Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2999, 16 February 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mushroom's are fairly plentiful in the Manawatu district this year. Mr. G. E. Overton, headmaster of the Terrace End School has been appointed to an inspectorship.

Sir James Allen does not confirm a report that his term of office as High Commissioner of New Zealand will be extended beyond July. Saturday’s carnival at the Dunedin Exhibition added 29,023 to the attendance record, which now stands at 1,586,834, with one more day of the thirteenth week to run.

The English Futurists entertainment takes place in the Town Hall this evening. This company presents a new type of entertainment, and with the moderate prices of admission, should attract a good house. The Timaru Herald says that it is estimated that the wool sale which was held in Timaru on Friday and Saturday lasi will bring £250,000 to the wool growers of South Canterbury. ‘‘How much work have you done since Christmas'?” asked the Magistrate of a Maori witness in a debt case in the Masterton Court. “Oh, about two or three months!” was the cheerful reply, that raised a general laugh Edward Dormer, a single man, aged 45, died suddenly at the Dunedin Hospital on Sunday. Deceased had been in hospital since early in December suffering from an injured leg, and was about to be discharged when he collapsed and died. The inquest has been adjourned pending the post mortem. Some extraordinary freak potatoes have"come into the possession of a resident of Kpiluna (Marlborough). It is noticeable that instead of the new potatoes springing from “eyes” in the present tuber (reports the express) they are being expelled from the interior of tho seed potato; which splits to allow the young potatoes to emerge. A tire alarm was given just after seven o’clock- on Saturday evening. The brigade turned out and found that a newly-arrived resilient (apparently unaware of Hit' borough by-law in regard to fires) had set fire to a rubbish heap. A reminder is given local residents that a permit must lit* obtained from Brigade officials before a rubbish lire may he lit in the borough.

Soon it will bo possible to telephone. to any part of the South Island from any town in' the North Island. There will be no increase in charge on She present rate of trunk communication in cither the North or South Islands, namely, ono-lifth of a penny per mile. The cost of a conversation between Wellington and Nelson, or Wellington and Christchurch will be about 3s for three minutes.

An unusual sight at the Palmerston North hospital on Sunday was the large gathering of Mauris, who came to pay their respects to the two members of their race, who were the victims of the Awahuri outrage. The visitors were allowed in in small parties, to see Mrs Drummond, who held quite a levee for the whole of the time the hospital was open to the public.

The work of preparing new issues of postage stamps for the Dominion is now in progress. The PostmasterGeneral (Sir James Parr) made a statement that the preparation was well in hand. He expected that an issue of the stamps would affect three denominations, the penny, two shilling, and three shilling stamps. An attractive design, showing lI.M. the King in military uniform, would be portrayed on the penny stain]), and the two shilling and three shilling denominations would show His Majesty in naval uniform. Regulations in regard to the sale of milk and cream for human consumption have been ammended from the original statute passed in 19110 under the Dairy Industry Act. No milk or cream may lie offered for sale for human consumption unless it has been obtained from a registered dairy. Milk for dried milk, casein and other milk products, lire exempt from this embargo. This new regulation came into force on January 7.

It is 40 years since Devonport (Auckland) was constituted a borough, and during that long period it has only had eight mayors. In the Christchurch Supremo Court yesterday, James Symonds was fined £2O with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, for assaulting a newspaper runner.

Reg. Trowern outpointed Charlie Purdy in a 15-round professional boxing contest in tbe Town Hall at Wellington last night before one of the largest audiences ever seen at a contest there.

A motor-cyclist, Ivan Taylor, aged 19 years, of Rangiora, had bis skull fractured in a collision with a motor-ear at Christchurch on Sunday. Ilis condition is serious. The driver of the car was John Winnington Bristow.

To-morrow a special train will bring the pupils of tbe Hokowhitu School to Foxton for their annual school picnic. The trip to the beach will he made in Mr. J. Joseph’s launch. The return train leaves Foxton for Palmerston North at (i p.m.

Harry Fisher, aged 35 years, a bootmaker, and married, was accidentally /hot in the chest at Waikuku Beach, Christchurch, on Sunday. Ilis condition is serious. He left a loaded gun in a motor-ear and it went off while the party were driving along the beach. “Oh, yes I locked the front gate,” said a careful housewife in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. “Foolish thing to do,” remarked Chief Detective T. Gibson drily. While witness was away her house was ransacked. To a burglar a locked front gate is a road sign.

The body of David Murgatroyd, 63 years of age, was found at the edge of lake Takapuna Auckland, on Sunday morning. He had been employed by the Lister Company, silk spinners, of Bradford, for fiftj years. He retired twelve months ago and was visiting a daughter at Takapuna. The funeral of the late Mrs Moore, of Eketalmna, took place locally on Sunday afternoon. Short services were conducted in All Saints’ Church and at the graveside by the Rev. Davies, of Levin. A large number of friends and relatives of deceased followed the casket to the graveside. As a mark of respect to Mr. A. Moore the Past Masters of Lodge Te Awahou acted as pall-bearers.

