LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Snow was lying on I lie ground as the Main Trunk express passed \\ niouru on Monday morning'. Near Taihape the lowftr hills were white mantled and the scene in the early morning sun was most pict uresque. At the New Plymouth Supreme Court yesterday, Thomas Edward Donaldson pleaded guilty to a charge of carnal knowledge at Kaponga and was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within twelve months.

The Kairangu County Council is the proud possessor of ten workmen’s cottages which cost £7,200 to build. They are returning a rental equivalent to 51 per cent.'on the money invested so that they are not costing the ratepayers a penny.

“People who stand in I lit* liighwiiv yarning are a pest," said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the ('liristcliurch Magistrate's Court last week, when lining- a pedestrian £2 and costs for refusing- In move out ol‘ the way of a motor car. “Ls this delVtudant an experienced driver?’ 7 was a question put to a constable by Mr K. It. Orr-Walker, S.M. at the Wellington Police Court. “Well, l should say he is, 7 ’ was fhe reply. “He has been before the court on two previous occasions.” Lieutenant Stitt, of 11.M.5. liepulse, who was a member of a pighunting partv in the Wairarapa, had with him a brace of guns which were a present from the Kaiser to the C/.ar of iiussia. One was a 10bore boar gun, beautifully chased and inlaid in gold with the royal coal-of-arms. The other gun, similarly crested, was a beautiful piece of work. Lieutenant Stitt procured these trophies in Moscow.

The Nelson City Cadets have again won the Campbell statuette for the best cadet company in the Dominion. An engine-driver was lined the minimum £2 at Grey mouth yesterday on each of two charges of failing to supply returns of income. Advices from Hong Kong stale that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the famous revolutionary leader, has been unconscious for the past two days with brain fever and it is litrw rumoured that he is dead. The death is announced at Auckland of Captain Kneen Kerruish, at the age of 99. He was horn on the Tsle of Man and went to sea as a youth, first visiting New Zealand 00 years ago. On retiring from sea he went to Australia, arriving in Auckland in 1903. Mr Kerruish belonged to a long-lived family, his sisters (twins) both living to a hundred. He leaves a widow and son.

An unfortunate accident happened at Mangaliao on Saturday to Mr Len Johnson, of Shannon, who is employed at the works. He was engaged in pushing a loaded truck through the tunnel when another truck which was being pushed :i----long at the hack of him, ran into him, causing his foot to become badly twisted. If is not known exactly what damage has been done to the foot and he was removed to the Palmerston N. Hospital on Monday to go under the X-rays.

A head-on collision took place on Monday between two motor lorries at a point on the Shannon side of the ford coining from Arapaepae. The lorries belonged to Mr Franks, and Constable McGregor and bis son were riding ou -one of them. The impact was so violent that the hoy was thrown forward through the windscreen hut fortunately sustained no serious injury. The radiators of both vehicles were Imdiy damaged. and the lorries had to he loti on the roadside, the passengers and driver.-, being brought into town: by Mr Franks in his car.

Miss Gwillia Sliand, who will represent New Zealand at the forthcoming Olympic Games, was a passenger to Auckland on Monday by the Maiiu. Trunk express. She was accompanied by Mrs Parkson and the Misses Thompson. Prior to leaving Wellington Miss Sliand was entertained by the members of the Swimming Association there. The Olympic team will include in addition to Miss Sliand who left by the Niagara yesterday, E. S. Herd (swimming) and. C. Purdy (boxing). Mr A. E. Porritt, who is at present a Rhodes scholar in England, will be manager oi* the New Zealand team as well as a competitor on behalf of the Dominion. Speaking at the Rotary luncheon in Wellington, Mr Will Appelton stressed the henelicient results <»l' advertising as applied to the preservation of the health of the community. By means of educative propaganda, he said, the health authorities could most certainly effetet a considerable reduction in the cost of hospital annntenance. The more people were educated in precautionary measures, the morn clearly they were instructed how to safeguard themselves from prevailing disease, the fewer hospital patients there would lie, and hei went so far as to say that for the judicious expenditure of £SOO on instructive propaganda. tile resultant saving in a city such as Wellington, would not be less than £I,OOO and probably be nearer £2,000.

