LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1475, 20 November 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Reports of the Foxton Harbour Board aud Moutoa Drainage Board meetings appear ou our fourth page.

A great saving in the coal bill can be effected as follows : —Take of small coal, charcoal or sawdust, one part; ot sand of any kind two parts ; of clay, one part. Mix all together to the consistency of mortar, roll into convenient size, and put aside to dry. When making up the fire, put one or two ot these balls In the middle, aud you will obtain great heat for a long time.

A mounted recruit in camp at Tauhereuikau, writing to a relative here, facetiously asks for a contribution in the nature of a pair of spurs. He says the horse that has been alloted to him is “old enough to have a vote.” The Defence authorities are apparently taking no risks, and we would suggest cobbler’s wax In lieu of spurs. At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, John Laldlaw Walling, pleaded guilty to using obscene language. He pleaded that he was under the influence of liquor at the time. The Magistrate said the language used was the most filthy he had heard of. “ The maximum fine is and I don't know but what I should Impose that. However, the fine will be half that with costs 135.” Purity and Quality are the two main features of Walker and Furrie’s business. Value combined with the above brings success to our store. We are still in business to treat and serve you well. Come now and shop at our store. Walker & Furrie, Foxton.

BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG; IT’S FREE.

We are showing *» splendid line of ladies “Equity” shoes, guaranteed quality, latest style. Betty’s Boot Emporium.*

Miss M. Taylor has been appointed sixth assistant at the locai State school.

School holidays in the Wanganui district commence on Thurs day, December 16th (schools closing next day), and the schools re-open on Tuesday, February 2nd.

The Christchurch Supreme Court awarded the widow of Albert John Henderson,' shunter, killed in a railway accident, £655 damages against the Railway Department. “If I were asked to define the firing line,” said the captain, “I would say it was hell. But there is this dilterence between that and the theological hell. Once you have been to that hell you want to go back again.”—Captain-Chap-lain J. Sullivan, in a lecture in Wellington, The Education Dept, wrote to the Wanganui Board at Wedesday’s meeting, reminding the Board about the temperance charts in the schools. We are afraid that these charts are placed in the background in a number of schools, yet the lessons they convey are of more value to the youngsters than hours of Nolicense lectures in after years. The Sunday School anniversary services in connection with the local Methodist Church will be held to-morrow. There will be three services, at 11 a.ra., 3 and 7 p.m. conducted by the Rev. F. W. Boys, of Palmerston N. A children’s choir, under the conductorship of Mr R. T. Betty, will provide the service of praise. On Tuesday, in the Town Hall supper room, the annual social and prize-giving will take place. 1 A big fire early on Thursday morning at Lyttelton destroyed the New Zealand Shipping Company’s wool store, containing wool presses and other valuable machinery, together with 500 bales of wool. The flames spread to the Harbour Board’s motor spirit store, where 4,000 cases were stored, and it was soon a seething mass. The damage is estimated at thousands of pounds. Again the amazing pranks of coincidence. Sapper Guy Little, of Wellington, knew on bis arrival In Cairo that his brother, Staff Sergt. Keith Little, was “somewhere in Egypt.” He saw a likely-looking man in Cairo with stripes underneath a big helmet, and thought he would ask him if he knew the whereabouts of a certain Staff Sergt. Little. Just as he was about to speak, the man wheeled round —it was the very man in all Egypt that he wanted to meet —bis brother. A quiet wedding was celebrated at Eketabuua on Saturday morning, November 13th, when Miss Effie Tuckwell, daughter of Mr A. E. Tuckwell of Hamua, was ’ united in the holy bonds o! matrimony to Mr Walter Edward Cook, of Fostou. The bridegroom, alter spending a few days with bis young bride at Palmerston North, left on Tuesday morning for Trentham to join the roih Reinforcements. ; One of the first cases in New Zealand under the Munitions Act has just come under notice in Dunedin. Corporal Adam Dobson, the well-known Kaikorai footballer, of the Army Service Corps Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was on the point of leaving for the front after three months' training, when word was received by him from headquarters that as he was a specialist in the woollen trade he was required to report in Dunedin and take up a position with Messrs Ross and Glendinning as an expert in this branch. The employees of the Poplar Flaxmilliug Co. Ltd., have sent to Mr Hankins, Palmerston North, president of the Oversea Club, a donation from all hands towards Tobacco Fund for N.Z. soldiers at the front, for which he desires to express his thanks and hopes that some of the other mills will follow suit, when they learn that lor every shilling subscribed this club can send to a soldier a parcel ot tobacco, cigarettes and matches, which, if bought in New Zealand would cost with freight to Egypt the sum of six shillings. Mr Hankins collected ,£lO7 7s qd at the Palmerston Show, mostly in shilling subscriptions for the fund. A statement has been circulated in Wellington to the effect that increased freight rates on intercolonial boats had been decided upon. A Post reporter made enquiries at the shipping offices, but was informed that there was nothing for publication. Further enquiry among certain shippers, however, elided the fact that they have been informed by one company of an all-round increase of about 25 per cent. This, it is understood, operates from Thursday. It means a very substantial rise on all lines. For instance, general merchandise has been carried at 17s 6d per ton, but the new rate will be 22s 6d —an increase of more than 25 per cent. Grain, chaff and all other lines will be subjected to a corresponding increase, Train arrangements, and holiday excursion fares, in connection with the Ashhurst races are advertised. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAIDLAW LEEDS WHOLESALE CATOLOG.

"Why give your children cold lunches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pie at Perreau’s for threepence.

Prompt service is always extended to our customers, and if you are in need of any household requisites, kindly instruct us, and your orders will be executed expeditiously. Value, Quality, and Civility are what we give, so why trade elsewhere? Walker & Furrie, Foxton.

The Taranaki Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union have passed a resolution in favour of compulsory military service. The Queen of the South from Wellington arrived last night. She will sail again to-night for Wellington with a cargo of hemp. A rehearsal of all who promised to help at the Patriotic concert will be held in the Masonic Hall on Monday afternoon, at 4.30 o’clock.

A ,£lO fine and costs was inflicted on a Wellington milk vendor yesterday, for selling watered milk. The Government analysis of the milk showed 7.2 of added water.

Entries for collection of patriotic work, at the local Horticultural Society’s show next Thursday and Friday is free. The collection is to consist of not less than three or more than six articles, the same to become the property of the society, and to be handed to one or other of the local guilds. The prizes (4) aggregate 255. It has been pointed out to the Defence Minister by Mr W. H. Field that in some cases men who enlist desire to have their names left out of the newspaper. The Minister informed a Post reporter yesterday, in answer to an enquiry, that there was no reason why men who asked that their names should not be published, should not have their wishes observed. As a matter of fact, he understood this was already being done. A Chinaman na“ 1 Ah Wah, alias Wah Jang, who went to Hamilton a few weeks ago from Wellington, was arrested by Senior-Sergeant Cassells yesterday on a charge of issuing counterfeit coins, made by filing down gold coins. One halt • sovereign had been reduced in value by several shillings, while the police, it is stated, have evidence that accused uttered and attempted to utter other coins similarly tampered with.

Farmers and flaxmill employees are recommended our new special waterproof boots. We guarantee them. R. T: Betty.*