LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2524, 30 December 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald wll not be published on Tuesday next.

A hedgehog was captured in a local garden on Thursday evening. This is the lirst of these little, animals seen within the borough.

The next Dominion conference of the Church of England Men’s Society will he hold at Palmerston N. in Easter week, 1024.

If you want an enjoyable day’s pleasure attend the Athletic Club s sports on Easton Park on Tuesday next. First event at .13 a.m.

At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Florublow. J.P., David Burke, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and discharged.

The two Miss Narbey- who received severe injuries in Ihe recent railway accident at Weraroa, are making satisfactory progress in the Palmerston Hospital.

Shipping companies includin'! the Commonwealth Line, have reduced outward freight rates to Australia I)v 5/- ii ton, both by weight and measurement, commencing on January Ist, states a London cable.

The totalisator investments at yesterday’s Manawatu meeting were jf134,17!) as compared with £4<S.2OJ) on the corresponding day last year, a decrease of £12,030, making a total of £l2-1,250 for the meeting, as against £150,022—a decrease of £32,372.

S]>eaking in reply to the toast of his health, at a valedictory gathering at Pa tea, Mr F. W. Grainger, who is leaving for England to purchase another steamer for his company, said that when he first took over the management of the West Coast Refrigerating Company the total dairy produce put through the works was 1,300 tons. Last year it was 18,000 tons, which included 220,000 crates of cheese and 80,000 boxes <>f butter. Mr Grainger also paid a tribute to the work accomplished by the Patea Harbour Board. The work recently carried out bv the board had done more than had been expected, he said.

.'.ll the local business places will ( kserve holidays on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. While so much i- being said on the importance of training women to he wives, far too little is heard of training men to he husbands. The Archdeacon of Kingston. James William Elsom, aged 61. married, committed suicide with a rifle at Mansford, near Port Chalmers on Thursday. lie was formerly an engine driver employed by the j Union Company, and had been in failing health lately. Mr Hornblow, ranger for the Round Bush reserve, is endeavouring to get the Forestry Department to plant a belt of trees on the outskirts of this magnificent piece of hush and with this object in view Sir James Wilson will visit the reserve at an early date.

John Tuhi, charged with the murder of Henry Herbert Knight, at Jolnisonville, on November 14th, was again before the Magistrate at Wellington on Thursday. Tn granting a remand the Magistrate said in all probability a further remand would he asked for until an indictable da v.

Week-end rabbit shooting at Oroua Downs and at Bninesse attracts numbers of Palmerston N. shpotists. Rabbits are very plentiful on the Pa liners t on-Foxton road at nights and some motorists take pleasure in spot-lighting and running them down. It is a common sight to see numerous mutilated and dead rabbits along the road. The latest dictum in history of a secondary school boy should prove interesting to those engaged in spiritualistic research. He declared that if Queen Elizabeth favoured the Protestants she thought the Catholics would hate while if sin l favoured the Catholics the Protestants would hate her so she became a .medium.

Tn a Police Court (says the Dunedin Star) two lawyers got very excited over a legal argument. Matters reached such a pitch that they began to call each other names. “You’re an ass.” said one. “You’re a liar!” was the quick retort. . Then the Magistrate said: “Now that you gentlemen have identified each other, kindly proceed to the disputed points.”

Akapita Tahitangata, an educated Maori of Awahuri, now seventy years of age. states that he was the first Maori in Manawatu to open a post office savings bank account. He was prompted to do so by the .fact that his name, Tahitangata, means

“tho first man,’’ and in the hope that his fellow Maoris would follow him, and thus acquire the saving.- bank lmbit for his people.

An unusual case occupied the attention of the surgery staff at the Auckland Hospital the other day. An infant child named Darcy Self, who-e parents live at Tuakau, was X-rayed for the purpose of locating an iron staple which lie had swallowed. The child’s strange and dangerous “tit-bit” was found and the doctors were successful in removing the piece of iron without hurting the youngster. Archbishop O’Shea, who has ju-l returned to Wellington from a ten months’ visit to Great Britain and the continent in conversation with a “Times” reporter said: “I am very optimistic about the future of Ireland. lam sure that as soon as the present troubles are settled —and they will be settled in a very short time —there xvill then be a united Ireland and that in the next decade she will be one of the most prosperous States of Europe, because she has everything to make her prosperous—a fine people and a rich country.”

“He is a New Zealander by birth, a Cambridge man by education, a Canadian by reason of his professorship at McGill, and lie is known in this country as Director of the fainou- Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge and the successor of Davy, Tindall, and ‘J. J.’ Thompson at the Royal Institution. Tt was Sir Ernest Rutherford who announced last year hi- belief that electricity was not fluid, hut atomic, and next year, at Liverpool, we may expect to hear more about his favourite radium.” —The .Morning Post on Sir Erne-t Rutherford.

