The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2404, 14 March 1922, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The retail price of! milk in Auckland Ims been reduced from 7d to (id a quart.

Accounts amounting to £1,424 11s Id were passed for payment at last night’s Council meeting.

/ A man fell from a third-storey window of a boardinghouse in W ellington on Sunday night, and escaped with bruises and abrasions. On Sunday week, Maxell 26th, special Harvest Festival services will be held at the local Methodist Church.

The ear belonging to the Justice Department that was stolen from outside the Wellington gaol, was recovered at Napier yesterday. Two men, named Harold Burton Hay and James Harold O’Brien, were charged with the theft and remanded. A notable land mark on the southern ocean bench, the last masi of the wrecked Hyderabad, has fallen during Ihe «recehf heavy gales. The Hyderabad was wrecked on the beach in 187 b. forty-three,- years ago. She was an'ail-steel boat, and had l wo hollow steel masts.

Those .present al last night’s Council meeting were: His Worship the Mayor (John Cbrvstnll, Esq.), and Councillors Bryant, Smith, Boss, Marlin, Thompson, Walker, Coley and Rand. An apology was received from Cr. Whibley. Mr Downes, gas manager, was also in attendance.

A Hamilton taxi-driver was awarded £15.00 damages against the Waikato County Council, in the Supreme Court at Hamilton last week. The Council had left a road cutting unfenced, and the, plaintiff’s car had been precipitated down an embankment and destroyed by fire. At last night’s Council meeting the Borough Ranger reported as follows:—“During the month I have impounded seven cows and three horses. I have ‘arrested’ four which were released to t heir* owners. Driving fees to the amount of 3s have been collected and paid to the Town Clerk. ’’ —A dopted. A Woodville telegram states that Charles Peckham, while driving through from Wanganui, met with an accident in the Manawatu Gorge. His horse took fright at an approaching motor, and hacked the gig over the bank, a sheer drop of 60 feet, into the river. Mr Peckham jumped clear, and was uninjured, but the horse was killed and the gig smashed.

A local resident recently set a trap for a rodent, which was duly imprisoned. A cat spotted its imprisoned enemy, and carried it off together with the trap. The owner was concerned at the loss of the trap, and blamed some light-finger-ed delinquent for petty theft until liis suspicions were dispelled by observing pussy in the distance endeavouring to extricate her prey. While wandering among the sand hills almost opposite the wreck of the Hyderabad on Sunday, a couple of local residents fopnd the lid of a coffin, rough hewn from to'tara timber. The lid had been fastened with copper nails. Nearby were a few bones, a button and some decayed fabric. The locality is probably the site of a Maori settlement of many years ago. The local Retailers’ Association have forwarded to the Chairman of the School Committee a cheque for £lO towards the annual picnic fund, in response to an appeal from the Committee. The funds of the Association have b.een called on freely of late, but the Association felt that the cause was a deserving one. The Association also decided to close their premises on the day of the picnic, in order to allow employers and employees to join with the school in the outing.