Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1930, 23 January 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

About 300 mol or ear- wen; counted a I yesterday's race merlin"'. Local nmlor car owners reaped a harvest yesterday carrying patrons to and i'rom Hie racecourse. Tiiere was a large number of visitors lo (lie local seaside yesterday. Air F. I'irani. elmirman of (lie Wanganui Education Board, was a visitor to the races yesterday. Mr A. N. Smith removed lu> drapery slock to new premises, nevt to .Mr Healey's shop, yesterday. The police report that the crowd at yesterday's race meeting was Tory well behaved. The Methodist Sunday school picnic was held in Victoria Park yesterday. A. good time was spent by parents and children. We arc informed that a motor ear was destroyed by lire at the seaside yesterday. The owner was a visitor, and the conflagration was (mused through the engine hack-firing. The weather for yesterday’s holiday locally was overcast and muggy. in Wellington drizzle, mist and hazy sunshine, with north-westerly gusts prevailed. A large, motor 'bus conveying Olaki patrons home from (lie races developed engine trouble the other side of Levin last night. The passengers arrived at their destination at a late hour. The Anzaes who are marrying in Britain average 300 a month, an increase of .TO per cent, since the armistice (stated a cable message k the Sydney Sun last week). The Australians who have 'married in Britain now number 7,518. A sure and, pleasant specific for removing Worms is WADE’S WORM FIGS, Price 1/6.

Yesterday was the 70!h annivers-' ary of the Wellington Province. The Queen of the .South veiled for Wellington nt midday yesterday, with a e'iirgo of woid, and is duo .hack with general on Saturday. ■ The visiting police at yesterday’s race, meeting included Inspector McKinnon, Sergl -deleetivo Quirke, Sergl, Henry and Constaldes (tow, Blaxland, Condon and McDonnell, The Defence Department advis.es dial Returning Dral'l “JlO will arrive at a New Zealand ]>oil in the course of a lew days. It comprises 11 officers, 1 chaplain, 4 nurses, ami (It)!) other ranks —a total complement of 71;'). The dividends at yesterday’s races, with one exception, were ail small. The exception was in the Maiden, when La Purcelle paid nearly.l wo score pounds for each of the H 4 invested. The owner of La I’ucelle, Mr S. \V. ’fatham, of Woodville, did not have anything on Ids horse. A Masterlon resident who.recently visited the South Island stall'd that his steamer was delayed forthree hours at Wellington because (here was a shortage of one lirenmn. Lvenlually the missing fireman arrived in a motor car, smoking a i igar, and in a condition'which indicated that he was not troubling much about the peace negotiations or olher mundane matters. A paragraph in the Guardian says that at the conclusion, of a case heard at the .Ashburton Magistrate’s Court last week, in which the defendant was charged with offensive behaviour in a railway carriage, the Magistrate remarked (hat there was far too much drinking going on in trains. Travelling so much, he saw for himself the extent to which this undesirable practice was being carried out, and in any eases of this land that came before Idm he would make the tines very stiff. The interesting fact has come to light that since the abandonment of the armistice two lodgments of gold have been deposited with one of the local hanks (says the .Poverty Bay Herald). In one case the accumulation of sovereigns was of quite a substantial amount, and from wind can be ascertained the “hoard’’ had been secreted in the chimney of the owner’s house for safe keeping. In the second case tlie “pile” of gold was of similar amount, and had been kept in the proverbial stocking. The Wairarapa Age is feeling vexed. Tims: There is something radically wrong in the up-bringing of the youths of Masterlon. They have respect neither for age, sex or individuals. Hobbledehoys —(he freaks who arc just cultivating a little Huffy material over (he upper lip—may be seen loitering about bil-liard-rooms. smoking cigarettes and expectorating on the footpaths. They desecrate the Sabbath by shooting and oilier occupations; make offensive remarks to ladies and gentlemen in the street, play two-up, address their employers by their Christian names, and otherwise conduct themselves as though they had never possessed piirents or teachers. Centuries slipped away, and the age of chivalry Hashed hack in all its old splendour for a few moments at the Returned Soldiers’ Club yesterday afternoon, says the Post. An Anzae had Jtisl given a ‘fold badge of R.S.A. life membership to General Pan. The old warrior, very pleased, very sunny, looked lor a moment at the little symbol, and then began to walk down the room. All eyes followed him with intense curiosity. He halted by the (/illy lady in the assembly, and requested the honour that she would pin tile badge upon his breast. So might, a knight of old have received his guerdon from a lady after a tourney. When the badge was in I lie right place the General raised the lady's hand to Ids lips with a, simple movement of grace, from the heart, which delighted the “Diggers." They cheered and applauded warmly. Says the Feilding Star: We do not know of any public institutions in which inquiries involving the honesty or good faith of an individual are held in secret except racing clubs. Jt is ;i bud practice, and the sooner the Star Chamber business is abolished the heller for all concerned, Lvett the names of those who sit in Judgment in these eases do not transpire, and we know ol’ do instance where the majority of members of a committee sat to hear an appeal against their own decision! We are quite aware that many horse owners prefer, even when (hey know they have a good ease, that the evidence should not ho made public, not knowing, perhaps, that the result is (hat Dame Rumour places them in an invidious position which a full report would not do. The only thing the public ask for —and very seldom get —is a fair run’for their money, and there is nothing like publicity to enure that. Some day Xew Zealanders will recognise that outspoken journalism is their safeguard, and forget to reward those newspapers which are always afraid that if they tell the truth they will suffer in pocket. DON’T LET YOUR LIVER RULE YOU. Don’t let your stomach, liver and bowels rule you, or they will make you miserable. Insist on your stomach and liver acting naturally, then your head won’t get a chance to ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets to-night, and see what relief you will get. Take a course of Ghamberlain’s Tablets, and you will be a new being. For sale everywhere—Advt.