The Church of England Men’s Society Conference, held at Christchurch elected the following officers: — Vice-president, Rev. 11. G. Blackburne (Palmerston N.); Dominion treasurer, Mr J. W. Henderson (Wellington): Dominion auditor, Mr R. M. .Smiley (Wellington): Dominion Council, Archdeacon Russell (Oainaru), Canon Wilford (Christchurch), Rev. W. Bullock (Wellington), Messrs R. G. House, W. J. Lees, J. Snell and W. Nash (Wellington) and A. E. Harrison (Auckland).

Mr A. E. G. Rhodes died at liis Christ church residence on Tuesday morning, of heart trouble, from which he suffered for some time. Deceased, who was 63 years of age, wib one time Mayor of Christchurch. and a member of local bodies, and he also sat in Parliament for Gladstone and Geraldine. He was a Knight of the Order of St. John, and was intimately connected with Red Cross work during the war, for which he received the 0.8. E. At one time he was a director of the New Zealand Shipping Company and chairman of directors of the Press Company. He is survived by a widow and One son, Mr Tabu Rhodes, and one daughter, Mrs G. H. Hutton.

The River Orinoco has more tributaries than any other river. The total number is put at 2,500, including 493 large streams.

Master S. Jury, a pupil of the Omat-a (Taranaki) school has a

record of which he can feel justly proud. For nine and a half years he has not missed an attendance at school.

There was a Imsy scene at the shipping office at Wellington on Thursday afternoon when crews were being shipped for the Moeraki (for Melbourne) and Murama (for Sydney). More than sufficient men were offering and several were turned away disappointed.

On Monday next Mr F. Rout’s Foxton-Shanuon mail ear will leave Fox ton at 0.20 a.in. to connect with the south train at 7.20 a.m. and will meet the 0.8 p.m. train at Shannon from Wellington the same evening. The 8 a.m. for Wellington and 8 p.m. from Wellington will not run on Monday.

The French battle cruisers Jules Michelet and Victor Hugo have arrived at Melbourne. Admiral Gilly explained that his mission was an economic one as well as military and naval. The French authorities had requested them to ascertain the possibilities of increasing trade with the colonies.

Gordon Tod May pleaded guilty at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court to breaking and entering the shop of his employer, Mr William F. Therkleson, and stealing £46 15s 2d. He said that lie was short of money and wanted to go to Christchurch to see a. lady friend. Accused was committed for sentence.

The culling of the deer herds at Paraparaumu, Eketahuna, Mangalino, and Tauherenikau has been completed (stcites the “Levin Chronicle.”). These are all comparatively small herds, the largest in tiie province being located at Martinborough. The herd will be culled after the New Year.

“Contributor" writes re the distribution of gifts to local children on Christmas eve: “l hope next year that those responsible will show a little more consideration for the little tots, many of whom did not get a present while hoys of twelve and thirteen years got in early and were well treated.” Over 20 years ago a small syndicate of three enterprising farmers bought several thousand New Zealand made woollen rugs and sent them abroad for sale by a traveller. They reported that while travelling expenses absorbed /5 per cent, of tlie profits, the venture gave a nett return of 15 per cent.

It i> stated that a great deal of interest is being taken in the reported discovery of a gold deposit at W' angani, a fanning district, sixteen miles from Gisborne. Prospectors licenses have been applied for and it is anticipated that when these are available a mild “rush” will be made to the locality.

Otaki i- nerhaps. the only town in New Zealand where it would be difficult to say whether the European, Chinese or Maori predominated. The Europeans are attracted by the genial climate, the Chinese by the rich soil, and the Maori by both these, and by the fact that it was his anicsfral home. To escape the environment, many residents are building an attractive “all white” suburb near the seaside.

Despite the protests and promised penalties of local bodies in this district, freight-carrying motor lorries are on the increase. Numbers of them laden with wool and dairy produce proceed to Wellington daily and return with benzine and general merchandise. The roads suffer by reason of such heavy traffic and sooner or later it will be recognised by the powers that be, that roads must be eontsracted to meet this traffic.

Through their failure to poll one fourth of the number of votes polled by the successful candidates at the general election, the following candidates forfeit their deposits:— W. D. A dim ms, Manukau; C. Laf-t'ei-ry, Hamilton; E. Piggott, Rag hm: C. H. Chapman, Hawke’s Bay; V. A. Christensen, Palmerston N.; Rrss. Wanganui: H. S. Montgomerie, Ritngitikei; G. Tweedie, Taranaki; J. I). Lynch, Westland; R. D. Martin, Kaiapoi; R. M. Thomson, Christ church South; P. R. Needham, Temuka; W. >S. Maslin, Dunedin Central; N. Mclntyre, Awarna.

But for the plucky action of a lad named Grubb a fatality would have been recorded at the Wanganui seaside resort at Castleclifl. A man named Adams, an experienced swimmer, had the misfortune to be attacked by cramps while swimming beyond the breakers. There were few about the beach at the time, and for over a quarter of an hour Adams battled for dear life against a strong backwash, with portion of ltis body paralysed. Young Grubb thought there, was something wrong and went out with a life-line just in time. A couple of young fellows on the beach assisted Grubb prior to the arrival of members of the Surf Club but not before Adams had swallowed a good deal of sea water.