LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIX, 3 July 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We remind our readers of Mr B T Bennett’s weekly auctipn sale which takes place at 2 p.m. to morrow. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns. A Foreign Missionary Meeting will be held in the Patea Methodist Church next Monday at 7.30 Rev. HL Blaminsof Wanganui will be the speaker. "Sour presence is desired. • Messrs Boyle and Jones request readers to pay a visit and inspect taeir varied st 1 k of hard-weaiing' linoleum. A replica adveitisoment appears iu this issue, Mr J A Coogan proprietor of the Albiou Hotel was successful! in winning the 12th prize at the recent Art Union in connection with the Bailey Exhibition of British pictures at Wellington, Mr B T Bennett will sell by auction at his mart to-morrow a splendid assortment of cloth lengths consisting of Harris tweeds, Scotch and Irish homespun and various shades of worstid. Mr Bennett will also sell to-morrow a dozen oases of splendi I keeping apples, We are indebted to Mr Kennedy, -of births, marriages and deaths for the fallowing vital statistics for Patea. For the quaitir ending June 30. Births IS. marriages 7, deaths 2. For the month of June births 5, mar* risges 2, deaths 2, It is quite evident Misterton cannot give Eketahuna any points in running a Carnival says an Exchange. The total receipts to dato in connection with the Wairarapa Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band Bazaar and Carnival, amount to £iflso Us 10J, and the expenses to £490 4s Bd, the expenses working out at over 46 per cent of the receipts. The Kkttihuna Carnival produced £420 with an expenditure of £75 the expenses being under 18 per cent of the receipts.

A Pahiatua telegram stites that a hypnotist named C A. Dalmaine, who recently visited Pahiatua with- a theatrical company, was fined 20s and ■costs 12s tor driving a cab round a corner other than a walking jiace. He was also convicted and discharged for furious driving. The charges were the outcome of a blindfold drive through the main street, A witness stated that defendant, who did not appear, drove a cab con*, tabling a commit tie of local residents at the rats of sixteen miles an hour.

We are in receipt of the first number of “ Success ’’ a monthly publication issued by Messrs Hemingway and Robertson’s Correspondence Schools Ltd. fhe paper contiius some excellent articles which should prove invaluable to ambitions young men, who are anxious not to remain for all time among tbo many at the. bottom rung of the ladder. The first article with regard to *' Choosing a Career ” and dealing with the legal prefersion is particularly inL jrestiug and should prove helpful to many a student. The publication is without doubt a credit t > Messrs Hem. ingway and Robertson’s Australasian Correspondence Schools and should fill a long felt want amongst students.

The Tasmanian Width of Tyres Act came into force recently. It provides that ■* No person shall in or by means of a vehicle carry on any public road a greater weight than for each wheel of any vehicle a t-d.al weight of three and a qua; ter hundredweights avoirdupois for each half inch of width of bearing surface of the tyro or felloe.” Any municipal council may apply to the Govmuor Ij authorise a regulation reducing the weight that may bo carried on any paiticolar road or on all its roads. " Width of bearing surface is defined as the. actual width of the bearing surface of the tyre or felloe that would actually cum. in contact with or boar upon u smooth, hard level surface.” .■ui.vi-yi.imi of heavy machinery that cinnol be taren apart without great: loss or expOM- •. The penalty for breach of the Ad is 4"s for each excess hundred, weight or part of a bundled weight. Provision is made for declaring the weight of untrtri goods by measurement r r . ;tr carried a - it , here arm!able. ''Vo her. i i\ ■ . aasorunojit oi ntyloe in ‘V. v ■ p.Mof cj'sots io order that •*... ui.', tidy u.rd comfortably fit •; c n :i vhj comes to our eccotess for imotsc; i’atoa drapers*#*

In response to numerous requests Mr Norman Tmney has agree! to open his bkat'mg Rink jat Mahnnoy’s Hall oi, Wednesday nest, where patrons can rely on having every attention. M*ssrs Dalgf-t/ and Co. in this issue notify that they will sell by auction at their Waverley yards on Friday next 200 Jersey, Holstein, and S H cross heifers, 20 choice and good conditioned year scringing S H heifers, o high grade Jersey cross springing heifers, 1 springing cows, 2 Holst un milch cows, 4 wean rs. 8o forward ewes, and 1 half draught gelding.

Speaking at the Royal In«titn'e of Public Health, London, I)r Oldfield described fasting as an exceedingly valuable, a most important, and a logically scientific method of treating disease. No physician, he said, need be afraid of any ordinary, well fed .patient going without food or drink for three or four days. If water were taken there was no risk in a person going from six to twenty dajs provided tie was well fed at the start. The momenta physician could with knowledge and experience take up that treat - ment in bis battle was won, Fasting was a natural remedy, and our ancestors partly understood it when they employed bleeding as a remedy.

la the senior Civil Service examination likely to be abolished in New Zealand ? This ihte-est id and important question is at the moment under consideration, says the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times- It is stated thut the Public Service Commissioners would not be adverse to dropping the academic side of the examination and substituting a test more on the lines of showing .a knowledge of department d methods, regulations and statutes administered by public officers. The proposal has not taken final shape, as the Commissioners wish to consult the heads of the public service. No doubt their annual report to be piesented to Parliament shortly, will contain some reference in the matter.

The “ Catmian,” the sixth form magazine of the Canton Secondary School, Cardiff quotes ?he following schoolboy “ howlers,” says the South Wales Daily News: —The Pope lives in the vacuum. The people of India are divided into casts and outcasts. The seven powers of Europe are gravity, electricity, steam gas. fly wheels, motors and Mr Lloyd George. Tennyson wrote a beautiful poem called '• In Memorandum ” During the interdict in John’s reign, births, marriages and deaths were not allowed to take place. Caesar was noted for bis great strength ; he threw a bridge across the Rhine. The King was crowned in the Crystal Palace with his sepulchre in his hand. Uu chemin-der-fer is a far shirt,