Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2640, 2 October 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“At Wanganui the other day I obtained 121bs. of beef for 3/- a I a Imteller’s shop,”'said a well-known district settler.

The unusual spectacle of a handsome cock pheasant was’ observed in Robinson Street, near Mr Alex Speirs’ residence yesterday.

The three/butchery firms in Levin have amalgamated in order to curtail running expenses and to counterbalance the heavy increase in stock prices.

'Flic vital statistics for Foxton for September with the corresponding figures for the same month last year in parenthesis are as follows; Births 4 (4) ; deaths nil (1 ) ; marriages 1 (3). Letters written by the officers and men of Admiral von Spec's squadron on the eve of the battle of the Falkland Islands have reached relatives in Germany alter nine years. They were recently found at Ponape and handed to Germany by the ,J apa n ese G o verm out. In Wanganui they evidently maintain effective touch witli the next world, says the ‘Dominion,’ for according to a Wanganui paper, evidence was tendered on oath by the sergeant of police in the Magistrate's Court that “deceased was at present out of employment.” When application was made at the Supreme Court at Hamilton lor the discharge from bankruptcy of two storekeepers it was stated that they had only been able to pay twopence in the pound. His Honour decided to suspend their discharge for a period of three years. Under the Fisheries Act, the Junction Sawmill Company. Upper Hull, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court by the Acclimatisation Society with allowing sawdust to enter the Akatarawa stream. Counsel said the whole output of sawdust was discharged into the river but this was contrary to the instructionof the company’s employees. A line of £3 and costs was inflicted. Many members of the-Greymouth Rowling Club ,do not agree tret Sunday is a “day of rest,” and at a special meeting held in the pavilion recently were successful in carrying a motion that play be al lowed on Sunday (says the “Grey Star”). Much interest was taken in the matter, and opinion was sharply divided. The enforcement of the rule which prevents unlinaneinl members voting was productive of considerable amusement, an ! the club’s exchequer incidentally greatly benefited.

From yesterday, October Ist, the new postage rate for letters and loiter cards came into operation, which is as follows: —One penny for the first ounce or fraction thereof, and id for each additional ounce; on all correspondence for the United Kingdom, Canada and other parts of the British Empire, United States and Italy and all other places to which lid rate at present applies, Id for first ounce or fraction, and Id each additional ounce; post cards 01 and packets inland Ad for each 2oz. up to 211)., and 2d for each additional pound beyond 21b. up to 51b. The rate to Australia remains the same, viz. lid.

The local rainfall for September Mas 2.27 inches; the maximum fall ,83 was recorded on the. 23rd. Mr Lloyd George had a very cordial send-off from Waterloo Station on Saturday, recalling the days of his Premiership. His final words were: “I much appreciate your kindness and goodwill in seeing, mo off the premises. Look after the old country! T am going to Canada first as a duly to the Dominions. I, as an old war-time Minister, have to thank them for the magnificent help they then gave without which we might not have pulled through.” Measles was the subject of a lengthy discussion al the French Academy of Science when Professors Xicolle and Conseil read papers on preventive -vaccination. These professors say that it is almost impossible for children to escape from the malady; therefore, it is better to vaccinate them with a new serum, obtained from persons recovering from that disease. The serum is being used with certain success. It-is pot possible to say that its use renders children immune but it has been proved that those vaccinated when attacked by measles recover rapidly, and in no case have they suffered much from an attack'.

Few Europeans, remarks the Mannwalu Times) can realise the loyalty, sentiment, or superstition, which prompts the thrifty and hard-working Chinaman to spend large sums of money in fulfilling the desire of their fellows to be buried in their homeland. By the last steamer, as.on three previous occasions, the body of a Chinaman was shipped to the flowery land. The freight alone costs £74 and the total charges, including a leaden and two wooden casings, amount to £l2O in each case. This sum is generally paid in small change, and in one amount. It is promptly paid with punctilious care, and the method of it is a rebuke to our credit system.

Mr E. S. Iloldaway, the wellknown Jersey breeder, of Ballance (Pahiatua) informs us that he has been unable to fill the orders for im ] 1 calves this year and Fox ton dairy fanners were lucky in getting in early. He has sent, bull calves to Foxton, Napier, Hamilton besides supplying local district orders. “1 have just returned from Taranaki,” said Mr Iloldaway, “where I was successful in purchasing two pedigree Jersey bulls of Felton-Davey strain, which is the best strain l.i New Zealand and which follows out mv own breeding. At the sale the bulls came forward in very poor condition and the majority were passed in, being dairy bulls. Feed is very poor.”