LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2582, 19 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. Kennedy arrived in port yesterday with a general cargo from Lyttelton.

On Thursday night a number of local Territorials were transferred to the Reseiwe.

The Education Board has appointed Miss Phoebe A. Blandfovd to the teaching staff of the local school. Miss Blandfovd will take up her duties on July Ist.

•Tames J. Jefferies, the former prize-fighter, lias been declared a bankrupt in Los Angeles. His liabilities are stated to be £5,000 and bis assets £20,000. The Ranger at Eketahuiia, in his monthly report to the Acclimatisation Society, stated that hares were very numerous throughout the Wairarnpn and Bush districts.

One effect of the floods in the South Island lias been the acute shortage of potatoes in Hamilton and the subsequent high prices that are ruling there. The headmaster of the local State school, Mr Banks, desires to I bank Mr Geo. Coley for the gift of a number of books for the school library.

The insurances on flic boarding bouse destroyed by five at the seaside on Monday night are: On the building £1,300 (Standard) and £SOO on the furniture (in the Norwich Union). The Wanganui Municipal Gasworks last vonr made a profit of £15,101, of which £B,OOO was paid lo assist the rates. The nett price of gas is 7/0 per 1,000, and a reduction to 0/- is contemplated.

“Don’t you be impertinent,” was the reprimand of the S.M. at the local Court yesterday to a somewhat loquacious individual who objected to having to wait for the postponement of bis case.

In connection with the Methodist Festal Fair, the weight guessing competition for a lady’s garment was won bv Miss Harris, of Shannon, who guessed the correct weight of the package, viz. 21bs. 131 oz. The Jewish Rabbi of Auckland, the Rev. Goldstein, brought down Hie house at the Presbyterian banquet when he stated that the Jews bad at last got even with the Aberdonians, for the Jews were now able to support a synagogue in the Granite Citv.

Mr Maurice Ralph, representative of Messrs J. C. Williamson Ltd., and Harry Cohen, New Yoi'k, were in Foxton yesterday making

arrangements for the production of Cosmo Hamilton’s 3-act comedy “Scandal” on Monday, May 28th in the Town Hall.

I An offer to donate £2OO for a town clock at Morrinsville been made by the new Mayor, Mr G. Howie, on condition that the postal authorities erect a tower to house the gift. The Borough Council is communicating with the PostmasterGeneral oh the subject.

The Horowhen.ua County Council notify hv advertisement that the Shannon Bridge is closed for all traffic exceeding 30 ewt. (including weight of vehicle). Any . person crossing the bridge with load exceeding the above weight will he prosecuted. “Early in the ’9o’s 01b. weight of wool per sheep was about the average. From about 1905 it has been 81b. The quality in the carcase of sheep to-day is not the same as in past days,” said Mr David Smith to the sludents of woolclassing at the Masterton Technical School.

At the local Corps of the Salvation Army, the meetings to-morrow will lie conducted 1 by the Y.P.S.M. Mr Tongs. The officers stationed here are very much interested in our young people, realising the girls and boys of to-day are the men and women of to-morrow.

The Prime Minister has received a cordial invitation from the Governor; of the State of Oregon to visit thnl Slalo should lie go abroad to attend I lie Imperial Conference. An opportunity to entertain Mr Massey would, the Governor says, be regarded as an honour by the people of the. State. The general manager of the Rea I tie Chamber of Commerce, on behalf of the business community o!’ the State of Washington also expressed the hope that Mr Massev will visit America while abroad.

The subdivision of the wellknown Blockhouse Estate which lias been effected in the ordinary course, enniiol fail to have a beneficial effect on oilier properties in the localily, as well as on the town of Bulls (says the Martou Advocate). It. is the first subdivision of this kind that has taken place on this portion of the Coaijl, and the prices obtained and the benefits that must result to production and local trade, open up the subject of the desirability of endeavouring to get other large estates subdivided, such as some in the vicinity of Marton and other centres.

Strong grounds exist for believing that there is an impression among young people that it was quite safe for them to indulge in crime for the first time at least, That impression must be corrected said Mr Justice Adams in sentencing three young burglars at Christchurch the other day. He commented on the use of firearms, in the case under review, saying it was reasonable to assume that if the prisoners had been disturbed serious consequences might have resulted to the men who were defending the law against open and flagrant lawbreakers. For Iniluenza take Woods Great Peppermint Cure.

During: an electrical storm at Westport the thunder claps caused consternation by their nearness to the heart of the town (recounts the Westport News). In one house the vertical mantles were lifted right off the supports. In another the fanlight over a door was smashed to. bits. Another house had a window broken. As residents were wondering what was to happen next, the centre of the storm moved away. Mr Aitehison, whose house was destroyed by tire on Wednesday evening, desires us to express his thanks and keen appreciation of the services of the Fire Brigade. He said the discipline was splendid and Hie manner in which the Superintendent and men carried out their duties evidenced a thorough knowledge of their work, which compared more than favourably with brigade operations in larger centres.