The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2598, 26 June 1923, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Beckett states that lie is depositing' £I,OOO witli (lie “Sporting Life” as a guarantee for a light witli Carpentier. “Tlie onion makes everybody weep,” said a famous comedian, “but I should like to discover a vegetable that will make any one laugh.”

Last Saturday was the anniversary of the birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The Prince is 29 years of age. In honour of the event the (lag was flown on the local post office. Sir Thomas Lipton states that he intends to issue a challenge for the America Cup in 1925, with a new Shamrock. He has not yet decided anything about the design or size of the boat.

The first 50 boys from the Dr. Barnardo’s Homes who emigrated to Australia under a Dominion Government scheme in 1922, now have banking accounts totalling altogether to more than £SOO.

“The floor of the Bunnythorpe School is so rotten,” remarked Mr Mclntyre, at the Wanganui Education Board meeting, “that they dare not shift the piano from the infants department to another room otherwise the whole understructure would collapse.

The following passage appeared in a letter received at a meeting of the Stratford County Council. “There are lawyers hanging over the road in places also, making it dangerous for anyone driving or riding.” It is reassuring to know that the lawyers referred to belong to the vegetable kingdom.

According to the report of the Select. Committee of the British Naval Estimates, the warship New Zealand, which cost the New Zealand Government £1,700,000 was sold to a British firm for breaking up for £21,000. The vessel was not auctioned, but after the Powers’ decision at Washington it was decided to scrap her and many other ships immediately, which glutted the market and lowered prices.

Scotland Yard detectives last week raided the “Daily Herald” office and demanded the photograjffi of Britain’s new secret submarine, which the paper published. The whole staff was questioned, and even the messengers were detained. The blockade was lifted only when the 'editor handed the photograph over. The process block and all the undistributed copies of the paper containing the picture were also seized.

One of the meanest type of the petty thief is the person, remarks the Auckland “Star,” who steals silverware from restaurants. The proprietor of a first-class Queen street restaurant informed a “Star 1 ” representative that during the past month there had been stolen from his establishment no less than thirty pieces of silver. These included spoons, knives, and forks, salt shakers, and such larger table pieces as sugar basins and small coffee pots. The loss he estimates at approximately £lO.

Employees of the Kairanga County Council will have eight days’ holiday each year on full pay.

Campbell, an Englshman, made a new world’s motoring record at the Fanoe races, covering 137 miles in an hour.

George Hall, of Iforotiu (Waikato), possesses a champion Shorthorn cow whose yield of luitterfat for the season just closed was 830 pounds.

An officer of the Public Works Department made an inspection of the local police station yesterday in connection with the proposed erection of new premises.

The Podding Beautifying Society has prepared a scheme for the beautifying of its town and a public meeting' will discuss the details to-morrow night.

The other evening “snow droppers” visited Mr G. Swan’s Royal Hotel yard in Wanganui and walked off with about £4O worth of dollies drying on the lines.

Two local lislierincn arc making preparations to .join flic fleet of fishing boats round about Kapiti. One launch set out this morning and the other is to follow shortly, as soon as final, preparations can he completed.

- Sir John Luke said in the House I am an old maker of speeches, hut, unlike many singers and reciters, T notice that I never get an encore (Laughter). —Mr Rhodes (Thames) : But you always speak again. (Laughter).

The first consignment of the season of mutton birds has arrived in Wanganui from the Bluff, and these were sold at Is each. The chief buyers, of course, are the Natives, as the pakeha as a rale does not relish this oilv diet.

At laset night’s meeting of the Palmerston North Borough Council, the gas managin' reported that the make of gas for May, 1923, was 10,206,000 cubic feet, whereas in 1922, for the same month, the make was 9,639,000 cubic feet, an increase of 627,000 cubic feet, or 0.5 per cent.

"With an open razor lying by his side, a middle-aged man, named Willianf Johnson, was found at his residence, 2.1 Crieff Street, Northland, Wellington, early on Saturday morning. He was removed to the Wellington hospital, hut died on the way there. It is stated that the deceased had been receiving medical attention for some time, and that he had been worried about the health of his wife.

A member of .the Timaru Borough Council whose nationality need not he stilted, often provides (quite unconsciously) the comedy element at the Council’s meetings (states the Timaru “Herald”). At a recent meeting he was addressing the council in a very serious strain, concerning breaches of the by-laws, affecting street verandahs when he expressed the opinion, most,emphatically, flint “those breaches should he pulled up."

The Cox ton Card Club held a very enjoyable evening at Mr Walls tea rooms on Thursday last. There was a good attendance and the card programme was got through without a hitch. Interest was added to the games by making a triangular, contest, namely Liberal, Labour and Reform. Labour won by a small majority. Each table played nine games of crihhage and prizes for most games were won by Messrs Simpson and Parkin.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral is to visit Ha worn during the first week of July. He will leave Wellington on July 2, and on his arrival at Hawera in the evening will open “Empire Week.” On the following day His Excellency will open the show, afterwards motoring to Marlon to attend the Kangitikei Hunt Club races, to be held on July 4, and the Hunt Club ball on the evening of July 5. He will return to Wellington on July 6, arriving at midday by the Auckland express. The Hon. Lucy Jellicoe will accompany the Governor-General. They will stay at the residence of Mr D. Riddiford while at Marton.

A strange story is related of an arrest in connection with two, peasant brothers in a village in Bosnia. In company with a few neighbours, they opened the grave of their recently buried father, and took out (he body and burned it replacing the ashes in the coffin. They confessed their guilt, saying their action was instigated by their mother. They declared that on the night of the funeral their father’s ghost visited their mother and prevented her from sleeping. On the second night the ghost reappeared and robbed the whole household of their sleep. They feared he would disturb the whole village, so, with the aid of neighbours, they decided to burn the bodv, thereby laying the ghost.

