Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2912, 21 July 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The iiioveiinm lo e-nahli-di n ere matoiiuni in Dunedin is taking' do finite shape.

After a !borough lest, i! Inis been found llml the natural gas in llio Taranaki oil borings is of no com mereial value.

The number of registered ears in New Zealand is mueli above the previous estimate. Then 1 have been registered under the new Act Ktl.oN2 motor veliiides, of which 7D,2(i(i are ordinarv cars.

“The winter is really serious in Canada,” said Miss .Monica Neumann, when .-.peaking under the auspices of the Napier Thirty Thousand Club. “Fancy, if you die in the winter, you are stored up in a pigeon hole until the thaw comes; then you can he buried.” Dunedin has Ike reputation of being (he wealthiest city in the Dominion and this i> home out by the fact that corpora I ion loan issues last year auxrc.ua tine- £184,81.,, all except £f>,(llllt was raised locally. Local bodies in oilier pans of the Dominion go (° Dunedin for loans.

The Union Company- stales ilia) it has under consideration the replacing; of the Marato.o in the L.vt-telion-Wcllington service by the Wahine, running l all the year round with the Maori, except the usual withdrawals for overhaul, the tare to be raised by 2 (i to meet the additional cost of the proposed change

Births registered in urban areas in the Dominion during June numbered 1,011, a decrease of 7S on the previous month. Deaths totalled oil, a decrease of !Ui. Of the deaths, 3U2 were males and 239 females. Sixtytwo, or 11.-Mi of the whole, were children under live years, lit being under one year.

In a lawsuit over the collision of two motor buses in Auckland, it was stated that the crank handle of one bus dented the petrol tank of Die other, causing a seam to open; then a school boy throw a lighted match on the pool of benzine and ran away laughing, the sequel being Dial one bus was soon on lire.

A remarkable operation was performed at Cbrisicbnreb Hospital mi Thursday, when portion of a bullet was extricated from Due brain ol I'. If. Walton, who is lift v years of age. lie bad been shot accidentally seven months ago, and 101 l the hospital with a. blind right eye and limbs purl bill v paralysed, but returned because of pains in his bead. It was then the bullet was extricated.

The taxi-meter rah has arrived in Auckland, and, judging by Die returns of two weeks, it has come to stay. It would appeal' that it is building up a business Dial lormerlv was non-existent. Rightly or wrongly, there has been a general fear of taxi charges. The taxi-meter removes this fear. The passenger secs precisely what lie has lo pay. and the scale is such that he does not risk a “heart attack" as the minutes go by, unless, ol course, he is in the position of a man who, with 22 in his pocket, requires a - worth.

Charges of taking or killing more than twenty-live head of native game were preferred at the Auckland Police Court against Stanley Kayner, farmer, lluntly: D. A. Peekham, farmer, Ohinewai: Luke Hughes, dealer, Auckland; and Dr U. d. Kayner, Auckland, iiv the Acclimatisation Society on Saturday. F. JRa.vner and Hughes also were charged with being in possession of a protected bird —teal duck. Counsel for the defence said that defendants shot 23 brace on May l and 28 brace Die following day. No doubt they under-estimated the number they were shooting. Mr Poynton. S.M., fined Stanley Kayner and Peckham ,t;lO each. In the second ease the Magistrate held there was no prima facie ease for conviction, and dismissed the charge.

A partial eclipse of the sun was observed this morning. The phenomenon passed off very quickly, and the eclipse reached its greatest phase at about ten minutes past eight, ending at about 9.4(1 o'clock.

A reminder is given of the meeting of the local Croquet Club, to be held in the Club’s pavilion at 3.15 p.m. to-morrow, intending new members are cordially invited to be present.

The friends of Mr W. Xcwtli, of Cook Street, will regret to learn that the condition of his health is at present causing bis family grave concern. Mr Xcwtli has been an inmate of the Palmerston X. Hospital for some four weeks, having been taken suddenly ill while carrying out bis ordinary daily duties.

The discovery of a new local anaclhetic possessing all Die virtues of cocaine and none of its perils, was announced nt the annual meeting of ike British Alcdical Association., at Bath, England, recently, at which Die Dominions, India, Ceylon, and I lung Kong were represented, li was discovered by Dr. Copland, of Cambridge, who was awarded a memorial scholarship, value £2OO.

The effect of the newly introduced Ims competition in Wellington is a reduction in fares in all Irani sections over two to 3d for the whole distance. It is estimated that it will mean a decrease of £15,000 yearly in Die revenue, but it will go some wav to remove the disinclination to live in distant suburbs and make property therefore more valuable.

“Tell the people of Xew Zealand Dial I love their country and 1 hope to return in about five years,” said Madam Oalli-Curci just before she sailed for Honolulu by the Aornngi recently. “I .have had a wonderful time in this land of yours, and 'I •dial! never forget it.” Madam said she was fully booked up with concert and opera engagements for the next live years, and could not possibly come lo this part of the world before 193(1.

Replying ia Die House of Representatives to Mr Field (Otaki), who asked whether ho would give early and favourable consideration to Die proposal recently made to him for Die institution of nigh! mail trains between Wellington and New Plymouth, and Wellington and Napier, the Minister of Railways said: “The question ot running night mail trains between Wellington and Xew Plymouth and Wellington and Napier is being looked into with a view to seeing whether the probable additional passenger traffic which might la induced hv such a service would be commensurate with the heavy expense which would he involved in the i uuuiiig' and the duplication ol siall which would he necessary at many of |hc stations on route.”

i)ni- ancestors cannot be accused of inking their Whitsuntide pleasures sadly, as witness ilia account of Da Wiiil-Moiiiiay celebration at Hendon in 17S(i. A prize of a goldlaced hat was offered in a - grinning-' l hroiigii lhe horse-collar competition. Above tlit' heads of the six candidates wa> a notice: “Detur TeIrioii"; or “The ugliest grimier sliail be the winner.” Fa eh entrant grinned live minutes by himself, and tin - ailv all six- grinned together. There ,vus an nnsustained objection to the winner on Die ground that be bad acted unfairly by rinsing bis mouth with vinegar. The day’s merry-mak-ing was concluded by a bog hunt. A pig whose tail bad been shaved ~ud sc raped was set loose, and anyone who could seize it by Die tail and throw it across bis shoulder was ■ ■Milled to keep it as a reward. It is i ccordcd, however, that nobody succeeded in accomplishing (ho task. The animal, after running some miles, so tired its pursuers that they cave up Die chase in despair.

"Kill that Fly," his death is due, if you don’t lie may kill you. Don’t debate Die reason why. Swat the swatter —"Kill that Fly.” Don’t delay and be perverse, Fuse that cron]) before its worse. Don’t a gasping night ondtm — Call for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 70