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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 293, 5 April 1921, Page 4

The town of Moninsville assumed its new status as a. borough as from April Ist. Six loan proposals, involving a total of £88,250. w'ero placed before the ratepayers of Otahuhu, and they were all rejected. There will be a total eclipse of the moon on April 22. It will begin about 4.30 p.m. and conclude al>out 10 p.m., the period of totality being from 6.53 to 7.35. A donation of £SO was voted by tho committee of the Manawatn Racing Chib last bight to the fund for Ihe maintenance of soldiers’ graves in Ihe Palmerston North cemetery. A Press Association telegram from Hokitika states that the Rimu Gold-dredging Company’s pontoon, which is to carry tho largest dredge yet erected in -thc -Dommkm, was successfully floated yesterday. Ultimately, the Gorge road will bo a broad highway, 21 feet in width, _ with an iron curb running along the outside edge. Work on, improving thp thoroughfare was start, d yesterday. It is the intention of tho authorities to spend £2OOO immediately on tiie worst and most dangerous spots. In all i|, is estimated that tho Gorge road work will cost £43,000. Tho owners of the auxiliary scow Magic, which is on the rocks at Pope-arrow, Wellington, have decided to abandon tho vessel, and hand-it over to the underwriters. Messrs Hansford and Mills, tho owners, returned from the wreck yesterday afternoon. At low water they made an examination cf the vessel, and decided that it would not bo possible to get her olf. An appeal against the Gnehnnga Borough by-law, prohibiting tho location of John Boyd s zoo, was heard by Mi* Justice Stringer at tho Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday (states a Press, Association telegram). The appeal was on the grounds that there were no reasonable grounds on which tho council had based its opinion that tho animals were likely to cause a nuisance, and that if such grounds did exist it was unreasonable to prohibit instead of regulating the keeping of such animals. His Honour dis-j missed the appeal. At the inquest held at Wanganui yesterday afternoon concerning tho deaths of Violet Campbell and Robert Leonard Adamson, who were killed by a motor cilr on Easter Saturday night, the coroner returned the following verdict: “That their deaths were duo to being knocked down by a motor car driven by Bernard Mullins, and that the same Mullins did cause their deaths by negligently driving a car at aspeed and in a manner dangerous to the; public.” Subsequently Mullins was charged with manslaughter, and admitted to bail of £sOo.—Press Association.

The Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce has consistently advocated the use by traders and merchants of tho port of Foxton and active measures were taken by that body to lay the facts cf the cheapness of sea transit through Foxton before importers in the Manawatu. Many discussions on tho subject took place at meetings of the Chamber and tho question was regarded from all aspects. At one of these meetings a statement was made by one of the members regarding, the handling of goods at Foxton, which was published in' the press and came under tho notice of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce which objected to the statement. As a result six members. of the Foxton Chamber, led byMr J. K. Hornhlow, waited on tho Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last night, and a lengthy discussion in committee ended in complete understanding between the two bodies.

Recent bookings through M. A. Eliott, Ltd., are:—Messrs G. Mills _ and W. A. Bolton, per lonic; J. L. Lauridsen and F. J. Foster, per Arawa; Mr and Mrs W. G. Broad, per Athenic, all for London, Also: Mr and Mrs J. H, Hocking and Misses Hocking, per Paparoa for London. Mrs and Miss Morgan to Toronto per Makura; Mrs Hayles and two children to Suva per Navua; Messrs J. Staunton, F. Dean, W. J. Whyte. A. J. Smith, Mesdames A. A. Wood, A. Seifert, Curry and child, Misses Seifert and Billens, all per Tahiti to San Francisco; Mr Win. Laycock per Orsova; Messrs John and R. T. Patton, Mr and Mrs Power and two children, per Ormonde; Mr F. Taylor, Mr and Mrs David Buchanan, per Osterley. ‘ all to London.

