LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2292, 21 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local State School will be closed to-morrow, in order to allow the children to accompany their parents to the Palmerston Winter Show.

“If 1 were hanged on the highest hill, 1 know whose heart would follow me still, Mother O’ Mine. ’ The sweetest story ever told, at the Town Hall, Wednesday. —Advt. The Post's Wairarapa correspondent says the marriage has taken place of Mr AY. TI. Holmes, formerly of Featherston, (o Mrs T. A. Cook, of Foxlon. The lion. J. G. Coates stated in the course of an address at Alangahao that either an all-round reduction must be made in Government Departments, or a suspension of public works must take place.

Mr Rikihana Carkeek was elected to till an extraordinary vacancy on the Otaki Borough Council last week, defeating three other candidates. Out of a roll of 700 only 320 recorded their votes.

The orchard area planted in the Dominion is practically 35,000 acres for commercial purposes and 15,000 acres for domestic purposes, stated the Hon. AV. Nosworthy at the fruitgrowers’ conference in AA'elliugtou on Saturday. At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Michael Lipinsky, charged with the theft of an overcoat from a railway carriage, was sentenced to three months’ hard labour, the Magistrate remarking that there was far too much petty thieving going on.

The funeral of the late Mr Frederick Robinson, of Thynne Street, took place on Sunday, and was attended by a large number of mourners. The service at All Saints’ Church and the graveside was conducted by the Rev. AY. 11. Walton.

Mrs F. Robinson and family insert a thanks notice elsewhere in this issue.

Latest training advices from New York state that Dempsey has resumed vigorous work, while Carpentier continues to train secretly. The Viceroy of India strongly recommends thaj, the Priiice of Wales should visit India during next autumn, as his visit would be likely to assist the political situation. In the ease at the Supreme Court at Auckland, in which Henry Green claimed £I,OOO from James Roberts, John Glover, and the Transport Workers’ Federation for alleged libel, judgment was given for plaintiff for £275 and costs.

“We know that strychnine would be deadly for blackbirds, but if we used it, particularly around the town of Palmerston North, there would be small boys dead by nightfall.” —A Manawntu delegate at the fruitgrowers’ conference at Wellington. The last of the returned soldier trainees have now concluded their course of instruction at the Central Development Farm, at Levin. Ninety men passed through the institution, each spending four months there, "during which time they attended lectures by the Farm experts and got a valuable insight into practical and scientific farming. The Rev. G. S. Cook, of Palmerston N., will be the speaker at the local Methodist Church this evening in connection with the Methodist Centenary Celebration. Mr Cook is a lecturer of repute, and his address on early Methodism in New Zealand should be extremely interesting. The public are cordially invited to attend. Sad misfortune befell Mr Thomas Jackson, a 70-vear-old Kaiko-

ura resident last week. While rising from the breakfast table on Tuesday lie slipped and fell to the floor, breaking a thigh. On I lie Thursday while he lay in the lvaikoura Hospital, his wife was found unconscious on the floor of their house. She also was removed lo the hospital, and died there a few hours later. The old couple had lived in Kaikoura for over 40 years.

Edward Donovan, one of the duo who created a sensation at Wanganui recently by attempting to shoot a policeman, and was for that offence sentenced to terms of imprisonment aggregating 15 years, was sentenced a I Wellington on Saturday to a term of three years’ imprisonment, to run concurrently with the sentence imposed at Wanganui, upon charges of breaking, entering and theft. These offences took place at Wellington prior to the Wanganui sensation, and were still under investigation when prisoner was before the- Court at Wanganui.

As yet the road to Mangahao extends only as far as the edge of tin steep hill which coniines the bed oi the stream, and stores are conveyed from where the mad ends to the camp 200 feet below by what is probably the steepest tramline in the world. Two trucks, each with four pairs of wheels, are run up and down the perpendicular face of the cliff on wooden rails, and are held by a stout steel cable to an electric winch. The weight of the descending truck draws the other one up, and so the earn)) is supplied with a! its needs without the necessity of conveying goods by the tortuous bridle track which is the only other means of communication with the upper world.

