Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2609, 21 July 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of Hie Borough Council will he held on Tuesday night.

The Mayor (Mr Chrysta.ll) returned from the Municipal Conference yesterday. , A gold nugget weighing 11 ounces was found a few days ago on the Howard goldfield, about 70 miles from Nelson.

The annual meeting of members of the Foxton Racing Club will be held in the Town Hail supper-roorti on Monday, 30th inst.

A meeting of the Manawatu Hounds will be held on Messrs Robinson Bros, property, Lady’s Mile, on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.

The local State school seven-a-side football team .journeyed to Palmerston North this morning to participate in the Pirani Shield Scvcn-a-Side Tournament.

Manchester is to move a statue of Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, from the front of the Town Hall to make room for a Cenotaph in honour of the men who died in the war.

The Rev. Wjagen Prieber, Vicar of Benshaw, who left £SOB included this remarkable passage in his will. “I command my widow' and daughter to the beneficence of. the Bishop of Manchester and the Board of Finance, reminding them of my forty years’ service, starved and pov-erty-ridden, in the diocese. God! Can these things be in the richest Church, Thy Church of England?”

The Napier-Kskdale train passengers and goods service, was inaugurated yesterday, this being the first section of the East Coast railway Vrom the Napier end. There was no ceremony, but the commencement was made in connection with Lord Jellicoe's laying the foundation stone of the new boys’ home at Eskdale. The train service will be maintained henceforth.

The following resignations were received at Wednesday’s meeting of the Education Board : —M. Lambert, sole teacher, Pungataua: M. F. Tasker, sole teacher, Huikumn; E. Eorno, assistant, Filzherbert East; G. I. Hebberd, assistant, Turangarere; I. K. Lindsay, assistant, Waitotara; A. D. N. Train, head teacher, Glen Oroua; W. R. McNah, asistnnt agricultural inspector.

The Rev. A. Mitchell, of Feikliug, who speaks at the Methodist Church to-morrow evening: is an ex-chap-lain. Mr Mitchell is visiting. Foxton this week end as Foreign Mission deputation for the Methodist. Church. Mr Mitchell is not only an able speaker, but possesses a delightful solo voice. All are invited to hear Mr Mitchell speak and sing to-morrow evening at the Methodist Church.

The Foxton-Palmerston North (rain collided with a straying draught lior.se near the crossing at Motuiti yesterday morning. The horse was unattended and the collision unavoidable. The horse was struck by the cow catcher and knocked down and the train promptly pulled up. The animal was badly injured and put out of its misery. No damage was done to the locomotive or track and the delay only occupied a few minutes.

Owing to the infavourable weather there was not a large attendance to witness the screening of the Studebaker industrial film at the Town Hall last night. The net proceeds will be handed to the school committee, who desire to thank Messrs Adums Ltd. and the Town Hall manager and staff for placing the film and services at their disposal free of cost.

It is almost certain that Mr J. A. Young (Hamilton) will be elected Parliamentary Chairman of Committees.

At All Saints’ Church to-morrow evening the Rev. W. H. Walton will commence a series of sermons on the Hickson Mission of Healing.

The Health authorities state that there is no cause for alarm in the present mild outbreak of influenza.

As the result of a cycle collision at Palmerston North yesterday, the Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., Presbyterian minister, sustained a fracture of the left leg.

Eggs are selling at Is lOd to 2s per dozen retail in Wellington. The price appears to have a falling tendency. The Prime Minister has given notice of his intention to move that on and after Wednesday. July 25, Government business.shall take precedence on Wednesday, the day on which private members’ Bills usually take precedence.

Mr William Quinn, an Invercargill merchant, who has just returned to Sydney from a visit to the East, says that Chinese officials in Pekin claim that the Chinese discovered Australia two thousand years ago. They base the claim on a classic book “Of Mountain and Flood” in the archives of China.

