LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2540, 8 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The grand jury at Auckland returned a true bill against John Finnigan for the alleged murder of Con O’Keefe, a fireman on the steamer Tvedenhnm. A farm house belonging to Thomas Organ in the Takaka district was burned down oil Monday. His daughter, aged six years, and John Gillyard, aged sixty years, were burned to death,

A thunderstorm accompanied by heavy ran* commenced this morning and continued this afternoon. An incipient lire was <ll covered in Air John Wyeth’s residence yesterday afternoon, which was extinguished by (tie owner before any 'damage was done. In England in 1920 12,02! individuals had incomes rnajfng from £2,000 to £2,500; 50,700 hud incomes ranging from £2,500 to £lO,000; 8,003 received between £lO,000 and £50,000 per year; Kil between £s<t,ooo and £100.000; and 02 between £IOO,OOO and £150,000. At a caucus meeting <•(' the Labour Party hold in Parliament Buildings on Tin -.Jay, every member was present. The following odicers were elected:- -Clin:rman, Air 11. E. Holland; d.-puly--laArman, Ah' AI. Savage: —-<-rof.-! :-y. Air P. Eraser: whips, Aicssrs D. (!. Sullivan and E. •I. Howard. “Physical cull lire, father, is perfectly lave l ;, exclaimed an cnt imsiast in y rung miss just home from colh.gr, “Look! To develop the arms I grasp this rod in both hands and move it slowly from right to left.” “Well, well,” replied dad, admiringly, “what won’t science discover next ? Why, if that rod had straw on the other end, you’d he sweeping.” Thirteen cases of infectious diseases were reported in the Wellington Henllli district for the week < ndcil at noon yesterday. Details are as follows; —-Palmerston North: Scarlet fever 2, diphtheria 2. Wellington: Scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 1 ; tuberculosis 2: pneumonia .1 ; erysipelas 1. Wairurapa: Scarlet fever 2; puerperal septicaemia 1. In the previous week only seven cases were reported. A. very remarkable incident ia which i hi- number 13 was predominant occurred this month to the Ekeiahtina Freemasons (Mates the “Express”). They were paying a fraternal vi.-d! to the Pougaroa Lodge. !i was 13 years since the previous visit; 13 comprised the parly,

who went in three cars on the 13th January. !!)23. When the lodge was being tyled an alarm of. lire was reported in the garage in which the three cars were stored, and all three were biir.nl, none being insured.

A northern man (relates an exchange) met a Alaori whom he had not seen for some time. -The Na-

tive looked the picture of health, in contrast to his former appearance. On being questioned, he staled he had been having a holiday and further questions elicited the fact that the holiday had been at the Government's expense —some weeks in gaol for linancial reasons. Asked if he hud any means of now meeting his olrl’gnlions, the Native said: “No; I suppose ! g->- hack again. Pleat\ kai: no work; that place good enough for me.'

Scotland's women are noted for (heir bnrvory as are Scotland’s men. Spunking at the Burns Night in New Plymouth, l)r Thomson told a tale of one Highland mother who was not afraid in the face of adversity. She hud sent five sons and her husband to the war, and one of the former was associated with the doctor in the same dugoat in Gallipoli. Every week the Scotchman received a loiter from home and every week, for a period, he received news of (he death of a brother. But the undaunted mother’s advice was: “Go ahead, my laddie.”

“If you cleared Kapili Island of animal life and liberated thereon twenty lions and twenty rabbits and came back in live years time, which would you expect to have survived ’ The tittest, of course, hut certainly not the strongest,” remarked Mr L. P.irks in an address on “Survival of the Fittest,” at the Rotary Club luncheon recently held at Wellington. “It is certain that the German war lords, and the war lords of Great Britain for that mailer as well, have il ingrained in the hack of their minds as a fundamental basis of the theory of life that in this example the lion would have survived,” added the speaker.

Mr Reid, working-i oVcmai: of the i-oxlon Borough water and drainage scheme, has been appointed to I lie position of working foreman in a pipe-laying scheme by the Wairarapa Electric Power Board and is scheduled to lake lip his duties on the 12th insl. ilis appointment was

recommended by Mr (Mimic, engineer. In connection with Mr Reid’s new appointment, I lie Town Clerk

informs u- ilia I il was hoped llml \ir Reid's services would he relained by . 1 lie Council until ( he scheme was completed. Ills departure would lie regret led and would probably cause delay in completing tin- laying of the water mains. Air Reid's services to the borough during the carrying out of the water and drainage scheme, have been of incalculable value and his departure before the scheme is completed wili be rcgrelled by the Council.