LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 14068, 26 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

She was talking to a friend, and she said it in all earnestness: "The first thing you do when anybody has influenza, you take the sheets off the bed, roll 'em in the blankets, and —ring up the Mayor"!

A correspondent writes to the Dunedin "Star": —A melancholy and remarkable coincidence, I am informed, occurred in connection with the two deceased St. Clair Bowling Club members. At the drawing of the club ties last week, for the champion singles event, Messrs Sandes and Scurr were drawn to play each other. And now! Dr. Walker, of New Plymouth, has forbidden the visits of relatives to death-beds at the present juncture. It should be remembered, he says, that in the last stages the danger of infection is greatest, and also that persons who have been hurriedly called to a bedside, and naturally in a more or less highly emotional state of mind, are probably more than ordinarily liable to catch the infection.

' Last week (says the Auckland "Star") Father Holbrook took in the Rev. Cable, the Anglican minister at Grey Lynn, who was quite overworked and run down by his ceaseless efforts in the district. The next day a visitor to the Father's house saw Bishop Cleary and Bishop Averill laughing together with Father Holbrook, his brother Tom and the Kev. Cable, all in an amicable group. The sight nearly stunned the visitor, who, in common with many people, thought that the clergymen of different denominations were deadly foes. A motorist at Auckland was- racing back to headquarters one day last week, when he happened to glance to the roadside, and saw two very small kiddies standing hand-in-hand crying bitterly. He pulled up but all the two forlorn little ones did was to look back into a house. They were too young to talk, so the motorist went inside, and found both father and mother wore dead. The two little toddlers were removed right away to the Kindergarten, and arrangements were immediately made for the burial of the parents. Adjutant Gordon, of the Salvation Army, who is an indefatigable worker, when slumming for the Auckland epidemic, came across a strange case. A mother and daughter were found ill in bed. The whole appearance of the house indicated abject poverty. There was practically no furniture and no crockery, yet both mother and daughter •were in possession of beautiful clothes, and were amongst some of the bestdressed frequenters of the racecourse. Inquiries proved that the daughter had £IOOO in the bank. The people evidently were i' l the habit of getting all their meals in town, and the place, which should have been used as a home, was obviously used merely as a "dosshouse." | Ladies' Crepe Kimonas in the new j colourings, plain, floral, and embroider- j ed„ priced'at 8/11, 12/0, 15/9, to 23/6. j Make vour selections from this splen- ! did range. Thd C. M. Ross Co., Ltd.*

The secretary of the G.P.O. advises: The Telegraph Department ha 3 resumed acceptance of Government and full ordinary rate messages for the United Kingdom and Europe via Pacific. To even things up a bit and make up the loss of revenue through the closing of the bars, some of the local hotels have substantially raised the price of board ond lodging.

Present weather Indications arc for westerly to southerly winds and squallp and changeable conditions, with heavy showers generally. The barometer is unsteady but rising everywhere soon.

Telegrams of all classes, but only at urgent rates, are to be accepted for all offices in the North and South Islands. The Cable and Press service will bo as usual. Inland Press is to be limited to 100 words. Racing news is excluded. The hourse of acceptance of traffic will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. An interesting discovery was made recently at Mataiwaka, a few miles south of Tangitororia, on the Northern Wairoa River, by Mr E. Wilson, who found that a large landslip had occurred whirii had somewhat scoured a blind creek near the river bank, revealing in it an exceptionally large Maori canoe. As near as can be judged the depth of the craft is 6ft, the widtn a similar measurement, and the length some 50ft. It will take some considerable time before the canoe can be freed from its earthy covering and its true dimensions estimated. The creek in question is adjacent to what was the chief residence of the chieftan Tirarau, who, during his life, was overlord of tnar portion of the Northern Wairoa district.

Says a Southern writer: Never has there been such a wholesale smashing of dynasties, never such a helter-skelter scattering of royalties, "bag and baggage." The "Divine Right of Kings" has fallen on most incredulous and unsympathetic times. Fugitive Kings and Crown Princes are scampering all over Europe. In this rout Germany is the amazement of the world. Every throne is marked cither for the museum or the auction room. Most sensational of all, the Hohenzollerns arc cleared out, root and branch. The shutters are up on the erstwhile imperial palaces, and the legend "Ichabod," everywhere visible, reminds the bewildered stranger that there is a God on the earth. The Kaiserdom is dead beyond the possibility of resurrection. Somewhere a tragic figure seeks sanctuary for a head upon which rests the solemn curses of an outraged humanity, but there is no longer any Kaiser. Where now are the barbaric pomp and glory of the All Highest? the menace of "The Day?" the insolence of the "mailed first" and the impious challenge hurled by the high-priest of Odin against the Most High? Surely there is a judgment abroad on the earth compared wittt which all the solemn dignity and rectitude of our human tribunals is so much legal tinkering.

A correspondent writes to the Wairarapa "Age": —In a recent letter I received from the Palestine front, my correspondent gives some gruesome details of the filthy surroundings in which the natives of that part of the world live, and tli c habits of people of other "colour" than our own always seems to be an interesting topic, and usually is a subject of corerspondence between friends. I, like many others, have studied habits of natives when abroad, but only within the last week or so has it been brought home to me in an unmistakable manner that right here in Masterton there are people, living under such conditions of filth that it would be hard to find an equal in any native village or krall. And I say, most unhesitatingly, that so long as these conditions are allowed to prevail, then shall we be visited with these epidemics with sickening regularity. I have been surprised and disgusted at the conditions under which some of the people of Masterton and district have been content to live. I have seen women and children using bedding that I would not touch with a pair of tongs, and, as to back yards, well, the least said the hotter. My temperature goes up when I think of them.

.Among the hundreds of brave .people who have been doing their bit in the sad affliction which has fallen upon the community is a country woman, who, with her three children, have been milking 43 cows to keep the home tires burning, while the "old man" is down with the "flu." Being somewhat hard pressed, she asked her neighbour to give a bit of a hand (as the saying goes). The lily-livered "cow" said he was afraid of infection and might get influenza, but would help one of the "kids' 'at the factory with the cans! He did so, but he did not bargain for that brick of a woman being there too, and he is not likely to forget the slathering he got from her tongue —she can go some when she likes. In front of the manager and all the suppliers, she immediately torpedoed him; then she raked him fore and aft in a real Queen Elizabeth style, and used all her Big Berthas (no blanks!) at her command until, for shame 's sake, he slunk from the scene. Verily, righteousness exalted a woman!—-Stratford "Post."

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