LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2261, 9 April 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Chinese fruiterer at Hamilton was fined £5 for selling rotten bananas to a little girl. The carnival held at Hamilton resulted in a profit of £2OO. The money is to be devoted to relief and benefit funds. A Rotorua telegram states that the body of Elliott, who has been missing from Ongaroto since March 27th, was found yesterday morning floating in the Waikato river a mile from where the bloodstains .were found on the ti-tree. A farewell social is to be tendered by members of the congregation to the Rev. A. and Mrs Harding, in the Methodist Church on Wednesday evening next, at 7.30 o'clock. A hearty invitation is extended to the public.

Sluicing for kauri gum is one of the most popular occupations in the Far North at present. Two returned soldiers, who are running what is known as “one-man” plants have earned on an average £45 per month each on a very small area for several months past. It is twenty years since the Seventh New Zealand Contingent sailed from Wellington to South Africa. The contingent, which had a strength of 600, suffered more casualties than any of (lie others that wont from the Dominion.

At Waimate on Wednesday Alfred Pelvin, formerly a blacksmith, a married man aged 58, with a grown-up family, fell from the top of a ladder and became impaled on a crowbar stuck in the ground, the point entering the lower abdomen. He died at the hospital the following morning.

Mr George Parr, chairman of the Waikato-West Coast Light Railway Board, has received word from the engineers that an eminent Australian firm has made an offer to finance the construction of the whole of the light railways from Hamilton to Raglan and Kakhai, and expects it will be possible to commence their construction almost immediately.

A young lady, Miss Vivian Piper, spoke nicely to a prize bulldog at the Sydney A. and P. Show on March 30th, and began to fondle him. He showed his gratitude by fixing his teeth in her cheek. She was lmdl.y bitten all down the left cheek and the lower lip, and was sent to St. Vincent’s Hospital. The wound was a severe one. '

With the object of economising papei", a new telegraph form lias lately been adopted. It measures 7 inches by 41 inches —just half the size of the old form. The printed matter lias had to be reduced- in size, and occupies a little more than half the space on the front of the sheet. The sender of the telegram is directed to continue the message on the back if there is not enough mom on the front of the form.

Among the most thrilling scenes in William Farmun's newest William Fox production, “The Orphan,” which comes to the Royal on Monday, are a fight between the outlaw and Indians in the mountains, and an attack by the redskins on a stage coach —which is thwarted by the timely appearance of The Orphan, who rescues the Sheriff's sister from the savages. William Farnum enacts the role of The Orphan/ Advt.

At the. Carterton Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday reserved judgment was given in the ease in which Catherine R. Phillip-, school mistress, formerly of Ea-t Taratahi, claimed £2OO damages for alleged assault from Albert A Southey, Mrs Southey. Stapler P. Green and Mrs Green. Reviewing the evidence, the Magistrate (Mr Free, S.M.) stated that the plaintiff was entitled to succeed. He felt hound to accept the plaintiff’s version of what had occurred. She had suffered great indignity at the hands of the defendants, acute mental distress and considerable pain, aiid for this she was entitled to damages. Judgment would be for plaintiff for £56 6s, costs £6, witness’ expenses £3 6s, and solicitor’s fee £3 12s.