LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2552, 8 March 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A final reminder is given of the great concert at the Town Hall tonight. ’ A special meeting of the local Racing Club committee will be held on Saturday afternoon to consider applications and to appoint a secretary vice Mr Freeman resigned.

A number of local Masons motored to Palmerston North last night to be present at the installation ceremony of Bro. N. H. Sinclair, as W.M. of Lodge Huia, and the investiture of his officers. Our readers are reminded that tl;e Harvest Festival shop in conned ion with the Salvation Army will be held on Saturday next in Mr 01ivei’’s butcher’s shop, which has been kindly lent by him for that day. Harry Young, the so-called “human fly,” a professional climber up Hie sides of New York skyscrapers, fell to his death from the ninth story of an hotel while he was engaged in a publicity feat for the Harold Lloyd film, entitled “Safety Last.”

Arthur Borne Vickery died suddenly at Evansdale, Dunedin, while at a- picnic. The deceased was a school teacher, aged 2G, married, and resided at Invercargill. He was attending classes at the University. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. It now transpires that the cause of death of the little daughter of 3Wr and Mrs T. Sinclair, of Pohangina, was cerebro spinal meningitis, and the deadly nature of the malady is shown by the fact that in the six years of her healthy little life, the child had never previously known a day’s illness, yet barely 3(1 hours elapsed between the time of her illness being noticed and its fatal termination.