Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall locally for 1 he month of April was 1.13 inch, the nwxinmni fall, ,3. r ) inch, occurring on the 22nd.

Tin 1 fiovernor-flener.'il. Lord 3ollicoo, unveiled at Tokaann, Lake Taupe, yesterday, a monument to the late lion. Te Tleuheu Tokina.

A New Plymouth telegram announces the death of Mr W. I). Webber, who was horn on board the William Bryan, the first ship arriving there in March, 1840.

Ballarat, with its population of •10.000, claims to have established a marriage record for Victoria. During Easter, on two days, Saturday and Monday, 37 weddings were celebrated.

The vital Statistics for Foxl-m for the month of April are as follows, the figures for the corresponding month of last year being given in parenthesis —-Births 3 (3). deaths 2 (3), marriage certificates issued 1 (1). ■

A social afternoon in aid of the Blanket Society will be held at Airs Austin’s residence on Thursday, from 12 o’clock to 3.30 p.m. Competitions and games will be held and afternoon tea will be dispensed free. An admission charge of 1/- will be made.

The Foxton Racing Club art* contemplating the erection of offices in Alain Street, on the site occupied by the building destroyed by tire. A committee has the matter in hand and plans and specifications are being prepared. The club is to lit commended for its enterprise.

The following announcement has been issued from Buckingham Palace: —“In accordance with the settied general rule that the wife takes the status of her husband, Lady Bowes-Lyon, on her marriage, has become Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of York, with the status of a Princes!.”

For the second time within a fortnight in London, a girl of five years of age has been killed by a toy balloon. Both the girls were trying to inflate their balloons, when the rubber slipped into the larynx in such a position that every time the girls breathed the balloons partially inflated. They were each suffocated within a few hours.

Sir Joseph Ward, speaking to a Timaru Herald reporter, expressed himself as not in the least downcast at the result of the recent byelection. He stated that he intended shortly, as he had announced after the poll, to take the platform from one end of the Dominion to the other, and put before the people face to face, the present dangerous position of dominion politics.

Something of a record was put up by the wife of a candidate for the Borough Council in a neighbour-

ing town (says an exchange). At 4 o’clock she voted for her husband, thereby ensuring his return, and a! 1i.15 p.m. she presented him with as healthy and vigorous a specimen of a voting New Zealander as could be wished for. Needless to say. the happy father received especially , ordial congratulations on the double event.

Mr S. Austin met with a double misfortune last week. Something went wrong with his motor cat which burst into Names., lie wrenched the lire extinguisher from the car and in endeavouring to manipulate i! the acid squirled in his face and in his eyes, blinding him temporarily. He received medical atlention and the injury to the eyes was fortunately not serious. Ihe car was destroyed.

A dispute has arisen between the (•rowers of vegetables and the auctioneers of Wellington, in connection with alterations in the latter’s charges and the disposal of sacks and boxes. It is staled that the auctioneers want to sell the containers with the produce, not allowing the grower anything for them. The growers threatened to send in their produce loose, and the auctioneers decided to increase the commission on loose produce from 10 to 12A per cent. The producers were to meet last night to discuss that the markets should be boycotted.

Some immigrants find it easier to obtain employment limn others (says an exchange). A new arrival from England recently turned down a remunerative position in the King Country, with the remark: “I don't care about these colonial country positions, and will decline the appointment because there is no place to go to worship.” It is feared that some New Zealanders in search of work would not be so discriminating.

“Right is right,” said Patrolman Timothy Murphy, of Boston, when lie arrested lvis daughter, Elizabeth, aged 10, charged with highway robbery. For months an armed girl robber had terrorised the Cambridge suburb of Boston, escaping from every trap. To Murphy was assigned the task of solving the mystery, as he was Boston’s best detective. He caught his daughter in an actual hold-up, knocking her pistol from her hands. The girl has confessed.

Those who maintain that the push bicycle is becoming a “back number” in these days of motor transit will probably feel inclined to modify this opinion upon learning of the lour just completed by Mr C. Barwell (states the New Zealand Herald). Within 10 weeks Mr Harwell has completed (500 miles. Equipped with tent and camping gear, he has journeyed from Te Beinga in the Par North to Stewart Island, and has successfully demonstrated that the most distant point in the Dominion can be visited on a “push bike” by anyone with a six weeks’ vacation.

A recent visitor to the Christchurch hospital speaks enthusiastically of the laundry there. There were, the visitor states, boilers big enough to accommodate 70 single -beets at a time. They go in dry and are wetted, boiled, rinsed and blued before leaving the boiler. They are then taken out in a large crate, and are afterwards packed into tubs that revolve at a great rate of speed thus forcing the water out. In the laundry are also large rollers worked by foot for ironing aprons and ekirts of uniforms. Cuffs, collars, and belts are ironed in small rollers. There are 19 workers, two of whom are men, who do the boiling and wringing work. —Exchange