The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2601, 3 July 1923, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“My wife has a tongue as long as a telegraph pole and as sharp as a razor,” stated respondent during tlie hearing of a claim for maintenance against him in the Oamaru Police Court.

Green peas are at present being grown at Otaki by Mr F. Mitchell, and a sample left at the “Mail” office proved that the crop is a line one, the pods being long and well filled.

Another successful and enjoyable card evening was held by the Foxton Card Club in Mr Perreau’s rooms on Thursday last, when there was a good attendance. Prizes for the most games of’ Drib were won by Mr J. Simpson and Mr W. Jago.

A nightwatchman named John Henry Richards was found dead in bed on Saturday morning at Masterton. He had previously complained of a severe pain in his chest. Richards, who is a native of Ireland, was 34 years of age, and has relatives in Christchurch.

Frank McLean, formerly of Dunedin, was seriously injured about the face and hands and the upper part of the body, as the result of a premature explosion of a charged hole in the underground workings of the Waihi mine on Saturday. His condition is serious and it is feared that he will lose his eyesight.

Most of the southern potato crops have now been dug and farmers are holding them for further developments (says an exchange). White potatoes are being quoted at from £8 to £8 ss, and by the middle of July should be up to £8 10s. So far as actual business is concerned, the market is extremely quiet, and not a great deal is offering. Merchants are shipping practically no supplies to the north..

The annual meeting of the Tennis Association of Australia rejected a cabled request from the United States that the preliminary rounds of the Davis Cup be played on Sunday. The cablegram explained that Sunday play would give the teams the benefit of large gates. Mr Hicks, replying to the United States explained that Australia had various objections which were not outweighed by the gate takings.

A Napier exchange says that a good story was told by the Rev. Canon Clarke at the Presbyterian Sunday School at Taradale. The Canon said: “Many people frightened themselves to death,” and instanced the case of an editor, who was supposed to be dying. The doctor was summoned and entered the sick man’s room. He stole quietly to the bedside and placing his ear to the chest of the editor solemnly rose and exclaimed “The circulation is stopped.” The magnetic power of these words caused the editor to almost jump out of bed and exclaim, “What? Impossible! My paper has the largest circulation of any paper in the country. I will see into this. There’s a mistake somewhere.”

An example of the compliments that are being passed among members of the House, was given on Thursday afternoon when Mr Nash, member for Palmerston North, asked leave to put a question without notice to the Minister of Justice regarding the state of the gaol at Palmerston North. “Have you been there?” asked a Labour member. “No, but you may have been,” replied Mr Nash.

Mrs Agnes Herbert, an elderly woman, living at Ivarangahape Rd., Auckland, was knocked down by a motor car and died in the hospital from severe internal injuries.

Leslie William Butler, a railway cleaner at Henderson, who was struck on the head by a tablet exchange on June 20, died in Auckland Hospital on Saturday night.

The Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, stands upon a section which is to-day valued at 1,500,000 dollars. It was bought in 1849 for 265 dollars. Mr A. C. Ross, of the Dairy Division, said that last year 81,471 cows were tested in New Zealand, representing 7i per cent. of tlie cows. Denmark was the only country with a larger percentage, but he hoped to see Denmark’s proportion passed very soon.

Andrew Brainier, a eoachbuilder, a married man, 54 years of age, of Linwood Avenue, Christchurch, was riding a motor cycle along Worcester Street on Saturday when he collided with a motor lorry travelling in the opposite direction. Brainier was admitted to the hospital suffering from severe injuries to the head. He gradually sank in id died at 6.45 p.rn. yesterday.

A comparison of the. price which the Invercargill ■ Council paid for coal for the gasworks in 1913 and that paid last year shows that the price has doubled. In 1913 the average price per ton for 12 months was £1 7s 3d, whereas last year it had risen to £2 15s Gd. In the same time the price of gas per 1,000 cubic feet has increased from 5s lOd to 8s 9d net.

