Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MAY 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2737, 24 May 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MAY 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Melbourne tramwaymen lost £26,000 in wages during the strike. The carnival orchestra will hold a rehearsal in the Town Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.

Wallpaper can now be hung by machinery. The device consists of a rod on which a roll of paper is placed, and a paste reservoir with a feeder.

Mi's Evelyn (.trace Stevens was knocked down by a motor ear at Ngaruawliia last Saturday evening and subsequently died from injuries sustained. Deceased was a widow and the mother of three young children and was a daughter of Mr S. Saulbrcy, a well known settler.

To-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, a gospel service will be held in the Oroua Downs Hall. The service is to be conducted by Mr Witty, missionary from ('eyion. A hearty invitation is extended to everyone to attend this service.

“There are nine freezing' works within a radius of 100 mile- of Wanganui," -aid .Mr. A. Christensen at a meeting at llawera. Nowhere else in the world, lie said, were so many freezing- works located in an equal area.

Mr I*'. I). Whibley, recently of Buxton, has resigned tlu* position of malinger of ihe (trey In’ i \c*t Argus Company. the Labour daily, mill Mr .1. O’l’rieii, M.R. is tilling (lie position in tin- meantime pcntliH” tlio iippoint nicnt of n stii-i-i—s-iir. snys u contemporary.

'flic word “parking" Ims lu-on liorrovvod from tho artillcryman’s voeabularv, meaning the compact arrangement of guns, wagons, etc-. In America “parking" is also used to describe tin- couples who dance check lo cheek. According to a recent novel modern American girls “park" jpjcir corsets in the cloak room before going into dance.

A Shannon farmer has shown a Levin Chronicle representative a fence containing maernearpii posts which were erected nhotil If) years ap), and although some mattii and to turn, posts had rotted off the inaerocarpa posts were, almost as paid now as the day they were put in. It is evident that many settlers do not realise the value of this limber for fencing. The publicans, restaurant keepers, fruiterers and every other kind of tradesmen did great business in Auckland during the recent visit of the British warships. Wellington tradesmen had made preparations for similar business, but the strike Hal toned them out and they lost tingood business they had anticipated. Their comments on the strikers have been what Bret liarte would term “frequent and painful and free.”

Remarkable- voracity on the part of wild pigs up Urn Wanganui River formed the subject of a story related to the Wanganui “Herald’'' by a fanner. One day recently, whilst making his daily inspection of the property, he found one of his sheep hogged and in an exhausted condition. He extracted the unfortunate animal from the mud, allowing it to rest on firm ground until it recovered. When he returned to the spot an hour or so later the farmer was amazed to iiud only the bones and skin of the beast remaining. Wild pigs had attacked the sheep and devoured every particle of flesh.

The price of gas will be reduced in Palmerston X. as from .June Ist to 8/0 per 1,000 c.feet and £2,000 from the gas department has been transferred to the Council's general account.

After a retirement, of twenty-five minutes the jury, itt the Supreme Court, at Palmerston North, on Thursday, decided for plaintiff, Michael Leydon, farmer, of TTawera, proceeding against the Public Trustee, Robert David Rolston, farmer, of Levin, and Kahukore TTuritnti, tt native woman of Levin, seeking a declaration that the will of James Leydon, deceased, was invalid. Costs were allowed plaintiff on (lie basis of a claim for £B,OOO.

The “Hawke's Bay Herald's” Taupo correspondent telegraphs stating that Ngauruhoe was visible in eruption at dawn on Wednesday, a black smoke cloud rising to a height of 5,000 feet with an umbrella-shap-ed head, from under the edge of which mist, like trails of dust was falling. The smoke reached for fifteen miles over the Kaimanawa ranges. At 9 o’clock the height of the column decreased to 1,500 feet, continuing so until 4.30 on Thursday afternoon, when intervening clouds obscured the view. The snow on the Taupe side of the cone is covered with aslies, evidently thrown out last night. The eruption was the finest since 1916.

For some of the plays (hat tire screened it is necessary to employ the services of men who take the parts of ruffians, scoundrels, and murderers, men with a physiognomy that looks the part. And they get them. Judging from screen represents! tinns there must be in Los Angeles as choice a collection of ruffians ns can lie found .anywhere. Of course men can be “Made up" by theatrical art to represent any kind of character, but some of the beauties referred to here, and they are often seen in the pictures have all the appearance of being- anointed scoundrels of the lirst water without any “make up." Well, it takes all sorts of people to make a world, adds the Argus.

Like his predecessors. Mr Ramsey McDonald is commenting upon the arduous character of a Prime Minister’s life. Tn response to an invitation to visit Peru, he remarked that he was rapidly becoming an old man, because just its years spent by cruisers at war were (•outilcd double for the purpose of estimating their age. so the time spent its Prime Minister ought to count at least treble in a man's life. He is allowing the Foreign Office staff to smoke as much as they like while at work. Visitors, too, are not obliged to throw away a halffinished cigar before they approach the building. Lord Curzon forbade smoking' in the corridors.

Aii interesting and probably liist-oi'ii-aliy valuable naval souvenir o!' tlie- Battle of Trafalgar has come into I lie hands of Mrs. J. Dyer, of Carterton. It is only a halfpenny, bnl the inscription it hears places it in the front rank of historic coins. It bears the date of 1812. On one side there i> a finely executed bust of Lord Nelson, inscribed with the words of the signal. "England expects that every man will do his duty.” On the reverse there is an equally good representation of the Admiral's ship Victory, and the lettering is “Naval Halfpenny, 1812.” The coin is dark with age, but very fit lie worn, the lettering and designs being sharp and clear cut. It is slightly smallei than the present-day penny, but larger than a modern halfpenny. It was received in change from a shop in Carterton.

Where do .summer birds go hi the winter-time’ The answer to a problem which. Ims never previously been satisfactorily answered is given in a iilm issued by the Swedish Biograph Company. The lilm tells the whole story of bird migration. The birds are seen setting out iu single lile or in great wedge-shap-ed formation from Scotland, Holland, Lapland, and the Arctic Circle. They drive down the autumn sky to winter in the tropics. Hundreds of different species are content with the While and Upper Nile. There amid crumbling temples and ruined cities, even in Thebes itself, we liud wagtails, lapwings, sandpipers, snipe, plover, moorfowl, herons, storks, kingfishers, swallows, ducks and waterfowl of all kinds on the friendliest terms. Cue day the call of the .North is heard again, and off they lly in great armies, with the storks loading. Many birds carved on Egyptian monuments are seen to tic our ordinary feather friends. Breaches of the regulations dealing wilii Lire flying ol ilags were committed by some of our most responsible institutions during the week m the exuberance of their cordiality towards our naval visitors, reports the Auckland Wtar. Among others one big bank and one big dub have iaid. themselves open to prosecution for dying ashore the 1,1 no ensign with the fcjoutherp Cross on Ihe lly —-Now Zealand’s own special naval ensign, without warrant. Only Uovernuient vessels can lly this handsome Hag, add it must noL i,c down promiscuously ashore, even when intended as a compliment to the .Navy. People LhaL want to dy the New Zealand ensign ashore are restricted to the use of the red ensign, which, of course, also das the y oil them Cross on the lly. Whether intended as a sign of grief at the departure of the Pleet or whether it was ode of those frequent mistakes that mere landlubbers make with flags, one of the leading dubs had the blue New Zealand ensign hoisted upside down, which is the universally acknowledged signal of a ship in distress.