NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2885, 19 May 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“A man of this class cannot be allowed to go scot tree with a line,” said the .Magistrate at the Wellington Police Court, when lie sentenced a young man named Bernard Brooks to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. The license was cancelled for twelve months. Accused collided with a Hindu and ear, and assaulted the Hindu.

A proposal is on foot in Wellington, says the Post, for the utilisation of .Maugahao power for the extraction of >nlt from the waters of Cook Strait. It is understood that tests have given very satislaelory results. As the importation of salt into the Dominion is not less than 40,000 tons per annum, ami the wholesale price between £5 and i‘(i per (on, the industry may become of national importance.

Perished with cold and wel to the skin, a one-armed drover was overlaken liy nil'llt tall on a recent wef evening in one of the Ashburton districts, and hoping to Hud warmth and shelter lie went In a farm < lose by and asked for a shakedown (states the “Guardian”). Contrary to the usual open-handed hospitality of the country dweller, he was met with a.' short “No," and was shown to a shed, where he was allowed to pass the night. No blankets or other covering were given him, and he had to spend a miserable night in his wet clothes. At daylight lie took his departure without further “inconveniencing” the occup.ants of the farm. An extraordinary story was told at an inquest recently at Westvillo (Lincolnshire) oil a Boston man named Frank Bart, aged 20. A farmer saw a pair of human legs sticking u)> from the earth, and found that Burt had apparently fallen head foremost into a fairly large rabbit hole and dislodged a quantity of soil which tell upon him and entrapped him. It was evident that Burt had made frantic efforts to extricate himself and lmd died from suffocation. A feature of the accident was that the

previous evening a waggoner noticed a pair of boots protruding from the earth, but thinking the man was engaged in trapping rabbits he did not go to his assistance. A verdict of accidental death was returned.