Up to Saturday last, the State has expended approximately £BO,000 on the Parliament of the country, writes “Insignis” in the Dominion. A rough calculation shows that ten million words have been uttered by members of Parliament during the no-confidence debates, in nine sitting days in February, and in eleven days during June—at a cost of approximately 2d per word to the State. The only legislation passed to date is the Imprest Supply Bill, which occupied 20 minutes out of 20 days.

A commission appointed by the Presbytery of Hawke’s Bay sat a few days ago in St. Andrew’s Church, Gisborne, to consider a petition signed by 41 members and adherents of the church praying that the Presbytery take steps to preserve the hostoric faith of the church. It was alleged (states the Gisborne Times) that the Rev. .las. Aitken, M.A., had in his teachings, departed from the fundamental doctrines of the church. Evidence was hoard on both sides. The deeison of the Presbytery will be made known after due consideration.

The Baptist Church at Ashburton (which is a dry area) was selected by three men for a drunken orgy on Saturday night. They subsequently appeared in Court on a charge of being rogues and vagabonds. Michael Moreau and Peter George Goudie were convicted and discharged, and the third, Frank Spring, .who obstructed the police by running away after his arrest, was fined £l. The evidence revealed that a constable answering a telephone message, visited the church. He heard a terrific din long before he arrived, the men apparently rolling about on the floor, kicking the furniture and cursing. They refused to unlock the door and the constable opened a window and hauled Moreau and Spring out by the neck. A lady neighbour called out that Goudie was escaping by the back door, and dodging over the fence, and she offered to'assist the constable to catch him. Half a bottle of whisky was recovered in the church.

Mr R. E. Honiblow, Mayor of Dnrgaville, is paying a brief visit to his brother, Mr .T. Iv. Hornblow. In connection with -borough affairs in the northern township, Mr Hornblow informed our representative that a new Municipal building in brick had just been completed at a cost of nearly £9,000. On the ground floor it contained public library and reading-room, town clerk’s office, public* office and a room for the Plunket Society and rest-room for women. The upstairs comprised Borough Chambers, committee room, Mayor's room, engineer’s room. The Municipal Chamber may be transformed into a large social hall. The building is of modern design and it presents a very ornate appearance and contains every convenience. The borough and county have also undertaken the construction of a ferro-concrete bridge which spans the northern Wairoa river almost in the centre of the borough, at a cost of approximately £45,000. This bridge will give access to over 100,000 acres of rich river flats for settlement purnoses. Mr Hornblow says that over half of this land will carry a beast to the acre. The Fire Brigade is under the jurisdiction of a Fire Board, of which Mr ITornblow is chairman. The Council, said Mr Hornblow, heartily co-operate with the Board and in the opinion of Inspector Hugo, the brigade is one of the best equipped for its size in the Dominion. The population of the borough, is 2,300.

They but exist who seek the shade Lest pure ozone their lungs distress, Fresh air and light for man was made, And sunshine for his happiness. The changing seasons make life’s round And all must coughs and colds endure; But prompt relief is always found, In Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 11.

The total rainfall for last month was 3.17 inches. The heaviest fall for the month was recorded on the 22nd, totalling .60 inches. The Rev. W. H. Walton and Mr F. Robinson left Foxton yesterday to attend the annual synod which opened at Wellington to-day. The vital statistics for Foxton for June with the corresponding figures for the same month last year in parenthesis were: Births 8 (6), deaths nil (1), marriages 1 (1).

The quarterly returns of the local S.M. Court for the period ended June 30th were: plaints entered 37; aggregate amount sued for £615 7/6; number of persons summoned or apprehended 32.

Owing to lack of Government financial assistance, the experiments carried on at Miranui in connection with flax cultivation to combat the yellow leaf disease has been abandoned.

John Suttie Mclntosh, employed at Ross and Glendining’s warehouse, on charges of theft of goods valued at about £l9, was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment Accused was previously on probation.

Alleging that the dearness of bread is due to excessive charges by bakei’s, a meeting of the MidCanterbury Farmers’ Union resolved to collect statistics on wheat and bread prices before and after the war.

