LIFE’S LITTLE THINGS.

Shannon News, 17 March 1922, Page 2

LIFE’S LITTLE THINGS.

IJ you were aide to live just iiglr alt the time there would be little need for medicine. f»ut some little thing :s constantly coming along to pul us out of balance exposure, change of diet or drinking water, irregular meals are little things lhat will at times upsei the best of us. Nothing particular the matter, hut we don’t feel good. At such times the wise among us .vill take a few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets with certain knowledge that they will put us right, right away. Sold everywhere

No less than 4066 pigs were slaughtered at the Palmerston municipal abattoirs during the month of February.

The marriage took place at Palmerston oil Tuesday of MrW. Price, of Hastings, ami Mrs Isabella Essex, widow of the late Mr Richard Essex, a former Mayor of Palmerston.

It -is not easy to discourage book canvassers, but one of them met his iuatch when he tackled a negro lilt attendant. The attendant listened imperturbably while the canvasser discoursed oil the store of knowledge to be acquired from the educational work he was selling on the instalment plan, and then remarked, “it’s no use, boss, I knows more now dan I gits paid fore’ The Post and Telegraph Department has refused 1o pay the Wanganui Borough Council the sum of one sliding a week for the removal of rubbish from the Wanganui Post Office (says the Wanganui Chronicle). The Council took the step of discontinuing the service, with the upshot that flie department has now threatened that the rubbish will be removed at the expense of the Council. The Council,, consequently sought legal opinion and has been advised that, ihe department’s stand is untenable.

The Foxton Borough Council had before it an account lor £2O, its si are of the I .evin-Greatford Deviation Committee's expenses. 'The Mayor (Mr Chrvslal) said he was glad the Committee had pursued the course they had. The allocation of expenses Was a mere bagatelle as against the satisfaction of knowing that they had delayed the work for at least twelve months and saved the country great expense. The £2O wat well spent. ( He considered it was one of t.lie biggest blots on the Reform Government to support the Palmerston deviation as against (lie Levin-Great ford link of the Mam Trunk line. It was decided to pay the £2O.

What do they know of New Zealand who only its town file know?

A soldier settler, fired with a desire to rop last week's wool sale, started m with his wool alter the recent heavy rains. The motor lorry ybecame hogged, and a hale of wool rolled into a lagoon beside the boghole, and soon become too heavy to get out, although the “digger” stripped and got in behind it. Next morning- the motor-lorry was extricated, and grappling hooks were at- ! ached and a badly-battered-bale was Is bed out and landed at Waingawa to be scoured. Now the digger dreams of lopping lire market for scoured woo). —Masterton Age.

Wind struck me in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney (says Sir Robert Stoui) was the great increase in the number of aliens who have retail shops. Indians. Greeks, Chinese and other (foreigner,s have the tobacco and fruit shops and other shops. Mo doubt we have the same thing to a certain extent in New Zealand. Why? Surely our race is lit to carry on shopkeeping, f found New Zealanders occupying good positions everywhere I went in Australia. Amongst them was Mr Montgomery, who is head of the Mine Department in Perth. He was one of our Dominion students. Jn fact, ] went nowhere, either in the Old Country or in Australia, without meeting New Zealanders .whom I knew, and [ was glad to find that none of them had forgotten New Zealand, but had; a love for it which the suns of other countries could not- extinguish;

“A rat!” The exclamation interrupted the inspector of the Christchurch Society for the Prevention ot Cruelty to Animals in the midst of Hie reading of the monthly report at the meeting of the committee (states the Christchurch Press). Most of Hie members adopted some attitude of defence, but calm was restored

chen one of tiie lady members explained that the cause of all the consternation was a frog which had worked its way out of her pocket. In further explanation she narrated that on her way to the meeting she had come upon some'.boys ill-treating the frog, and she had rescued it with the intention of liberating it near the liver. The frog was duly recaplured, and the business of the meeting was resumed.

The Palmerston Borough Council has just arranged a loan oi £.186,400 from-the A.M.P. Society at 7 per cent for ten years. The money will be used for public works. 7’he Mayor, Mr Nash, stated the expenditure of the money would provide for the employment of a number of men out: cl work in the borough at the present time, together with a. number of men whom the Council had had to dispense with, because there was no work lor them. The expenditure of money involved in the prosecution of these various loan works would he for the prosperity of the town in general. He reiterated that it would give work to people who wanted it very badly and who financially had had a very bad run. '