Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2679, 5 January 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The many friends of Air A. S. Easton will regret to learn that his condition is causing the family much anxiety.

The Rev E. McDonald, accompanied by Mr 11. Wilton, of Rnngiotu, start out on a motor tour to the Auckland province next week. While bathing at Tongalion bench on Tuesday, Walter Taylor (19), residing at Alton, -oislained injuries to his spine as the result of striking a rock wlmn diving. ITe was removed to the hospital and died last evening.

Hedgehogs are prevalent in the Wellington district, and many are nightly to be seen in the suburban areas. They have also appeared in large numbers in the Stratford district, several being found recently in the Midhurst and Pembroke road districts.

The building staff of the Wanganui Education Board resume operations next week. The biggest job on band, the erection of a school at Palmerston N. to hold about 300 children, is almost completed, and null be ready for service at the end of the holidays.

The remarkable progress of wireless is demonstrated by the fact, that a concert, which took place in California was distinctly hoard in Invercai’gill by a local radio enthusiast (Air G. Action) last, Tuesday night, when be picked up the American amateur station at Oakland. Exti’act from an American journal: “Cyras K. Quigley passed through Cedar Palls, Minnesota, on the morning of the twenty-fourth inst., on an extended motoring tour. In this town he stopped to examine his petrol tank to find out if it was empty. As it was dark lie used a match. The tank was not empty. Age forty-seven.” A local motorist who drove his car for the first time through the Mauawatu gorge recently, informed us that while the gorge road is much improved to what it was before the Board of Control took charge, much will still need to be done before lie is able to negotiate some of the bends without perspiring! We are in receipt of a copy of “The Otaihapean,” produced by pupils attending the Taihapq District High School. It contains a number of illustrations and the letter press is devoted to a record of school happenings during the year, Mr S. J. McDonnell, late first assistant, at the local primary school, is on the staff of the Taihnpe school. While his mother and father were absent, Freddy Summer, aged !), mounted a. big, raw-boned bor.se and cantered into Ashburton on Thursday. The horse became frightened and boiled past the police station, the little fellow bolding on to the mane for dear life. He was unseated at a street corner, and sustained concussion, lie is now recovering. The digestive capacities of the ostrich are put badly into the shade by the performance of a. hulhiek that, lias just been cut up at the Armidalc (New South Wales) Butchering Company’s works. This particular animal appeared to have baulked at nothing. The postmortem showed that it hail absorbed 70 nails, a handful of rivets, an open safety pin, and pieces of tin, glass, lead and stone. Externally the animal seemed perfectly normal. Any claim by the former owner to bis erstwhile backyard property is likely to be met by a counter-action for compensation for artificial weight paid for as beef tit the sale. Two gambling dens in Haining >St. Wellington, were raided by a party of detectives on Tuesday evening, when 75 Chinese were arrested in connection with playing fan-lan. All the accused appeared before Ah' W. G. Riddell at- the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Wong Jung pleaded guilty to using No. 52 as a common gaining house and was tined £SO, while his assistant, King Pong, was fined £ls. Chong Hung denied using No. 18 as a common gaming house, and was lined £IOO, Seventytwo other Chinese were each lined £2 for being found illegally on the premises of these common gaining houses.

The Prime Alinister (the Right lion. W. P. Alasscy) was due to leave Vancouver by the Alakura yesterday on his return to New Zealand. The Alakura is expected to reach Auckland on January 25th. Mr P. W. G. AtcLeod, of New Plymouth, lias been appointed sole adjudicator for the North Island Brass Band Association’s annual contest, which is to be held from February 11 to Hi at Palmerston N.

Air S. Palmer, of Pohangina, who was visiting Foxton on evangelistic work in conjunction with Mr Clapham, received word yesterday that his sister died suddenly at Auckland.

A Alaori boy named Sam Pax-ore aged 11 years, was drowned while swimming in a tidal ci-eek at Dargaville yesterday. The body has not. vet been recovered. The deceased was a great-grandson of Parore, (lie original owner of the land on which Dargaville now stands.

George AR-Kay, a married man dding at Mount Eden, a carpenter employed by the Harbour Board, fell from the roof of a new shed to the concrete flooring 35 feet below. Tie sustained extensive injuries to his head and a fractured leg, resulting in his death.

