The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5350, 5 February 1916, Page 4

The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Route marches are being held at Auckland and Wellington this afternoon .

Wirth's Circus combination is now in the Wairarapa, and will show atPahiatua on Tuesday night next on n site near the Mangatainoka bridge. Many attractions are promised. A Mnxt«rton settler of fifty years’ standing stated yesterday that, he had not experienced n season in which so many fat sheep and lambs had* bet'll taken by the buret's as the present.

A correspondent at. Napier states: '‘Pome interest Ims been euused by newspaper paragraph* in the .South Island stating that Mr Douglas Mo. Ts’iin had sold his Maraekakaho property for £‘loo,ooo. The story is without, foundation, as the propertyha s not been sold.”

‘‘We felt it very much,” sn.id a returned soldier from the Pahiatun district to an “Age” reporter yes. t.enday, “when the Wairarapa men were asked io ca.il upon the secretary of the Patriotic Society and received £‘o. When wo ear rived homo after leading the Wairarapa. men, there was no suggestion of assistance whatever.”

The ideal tonic for Indie*! Tongntoro’s Special Iron Tonic Pills. 2s *id per gross Pleasant to take and do not injure the teeth; an aid to digestion : 2s d<l per gross bottle, at Txxng. ntore's Pahiatna Pharmney.

Snlo Stnrfs Saturday.— Put marking bargains all this week. When in town have a good look round.- Yours truly, Evans.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. will hold a special ewe fair in Pahiatua on Tuesday. The Napier wool sales have been postponed indefinitely owing to lack of shipping.

The drawing of the Akitio Carnival art unions takes place at Pongaroa on Monday evening. The Australian war loan has passed the' £21,000,000 mark, and is stiill increasing. The boom that has recently characterised recruiting in Australia, is easing considerably. Melbourne reports that no further permits to ship crossbred wool to America will be issued.

The Wellington Ftaftmers’ Union has decided to purchase the .Maurioeville lime kilns and provisional directors have been appointed. The registration of C. A. Ward. Pahiatua, for the Expeditionary Force Reinforcements, is cancelled on account of being under age.

James Joseph O’Donovan, 63 years of age, died in the Auckland hospital from injuries sustained through falling down a staircase of his resi den.ce.

A keen demand for store sheep and lambs exists in the Masterton district at the present time (says the “Ace”) owing to the excellent condition of the rape crops.

Owners of otor oars are asked to place their cars at the disposal of the committee in farewelling .eeiuits leaving Pahiatua for the training camp on Monday. A motor party, including Messrs E. Sullivan, W. I. Husband and D. Hewitt, left for Wellington last night to witness the parade this afternoon of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

On the window of a railway carriage in which a newly-married couple were proceeding on their honeymoon in the Manawatu district, were written in chalk the words, “She married a shirker.”

A fair]y severe gale blew n pin Pahiatua last night aml at times almost reached lnUrricaiije ferocity. CUouds of dust were raised till settled by light rain showers, and some damage resulted to vegetable and fruit gardens. David Walker, aged fifty-five, a wharf worker, was killed at Auckland while carrving flour on a steamer. He fell between the vessel and the swinging piles, and his head was terribly crushed, death - being instance neons. Trie steamer Koniata was placed on the slip last night. It was found that she was damaged in several places along about forty feet of her bottom forward, chiefly on the star. boand side. Repairs will take about a fortnight. A telegram from Hastings states that the Hon. R. MeNab. who had made his Ministerial headquarters there, finds a difficulty in conducting his work awa'y from the political centre. and returns to Wellington with his staff to-dav.

A well-known Wairarapa settler stated to an Age representative that in his opinion the Government should legislate to prevent the ruthless sale of ewe lambs that was at pre-sent l>eing carried on. in order to avert a shortage that appeared imminent in tlie near future.

The Federal Attorney-General has decided that the Tasmanian Soldiers* Liquor Restriction Bill is legal. This decision recognises the power of State Parliaments to forbid the serving of soldiers with liquor. It is important because of the possibility of its wider application than to Tasmania.

The grass-seed harvest in the Alasterton disetrict has been larger than in anv previous season in the memory of old settlers. Some excellent yields of perennial rye have been obtained. Airs J. Annand was hostess at this week's Rod Cross tea at Hnkaimi. Mrs A. V. Udy kindly lent her tennis court i or the occasion. Hannia and Hukanui were well represented, and a. very liberal addition to the Red Cross funds was collected. In connection wjt-h the exhibition of grade dairy cattle at. A. and P. shows, a well-known dairyman expressed the opinion at the redding show that competition had become so keen that the small man was being ousted altogether by tlie larger Breeders, and he thinks the latter should be excluded from competing .n these sections, to give the small it en a chance. Under present conditions. comi>etition wa s not on equal terms. 'Coming from mu district, where the hills are all so green, the apparent bareness of your hills does not give on© much of an impression/' remarked Mr T. Hod gins, Chairman of the Pahintuia County Council, who with other representatives of bis Council, visited Gisborne, “but one cannot but be impressed with your crops. The maize, lucerne and pumpkin crops are, no doubt, marvellous. 1 have never seen anything like them. We never see anything like that down our way.” The visitor said they had bad a. splendid season in Pnhiatua, there being an abundance of bed. “Prices have been good,” ho said.

“and if we have one or two more sonsons like it we don't care what comes in the future.”

Wholesale Bargains.—Khaki hankies at 6d each; serviettes 4Jd; leather belts (>d each ; Indies’ vpsts IOJd each.—Evans, The Centre