the oveiilow waters of the Manawatu.

Mr Rod McDonald, of Levin, in an interesting article on racing in the early days at Otaki says: Horses would he run by different tribes and old tribal jealousies assured an enthusiasm which can hardly be imagined. All over the course hakas of defiance would be danced, boosting a particular horse against the woild, and at the conclusion of a race the tribe which owned the winning horse would dash out on to the course, and lead in their champion, dancing now a liaka of triumph. 1 have on three occasions had victories of my own horses greeted in this way, though not at Otaki, two occasions being at Foxton and the third arid last, at Levin.

Monday next (King’s Birthday) will be observed as a close holiday. Weather permitting, a working bee will be held on the local bowling green on Monday next (King’s Birthday).

A quiet wedding was celebrated one evening this week, the contracting parlies being a well-known local couple. The citizens of Palmerston North are to entertain Mr and Mrs J. A. Nash (ex. -Mayor and Mayoress) at a conversazione on Tuesday evening next. A large number of motor ears passed through Forton this morning en route to the Otaki races. The cold and showery weather conditions are very unfavourable for the meeting. Mr 11. H. Brown, assistant secretary of the Post and Telegraph Association was a visitor to Foxton during the week and addressed the local staff on matters in connection with the Association.

To-morrow night at the Salvation Army Hall, community singing of the well-known Sanky songs, which will he chosen by the audience, will be indulged in. A singing company which has been formed will also assist with several selections.

With this issue is published an inset which sets out the virtues of the famous Tohunga Ointment and Quereea Digestive. These wonderful preparations are manufactured by Edwin Osborne at the Tohunga Laboratory, 8G Hobson St., Auckland and 233 Fergusson Street, Palmerston North.

America’s bill for the watch on Ihe Rhine has been presented, and negotiations to consider reimbursement were opened at the Quai d’Orsa.v (Paris). The United States expenses were 255,000,000 dollars. Inasmuch as it is impossible at present to collect that much money from Germany, who is going to pay the bill; for the occupation of the Rhine. It is understood that dyes and chemicals will lie offered in payment.

Hope is said to spring eternal in the human breast, states the Timaru Herald, and it is presumably on this account that farmers are continuing to sow wheat, in spite of all the discouragements of the past. Quito a lot of wheat has been sown in South Canterbury this autumn, and going in under good conditions if came up quickly, and is now well above Ihe ground and is looking uneommonlv well.

Unemployment is fast disappearing in the United States, chiefly owing to the continuance of the immigration rest fictions imposed in Washington whereby the 3 per cent, quota is still adhered to strictly. Some of the Europeans in the United States are availing themselves of the opportunity to return to the land of their birth, notably those of Italian origin, and many more Italians are leaving Uncle Sam’s domains than arrivals from “Sunny Ttalv."

A Taranaki correspondent writes: One can scarcely wonder at the high praise given to Eltham borough and county roads. I have been over quite a number and could not help but contrast the appearance now with that of twelve or fifteen years ago. Then outside the main thoroughfares progress was not a pleasure, only a duty. Now you can find almost as good a tar-sealed road leading to a small creamery five miles nwiiv as in the main street.

Before the French Academy of Science M. Imbeaux, chief engineer of Public Works Department, read a paper by Mr Longley, of the Australian Hydrologic Service, describing the reclamation of the Australian desert by artesian wells. M. Imbeaux said he was convinced that the Australian methods could be applied to the Sahara, where similar reserves of water were to be found. If the borings were undertaken a number of oases would spring up.

There died at Bridgewater, on the 20th inst. in her 75th year, Mrs Sarah Small, widow of the late Mr Frederick Small. She leaves three sons —George Small, of Foxton, William Small, of Bridge water, and Frederick Small, of Shannon. The late Mrs Small lived in Bridgewater for many years, and was well known. In her earlier years she displayed unusual ability and kindness in cases of sickness amongst the residents of the district and she will he greatly missed.

Miss Alison Strand, of the local State school teaching staff, left. Foxton yesterday for Wanganui, where she is shortly to be married. On Thursday morning Miss Strand was presented with a Doulton salad bowl by the add scholars of the school, during the morning recess, as a token of the high esteem in which she is held by all with whom she had come in contact. Mr Banks, in making the presentation, referred to Miss Strand’s period of teaching in Foxton and wished her every success in her future life.

•‘I am convinced,” said Mr D. Buchanan, the well-known Ayrshire breeder, of Manawatu, who has just returned from a trip to Australia, “that the prospects for the next season in the Dominion are exceedingly good, partly as a result of the terrible drought that has prevailed in the Commonwealth for so long. I shall not be at all surprised if, very soon, we experienced a big demand for fat sheep and mutton from Australian consumers, because their own stocks are depleted and they must draw supplies from somewhere. Graziers should he on the look out for this demand, which I feel sure must come soon.”