LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Unusual Earthquake in Taranaki. An unusual earth quake shock was felt in Taranaki at 1.15 a.m. on Monday. There was a sudden jar but no sbaking, and hanging lights did not swiug. No Trace of Body. Despite a search of the beach from Manawatu Heads to "Waitarere daily, no trace has yet been found of Mr W. A. McPhail, who was drowned when he fell off the launch Madge at Manawatu Heads on September 1. Corse Parasites Released. At a meeting of the Manawatu Rabbit Board it was reported that parasites oinp^suj uaoxpAVCQ A'q papiBAUioj had been liberatea in Foxton lor the destruction of gorse, and a careful watcli was being kept on the progress made by the weevils. A One-Ton Fish. A huge fisli, tliought tc be a sunfish, weighing approximately oue ton, and nine feet longj ten feet wide, and tbree leet six inehes through near the head, was washed up on Foxton beach last week near the mouth of the Manawatu River. Few Travellers. "Well, that's one of tlie poorest trains I have seen from here for a long time," was the comment of an officiai at the Hastings Raihvay Station this mornnig when he roferred to tlie very few people who were travelling soutli by the mail train. There were on]y a few peojile in each of the carriages. Funds for Scout Hall. Tlie concert lield recently in the Hastings Municipal Theatre to raise funds for the erection of a Scout hall in Duke street, has returned a profit of aiiproximately £37 to the promoters, which will lielp considerably with the projei't. Tho theatre caretaker and the firemen gave "their services on the night gratuituously, and this action helped to make tlie profits as large as thoy were. Two Ounces of Ginger Prescribed. What constitutes a good Christian was discussed in interesting fashion by the Rev. J. F, Feron, speaking in St. Mattliew's Cburcb, St. Albans, Christchurch, wliero there was a parade of returned soldiers. "Some think a good Christian is sojnething dressed all in black, with a specially long face on Sundays,'' he said. "Not a bit of it. Sometimes I look at those 'meek-and-mildies' and think, 'My word, I'd like to put two ounces of ginger into you'." Nelson Bowlers Return.

A party of thirteen bowlers from the Nelson Bowling Club, who have been playing matclies in Australia, returned by the Awatea. In the course of their trip they visited Sydney and Queensland. They played 64 matches, won 44, lost 13 and drew 2. Only one day's play was lost through bad weather. Mr. W. A. Dee, the manager, stated to a reporter that the standard of play in Australia was good, but not quit© as high as lie expected. 8afe Driving. "There are to my mind two main reasous for the apparent disregard of the elementary principles of safe driving," says Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in an articl© in the magazine the "Honorary Magistrate." "One is that too many people drive as they feel like driving rather than with a correct knowledge of how they should drive. The other is that the vast majority of drivers travel thousands of miles without serious accident, and do not realise that their immunity has been due more to good fortune than to careful and skilful driving." Percheron Stallion. Believed to be ouly tho third of its kind in the Dominion, a Percheron Btallion, "Kadlunga Tempiar," was landed from tho Awatea from Sydney. It was purchased by Miss W. F. Lysnar of Gisborne, from a well-kuown breeder, Mr. Alexander J. Melrose, of "lvadlunga," near Mintaro in Sout-h Australia, and is to be used for the breeding of weight-carrying hacks aud hunters, Tlie Percheron is a Freuch draughb horse, and is an active auimal with a kind nature. The auinial bought by Miss Lysnar was bred from a winniug strain, which has taken championships in France, Ganada, and England. "Empire" and "Kingdom". "I can't think of the word 'Fmpire' without thinking of something nasty," said the Rev. J. F. Feron, speaking to a congregation containing a parade of returned soldiers in St. Matthew's Oliurch, St. Albans. "There is selfisbness, money-grubbing, and all that is bad. 1 see nothing right, whatever empire I think of, looking back through all the ages. But what Christ is calling us to is a Kingdom, a Kingdom where there is righteousness, purity, mercy. and justice. I wish we could think more of that Kingdom than of these others. People are inclined to sit back and forget the greater fight which all good Christians ar© obliged to jvage. What is heeded for that Kingdom is a line man, meutally aud pliysically, aud a fine mau spiritually uuder thc hands of God."