Mr W. H. Field (Otaki) is to ask the Minister of Finance whether- steps have yet been taken in the interests of public health and convenience, to provide that banks shall issue ten shilling and onepound notes of similar size respectively, and so far as possible that only clean notes shall be in circulation ?

“Look where you’re going.” shouted a motorman, jamming on his brakes, as Erie Pilbrow, aged 6,, crossed his bows at a street corner at Ashburton, on Saturday. Eric straightway stopped and looked in the wrong direction, when a. second car, a heavy Buick, rounded the corner, knocked him down, and passed over his chest. He was taken to the hospital and little hope is held for his recovery. A well-known Dunedin woman who has been prominently identified for some years with the welfare of returned soldiers and with other social activities, will appear at the Police Court on Friday to answer a charge of attempting to dissuade a principal witness in the Hayne attempted abortion case from giving evidence. The woman is a member of an important local board.

About twenty-seven tons of cargo salvaged from the Wiltshire was brought to Auckland by tlie scow Lena on Wednesday last. The diving work at the Wiltshire is reported to be progressing slowly. Two scow loads of cargo have been landed at Tryphena. Of the eight blades on the twin propellers one has been salvaged and the others have been unbolted ready for raising to the surface. The blades are made of copper, each weighing about three tons, and being valued at £IOO.

A motorist who was charged at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court the other day with speeding did not appear, but sent a letter which stated: “I would like to suggest to your Court to recommend the Timaru Borough Council to erect notices of by-laws for the benefit of strangers like myself, and when in Rome do as the Romans did.” “I understand that the Romans punished those who did not obey their laws” murmured the Magistrate. <r We will do as the Romans did” and lie inflicted a fine of 20s and costs.

“I have been astonished at my own ignorance of the Church in' New Zealand and its mission activities among the Maoris,” said the Indian Bishop of Domakal at a gathering in St. Sepulchre’s Hall, Auckland, recently, “but my own ignorance was no greater than that of some New Zealanders concerning India. At one school I visited recently a little girl told me I came from America, and at another school all the children were surprised and disappointed because I did not have my head ornamented with feathers!”

Notice has been given in the House of Representatives by the member for Christchurch North (Mr L. AL Isitt) to move that thei’e be laid before the House a return showing separately—(l) The number of charges and convictions for offences for drunkenness, and the number of persons so convicted under twenty-one years of age, also the number between twenty-one and twenty-five and the number above twenty-five years of age in each nolicense district from January 1 to December 31, 1922; and (2) the quantity and kind of liquor sent into each no-license district from January 1 to December 31, 1922.

Thursday was the ninth anniversary of the event that acted as a spark of the international gunpowder in Europe—the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife. They were visiting Sarajevo, in Serbia, on 28th June, 1914, and were twice attacked while driving in the streets. A bomb which was thrown at the Imperial carriage missed it, hut injured a number of bystanders. Subsequently a Serbian student named Prineep fired two revolver shots, fatally wounding both the Archduke and Archduchess. The notorious ultimatum from Austria to Serbia followed within the succeeding month. Thursday was also the fourth anniversary of the signing of the Peace Treaty between the Allies and Germany.

A native, said to be 104 years of age, has been admitted to the Old Men’s Home at Pieton.

At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Beautifying Society, Mr J. H. Burnet said that a large number of trees had been planted for 100 miles along the Wanganui River. The Natives asked for trees to plant and were prepared to take care of them.

As a compliment to the Hon. S. F. Wigram, the Government has decided to rename the Sockburn aerodrome the Wigram aerodrome. Mr Wigram, chairman of the Canterbury Aviation Company, made a gift of £IO,OOO to the Government towards tbe purchase price of the aerodrome, and its new name is in recognition of this fact as well as of Mr Wigram’s valuable pioneering work in aviation in New Zealand. Mr Massey hopes to bring down the Financial statement to-day and also to set aside/ a day or two to discuss the Imperial Conference. He has assured the House that there are a number of Bills ready for consideration and if the House settles down to business it can get tlirough in time to allow the Prime Minister to be present at the Conference. Mr Massey has made it quite clear that he would rather go to the country than sit in Parliament while time is being wasted.