LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1858, 30 July 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A combined religious service will be held in the Town Hall on Sunday evening next, at 7 o’clock. A pocket book containing photograph and discharged soldier’s certificate awaits owner at this office. The name on the discharge is Pte. McKenna. A number of frost fish were washed ashore on the local beach last week. The fish are a great delieaey, and much sought after. They come ashore on clear frosty nights, and at daybreak are quickly discovered by sea gulls.

The weather yesterday was again cold, and snow 101 l on. Hie - ranges. A fall of Miiiw was experienced in (lie Wairarapn and in \V<d lintel on. An earthquake was experienced locally at about . r ).2d on Saturday evening', and another at about 9.30 this morning'. The-local State school football team defeated the Levin District High School team on Saturday, at Foxtail, by 14 points to nil. The Queen of (lie South, from Wellington with a cargo of genera.!, is due to-morrow morning'. She will sail again for Wellington to-mor-row night with hemp.

The lowest temperature recorded in' Auckland for 31 years was that of Thursday night, when the thermometer at the Albert Park observatory registered 30 degrees, says the Herald. A special meeting of the Eoxton Borough Council will he held tomorrow evening, at 7.30 o'clock. Business: To dismiss carting contract, ami outlet of Reeve Street drain. Sisters Kilgour (matron of the Awapuni Home) and McLean, have consented to tell their experiences on board the hospital ship Malumo to a Foxton audience next Wednesday week. The talk should he very interesting, as both sisters .passed through very trying limes during the early period of the war. Says the Chronicle; “The Wanganui Harbour Board once had a valuable endowment, of 21,337 acres, at Fohangina. About 40 years ago, according to Government valuation, it was worth 30s an acre, and was subsequently sold by the Board for perhaps twice that amount. If the Board had held on to this fine farming land the value would now have been twenty-fold.”

It is hoped that the trip of the Levin District High School football team' to Foxton will not only bring’ about a return match in Levin, but will also result in making; home and home matches between (lie schools an annual fixture (says the Levin Chronicle). It is also hoped that in future, basket ball or hockey matches for the girls will be played at the same time. The arrangement has the support of both headmasters, and Mr Harding will endeavour to arrange with the new master at Foxton, Mr L. Furrie, for the annual meeting as proposed. Such meetings should be of value to the athletics of both schools.