LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14129, 29 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Municipal Band has been engaged to play the hymns for the Empire Service’ at Masterton to-morrow afternoon.

The proceeds from the sale of work held by the, ladies of St. Andrew ’s Church at Martinborongh on Thursday last amounted to over £3OO.

Mr Parsons, of Eketahuna, has purchased Mr W. Tucker’s farm at Tawaha, through the agency of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co.’s Martinborough branch. There was a light fall of snow and hail in Masterton last evening, and again this morning the hills surrounding Masterton are covered with snow, and tlie conditions are typical of mid-win-ter.

“I shall complain to tlio floorwalker about you,” said the irate shopper. “I have no doubt lie will agree w'itli everything you say,” answered the saleslady wearily. “Ah! Then he is acquainted with your shortcomings?” <‘ He thinks he is. lie’s my husband. ’ ’

Margaret Parker was charged on remand at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday w-ith keeping a disorderly house. She was convicted and sentenced to six' months’ imprisonment, the Magistrate, Mr Bartholomew, saying accused was a menace to the community. Two women charged with assisting were convicted, one being committed to the Salvation Array Home, and the other remanded for (sentence pending- arrangements regarding a suitable home.

At the monthly meeting of directors of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society, held last night, Mr A. J. Biddings, senior vice-president, was elected ' president, vice Mr. E. 11. Waddington, resigned. Mr James Walker was elected senior vice-president, and Mr J.- A.. Shacklcton junior vice-president. M» James Allan was appointed treasurer, and Mr James Henderson was appointed to the vacancy on the directorate due to Mr Allan being appointed treasurer. It was decided that, only one lady’s ticket be issued for any social, function held duirng the year in con-" ncction with the society.

At the Timaru Supreme Court yesterday, William Leonard Ellis, thirdclass steward on the Corinthic, which he was to leave ot Wellington,.was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment lor receiving an overcoat, knowing it had been stolen, while the steamer was at Timaru. Accused admitted to being in the hotel whence the coat was stolen, but denied all knowledge of the theft. Judge Sims said he did not believe him, ond would consider probation if he made a clean breast of it, and told how all the thefts in Timaru were committeed. His counsel said accused was not obstinate. He really did not know. The coat wnj found at’ Wellington under the mattress in one of , a large number of unoccupied cabins which were under the aceiised’s charge, ■' ■ 1 . -

Wellington is still trying to persuade itself it,, has no slums (says the Auckland’s Star’s “special”), but Mr Leigh Hunt, who accompanied a photographer, engaged in taking a series of moving pictures, must have knocked the last prop from its self-complacency by his account of what ho saw during his tour. “We went into one street,”' he told the Hataitai Electors’ Association, ‘ ‘ and there chanced to be two or three children playing about. One was a little girl carrying a baby. The girl herself had sores all over her face and her eyes were running. The baby was on absolute bag of bones —starvation was written all over it. Next to thb, girl was a little boy, and he was an idiot. A still smaller child had only a singlet on, and was covered with filth, and dirt.” And this i's the capital, city of the Dominion!

Mr Churchill’s announcement that eight millions of war medals and six and a-half millions of Victory medals will be issued foreshadows a busy time for the Mint and a vast consumption off silver. It may be assumed that the medals will be of silver and not of new coinage alloy (says the London Daily Chronicle). ‘When the seamen of Nelson’s fleet after Trafalgar were y presented with pewter medals they indignantly threw them overboard. For a hundred years the British service medal has been of silver, and bas been bestowed upon all ranks alike."' The army owes that to the Duke of Wellington, who, after Waterloo, wrote home suggesting that such a medal should be issued. Before then Peninsula medals had been granted to the higher ranks of officers only, and were of gold.

The conference of producers and freezing companies to deal with the problems of the meat export trade of the future concluded at Wellington yesterday. A number of resolutions were agreed to by the conference, but these are to be submitted to the Government oefore being made public. It was discovered that any attempt to deal with the complex questions involved by such a large meeting was doomed to failure, and it was purely as the result of this discovery that the decision was made to set up a committee to deal with details and to submit- a scheme to the Government setting out the requirements of the farmers and companies. It was decided that the committee should consist of ten members, four to be nominated by the producers, two by the freezing companies, two by the Government, and two representatives of the banking institutions. It is understood that one of the Government’s nominees is to be a producer.

