LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1075, 28 November 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Counstable Sweeney is at present relieving Constable Doyle who is away on his annual leave. Constable Sweeney will be absent !rom Foxton tor four weeks. Flora May M’Donald, aged six, daughter of a City Council employee, when crossing Eden Terrace, Auckland, on Saturday behind a cart, stepped in front of a tramcar and was killed instantly. For primest Beef and Mutton and dairv fed Pnrk. trv Cnnk and Co.*

The monthly sitting ot the Magistrate’s Court will be held to-morrow.

A meeting of the Horticultural Society will be held on Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock iu the Coronation Hall supper room.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. to inspect the Beach Road in conjunction with the Mauawatu County Council. The local amateurs are actively rehearsing the farcical comedy, “The Arabian Nights,” which they intend staging at the Coronation Town Hall on the 20th proximo.

A resident of TeKuiti provided a swagger with tea, bed, and breakfast at a local boarding-house some time ago. To his surprise the resident has received a “ letter of thanks ” enclosing 4s 6d. Miss S. Broughton has been appointed to the position of pupil teacher at the local State School, vice Mr Davey, whose term of service as a pupil teacher expires at the end of the year. Miss Broughton will take up her duties after the holidays. Only half of the Maoris who performed at the Festival of Kmpire left for New Zealand in the Somerset. Despite Sir W. Hail-Jones’s disapproval, Rangiuia persuaded twenty to remain iu expectation of music-hall engagements.

Last mouth Foxton headed the Domiuiou iu hemp aud tow grading returns aud it is anticipated that this month will show a like result, despite the fact that a large quantity of hemp had to be diverted to Wellington owing to the local stores being crowded out by reason of the shipping trouble. William Rogers aud Maud Rogers, extradited from ’Frisco on an allegation of being concerned iu a big burglary at Kohu’s jewellery shop on March 19th, were tried at the Supreme Couit Auckland, on Saturday. The male prisoner was found guilty on both counts, aud the female accused guilty of receiving. Sentence was deferred.