LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2527, 9 January 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts amounting to £l-175 6s 3d were passed for payment at last night’s Borough Council meeting. An application from the poundkeeper to have water laid on at the pound cottage was granted at last night’s Council meeting. A mass meeting of boilermakers and ironworkers assistants at Sydney last week decided to return to work on the basis of 48-hours a week. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last night to fix the statutory half-holiday. Wednesday was unanimously agreed upon. By the Ruapehu, which is due at Wellington on Thursday, 185 assisted immigrants will arrive. Of this number, (53 are for Auckland, 27 for Wellington and 35 for Lyttelton. The Canadian Government - lias approved of a plan submitted by Commissioner Lamb, international secretary of the Salvation Army, for the settlement yj,Canada of 26,000 young women, youths and children, who will be selected in the Bi’itish Isles. Messrs Climie and Son have just completed a survey of the river from the wharf to the Heads for the Foxton Harbour Board. The old plant-i.— out of date and was prepared when the outlet of the river was about a mile and -a-half to the norl li. At the Magistrate's Court. Stratton!, recently, John Martin, who was found in charge of a motorear while in a drunken condition, was fined £lO and placed under a pi'ohibition order covering the Egmont and Taranaki licensing districts. The New York Public Relations Advisory Committee to the cinema industry, composed of leaders of' the national civic and educational organisations, passed a resolution opposing Arbuekle’s re-entry into tlie pictures, and declared it would be harmful to children to display his films. A local party left Foxton oil Sunday for the Mangahao hydro, works but on arriving at the ranges the vain fell in torrents and the trip had to be abandoned. The party did not anticipate encounting scuh a change in ..the weather at such a short distance from home and made no provision for the rainstorm.

A young' man named Kyte, aged 20, lias been in the Waikato Hospital for several days suffering from a malignant sore on the forehead. The disease was diagnosed as anthrax, an operation was performed, and (lie man’s recovery is now assured. The source of the infection has not been traced.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting an auctioneer's license was granted to the Awaliou Auctioneering Co.

During the month of December I cows and two horses were imlouuded by the borough ranger and Iriving fees to the amount of 8s olleeted.

There were present at last night’s Fhirougli Council the Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) and Crs. Coley, Walker, Smith, Bryant, Thompson, Alex. Ross, Wihibley and C. Rand.

At the Hawke’s Bay champion tennis tournament, Miss Mc.Farlane won the ladies singles .defeating Miss Knight, 13 —11. Air Walker defeated Mr Page in the men’s singles, (5—2, 7—5.

At last night’s Council meeting a motion of sympathy was passed lu Mr and Mrs G. Small and Mr D. Melver, in their recent bereavement. The motion was moved by the Mayor, seconded by Cr. Coley and carried in silence.

Robert 11. Ilalligan, aged 29, who bad been missing at Hokitika for eight days, was found hanging in the bush. He served at Gallipoli, winning the !).('.M‘. where he was wounded in the head. He leaves a widow and four young children. The brutal frankness of the New Zealander! The mal train pulls into a. station alongside a goods train chiefly made up trucks filled with sheep on their way to the freezing works. A lady makes some comment.. about the “beautiful white sheep.’’ Her companion (cheerfully) : “Oh! they’ll all have their 'throats cut by midday to-morrow.”

Mr Holder informs us that a generrtl ainvass Is to be made for flu•incial assistance towards the funds of the Silver Band (incorporated). He states that the band is a local institution and does not exist for personal profit. Now that the promotors have shown their bona Tides an(| have established the band on a legal basis he hopes that the public will do their part loyally by giving practical support and putting the band on a firm footing.

Mrs Mailin', the victim of the Maori tragedy, was well-known in Wnipukurflu as a hockey player, says the Express, and for several years was full-back for the Pohukura Club. The huband, Puhi Maiha, was also a hockey enthusiast and followed the Pohukurn team in most of the matches. A coincidence in the case is that the wife of the halfcaste with whom Mrs Maiha was going away is also an inmate of the same hospital. Evidence of the ravages among native birds by the weasel is given by a settjer of Watershed Road, says file Hunterville Express. Hearing a commotion among some tuis in a tree be went and looked for the cause, and found that two weasels had climbed the tree and killed two young Inis in a nest. The weasel was imported to combat the rabbit nuisance, but as the latter are increasing whilst native birds are fastgrowing less, it seems the weasel prefers other than a rabbit diet.

The late Mr Jas. Chisholm, one time manager of the local branch of the Bank of N.Z. whose death atAuckland we recorded in a .previous issue, is survived by a widow and three sons. The late Sir Chisholm was horn in Tiniaru and educated at the Timani and Waitaki Boys’ High Schools. -»Some yeas ago he took a keen interest in sport and was well known as a yachting enthusiast in Auckland. When in Foxton he took an enthusiastic interest in the local Tennis Club.

Some little commotion was caused at Castleeliff Beach recently, says the Wanganui Herald, when a lady bather discovered that her pair nl silk knickers costing £2, had been substituted with a plain calico pair, as .-Ac termed them, “worth about half a crown.” The bespoiled owner made a considerable fuss and complained to a- policeman. The representative of the law blushed considerably when the ease was explained to him, and suggested tactfully that anything in the way of assisting in the work of restoration was quite beyond hm.

After the one o'clock Woodville, Wellington express left the former station on Friday afternoon a shriek was beard by the passengers and a child was .seen to fall from one of the carriages. The train was pulled up smartly and a surfaceman in the vicinity rushed to the locality. He picked up the child and placing a jigger on the rails set off after the train and promptly returned the child to its relatives. It was discovered that the child, though suffering from shock and slight bruises, was none the worse for its very narrow escape from death. If had. evidently fallen clear of the train and heavy ballast on the line.