The executive of the Wairampa Branch of the N.Z. Dairy Factory Managers’ Association recently communicated with the Chief Inspector of Machinery re the advisanility of having all dairy factory boilers inspected during the off season. Under date of 2(sth May, 1920, the Chief Inspector of Machinery advised Mr J. W. Smith (secretary of the Wairarapa branch) as follows: "j ],ave to inform you that commencing next year, future inspections of the boilers 'in factories enumerated bv vou will be made during the month of July each vear. —Yours faithfully, Arthur' Duncan'. Chief Insnector of Machinery.” This will affect all dairy factories in the Wnirarann district, as fa- up as Maurieeville West, and will, v -. doubt, be greatly appreciated. by ; . factory managers and suppliers, who were considerably inconvenienced w Por. "boiler dav” came round each - • in the flush of the season.

The six-aside ladies’ tournament at Carterton on Thursday was won by Carterton A.

There was a heavy frost in Masterton this morning, 12 degrees being registered.

Owing to the wintry weather the Junior Boy Scouts will not parade until further notice, but church parades will be held as usual every Sunday morning at 10 o ’clock. “I woo thee in the moonlight,” sang the lover to his girl, who was gazing fondly on him from the easement. “It’s much, cheaper than the gaslight,” sang her father, who was taking observations from the casement.

At the Master-ton Technical School 169 now pupils have been enrolled since the commencement of the session in March last. The number of individual students on the roll for the year now stands at 341, made up of 180 freeplace pupils, 146 paying pupils, and 15 returned soldiers. The class enrolments total 804.

At Hongkong the British cruiser Kent is for sale for breaking up. She was built in 1901, with a displacement of 9800 tons. She had 14 6in guns, 8 12-pounders, and two submerged torpedo tubes. 11.M.5. Kent was in the Falkland Isles battle, and accounted for the Nurubcrg. Then she chased the Dresden, and helped to sink her off .Tuan Fernandez. So hot was the chase that the Kent, near its triumphant close, took to burning her furniture and other woodwork.

A school teacher, said to her boys: 4 ‘Now, I am going to give you each three buttons. You must think of tho first as representing life, the second libberty, and the third as happiness. In three days ! want you to produee these three buttons and tell me what they represent.” On the appointed day the teacher asked one of the youngest pupils for the buttons. “I ain’t got ’em all,” he sobbed. “Here’s life and here’s liberty, but me mudder went and sewed happiness on me pants!” A federation of French intellectual workers similar to tho Gonseil General du Travail (.General Labour Council) is being organised in. Paris. The movement was launched at a meeting which was attended by artists, authors, newspaper men, professors, lawyers and physicians. It was declared that men who are members of the liberal professions must organise not.‘only to guarantee that the war heroes among them will be properly cared for, but .that their interests are protected generally.

In a report upon the physical examination of men of military age by National Service medical boards, issued in Blue Book form, tragic facts about the nation’s state of health are presented primarily for Parliament’s consideration (says the Glasgow Hearld). It is revealed that of the 24 million men of military age’examined by the medical boards between October 31st, 1917, and November Ist, 19188, only 36 per cent were up to the required standard, while more than 10 per cent were totally and permanently unfit for service. In ’ other words, only one man in three was found to be normally healthy, and oiie man in ten was a physical wreck. More Italians will emigrate to the United States this year than in the record year of 1913, when 375,000 left Italy for America. The-30 ships ply-ing*-between Italy and the United States are ; carrying thousands. One of the chief reasons'American consuls are overburdened-: With • work is that sucA careful Check -is .made of each applicant for a passport... The only illiterates allowed to go are/wiws and children of; men already in America. A . conviction jn court, even for a minor offence, bars the applicant, from going. The Carnegie Trust for the United Kingdom has announced that no more grants will be made for chureh organs or municipal libraries. A big programme has been planned for the physical welfare of mothers and children. It includes two central institutes —one in London and the other in Edinburgh —and welfare centres in Birmingham, Liverpool, Shoreditch, Rhondda, Motherwell and Dublin. A grant of £40,000 has been promised to the Central Council of the Infant and Child Welfare, to erect an institute. The total obligations of the trust, including those inherited from the Carnegie Corporation of Now York, amount approximately to £594,000. " ■

The strange history has been revealed at Ottawa of a man’s five years’ fugitive wanderings over the world on account of a crime he never committed. William Eiehord surrendered to the Ottawa police, and said he was wanted at Winnipeg on a charge of manslaughter. According to his story Eiehord and a chum stole a motor car in June, 191;", The car was upset and his chum was killed. Eiehord, fearing he would be charged with manslaughter, fled the country and wandered to China, Japan and Africa, finally returning to the United States to surrender. Police advices from Winnipeg show that Eiehord was never "wanted” for manslaughter, and the death of his chum was regarded as an accident. The only warrant issued for his arrest was for the theft of the motor car.'

