GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2133, 27 May 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A barrister from Danitovirke appearing in the Supreme Conrl at Palmerston .North in a motor car accident case' asked if his Honour the Chief Justice knew High Street in that (own. His Honour smilingly leplied that it was many years since he had been to Dannevirke, and was afraid that he could not recall the names of the streets. The Chief Justice went on to say, in a retrospective moment, that when he first visited Dannevirke one house bn ill of clay stood on the site the town now occupies. There was not another building lo bo seen.

Tho Ashhurst correspondent of (he Palmerston Standard writes; — When one hears of Hie prices now being realised for properties on tho Palmerston road it is interesting to read the following extract from a letter written by the late .Mr John T. Stewart, formerly district surveyor: “In 1871 Swedish immigrants arrived at Foxton per s. ‘Go-ahead,’ and to each was allotted thirty acres of laud between Palmerston and jVshhurst. They were charged £.l per acre, which they paid out o! their earnings at road making.”

Says the Maslerlon Times;— “What is striking the general puffin as somewhat strange is the silence of that august body, the New Zealand Welfare League, on the subject of the -jockey’s dispute. This body of mirth-providers has a penchant for pronouncing a verdict on every question which crops up, and its lack of enterprise in not issuing a manifesto in connection with- the jockey’s dispute is causing considerable surprise. The public is’waiting on Ihe tip-toe of expectation concerning what 'this powerful body 7 of international statesmen think of the dispute.