LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2581, 17 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Herald staff acknowledge wedding favours from Mr and Mis T>. Ball.

The gruesome details in connection with file Cooper murder ease are'being unfolded in the Wellington Supreme Court. On Tuesday night n local lad was running along a footway beside a barbed-wire fence when he slipped nnd caught his ear on one of the barbs with the result 11ml that member was badly lacerated.

lii reference lo (lit l ironllli In. spool or’s report presented In llio Inst Council mooting, n loon] plumber informs us Hint 1 lie* report wns inn do up lo t In* otiil ot Mil roll. Sineo Hint dnlo n good uunilior of house i oiiiioolions Imvo hoon oomplolod.

Prior lo 1 lie* lire alarm being soundod Inst niohi. |„d)i pinturo. houses screened the locution ot the lire, which wns much appreciated l>v the

uudionoos, thereby preventing confusion nnd allaying the tours ot those present.

'file monthly meeting of the loeul Chunibor of Commerce will be held on Thursday evening next when some iniportnnt mutters will bo discussed. Owing to the Inst meeting (dashing with other public fixtures, it was found necessary to abandon same.

In replying to a <|Uostion relative to the new telephone charges the Postmaster-General (Hon. J. Ct, Coates) stated that the matter of revised telephone charges and new postal rates would be dealt with either in the Governor’s Speech at the opening of the next session, or in the Budget, hut probably in the Budget. He said the proposals would concern everyone. He was unable to say anything further at present but he would add that as soon as the telephone charges were fixed, no reversion would be made to the system of half-yearly settlements.

Mr W. Thornbur, organist at All Saints’ church, advertises that he gives lessons in piano, organ and theory.

A very enjoyable dance was conducted by the local Fire Brigade in the Masonic Hall on Monday night. This is the first of a series of fortnightly dances to bo held during the winter months. There was a fair attendance but the evening was rather marred by the sounding of the lire alarm at about 9 o’clock. The outbreak being at the beach, Superintendent McDermid and four tiremen only journeyed to the scene of the outbreak. The next dance is to be held on Monday week when a good muster is expected.

A local bachelor, who shall be nameless, recently purchased a meat pie as an appetising meal. In biting through the crust, his teeth came- info contact with something other than meat and which resulted in a broken tooth. In a desperate a (tempi to eject the tooth and swallow the pie the opposite happened. He is now wondering if, in the event of an operation for appendicitis, -whether he can claim damages from the pieman or whether the reverse ejecting action would be looked upon as contributing neglect?

During ilic recent flood drift wood was squeezed together with such lorce in front of the dredge that it was possible for a person to walk

about on lhe drift. Several enterprising persons made good use of Ibis drift, chopping logs out foilin' wood. Early one morning a local Native was thus engaged when his nxo slipped on the lo" he was chopping and being wrenched from his grasp flung far out into Ihe stream and disappeared from sight beneath the turbulent waters. Although the axeman remained some lime, ruminating on the loss of bis axe, no god, as in the fable, appeared from the depths with his steel axe, let alone a gold or silver one and hence his firewood did not prove to be such a cheap proposition. Several axes were lost in this manner.