Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 18. 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2911, 18 July 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 18. 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A local fisherman is reported to have succeeded in netting' 21hs. of whitebait. Other catches are reported to have boon made also since the flood waters have subsided.

•fast as the s.s. Kennedy was to leave Wellington for Foxton last I hursdav she developed engine trouble and was unable to leave port. The Kennedy is expected in port da v.

At a public meeting of tobacco and cigarette vendors, held in Wanganui on Wednesday night, it was resolved to urge the (lovernmoni to give the tobacconists a proper measure fit protection against illegal sellers o| lobaceo and cigarettes.

The A p/ica! four, reserved d, ms‘"ll in the matter of the appeal by Matthew Oliver Tremain, farmer, of Kairatiga. against an order for it m w trial made by Hie Chief Justice after the .jury bad awarded him £SB,S 15/ damages in his action against the Mnnawalu Drainage Board for the Hooding of appellant's land. A complaint that empty benzine tins were being left at (lie roadside by employees of the .Maim vv a! ;lDroll,■ l Power Board was voiced at the meeting' of that body on Tnesdnv by Sir .lames A\ iison, who observed that t bey were most unsightlv. The chairman (Air .J. A. Nash): •‘Can we sell t lii*iii to your County Council (Manawatu) to til! in the pot holes in the roads?" (Laughter). Ernes] Roy Aspden. aged gl, seaman. was found dead by bis mother at her residence at Birkenhead, Auckland, on Thursday, hanging to the foot of the bed. JTe was quite dead. A leather strap round the neck was fastened to a bed post. Though he was out of work he had shown no tendency to commit suicide, and the rash act is not accounted for.

A eonsiiler.i hie coni r,-let for silver pine telegraph polos for the North Island is now being executed in the Okarito district, in South Westland. Some 5,000 poles are on order, with a contingent request for further substantial supplies. The mode of transport is not determined yet, freights by ordinary boat service being considered excessive. Other negotiations are in hand and the first, shipment i- being arranged.

In .June. 1020, a New Zealand sheep farmer, whilst attending to some Hocks of sheep, lost his gold watch, lie soon discovered it had somehow fallen from his pocket, hut fry as he would, he could not liud it on the ground near, lie was simply astounded this year when the watch was returned to him (it had his name and address engraved inside) from a city in the United States, to which some bales of wool bad been shipped'by him in 1022.

"Black eats lor lack," tbev say, nit none of the crew of ihe steams' Wainui were particularly distorted at Auckland last Tuesday when lie ship's eat could not be enticed (board. Site had her reasons, for diortlv afterwards the Wainui colided with and sank the fishing lann•h Iris Eileen. When the Wainui retimed to the wharf the eat walked ihoard calmly and proceeding to he wlieelJiouse, sat down on the opii log-hook at the page where the iceount- of the collision had .just ieon entered.

Messrs Collinson and Cunningiiame's change ii<i. to-day deals with uiuiei clothing specials.

Runners in relays carried a llaming torch, and passed it from hand to hand two hundred miles from Verdun to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Paris.

The caretaker’s house at the Ashhiii'sl domain and cemetery was destroyed by lire at about 7.30 on Wednesday night. The house was insured for £240 and the contents for £l5O.

The police on Tuesday raided a house in Christchurch occupied by Bert William Manns, a well-known private detective. A quantity of liquor was seized and the names of twenty-eight poisons on the premises were taken. Manns will be charged with sly grog selling. It is alleged that the place was used for .jazzing parlies.

During the twelve months ended :l(Hh .June, insurance companies paid out £74,431 in respect of lire losses in the Hawke's Bay district, extending from Wairoa to Woodville. In

the previous year the amount was onlv £28.850, but in 1022-23 the total readied £UO,SO(i. One lire in Waiioa accounted for £25,000 of this vein's large total and country dwellings accounted for £27,050.

John George Burgess, aged 58. a builder and Justice of the Peace, pleaded guilty to a charge that at Christchurch on the 7th May, being already married to Jessie Crosbie KellaJian, at Ashburton, in 1887, tie went through a. form of marriage with Nevenia .Martha Robertson, and thereby committed bigamy, at Christchurch on Wednesday. It was stated that the accused had been going under the name of Thomas recently. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

Air A. B. Saunders, of Wellington, who conducted a rabbit-poisoning demonstration at Taikorea yesterday. recently spent two months in Australia, as a guest of the agents there. One New South Wales station he visited was a comparatively

smail plot of half-a-millioii acre On going along to Queensland, 1 spent a pleasant time at a static where the "boundary riding’’ wi

done in a small aeroplane. The ow or reckoned that formerly the on day job took three weeks to a mo th with mustangs.