While a Handwriting etxpert was giving evidence in a criminal charge in the Supreme Court at Auckland, Mr Ostler, counsel for accused, referred to the “good fair round hand that bank clerks use.” “And Judgws,” drily interpolated Mr Justice Herdman. To this Mr Ostler replied that unless they happened to have been bank clerks first he would not give much for some judge’s writing. The witness said be had recently seen a bank manager's signature, which he could not read. Mr Ostler capped the'remarks by stating that he once knew a Chief Justice who had three sorts of hand writing. One sort he alone could read, ihci second the Gtiiet Justice ami Mr Ostler could read but the third sort no uni l in the wide world < onld read.

“llow do you open a wharf'/ 1 have been puzzled about it for a week," ’said the Govcrnor-Geineral (Lord Jellieoe) at the ceremony at the opening of Prince’s Wharf, at Auckland on Monday. “It was only when 1 arrived on the platform that I discovered what the actual arrangements were. I am told 1 am shortly to press a button and some thing will happen.” Later in the cerennoily, and before pressing the button, Lord Jellieoe warned those a--1-01111(1 him: “I don’t know what is going to happen. Hold tight and see.” The pressing of the button, reports the: “Post’s” Auckland correspondent, was the signal to set in motion an electric crane. High above the assembly rotated on its axis, carrying a steel cable with a hook wrapped in purple. Discribing a complete circle, tbei book descended out of sight on the quay side, and came in again, carrying daintily a beautiful basket, of yellow dahlias and violets and ribbons to match. Everyone gasped in astonishment and delight at so powerful an instrument as a three-ton crane being used to lift so frail a bouquet. Round came the “cargo,” and was ••■cully lowered into waiting bauds of .Mrs H. R. Mackenzie who, amid applause, presented it to Lady Jeljn.oe. The latter laughed and ream iked lo Sir Hubert Brand: “Now dial a crane has brought the tlowcrs to me, 1 must get the Hood to carry them home.”

A body found at Motuihi Island, Auckland, answers to the description of that of John Dewar, who has been missing from his home at Avondale since the 6th inst. Govetrness (looking over geography paper) : “What’s this/ The people of Auckland are very stupid!” “Where in the world did you get that idea?” Pupil: “Out of tfcie hook. It says Auckland is remarkable for its dense population.” The annual the Secondary Schools’ Association at Wellington, resolved “That the Minister and the Department of Education and University Senate be asked to take the necessary steps to bring about the early application of an accrediting system as an alternative to Matriculation.

A voting man named Stanley Rupdrfc Honor, while assisting his father at a hackling machine at Messrs (Ross, Rough, and Co.’s flaxmill on Tuesday afternoon, had his left index linger caught in the cogs of the machine and badly crushed. Tie was removed to the Palmerston X. Hospital where (he linger was amputated. The young man is progressing satisfactorily.

Among those taking part at the fifteenth annual concert in connection with the Pahnefston N. Content at the Palmerston N. Opera House last night wore two wellknown ex-local vocalists, viz., Mrs McDonald and Miss Upton. The concert was a. great musical sheets and was attended by a large and keenly appreciative audience. Referring to the above-mentioned vocalists, this morning’s M.D. Times says: —“The last, item on the first half was not by any means the least, for Miss Upton’s contralto voice was heard to nice effect in Braga’s “Serennta,” with a violin obligato by Mrs Law. The singers recall number was “Fairy Tales of Ireland.” Verdi's “Eriiani, Eniani” was beautifully sung by Mrs McDonald (mezzo Soprano), and her encore was the evergreen and everweleome “Annie Laurie.” The tribute! to botinie Scotland went right home to the generous heart of the big audience and Mrs McDonald was called upon twice to how her acknowledgments, a fitting tribute, and farewell, as the singer is shortly leaving Palmerston North for Wellington.”