Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2731, 10 May 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Borough Council will he held in the Council Cham hers on Monday evening next at 7 o’clock.

The Manawatu-Oroun River Board gives notice that ten per cent, will be added to all rates unpaid by the 31st of this month.

As evidence of the wide interest created in the recent slander action Ball v. Hornblow. (lie latter has received congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the Dominion.

Pox ton was well represented in the space reserved for the public at the Palmerston N. Supreme Court on Thursday during the hearing of the slander action, Ball v. Hornblow.

Professor Pais, of Naples, claims to have discovered a method of rejuvenation by the use of radium emanations to stimulate existing glands, and is said to have obtained remarkable results in experiments on animals. Plans for the new cathedral at Nelson have been submitted and approved. The building will cost £BO,000. There is £20,000 in band, a legacy, from the late Miss Marsden, and a vigorous campaign will shortly be started to obtain the balance. The old building lias been condemned.

The extraordinary trallie of late lias had a very bad effect on the Himatangi road, which presents a corrugated appearance besides being well pitted with pot-holes. The road from Sorenson’s corner lo Palmerston N. has not been subjected to the same wear and tear. The Manawatu County Council is taking steps to repair the road.

“Did you have any wins ?'’ asked counsel of a witness, who admitted during the hearing of Hie alleged slander action in the Palmerston N. Supreme Court on Thursday, that he had made bets with another man—an alleged bookmaker. “Oh, more pay-outs, I think,’’ naively replied the witness, which caused an outburst of laughter. Even' Hie judge could not suppress a smile.

The search is still being maintained for the body of a man seen floating in the Mauawatu river at Palmerston N. on Sunday, April 27. Operations up lo the present have been unsuccessful, ihe swollen .-date of the river rendering the work extremely difficult. No trace has yet been discovered of the man Dunnage, reported missing from Manga - liao on April 2(jth.

Five days a prisoner in a German submarine and 111 A months interned in Germany was the war experience of Captain R. G. Sprague, master of the Canadian Challenger, which arrived at Auckland from Halifax on Tuesday afternoon. Captain Sprague was master of the steamer Pontiac, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean, on 28th April, 1917. Only Captain Sprague, the chief engineer and two of the gminers carried by the Pontiac were taken aboard the submarine, the remainder of the crew drifting about in the boats until they were rescued by a passing vessel, states the N.Z. Herald.” Captain Sprague and oilier prisoners were taken through Austria to Wahmbeek on the Weiser, Germany, being interned until the Armistice was signed.

The Methodist choir held a most enjoyable social evening in the schoolroom on Thursday evemng.

A rehearsal of all those taking part in the Band Carnival orchestra will be held in the Town Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock.

The Melbourne tram strike i> still unsettled. The tramway board lias discharged 3,300 employees concerned in the strike.

A witness in the slander action at the Supreme Court in reply to counsel, said his wife had not complained because plaintiff in the ease had not paid out in full oil a bet. “I don’t know wliai my wife does,” said witness.

At a meeting of the Nelson City Council last week the rates were reduced by fid in the £ —the general rate of 4d and the special rale by 2d. It was emphasised that during the current year no money out of rates would be expended oil permanent works such as drainage extensions or lar-scaled roads, loans for which purpose would be placed before the ratepayers. The rates last year were 2 '-, general I/O, and special (id.

As Mr Wilford, counsel in the alleged slander ease, at the Supreme Court on Thursday, was waxing eloquent in his persuasion of the jury and was quoting ancient records of law. “Lord Kenyon referred to it in such and such a ease,” be said. r 1 is Honour: “But you are quoting medieval law. Kenyon lived a long time ago.” “Yes,” replied counsel, “and died a lonir time ago.” The sotto voice of the opposing counsel drifted audibly through the Court: “Yes, and that law died a long time ago, too!”

It is no! generally known llial the Department of .Justice owns a big expanse of territory, totalling some 1(1.00(1 acres, at Tokaanu, Lake Taupe. this being purchased from the Natives. This property is being gradually broken in as a farm, some two hundred acres being grassed alio ally, and proving very productive. If is worked entirely by prison labour. The Minister in charge. (Hon. C. .1. Farr) has just inspected (bis farm, and is very pleased with the work being done, and also with the interest evinced bv the prisoners in their work.

