LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2538, 3 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The primary schools re-open on Monday.

Mr Moir will conduct a service at (lie Beareli to-morrow at 7 p.m.

Reginald Fowler Russell, 50, married, with a family at Ekebahuna, county roadman, dropped dead on Thursday while at work.

James Ilirini was arrested at Pahiatua on Thursday on a charge of theft of clothing- from Motuiti. He has been remanded to appear'at Palmerston.

The Blackball mine, which was sealed up some time ago, was unsealed yesterday but was found still to be heated inside. Water is now being 7>layed on the eastern area, hut developments remain uncertain. The following Foxton students at the Palmerston High School qualified in the Public Service Entrance, Senior National Scholarship and Intermediate examinations and are entitled to Senior Free Place: — Henry Burr, Vernon McDonnell Daniell and Edward Arthur Fuller.

A resident complains that fresh (lowers placed on a grave at the local cemetery were removed together with the receptacles for holding same. It is hoped that such practices will be discontinued now that publicity has been given to I lie subject.

Mr Whiter Anderson, aged 35, a New Zealander, was fatally blown up in London while experimenting in connection with cinema motors. The late Mr Anderson was born at Mauriceville, Wairarapa, and lived for several years in Wellington. One of his sisters is Mrs Robinson, of Wellington, wife of Mr Robinson, of Renter’s telegraph agency. Margaret Scoullar Grierson, aged 12 years, was drowned yesterday afternoon in the Leith stream, Dunedin, which runs through the Woodaugli Gardens. She was walking along- the brook and slipped into a hole, which is estimated to be 12 feet deep. Attempts at rescue failed. Two hours elapsed before the body was recovered.

At Thursday night’s Chamber of Commerce meeting a letter was received from Mr A. J. Kellow, president.of the Feilding Chamber, asking what further steps had been t aken in reference to increased shipping to the port. It was pointed out that no further conference had been held between the Chambers on the subject since the Palmerston meet-

“The Central Development Farm is the right place for the Agricultural College for the North Island,” said Mr W. 11. Field, M.P., at the social of the Horowhenua A. and P. Association the other night. He had no doubt the member for the district, Mi 1 Linklater, would do his best in working to secure that objective, which he (the speaker) would do all in his power to assist.

Several Chinese market-garden-ers, due to a bad season, and the high price of land, have decided to leave Otaki for other parts (states the Mail).

Mr 11. S. Alpe, who is about to undertake a 750 mile walking touion behalf of the Sir Arthur Pearsou Memorial Fund for the Blind visiled various city and suburban bowling greens in Wellington last Saturday afternoon and collected the sum of £5 15s 3d.

The Hon. .J. G. Coates, alter visiting the Otira tunnel, announces that the tunnel will be ready for urgent goods traffic in March and for regular traffic some time in April, but that the work will not he completed in time for the Easter traffic, The tunnel and equipment, when complete, will have cost £l,300,000, and the longer it is delayed the greater the capital cost would become.

Mr Murray for whom a search is being made on the slopes of Mount Egmont, was well known in the Levin district. Some years ago he was schoolmaster at Mannkau but resigned to take up home mission work for the Presbyterian Church. He was stationed for some time at Hammer and latterly in Taranaki. About fit) years of age, lie was of strong physique, but some time ago met with” an injury to the -head through a fall from his bicycle.

Speaking at a gathering at Levin the other evening Mr J. Linklater, M.P., referred to the recent advance in the price of wool, which would do more than anything else to help the country back to its former state of prosperity. The slump had made f lings bad for the farmer, and when the farmer was feeling* the pinch the country as a whole suffered, and for that reason it was satisfactory to find that, with the improvement in wool and other staple products, the country generally was benefiting. A tragedy occurred at 38 McFarlane Street, Wellington, on Thursday‘morning when Mrs Mary Elizabeth Bellhousc, wife of the Rev. Harold Bellhousc, leaped from the upstairs bathroom window of the residence on to an asphalt path below, a distance of about 25 feet, and received such severe injuries that she died before medical aid could be summoned. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict that .she died as a result of jumping from a window while suffering from mental depression.

“How was it there were no big epidemics in tbe Army?” Simply because carriers were isolated. There is no other way to stop the spread of disease.” —Dr Adams, at Wanganui recently when urging the isolation of all contacts with a patient suffering from an infections disease. The patient was not able to do much damage —he was usually too ill —but those who had been in contact with him were a real danger. Until they had been given a clean bill of health they should be isolated. This should be a universally observed law.

A message from Christchurch states that John Henry Mathieson, a fireman, aged 21 years, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for striking a free worker at. Lyttelton on January 27. He pleaded guilty. The police said the men were working on the Wahine, when Mathieson came aboard drunk and struck the complainant on the back of the head and kicked him as lie lay nn-cons-Jous. In the melee Mathieson was roughly handled. The magistrate, Mr W. Wilson, said a free man had as much light to work as a unionist and had served his employer and the community at a time when his service was needed.

After several adjournments the case was taken at Gisborne yesterday in the Magstrate’s Court, in which Frances Quinn was charged that about December 15 last at Gisborne, she did commit an unlawful act on Eileen O’Donoghue, which unlawful act did cause the latter’s death, thereby committing manslaughter. The evidence of a number of witnesses was taken, including three Napier doctors who attended the deceased and two of whom were present at the postmortem and expressed themselves strongly of the opinion that death was the result of acute peritonitis and septicemia, following induced abortion. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.

, The Rev, Father Forestall, parish priest of Foxton, lias received word of his transfer to the Inglewood (Taranaki) parish and will take up his duties in his new parish on Bunday, 18th inst. Father Forrestall, who was ji close personal friend of the late Rev. Father Dore, succeeded the latter as local parish priest a little over five years ago. During bis stay in the district Father Forestall has endeared himself to many friends throughout his wide parish who together wth those outside the Catholic community, will regret his departure and he will carry away with him their best wishes. His successor Avill be the Rev. Father Doolaghty, parish priest at Opunake. Referring to the latter’s departure the Opunaki Times says: “During his term at Opunake, Father Doolaghty has prominently associated himself with not only the affairs of the parish, but with those of the community, his help for the benefit of any charitable work being always available. His untiring efforts were largely responsible for the erection of the new Convent School, a building which is a credit to the town. Father Doolaghty will be particularly remembered by Opunake people for his work during the influenza epidemic, when he proved a tower of strength to the sick.”

A cargo of grain, cast overboard to refloat a stranded vessel, has provided Vale of Glamorgan farmers with ample winter food for their cattle.

The Foxton Athletic Club’s initial sports meeting resulted in a debit of £ll 15s. The club intends to raise funds by means of entertainments during- the year and with nonrecurring expenses hopes to make the next meeting a financial success.

“The great importance of the care and cleanliness of school ings is not realised in New Zealand,” remarked Mr W. M. Page, architect, while the position of a janitor for the Wairarapa High School was being dscussed at a meeting of the Board of Governors (states the Age). “The sprinkling of disinfectant will not eradicate the dirt,” he added.

A rather startling incident occurred at the Levin show on Wednesday. The tyre of a car standing at the rear of a show building blew out which startled a pony in a gig nearby. The pony plunged wildly and leaped clean over some children sitting on the ground. Luckily the pony and gig cleared the children, who escaped with nothing worse than a fright (says the Chronicle).