LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 11 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following paragraph from the Manawatu Standard is of interest and bears out what we have often said before of Russia in the hands of the Bolshevists : ' 'Mr Victor Marsden, who represents the London; Morning Post, is one of the correspondents with the Prince's party. He has had an interesting career, and went through cruel experiences in Russia during the war. In practically all the 30 years of his professional career as a journalist he lias been identified with Russia. For 20 years he was the Russian "correspondent of the Standard, and for 10 years since then he lived in Petrograd as Russian correspondent of the Morning Post. He remained there all through the revolution of 1917, and was the only journalist present in the British Embassy at Pretrograd on August 31, 1918, when it was raided by Bolshevik Jews, who shot the British Naval Attache, Captain Cromie, R.N., and haled everybody they found off to prison. After spending two days in the common lock-up, they were incarcerated in the terrible casements of Peter and Paul fortress prison, where the prisoners were herded 20 and 22 together in cells built and used under , the Imperial regime for one man only. For the two montlis Mr Marsden remained there all the prisoners had to lie on the cold cement floor, without covering other than their clothes, and to subsist on the cold food sent in to them twice a week, by their women folk. When Mr Marsden] eventually reached London he had a long illness, owing to the privations and horrors he had undergone, on top of three strenuous years of work as the Morning Post's war correspondent in Russia, and the 18 months of increased starvation under the 'glorious revolution' folly, which he says was and is 'nothing more than a German scheme to knock Russia out of the war, paid for by Germany and worked by Jews as the Bolshevist nuisance is now.'" At a sitting of the Auckland AntiProfiteering Tribunal, complaints regarding the prices of boots and shoes, darning wool, ladies' scarves, tinned toheroas, chaff, flour, coal, fowl-wheat, harness, horse-shoes, milk, and fencingwire, were dealt with. In several instances refunds were ordered, and the balance of the cases are still under investigation. A number of complaints were also received from country districts in respect to coastal steamer fares and railway freights, but the tribunal had not the power to make investigations concerning them. Progandra quiek_/ «ures Corns.— Advt. Buoyant good health is the portion of the woman who wears B and C. Corsets. They possess every quality of style and comfort. B. and C. Corsets are British made," and are therefore the most economical, as they are not affected in price by foreign exchange rates. This is an important consideration. B. and C. Corsets are the best value to-day. All leading drapers stock them. Ask for !B. and C. Corsets. —Advt. THERE JS NOTHUN G SO GOOD. When you ask for a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy do not take a substitute. Be firm in your conviction that there is nothing so good. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy has been tested in the* most severe cases of cramps, colic and diarrhoea and has never failed. Get it to-day. Tt may save a life. Sold every- . where.— Advt.

Twelve degrees of frost were registered in Masterton on Friday morning.

A hockey dance will be held in the Kaponga Town Hall To-night.

A somewhat serious accident befel Mr Norman "Hughes on Saturday night wlien riding home on a motor cycle jErom Waitotara (reports the Patea Press). When nearuJg Moumahaki he met a car with the lights full on, winch temporarily blinded him, witn the result that he smashed into the car, sustaining a broken leg.

At the Stratford racecourse (reports the Stratford Post) E. Fitzwater, during riding work, sustained a badlyfractured collarbone, following a collision between his mount (Harbor Light) and another horse. The injury was attended to at Dr Gordon's surgery.

At the annual meeting of the Waverley branch of the Farmers' Union the following officers were elected: Chairman, Mr Gregor McGregor;, deputychairman, Mr Alex. Howie; committee, Messrs Matthews, D. B. Rqbertson, Middleton, Elmslie, Symes, S. and G. Aiken, Davies, and F. and W. Johnston; secretary, Mr Tancred Cooper.

As an indication of why news printing paper is so dear, an American trade journal states that sales of ground wood pulp were made recently at 80 dollars a ton, f.o.b. mil]. The price a few years ago was 10 dollars. Small lots of pulp wood were bought by mills at the unheard-of price of 35 dollars a cord, as against three and a half dollars before the war.

A circular letter was received bj the Stratford Borough Council last night from the Hawera, County • Council, soliciting support for the following resolution which had recently been passed by that body: "That the assistance of all local bodies interested be solicited with a view to urging upon the Government the necessity of completing tho line to the Egmont quarries." It was decided (reports the News) to support the resolution, and to iixvite the assistance of the local M.P. in urging the matter upon the Government.

