LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2334, 24 September 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

We desire to thank those who responded to the appeal for children’s clothing for a local deserving case. The managers of the Presbyterian Church have appointed Miss Ella Patterson as organist of the church. The friends of Mr Hillier, late manager of the local Co-op. Store, will be pleased to know that he is now out of hospital, and is making steady progress towards recovery. An excellent opportunity for lovers of good sacred orchestral music will be presented to-morrow evening, at the Methodist Church, when Mr 11. Osborne’s full orchestra will play during the service a number of sacred items from “The Sacred Wreath” (Carl Volti). The orchestra will also-lead in the singing of the hymns, which are specially selected for to-morrow, which is Dominion Day Sunday.

The invention of a young Russian, Adrian Semoiloff, has been tested at the London Hippodrome. By means of coloured rays, the application of the spectrum principle changes scenery, furniture, and costumes in full view of the audience. The performers wear the wierdest costumes of many colours, neutralised by powerful lights. Hippodrome audiences gasped in amazement to see Arabs dancing in an Eastern setting changed to an English countryside in evening dress.

About nine years ago Mr G. 11. Stiles erected and donated a church at the local seaside to the Methodist denomination. Services have been held in the building during the summer months each year, but have not been very largely attended for one reason or another. It has been decided by the local church committee to remove the building in sections and re-erect it on the local site to be used as a Sunday school and social hall. All the preliminaries in connection with its removal have been settled, and it is anticipated that the work will be completed in about six weeks’ time.

A man named Hall, alias James, a self-styled landowner, has been charged with fraud at Cardiff, involving £40,000. It is alleged that Hall ran a turf syndicate, promising investors twelve per cent, interest weekly. Money poured in in thousands. The clients received interest for two months, and then Hall disappeared, after withdrawing £16,000 in notes. Hall’s typist said the clients included clergymen, solicitors, business men, and police officers. She had to destroy all the correspondence daily.

A lady visitor to Wellington had a rather trying experience this week. She was passing a building near the General Post Office, when a quantity of fluid, evidently soup, was thrown from an upstairs room, landing on her hat and costume, and completely spoiling the outfit. The iady, who was extremely distressed, drew the attention of a member of the Times staff to the occurrence, but expressed a disinclination to pursue the matter further. Her hat and costume were covered with greasy spots.

It is not often that a local body loses anything so extensive as a gravel-pit, and finds it again after twenty years, this has happened to the Horowhcnun County Council (reports a contemporary). At lhe Council’s last meeting it was mentioned that the occupier of an acre of land on which the gravelpit is situated, and on which lie is running a pig farm, had offered to buy the land and pit from the council, and this was the first intimation members had received as to the council’s ownership. One member staled that it had been taken over from the Whirokino Road Board twenty years ago, and then forgotten'.

A-small boy, while searching under the floor of the Manchester Unity Hall in Dannevirke for bottles, got rather a surprise when he unearthed two cases of blasting powder, aggregating . 5011). weight. The powder was discovered buried in a hole, and was in excellent condition. The boys’ pa rents immediately conveyed the information to the police, who consider that the “find” had been there for three or four years, and discredit any theory as to it having been connected with a plot to destroy the premises. The cases bear the letters “D.C.A.,” which offer the suggestion that, they might have formed part of (lie stock of the old Dannevirke Co-operative Association, and were probably removed by some unauthorised person during the fire in October of 1917, and placed under (he building for safety. No fuses or anything of the kind were found with the powder.

Oh, Mary! Mary! always contrary! How does .your garden grow, dear? We know of the shells and the sAveet blue-hells, And “daffodils-all-of-a-roAV,” dear. But, oh, how funny! oh, dear, and oh, lor! What are you planting the peppermint for? If it’s for colds, you’d be Aviser, I’m sure, In buying Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 20

Mr E. Newman (Manawatu) has asked in the House of Representatives if the Government will consider the advisability of issuing a badge or medal to members of the New Zealand Police Force who have displayed exceptional bravery in the discharge of their duties. He mentioned that recently several cases have occurred where members of the Police Force have been fired upon whilst engaged in arresting criminals, and Magistrates and Judges have expressed the hope that the courage shown on such occasions would be recognised by the authorities. The only medal for distinguished service now open for members of the New Zealand Police Force is the King’s Medal, but as only thirty of these are granted annually for distribution throughout the whole Empire, it appears there is room for the issue of such a medal or badge as is now suggested.