LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14025, 31 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Let us rescue our liberties, or die in their de/ence. The Socialist Party in Britain has decided on a campaign in the industrial districts with the object of counteracting Bolshevism.

Dr. H. W. M. Kendall, M.H.C.S., in an article in the Now Zealand Nurses’ Journal, contends that the scourge which devastated the Dominion at the latter end of last year was identical with the Black Plague of Charles ll.’s reign. The primary cause of the visitation is, the doctor thinks, undoubtedly duo to emanations brought up to the earth’s surface by the rise of subsoil moisture from dead bodies of man or beast, after more than ordinarily wet seasons. The disease, he says, is nothing new, and will always be recurrent until cremation or burial in quicklime is universally adopted. That ordinary burial does not destroy the poison has been proved by cases recurring as late as the ’eighties, after the accidental opening of old plague burial grounds in London. . Having once started, it is air borne, or ean be carried by traffic and passed on through the air to places devoid of previous infection. We are now showing our first lot of winter costumes, coats, raincoats, etc. The costumes this season are chiefly navy serge and garbardine, and considering the enormous advance in the price of Merges, they gome out at quite reasonable' prices; one'can still get a real good costume f6t*'’£s ss. Tweed coats this year arc Showing 'cofisidcrabln advance in pricoyhnd to 1 get orrer this difficulty wc have a Covert coat, which ''answers the purpose 6f' ; rt Raincoat, and is quite as>Tvarm as tweed. These useful coats run about 725. Hall’s Drapery Stores. N.B.—We shall close at 5.30 from April Ist, and continue during the winter months.* The King of Tonics—Forsythe’s Vigor Tonic—invaluable as a pick-me-up after influenza, colds, etc. Bottles, 2s 6d and 4s 6d. —Forsythe, Chemist, Hamilton.

A poll is to be taken at Te Aroha on the Saturday half-holiday question.

A large number of cadets and territorials left Hamilton for the camp at Narrow Neck, Auckland, to-day.

The weather in Hamilton during the week-end was almost ideal, being bright and sunny, with an exhilarating “ nip ” in the air. As a result the Lake Reserve and other picnic spots were liberally patronised yesterday. A meeting of the Hamilton Repatriation Committee took place on Friday last, when assistance was recommended in several cases. The offices -of the ,9pfnmittee are in Livingstone Chambers, ,Victoria street,i , v" I ’-*

‘ A meeting of‘settlers lo consider •'matters in connection with the-fdrmar-lion of a Rabbit ’Board will bg* held 'ln tlih Newstead schoolroom on Wed'’hesrtay at s p.m. J All interested .are urged to attend. The polls taken last week on the proposals of the Waipa County Council to raise £3OOO for the purpose of metalling roads in the Hamilton Riding, and £2OOO for metalling roads in the Pukekohc Riding, resulted in the former being agreed to by 53 votes to IG, and the latter being defeated by 19 to 7 votes.

During the service at St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Hamilton, last ’night, Rev. E. O. Blamires read a letter from the Waikato Returned Soldiers’ Association expressing appreciation of the manner in which the men had been entertained at the “ welcome home ” function last week, and •also of the many kindnesses showered upon the soldiers by the church. It was stated during the meeting In Hamilton on Saturday night that the National Efficiency League was putting £55,000 into the present campaign for the carrying of prohibition. Of this sum, said Mr. Brown, Mr. Robert Laldlaw had given £2OOO, and several similar amounts had been donated.

A young man considerably “ under the influence ” was noticed by the police on Saturday evening lying on the footpath. He was taken to the lock-up and was later bailed out in the sum of 10s. This morning he failed to appear when called on in the Police Court, and was ordered by Mr. Poynton, S.M., to forfeit his bail. At a conference of stationholders, held at Christchurch, the depredations of the kcas were discussed, fears being expressed that the birds might take possession of the whole country. It was decided to request the Government to proclaim keas noxious, to give a grant of 5s per head for killing them, and that it should be compulsory for county councils to employ men to kill them. A returned soldier of nearly three years’ service, who was a defendant in a judgment summons case in the Court at Hawera, stated that he was out of work, and was advised by his doctor not to take on any hard work for 12 months. He had not a pension because of a pre-war disability. The Magistrate remarked that evidently the authorities considered the man to be good enough to send away to fight, but after his service did not think he was worth a pension, which he deserved after his lengthy service. He desired to congratulate the man upon his service, and he thought the order would not have been asked for if the whole of the circumstances had been known. Counsel, who appeared for the creditor, upon instructions from a New Plymouth firm, agreed with his Worship that the order would not have been asked for bad the debtor’s posi. tipn been fully explained. No order was made.