Not many people know the origin of Ahuriri, the name of Napier’s port, but according to a native authority the name is derived from a place on the seashore of the Arabia Peninsula, (says the Napier “Telegraph”). Here the old-tirne Maoris on the voyage across the bay to the place where Napier lias since been built, used to ballast their cargoes with sand from the beach. At the other end of the journey the sand was dumped ashore, and the landing place (where Port Ahuriri is now situated) took the name Ahuriri from the name of the beach where (lie sand came from.

A few months ago two Californian horticulturists discovered accidentally that when they heated their storehouses with kerosene stoves the resulting fumes caused lemons to colour quickly. The happy thought occurred to them to utilise the discovery commercially. There are certain varieties of oranges which are most toothsome when green. Green oranges, however, have no market value; purchasers have an unyielding prejudice in favour of a golden yellow for the fruit. Experiments have now proved that, by observing the proper conditions of heat and humidity, it is possible to give oranges a marketable colour in six days, as against live weeks to produce the same result on the tree. Three or four weeks will see the opening of the winter whaling season, and in preparation for this the whaling steamer HanaiUii 11., which keeps the old-time industry alive in the north, has arrived at Auckland to undergo annual overhaul and survey (states the “Star"). Overhaul work and relitting will occupy about a week, and the Hananui will then proceed to Whangamumu, the base of whaling operations. At the end of May or the begining of .June the whales go northward to the warm tropical waters for breeding purposes, and as the season of their excursion covers about two mouths, the winter whaling season should last until almost the middle of August. Whether the Hananui will then come down lo Auckland is doubtful. She may replenish her supplies and relit in Hie north and wait for the spring whaling season, when the whales .return to Hie Antarctic regions with their young in October ami November.

Like a. fusel oil in bad whisky so the nicotine in strong tobacco is injurious to health. It is an astonishing fact that the leaf produced in certain localities of the Auckland and Nelson districts contain less nicotine than anv other tobacco known. This is of the utmost importance with regard to the development of the N.Z. tobacco industry because it is iusl these mild types of leaf that are eagerly sought after by manufacturers abroad and fabulous prices are often paid for (Item. New Zealand indeed will become famous fop its tobacco and the local product will be our National smoke. Unlike some of the foreign tobaccos, the N.Z. article docs not bite the tongue, it smokes smooth and mellow and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. Moreover, il is ail pure tobacco with a distinctive Jluvour, obtainable in various strengths. Cut Plug No. 10 for those w ho appreciate a full body, and Riverhead Gold for the lover of a very mild aromatic while toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) represents the medium strength. 6.

Tin* Wanganri A. and P. Association made a loss of £422 5/1 on last year’s working.

An eight-hour tally taken in the Mauawatu Gorge recently showed the traffic fn be 321 motor cars and 5(1 lorries.

The Rev. Fa her Guinane, of Ohakune, has been transferred (o Datinevirke in succession to (he Rev. Father Daly (well-known to thousands of New Zealand soldiers) who is to be fittingly fa re welled before leaving to fake charge of Hie Lowin’ Hull parish.

Home parts of the hack country of Marlborough are said to be, swarming with wild sheep, descendants of' animals that have escaped the musterers in the early days. One rtinholder says that 20,000 acres of his properly tire entirely given over to wild sheep. A trial shipment of 130,000 lb of Alberta creamery butter is being made to Liverpool by the Panama Canal. It is the first time that this route hits been used for butter. Tf the route proves satisfactory it is probable that the Panama Canal will get a good share of the butter export trade between Alberta and Great Britain.

An error frequently seen in the naming of an article of commerce was mentioned by the Rev. Goldie, of the Solomon Islands, during bis lecture at Palmerston North. This was in connection with the use of the word “tortoiseshell,” which was a. misnomer in that the article in question was produced from the shells of turtles, not from tortoises. Consequently, it should be “turtleshell.”

A startling contrast in electric light bulbs was afforded by the juxtaposition in the General Electric Company’s works at Sprague. U.S.A., of one no bigger than a grain of rice and another ballshaped of 150,000 candle-power —the largest ever made. The ricesized bulb was made to locate a lack which bad stuck deep down in a eight months old baby’s throat. By its aid the tack was withdrawn without injuring Hie tissue.

When there is so much criticism about the too superior position of women in this young land, it is pleasant to find some little point of superiority. Thus Mrs Rolph, wife of the Mayor of San Francisco, was impressed when visiting'Wellington to see next the door of the Mayor in the Town Hall one marked “Mayoress.” “Now,, there is no l oom set apart for me in San Fran-ci-co.” said the visiting lady, and promptly she made a note ot it for comment in her own city when she returns.

