Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2650, 25 October 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the local police court yesterday, before Mr Horn blow, J.P., C B. Wallbutton, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and lined ss,

The new council chambers will be officially opened this evening when the Mayor and Councillors will entertain representative townspeople at a supper.

A storm passed over this district last night and (his morning. The gale was accompanied by hail and rain. A good deal of damage was done to gardens and,orchards.

A London journal tells a yarn of some chickens Unit nicked up grains of carbide by the waYside and, after drinking at a convenient stream, “went off” with n hong’. A gaslronomicnl tragedy.

A number of local Masons proceeded to Bulls last night and attended the installation ceremony of Lodge Rangitikei. After the ceremony the visitors were entertained at a banquet. The conference on the coal dispute sat all day yesterday. No result was arrived at at the dinner adjournment, and the conference resumed at 8 p.m., slates a Reefton wire. Charles Edward William Phillips was committed for trial at Wellington yesterday, on a charge of bigamy. Tie is alleged to have married Ellen Petersen in 191(i when his first wife was alive in England.

The quarterly meeting of the members of the local Chamber o! Commerce will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. All members are specially requested to be present as business of an important nature will be discussed.

One of New Zealand's oldest pioneers, Mr John Keith, passed away at the age of 75, at Auckland. Mr Keith who was a native of Yorkshire, England, arrived in New Zealand with his parents when he was 12 years of age. For some years the family resided in Remuern.

Members of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, headed by the chairman, Mr J. A. Nash, MJ\, visited the Mangahao hydro-electric works yesterday, the chief objects being to view the progress of the work and to become enlightened as to the difficulties the engineers were compelled to face in the construction work of the dams.

'"“Shop lifters must be punished severely because shopkeepers must be protected and they have a right to trust their customers,” said the Magistrate, at Christchurch yesterday, in fining Frances Matilda Richards £lO for stealing a piece of curtaining valued at 9/(5 from a shop. The Magistrate refused an order for the suppression of her name and said it was really necessary in all shop lifting cases that the accused should be sent to gaol.

Miss Purnell, relieving teacher on the local State School staff, since the beginning of the year, is being transferred to Feilding next week. During Miss Purnell’s connection with the school she has made many friends who will regret, her depart-

Mr Massey was unable to attehd Ihe Trafalgar Day dinner, at London, but sent a message, “May the memory of England’s most illustrious sailor prove an inspiration to future generations. The supreme need of the Empire is an adequate system of naval defeirce.”

“Yes, miss,” said the Old Country woman to the lady visitor, “I’ve worn the same pair of stockings for t wenty years." The visitor was astounded. “However do you manage, that, Mrs Smith?” she asked. “Well, you see, miss,” answered Mrs Smith, “one winter T knits new legs in them and next year I knits new feel in I hem.”

A correspondent “Demos,” asks why a general invitation has not been extended to the ratepayers to attend the official opening of the Council Chandlers this evening. In conversation with the Town Clerk, we are informed that the accommodation would not permit a general invitation, hut ex'-Mayor’s and the heads of all representative bodies have been invited.

At a recent meeting of the Oamain Borough Council (says the Times) Cr. Firth spoke rather heatedly concerning the demands of sport. “It is all very well,” he said, “but sport’s getting the best of us today. There is altogether too much inclination to lean towards sport.” Cr. Firth said he was not opposed to sport as such, but he did not think they should grant every request that was made without investigation.

Particulars in reference to the fatal buggy accident which occurred at Maungaturoto state the horses bolted and Eunice Cullen, aged S years, the youngest daughter of Mr C. 11. Cullen, got caught by a woollen jumper in falling and was dragged a. quarter of a mile, when the jumper came clear, letting the child free. No bones were broken, but she was hurt internally and severely cut about. She lived until about. 3 o’clock the next, day, when she collapsed and died. The others escaped with severe shakings and minor bruising.

Although the Minister for Public Works has expressed the opinion that hydro-electric power will be available from Mangahao in the middle of .1924 some outside observers hold a contrary opinion. The Mayor of Wellington declared at a meeting of the City Council this week that the supply would not be available for the city until the end of next year. Tt. was supposed to be ready in June next, but that could hardly be, judging on information he had received from Mr Cable, chief electrical engineer and tramways manager.

Mr Stan Austin received a cablegram from his mother, Mrs AustinJohnston, asking him to-meet her in Sydney and stating that she had met with a slight accident to her foot. Tt will be remembered that Mrs Austin-Johnston and her daughter were in Japan during the frightful earthquake and had a miraculous escape from death. They however, witnessed the harrowing scenes before, taking their departure /from Japan. Mrs AustinJohnston and her daughter are now on their way from Singapore, per steamer Tasman, to Sydney and expect to arrive there on the 2nd of m*xt month. 7MV Rtan Austin len.ves Auckland to-morrow by the "Manuka lo join his mother and sister in Sydney and to accompany them back. Mrs. Austin-Johnston’* accident happened subsequent to leavhig Japan.