NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1273, 18 July 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A -- i -ni is .'tjt : gau;r ihai Mis U ;< ii-Tt, ui ivj.fcu.-a wekc. has itih'Tlte.! a rorva'fc tiom an uncie naap 1 O’Sullivan, who died in America world There are f»v«- iamilies U pa.'ficipate in the est:te. Two daughters f Mr® O’Keexe are at present living in Me' an.

“I bear on very good authority indeed,’’ stawd a mam’' u of the Wanganui Cha mb'" ' 1 ■" iierce, “that the Gov_.rim. ri vC -'y soon bringing down f lh. : asking P rliament for ,£3,000,000 for railway construction, and it is up to us in Wanganui to get some of that to start the line toßaetibi.”

A Masterton farmer expects the price for sheep to be very high in Masterton during the coming season. There would, he thought, be considerable scarcity ol stock — in fact, many farmets had recently practically cleared their farms, this being brought about by the good prices which have ruled.

While digging out rabbit burrows on his farm at Norval. in the Ararat district of Victoria, last week, William Smart unearthed a bottle containing 73 ounces of gold. It is believed that the gold was hidden for safety by a miner many years ago, and that he either died before he required the gold or else forgot where he concealed it.

Mr R. H. Anker, who has been in the employ of the Wanganui Education Board as an instructor in woodwork during the past four years, has resigned from that position. Next month Mr Anker takes possession of an orchard in Foxton, and intends to go in for fruit-growing and poultry. —Feilding Star.

Some precocious schoolboys at Eltham recently wrote to the School Committee as follows : “Dear Sits, —We have recently had to eat our dinners in school, and we are going to buck against it. There are a lot of germs flying about in the air, and we are liable to catch diseases. Hoping you will take a step in the matPr, yours truly, Schoolboys.” It was decided to refer the matte" to the headmaster,

An interesting discussion on the nationalisation of public bospilcß took place at the Municipal Ccn fereuce on Wednesday, when the following remit was submitted by the Petone Council: “That the present method of levying local bodies for the upkeep of hospital and charitable aid be discontinued and that hospitals, etc., be nationalised and the whole upkeep be met out of general revenue ; the whole treatment to be tree of cost to patients,” The remit was finally rejected by 29 to 25.

A brief tale ot a lover’s disappointment and disillusionment n telegraphed by the Bh’ff correspondent of the LytteJton Tin,.... A brid.■■groom Irom Stewart island, accompanied by a “best man” stales tin: c„.respondent, visited Dumdin for the pm pose or wedding a local lady, kumald in one of the hotels. The manager of the hotel "hook his lean an. infon.ac -• i voi-Jd-be bridegroom that the bride had ‘ , Ja :ked her swag” anc flown ivith another man. All Equities were, fruitless and the £u . at Islander w-ut horn; km- mg.

In connec:with i ho . request of the Horo" nenua County Council that the Minister of Health receive a deputation Irom the Horowhetma dis' • let asking that the county be . c->-.,ituted •' separate hospital district, the xuspectorGeneral (Dr. wrote to last Saturday’s meeting saying that until a conference between the representatives of the Wellington and Palmerston North Hospital Boards had been held, with a view to arriving at a settlement, the Minister was of opinion that it would be useless for another deputation to interview him on the matter.