The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5356, 14 February 1916, Page 4

The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next Napier wool sale will bo held on Friday next. 18th inst. Mrs E. Quarter man. of Fongarou, drew a section in a recent land ballot at Tauniarunui.

The Mastorton A. and P. Show opens at Solway to-morrow. Many visitors from this part are expected to at lend the show on People’s Day (Wedncet 1 ay).

At the annual meeting of the K'k<*tniiuna Chamber of Oouvmcroo the balance-sheet submitted show*si receipts £36 Is (id. and expenditure £3O 12s 4d, leaving n. balance in bland of £4 12s 2d. A statement showed live town members and one country member in arrears with their subscriptions.

A letter was road at a meeting of the Ekotahunu Chamber of Commerce asking support for a request for a duplicate telephone line and a metallic circuit between TSketnliuna and Pongaroa. The seeretary was instructed to write explaining that the cost, of a metallic circuit, with Ponganm would l>e prohibitive, and there would be no ehanoe of getting such an installation.

Don’t forgot that Longmore’s rattle Liver Pills may be given to children as well as adults. The beet family medicine. One shilling per I Kittle.—L. W. Longmoro, Chemist,.

The Woodvi lie Tapes will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. The FoUrteenttib (Rieijnfc)ro«men.tß will go' into camp during the first week fn March. Mr Frank Armstrong, of Akitio, is taking across to Sydney for exhibition some fine fa.t Polled Angus cattle.

At the Pahiatua show Mr F. P Laugesen exhibited the* well-known Excelsior motor cycles and made an excellent display. Miss Suisted, late of the Hay of Plenty district, lias entered upon her duties as counter-woman at the Pahiatua Post and Telegraph office. The Woodville Jockey Club has remitted to the Woodville A. and P. Association the rent of the racecourse in connection with the recent show. Mr E. J. Finch, who recently disposed of his business in Pahiatua, is about to commence business as a blacksmith at Maharahara (Dannevirke). A trial of a stone-crushing plant is to be made at Eketahuna to-morrow. Members of the Pahiatua Borough and County Councils have been invited to attend the remonstration.

The Manawatu Trotting Club will hold a gathering at the Awapuni racecourse on Saturday. Acceptances close with the secretary (Mr W. McKenzie) at Palmerston, at 10 o’clock this evening. Miss Kennedy, organiser for the Reehabite Order, visited the district lately. The local branch has suffered a good deal during the past few months by the removal of several members.

The annual report and balancesheet of the Lady Liverpool Fund Committee will be presented at a general meeting to be held in the Borough Council Chambers to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon. One or two rather big cheques are being paid to milk suppliers at some of the smaller cheese factories in the Eketahuna district for January supply. At Rongomai Mr G. Judd drew £lll Is 3d, and at Putara Mr T. Roberts’ cheque was £lls 14s od. The members of the Pahiatua Show Committee, who had the weightguessing competitions in hand at the Show on Friday, were very alert, the proceeds from sale of tickets amounting to £ls 11s. The sheep will be weighed to-morrow. The nintli autumn show of the Pongaroa Horticultural and Industrial Society will be held in the Town Hall. Pongaron. on Thursday, 2nd March. Trophies and special cash prizes to the value of £46 are being offered in all the usual classes. Catalogues can be obtained from the seeretarv (Mr 1L Morris).

George Vaughan Mye r s pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness at the Pahiatua Magistrate’s Court today. It was the second offence within six months. He was fined 10s, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. A first offender, who had been bailed out on his own recognisance, and did not oppear, was convicted and discharged. The presiding Justice was Mr Mr J B. Westlake.

During the year ended 31st December. 1915, 64 motor cars and 38 motor cycles were registered by the Pahiatua County Council. For the period of October-December, 1914. 18 cars, 18 cycles. 2 lorries and 1 passenger ’bus were registered. This brings the total number of motor vehicles registered by the Council up to 141. Artillery horses are required by the Defence' department and Mr J. A. HaJligan. inspector of Stock, will be in attendance at the Pahiatua Farmers’ yards on Thursday to purchase suitiahle horses from this district. The stamp of horses required are half-draughts, strong end active, and standing from 15 to 15.3 hands high, the ages to bo between 6 and 10 years. Farmers and others having horses of this description for sale are requested to take them to the yards on Thursday. In a letter received from Lieut. Noel Grant, formerly of Pahiatua. In* states that he had then been at Anzae one month. The night they went into the trenches, there was a tor. rible blizzard. The wind and snow wore dreadtul, and the cold and frost intense. This state of affairs lasted lour days and nights, and several of the men suffered from frost, bite. He was writing in the trench. The letter was splashed with mud. the effect of a Turkish bullet that landed along, side. An artillery duel was on at the time and every now and then the Turks would rip 4 or 5 shells from a <5.

The death occurred at Waione Yesterday of Mr Harry Waterman, aged * 4 years, a well-known and higblyrcspected settler. He was born at Fordingbridge, Hampshire (England), and came out to New Zealand fortyone years ago. Upon his arrival ‘in the Dominion he settled at the Lower Hutt, but later took up land in the 1 ahiatua district, and subw'quently moved out to Waione. being one of the original settlers there and occupying the same holding for the past nineteen years. The deceased had not enjoyed robust health for some time, and the last illness, which was <i* a painful nature, extended over a week, culminating in his death from heart affection and other internal complaints. He was an industrious and conscientious settlor. and held the esteem of sill with whom he came in contact. Deceased is survived by a widow and son and daughter— Mr William Waterman and Mr* Weeds, both of Waione—who will have the sincere sympathy of many friends in the sad bereavement, suffered. The funeral will take place at Pongaroa at 3 o’clock to-morrow afternoon. Men. How about these? White soft shirts, all sizes, 3s lid each; large hankies, 3 for Is. Reductions on all underwear, pyjamas. socks, etc., etc. Tlie Sale. Evans, The Centre.