LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1238, 28 April 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Jou Savage, 54 years of age, was found dead in bed at Masterton yesterday. While deer-strlkiug near Tirltea, Mr J. Mayo, of Palmerston, secured a beautiful 14 pointer.

The price of bread in other districts has been raised to 4d and the 2lb. loaf. Increased price ol flour is given as the cause. The municipal gasworks at Levin show a profit for the past year, and a reduction in the price charged to consumers is foreshadowed. The oversea arrivals in New Zealand during March totalled 3161, compared with 4661 in March, 1913. Departures numbered 4555, as against 4683 in March last year. The death occurred suddenly at Motuili on Saturday of Mrs Arita Haimono. The deceased was aged 80 3 r ears. The cause of death was heart failure. A tangi is in progress. Leslie Ronald Kemble, aged 223 Z years, committed suicide at Carterton on Saturday by shooting himself with a shot gun. He had suffered from iusomiua. A youth named Percy Kelly, about 16 years of age, employed at the ropeworks, had the misfortune to fracture his arm yesterday through it being caught in the machinery. He is now progressing satisfactorily.

The Prime Minister addressed a crowded meeting in the Auckland Town Hall last night. The audience cheered Mr Massey. A section of the audience created several interruptions and several were ejected. At the conclusion a resolution tendering thanks to Mr Massey for his address, and for his services to New Zealand, and cordially approving of his policy, expressing confidence in him and his Government, was carried by an overwhelming majority. A wedding arranged to take place on Wednesday iu Timaru did not eventuate owing to the mysterious disappearance of the groom on Monday last. No cause whatever can be assigned for his absence, and all attempts to trace him have been futile.

Widespread regret will be fel: at the death of the eighth victim of the Hutt disaster —Mr Virgil Francis McGovern—who died at the hospital at 7.50 o'clock last evening. Death was not unexpected, deceased having been in a critical condition for some time. Mr McGovern was one of the most popular young men iutbelHutt district.

We have been asked to direct the attention of the Horowheuua County Council to the dangerous and narrow turning along the hillside on the Levin road, about a mile south of the Whirokino bridge. There have been several accidents at this spot, as it is impossible to see any vehicle coming from the opposite direction. The road requires to be widened in order to provide room for two vehicles to pass without fear of one being precipitated over the bank. It is the most dangerous portion of the road for vehicular and motor traffic between Foxtou and Levin, and requires immediate attentiou.

A devastating hurricane visited Aitutaki (Cook Islands) on January glh, and destroyed buildings and the orange and banana crops. The damage is estimated at ,£50,000. Not twenty houses on the island were left intact. Bread fruit (the staple food of the natives.) and all similar food products, were totally destroyed, and the natives, who are now in a pitiable plight, will haye to live on cocoanuts and fish, with what European foodstuffs they may be able to purchase. Rice, biscuits, flour and sugar are being largely competed for, but only small stocks remain in the hands of traders, and there will be no further supplies until April, when the steamer arrives.

Gentlemen! JNext time you require a “best hat,” buy the “R. & G.” make—it will style and comfort give you. Apply local drapers.* The famous Roslyn Writing Pads obtainable from all stationers and storekeepers at 6d and Is each.*

Our bacon comes from vrell-fed little country pigs, and is specially cu .red or us ‘ t>s exceptionally mild, and possesses a flavour that marks it as something better than the ordinary. Have you tried it? Walker & Furrie.*

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Thenext meeting ot the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 30th iust., at 7.45 p,m. Business; General and rating. The K'.tham Argus announces that an effort is to be made to get Mr R. McNab to stand for the Patea seat.

In appreciation of the event—the birth of triplets—Mr Wisk, a Waitomo County Council employee, has been granted a bonus of £5 by the County Councillors. “How often does your husband get drunk?’’ was asked of a woman at the Gisborne Court. ■‘Oh, I should say, fully fourteen times in a fortnight,” was the ready reply. “Our opponents call us conservatives and that sort of thing, but I don’t care a two-penny ticket so long as they don’t call me a member of the old Liberal party.”—The Prime Minister in North Auckland.

The local postmaster sends the following for publication : Mexican Telegraph Coy. notify cannot accept messages for any place in Mexico unless written in plain language, English or Spanish, and must be of strictly neutral character,

The Town Clerk reported at last night’s Council meeting that the library coal, stored at the back of the building, was disappearing, and suggested the erection of a small cover with lock, in order to prevent it being stolen in the future. —It was decided that the necessary shed be erected. At last night’s Council meeting a letter was read Irom the Chairman of the School Committee, asking the Council to form and asphalt the path from the school gale to the building, in lieu of supplying a certain amount of limestone promised some time ago. The Mayor said that limestone had been promised the School Committee in place of gravel taken from the old school site. He suggested the matter should be left to the Public Works Committee, and this suggestion was agreed to. Mr John Hunt, of Aotangi, writes to the Feildiqg Star as under : A farmer of Aorangi yesterday asked me when it was time to sow lucerne, and I told him November; but I had just put in half a chain square. Now, my opinion is it all depends on the farmer. I sowed last Saturday, and the crop is all up in rows and regular, about half-an-iuch high. I have a man working to-day to get in more. Anyone is welcome to come and see same, and I am pleased to give all information. In ray opinion, if the land is suitable, the proper farmer, who is uot afraid to work his soil, can sow any time except the dry months.”

