Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2934, 10 September 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the inclement weather experienced last Tuesday evening, the public meeting, convened by the local Beautifying Society, was postponed. We regret to report that Mr 11. Burr, a local teacher attending Victoria College, Wellington, has been admitted to hospital, suffering from appendicitis. A pair of kiwis were caught lately in the back country about thirty miles up the WMitotara River by Constable Wlillets, of Aromoho, who sent them to the Wellington Zoo. In 1905 the population of Palmerston North borough was 9,797. In 1915 it was 12,200, in 1921 10,547, while to-day it is estimated at about 19,000.

The local Methodist Ladies' Guild hold a very enjoyable afternoon in the Methodist Sunday .schoolroom yesterday afternoon, when Mrs K. Rimmer was hostess.

Miss Catherine Jel'icoe, the Admiral's aunt, was 104 on Tuesday. Lord Jelltcoe paid a personal call, and (he aged lady received numerous congratnlaliorv messages, including one from Ihe King and Queen.

Judgment was reserved in (lie Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday when an application was made to squash the Warden's conviction of Patrick O’Donnell, hotel manager at Waiul.i, on the West Coast, on a charge of making a false entry in a gold dealers book'.

The shunting enquiry, which con eluded at Palmerston X. yesterday, was probably the lengthiest held in connection with the Railway Department (says the M.D. Times). Forty witnesses were examined, and (lie evidence covers 255 type-writ-ten sheets. “There is a man on the Poxion line with one arm and one leg who is quite a good shunter,’’ staled Mi* J. J. O’Shea, stalionmastur, at the shunting inquiry held in Palmerston N. yesterday afternoon. “I don’t, want that to he recorded in ihe evidence, though,” he added smilingly.

A Shop Day under the auspices of the Methodist Ladies’ Guild will he held in the Main Street on Saturday next. “Best sellers” will he delicious home-made cakes, of which a goodly quantity has been promised. There will he competitions, one of (he prizes for which will be a family dinner. Donations of produce, cakes, or oilier saleable articles, will be gladly received.

“1 have only appeared in Masterton on two previous occasions,” remarked ITis Honour Mr Justice Ostler, when replying to a welcome extended to him in the Mnsterton Supreme Court. His Honour said his first appearance was in the year 1909, when, with Mr P. L. Hollings, he appeared to oppose a petition that had been lodged for upsetting the poll by which no-license was carried in Masterton. They succeeded in defeating the petition.

A taxi cab ran into a Hock of sheep numbering 361 in North East Valley, Dunedin, at four o’clock on Thursday morning. The sheep were being driven to Burnside, and were owned by Mr A. W. Douglas, of Waikouaiti. Twenty of the animals were killed outright, and four others had to lie destroyed. The driver of the car, Leonard La Mont, had his lights on, hut said he did not see the sheep till he was right among them. The ear was practically undamaged.

Air Lin klu ter, ALP., in (lie course of his opening speech at the St. Alary’s Bulb Show at Levin on Tuesday, said that, so far as the present Parliament was concerned, three weeks would probably see the end of the session, and in his opinion the elections would lake place in the second week of November.

A man named Richard E. Ellis was arrested in Auckland last: week on a charge of issuing valueless cheques at Auckland, Taranaki and Tnihnpe. He was to appear before the Unworn Court yesterday and will come before the Court in Palmerston North towards Ihe end of the week in answer to charges of issuing valueless cheques to two Fcilding, one Longburn and four Palmerston North business men. The cheques in Palmerston North were purported to he signed by a well-known farmer of Poxion.

The wide ramifications of taxation generally found ready tongues in the House of Representatives yesterday, when the motion to table the Land and Income Tax (Annual) Bill was before the House on the report 'of the Public Accounts Commilfcc (says the Dominion). The Prime Minister (lion. J. 0. Coates) foreshadowed, a reconsideration of the incidence of taxation next, year, and after elaborating the beneficial effect on industry and the country’s development generally as a result of the reductions, pointed out, that, after all, the redactions were only small.

Wearers of Oxford “hags” are not always treated with the deference which they, in their own opinion at least, deserve (says the Auckland Herald). A well-known young man whose purple doublebreasted coat and salmon-coloured “bags” are one of the sights of Queen Street most days of the week, had occasion to visit a local skating rink on Saturday evening, when a fancy dress carnival was in progress. Somewhat to the young man’s discomfiture a coster on roller skates, much to the delight of a group of pierrots, pierettes and cowboys, voiced loudly the opinion that the eccentrically-garbed youth was sure to carry off the prize for the most original costume. It und'ohnledly will come as a surprise to many people that Salt Lake City in Utah, United States, the home and headquarters of the religious sect known as Mormons, holds a young New Zealander as a disciple of this most extra ordinary faith. The lady, who is a member of a family not far from Wanganui, left for America some years ago, and was not heard of by her relatives till quite recently. In a communication to her parents she states that she is infinitely happy, but expresses the one regret: that her family did not embrace (he religion of the Alormons. “However,” she concludes, “I pray for you night and day—l know and feel that in the not far distant future you will bo converted!”