LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2528, 11 January 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reduction of 2/- per case Inn been made in motor spirit in Wan

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Mr .). Link la ter, M.P.. and family are at present residing at their local seaside residence.

The erection of the Waimarino Hospital by day labour meant a saving of .C 1,532 12/- to the Wanganui Hospital Board.

Torrential rain fell locally yesterday morning and soon the water channels in the main thoroughfare were mellowing on to the footpaths. Household tanks wert; replenished and gardens freshened up. Mrs Linda Maiha, victim of the murderous assault at Waipawa pa last week, is still lying in a semiconscious state a t tiie hospital. The. inquest on Puhi Maiha has been further adjourned for a week. The. Wellington Chamber of Commerce has decided to refer the proposal to re-open trade relations with Germany to the president. avlio was authorised to obtain the feeling of commercial interests in New Zealand on the matter. It is estimated that as a result of the Wanganui wool sale, £156,000, or over, will be distributed in the district. Apart from the wool offered at the sale, if is estimated that (here are about 25,000 bales in store in Wanganui with further clips arriving daily. Mr Nash, secretary of the Labour Party, states that the party’s conference, to lie held at Christchurch during Easter, will be the most momentous ever held. A land policy report will he presented and another important subject discussed will he the method of selecting candidates for municipal and Parliamentary honours.

Daniel Richard Cooper, alias George -James Cooper, and his wife, Martha Cooper, appeared before Mr ID. Page SAL, at the Wellington .Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the recent Newland- (.Joim.-onville) sensation, and on the application of Senior-Detec-tive Lewis they were further remanded until 17th January.

Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney, in the course of a pastoral letter on the Epiphany, which was read in the Roman Catholic Churches, states that there Ims been a notable increase in the number of mixed marriages and he strongly advises all Roman Catholics, parents, sons, and • laughters to shun familiar associations with neighbours or friends of other religious creeds or of no particular creed.

Following on the numerous accidents' at level crossings recently, several of them proving fatal, the Automobile Association has carried a. motion protesting against “the continued neglect of (he Railway Department in failing to provide efficient warning signals tit. level railway crossings. 1 ' One speaker said that a system of warning bells could lie installed for £3 per cros-

The official count of the voting at the licensing poll last month is now practically complete and may be taken to confirm in all essential particulars the preliminary figures. Roughly 299,006 votes were cast for prohibition, 280,000 for continuance and 30,000 for State Control, and as prohibition failed by 8,501 to obtain an actual majority of the votes polled the status quo, continuance, except in the no-license districts, is maintained.

A meeting of the Reform Party is being held at Wellington to-day.

The vacancy existing in the Magistracy has been filled by the selection of Colonel R. W. Tate, former Administrator of Samoa.

A splendid gilt-edge investment is offered tiie public of Foxton by the Foxlon Fire Board. The Board is offering debentures in denominations of £IOO at 5A per cent, for rive years. Applications may be made to the secretary, Mr H. Prankhind. A lamb grown oh a Koiterangi farm, and killed lor a Christmas feast (says the Ashburton Guardian) turned the scales to 6611 b. dressed weight. Another lamb killed from the same farm weighed 7341 b. dressed weight. The lamb was only about five and a-half months old.

On Saturday last Mr A. J. Laird, Kaetihi, intended to do some whitewashing with lime, and a little milk had first, ' been mxed with the unpacked material. His two little boys, who were to do the work, added more milk to the lime which exploded and they received the full force. Both were removed to the Wanganui Hospital for treatment. The Prime Minister states that the application for conversion of 44 per cent, free of income tax securities into 54 7jcr cent. Inscribed Stock totalled £2,771,095 to January 6. The banks, stock exchanges and post offices have been advised that the conversion operations will he continued for a further period of three months, that is, to March 31.

Through falling oil a concrete floor while carrying a jar of sulphuric acid, Thomas Crame, an employee of the Mangawhata dairy factory, sustained bums about the face on Monday last. He was admitted to the Palmfcrston North Hospital, and was yesterday progressing satisfactorily. The injuries were not of a serious character.

The king kauri tree in the Otau forest in the Ness Valley, Clevedon, which was cut through from bark to hark November 25 by six stalwart bushmeu, but refused to fall, stood in its supreme strength, defiant, for three weeks (reports the New Zealand Herald.) It was anticipated that the first gale would lay the giant tree low, but it remained monarch of the forest until the wind in the right direction swept on the hush. The tree had only a slight natural lean.

