LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2209, 30 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Ereuc'h serial, “Till Minh,” will shortly begin in Foxtou. It was produced in Nice, the famous resort, in Ihe South of Franco.*

The “Black and Tans,” frequnelly mentioned in the cables concerning Ireland, are ex-service men recently recruited by the Royal Irish Constabulary.

A garden party will be held at the residence of Mrs Jno. Ross, Tliynne Street, to-morrow afternoon, in aid of the funds of the Wellington Presbyterian orphanages. At the Supreme Court, yesterday at Wanganui, Joseph Steiner pleaded guilty to a. charge of indecent assault on a young girl, and was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment.

Owing to Ids absence in Rotorua, Mr Ed. Newman, M.P., will not bo present at the representative gathering to meet the Ministerial Parly at Mart on to-morrow in connection with the Levin-Mart on railway.

One of those, tremendously pow-erful-characterisations that have made Dorothy Dalton’s work famous is (hat of “Faro Fan,” in “The Lady of Red Butte,” to be screened at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Usual prices.*

There are several very dangerous ruts on the Whirokino road, about half-a-mile this side of th'e bridge, which require immediate attention. These ruts are the result of ffie crown of the road sinking through the action of the Hood water.

Those who appreciate good singing should make a point of attending the Methodist Sunday School Anniversary Concert in the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. A capital programme has been prepared, and several of the anniversary hymns will be repealed.

His Excellency Lin’d Jellicoe staled at the reeepriou accorded him at Hawera that he bad not yet mastered the Maori names, and when he met such places as Paekakariki, Ngarnawhaia, Kaupuokonui. Waingongoi’o, lie confessed lie was in diflicult ies.

At the local police court yesterday. before Messrs l.lornhlow and Bovis, J’s.P., an elderly man named George Alexander was charged by (.ho police with vagrancy. Accused, who presented a piliable appearance, pleaded guilty. The evidence of the police was to the effect that the accused had been wandering about the (own begging for several days, and sleeping out under any shelter al night. He had been previously convicted <m a more serious charge. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

Advice has just been received that the availability of four weeks railway tickets for returned soldiers has been extended until 28lh February, 11)21, on which date all travelling ee:ises._ Applicants for tickets will apply direct to War Accounts and Records Office, Government Buildings, Wellington. Tickets already issued for lesser periods limn four weeVs so as to expire on oOlh November, 1020, will he extended to cover four weeks on personal application to any stationmas lor til railway stations.

When the jury in (he Pukekawa murder trial had intimated that, after live and a-half hours' deliberation, they saw no possibility of an agreement, the Child: Just ice (Sir

Robert Stout) remarked lhal for a great many years he had been an advocate of the Scottish or Continental systems. In Scotland the jury was .15, in number, and a majority verdict sullieed. lu trance and Germany a certain proportion of the jury in agreement was siillieienl for. a decision.

Negotiations have been completed for the merging of the business interests of the Otaki Mail and the Levin Daily Chronicle, under the control of 11 1 0 proprietors of the Chronicle, and these arrangements will come info effect as Horn Janu{ivy Ist next. Air Frank Penn, who has conducted the Mail for 11 1 e past 25 years, having disposed of his interes Is hr Ulaki, has purchased the Cambridge Independent, and he. will take ii]) his residence in Cambridge early in tlie New Year. The amalgamation of the two businesses, says the Chronicle, has been brought about largely by an endeavour to meet the ever-rising cost of production. The Otaki Mail will continue to be published at Otaki.

At the inquest on (he body of John' Shepherd, who lost his life in a boating accident in the harbour al Oaniarii on .Friday last, the jury found that deceased was accidentally drowned by (lie swamping of a rowing boat. The jury highly commended the plucky efforts of a nine-teen-year-old youth named Walter Gibb, wlio was acting as coxswain of the boat, and a I the risk of his life made a desperate endeavour to rescue Shepherd, who (dung to Gibb and both sank three times. Gibb, however, retained his presence of mind, and supported Shepherd for ten minutes until a rescue boat arrived from the shore. Gibb was evhausled on being helped out of the water, but Shepherd was beyond human aid.