THE WEATHER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1632, 2 November 1916, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

The Rev. D. C. Bates wires as follows at noon to-day ~ The indications are for easterly winds, hacking to east by north, increasing haze and cloudiness for change. The barometer has a falling tendency. Sea and tides moderate.

A line of Bfi 5- and G-year-old ewes, with lambs, sold by a Shannon farmer last week, realised the good price of £2 2s per ewe and lamb. The Defence authorities have served no fewer than a thousand families in the Dominion with notices asking why members of those families should not be called upon fj join the .New Zealand forces.

Since the outbreak of war the British Government has purchased for the Army 30,033,523 pairs of worsted socks, 44,002,723 yards of llannel (enough to make 12,500,000 shirts), and 4,502,733 yards of white flannel for hospital shirts.

The Defence authorities have decided in future that no man under 20 years shall be accepted for home service or service l abroad, whether lit or untit. Youths under 20 who get into camp will he court-mar-ifailed iiiion discovery for giving wrong information.

It is reported that the owners of the steamship Stormbird, which foundered near the south mole at ihe entrance to Wanganui Harbour recently, .ire proceeding against the Wanganui Harbour Board to recover the sum of £7,000 for the loss of (he vessel.

James Allen Webster, town clerk at Upper Hutt, was arrested yesterday on the charge of having stolen flthl, the property of the Upper Hut I Town Board. He was remanded for a week, bail being allowed. The detective informed the Uoiii't that other charges would probably be made against accused.

A distressing fatality, resulting in the death of ;i member of (lie I.oth Reinforcements, occurred at (lie Rawer Hud railway station on Tuesday iiii>iit. Tin* man killed was Sergt. W. R. M’Vicars, C. Company, l!Jlh Reinforcements, and he met his death by being run over by the train on which he was a passenger. Sergeant \l’Vicars was ret urning to Trent ham. and at Rower Hint alighted. As tlu> train was leaving the station he attempted to step alioard, hut evidently missed his tooting and Cell between a earriagb and the platform ami was killed instanlaneouslv.