Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2615, 4 August 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An official British lost is to Do made of the Spahlinger treatment J'or consumption.

Heavy vain? commenced to fall throughout; this district this' morn-

Upon enquiry this morning we were informed that Mr Geo. Coley had passed a good night and his condition showed a slight improvement this morning'.

We are asked to remind inemhers that a meeting of the local Dorcas Society will he held in All Saints schoolroom on Monday next at 2.00

A petition in hank nipt ey has been liled with the D.0.A., Mr (. LDempsy, by Clarence Stephen Aloiilden, farmin', of Onma Downs.

Forty per cent, of patients admitted to mental hospitals in the Dominion last year were eared. Eight hundred and thirty-nine patients were admitted lor the year.

A donation of CIO,Odd to the Auckland University building extension fund is to he made by the Auckland Savings Dank. A resolution to this effect was passed at a meeting of the irustees.

A company is being formed in Wanganui for tin- purpose of building' a new hotel at a cost of about CHO.OOO. It will he of throe stories and will contain about fifty rooms, most of I horn with private bathroom.

is <-<sinii;-; i" flic I'*‘ill as a gold-producing ( mint ry. Discoveries arc being made la such an cxt m( dial an ollicial describes it ns lire “Rand of Hie IVdnrc." One belt is estimated a I 1.000 miles long'.

[n conversalion with tln* Disfricf ironllli Officer, we were informed tliai tiie eases of influenza in tin's distriel were of a very mild nature. The danger lay in people neglecting In take ordinary precautions in treating colds which neglect led to more serious trouble.

The longest, in the British Lmp'-re, (he longest in the Southern Hemisphere, the seventh largest in the world —that is the position of the Arthur's Pass Tunnel to be opened this afternoon. The cos! ol the tunnel was about .C 1.300.000. Its length is five miles ‘Jo chains U

feet, and it represents perhaps the greatest engineering lent in New Zealand. At the Timaru Police Court yesterday morning, 11. Nicholson was lined .CIO for gambling with cards cm the express train between Oanmru and Timaru. it was stated that defendant, who did not appear, and two others, named .James Campbell and Lee, had made a practice of travelling on the trains (including South Island expresses), and were well known to the police. Lee is reported to be in Australia and the police have been unable to serve Campbell. “In my opinion, within the next few years, bacon will return you as much as butter-fat,” was' (states an exchange) an encouraging remark made by Mr F. J. Nathan to the annual meeting of Norsewood dairymen on Saturday. “But you treat your pigs shamefully, you know you do,” lie added, and went on to say that there was no animal that gave better value for good treatment and good food than tlie pig, “though it may seem funny for a few to advocate the cause of the pig,” he concluded amid laughter.

Mr Fraser, managing secretary of flic- Palmerston North Hospital Board. Ims tendered liis resignation,

having accepted a position in Auckland.

Frederick Henderson .Joyce, a clerk employed in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, has been arrested and charged with fading to account for Government moneys.

A number of doilies lines at Mcrrinsville have been -dripped of their weekly washing (says the Waikato Times). A well-known resilient of Thames Street had his clothes line completely stripped and the contemptuous thief also took (he pegs.

In the Magistrate’s Court at To Kuiti yesterday, Peter Bernard Mora, ex-cmiuty clerk, was commitled for trial at the Hamilton Supreme Court on six charges of alleged misappropriation of the funds of the Wailomo County Council nmomiting to £!>2 117, during his term of office between 1017 and ! 022.

The Otago Boys’ High School celebrated its diamond .jubilee yesterday at Dunedin. The beautiful memorial archway, containing the names of 18S old boys who gave their lives in the Great War, was dedicated by Sir Francis Bell, (lie lirsf dux of the school. He asked that in future all past and present boys should observe the custom of honouring the archway, by passing with bared heads.

A formal announcement regarding New Zealand's taking over the Ross dependency was made in the House by Air Massey last night, who after reading the British Order-in-Council on the subject, stated that it was intended that the New Zealand Government should issue licenses for whaling- and seal fishing

purposes, and that the revenue should come to I lie Government of New Zealand. Several linns intercsled in whaling had given the Government to understand that they were quite willing to pay a reasonable license fee to the New Zealand Government.

