Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2530, 16 January 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named William David Cheyne was found drowned in a well at the hack of his residence at Milton on Saturday. Suicide is suspected. The party of Chatham Island school children visiting Christchurch will lie given a trip to Dunedin next week. The trip has been arranged by the Ministers of Defence and Education and the fares will be paid by the Minister of Education and the Native Minister. Palmerston is becoming the haunt of a number of undesirables. Recently several houses have been burgled. A man named George Cunningham alias Anderson has been arrested and pleaded guilty to certain housebreaking charges and lias been committed for sentence. The skeleton and accoutrements of a warrior 200 years before Christ have been unearthed at Ham Hill, Somerset. The weapons include an iron dagger with typical Celtic decoration, a bronze sheath, and numerous bronze buttons; also a buckle and the loopings of a leather belt.

Elephants are terrilied of miee. Salt is a government monopoly in Italy. Michaelmas daisies are now grown wtli flowers ,‘H in. in diameter. A female lobster has been known to lay as many as 160,000 eggs at a time. A i!y can lay 150 eggs at a time and in seven weeks can produce -’.'■>2.ooo Him . A church in Santa Rosa, California, was built from the wood of a single redwood Dee. Christmas puddings which cost :3s id in 1.01.3, cost about 7< (id last year in England. i Very heavy rain fell locally on Sunday, yesterday and Ibis jnorui | .Machines in use obliterate stamps on postal packets at the- rate of about .1,000 a minute. The dirtiest paper-money is said in be in circulation in the Midlands ! and mining centres of England, j The well-known author and lec- ! torer mi Rationalism, Mr .Joseph | McCabe, will tour New Zealand in | May, to answer Sir Arl'iiur Conan | Doyle . A meeting of players and all in- ■ (crested in the welfare of the Citizens’ Band will bo held in the snp- • Hall supper-room at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening next. Wild hoars still exist in France to such an extent that 2,000 were killed in one department during 1021. An old Roman plunge-bath, fed by a spring and situated near the Strand was recently sold in London. La si year was amongst the driest experienced in South Canterbury lor I<> years, go year lias had such a rainfall since 1914 and 1915, which years suffered so badly from lack of moisture. j j <5, All echo of Ihe general elections ; will he heard al Ihe Palmerston N. ' Police Cmirl on January 29, when : Morgan O’Brien will lie charged on ; two counts of wilfully misleading j the registrar of electors. Grace and I -Joseph Smithson will also appear on ! a charge of making a false statement in regard to enrolment claims. Both cases were mentioned in the Court yesterday aiid adjourned. The children of All Saints’ Home are al present in residence al the local seaside. Will our readers please remember them with gifts of fruit, vegetables, etc. Mr Peter Robinson will convey any gifts free of charge to the Home. The little ones will appreciate your kindness. Thank you. Present indications are that Parliament will lie called together early jin March. The session of course, •v. ill lie a short one. One thing overj shadowng everything will he the j trial of party strength. At the rao- | incut it seems as if the Government ! feels assured of a majority of four j which may he reduced to three by j I he necessity for providing a Spcnk- ! IT. li is stated that a young Napier man, who left that town very suddenly last month without giving any reasons, has been arrested in Sydney. Although (says the Herald) the police can give no official corroboration to the statement as yet, if is understood that the man will he brought back to Napier to explain certain accusations concerning money 'def'alcaf ions. While excavating at the river end of ML Edgecombe Street, New Plymouth, Mr C. Hoskins has unearthed buttons of the 50th, 57th and (>sth Regiments, all of which took part in flic Maori -wars here. No doubt Ihe soldiers had been camped on an old redoubt there that overlooks the Manga toki stream. A portion of a hat badge was also unearthed. Further digging will no doubt bring to light more interesting curios. The first fori nightly meeting in the New Year of the Young Co-op-erators’ League was held in .the Mown Hall supper room on Janu- .. I 7 ‘dll W "Vmvth

The lirst fortnightly meeting in Ihe New Year of the Young Co-op-erators’ League was held in .the Town Hall supper room on January Bth at 7.30 p.m. \Y. Xewth presided over an attendance of 40. The usual business was disposed of and the December “Co-operator’’ distributed. A vote of (hanks was accorded t<> Mr Bowater and wife for (heir kindness in the'past. Mr Bowater appropriately replied. 'The remainder of (lie lime was devoted to social ilcuis and sapper.

Frances Quimi, a married woman was charged at the Gisborne Police Court on Saturday with having committed an unlawful act on Eileen (t’Donnoghue, which caused her death, thereby committing manslaughter. Accused was remanded till the 22nd inst., bail of .€SOO and one surety of €SOO being allowed. The girl O’Donnoghue died at Napier recently. Quinn also stands remanded oil a charge of the illegal use of an instrument on a girl, who is seriously ill in the Gisborne. Hospital, and Albert Edward Harris, a -beep farmer, has also been arrested and remanded on a similar charge.

There is a small creek or stream, not far from Opumike, which is said 1o l>e the lair of a gigantic eel, one which is said to be well known to the Maoris of the district. The eel is described as being of considerable thickness. The Maoris tell a story of tliis big eel being once caught on a book, but bis strength was such that Ihe .Maori who had hold of the line was dragged into the water. It is said that the Maoris claim that this particular eel is a very old acquaintance and that he has been known to them for "‘SO years. Some of the natives, it is said, speak of the eel with bated breath, and are inclined to the opinion that he is not an eel at all hut a “tnniwha.”