Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2240, 17 February 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cynthia .Sloekley's novel, “.April Fully,” will ho tin. 1 hi”' at I met ion at i Ik* Town Hall on Saturday.* Shell benzine i.< being sold in Wanganui at 3(L to 38s, and kero-sc-nt* at 25s fid per ease. The Dannevirkc butchers are making' a “out’’ in meal prices, In lake ell'cet at once. After the soeond trial of Matthew Livingston and -lack Marlindale at Wellington on charges of bookmaking, the juries brought in verdicts of not guilty. A. third trial with juries drawn from a fresh panel will take place next week. A correspondent of a contemporary says : A few copper tacks driven into the trunk of pencil and nectarine trees when the sap is down is a

sure remedy for curly leaf. He lias demonstrated the remedy as being a better method of impregnating the tree with copper than by spraying with sulphate.

The total value of butter and cheese exported from New Zealand in the 1919-20 season was approximately £10,750,000, while for the six months of the present season the value is estimated at over £11,000,000. By the end, of the season it should exceed last year’s value by about £3,000,000.

On Sunday next there will be a special musical service at the local Methodist Church- at 7 p.m. Arrangements have been made for a visit from the Levin Methodist choir to Fox ton, and Buxton Methodist choir will visit Levin. The .Levin choir will consist of 25 voices, and will render anthems, solos, etc. The preacher at the evening service will be Rev. G. Frost.

Reserved judgment was given on Tuesday by Mr McCarthy. S.M., in connection with the charge against Whitcombe and Tombs and William Ensom, Christchurch, for importing the bool; “Red Europe." Defendants were each fined £2 and costs, and the hooks seized and ordered to lie forfeited to His Majesty. At the request of counsel the line in Enson’s case was increased to £O, so that an appeal might be lodged,

A'number of local people'went to Palmerston yesterday to see the Australians at the wickets in the match Australia v. Manawatu.

An inquest touching the death of Maurice Hickey was held at Palmerston yesterday. An open verdict was returned by (he Coroner in the following terms: —“That deceased, Maurice Hickey, died from shock from injuries sustained in a collision, while riding his bicycle, with a motor car driven by James Muir, and from pneumonia caused by his injuries.”

Two Auckland youths, the eldest 22 years of age, had an adventure cut short by the interposition of the police. They proposed lo proceed to the Kermadees in the yacht Mizpah, which the elder hoy claimed to have purchased. They had, by the aid of a cheque’ book, obtained a large quantity of stores and provisions, which they sent to the wharf, and placed in the cure of a watchman, whom they paid 5s an liour. Detectives relieved the watchman of his duly. At present the youths stand charged with issuing cheques, by means of which benzine and oil were obtained.

In registering his revolver at Stratford, an ex-soldier expressed much satisfaction at being able to keep il. “I owe my life To it,” lie said. “We were in a tight corner at Passchendale, many of the* hoys lying slaughtered by my side, and noticing a revolver on the ground, t picked it up and let Idaze at a Gorman officer who was taking aim at me. He fell, and I turned round to lind other Huns pressing us closely. Again 1 sighted a German with a gun up, and I got him through the wrist, the weapon falling to the ground. 1 was lucky, because I didn’t even know that the revolver was loaded when I picked it up.- T would not like In part with it now.”

A Levin gentleman (says the Chronicle) with a practical experience of i lie wool industry from the raw to the manufactured state, draws attention to a sale which he recently witnessed of a lady’s wool-, leu jersey at £3 ss. He stales that, at present prices the value of the wool iii the garment would be Is (id, iilTer allowing for loss of weight in scouring. The making charge would he 4s, mid if the retailer was content with another 4s, it would allow of the jersey being sold at, say, 9s fid, with a reasonable margin of profit. At I lie price quoted, £3 ss, ii would require nine 101 b. Ileeees to pay for one jersey, whilst each of these fleeces would produce TO jerseys. in the South Island, Mr Massey was asked if Parliament, ♦would have an opportunity of discussing the naval and military policy of (lie Dominion prior to his departure for the Imperial Conference. “So far as I am able lo judge," he replied, “there will not lie a good opportunity to discuss Iliesi' matters until I come back to the Dominion. I am very strongly in favour of a proper scheme of naval defence, not only lor the Pacific, hu! for I lie whole Empire. 1 feel very strongly .about it, lor 1 am convinced that the future of the Empire depends up oil the mainleiimiee of our naval supremacy. .1 do not believe, for a moment, in u socalled ‘naval holiday. We could not afford it."

Louis l.e Brim (32), a vaudeville artist, who had been acquitted at the .Auckland Supreme Court on a charge of having assaulted and caused bodily harm to a female .variety artist (Airs Ermey) behind the scenes at the Opera House on November 24t!i. appeared before Air Boynton, S.AL on a charge of having assaulted Ralph Ermey on the same time and occasion. Lc Brim and his wife stated that Ermey was (he aggressor and cause ol tl’.o whole business by calling al Le Brim’s drcssing-mmi and striking him, thus creating a fight in which Mrs Ermey was hurt accidentally owing lo her husband ha\ing a hammer- in his hand when the allrav started. Ermey’s story was that Le Brim had accosted and struck him, and other witnesses testified to threats made beforehand by Le Bran. “There arc two versions of the affair,” staled his Worship. “The jurv believed one, and I believed the other. The accused will he (tired £5, half of the line to go to Ermey." AYillt the remark “I didn ti expect this,” accused intimated that he could pay the fine.

“Money is tight in Ibis country, and it is going to be lighter," said the Hon. G. J. Anderson at an unveiling ceremony at Carterton on Sunday. “But we must not get down and whine. AN e must gcli down and shove the old couch along instead of sitting in motor cars and letting it get along the lies! way it can." The man who adopted a goslow policy at 'this juncture was a traitor to his country. It behoved everybody to get down to work. That was the only way to help to make this a great country and to tide over its difficulties. The Word of God, which all respected, said that “In the sweat of hi> face so shall he eat his bread.” The pioneers of this country had had to work hard for what they possessed. The present generation must get down to work —whining tactics would accomplish nothing. The men whose memory they were perpetuating did not stop and argue when called “to go oyer the top.” They went over because they considered it. their duty to do so. It, was the duty of the people to build up a lasting edifice on the foundations laid by the men who had made the supreme sacrifice. If this was done the sacrifices would not have been in vain.