LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2441, 15 June 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is probable that the Prime Minister, Right Hon. W. Massey, will pay a long-promised visit to Foxton early during the coming session and deliver a political address.

“Tf 1 was as drunk its that man, why I’d never be sober,” was the statement of a female witness about her husband in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court.

During the week ending Monday last, five cases of diphtheria, one of tuberculosis, one of pneumonic influenza, and one of erysispelas were reported in the Palmerston North district.

“What’s your connection with the family?” a witness in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court was asked. “Well you see it’s like, this,” was the reply, “Ills mother is my father’s sister.”

As an instance of the value of beef cattle just now, it is worthy of mention that at the Levin sale on Tuesday a line of about 100 head of good bullocks was put up, and the only, bid was one of £2 per head, which, of course, was not accepted says the Chronicle.

“There isn’t a man in this country who can’t afford half a crown for the support of-his mother,” remarked Mr Hunt,' S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington. “He can deny himself something; a trip to Day’s Bay, a smoke, or a drink in the afternoon.”

The Wanganui Rugby Union is determined to put down with a firm hand the use of bad language by players on the field. The Union management, committee last evening decided to suspend a fourthgrade player for a week for an offence of this nature.

It was decided at Monday night’s Council meeting that the Engineer’s recommendation for tender for four inch water mains and specials be adopted and that Messrs A. D. Riley and Co.’s lender for the sum of £5,015 19s 2d be accepted subject to the engineer approving conditions of tender.

On Tuesday night last Mr Thos. Henderson reached the age of three score years and ten, and a number of his friends paid him a surprise visit at his residence, Ravensworth Place, in the evening and wished him “many happy returns.” Mr Henderson is as active physically and mentally as the average man of 50. CAN BE DEPENDED UPON. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is the most successful medicine in use for bowel complaints. Relieves griping, all kinds of diarrhoea, and at the first unusual looseness of the bowels should be taken. It can be depended upon even in the most severe and dangerous cases. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., paid a visit to Foxton to-day.

A baronet is reported to be among the manual workers at the Mangalutu hydro-electric works.

Old residents state that the present succession of frosts are the most continuous in their experience. The local Presbyterian Ladies Social Guild held a most enjoyable afternoon at the residence of Mrs Alexander last Wednesday week. A young man who stole a returned soldier’s badge was sentenced to a month’s hard labour at Masterton.

The total rate of the Pahiatua Borough for the ensuing year will amount to approximately Is in the £ on the unimproved value. This is about Ifd increase on last year. The baronetcy and estates of Sir Andrew Armstrong, of King’s County, Leinster, have been inherited by Mr Nesbitt William Armstrong, who has lived for several years in Napier, where he is employed as a waterside worker. He is a married man and has two children.

Says the Palmerston Times.: — A young lady in Palmerston North completely lost her memory a few days ago, and could not remember her name, her age, her occupation, or anything else. A shriek from a train, however, gave her a shock, and she him since recovered.

The inquest concerning the death ct‘ William Davidson, who died at the Palmerston North Hospital on Monday as result of injuries sustained in tt motor accident at Shannon on Saturday, was formally opened and adjourned by the Coroner, Mr A. J. Graham, yesterday morning.

A Dunedin telegram states that a fireman named Janies McLeod, while on duty on the express train from the north List evening, was struck on the head through leaning our too fur at the Waifati tunnel, and received injuries to which he succumbed in the Dunedin Hospital. Deceased was a married man, 20 years of age and resided at South Dunedin.

The local police have been instructed by the Borough Council to prosecute tresspassers on the property on which the water tower is erected and also on the tower itself. Notice boards warning persons against tresspassing there have been erected by the Council and Constable Owen states that in order to avoid possible accidents at (he tower the Borough Council’s instructions will be vigorously enforced forthwith.

A daring theft was committed on a tramear at Wellington on Tuesday, Mr W. Gamble, of the firm of Messrs Gamble and Creed, being relieved of a bag containing about £l5O in cash. As the tram was proceeding up Cuba Street a man seated behind Mr Gamble suddenly snatched the bag, and jumped off the c.f, Mr Gamble gave chase, but the thief managed to get away. The police were communicated with and a description of the thief supplied, but so far no arrest has been made.

