Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2504, 9 November 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

William Lowe, aged To year-, wafound dead in hi.- lint at Rocky Point, near Cromwell yesterday mo mini;'. A member of the Weraroa cricket team 10-t a 10s note in a peculiar way during tin* progress of a match willi Eoxton mi Saturday. Some malelie- in hi- irou-er pocket look lire by some means, and ignited the note, which was also in the pocket. Tiie Defence Department ha- arranged for tiring minute guns throughout the Dominion wherever guns are available on Saturday next, Armistice Day. One gun will be tired at eleven o'clock and one at two minutes past eleven to mark the interval for ,-ilence. Captain Era/.er. in charge of the local Salvation Army Corps, lias received notice to “move on." and will leave in about a fortnight's time. (leiicral regret will be fell at her departure. not only by the Army folk Inti by the general public with whom she came in contact, and particular iy those in di-tre.-sed circumstance.', 1,, whom -lie willingly rendered Cliri-liati service. •■lf the farmer of Denmark can i-.tise the average production of .TOO ib- of fal per cow. which was the no rea-oii why New Zealand farmer- cannot do the same, said .Mr W. f ield, M.l 1 ., in an address at \\ei;,roa. Mr field, staled the counlrv wanted increased production,

■ •iid tlie rai-iiig of the return of 100 !b- of fate per cow. which was the average out put just now, would he a good move in that direction.

An attempt to eommii suicide, it I- reported, was made by an inmate of a cell at the Auckland police slation. The man had hern arrested on a charge of mischief, ii being alleged that lie threw a cushion seal out of-a carriage window oil a train

returning i'r< m the EOer-.ie races. Shortly after the man had heeti placed in the cell the walehhousc keeper, hearing an unfamiliar noise, proceeded to the cell and, it is slated, found the man hanging by the neck front I lie cell grating, lie had stripped off his -liirt and used it as a rope. The man was released and found to he little the worse for his experience.

A few days back a Wellington youth was out lishing lit the Wellington heads with a retired official of tin* Harbour Board, bis hand hanging over the gunwale of the boat about two feet clear of the water, when he was attacked by a large ■ burraeouta, Ins hand being badly lorn. The lisli (relates the New Zealand Times) leaped quite clear of the water at the limb. The party immediately returned and the injured band was given medical attention.

The euronial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr .James X. C. Patterson, of Bulls, who expired at the Palmerston North Hospital on November L following injuries received as a rosuit of a motor cycle accident on the road near Sainton, was held at Palmerston yesterday. The euroni*r round thiil dentil hod been duo to a fractured skull caused through an accident whilst the deceased was riding his motor cycle.