LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2402, 9 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A sports meeting was held at Taikorea yesterday. Jim Jeffries, the pugilist, has joined Billy Sunday in evangelising work, says a New York cable. The price of milk at Invercargill has fallen from (id to 34d per quart. Mr P. C. Freetli, formerly of Palmerston North, has received ah appointment on the literary staff of the Sydney Morning Heraldv At the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday, Henry Maitland pleaded guilty to embezzling £ll6, the funds of the Rowing Club, of which lie was secretary. Sentence was deferred. An Ilmkara resident informed a Levin Chronicle representative that there is an unusually thick crop of blackberries in that district this year. Anyone wanting a kerosene tin full would pick it in half an hour, he said.

Great crowds witnessed t-lie funelal of Mervyn Gannon, who died from the injuries inflicted by a shark at Coogee, Sydney. The cortege was beaded by a squad of mounted police and a police band.

The British War Office has issued a warning to relatives of missing soldiers ' against-., a bogus German organisation known as the “Dead Soldiers’ Society,” which offers to trace missing men in return for certain fees.

Radium is now used to remove tonsils by a New York surgeon, who has perfected a painless method of burning out the diseased tissue. The radium is held in instruments placed in the mouth, and the operation requires but twenty minutes.

Levin retailers arc objecting to ino many shop days for special efforts. A, young girl named Eafrclly was knocked down by a motor car while crossing Broadway, Palmerston N., on. Tuesday, and sustained a broken leg, necessitating her removal to the hospital.

A visitor to Palmerston North, who has just completed a tour of both- Islands, told a Manawatu Times representative that the slump is being more severely felt in the South than in the' North. In his opinion, the most prosperous centre in t lie North Island at the present time is New Plymouth. /

On and after Saturday, 11th inst., the business premises of all the Banks in New Zealand will be open for business on every Saturday from half-past nine* o’clock until half-past eleven o’clock of the morning (9.30 a.in. until 11.30 a.m.), instead of from . ton o’clock until noon, as heretofore.

A meeting of the directors of the Wanganui Woollen Mills decided, as the,financial conditions’ were improving and stabilising, to proceed with the erection and equipping of a thirty-loom mill. The latest advice shows that the price of machinery at Home has been reduced, and the action of the directors in suspending operations till there was h fall in prices was amply justified.

As evidence of the sterling values mi offer at; the C. M. Ross Coy. s, a lady motoring through Foxton from Wellington was so taken with the values showing that she walked in to the showroom and purchased a costunle at £1 5s worth £5 ss, remarking that this was the cheapest and best fitting costume she had ever had. We have still a few left.*

Thousands of mutton birds were observed at Ocean Bondi (Southland) last week. The birds bad driven shoals of small li-Ji like sardines inshore, and these were gathered by pimple in buck/ls, basins, and baskets, in fad, iii anything that would contain them. Despite the presence of a large number of people, the birds flew amongst them fearlessly, and continued, to food on their helpless prey.

At a meeting of Sandon residents a motion was passed protesting against the action of the Education Department in not. erecting a new school, as the present school is insanitary, and in a state, of decay. It was staled that -if the Department does not take some action, the closing of Hie school should lie. considered, so as to bring matters to a head. It was decided to ask the Minister of. Education to visit the district so as to see the position of affairs. »

'The question of dealing with Maoris was being discussed in the New Plymouth Supreme Court last week, when Mr .Justice Chapman made some observations as to bis experiences of such cases. Much was heard, lie said, of the Europeans getting the best, of the deals, but he had known eases in which the Native had “taken in” the European handsomely. In Auckland he found an instance in which one old gentleman had sold his land three separate times to different owners.

Free beer! The great occasion of Princess Mary’s wedding day did not go uncelebrated in at least one part of Auckland, states the Auckr land Star, one hotel marking the historic social event by instituting, between the hours of 5 and 6 p.m., that popular function, “free beer.” Needless to say, the celebration was immediately popular. A number,of impromptu speeches were made, and the health of the bridal couple toasted freely. “Blime,” one man was heard to Remark afterwards, in deep chagrin,A‘and I never heard about it till one minute to 6.”

A heavy landslide occurred in the immediate vicinity of Wellington’s main thoroughfare early on Friday morning. The fall occurred of aboui 50 tons of clay between the Marist Brother’s School in Bouleott Street- and the hack of the Grand Hotel. The heavy rain of the day before must, have loosened the clay, and a waterpipe, being choked, assisted the descent of the soft clay on to the outbuildings' of the Grand Hotel, all over the yard, and right out into Willis Street. Fortunately, beyond the necessity for clearing ihe earth away, very little damage was done.

William Ilickling is a young man who lias always shown an utter disregard for bis responsibilites under the Defence Act, and be has established something of an unenviable record in the matter of fines and other penalties, all of which have had little or no effect on him. Up till Tuesday, when the made another appearance before the Wellington Court, lie had contributed £37 in fines to the State coffers, had undergone twenty-eight days’ detention. and been deprived of his civil rights. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., fined him another £5, bringing the total up to £42.

“Live wisely and well.” —Britton. Never tolerate any bronchial affections, coughs, or colds. Nip them in the bud with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. The remarkable mediHowevez - , insipient maladies oftcinal properties compounded in this splendid specific promptly drive away stubborn coughs and colds, and also give gratifying relief to the throat and bronchial passages. “Baxter’s” is rich and warming —a firm favourite with young and old alike. It is also a dependable tonic, revitalising the blood and nerve cells. Always keep Baxter's Lung Preserver handy. Obtainable ’at all chemists and stores, 2s 6d a large bottle. —Advt. 1

About 11 o’clock on Monday morning l the body of Evan Sorjeant v. discovered in the bush three miles from Ohura, with a service rifle lying alongside. Deceased had apparently been out pig-shooting, and climbed a tree in order to get a better shot at the pigs, but in getting down again, slipped, and the rifle, turning round, exploded against his head.

The Napier telegraphist, J. T. Evans, who was dismissed from the Post and Telegraph service in connection with the leakage of the Springbok football cablegram sent by a correspondent to South African papers, has lodged' an appeal against the decision. Three other officials were dismissed without a formal inquiry being held in accordance with the regulations, hut after this point had been drawn attention to by the Board of Appeal they were reinstated and each lined £lO.

Mr Charles Simmons, well-known in Fox ton, and who was in business in the town for some ten years, has returned, and is re-starting business in the Main Street, in premises situated in Perrenu's Building. The business, which was formerly known as the Foxton Cycle and Motor Co., will commence immediately, and will he under the personal supei-vision of Mr Simmons. A large stock of cycles and accessories have arrived. A.- in the past, the key-note of the business will lie reliable workmanship and the keenest, prices.