A party of Chatham Island school children, seven hoys and seven girlarrived at Lyttelton by the Rama on Saturday under the care of their teachers, for a fortnight’s visit to Canterbury. None of the children had previously left the islands and everything is new to them. They will visit various points of interest, including the exhibition, the aerodrome and various mills and factories, under the care of the School Committees Association, which arranged the visit.

During the progress of the bowling matches between the Queenslanders and the Manawatu Centre, it was noticeable that the visiting players frequently had a tendency to step oft the mat, although naturally no comment was made. This was referred to by Mr F. W. Mason, the manager of the visiting team, who said: “In our State we play with a mat, not an enlarged postage stamp that you have here —and in consequence have an opportunity to watch the game instead of keeping an eye continually'on the other fellow’s feet!”

The other day a King Country newspaper mixed a society item with a farm note, with the following result. (says an exchange).—“The Red Cross concert "given last night by 16 of our young l'adigs was highly appreciated. They sang in a charming manner, winning the plaudits of the audience, who pronounced them the finest group of shorthorns in the country. A few of thorn were rich brown in colour, but the majority were spotted red and white.” The editor immediately went on a prolonged holiday to Auckland, while the proof-reader and the foreman went out on beer.

“Blue and White,” the magazine of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, a copy of which we have received from the Editor, is a journal which in hulk and quality would hold its own among institutional publications anywhere. Exclusive of numerous advertising pages all artistically designed, “Blue and White” contains over eighty pages of letter-press and illustrations relative to the life and work of the College, past and present. Comprehensive records of acie.veinonts .in the classroom and on the playing fields. items of social interest to past and present pupils and their relatives and friends, and sundry special articles make up the contents of a really excellent annual.

A certain couple, having been married about ten years, lived a life made up for the most part of quarrels and bickerings. One day the husband went to visit a friend whose home life was entirely different. On leaving he said to his friend: “I have enjoyed my visit here. You seem to be so happy; how do you manage it?” “It’s quite simple, replied his friend. “1 make a fuss of my wife, and kiss her quite often.” The husband decided to try this method, and when, on arriving home, his wife opened the door, he kissed her. His wife burst into tears.' “What’s the matter?” he asked. “Oh dear!” sobbed the wife “Everything has gone wrong to-day. I fell down and broke a lot of china, the dug has pulled all the clothes off the line, the maid has given notice, and now you come home drunk.”

Six Keith Smith arrived at Liverpoil after a visit to the Far East, Canada and America, to make landing arrangements for his projected world flight. Horseflesh is evidently getting cheap in Wanganui. Last week an old grey capable of doing a few more years' work was knocked down under the hammer for 7s Gd. It was decided by the ManawatuOroua Powder Board that the block system of installation should lie adopted whereby the Board will confine itself to the establishment of transmission lines and the sale of current, the actual wiring of consumers’ premises being left to private enterprise. Messrs J. A. Nash and J. Linklater, M.’sP., H. Chadwick, members of the Gorge Road Board, and S. .Jickell (engineer), will wait upon the Minister of Public Works to-day on the Department’s proposal to reduce the cost: of improvements now being carried out by the Board. The Manawatu Gorge road is blocked with slips and will not he opened until to-morrow. Tt was recently reported to the police that one of the male occupants of a certain house in- Wellington was missing and in the course of search of the premises in order to clear up the mystery, a box was found containing about £2,000 which represented the savings of 20 years. No less than £I,OOO of the money was in silver. ’Needless to say the money is now safely in the keeping of one of the local banks. The allegedly missing man about whose safety considerable anxiety was being felt, eventually report ed “all well.” Probably there are few children iii the Dominion who have not seen a motor car, hut such was the case of fourteen children from the Chatham Islands, who are visiting Christchurch as guests of the school committees association. They were greatly amazed at the size of the overseas liners in Lyttelton harbour

ami at the buildings in Christchurch. One little hoy had his first ride in a motor car during the youngster’s first morning in the city, and when asked how he liked it he replied : “I laughed the whole way because I've never seen anything hut sticks, stones and sand before.”

A Wellington motor party stated the Whirokino road is the worst for motoring between this district and Wellington. We may state that' it has been greatly improved to what it was a few weeks ago. There is no doubt, however, that during the winter months, unless something is dr v.e to improve it in the meantime, it will he impassable. The Manawatu County Council is aware of its condition ami has endeavoured to obtain assistance of adjoining loia] authorities to deviate it, hut without success. The Council is liable for any accidents that may occur and if the expenditure 'for keeping the road open is thought to he unreasonable and a hardship on the County, it can ask for a commission and cite other authorities to heat a proportion of the cost.