The Rev. W. and Airs Raine. of Atari inborough, are at present visiting Foxton and are the guests of Air and Ati-s P. Robinson, Beach Rd., Air and ATrs Raine are looking up old friends. To-morrow morning the Rev. AD Raine will conduct the service in All Saints' church where he ministered prior to removing to ALarl inborough. “Tl is well for parents to know,” stated the headmaster of a large school in Auckland at a prize-giv-ing eerenmny. “Ihat what business mi'll desire most in boys leaving school is no! s,, muelt a knowledge of book-keeping and office routine as reliability of character, willingness in work, habits of punctuality neatness and accuracy. trained intelligence. and. last but not least, court esv.”

The Rev. J. P. Wisernan, Anglican vicar of Ashburton, went to bed yith between £SO and £6O in his pockets. Tie intended starting a holiday in a few days, and the fact that the banks were closed necessitated drawing the money beforehand. During the night a thief entered the bedroom, abstracted a wallet from his coat and silver from his trousers, and departed without, awakening Hie clergyman. The intruder left no due.

It is understood a, large pi’operly, nearly 1000 acres, together with homestead buildings including a fine residence, near Bulls, lias been purchased in futherance of a scheme for the training as farmers of boys, the dependants of seamen killed in the war. The price is stated to be £35.000. It is reported that, the property adjoining, belonging to the Da-lrymplc estate, 5000 acres has also been purchased for £25,000.

Tn bail-dressing, the latest tiling is “shingling” an American custom which is replacing “bobbing.” The Hon. Airs Lionel Tennyson, a daughter of Lord Gleneonner (Viscountess Grey), who is a pretty woman of' the petite order, was one of the first English society women to adopf the style, and several actresses have since adopted it, especially those who previously “bobbed” their hair. In “shingling” the hair is cut diort at the back like a man’s, but, to prevent the clipped appearance, the front hair is left long and is brushed over towards the back. The hair is also left tong at the sides and falls over the ears. Needless to say, only young and pretty women can risk “shingling.”

Even the problem where (lies go to in winter time has its mastermind (says the Melbourne “Age"), but if you ask a Commonwealth Treasury official where all I lie lialt-sov-ercings go, lie will shake his head, and candidly admit that he dues not know. There are no half-sover-eigns in the Treasury vaults, and the Commonwealth lias never made a practice of holding them. Officially, therefore, nil the half-sover- < igns in Australia are in circulation lint actually they are not. ll is believed that the hanks hold some of tlicit- re>c!'ves in half-sovereigns, nil that the remainder are included in many a little private hoard of

gold. Some people keep 10s pieces as curiosities, tint the bulk of these arc tied up in stockings, or buried in the back garden in a tin, or in a canvas ling in ltn* chimney, or under I lie fourth board front the bedf,timi window. They are not in ciritilu 1 ion.

\\'e fia\e received a copy of the first weekly issue ot ‘TTumour, a magazine of witticisms that fifls gained great popularity in this connlev. Previously tills magazine was published fort nightly, lmt to meet an ever growing demand, is to he issued weekly commencing with the number dated January 4. A feature of the new issue is a greatly improved and enlarged production published at the same price of 3d, We can appreciate the great, popularity of this paper, giving a* it does a summary of the litei-ary and ai‘tistic efforts ol'tlie world’s most famous humorists. Here we find the brightest and best of laughs that come from England, Prance, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, America and remote parts of the globe. The magazine has a universal appeal; it gratifies' the taste of the intellectual for subtle and fine humour, provides a feast of general laughter to the humble worker, has its share of gentle humour for the ladies, and finally has a greater appeal to the kiddies than the coloured coxxxic.

The “Wnirarapa Age” x-elates details of an accident attended by very serious results which occun-ed after midnight on Monday at Alartinborough. Two young men named Percy George and Alexander Wills were returning from the dii’eetion of Carterton when they met another cycle ridden by a youth named Knutson, of Dyerville, who had as a passenger a schoolboy named Roy Prentice. There were no witnesses of the mishap, and nothing was known of of it until some hours later, when the four victims were found lying on the l-oad, all badly injured. Young Prentice had a thigh broken find an elbow badly injured. Knutson bad a toe pulled off and the side of the foot badly lacerated, bis shoulder injured and both bis arms for the time being paralysed. Wills received a fracture at the base of Hie skull. George had one finger severed, the remainder having to be amputated. All the patients were taken to the Grevtown hospital. Wills is in the most serious condition.