A man who reaches the extraordinary age of 10(1 is a figure of interest; and Mr William AA’hite, who is an inmate of the Home for tin Aged Needy at AYdiington, has that unusual distinction. Ilis birthday was celebrated on Saturday with the formality called for by such an occasion. The matron, Miss Mackay. provided afternoon tea, and Air G. Petherick, chairman of the trustees, presided, and conveyed congratulations and good wishes to the guest. Air P. Al'Kenzie, .superintendent of the home, expressed the staff's congratulations to Mr AA’hite, who was heartily cheered as he rose to cut the birthday cake, which was the gift of Airs Petherick. Among the congratulatory messages received was the following telegram from the Governor-General: “Her Excellency and I send you .hearty congratulations on the ouc hundred and sixth anniversary of your birthday, and warmest good wishes for continued good health. —Signed, Jellicoe.”

A painful experience betel Air AA'illiam Howard, aged 83 years, last Saturday afternoon (says the Otago Daily Times). Air Howard follows the vocation of a gold miner, cradling the auriferous wash in the Kuriwao stream, which flows down the South AVyndham slopes (reports the Farmer). The chimney of his hut took lire, and he was ascending a ladder in investigate when lie fell heavily to the ground, fracturing the neck of one of his thigh bones. He was aide to reach an outhouse, whence he witnessed the' total destruction of his hut and all its contents, including his tools, clothes, and a much-prized collection of books and other cherished things. There, too, he remained in anxiety and without a bite of food for upwards of 36 hours —until Sunday morning, when Air Peter Campbell happened to be in the vicinity, and heard the old man’s cry. He was promptly removed to the Gore Hospital, jvhere he is doing well. Air Howard is one of the few remaining pioneers of the historial Gabriel’s Gully rush, and he attended the diamond jubilee celebrations in connection therewith held at Lawrence on Friday, Afay 20th last.

To-day is the shortest day of the year, . The six-reel Drury drama, “The Best-of Luck,” screened at the Town Hall Saturday. —Advt, The Borough Council and Beautifying Society conferred this after-P noon in reference to matters in coinji aection with the beautifying of Easton Park.

In the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui on Thursday, Harold J. Salmon, accountant in the Native Lands Department, was charged with the theft of £338, the property of the New Zealand Government. Accused was remanded until Monday, bail being allowed in two sureties of £l5O.

A movement is on foot locally to establish a Men’s Social Club. The first steps in connection with- same have been taken, by a number of the country residents, and a meeting was held on Saturday night, when a committee was set up to go fully into the proposal, and submit a report at a meeting to be held in a fort-

night’s time

A ear containing Mr Joplin, his "Sister, and Miss Hemingway, of Levin, fell over the Otaki gorge on Sunday. Miss Joplin had both collar bones broken, and was bruised about the head, and is suffering from concussion. She was conveyed to the Otaki Hospital. Tlie other occupants were not seriously injured.

Arrivals in the Dominion during May numbered 4,047, including 008 children. Departures in the same month were 3,094, including 385 children. Departures exceed •arrivals by 489. In May, 1920, there was an excess of arrivals of 353. Chinese immigrants numbered 30 (including 11 females), and 79 Chinese (including 15 females) left the country.

A special general meeting of all active and honorary members of the Foxton Defence Rifle Club, and others interested, will be held in the Town Hull on Thursday evening next, at 8 o’clock, to discuss and make arrangements for the annual ball. The club specially invites all ladies willing to assist to attend. The club finances arc very low, and it is hoped, as a result of the annual ball, that affairs will be put on a sound financial basis. The club is a useful institution, and one deserv,ng of generous public support, and l is hoped that all who can make it convenient to attend Thursday night’s meeting will do so.

One of the best-known men in Wellington commercial circles, Mr Arthur Edward Pearce, died on Sunday, after a brief illness. At ihe time of his death Mr Pearce was managing director of Levin and Co., Ltd., a member of the Advisory Board of the Shaw, Saville, and Albion Company,. a director of the Wellington Gas Company, and chairman of the New Zealand Board of the National Mutual Life Association. Mr Pearce was fifty-eight \ears of age, and was a son of Colonel Edward Pearce, who was a pioneer settler in New Zealand. Mr Pearce loaves a widow and two daughters—Mrs Hudson, wife of Mr F. S. Hudson, of Messrs Murray Roberts, Ltd., and Mrs Stout, wife of Dr. Stout. His only son, Mr Neil Pearce, lost his life in action as a member of the Flying Corps. Messrs Garrity and Sou., Ltd., of Palmerston N., notify that they will he trucking pigs at Foxton on Monda v, June 27th.