While seeking the opossum in ill liokoimi Range (Southland) nboi three weeks ago, Mr Herbert Brigg: of Croydon Basil, made an interest ing discovery, picking up a perfei .-peeimon of a Maori chisel. Th greenstone implemenj was found o lop of the range above the falls a Whisky Creel.:, away to the left o ihe stream. The chisel, a heavy pie ee of work, is beautifully (inishei and has an excellent grip made m ugh to prevent the hand slipping. ! is about ]sin. long from the poin to the end of the grip, lias a 2Ain point, a 4 jin. handle and a lo.tin blade. The chisel wa.-. picked up be side a large tree in that vicinity and was otilv buried to the extent o a c.>i ll >l 1 * of inches or so.

Flying li-Ji arc not unusual visitors to jlit llnnr.-iki Gulf and at tim es can be seen in fair numbers. The fish whi'di are seldom more ‘ban c l "'ii* In, 4ms in length, arc a(-

‘ ••acted I> v- ihe lights of passing ships and ..a occasions will vis, fi ion ill,- vvatec and dasit themselves. on dee!:. While the steamer AVilileiiiala was entering the Gulf the oilier evening, a particularlv large ■ml benlthv looking living fish came aboard. Measurements showed il to lie seventeen inches and a-linlf long from nose to tail, and twenty two ami a half inches across Ihe wings. The tisli was dark Idue in colour and in anpenrance was not unlike the common sprat.

"It is must undesirable that child>a!i nl' -a-hunl age >hould b sent into camp will] men.”- observed Mr -I ■itketi at Wednesday night's macing of |h(* Wanganui Education Bo aid, when the inieslion of the attendance of disirief high school pupils a! military eamps was undei discussion. The secretary said that boys over the age of 1-1 years wen repaired in attend the camps las! v* sir. and when tin' board objected 1 be defence Department pointed out dial the circumstances were exceptional and in future they would try •uni arrange eamps during the liolidavs. Tim board decided (o enier a proles! against sehoo] boys having to attend eamps. It simply had to come —the moving picture that tilths (slates the Sydney Daily Telegraph of June 27). Sydney saw the first successful print te demonstration of the latest wonder in science and entertainment vesterdav in a demonstration of the Phnnolilm, ,al the Pieadiiiv Theatre. Before a number of members of the Stock Exchange, and represent a•iws of the press. Mr W. I*. Kirk•.vood arranged for the screening of a number of varied items from instrumental and vocal solos to classic dancers and public addresses Music and speeeh, amplified through an ordinary four-valve radio sot, with a standard loud-speaker, synchronised perfectly with the movements of the artists, and imparted an uncanny reality to the screen igu res. ••(id your health in order.'-' — ienefelder. Vim can enjoy complete inimun■;y from winter chills and ills by taking Baxter’s Lung Preserver. Its unique penetrative properties are invaluable for rooting out longsi a tiding coughs, colds, bronichial and oilier troubles. Easy and pleasant to take —always dependable. “Baxters” is also unrivalled as a splendid building-up tonic. You can obtain a generous-sized '•ottle of Baxter's Lung Preserver from any chemist or store for 2s fid; family size 4s fid. But be sure you get “Baxter’s!" 4.

A meeting' of members and intending members of the Foxton Croquet Club will be held in the Club's pavilion on Wednesday afternoon next, at 3.15 o'clock.

Late last night, Mr T. M. Wilford (Leader of the Liberal-Labour Party) stated that the caucus of his party had resolved to proceed with the formation of a National Party, and that the new organisation would open its campaign next week.

Although all the flood water is nor yet off the Whirokino, the road

is now aoeessable to motor vehicles. This year the Hood waters have receded far quicker than at any time previously, and this fact is attributed to the cutting through of the flood bank on Mr F. Woods’ property by the Drainage Board.

The “singing pail-re,” Rev. A. Mitchell, of Feilding, will commence a brief mission of inspiration and help in tho Foxton Methodist Church to-morrow, when lie will conduct both the morning and evening services. The mission will be continued on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, at 7.30 o’clock. A special feature of these services will be the solos contributed by Mr Mitchell, and the singing by the choir and congregation of hymns from the “Crusaders Hymnal." All are heartily welcome, and no collections will be taken at the week evening meetings.