A well-known public man on the North Shore, on going to (lie city on Saturday morning, >uw a mother walking in the street accompanied by six sturdy, rosy-faced children, the youngest being dressed in Highland costume (states the Auckland “Star”). Guessing that they were, new arrivals who had just come in by the Remuera, lie approached them and found that his surmise was correct, and that they had just come from the .Granite City to join the bread-winner, who was in a southern part of the Dominion. Placing his motor cai at their disposal, he took the visitors to One Tree Hill and other points of vantage in the city. After a good long run the immigrants returned to the city thankful to their unknown benefactor, and thinking New Zealand and its people were just all right.

The Hon. E. Newman, speaking as a woolgrower, informed the Legislative Council that the costs had so risen that no one could sell wool now at less than Is a pound and make a profit out of it.

An old identity of Feilding, Mrs Sarah Entwistle, passed away last week, at the great age of 92 years. Her husband left Manchester, England, in 1850 for Wellington, and Mrs Entwistle left about two years after with her family in the ship Oliver Laing.

Burglars entered the premises of Archibald Clark and Sons, warehousemen, of Auckland, during the week end , evidently through a window at the rear. They selected £290 worth of the best silk hosiery and removed it in a suit case, also part of the stock, states an Auckland message.

The Stratford “Post” gives a grim account of a son’s journey with his dead father. It appears that the elder man, Conze, and his son were engaged splitting firewood on Radnor Road. The father set down on a log and suddenly expired. He was ;i tall, well-built man. but his son carried him to the gig, lifted him in, and drove in to Stratford, a distance of eight miles, with his arm around his dead father’s body.

An honourable record which it would he hard to heat is that of Mr Baker, a committeeman of the Ongn Onga school. He lias served on the committee of the undermentioned schools : —Tikikino, eight years, Dannevirke five years, Paliintun two years, Newman four years, Tikikino (second time) four years, Makaretu eight years, Onga Onga eight and a-half years. This is therefore his fortieth year of service as a committeeman (says the Hawke’s Bav Herald).

That there is plenty of money available for investment in firstclass securities has been the experience of the Wanganui Borough Council. A week or two ago the Council advertised for application for subscriptions for the St. John’s Hill loan of £5,000. Ten applications were received, aggregating £B,IOO at par. At the meeting of the Borough Council’s recommendation to allot £3,000 to nine applicants and £2,000 to one applicant who applied for the whole loan was adopted.

“The average man forgets that when lie was a boy he was wayward and all the good things of boyhood he remembers, while all the had things he forgets. And thus it comes about that frequently we hear (lie statement that, the hoys of today are not what they were. The New Zealand hoy to-day is certainly as good as the Scottish hoy of forty or fifty years ago. fie has some advantages—lie is more resourceful, and he has certainly more lung power —. Mr G. A. Troup, at a. Boy Scout rally at Wellington the other night.

The body of an unidentified man was found in the river at Wanganui on Sunday. Deceased apparently was between 30 and 35 years of age, sf(. Jin. in height, of light build, clean shaven, high forehead, fair hair, three teeth missing from the upper jaw, a small deep sear inside the right knee (evidently an old mark), well dressed in a cream Roslyn singlet, and a cream shirt with dark stripe running through it, and brown trousers with a narrow purple stripe. The body evidently had been in the water for two weeks.

At the inquest on Walter Ernest Hall, chemist’s assistant, whose dead body was found on Thursday morning in a Palmerston North chemist’s shop where deceased was employed, evidence was given that deceased was addicted to taking <}rugs and must have broken into the shop while under the influence of liquor. In deceased’s hand was a hypodermic syringe and on the counter were three tubes, -which previously contained a narcotic. The coroner’s verdict was that death was due to an overdose of the drug, self administered while under the influence of liquor. A*" touching little drama in real life was played in the Magistrate’s Court at Hawera last week, when a mother of a bright little girl of 10 years was seeking a separation from the father, on various sordid grounds, with guardianship of the child (states the “Taranaki Daily News”). The little girl was asked who she would rather live with, her mother or her father. “I would rather live with mother,” replied the girl. Asked if she would rather live with either the mother and the father apart or with them together the child said: “1 would like to live with them together.” The Magistrate said lie hoped , the parents would take a note of this statement, but counsel pointed out that all attempts at a reconciliation had failed. There was a fall of cream in the Lady’s Mile on Sunday morning. A local milk vendor, immaculate in his white jumper, was driving along in his float, with one hand he controlled the reins and in the other he held a can of cream. The faithful horse pulled up suddenly at a residence and finding it had made a mistake, went forward as quickly as it stopped. The milkman fell from the cart and measured his full length on the road beneath a spray of cream. The cream trickled into his eyes and mouth and over his clothing, in comparison with which a movie stunt was not in it. A lad who witnessed the accident was convulsed with laughter, but his mirth was checked by a sulphurous blast from the snow-white apparition which raised itself from the roadway.

The Maori Rugby team were defeated by New South Wales at Sydney on Saturday by the narrow margin of (i to 3.

A very successful dance was held in the Masonic Hall last night under the auspices of the Foxton Fire Brigade. There was a fair number present and the floor was excellent. ' A very enjoyable evening was spent by all present. The third motor ear theft at Christchurch, in nine days, occurred on Saturday night when the private garage of Mr P. S. Nicholas, land agent, was entered by the side door and the ear driven off. The car was found on Sunday morning near Bromley Cemetery, with the tail light missing. A coil of hose also was stolen by the thieves.