That Chinese are observant and make logical deductions is shown by the following paragraph from a letter written by a native of the Flowery Kingdom, to a New York paper: "I attack not your Christian religion, nor would I compare it unfavourably with our Confucianism. You, however, do not practice your religion. With you a commercial relation comes first in all things; the moral relation is forgotten. . . If a Chinaman may be permitted to suggest, would it not be possible to found a better, and more lasting peace upon the Ten Commandments than upon the Fourteen Points? , Why does not the West now, after 1900 years, try the experiment of founding a State upon the teachings of its Christ?. Lasting peace will only come when you accept honestly the teachings of the Christ whom you now only pretent to worship.”

One of the surprises of the after-thc-war trade of the United States is the large increases in quantities of merchandise being sent us from Europe, says a San Francisco paper. It has been asserted that Europe would have very little which she could send to the United States in exchange for our merchandise, but official figures of imports from that continent in the calendar year will show a total considerably more than double that of 1918. While the details of December are not yet available, the official figuers for eleven months ending with November put the imports from Europe at 658,370,000 dollars, against 292,454,000 dollars in the same months of 1918, and partial reports for December indicate that the total from Europe in the full year 1919 will approximate 750,000,000 dollars, against 318,000,00 dollars in 1918, and form a larger totai than that of any year since 1914. The 1919 figures will apparently show an increase of about 125 per cent over those of 1918, the closing years of the war.

In connection with ihe State •* employees ; disputes it is expected that /v the E.F.C.A. dispute, which is to beconsidcred by a Board of independent business men, will be dealt with early next week. Tire Prime Minister stated yestirday that the Railway Department was ready to take the/next dispute soon as the E.F.C.A, or the R. 0.1. "were*prepared to go on. Mr W. H. Jackson, who was a mem.- , w bef of the deputation to the Minister , of Public Works this week, asked some direct questions in connection with the N. Mangahao hydro-electric scheme. Mr Jackson wanted to know (1) When the Mangahao power would be available to residents of the Wairarapa; (2) how much power could the Wairarapa depend upon receiving? and (3) the approximate cost to the Wairarapa off connecting with the scheme (omitting v cost of reticulation). The Minister could not give a. reply to Mr Jackson's;— \ questions. -J, .John Dunn, Son and Co., export mcx-W f chants, New York, in their AustraJasian market letter for April, state that during the last month the iron and steel market has been marking time and drifting—drifting apparently towards somewhat easier conditions as to the placing of orders for reasonable deliveries, and at the same time towards higher prices. There is some reason to think • that the stereotyped reply, “out , of market, which has so frequently ~ been made by the larger steel interests J in answer to enquiries during the pastfew mouths, lias been due not so mudr. to an oversold condition as* to an effort on their part to reserve a certairs. portion of their .capacity so that sales? might be made later on at the higher prices obtainable for immediate deliverv.

Awards have just been made to two Belgian girls, Mile. Louise d'Have and , her" sister, Mile. Marie d’Have (the f former is now Mme. Clement), and pos— i thuiuouslv to their father, M. Theoph.il® d’Have, for giving to the Belgian General Staff details of the first German, gas mask. Posing as a pro-German, M. d’Have was able to send his daughter to Havre, then the Belgian G.H.Q., viaHolland, with a design of the mask*, concealed in "her dress. At the frontier she was searched for four hour* in vain. Had the document been dis- . ... covered she would have been shot. A!-; together Mile. Louise crossed the fron- . v tier 50 times, until at the end of 1915 she thought it would be safer to remain iii Holland. So well did the father pose as a pro-German that hiss neighbours hated him, and their behaviour to him hastened his death, front heart disease. At the armistice a crowd! tried to bum down his house. A capable general is sought. A lost, sheep-dog is advertised faF_ A bedroom is advertised to let; board! \ optional , - A single man advertised for privateboard. A certificated teacher desires position: as governess. A boy’s pair of lost football boots? '' are advertised for. . A paper boy’s book, lost a few days? ago, is advertised for. Two good dairy cows on drop are ad- A vertised for sale. ' J Railjtvay-arrangements for the.E3®g*® ; Birthday are advertised oh.page,! of this'.issug,. . The Mastorton Savage Club will ItoljE their usual fqi; (nightly. korero to-nighfc. in Perry ’s, Buildings, -. .. Mrs L. Payne will conduct a Spirit.nalistic service, at 8 Bruce. St. at 7 clock on Sunday night. , . A latest; model ‘ ‘ Austin ” car, arrive v ed per lonic, is now offered for sale byr the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association at £935. Regular shipments off “Austin” cars will now be coming to f band for the Association, and order® may be booked for cars to arrive.