Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2823, 13 December 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1924 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui ratepayers turned down loan proposals yesterday totalling £32,900.

The Foxton Racing Club has appointed Mr E. Murphy totake charge of Ihe sale of race hooks at their forthcoming meeting. At the local police court yesterday morning before Mr J. K. Hornblow, J.P., a first-offending inebriate, arrested for drunkenness at an early hour yesterday morning, was convicted and lined 5/-. The President of ihe Canterbury Industrial Association (Mr -J. A. Fleslier) says (hat the South Island would never gpt its fair share of development till it had its own Government.

Rev. G. K. Ait ken, who was for many years in charge of the local Presbyterian Church, and who has received a call to' a -South Island charge, is visiting Foxlon and will conduct the services at Ihe Presbyterian Church to-morrow.

Tn a law suit brought by Uuiseppe Bignoni, against the proprietors of Wirths" Circus, it was said that the tiny equestrian (who was in Foxton last year with ihe circus I earns a salary of £2,500 a year.

Mi* E. .1. Pegg, resilient of Sydney (•lit formerly of Christchurch”, has proved his title to an estate in England valued at .(.'BO,OOO. He sails shortly for New Zealand, en route for England. Messrs Madge Bros, daily passenger motor service between Eoxton and Palmerston N. has now been supplemented by morning service which runs each morning from the seaside via Taikorea to Palmerston X. and returns each evening. The new service is greatly appreciated by settlers en route and Beach residents.

Henry Ford doesn’t waste words. He says:—“lf your business isn’t' worth advertising, advertise it for sale.”

There were 101 patients in the Palmerston North Hospital on November Ist. During the month 165 patients were admitted, 148 discharged and four died, leaving 116 at the end of the month. The daily average was 111.63. Infectious cases admitted were diphtheria 3, scarlet lever 2, puerperal fever 1, cere-bro-spinal fever 1, pneumonia 2, other diseases 1. There were 85 operations in November.

The progressive (demising of a sinner by the churches was touched upon by the Rev. R. M 1 Cully, at a St. Andrew's Chinch Jubilee social, (relates the Ashburton Guardian). Alter remarking upon Presbyterian “blueness,” he quoted a wag as having said-: “The Salvation Army pick a. man out of (he gutter, the Baptists wash him, the Presbyterians blue him and the Anglicans starch him.”

An Oamaru resident a few days ago had an unexpected windfall. Twenty years ago he lent £25 to a man who was in straitened circumstances. He had lost sight of the man, and forgotten the money. The receipt of a cheque for £7O in payment of principal, interest and compound interest, with a covering letter of thanks, convinced him that acts of generosity do not always go unrewarded.

In Timaru a number of business establishments tire inaugurating a daylight saving scheme voluntarily. From Monday next (he mercantile firms, insurance companies, trustee companies, accountants, and land agents will resort to earlier closing hours until the end of next March. The clerical staffs o'f the firms mentioned will commence work at 8.30 a.m. and cease at 4.30 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. as at present. “Have you got any bagpipes here?" asked the lion. J. G. Coates of a Geraldine deputation, when it was suggested that the deputation' should wait on the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, regarding a. certain matter. Air T. I). Burnett, M.P., who is a Highlander, assured (lie Minister that Mr McLeod would receive a true Scottish welcome and Colonel K. Mackenzie, chairman of the Geraldine County Council, said (hey would get the pipes, out for the benefit of the Minister of Lands.

A fire was discovered by the night-watchman (Mr .J. Wyeth) in the old wooden stables at the rear of the Family Hotel at about 1.45 a.m. yesterday, lie 'phoned the fire station and the alarm was sounded Mi -J. Wyeth ran out the New Zealand Shipping Co.’s hose prior to the arrival af the brigade which quickly subdued the outbreak. It is surmised that some one was illegally on the premises and the outbreak may have been caused through carelessness while smoking.

“You ought to be getting on very comfortably instead of living in one room, going to the pictures and living on fish and chips, 1 suppose,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., to a young couple at the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland. “You ought to have something to do when you come home,” added the Magistrate to the young man; “a garden to look after, or something like that. Why don’t you get a house of your own and make yourselves comfortable?”

The irreverence of some schoolboys was referred to by the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board at Wednesday’s meeting. He pointed otit that lie had .noticed when funerals passed along the street that some of the boys had neglected to pay their respect by standing and removing their hate. He considered that the matter should be brought up in the schools. “That spirit is typical of the age,” remarked another member. It was resolved to refer the matter to the Teachers’ Association.

A correspondent in the Bulletin writes:—l want to nominate George Anderson, of Redfern, Sydney, for the Full Cradle Stakes. Born, in Kent Street 80 years ago, he can still be found at Redfern railway bridge with bis hiring van. He has been married five times; his tally of children is 32, 22 of them girls. Excepting five sons killed in the late war, all bis children are living. His present wife is under 40 and has contributed eight to the total, the youngest a six-vear-old. The old man fought in the Maori War, the Beer War and the Soudan. He has promised to round up his greatgrandchildren and let me have the full statistics when lie gives up work.

