GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2497, 24 October 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Clifford Pritchnrd, aged 10 years, was returning home from school at Miramar when he fell in front of an approaching motor-lorry, a wheel passing over his liody. Death was instantaneous.

During a leaping competition at the llawke’s liay Show on Thursday, Miss A. Brooker lost a stirrup, and being unable to check her steed it took a jump, and the rider was thrown heavily to the ground. .Miss Brooker was carried off, and upon the arrival of medical assistance it was discovered that she was suffering from severe bruises, although no hones were broken. Many ingenious methods to promote an inflow of cash are employed by committees raising funds (says the Auckland Herald). Residents of Devonport were awakened at an early hour one morning this week by a brigade of sellers of rolls for breakfast. As a consequence the funds in connection with a forthcoming queen carnival were increased by £2B. A message from Sydney states that (Tic growing prevalence of crime is causing the Government and police authorities grave concern and the Premier has summoned a conference to discuss the question. One of the matters for discussion is the inadequacy of the sentences, on which there has been strong' comment, for some time by judges and the Police Department. The following illuminating' paragraph is culled from an American trade circular: “The Seriate hus at last passed the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. It is generally expected that the President will veto (he measure; in fact, it is likely that il was passed with this expectation, and that many voles were cast for it from political reasons, and not from a desire to see it enacted." Mr Harding did veto the. Bill. A political rally was lieing held in a large hall in London. The speaker was a man who had a rather weak voice and similar political policies. A man in the gallery cupped up his hands behind his ears in a vain effort to hear. then shouted: “Oi cuwn’t. 'ear! Oi caw n't ’ear!” Another man sitting in front of the platform rose to his feet and shouted hack: “Yn caw n't ’ear. Well, thank ’ettven and s:il down!” A fall of red snow was lately noticed near Briancon, in an Alpine district, amazing the inhabitants of the country and giving scope for the most fantastic suppositions. The snow, on liehig analysed, was found to contain ochre dust, and this was thought to have been brought from the Sahara in the stream of a powerful sirocco wind. Another suggestion was that it came from the south of Franco, on the Riviera, where Ihc soil is red.

As illustrative of the high values of land in the suburbs of Wellington, no loss than in tlie country, a property has just changed hands at Seatoun nr the rate of well over £2OOO per acre. The former owner has bought a place at Otaki, consisting of ‘l6 acres of good land, and carrying a tourroomed cottage and scullery, tor less than the price at which lie'sold his properly at Seatoun, which was U acres and had a five-roomed cottage on it. It was situated, however, a few yards from the tram terminus.

"The greatest asset to any man," said Mr T l_'. List, in an address to commerce student* UI A'ow I‘lyinomh. “is not lhe extent of his hank balance, or oilier material possessions, hut his character. If men in business are of high principle their character will lie reflected in their towns, in which flic public, especially the outside public, will come, to have confidence and respect. There is nothing as penetrating as charade! —good or ill. A few unprincipled men can give a whole town a had name, from which it might take years to recover."

l’rices for beef at the Westliold (Auckland) fat stock sales on Wednesday snowed no alteration from last week’s rates. Extra choice ox realised ill 5s per 1001 b, other grades realising from 15s to £1 4s according to quality. Cow and heifer beef brought from 15s to ±1 3s per 1001 b. .Mutton prices were firm at last week’s rates. Wethers in rlie wool realised from £1 3s to £1 14s, shorn wethers from £1 to £1 11s, ewes in the wool £1 2s to £1 9s, shorn ewes ill to ±1 5s 9d. Spring lambs sold well at advanced prices, lunging from £1 4s to ±ll 14». 'There was u steady demand for pigs til late rates, choppers and bacon - pigs bringing from ±ll 13s to £3 4s.

"In 1871, just, 51 years ago," says die Napier Telegraph, "about ±2SUO would have purchased a. square mile ol land, the ownership of which to-day would mean an immense fortune. In Unit year the late Mr Thomas Tanner, who was so intimately connected with the rise and progress oi the town of Hastings for many years, offered for sale a block of 640 acres as a whole for £2560. that is to say, at. ±4 per acre. Thai area extended from the site of what is now the L’nioii Bank corner to the Havelock bridge on one side, and on the other along the Kariimu road to the site subsequently utilised by the late Mr C. A. Fitzroy for residential purposes. The block of land, which includes the site of 1 fastings, was purchased from the natives in 1864 at 30s an acre.”

U is estimated thore are at the present time approximately 50,000 miles of formed roads and bridle-tracks in the Dominion, of which 27,000 miles are metalled. It is further estimated that an additional 20,000 miles require to he formed before the reading of the Dominion can be considered complete. Mr T. B. Clay, of Auckland, who recently returned from a 17 months' lour of the Uld World, save the thing that struck him most, perhaps, was the large machinery at Panama Canal for coaling ships, an integral part being a giant grab that lifted six tons at a time. The ship he was on took in 1000 tons of coal in remarkably quick time, and at. the close of the job there was not enough coal dust to fill a mail’s hands. Mr Clay referred feelingly to the splendid name earned in the Old Country by the New Zealand soldiers, who he said hail left a memory that could not be more honoured. CONSERVATIVES’ BATTLE CRY. “PEACH ABROAD, TRANUdUTY AT HOME.” LONDON, Oet. 20. The Daily Express states: “the meeting at the Carlton Club saved the Conservative. Party, whoso main bait leery will be ‘Pence abroad, tranquility at Home. Its first mission is to make peace with t urkey, recall the armies from Constantinople and Mesopotamia, and cease to protect the Jewish republican autocracy. The Daily Chronicle says: “Many people at Home arid abroad will seek assurances regarding the continuity of certain cardinal policies. We forecast with some confidence two points. Firstly, no change m orientation will be tried in regard to foreign affairs. The critics of Mr Lloyd George in France and elsewhere who based ben hopes on a change of Government, will bo disappointed. Secondly, the Irish itcaty must stand. Wo cannot conceive any possible Government abandoning- it.’ The Daily Herald, in appealing to Labom to close its ranks during the general old - lion, replies spiritedly to those, including Mr Austen Chamberlain, who accuse tin. party of being linked with, revolutionary socialism, revolutionary and labour. cu tainlv it is its desire to get downi to fundamentals, tackle the causes of - evils, and build up society on sounder foundations, but to accuse Labour of being revolutionary in the sense implied is eitt ei extremely ignorant or - extremely h °The t 'Westminster Gazette says thatconception tlie continuance ot tn tion has been a thorough “However, the present need , s to look forwards, not backwards. W e look to the country now to do justice bd w t * various parties to carry us back to tk.a u and sincere politics. —A. and N.Z. cable.