A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last night to further discuss matters in connection with the proposed water and drainage scheme and general. There were present: The Mayor (Mr G. H. Stiles), and Crs. Chrystall, Whibley, Speirs, Freeman, Reid, Coley and Henderson. The newly-electsd Councillor, Mr R. Kempster, was also present, and made the statutory declaration and took his seat. He was formally welcomed by the Mayor, who stated he was pleased to see the top end of the borough represented at the Council table, and said he felt sure Mr Kempster would do his best to further the interests of the borough. The main business of the!;'eveniug was dealt with in committee.

A few years ago a passenger by the Foxton train after passing Oroua bridge on the way to Palmerston would have noticed nothing but sandy wastes — grounds whereon only the rabbits held sway. Only a scattered dwelling here and there met the eye. But to-da\ all that is changed. The sandy wastes have become profitable dairy farms, and a thriving community is engaged in adding to the Dominion’s export of dairy produce. Speaking to a Standard reporter a well-known farmer in the district said that the present season has been the very best known in Bainesse. “ The district has never looked better,” he enthusiastically declared. “During the last three years buildings to the value of £3OOO have been erected within a radius of two miles. Yet three years ago there was not a dairyman down there ; it was just rabbit country,” As an instance of how phenomenally the district has grown, two farms adjoining each other have just been sold, one at £so per acre and the other at 10s. Another changed hands twice during a fortnight at a big figure. As an indication of the dairying capacity of the laud, there are four cheese factories within a radius of six miles —and this is on land which a few years back was known as first-class rabbit country. During the past three years a post and telegraph office and school have also been erected. The settlers are now contemplating the erection of a public hall.

For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/6. On being asked his qualifications for the position of tea expert, he proved he had blended Haslemere for years. Rimtner sells it/. A long-telt want! There is no need for cold feet this winter, as we have just landed a fine assortment of felt slippers for the cold weather, in sizes from baby’s to grandfather's. Avoid colds by keeping your feet dry. Rettkr Bros, sell boots which they guarantee will keep the wet out. An inspection is invited. Prices to suit all pockets,* For a ton ot cement ro a pound of salt, Thomas Rimtner/

Robert Knight, for allowing poker to he played on his licensed premises at Greymouth, was convicted and fined £ 7. Jack Maughan and Thomas Torphy, charged with betting on licensed premises were fined £SO and ,£25 respectively at Palmerston yesterday.

By the premature explosion of a charge of blasting powder at Ohutu, Taihape, Patrick Moore received the lull effects of the charge iu the face. It is feared he will lose the sight of both eyes. Mr W. T. Mills, who has resigned the position of national organiser of the Social Democratic Party, owing to ill-health, left 'Wellington for San Francisco by the Moaua on Friday. While a mob of cattle were being turned into Johnston Street on Sunday morning, they collided with the postal pillar box in the Avenue, and broke it. The contents of the box were taken to the post office, and the box has since been re-erected.

The Awahou with general cargo from Wellington and the Waverley with cement from Terakohe, arrived this morning and the Kennedy with coal from Westport is due to-morrow. The Awahou and Waverley will sail to-morrow, the former for Wellington with hemp and the latter for Terakohe to load cement tor Foxton. The Kennedy will load cattle locally for West Haven.

The following native game may be shot in the Wellington district from May i to July 31, both days Inclusive : —Grey duck, teal and black swan. Sportsmen are reminded that pigeons and pukeko are protected throughout the whole Wellington district this year. With regard to imported game, cock pheasants, hares, Californian quail, and Australian swamp quail may be shot by license-holders from May r to July 31Mr and Mrs Tulti MacDonald, of Koputaroa, were the victims of a serious trap accident on Sunday afternoon. They were returning from Motuiti, and when between Heatherlea and their home stopped to talk to a friend on the road. The winkers, by some means, came off the horse's head and it bolted, the trap being capsized over an embankment. Mr MacDonald sustained a broken leg and other injuries, and Mrs MacDonald received very severe internal injuries. They are both now in a private hospital in Devin, Mrs MacDonald being in a very critical condition.

At the Wanganui races in February, The Rover, nominated by W. G. Trask, won the Westmere Hurdle Race. The stakes, however, were not paid over by the Wanganui Jockey Club on the ground that at the time of the disqualification of A. M. Wright, on August 17th, 1912, he was the owner of the horse in. question, and that during the continuance of such disqualification any horse of which he was the owner and in respect ot which he was disqualified, such horse was not entiled to be enttled for or start in any race. The Wanganui District Committee subsequently instructed the Club to pay the stakes over but an appeal was lodged with the Racing Conference and their decision upholding the action of the Jockey Club, has just been given, on the ground that The Rover was not qualified to be entered for or start in the race in question.

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