LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Some excitement cropped up on Monday morning at Newton, Auckland, where pickets and special constables had assembled, the former to pursue their moral suasion methods with drivers and the latter to prevent intimidation. A cry went up from the pickets( says (he. Auckland Star) that one of the special constables carried a kuife, and a uniform constable who was on duty near at hand was requested to arrest the special constable in question, lie intimated that he could not do that, but as there seemed to be a lot of feeling over the matter he went up and asked liini about the knife. The latter delivered up ;i butcher's kinlV that he carried in a belt. He,.explained that lie had been using the knife for cooking purposes at (he camp when he had been hurriedly called out, and had forgotten to remove the knife. The taking of the knife by the uniform man satisfied the excited pickets.

The Moating Club invites local residents mid friends to attend the opening of the season (o-niorrow afternoon. Arrangements have been made to row visitors across the lake, and providing the weather holds line, a very pleasant afternoon should 7-esxilt. A Queensland paper siates that .Mr J. Y\ B. Lesina has received an appointment in Xew Zealand as organiser for the liquor trade, evidently in opposition to the NoLicense movement. His salary is to be £'700 a year and travelling expenses. A good sho\v of sweet peas is assured for the Summer Show of Levin, to be hold to-morrow (Wednesday), both afternoon and (.'veiling. The lion, secretary will he in attendance at the Century Hall this evening (Tuesday) to receive late entries in all classes. The domestic classes of the show have drawn numerous entries, and in decorative classes a like satisfactory degree of competition. The show will be opened promptly a I 2.'!0 p.m. A few of the Eeilding men who joined the Arbitration Cuion and worked on the wharves have relumed. They report that the work is not nearly so hard as shearing', (lagging, ploughing, and other branches of farm work, and the pay is so good that any man who is willing can earn £L a day. .No pressure is put on llie men to exert themselves, and "stand by is a frequent order. As 1 lit; pay at the rate of Is ~>d per hour goes on all the while the men are standing by, there is not a great deal In worry about. The Eeilding gang had quite a reputation for shifting cargo. Star. On the roadway near The Olmmicle Otlice, this morning', a motor car was having benzine poured into its petrol-tank when .Mr A. Musgi'ove struck a match to light his pipe. >M r M ilnes. who was ha mil ing the tin, put it down hurriedly, grabbed a coat, and covered it oyer the tank, but notwithstanding his promptitude the car was ablaze in a second. The match had ignited the fumes from the benzine, and soon the body of the car was a mass of flames. Coats and wraps were utilised with partial success, and finally the fire was got under by ilie use of half-a-dozen chemical tubes of fire extinguisher. The fining of the cr was badly burnt in places, and some Avraps and hoods were injured, but fortunately the mechanism of the car sustained no damage. The tin of benzine caught fire also, but fortunately it was removed sufficiently far from the ear to avert danger.

In the course of a sermon in ('itrislcliureh the iiev J. J. .North said : "Gambling' ruined the honesty of men all gamblers were rogues and liars-- and it hardened a man's heart."' An incident which occurred at iiiccarto.il recently shows that there is at least one except ion to these sweeping as-sertions-one honest, man in Sodom and Gomorrah. A Dunedin visitor had been asked to buy a totalisator (ticket backing a certain horse for a woman, and did so. After t he purchase, he wrote a pari of his friend's name on the back. After 1 lie race he felt in his pocket and the cardboard was gone ; So he paid up smiling, and did not let on. He happened to be talking to Mr VVanklyn a little later on, and mentioned the <?ircuinstance. "Well, of ail the strange things, this is the most extraordinary,'" exclaimed the Jockey (Hub's secretary. "That very

ticket was handed to me only a few minutes ago by tlie man who had picked it up." (Joui)>:irisons were made, and there was ilit* ticket sure enough. The finder could have cashed it himself, Iml heroically scrupulous, lie passed it in. So there is still hope for the clerical Diogenes after all !-■ Chri stch urch Star.