GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2605, 12 July 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Says the Opunnke Times: “At a local party last week ten batchlors were noticed. Somethin” 1 must he ■ lone to bring these men to a full sense of their responsibility as citizens of the great and glorious British Empire.” Tlie driver of the wrecked train, Alexander Stewart, of Auckland, was at first reported as uninjured, but it now appears that he went back to Te Kuiti by a train shortly after the accident, and on arrival there had a relapse. He was examined there by a doctor who found that he was suffering from an injury to the head; his left arm was scalded, and his thigh was injured. His condition, though serious, is not critical. Thes ufferer was taken to a private house in Te Kuiti. The doctor was with him for two hours and said he was too ill to give him a version of the accident.

An important extension of the uses of electricity in this district will probably arise from its particular applicability to poultry-fann-ing. Tn one small town in California, five million chickens are reared , annually by this means. They are elect ideally incubated, electrically brooded and il is safe to say, electrically cooked at the end of their career. The big advantage of electricity for the incubator is the fact that the temperature is reliable —once it is pu on it requires no further regulating and further, the cost, based on American figures is less than other fuel. “I was seeing the injured put into the relief van,” said Mr Cruncher “and ns T came to Fireman Campbell, he said:“Can't von get me in off this cold ground?’ I said 'Yes, as soon as you pass the doctor.’ The fireman replied, ‘I have passed him,' and T then said, ‘Yon will be the next man in.’ T called the stretflier beavevs and said, ‘This man next, please.’ I then said to Campbell: ‘We’ll try and not hurt you.’ He replied, 'Go on, sir; T am a British bulldog, ’ and not a sound escaped his tightly-clenched teeth as we lifted his badly scalded body from the ground, placed him on a stretcher and bore him to the van. Campbell is among the dangerously ill.

It is not often that a Magistrate talks to an individual in the witness box as Mr R. M. Watson did at Hnnterville a few days ago in a claim for possession of a dwelling. The Magistrate: “Did you ever answer a straight question? I don’t believe you ever did. Tt s just the usual dodge of those who won’t pay their debts—they put it on to the wife. Either you are lying you were lying on March 27. You are a miserable dodger, and have licen bowled out. You are one of those creatures wlm crawl round and try to get it both ways, and when asked to pay rent say the wife is responsible.” Judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed and costs. An order for possession of the bouse in 21 days was made. “If you don’t get out, you will be chucked out,” was the concluding remark of the Magistrate.