Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2608, 19 July 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Shannon Dairy Co.’s pay out for the month of June is 1/7 per lb. for butterfat supplied. A sharp rise took place in the price of pigs at the Levin sale on Thursday, amounting in the ease of weaners to as much as six and seven shillings a head. The supply is very short, says the Chronicle, and with the early opening of the milking season is exceeded by the demand.

Andrew Carnegie was once asked which he considered to be the most important factor in industry —labour, capital or brains. The canny Scot replied with a merry twinkle in his eye: “Which is the most important leg of a three-leg-ged stool?” A Maori soldier who had applied to the Dannevirke branch of the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association for temporary assistance was delightfully candid in his statement to the secretary. “I came to Dannevirke looking for work, and also to go to the races to see if I could make money, but I didn’t,” the y native told the secretary. Asked if he drank, lie was equally honest, declaring that “he did a little—nine pints a day.” (Laughter). “If you have lost the love and respect of your mother, you have lost everything that is worth twopence in this world.” These words were addressed by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., to a boy, fourteen years of age, who appeared before him in the Juvenile Court at New Plymouth, charged with breaking, entering and theft irony a dwelling. The mother applied to have the boy sent away, and he was accordingly committed to the Wanganui Receiving Home.

- Germany has a memory prodigy in a 21-year-old girl, who has mastered the art of brain control over muscle most completely. She sings a German song, writes an English sentence with her right hand and a French sentence with her left hand at the same time. Also writes a sentence in one language backwards and another in a different language in the regular way. She can calculate with one hand and write dictation backwards with the other. She can also begin a sentence at both ends and complete it in the middle, using both hands. “Will Chemicals Supplant _ the Silk-worm?” is the heading of an interesting article in the American Exporter. This states that the world’s production of artificial silk is estimated at 80,000,0001 b. annually. In the United States the production in 1912 was about 1,000,0001 b. but in 1922 it jumped to 25,000,0001 b. Artificial silk is a chemical product and it was a Frenchman, Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, who produced the first fibre in 1884 by grinding up the trunks and limbs of mulberry tree, upon which silkworms feed. In 1914 the French Government took over the plant for the purpose of manufacturing gun-cotton. Latterly the question has been raised as to whether the chemist may not yet discover a process for producing artificial cotton.

The Mayor (Mr Chrvstall) is at present attending the Municipal conference at Christchurch.

Owing to indisposition Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., will not be able lo preside at the monthly sitting of the S.M. Court to-morrow.

The Minister of Interna! Affairs has approved the Estimates of the Foxton Fire Board for the current year, totalling £397. The Horowhenna Rugby Unions football trophies are on display in the C. M. Ross Co.’s window, at present.

Spurious coins have made their appearance in Hamilton. There were two florin pieces of this nature handed in al a local bank last week.

Information lias been received by the Shannon Dairy Company that they won the (mints prize and gold medal for the North Island at the Dominion Dairy Show held recently at Unworn.

Under the new Health regulations all persons who expose secondhand clothing for sale are required to have same inspected by the local health officer, and disinfected to his satisfaction. The regulation will apply to clothing disposed of at jumble sales.

The Shannon Dairy Co. report having a record season for the amount of cream received at the factory for the past season. Their output of buiter was approximately (196 tons and they would have passed the 700-ton mark had it not been for the cold snap during the month of June.

In trains, trams, and on the street, wherever one travels at the present time, coughing, and sneezing is very noticeable among the people. The staffs in many of Wellington business houses and public departments are depleted. There are very few pneumonic cases reported throughout the province and a few days in bed effects a cure.

Messrs Adams Ltd., have kindly placed their great Stndehaker industrial film at the disposal of the local State school for a one-night, showing, free of cost at the Town Halt to-morrow (Friday) night. This is one of the greatest industrial films that has ever been placed on the screen and is full of interest from start to finish. All school children will he admitted free and adults will lie charged 1/1 and 6d. The net proceeds from the picture will he handed over to the funds of the local State school.

At if’ largely-attended congregational meeting of St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Terrace End, Palmers! on North, on Thursday evening, it was unanimously decided to extend a call to Rev. J. 11. Bredin, of Mamekakaho, Hawke’s Bay. If Mr Bredin elects to accept the call he may he expected to start his work early in September. The call will he submitted to a meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery, at Wanganui, on August '/th. Mr Bredin

is well-known in this district, having for some years occupied the position as preacher at the local Prestvterian Church.

The fact that on the bar —or where the bar used to be —at the entrance of the Wanganui river now carries over 24 feet of water on the top of spring tides shows that the wonderful improvement in depth that has been secured as the direct result of the Harbour Board’s port improvement scheme. Mr John Morrison, Q,ne of the members of the Board, can recall the time, when he as a boy, over fifty years ago, rode across the entrance on a horse without the animal having to swim. At that time there was a stock route across the river near the Imhty freezing works, the depth at low water being a couple of feet. — Wanganui Chronicle.

Dame Melba, in an article in the Weekly Despatch, reviews her many an reyoirs “ere singing my last song to England before returning to Australia.” She recalls a remarkable conversation which she had with Lord Bertie, who was British Ambassador at Paris, in June, 1914. After a party given by the Marchioness of Ripon, Lord Bertie said: “I hear that you women have been dancing all night.” “Yes,” replied Dame Melba, “have you any objection." “Do you know the history of tlie Roman Empire?” asked Lord Bertie. “Do .you know that when it was breaking women wei’e behaving in the same way as you?” He paused, took Dame Melba by the arm, and said: “Try to remember what i say—dancing feet bring war.”

(JI India's teeming millions of population, 50,U0U,00(J were what were known as oufc-eastes. These outcastes, for the most part, farm labourers, and a man for a full day’s work received 4d, and a woman 2d, and a well-grown boy lid. As a result of these low wages, the people were poverty-stricken, under-fed, underdo tiled, frequently heavily in debt, and lived, as a consequence, lives of great degradation. Yet these poor people were of the same religion as their better's —the people of cast. They were Hindus, yet were forced to live in such wretched conditions. Christianity was endeavouring to pierce Hinduism at its weakest point in that it aimed at bettering the conditions of the outcastes. When converted they were greatly uplifted and made better workmen, the change for the better being acknowledged even by their proud employers of caste. These poor people were supporting their own teacher’s of Christianity in their own villages whenever they found themselves able. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

Don’t fail to witness the great industrial film to he shown at the Town Hall to-morrow (Friday) night. All children free, adults 1/1 and Gd.

At the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, William Isaac Lovelock was fined £lO and costs on each of five informations of failing to make income tax returns from 1919 to 1923. The Foxton Council’s remit submitted to the Municipal conference at Christchhrch yesterday fixing fire hoard contributions as —Insurance companies GO per cent., local bodies 30 per cent.; and Government, 10 per cent., was lost.