While digging on Sandy* Beach, near the Thimble [slnnds. the reputed rendezvous of Captain Kidd and bis pirate crew, a fireman une.ulhed a curious gold ring, which antiquarians believe to be the sigi>cl ring worn by Lady (.’atlicrinc Grey, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. and a descendant of ITenry V[T.. on the occasion of her marriage in 15t>0 to the voting Earl of Hertford, who was subsequently sent to the Tower by Queen Elizabeth. who was displeased at Hie marriage. It is believed that this ring formed part of the pirates’ treasure loot, which legend records was buried in the vicinity. A rumour that Mr. William Phil|,ot, the 79-yenr-old golf instructor ;;t Prince's'"Links, Matchnm Common. England, and the oldest professional in Ihe country, was retiring. was laughed at by the veteran, who declared that be was “too voniig to think of so much a thing, and far too busy." A teetotaller and non-smoker for sixty years, Mr. Philpot is a man of many-sided activities. Besides being in busino--. he hn> been president of Hie 1 Croydon Liberal and Radical Working Men’s Club for twenty years. He is a choir conductor and vocalist, an expert at growing chrysanthemums. n lecturer on political and temperance topics, and. viceinptain of the Professional Golfers’ A ssorin t ion.

The death of Marie Corelli recalls to a Palmerston North resident an incident of the early days of the novelist’s fame. In the Empire Hotel, Wellington, a bet of ten pounds was made between a Hansard reporter ami a newspaper proprietor. The former undertook to write a paragraph which was quite untrue and which half the papers in New Zealand would copy--witli-i*u t questioning its authenticity. Tin* Palmerston North man held the slakes and agreed that the news ilem complied with the conditions. It was actually found in seventy per eon!, of our papers, and read thus; “Marie. Corelli, the famous young novelist, is now on route to New Zealand to marry a wellknown Canterbury squatter.”

At the commencement of tlie Southern Industrial Insiiulcin Alabama a mau was present who had four children in I lie school. The principal speaker called on him for a few remarks. A lean, lank type of man lie was, and (here he stood. 11l- looked now this way and now that, and finally said, gazing fondly but sorrowfully, at his children: “Air President, 1 can’t read nary word.” Then he sat down. The orator of Hie occasion was the head of the State Bar Association. , a finely-educated man, and an eloquent speaker. On rising to begin his address, he said that whatever he might have had in his mind to say had gone from him when he heard the pathetic confession of his illiterate friend. The few words which that friend had. uttered, he said, constituted the most impressive address in favour, of education lie had ever listened to.

The ladies committee in connection with the recent hall held under the auspices of the Fox ton Football Club, desire to specially thank Mr Hutchibs for liis spesdid services on their behalf in arranging details. Hemlock, the plant resembling parsley gone- to seed, which was recently responsible for the death of a child in the Adelaide road district, Wellington, has now been declared a noxious weed in the city, and owners with the plant on their properties will he compelled to eradicate it.

In concluding his brief address at the Paliner.-ton North railway station yesterday, General Brainwell Booth said he had heard of Mr l'\ J. Nathan’s kindness to the Salvation Army and its cause. It gave him great pleasure (o meet Mr Nathan and it would he accentuated when a cheque came along (great laughter).—Times. Selling unwholesome meat was a charge made against a butcher 11amd John G. C- Knelt before Mr E. Page, S.M. at Wellington yesterday. •Sub-Inspector Cameron stated that the purchaser of the meat, when he found it was bad, had taken it to the police. Mr Putnam, who appeared for Kuch, said the meat was sold at; a time of the year when the weather was muggy, and meat was liable to go had. Only a portion of the meat was unwholesome. The Magistrate said though defendant had been in business a long time this was his-first appearance on stteh a charge. Defendant was fined £2. A rather unusual sight was of daily occurrence on a farm at Tikoraugi lately (writes the Auckland Star’s” correspondent). A fanner had a sow which, after rearing the young to a good size, quietly laved down and died. The young pigs bereft nf their mother, looked round for another source for their daily milk, and every milking time they besieged the quiet cows and drained all possible dry. Every teat would have a pig, and it was soon apparent to the farmer that the pigs were praticularly dry strippers. The postition was quickly met. and for some time pork will be a favourite article of diet on the farmer’s dinner table.