LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2583, 22 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local State school re-opened yesterday after the term vacation. At Sydney on Saturday Tommy Uren knocked out Jack Johnson in (he 18th round with a terrific right to jaw, after a strenuous contest. .Johnson was sent to hospital with severe concussion.

Xo fresh eases ol: smallpox are reported among the Makurn’s passengers ni*l crew at Auckland. The health authorities are sparing no efforts to make the passengers comfortable at Quarantine Island. The faulty pronunciation of .Maori names so common among while people recently impelled a gathering of Hamilton householders lit pass a resolution that all students at the Training College should he taught to pronounce Maori names correctly, so that they in turn, might he able to leach the same in primary schools.

The stone <>l' eomplet ion of the P;i |t;i! oel oe Orpheus llmne was pliieed in position on Saturday h.v (he (lovernor-tlcneral ns (Irand Muster of the Xew Zealand Masonic Cr.-iml Li>. !”(>, with full Mnsonie. honours. The Mesons have played a large part in raising funds for completing tiie building which now cun eeeoinniodele 100 orphans.

It is reported from Auckland that e not aide achievement in the realm of wireless was registered on Thursday night when a message sent by an amateur at Avalon, California, was picked up by an Auckland experimenter. The distance is (>,OOO miles and the importance of the event tit's in the low power—half kilowatt —used for transmission, and the fact that only one valve was employed in the reception.

The popular entertainer, Mr Norman Long, has a fund of good stories and the following is one of them. A man saw a safety razor advertised for the small sum of ss.* He wrote to the firm asking them to send one and having no postal order, he wound up his letter by saying he was omitting to enclose the ss, hut he was sure a lirrn of their reputation would send the razor. He received a reply acknowledging the receipt of his order, but they informed him they were omitting the razor, as a man with his “cheek” had no need for one.

The monthly meeting- of the local Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday evening next. The actual opening of Parliament is not expected to take place till Thursday, June 15th. About a cupful of whitebait, the first catch of the season, was made in the Manawatu River this morning by Mr L. McCarthy. A large and appreciative audience greeted the “Diggers” in the Town Hall last night. The entertainment, was thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish. Miss Patton, who is in charge of the Beach School, lost a good deal of personal effects in the fire which destroyed the boardinghouse at the seaside recently. “Oh, well, as my employer was late, of course, I got a little laxative myself” was a remark by a witness which caused considerable amusement in court recently (relates the Martinborough “Slnr”j.

Senator Pearce unveiled a monument erected by the Federal Covernment at Fanny Bay, Port Darwin, to commemorate the landing of Sir Ross Smith and party after their (light from England. A large gathering participated in the ceremony which was held on Saturday.

“Py kripe, I peen to see Ratana alright,” said a Maori whose leg l-.ad been giving him trouble. “How did you get on with the treatment?” “Werra, Ratana te good pheller right enuph, but he can’t put te new hone in te leg!” was the reply. Last evening, at Shannon, the installation of Bro. Thornhill Cooper junr., as W.M. of Lodge Mangahno and Investiture of Officers took place. There was a large attendance df visiting brethren. A banquet was subsequently held when the usual loyal and Masonic toasts wore honoured. The Montoa school committee recently held a social to provide funds for supplying the children with cocoa during the winter. The sum of £7 was netted. The committee also held a “working bee” to provide wood for heating purposes and obtained sufficient to last throughout the winter months.

The Budapest correspondent to “The London Times,” states that archaeologists have unearthed near i lie capital an ancient burial place where there are traces of prehistoric man and remains of various historical epochs, including the Roman and Celtic migration periods. Bronze age weapons, urns, and fourteen skeletons of the migration period have been secured. The formation of the hones suggests that they are the remains of a race living largely on horseback, the lower bones of the leg being slightly curved.

Several burglaries have taken place of late in Lin wood, Christchurch. One of these was at the premises of Mr W. J. McKenzie, general storekeeper, from which goods prirftdpally tobacco, to the value of .£IOO, were stolen. A further, but unsuccessful attempt was made on Mr Anderson’s boot shop in Worcester Street, but the tools of several of I he carpenters who had been working on some unfinished houses opposite, and had left their gear on the premises were missing next morning.

The Bulletin says: Our old friend Joseph Ward, who has been out of Maori land politics since the khaki election, tried to return recently bv way of Tauranga, the late Bill Herries’ old seat. A win for Ward would have compelled the Massey Government to go to the country again, and Fanner Bill fought like 17 wild cals to preserve bis scraped-up majority. In the result Joseph was beaten rather easily. It was his expiring flutter in public life, for lie is now (id, aud they don’t come back.

The Maoris of the Wairoa (Hawke’s Bay) district are very thorough in all schemes undertaken by them. They are now proposing to erect,a Maori vicarage at North Clyde. Five acres of land are available; also about B,oooft. of sawn limber and £3OO in cash. A motor car fund is also being started so that a car can be provided for the minister in charge to enable him to get about more freely in the large and scattered district.

Friday last was the 23rd anniversary of the relief of Ma Peking, one of the most noteworthy events of I lie Sout h African War. The garrison of about 000 irregular troops under Colonel It. S. S. Baden Howell, had been invested since the beginning of the war, a period of over seven months. The relief column, under ’’General Malum, entered Matching about four o’clock on the morning of May 18, 1900. The news was received with a remarkable demonstration of gladness throughout the Empire. v A meat war is now raging in Wanganui (says an exchange). Last week a meat company brought the price down and to-day a new company, comprising graziers aud bcel'-growers, brought the price of beef down by a further penny per pound all round. Fillet is down to Bd, rump steak to 7d and sirloin to 4d, with other lines correspondingly low in price. When the shop opened this morning it had all the appearance of a lirst day large display sale, the stores being crowded all day. The other large shop was also packed all day and never in the history of Wanganui has so much meat been retailed within 12 hours. One company is delivering meat at the new cut prices, and quite a fleet of motor vans is engaged in delivering orders. One man interested in the meat trade states that there is going to be a regular spring-clean-ing in he butchery business throughout the Dominion.

A Waimate farmer, who is on a visit to Wanganui, mentioned to a “Herald” reporter that naturally in travelling along the coast lie took an interest in the way the fields had been ploughed, and in a great many instances lie would not care to give a certificate to the ploughman for neatness. “Don’t you have any ploughing matches here?” he asked. “In order to encourage and teach your younger men the art of ploughing.”

A complaint that there was far too many noises in the main street of Hamilton at night was voiced at tlie meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. One member said that the din created by the open exhausts on motor cycles, the clanging of horns of rival motor omnibuses when the pictures came out, and the singing and noisiness of youths constituted a serious nuisance. The speaker, who lives in a hank on the main street, said his children were awakened every night by the noises. The meeting decided to ask the Borough Council to take steps to abate the nuisance.