Lo- Angeles reports state that Fatty .Gbuckle’s fortune is gone. He i> ; f ,ttilting to appeal to Mr Hays the (’■ nt roller of the American Picture Producers, to order him to return t > the pictures in order to pay his heavy debts. Studio employees say chuckle has become a pitiful hanger-on, doing nothing but haunt (he studios, where he is not permitted to ret. The comedian has sold his palatial home a ltd motors, and is declared to be penniless, owing thousands of dollars,

Me regret to have to record the death of Beryl, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Tongs of Foxton. which took place at the Palmerston Hospital last night, following an operation for appendicitis. The child was removed to the hospital on Tuesday, where an immediate operation was deemed necessary. Mr and Mrs Tongs will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their sad and sudden bereavement. The little girl was at school on Monday morning. The funeral will take place tit 2.30 p.m. to-morrow.

The induction of the Rev. Thos. Ilalliday, late of Foxton. to the ( lmrge of St. Peter’s (Presbyterian) Church took place last Thursday. The moderator, the Rev. George Paterson, presided, and the service was conducted by the Rev. Angus McDonald, of New Lynn. The moderator put the customary questions to the minister, who was then addressed by the Rev. C. E. Porter, of Papatoetoe. The Rev. D. D. Scott addressed the congregation. After (he induction service a social function was held.

Fox trotting- is the greatest leg exercise ever invented, according to Dr. Karl Heinstadt, a Swiss physical eulturist, who estimates that the average fox trotter covers a mile and a-quarter every 20 minutes, while the wnllzer’s record is less than half that distance. Continuing his calculations the doctor declares dial a young woman who does not miss a dance between 10 o’clock at night and five in the morning, with about half an hour out for a midnight supper, exercises just as much as if she had walked 30 miles, and seldom shows any ill effects, although she would probably object if asked lo walk a single mile along die boulevards without taking a taxicab. “Few people know how strong they actually are. The average business man takes more than 7,000,000 steps in a year—amounting. to a mileage that would astonish the most of the holders of world’s records.”

The teachers and scholars of the local Methodist Sunday School collected and forwarded to the Mayor of Wellington the sum of £2 10s towards the Russian Famine Fund. A meeting of the local Presbyterian congregation will be held this evening to further consider the call sent to the Rev. F. McDonald, of Paeroa, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of the Rev. Thos. iialliday.

Miss Rosina Buckman, who by the way, spent a portion of her childhood in the Manawatu, was given a. right royal welcome during her appearance at Palmerston on Tuesday. During her brief stay in Palmerston Miss Buckman visited the Campbell Street school, of which she was a former pupil. The kiddies were delighted and Miss Buckman who was accompanied by her husband, said it made her happy to visit her old school again. Preaching at St. Mary of the Angels’ Church, Wellington, the Rev. Father Eccleton, alluded to “pinchitis,” the act of getting away with something that belonged to somebody else. This form of disease was very common, and many believed that it was quite all right if the itch of “phlebitis” was humoured when there was neither a policeman nor a detective in evidence. That such a belief should gain ground was deplorable and he adjured bis hearers to avoid the new complaint like a pestilence.

A household of the Kowlmi district asserted that the Director of Education had been sent “to draw a red herring across the track” and “to throw dust, in the eyes of the people.” This mixture of metaphors recalls an effort by a distinguished general in London during the war. He proclaimed his belief that despite the shocks of fate, Britain would stand like a bulldog, foursquare to the tempests of war on an even keel.

The reported discovery of a gold reef in the vicinity of Taumarunui recalls the incident that occurred in Mnsterron over a quarter of a century ago says the M. D. Times. Two men who had been prospecting asserted that they had discovered a reef studded with gold in the recesses of a forest. They formed a small syndicate, and visited the locality at the dead of night. The syndicate was fairly paralysed by what they saw, and subscribed a large stun of money for a small interest in the reef. The prospectors then mysteriously disappeared. When the members of the syndicate again visited the reef they found i( had been cleverly “salted” and there was no trace of the genuine article. “Hold” was a forbidden word in several households for quite a long period afterwards. [One of those duped in the above was Air R. E. ITornblow. a brother of Mr Hornblow of Foxton.]