The inemhers of All Saints’ Ladies Guild entertained Mrs Green, one of their members, at an afternoon at the vicarage on Thursday. At a suitable interval Airs Walton (vice-president) in the absence of the president (Mrs A. S. Easton), presented (lie guest with a token of esteem in the shape of a cut giass toilet requisite. The wish v.as expressed that the recipient would still remain in the district and her services to tile guild continued. Airs Green suitably responded and thanked the guild for I lie token and good wishes expressed.

A young Dunedinite, Air 0. AY. Hastio, has invented a device which he claims will register oil ordinary milking machines the amount of milk which each cow yields. Ihe device also takes a sample of the milk from each cow, and therefore the farmer may ascertain the quaillily and quality of the animal's yield wi!limit employing a bucket machine. The invention lias been praised by the managers of the local dairy factories, as they consider it of groat value to the industry in that it wili give the producer an opportunity of weeding out the poorer of his herd.

“Inflammation of tli<* eyes is often I reefed ;il home by such remedies as lea-leaf poultices and milk,” remarked Dr. E. L. Marchant lo Senior Cadets at Wellington. “A much belter application is common salt at (lie rale of a level teaspoonful in a pint of warm water. This is an elTieiont idea user, and has no bad points. Doraeie acid is much used but with some people it is irritating whereas salt never is. This condition of inflammation is often brought about bv wiping the eyes with a handkerchief. This article must always be full of microbes after it has been used, and should never be used as an eye-duster. lidlannnation should not be allowed to remain untreated so consult a doctor a> soon as possible.”

The work at Mangahao is pro-i-eotling sjitisf'ei-toi'ilv and is well up to schedule time. At A rape!, dam tin* work of excavating is now completed and preparations are being made to start concreting. Although the Mangahao dam has given the most trouble it will not be the largest, Arapeti being 10(1 feet deep from the bed of the river and three chains wide in the centre and it is estimated it will take roughly between four and live thousand tons of cement' for the concrete work. Since the bottom has been found the work has been straight going. There is much speculation as to which dam will he completed first, the general impression to lie gathered at the camps is that the “juice’' will be ready for turning on within 12 months from now.

A curious instance has been disclosed in Paris of the complexity of modern life. On Monday, 9th .July, according to a cable message to a Melbourne paper, a workman accidentally pat bis |lick through one of the main electric cables whilst effecting small repairs in the street. This caused a short circuit which instantly deprived thousands of flats and shops, cafes, houses, theatres and cinemas in Central Paris of light. The area affected included the opera quarter of Montmatre, and embraced several square miles. A quarter of a million people were deprived of lights for four days. It has also been necessary individually to examine over sixty thousand electric light meters to ascertain the extent of the damage done by the navvy’s pick. The electric companies are now devising methods to prevent a similar happening in future.

Several business premises were burglariously entered in Palmerston North on Thursday night but very little of value stolen. The last day of the C. AL Ross Co.’s great Bargain Clearing Sale Shop to-day while prices are the lowest obtainable anywhere.*

Referring to influenza, the Minister for Public Health states that if the public would take the simple rej medics which had been made known for their benefit through the newspapers, lie thought they would weather the storm quite easily. On the other hand, if they went out too soon and caught fresh colds there would he trouble.

“A good bricklayer can lay from 1,000 to 1,200 bricks per day,” said a creditor at a brankruptey meeting at Hamilton, when the creditors were trying to ascertain from the bankrupt, a builder, how he computed his estimates. “Rut: the trouble is the union limits the number of bricks that may he laid to 400 per day,” interposed another creditor.

II is not generally known that the seeds of laburnum are deadly poison, but a child of Wintmi had a very narrow escape during the past week (reports the Record). Having eaten some of the seeds, he was in a short time in a state of collapse, and, hul for the prompt attention and untiring efforts of the local doctors, would soon have passed away.

A £5 note lay on the steps of the Bank of New Zealand in Christchurch for a few minutes on Thursday last. It had been dropped by a clerk as lie came out of the bank, and was tramped on by several people who did not realise that there was money beneath their feet. The clerk who had dropped it returned in a hurry, and was just in time to retrieve it in front of an office boy who was too dazed by bis good luck to net quickly.

