The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY MAY 31. 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5445, 31 May 1916, Page 4

The Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY MAY 31. 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Saturday next being a statutory holiday (.king's Birthday,), there will be no issue of the "Harold.”

Speaking on the striking ol rates at the Horow hernia County Council’s meeting. Or. Kebbell favoured an inoroaoed general rate, maintaining that, farmers could well stand the additional expense.

A member ol the Masterton County Council encountered a single, man tlie oth**.r day w r ho is evidently not of » tight mg disposition. When he was Itanded ;i registration card he asked the councillor what, he would write on it as ho was not, inclined to don the khaki. Write wliat you like was ! ho reply. W hen the eard was luuulcd hack it eont-uimd the words, "Not a lighting mam.’’

A man named Potter, who claims i<> a bonofwiary under the will of' Ins lather, who is a wealthy man. was sentenced to three months at Hamilton tor vagrancy. Ile was seen by a constable helping himself to Imnnnns ut, the door of a fruit’ .shop, while quantity of onions- was also found n his jHx-ket.s. ami he admitted having purioined them from the front ol' another store. Ho declared that gooc exhibited in this fashion were for poo plo to try ; if not., they should be placed in glass oases.

\ social was hold at Horoeka, sehoolhotise m honour «>i Lonoe-Cor-jkii'hl Mielute] Harold, ol the L4tJi Roinloicemente, who liuk lioen on final li avo. An old s< hoolmate, Mr Ralph Hunt. prosented Lance-Corporal Harold with n pair of field glasses and a safety razor. Fho recipient suitably rpsjKinded after having been greeted with musical honours. Mr and Urs Niivid Harold ha,vo now three sons wdJi the fores* Korg.aut H Harold, who was wounded at Gallipoli and invalided (o Fngland, where he is now serving with the military police; 1 ai.nee-(dor pora.l M Harold, 14th Rein foremen ts. and Private tV F. Haro|<l l. c >th IfiMiil'anvnionts.

l/ongmore’s White Oil Kmbrooa- • ion is a,n ,ibsohite sp.s ific for all iornj.s of Rheumatism, Lumbago, etc. The lucst liniment for sprains, bruises, etc., Is fld. 2s a.n<l 3s, at Longmoro’s Pharmacy.

The Sydney .hotelkeepers have advanced the prices of beet brandies eighteenpenee per bottle. Washington reports show that American exports aae nearly £755,000,000 in excess of impoits since the outbreak of wdtr.

Dannevirke business men have decided to follow the example of Palmerston in observing the King’s Birthday on Monday, June sth. The Masterton Borough Council has decided to call for immediate applications for the position of sanitarv inspector at a remuneration of £2OO.

Mr W. B. Dempsey, Postmaster. Pahiatua. has been appointed census enumerator for the Pahiatua County, and he is now considering the appointment of sub-enumerator* for the country districts. The census is to be taken in October.

The lad Hardinge, who was seriously injured as the result of a gun accident at Cartel ton on Sunday morning, died in the Masterton Hospital at mid-day on Monday. The boy was a son of Mr Hardinge, Government road overseer, of Greytown.

Some time ago a correspondent in one ort' the Wellington papers stated that he would be willing to enlist if someone would pay his insurance premiums. The Wellington Patriotic Society took up the case, and has since then afforded relief in a number of similar applications. Palmerston North's great winter event is fast approaching, and preparations are therefore in full swing. The Department of Agriculture are arranging a very tine display, and have been granted extra space for the purpose totalling over -5000 square feet.

Edgar Clough, claiming to be a major in the Australian Forces, was charged at Wellington yesterday with a breach of the Defence Act by illegally wearing the King’s uniform. Tlie Federal Authorities cabled denying that Clough was a member of the Australian forces. Accused was fined 40s, or seven days’ imprionmet.

Two workmen —Robert Jackson, a married man, and Arthur Napier—were drowned in the Waikato river at Ranginhi. at 8.30 yesterday morning. They were employed by McLean and Co., bridge contractors, on construction work on the new bridge, to cross lower than this spot. They were engaged moving a winch when the punt became entangled in the wire rope aud upset. The bodies of the men Itiave not been recovered.

I \\ iiether a lack of perspicuity or a lack of knowledge oi the Engiisn [ language i» accountable for the fol- | lowing incident it is hard to say. A recruit ailing in his registraton jKipcrs at the Auckland Recruiting Station recently was faced with, the question: "Have you ever served in any military servicer It so, state winch, and cause of discharge.’’ After hesitating for a second or two the volunteer hik'd in the blank space: Discharge from the left ear.” A report included in the annual digest of the Wellington Acclimatisation Socety, states that the red deer in the Tatar ua.* are reported to bo thriving, and some good massive heads with very wide spread are reported to have been seen, but stalkers appear to have little luck. The deer keep very close to the bush, end are hard to find. It is noticed that t.hV' coat* of this herd are rrf a much darker hue than those of the herd* on the Maungaraki end adjoining range of hills.

"lie had a good home but he left it," said Mary Ann Walsh in seeking a dissolution of her marriage with Thomas William Walsh at the Weingtou Supreme Court, desertion being the cause. Mr T. M. Wilford appeared for the petitioner. Married on 29th April, 1908. the parties lived at Eketahuna tend Hastings, and in 1910, at the latter place, the responded disappeared Subsequent efforts, through the police a hrnt of solicitors, and by advertisenient. tailed to locate him. A decree nisi was granted, to be ninth absoute in three months.—Post.

A claim was made against, the Waikato Hunt Club for £8 The plaintiff alleged he paid for a riding fee at tin Hunt. Club races with a cboqn* tor £l2. and that lie did not receive the change. Some weeks after he applied to the Hunt, Club for it. and was told that ihe cas.li hud balanced a 'ter the races, and he must have received tiie change or made a mistake. Voluminous evidence was taken, but the Magistrate said the onus ot praving the change devolved upon the Hunt Club, and the decision he gave wus for the plaintiff for £8 without cosis, as agrisxl.

A report, by the Wellington City Council auditor states that the result o! tile twelve months working ot tinelectric lighting system shows a balance ol £20,917 ns against £16,315 lor the previous year. This amount has licon reduced by upprepriations to £10.358, which inciudo £SOOO written off tho old station plant anti £SOOO for goodwill, thus leaving a balance of £10,558, us against a not balaiut for tht» previous year of £5515 The depreciation anti renewal fund amounts re £59,901. but Is? not represented on any liquid asset.

Renewed complaints have ix'en matle ol late ats to the dirty ci'ntlit.ion ol bank notes in circulation in Now Zealand. Inquiries nuule into this matter go to slam that the Ininks ore fully sensible til the unsatiefactory ct>i«tlit ion ot the notes, hut arc not able to help themselves at the moment (snvs tho Wellington Evening Post). Prior to the outbreak of war groat difficulty was experienced in obtaining supplies ol notes from the primers. • nit. the difficulty has been tremeiidously aiooentiiahixl situs' tHie eommoneeinent. of hostilities. The banks, it, is understood. hove fveou prcssiti"* printers to oxpodiato the despatch of new notes long on order more particularly since tho Governmimt. made bank notes legal tender, which ;e ixuinttxl tor a great, expansion of tho noto issue. Ponding the receipt of tint her .supplies of new notes, the old notes have had to Ih> ro-issued over imd over again, with tho result that ♦firv are admittedly not in a cotidifiou that, they ought to lx>.