Sixteen people have been burned to death in forest fires Victoria, seven others are missing, and several have been seriously injured, while hundreds have been left homeless and destitute. The outbreaks are the most serious for twenty years, the flames being carried along by a fierce gale. The town of Noojee has been practically wiped out, and Crydon and Mount Pleasant (in South Australia) are in danger. The Gisborne Oil Proprietary, which is about to bore for oil in that district, Ims now definitely decided on the location of the bore, which will lie on Dodgshun’s Station, a few miles from Ruatoria. The gear is now being landed on the site, hut owing to the amount of work necessary prior to the boring it is unlikely that drilling will he commenced before the end of April. The geologists are now deciding on the second location, ami probably the two wells will he sunk at the same time.

The danger occasioned lo human and animal life by the falling of. high (elision electric lines was again cxomplilieil at Lower \\ niton, Hamilton, yesterday, when one of the wires passing through Mr. F. \\\ Walter's property snapped and fell among a valuable dairy herd. Four of the best animals were electrocuted, their bodies being cut practically in half, and but for the early intervention of Mr Walter’s employees several of the others would assuredly have been destroyed. As il is, his loss is heavy. Mr. W. 0. Ennis, of Wellington, Staff Superintendent in the Kailway Department, who sustained injuries to his scalp and back in a motor-car accident at Auckland on Friday, in which Mr. Thomas Martin, assistant locomotive foreman, Auckland, lost his life, died in an Auckland hospital on Saturday afternoon. The late Mr. Ennis, who was 55 years of age. leaves a widow and two sons, who reside at Christchurch. The body will be taken to Christchurch for interment.

Regarding the missing men at Martin’s Bay, the police are awaitin? a report from two experienced men, Biggar and Simmers, who left Glenorchy on February !), and are expected to return to Queenstown on February It). If no trace lias then been found, a larger search party will be dispatched. As the men intended to do some prospecting, serious apprehension is not felt. They have ample supplies, and fish and game are plentiful. Kane, who returned to Queenstown from the Martin’s Bay district, reported that he. had seen the party a few days previously. They were then prospecting and all were well. PILES. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE. By mentioning this paper and enclosing ninepence in stamps to cov-. er packing and postage you will receive a generous trial sample of the famous Zaun Double Absorption Treatment for Biles, together with explanatory booklet. Hundreds of grateful sufferers all over the Dominion testify as to the efficacy of “Zaun” which has now been oil the market for years. Address in conlidence, Zaun Proprietary, P.O. Box t)52, Wellington. 4.

The arrest was made at Feilding on Saturday morning by Sergeant Cahill of the youth who escaped at Palmerston North while being taken from Auckland to Weraroa. The young delinquent was taken in charge on arrival at Palmerston by an official from Weraroa and conveyed there bv train'.

A record day’s fishing was established on Friday, when a dozen large ttsh were caught (says an Auckland message). Mr. Zane Grey secured three swordfish, of 208, 224, and 2341 b; also a 70011). brown shark. Mr. Crichton Smith (Sydney) caught a swordfish weighing 2001 b. and a mako of 1801 b. Other swordfish captures were by Mr. W. S. Lambe (Sydney), 3051 b; Mr. F. Wright (England), 2701 b.; Miss Alma Baker, 2401 b; and Pavitt’s party, 23Glb. Two other sharks’ were also caught. Another party of 252 assisted immigrants arrived in Wellington on the liner Tainua to-day from London and Southampton. They are hooked as follows, the figures for the men being given first, then those for women and-children :—Auckland, 29, 31, 17. —77; New Plymouth, 2,1, o—f; Wanganui, 0,1, 0 —1; Napier, 7,8, 5 —20; Wellington, 49, 30, (i —91; Nelson, 1,1, o—2; Greymonth, 1,2, I—4;1 —4; Lyttelton, 13,' 8, 8—29; Tiinaru, 0. 1. 0—1; Oamaru, 1,1, o—2;0 —2; Dunedin, 9,9, 4 —22. Totals are: Men 112, women 99, children 41. The party includes eight public school boys and thirty-seven domestic servants.

A proposal that New Zealand should go a step further in regard to naval defence, and make provision for the maintenance of a third cruiser, will be submitted to the annual conference of the New Zealand branches of the Navy League, to be held at Dunedin this

week, in a remit asks that financial allocation for a third cruiser be made in the 1920 Defence Estimates. Another remit urges the Government to pay particular attention to the naval side of the air service. The conference will also be asked to declare itself in favour of the four years’ programme of new construction for the Royal Navy, as being the absolute minimum for the replacement of obsolete vessels, and to oppose any reduction in the programme. The Auckland branch intends to emphasise the necessity of further increasing our financial contribution of the naval defence of the Empire, and of continuing to increase it until we are bearing our fair share of financial responsibility —a per capita contribution equal to that of the Mother Country. Otago has a similar remit. Canterbury wishes New Zealand to commit itself to an annual expenditure of at least £850,000 towards naval defence.

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