Mr Bennett ppoke strongly in favor of the issue of gun licenses at the meeting of the Acclimatisation bociety last evening. This, he thought, would assist them in eliminating the poacher. Each gun could in such, case have a number, and if any damage was done it should not be difficult to trace the author. A small license fee of 2s 6d would not* impose any hardship. The Government had refused to do anything in this way so far. They appeared to be afraid of the farmers. It was stated by a lv.ember that a remit bearing on the subject would be sent to the annual conference from Auckland.

Deposits in the Post Office Savings Banks of the Dominion for the quarter ended March 31 last stood at £9,271,----608, ac compared with £5,865,478 for the corresponding quarter of 1919, an increase of £3,406,130. Withdrawals amounted to £8,358,597 for the first quarter of 1920; they were £4,829,473 for the corresponding quarter of 1919. The excess of deposits over withdrawals in the first quarter of 1920 was £913,----010, which is lower by £122,995 than the balance of the March quarter of 1919. The withdrawals for the March quarter exceeded the 1920 deposits at two places only—namely, Westport and Greymouth.

The use of dynamite by poachers was referred to by a member of the Acclimatisation Society at the meeting last evening. ' It was pointed out that the evil could only be effectively dealt with by each license holder doing hie duty to the Society and reporting any cases of poaching coming under his notice. Tne president said that poaching was very difficult to suppress owing to the Reluctance of witnesses to give information. The council had done all they could and allowed any constable securing an information half the fine. They had had a paid ranger, but' this had not been satisfactory. Now they had honorary rangere, and still the poaching went on. If any angler had knowledge of any case of poaching the Society would take it up. They had an honorary solicitor, and did not have to pay for legal assistance.

Says the Auckland Star: Food is a ' subject which has a morbid fascination for the unfortunate city dweller, who owing to modern conditions is robbed of the privileges of earning his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, as his forbears did when they lived nearer Mother Earth. The man who uses his body as nature intended can generally eat anything, and does not suffer from those qualms which beset the mortal doomed to paved streets and sedentary toil. At the close of his lecture at the Leys Institute last week, Dr J. S. Reekie had to answer a pretty stiff examination paper at the hands of the audience. On the question of salt, which has as many adherents and opponents as free-trade, the doctor pointed to the craving of certain animals and savage races for it, and gave it as his opinion that it was an essential to human diet under the present-day conditions. The essential hydrochloric acid in the gastric juices was derived from common salt. "No, I don't think a diet of entirely raw food would make the race stronger than it is," was his answer in regard to another fad. He explained that some foods could be advantageously eaten in the raw state, but man as at present constituted required the xise of fire in preparing his meals. The doctor mentioned that he had seen photographs of some children in Mesopotamia driven to the diet of Nebuchadnezzar owing to the privations of wartime, and they had actually exploded. Their stomachs distended-to bursting point. Before man could live entirely on raw food he would have to be provided with a new interior. Unusual interest attached to the announcement made by the Spectator, the famous London weekly, on January 31, that its price had to" be raised from 6d to 9d as from March 6. The Spectator was established ins' 1828. In making the announcement, the publishers stated: "We had hoped till quite rcently to be able to* maintain the price at which the Spectator was issued before and during the war, and for the first year after the close of hostilities. A careful review of the situation at the beginning of the year has made it, however, clear that this is no longer possible. During the past five years the cost of paper has increased by 'approximately from 300 to 400 per cent,' I the cost of printing by approximately 175 to 200 per cent. Salaries and wages i have had to be greatly augmented in order to meet the increased cost of living. In almost every item, indeed, the cost of production has more than doubled. If there had' appeared to be any reasonable prospect of a fall in paper, printing, and other costs in the future, we should have been content to continue to hold on at. the old price. It wa_3 indeed in the hope of such a fall that we Tefrained from follbwffig the example of many other newspapers and rising our price some two years &gp." m Since the above was written the situation has become much worse. In Australia and New Zealand paper has risen to nine and ten times the' prewar price, and is exceedingly difficult to procure, and other costs are still rising rapidly.

In Sharland's Fluid Magnesia you always get highest strength, purest quality, and best value.—Advt.