NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1272, 16 July 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Rev Sedgwick W. Bidwell, the oldest Methodist minister in the world, living in Vermont, U.S.A., recently celebrated the 104th anniversary ot his birth. At the age of 102 he occupied the pulpit of the church near his home.

At the silting of the Magistrate’s Court in Greytown on Wednesday, a territorial was fined 403 and costs for non attendance at drill. The father of the boy, in high dudgeon, stalked out of the Court muttering audibly : “It’s a shame.” “Call that man back,” said the Magistrate, and the constable carried out the summons, The Magistrate then asked the angry parent whether he would apologise for his remarks or suffer, 24 hours’ confinement for contempt of court. The parent’s feelings were soothed at once by the voice of the Magistrate, and a prompt apology extricated him from an uncomfortable position. A story of endurance and pluck and bush comradeship came to hand on Wednesday afternoon from the King Country. A man named Herbert Worsley, 33 years of age, was engaged tree-felling in a bush twenty miles from Raurimu on Monday, when a tree fell on him, breaking and mutilating a thigh. Eight comrades started off on Monday afternoon to carry him on a long and tiresome journey over the steep mountainous country to Raurimu. When they had proceeded five miles they secured a trap, but this broke owing to the rough and broken nature of the country, and they had to abandon it. They continued their march, sometimes through clearings of piled up logs, and frequently up to their knees in mud. The night was bitterly cold, and the darkness in the bush was a great handicap. The whole party was frequently stumbling over logs, missing their fooling, and being precipitated down slopes. Worn out and fatigued they reached Raurimu at eight o’clock on Wednesday morning, where Worsley was placed on a train and conveyed to the Hamilton Hospital.