Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2375, 5 January 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Diggers’ Emit Supply” did good business at the seaside'on New Year’s Day.

An old settler of Sandon, in the person of Mr Alex. Coekburn, died a. few days ago, at the age of eigh-ty-five years.

Mr David Murray, a well-known and respected resident of Wanganui, died on Tuesday, at the age of fifty-seven years.

At the local seaside on New Year’s Day hot water was being retailed at Is per billy. The Beach Improvement Committee netted £4 8s 4d for selling water at half the «above cost.

Nominal ions for the Southern Maori electorate close on Tuesday next. It is expected that there will be at least four candidates in the field.

Lying on the floor near a range, with a gas pipe in his mouth, John March, 76 years of age, was found dead in his kitchen at 30 Dongles Street, Ponsonby, on Saturday morning.

In the first nine months of 1921 there were 53 industrial disturbances in New Zealand. The average duration of the troubles was 8.6 days; 84 firms and 8,002 employees were affected; and the approximate loss of wages was £68,202. : \

The locallv-owncd Rouen was only a head away from the deadheaters in the Auckland Racing Club Handicap. The time occupied for the mile and a-half was 2.32. Uncle Ned was favourite, but he finished a long way hack.

Eoxton escaped much, of the had weather experienced in other parts from Saturday to Monday. It rained hard oil Saturday, but Sunday was a comparatively fine day, and Monday, Tuesday and yesterday were perfect.

The weather was very stormy in the Wairarapa during the week end. The Wairarapa Races were postponed on Saturday. In the Pahi.aiua district creeks were flooded, and considerable damage was done to roads and bridges.

The world’s sculling championship will lack place on the Wanganui River this afternoon, between A rust and Hadfield. A large number of people from all parts of New Zealand are present to witness.the event. The weather is gloriously roads, bridges and crops.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday, Thomas Phillips and Thomas Arthur Roberts were cadi lined £IOO, the former for using a building in Tory (Street as a common gaming house, and the latter for permitting the same to he kepi by Phillips. Nine men found on the premises were each lined 40s.

The public is reminded of the enlortaininenl to he given in the Methodist schoolroom this evening. The programme will consist of elocutionary items by Miss Vervinn Minifie (of Wellington), assisted by the best local talent. Mr Farrell, of Wellington, a talented ban, joist, will also play a number of selections. The mystery parlour will provide amusement and mystification for

“There is plenty of work Jo he had in the Shannon district —indeed, rigid down Iho line,” said a Shannon farmer to a Manawatu Standard reporter. Men who were willing |c work, he said, could obtain employment quite easily if they left the town. The trouble whs that the majority of men nowadays would not work in the country, and this fact was responsible for so much unemployment, which at this season of the year should not exist at all.

When the covers were taken off a consignment of bananas which arrived in Masferfon the other day, a large r<it gsc aped from one of the cases. The railway hands immediately gave chase, and captured the rodent, which was summarily killed. The bananas came from Fiji, but lhe rat may possibly have got into the case at Auckland. In any event it shows how rats may scatter the germs of plague all over the country, even far from the seaboard.

A traveller who has just returned from a tour in the South Island states that there are hundreds of motor cars in various gai’ages there, being 'sent in for sale by those who could no longer afford to run them (reports the Wanganui Herald). He was also informed that some North Island dealers had managed to secure some good nibbles in cars in the south, and had shipped them to the North Island and turned them over at a profit.

Advice tins been received by the Wanganui office of S. Holm and Co. from Captain S. Holm, that he has purchased a steamer on licliall of a recently-formed company for the South lshmd-\\ aiiganni trade. Iho vessel secured is the Kylobeg, a new steamer which has jtisi been completed at Glasgow. I lie-vessel has a currying capacity of between 860 and 901) lons. The vessel has sailed from Glasgow for New Zealand,, with Captain Holm in charge, and is due here in February, when she will immediately enter the trade.

