NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2729, 6 May 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

ft is slated by an Otaki railway resident. wln> is in a position to indye, that on two days nearly 1000 oars passed through Otaki during the strike period. “T am going to (piestion those numbers!” deelarcd a meniher of the AA T cllmyton llos)>ital Hoard moot in,”'. “Yon would fpio-dion the Ton Commandments !" replied anothor momh(*r. The Soot is still to the fore. At the sheep dog trials :it Ala rtinhoronyh last week" the following elans were well in evidenee. AlVDonnld, AleLeod. AlcLaren. McKinnon, McKenzie, McClelland. MeFndyen, MeXauyhton, and others too numerous to mention. A. surprise was experienced by Ihr yeneral manayer of the Christchurch tramways on reeleiviny a. letter siyned “Honesty.” in wliieli was enclosed two penny stamps. The writer explained that he had fried unsuccessfully to pay his fare to a conductor, anil being determined that the hoard should remove it, forwarded it by post.

Not a fish story! A- Wellington miof'essional man who has returned hv sea and road to Wellinylon relates that'when eros-mg the Onehunya bar the vessel upon wliieli lie and f>o other passengers weiv I ravelliny -hipped an u<n-u----!1 v hf'avv sen. Literally a wall of water Pell upon the after deck and the travellers were soaked to the -kin. The wave left souvenirs upon the fleck of biy sehnapper and mnki. The ship must have been passiny near a shoal of the fish.

“Tt is no yood killing the goose that lays the yolden eggs,’’ said Mr 0. R. Orr-Walker. 5.M.., at the Magistrate’s-Court. Wellington, in reply to an application by counsel in a maintenance ease that the defendant he sent to prison if he fail - ed to pay. “Tf-he goes to gaol, yon won’t yet any money out of him,” eon eluded his Worship. “The eggs in Ibis ease ore not very golden,” rejoined eounsel smilingly.

One of the natives who took partin the Alonri tennis eharnpionsliip meeting' at Wanganui said that thegame was yetting a wonderful hold amongast the younger people players being present from all over the North Island. At several of the settlements up the Wanganui river gross courts were being prepared. He regarded it as the future game for the Moaris, as both sexes could take part.