The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, February 22, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1513, 22 February 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, February 22, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A wounded soldier, writing from hospital, says : “ Dear Mother, — Please label my next cake ‘ socks ’ if you want it to get to me.”

Miss M. Desmond and Miss M, Sewell have taken up their duties as pupil teachers at the local State school.

The Masterton Age states that the cheque of one Wairarapa sheep farmer, who disposed of his wool at the recent sale in Wellington, will amount to ,£IO,OOO. Another of the popular twenty minutes tournaments will be played on the local croquet lawns to-morrow afternoon, for a trophy presented by Mrs Evans. Play will commence at 2 o’clock. The continuous spell of dry weather is causing a big drop in the district milk supplies to the factories and dairy farmers are longing for rain to freshen up the dry pastures. Mr Simon Hoddinott, a farmer, 45 years of age, recently in the Rangitikei, was, with his son felling a dry tree at Eketahuna on Saturday evening when he was struck by the tree or a loose limb, and received fatal injuries. He leaves a wife and young family. Among the flotsam and jetsam washed up by the surf at the Castlecliff beach, Wanganui, last week, was a top set of artificial teeth. The owner, no doubt, lost them while bathing, and probably despaired of ever seeing them again. “The worst crop I have had lor ten years,” was the reply given by a prominent tomato grower in Lower Hutt to an enquiry by a Post representative. He attributed the poor result to the cold weather in the spring and the continued dry spell at present being experienced. He has hopes that later crops may be better. An eel was discovered in an unusual place in New Plymouth the other day (states the News). Whilst sinking foundation holes for the new theatre, next the Criterion Hotel, the contractor struck an eight-inch live eel 11 feet down. In the old days a stream passed through the section which, like most of tbe middle of the town, has been filled in. Whence did the eel come ? That is a question which is puzzling the contarctors.

The Auckland Star’s correspondent telegraphs that a police party of three encountered Rua and a number of his bodyguard in the Urewera. Rua complained bitterly that the police sought to imprison him for an offence in respect of which he had already served a sentence. He pulled off his coat saying; “ Take me if you can.” Eventually some ot his followers arrived and the police withdrew.

Goods of unquestionable quality, backed up by sound value and prompt delivery, that’s what we give every housewife who buys here. You practise true economy by dealing at Walker and Furrie’s, Foxton.