Although the Beautifying Society at its annual meeting made certain recommendations for the expenditure of money on Victoria Park and in beautifying (lie northern entrance to the town, the Committee so far lms taken no steps to carry out these recommendations. As the planting season is rapidly drawing to a close steps should be taken without delay to give effect to the recommendations. So far as finances are concerned the money is available so there is no excuse for delay on this account.

“After the poacher,” says Mr E. V. Sanderson, of the Native Birds’ Protection Society, “the wild cat is cur birds’ worst enemy. Small bush and scrub contractors introduce these to keep down rats, which the waste food attracts to the camp, and when the contract is completed pussy is left behind, generally to maintain herself. A cat requires one small bird or chicken daily, and the toll soon mounts up. Tti some districts this wild cat matter has become quite a menace to poultry.”

A warning against the removal of stock from tick infested areas to clean areas without a permit was given bv a prosecution in Auckland for this breach of the Stock Act. The manager of a sawmilling coinpan v was charged with removing two horses from Newmarket, in aiea 8., a tick-infested area, to Kauri mu, in clean country without obtaining a permit from an inspector of stock. Tt was stated that the offence was committed in ignorance of the law. and a minimum fine of £5 was imposed .

Sir Robert Stout delivered an address in Wellington on Tuesday night on the history of lhe Government's negotiations with the Maoris of the King Country on the subject of: prohibiting the sale of liquor in that district. The meeting, which was supported by ministers of various churches, was intended as n protest against the proposal to take a local option vote in Ihe King Country. Sir Robert Stout spoke of the early negotiations, and the promise made the Maoris. He claimed that to cancel the agreement now would he an immoral act.

There is a yor.d deal of speculatioji i -Hirst s ju*t now to the quantity of wheal likely to be -•own this vear in the south. Tl is certain that, owing to continued wet weather little wheal has been sown in Canterbury so far this season. It is feared that many farmers will not now bother to sow wheat, for as a general rule spring-sown wheat is not nearly so satisfactory as au-tumn-sown. However, it must he remembered that, owing to the abnormal rainfall this year, the ground is well stored with moisture, and so it is possible that spring-sown wheat will prove quite satisfactory. Still it seems very possible that the area sown in wheat this year will lie considerably less than last, and next year Xew Zealand nmy be faced with a shortage of wheat.

Constable Mitchell (Havelock) arrived in Blenheim yesterday morning with three women in custody, charged with sheep stealing. They hail from Games Bay, Pelorous Sound, and their names are Panlimena Caroline Campbell, aged 56; Alary Anne Campbell, aged 21); and Irene Prances Campbell, aged 19. Paulimena Campbell is the mother of the two others. Mrs Campbell is a widow, with a fairly large family, and runs a farm at Games Bay. It is alleged that the two girls stole some sheep belonging to a neighbour named David Stewart; and their mother is charged with receiving the sheep knowing them to have been stolen. The three accused were remanded to Picton Gaol to await their trial. It is believed that this is the first occasion in New Zealand in which women have been charged with sheep stealing.

William Barnes, 71 years of age, collapsed at his work, at Wellington yesterday afternoon and died while being taken to hospital. Deceased had been- suffering for some time from influenza. An inquest will he held.

An order for heather seeds sufficient to produce 50,000 plants has been placed by the New Zealand Government with an English Arm (says an English paper). This is stated to he the largest heather order ever placed in the Highlands.

California is just now witnessing the harnessing of another source of power The great geysers which have been spouting their boiling water and steam from volcanic mountains for hundreds oi years are being tapped, and the steam is being used to drive electric turbines.

Big Ben, the giant clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament, in London, lias been stopped for the works to he cleaned and overhauled. Lately Big Ben has fallen from its high standard of accuracy and on several days was more than two minutes slow. The fault is not entirely that of the clock, as the mechanism has been clogged with chippings and dirt from repair and cleaning work recently done in the i oof of the clock tower. This has necessitated the dissembling of the whole of the works.

An old resident of the hill country now living near Invercargill, reports that when in high country I lie old hands always dreaded a fall of snow at or about the shortest day. “Wo would tick off those days with interest as the shortest day approached. Every day away from it meant less danger for the sheep on the hills. We reckoned ourselves fairly safe if we got through the week following the shortest day without a fall of snow. The danger was the frosts which always followed mid-winter snow.”