The local 'business places observed a half-holiday to-day, as only half-dav was observed yesterday.

Mr Charles Aider died at New Plymouth yesterday, aged seventysix. Deceased was a very old colonist, and a Waikato War veteran, lie was associated with (he early gold ventures at Thames, and for the last twenty-live years was in the timber trade in Taranaki.

It is not unusual for an outsider, or what is known as a to win a rare, 'fids happened in the .Maiden Hack race at yesterday's meeting. When (his happens, a> a rule, Chinamen and other non-stud-ents of form relieve ihe clever to(alisator investors of <|uitc* a large sum of money. A local sport wanded his way rather too leisurely to invest £.l on (he outside animal, hut arrived just as the machine closed down.

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. W. Russell) says that (he new system of inspect ion of totalisators at race meetings hy Government officers is working very well. Expressions of appreciation have been received from a number of clubs. “This system,” slates the Minister, “gives (he public an element of confidence that did not exist before. No race meeting can be held unless a Government inspector is present to see the operation of the loiaiisator.” At an inquest on Charles James Reed, Postal messenger at Franlc--lon Junction, a verdict- was returned (hat deceased met his death through being accidentally rim over by a locomotive engine'in the railway yard while in (he execution of his duly. The following rider was added; “The jury recommends that postal baskets be deposited in a place where they would lie safe fou postal employees to collect, instead of being bundled out anywhere in siation yards, as at present.” The. Bluff’’Press reports that the men who handled the cheese loaded into the liner Kent have nearly all. become victims to “cheese" rash, caused apparently hy tin; blue mould on the cheese getting into the, liores of Ihe skin while the men were in a heated condition. The rash is Jumpy in character, and rather irritating. This is the first time such an experience has befallen the walevsiders, but a similar occurrence has been recorded at Wellington, when the; men handled cheese that had been in store for a, long period. Lambs are beginning lo go off fairly well now (writes the Manawalu correspondent of the Farmers’ Union Advocate). The* best result that f have heard of was on a farm near Podding on the Makino. The buyer wen! into a lot of 38!) lambs, lie took 383; that would surely be hard to heat. Ewes are in fair condition, and will soon get. fat once the iambs are off them. The* new works ni the district, both at. Kakariki ami Feilding, are rapidly filling their stores. Thank goodness, however, (he moat has been purchased for another year, and tlaNße who havj been buying bullocks at a high price are fairly sure to come out rigid. A great national roadway through the (wo islands—-from Auckland to Wellington, and Pielon (<> the Bluff, Hanked here and there by ideal garden towns, ami passing by pleasant farms —is a vision of Mr Hurst Meager, as a memorial of the war. He brought this idea before the Architects’ Conference, with the following motion: “That (his conference most warmly approves the suggestion to form a national memorial road from Auckland to Hie Bluff, as by no oilier means can the efforts of local authorities and, individuals be so well co-ordinated into one grand Dominion scheme. 'That Ihe the Town-Planning Association in every centre be invited to co-operate in placing the scheme before the Government’ and the local bodies.” The conference decided to refer the motion to Ihe branches of the Institute of Architects for their “favourable cons idem tion.”