LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1091, 1 May 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

A number of candidates in connection with yesterday’s election, insert thanks notices in this issue.

The fiaxmill at Mokoreta, Invercargill, owned by Adam Hall, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. The origin is unknown. The loss is estimated at which includes a quantity of fibre.

A tragedy occurred Park, Sydney, on Tuesday, A Frenchman named Alvian shot and critically wounded his wife, and then shot himself dead. The couple were recently separated. Jealousy was the cause.

At the local Police Court yesterday morning before MrHornblow, J.P., Patrick Murphy, whose face bore evidence of being in the wars and who had been arrested and conveyed to the lock-up in a state of helpless drunkenness the day previous, was convicted and ordered to leave the town forthwith.

We have received a communication from Mr H. Greig, who, together with Mrs Greig and their son, is making a tour of the world. The party up to the time of writing, have had a most enjoyable time. They are at present touring Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Mr Greig sends kind regards to Foxton friends. By the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Ruapehu, due at Wellington from London about Friday next, thirteen assisted immigrants are booked for Wellington. The number includes six domestics, two housewives (with three children), and two farmers. This is the smallest number of immigrants in one vessel that the Government Immigration Department has yet had to deal with. The reduction of representation on the Palmerston North Hospital Board will form the subject of a deputation to the Minister of Public Health, Hon. Heaton Rhodes, to-morrow afternoon. The Mayor of Palmerston and Messrs J. H. Vincent and J. K. Hornblow will comprise the deputation. The reduction is to be strongly opposed. On Tuesday evening, Mr G. H. Stiles addressed a well-attended meeting in the Coronation Hall in furtherance of bis candidature for the Mayoralty and received a very attentive hearing. Mr Hennessy occupied the chair. Messrs Barber, Henderson, Chrystall and Read, candidates for municipal honours also briefly addressed those on municpial matters, and Mr Hennessy referred to Harbour Board affairs.

Mr Senior captured a peculiar ■ little fish inside the gill of a large shark when fishing over the bar on Tuesday. It is about five inches in length with a flat head and mouth not unlike a shark. Under the lower jaw is a kind of sucker which enables it to adhere to anything with great resisting force. Its tongue connects with the upper part of the jaw, and its gills are above instead of at the side of the head. Mr Senior has not, in his long experience, seen anything similar. In connection with yesterday’s poll, 2,940 ballot papers were issued by the Returning Officer, the number of voters being 735. In the counting and marking down of votes received by candidates, 5341 names were called and marked down in the Councillors poll alone, and 2393 votes in the two Harbour Board election making a total of 7,734 votes called and recorded by the Returning Officer and his poll clerks (Miss Fraser and Mr Gascoigne) who concluded their couht at 2,40 a.m., the whole of which was carefully checked by Mr Blanche, scrutineer for Messrs Harvey and Richmond.