Women and children are especially cheap in China, says Hong Kong, who is now in Europe studying conditions. In China there are 4(>n,000,000 people, with only 4 per cent, literate and they die off by thousands, she asserts. When a child is a Avcek or two old she is taken by her mother to the factory, laid in a corner and fed at intervals. If she survives, in a year or two she toddles about among the machines. At 4 or 5 she learns the rudiments of the work and at 6 or 8 is an adept, taking her place in the ranks of regular Avorkers. They work from 12 to 16 and a half hours a day.

A large party of women was Avaiting in an ante-room at the Vatican for the Pope’s reception. avlicii Monsignor Marmaggi divided the Avomen into two groups. It. was some time before the women realised that only those Avliose arms and necks were covered were going to he admitted to the Pope’s presence. The rest, with low-necked dresses, remained outside, many of them crying bitterly. Monsignor Marmaggi said he liad acted oil the Pope’s instructions. Henceforth, in order to avoid such scenes, all av<»men not dressed in black and heavily veiled will he stopped at the entrance to the Vatican.

The Maoris in the King Country are in many eases making full use of the money paid over to them in connection with the subdivision of native land. A gentleman who lias just arrived from the King Country informed a Times reporter that last Sunday he visited a certain pah and was amused to see a native woman dressed in an expensive fur coat doing the weekly washing. During the week another Maori bought a. costly piano from Auckland. Not being able to get this cumbersome article through lhe door he got over the difficulty by making a large hole in the side of the house.

A vigorous denunciation of the fallacy that the Plunket Society wastes its time trying to rear weaklings which the race would be bettor without was voiced by Mrs W. 11. Parlces in addressing members of the Auckland Rotary Club. “It 1~ surf'lv :i f j«.*rnieious «lor»trine, which suggests that ignorance and disease should continue in order to eliminate the weaklings,” declared the speaker. “Not one baby should he sacrificed to ignorance. It is not only the weaklings who die within a few months of birth, for many of the strong and healthy also succumb. Even in New Zealand, where the death rate is exceptionally low, the outstanding fact remains that more than half the babies who die within the first year were healthy at birth.”

Members of the light-fingered fraternity were particularly active ar Napier during the recent visit of boxing and football learns. While members of the latter were enjoying a motor run on Sunday afternoon thieves entered their rooms and systematically ransacked their &uit-cases. A very mean spirit was shown by the miscreants, for they took not only articles of value, but a number of small personal keepsakes, such as three representative jerseys, a kewpie, and a much-trea-sured football. An unusually barefaced attempt at robbery took place on Saturday, when, members were celebrating their visit in the timehonoured convivial way. . A man entered and took a bag containing money and valuables from under the managers feet. Retiring to a corner, lie proceeded to transfer the contents to his own pockets, and when remonstrated with by the manager, struck him a blow qn the face. The*man was placed in charge of a constable, although no complaint was laid regarding the attempted theft.

A special meeting of the Borough Council Avill he held on Tuesday, next, at 7 p.m. Business: Public health, water and drainage

The seeming similarity of Chinese names makes it difficult for European traders to keep track hi’ the \» Celestials Avith whom they are deal-' ing'. As an instance of this, Ave understand (says an exchange) that some of the creditors interested in a recent Chinese bankruptcy did not discoA'er until after the filing of the petition that the bns.nc-ss had changed hands and thai 1 some time they had been giving credit, not as they believed, to the original proprietor, Avith AA-honi their dealings had always proved satisfactory, but Avi(h his successor, whom they did ' not know. Apparently when a Chinese establishment changes hands, “business as usual is regarded as a serviceable axiom.

Many people possess a certain amount of that ingredient in the human make-up knoAvn as “cheek,” but some possess it to a much greater degree than others. The fact is vouched hv a Timaru greengrocer who is in a good position to judge. He had a very large caulifloAver—an unusually fine vegetable—Avhieh he proudly displayed in front of his shop. The cauliflower attracted too much attention. Someone took a great fancy to it, and it disappeared. The greengrocer, in the course of the day, wandered down the road for sympathy from his brother-in-trade. the butcher “Why,” said the worthy when the sad tale had been told, “a Avomati came in here to-day with a large cauliflower. She said she had bought it from you and.you were too mean to give her the paper to wrap it up in. I wrapped it up for her myself.”