A novelty lias appeared on the market in the shape of a toasted tobacco, which has caused quite a sensation in smokers’ circles. The process of toasting; seems to have a most beneficial effect upon tobacco, similar to what cooking, broiling and roasting- has oil food. It develops I lie flavour and makes generally more savoury and appetising, and last, hut not least, also more digestible. Small wonder that the local product has greatly gained in popularly through this latest improve meat, and smokers are advised to give il a trial. They tire in for quite a new flavour. There are three grades obtainable now—Riverhead Gold, a very mild and aromatic smoke; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength; and if you prefer a full body try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. All made of new type of leaf famous for its small percentage of nicotine. Doctors and experts proclaim them to be healthier than most of the foreign tobaccos; and another consideration is their lower cost. They will reduce your tobacco bill by 30 per cent. 11

At the Salvation Army Hall tomorrow children’s Anniversary ser- \ ices will be conducted all day by Adjutant Charker. On Monday evening the presentation of prizes will take place.

The manager of the N.Z. Shipping Co.’s premises informs us that the quick turn out of the brigade yesterday morning is worthy of commendation as the flames were menacing the company’s residence upon their arrival.

When the question of fencing the lire brigade section .was railed at yesterday's Board meeting it was suggested that the. local Beautifying Society or local residents might make grants of suitable hedge trees (o he planted round the section.

Speaking at last night’s Eire Brigade social. Mr Cray, Chairman of the Eire Board, said that at present the fire station was only a barn. Next year he would see that provision was made on the estimates to have the building match-lined or plastered.

The Borough Council grauted permission to a local applicant to cut (he grass growing in several of the streets of the borough and yesterday carts were stacked with hay. The clearing up of the streets of such rank growth will remove the lire menace during the summer.

Heaton Clyde Burgess, a chemist’s assistant, of Stratford, was charged at the New Plymouth Supreme Court yesterday with unlawfully using an instrument to procure a miscarriage. The jury was out for four hours and disagreed. A new trial wa's ordered, and bail was granted.

We cannot get along without advertising said Mr H. G. Hart, a director of Lever Bros., at Port Sunlight, Cheshire, England, when entertaining members of the AngloNorse, Anglo-Finnish, and AngloSwedish Societies in London. If you have a good trade and an expanding trade, it pays you to advertise.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., in forwarding bis donation of £5 5/- to the secretary of the Railway League, said: “1 wish to congratulate the executive upon the excellent arrangements that were made for the Commission on Saturday last. I feel sure that the members of the Commission were much impressed by what lliev saw on the trip between Levin and Marton.”

The manager of a local bulk store on going to open up the premises yesterday morning, found that the door bad been forced and a window broken. It looked as if a burglary bad been perpetrated. Upon entering the premises, however, he found that there was nothing missing. A further investigation brought to light, the fact that a horse, put in the section to graze, had used the door and window as a suitable substitute for a rubbing post.

Subterranean scenic wonders have been discovered in the beautiful bush country near Te Kuiti. These comprise, a spacious cave, fairy and giant falls, a canyon between great lime-stone cliffs, and a glow-worm cavern of magnificent proportions, with a crystal river running through it. The, successful explorers are the president (Mr W. J. Broadfootl and several members of the New Zealand Tourist League of the Auckland branch. The falls have 60 and 100 feet drop. All these discoveries are within a radius of a mile, in the midst of beautiful bush and limestone bluffs.

Usually the Court house is a place where disputes are settled —or those “arrested” are conveyed thither for judgment to be passed, (says (lie Grey town Standard). The latest viVdihis to he “arrested” not abut near the courthouse, were three ducks. On Sunday, ‘Mr Drake’ was arrested, apparently by a motor car, and had his neck broken, and now two ducks (who went in search of him) met a similar fate close to the Courthouse. Although of the Indian runner variety they wort not fast enough to elude the cars, <o yesterday, “a good ’Xmas feed" was going to waste, on the read ; >!4.

Had I been a new arrival and had onlv been ?2 days, instead of a matter of 32 years in the Dominion, 1 know which side in politics I would have arrayed myself on after mv experience of lasi Sunday afternoon a! flie Auckland waterfront. There it was my privilege (?) to listen to one of the Sunday soapbox orators. He was a little runt with a Charlie Chaplin .moustache, and figure, and, was giving them a prelty lurid account of the tyranny under which life-people were living in this' country, and he wound up a pretty seditious outburst against British rule in general and the Deform Government in particular, with these words (1 took them down at the lime): “Vy, mine frietits, the Chinamiyis yos get more liberty than Mr Hussey give you to-day.” The audience. 1 was pleased to see. did .'.ot take him seriously. Personally, 1 fell like .taking him by the scruff of the neck and informing him that it was rather had taste to come into a country, eat its salt and enjoy all. the privileges and advanages of luting one of its citizens nd then rail against it. But. as I say, the audience. John Bui! like, did not take him seriously—they merely laughed in contempt. They reminded me of the story of the mongrel cur that ran harking up to a great big mastiff, snapping and snarling' as if it were challenging the big dog to fighf. r fhe mastiff stood 'for a good while without notice, till finally it looked up and then took one pace towards the mongrel, smelt 1 him all over contemptuously. I