At present there appears to he a number of old and curious, and in some cases valuable, coins in circulation (stales the Dunedin Star). Amongst the change which a reporter received for a pound note several days ago were a Kruger half-crown, two King William halfcrowns (one dated 1834, and the other 1836), and a half-crown of the second year of the reign of Queen Victoria' (1829). All these coins were in an excellent state of preservation, suggesting perhaps that they have lain in a collection for many years, and been brought out again to tide someone over the Christmas season. “Sound health’s an asset.” — • Bankes. en undermine the most robust constitutions. Colds,. coughs, and inlluenza are always in waiting to attack you, but they can be given short shift with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. “Baxter’s” is a dependable remedy. It gets right to the cause of the trouble, rooting it out neck and crop. ' And it also -possesses ideal tonic properties. Fills you with vigour, health, strength and vitality. Get a large 2s 6d b >tt!e from your chemist or grocer NOW! —Advt. 3

Owing to the rains, blight'-iilp' made its- appearance in many lal te potato crops in this district. H 1 '?I •' An aeroplane passed over Foxti^ 11 going in a northerly direction, at an* altitude of about 3,000 ft., at 11.45. ■this morning. ’ The wet weather on New Year’s Eve prevented Lie usual gate-lift-ing practice, and other practical jokes.

The recent rain storm and flooded state, of creeks did a considerable amount of damage to crops in this district.

tinder the new Board of Control, the Mannwatu Gorge is being greatly improved for traffic, and the most dangerous bends, have been widened., „

The Irish treaty is still being discussed by Dail Eireann. It is believed'Hhat the forces of the ratifieationists are equal, and that nine members have not given either party a definite pledge.

The arterial, roads under the jurisdiction of Manawatu, Nairn ngn, Horowhenua and Rangitikei County Councils are in splendid order, and reflect credit upon those hollies.

The champion rutty road between Wellington. and Wanganui is that between Carterton and Mas teuton, on the Tarafahi. Yet. there are thousands of tons of-good metal alongside. Brethren of the Loyal Foxton Lodge, M.U., I: 0.0. F., are reqVcsAed to meet at the Lodge room at I. p.m. to-morrow, in order to attend the funeral of the late wife of Bro. E. W. Withers.

The Manawatu Council are effecting repair’s to the Whirokino bridge. Tn connection with this structure some person has been removing- the copper sheathing,, and the police have been asked to investigate.

Twenty thousand firearms have been registered in the Palmerston North police district during the pfist year. Two hundred of these were automatic pistols. Compensation was paid on 110 pistols which were surrendered.

The C. M. Ross Coy.’s premises will be closed all day Monday, 9th inst., for the purpose of removing stocks from temporary premises. Big bargains in all departments on Friday and Saturday, this week. — Advt.

Tom Simmionetti, the wellknown Glasgow boxer, while fighting Willie Devanney, was knocked out in the eighth round, the blow driving several teeih through his tongue. Simmionetti died in a Glasgow infir mar v.

In the children’s ward at the Auckland Hospital there is a little fellow who was sent in because a rat had bitten him on the nose when lie was sleeping. The boy’s face became much swollen, and the child had what is called rat fever. Cases of rat bite amongst children are not .uncommon, and the effects may develop into a serious malady if not taken in time.

There is on view in Mr Go]tier’s window a large coffee pot, -which, among many other things, will take flight from its present position, and be reproduced from mid-air in a subtle and bewildering manner by the illusionist during the varied entertainment at the [Methodist Hall to-night. The phenomenon, we are told, i* purely magic, designed ir some mysterious way by a local gentleman, Mr Aitcheson, who contemplates travelling abroad with some larger structure, which, it is believed, will baffle the magicians of the’world.

An exciting incident occurred on New Year’s Day at the Castleeliff Beach, Wanganui, where several hundred people were disporting themselves in the surf. For considerably over a mile the beach is quite (lat and perfectly safe for bathing. A party of seven young people, comprising three young men and four young women, who were a little more adventurous than the others, however, worked northward with the set of the tide, and ultimately found practically the only “pothole” in the beach. In a very few minutes the whole party were in difficulties. None of the girls could swim, but fortunately the men could do so. A shore alarm was given very quickly, with the result that all were saved, though some were in a very exhausted condition. A lad named A. Carbee.k was almost: drowned. He tried to save a young' woman, but she practically caught him round .the neck and dragged him under until he lost consciousness. Eventually both were rescued, and the members of the Surf and Life Saving Clubs were kept busy .bringing round the more than lialf-drowned party. It was somg time before Carbeek was restored, and eventually he was taken to the hospital, pneumonia developing. A lad named A. M’Kenzie distinguished himself;by saving two of the young women, and became so exhausted that he himself had to be rescued. Mr Archie Sharpe, Darcy Had field’s pacer, also assisted in getting some of the party out of the danger zone. The Surf Slub had an emergency reel right opposite the spot where the accident occurred, but found that some thief had taken the life line.