Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2590, 7 June 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By arrangement with the Crown the bail granted Mrs Cooper, whose husband is under sentence of death for murder, has been extended to July 31, on which date the next sitting of the Supreme Court will open.

Your attention is drawn to The C. M. Ross Gov.'s change ad. in this issue. The firm are running a specia'l suit and overcoat week. An inspection of the firm’s big range of suits will convince you that (he values offering arc without doubt easily the best offering anywhere. Call for a Tosco for Show week.

Ladies are reminded of the meeting to consider the inauguration of a local branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Whilst the chief aim of the W.C.T.U. is the abolition of the drink traffic, it stands to support every movement for the uplift of the community and has been the means of establishing sailors’ rests, a children’s home," hostels, women’s rests, etc. throughout the Dominion. The meeting on Friday will conclude with a social half-hour when tea will be served. Tt is sincerely hoped that women of Foxton will whole-heart-edly support this effort.

Tn the days of voluminous skirts and pockets placed in mysterious ungetatable positions, an old lady entered a ’bus, and along came the conductor asking for her fare. Then the inevitable search began. She stuck her elbow into her neighbour’s ribs, did a game of catch-as-catch-enn round her own waist, fidgeted and fumbled, all to no purpose. At last the gentleman sitting next to dam,” said he in reproachful tones, her could bear it no longer. “Ma“l shall be glad if you will kindly make up your mind where your purse is and find it as quickly ns possible. You’ve undone my braces twice nlreadv.”

At (lie Farmers’ Union Conference at Palmerston North recently, one of the delegates expressed the opinion that it was a mistaken policy to pay small boys to collect birds’ eggs. The delegate said that when lie was a small boy he found that when a blackbird bad laid five eggs, if one was left in the nest the bird would lay another three, and if the process.were repented the bird would lay another two. Another delegate related how be bad induced a confiding blackbird to lay as many as 23 at one continuous sitting. No wonder some people .are so keen in acquiring nest

A London cable states that thousands of Londoners bad the novel experience of listening to a Cnbinel Minister wirelessing a warning of air peril. Sir Samuel TToarc broadcasted a speech saying that development of aviation made it possible for a hostile bomber to drop on London a weight of bombs far beyond the weight dropped during the war. “We must begin to organise a fortress against such attacks,” declared the Minister. “I desire to impress upon all the urgent importance of the adequate supply of pilots, also men to man anti-aircraft guns. Searchlights and guns will always 1)0 necessary as a final defence ngainst raiders who may have penetrated aeroplane defences.”

“Ingwavuma is not a too pleasant place to live in. The next white man to us was brutally murdered. He lived 20 miles away.” This extract from a letter written by a woman in Zululand gives a slight impression of the horrors still present in the lives of British settlers. There are other dangers too. “Every night,” she writes, “1 had to search my hut before retiring to see if any snakes or deadly creatures had crept in and hidden away during the daytime. Twice above my bed I discovered long scaly things, with backs like crocodiles. They were 12in. long, with many legs. The roofs being thatched —no ceilings—are the haunts of bushy-tailed rats and spiders as big as oranges. Then there are the flying ants and beetles 2in. long, puff udders, black mambas, pythons 15ft. to 20ft. long. The fruits and flowers are however, gorgeous, and make up for a lot.