At (he Municipal Associations’ Conference further remits were adopted as follows: —That Ihe majority of the bodies concerned in the upkeep of a highway bridge, boundary or river can compel the controlling authority to carry out repairs deemed necessary to the majority; that control he given to the body distributing the largest quota of maintenance; that every Government building within a town or'borough district he subject to the control and supervision of the council; that hawkers’ licenses be issued by central bodies and the fees distributed on a pro rata basis among the local bodies concerned: that the Government he asked to proceed with the Tow’ll Planning Bill.

The katipo is more numerous this winter on (lie Taranaki coast than in any previous year since 1909 .(says a writer in the Taranaki Herald). These insects are found under drift-wood and wreckage east ashore near the mouth of the Waiwakiho ,river. T found two on the Opunake shore and two at the mouth of the Knpuni river. I also found one —a large robust specimen— a week ago at the mouth of the Henui river. Hitherto T -have not found (lie eggs, cocoons, or spiders in the neighbourhood. As the katipo is strictly nocturnal in habits, it minimises the possibility of bathers being bitten by Jhcse dangerously venomous insects during the bathing season.

The Minister of Defence, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, speaking in Parliament, strongly resented the suggestion that instructions had been issued !o the Pensions Board to cut down pensions of soldiers. He went on to say that it was a foul scandal to spread a report of that sort. The Government had issued no instructions to the Pensions Board, and would never do so. The hoard was a statutory board, and would not. take instructions from a Minister. “We respect their rulings,” he said, “whether they increase pensions or not. Wje accept them cheerfully, and the pension is paid. It has uever been the intention, far less an instruction, that we should cut down pensions.”

The season is now approaching when farmers will be getting their milking sheds in order, and to those who contemplate buying a separator, Ihe following hints will he worth noting.—Get a machine -with,the gears all enclosed, making an sttq(’blent impossible. See that the bearings are simple, easily adjusted,dependable and absolutely perfect. See that the castings arc heavy.. There is much more iron and much more weight in the main fram and in the stand thus ensuring rigidity. See that the milk is distributed from the bottom upwards, giving an even distribution of the milk to rill discs at all times. See that the bowl is balanced by an expert and the work is perfect, so that the bowl runs absolutely without vibration. All these advantages and very many more weight in the main frame and in “Viking" Separator. The prices are considerably reduced and are still the best and cheapest on the market. The sole agents are the N.Z. Farmers’ Co.-Operative Distributing Co. Ltd., Feilding.

Seals are rapidly increasing in numbers in the vicinity of New Zealand according to a statement made in the Legislative Council. Sir F. Bell said that after the war the present Government insisted on the refusal of permits to kill seals. The results had been extraordinary and the number of fur seals had increased amazingly. The Campbell islands had been leased for pastoral purposes ami there were some inhabitants there looking after sheep. There were no inhabitants of the Aucklands and none of the Antipodes. Representations were made to the. Government that Norwegians and other mariners of the seas were sealing in those parts, and that the seals were being slaughtered. An arrangement was come to whereby the lessee of Campbell Island and his •men were appointed custodians of the sealing grounds, in return for which they were to he allowed 400 hull seals per year. The arrangement had been an excellent one, and the seals were increasing at a great rate. Sir Francis Bell believed the day was last.'coming when the fur sealing industry in New Zealand would tie very valuable.

The State Advances Bill was under discussion in the House this week and Mr Witty was prompted to observe fhat the people of today should not spend so much money on picture shows and luxuries. They should get down to bedrock and provide homes for themselves. Mr Witty harkened back to the living conditions of the pioneers and the settlers of years ago to make a comparison detrimental to the thrifty inclinations of the young people of to-day. “It is all very well to start in an eight or nine-roomed house,” he said. “Most of us have started much lower down than that. In the early days, people were content with a mud cottage, or a tworoomed cottage, and they educated their children better than some of those who are preaching to-day palaces for the people. It is only a theory, is the palace business. So long as a man can get a comfortable home and improve his position, it is far better than by starting in a fancy house with borrowed money and then having to come down and go to the pawnbroker.”