LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1666, 25 January 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local State school will reopen next Thursday, Feb. Ist. Voluntary recruiting for the 27th and 28th Reinforcements will dose on February 3rd.

Waipiro Ray (Gisborne) reports that seventeen inches of rain fell in the 24 hours during the recent slorm.

A youthful attachment was brought to light in Sydney last week. The Acting-City Coroner, Mr J. Jamieson, returned a verdict that Marguerite Fedora Erullani, 15 years of age, died on December 22nd from injuries accidentally received through being knocked down by a bicycle. The Coroner then held an inquest upon Ernest Ignatius Murray, 17 years old. Death was caused by hanging on December 28th, and it was stated by his father that the boy had been upset for several days on account of his friend, Maggie Erullani, being killed. He was always talking about her, and would not believe that she was dead. A verdict of suicide was returned.

At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, John Henry M’Williams and Henry Joseph Allport, two small youths, had pleaded guilty to nine cases of theft from a dwelling at Blenheim. The boys had absconded from the Stoke Training Farm on commandeered bicycles, broken into a number of houses, and stolen goods of a value of some £IOO. Both of them are about sixteen years of age. Both had been guilty of offences before going to the Training Farm. They were ordered to he kept under reformative treatment, and therefore under the control of the Prisons Board for a period not exceeding seven years.

There are many in the Wairarapa who will regret to hear of the death of Air Richard Tilson, which took place on Monday at Martinborough, at the age of 75. The Daily News slates he had been a settler in the district for very many years, and was well- known in all parts of it. A great lover of horses, he introduced some of the best into the Wairarapa, and was one of the old sports who enjoyed a race meeting for the sake of the races rather than the lure of the tote. He was of a generous and most hospitable nature, a shrewd man in business, and a good and successful farmer. His wife predeceased him by some few years, and he had never been qiyte the same ujan since her death. A grown-up family of six boys and three girls, several of them married, survive their parents. One son, Walter, was recently wounded in the lighting in Egypt.

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As the result of naval engagements off the coast of Hollftnd,

seven German destroyers were reported sunk by a British squadron early on Monday morning. The cost to New Zealand up to December 31st of the military occupation of Samoa totalled £297,519, of which £143,894 was pay for soldiers.

Owing to the continued dry weather feed for stock is becoming scarce, and gardens and orchards throughout the district are suffering for want of moisture. Nearly every household in the borough is on short water allowance.

At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., Ivy Astle was charged by the police with the theft of a hand bag containing: money, the property of Mrs Nelson, from the ladies dressing room at the race course on Tuesday. Accused was remanded to appear at Palmerston this morning.

The latest development in connection with the threatened increase in the price of meat in Auckland is that the Government has arranged to take over the business of a retailer who has two shops —one in the city and one in the suburbs. The shops start to-day receiving supplies from freezing works and retailing at existing prices.

]j, is held in some quarters dial: tiie First Reserve, which is now being drawn upon hy means of the ballot, will be exhausted by June 30th. The second reserve will then be called up, but it is expected that this body will be subject to a form of classification by the authorities so as to provide that the men with the lightest responsibilities will be called up first.

The University Senate,.deleted a recommendation by the Board of Studies by 13 to 9 that all candidates for the B.A. degree must either have passed in Latin at the “matric." examination or must pass in Latin up to the standard before being granted a degree. The effect is that Latin will no longer be compulsory for the B.A. degree at any stage.