Closed to-morrow morning till 1.30. Special Showroom Bargains announced on. page 7 for to-morrow afternoon. Its out Big Stock Realisation Sale.—The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., sale includes all our stock of now winter goods. Now is tho time to buy.—Advt. For children’s hacking cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure—Advt. Colhnson and Sons for cups and saucers, at 7s Hd half dozen; formerly 25s dozen; plain white breakfast size; tea sizo for 6s 6d half-dozen; were 18s dozen. Cups and saucers, pink or green bands, with throe cold lines, for 9s 6d half-dozen; were 30s dozen. Fancy cups and saucers for 6s 6d half-dozen; were'24sdozen. Don’t go short of cups and saucers when such values are ! available!—Advt. j

A press cablegram recently received annoitnced the murder by Sinn Femora m County Cork of a brother of Mr J. a. Connell, of Carterton. : Deceased, who was 82 Wears. of age, was a well-known figure in the district of Skibbqreon, and had acted as advocate for the 'farmer tenants in hundreds of valuation cases under tho Wyndliaru Act. As showing the widespread interest that k being taken in tho Auckland War Memorial Museum scheme;, an Australian firm In response to the appeal -of the Mayor to its Auckland manager, has forwarded a donation of £3OO. - Another Auckland concern, with board of - directors and headquarters in Melbourne, has gi\ en a donation of £IOOO. The Citizens Committee that is arranging tho pending pubho .appeal for funds aims at raising a sum of, £200,000. , Frofcrsor Easterfield, Director of tho Cavvthcou Institute of,Scientific Research, lias announced in connection with.- . ° woolly aphis that Dr. Tillyard had obtaincd a number of insects from America which feed on the aphis (states a Press'Association telegram from Nelson). On Saturday afternoon it. had been first noted that it number had hatched out on the .trees at the institute on which an experiment had been made, and they were being rapidly cleared of the aphis. If the insects became ‘ properly established, they would greatly reduce the aphis trouble through* out New. Zealand. There was no chance of ’ the. insects attacking the trees after, they had eaten all the aphis. > r , .. Another famous comet expected this summer is the Encko comet, which was first seen in. 1876. Each time this comet sweeps round ihp sun it is in advance of its timetable, based on tho law of gravitation, by' a small, but definite, interval, and its orbit is consequently being progressively shortened. At one time it was suggested th.-p; this was caused by its having-to pjiss through a resisting medium in space, nut . more recently, periodical encounters With meteoric systems have - been assigned to account for its acceleration. Whatever tho cause, the slow contraction of its orbit, peculiar to this comet alone, must inevitably result in its final, disappearance from the solar system by falling into the sun. Going through 'the long list of summonses in the Magistrate’s Court on civil da.y is a tedious business, the general drowsiness of which, on a pleasant,’warm day, is disturbed only the voice of tho bailiff and monosyllabic interjections from Individual solicitors seated in force in comfortable chairs in the body of the Court. This morning, however, an acrobatic feat by one of tho assembled legal gentlemen made an amusing interlude. _ A solicitor leaned luxuriously back in his chair—just a little too far. A wild clutch for support at .the table missed its mark and the unique spectacle was presented of a barrister and solicitor rolling on the floor of the Court with his feet in the air.

“What is your opinion of the new political party?” Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P,, was asked at'Christchurch. "I think the whole* thing is a farce,” he replied. “The best mime for it would be the tadpole party. It hail a very decent head in Mr Stathaui, a man whom we all like and respect, but it. has a very, very attenuated tail, and practicblly no body. I have a very shrewd suspicion that like the thing I have christened it/- it will have very great difficulty in retaining its tail for long. Tho whole difficulty it ; would have in forming a healthy opposition arises from the fact that there aro about a dozen fellows out of a limited number who are all .impressed with tho fact that they ought to bo leaders. What I Should very much like to know (despite the name), what principles tho new partystands for or what position it occupies that the old Liberal Party has not included in its platform? If only commonsense ruled and men woidd he satisfied to sacrifice their personal political ambitions to a desir£ for tho good of tho country,” Mr Isitt added, “there is no real difficulty in 'forming a healthy opposition. But I am afraid that tho only result of this is that that which every sensible man sera is 'desirable would bo rendered more difficult. I feel confident that the on!y_ result wifi be a present hindrance, that will end in an ultimate fizzle.”