Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mias Muller, of the Palmerston North staff, has been appointed to take charge of the local showroom of the C. M. Ross Co.’s establishment.
Mr. R. A. Rose, New Zealand’s champion distance runner, and his trainer-manager, Mr. J. McHolm, leave Auckland by the Aorangi for Vancouver on April 13. A London cable message states that Ctood Friday was the warmest Good Friday experienced since 1870. The maximum temperature in London was 72dcg. Fahrenheit, which is the average for July.
The Electoral Court which heard Mr. J. McCombs’ petition against the election of Mr. M. E. Lyons, awarded costs against Mr. Lyons. Mr. Lyons has just received the bill for the costs of the proceedings and the amount is £403. The conference of the New Zealand Labour Party decided to be represented at the Pah-Pacific Labour Conference to be held at Honolulu in November. Mr. 11. E. Holland, M.P., was chosen as delegate. As a result of being savagely attacked by a sow a child aged five years, the son of IV. Jones, a sharemilker at Wangaelm, is at present in the Wanganui Hospital. 'The child picked up a little pig in a litter to fondle it and was immediately savagely attacked by the sow. Mr. W. E. Barnard, solicitor of Helensville and late of Foxton, has been elected as a provincial member of the executive of the New Zealand Labour Party. Mr. R. Semple has been elected President and Mr. J. Thorne vice-president of the Party.
“.No people are prouder of their young folk than are New Zealanders, and the general strength, beauty and intelligence of the country justify this pride; but if with their physical and mental development there is also growing a laziness that leads to crime, or some condition that causes a loss of a sense of honour and responsibility, the old pride will be reduced to anxious fears.” —Carterton News.
The Foxton Methodist Church will qelebrate on Sunday and Wednesday next, tin; fiftieth anniversary of the opening of its first church in Main street. The morning service on Sunday will be conducted by Rev. A. Mitchell, of Redding. Rev. P. W. Jones, also of Redding, who took part in the opening services of the former church on Good Friday, April 14th, 187(1, will conduct- the afternoon service at 2.30 p.m., and the present minister, Rev. S. Peryman, will preach in the e\ ■ ening. Special music will oe provided at all services. On Wednesday afternoon and evening a most attr clive programme of functions will be held, particulars of which arc set forth in our advertising columns.
The Christchurch Sun vouches for the truth of the following story: —One day recently a man walking along the "bank of the Selwyn River, near Leeston, suddenly saw a shag by the water’s edge. It was firmly holding a large trout, and the man wondered why the bird did not ii.v away. In a Hash the ujau lived at the shag. But he missed. The bird winged away across the river, and the trout slithered to safety in the water. W’lien the man approached the river, he saw what had happened. A large eel was lying dead in the water, its head blown away. That eel had been holding on to one of the shag’s feet. The fish weighed 15 pounds.
A car driven by Mr. K. Cornfoot, of the Mamnvatu Heads, collided with the 5.30 in-char-a-banc at the intersection of Robinson and Park Sts. last evening. Mr. Cornfoot was proceeding down Robinson St. in the direction of the Beach and failed to notice the char-a-banc until too late to avoid a collision. Ilis car caught the heavier vehicle on the side and was swung round by the impact, grazing along the whole length of the char-a-banc and being left in the middle of the road facing the direction from whence it came. Both off-side wheels were buckled under and a small portion of the back was stove in causing the hood to collapse. The char-a-banc was not materially damaged. The driver (Ml*. V. McDowell) sustained a cut jaw from a piece of glass side wing shattered by the impact.
Mr. and Mrs C. 11. Peryman, of St. Kilda, Melbourne, were visitors to Foxton during the Easter holidays. Mr. Peryman is a cousin of the Rev. S. Peryman, local Methodist minister.
The Fpxton Tennis Club intend to convert their new grounds at the corner of Johnston street and the Avenue Rd. into a beauty spot. Members have been busily engaged in clearing the grounds preparatory to planting and and laying down the courts.
The resourcefulness of the Maori was illustrated in a rather humorous manner at Taumarunui the other day. Having had tyre trouble, which affected both his temper and his purse, the Maori decided to be free from both in future. Hastening to a disused sawmill he obtained four trolley wheels, and affixed them to his Ford .in place of the ordinary rubber-tyred wheels. He now rides, if not in comfort, at any rate in the assurance that he will not be troubled with punctures or blow-outs. What his passengers says we do not know. He at any rate looks supremely happy as he drives his contraption along.
An important decision was given by Mr. Justice Adams at Christchurch when he allowed an appeal against the decision of the Magistrate and held that Eva Tilly Low, wife of the licensee of an hotel, did supply liquor illegally after hours to men who claimed to be bona fide guests. The judge said that the section under which the information was laid prohibited the supply of liquor by ' any person other than the licensee. The word “supply” included a gratuitous supply or gift and that Mrs Low was a person other than the licensee.
At the inquest at Otaki on Saturday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Nit a Blanche Curnly, of Ivilbirnie, who was killed by the capsizing of a motor car near Waikanae on Friday night. The Coroner returned the following verdict: “The deceased, Nita Cundy, was accidently killed on Friday, April 2nd, 1926, by the overturning of ( a motor car about t\Vo miles north of Waikanae, on the main road. The neglect to provide proper safeguard and light is the cause of the above accident and it is hoped that no such neglect will be observed in future.”
A wave of concern swept over a certain neighbourhood in Aramoho a few days .ago when an infant was found to be missing. The distracted mother looked everywhere for her child and enlisted the help of her neighbours, who instituted a search. After scouring the locality fur two hours without avail it was decided'to inform the police of the absence. Before this was done, however, the child was discovered asleep in the dog kennel, its little head resting on the soft, warm coat of a big collie. The dog was awake, but had not moved for fear that it would disturb the slumber of its youthful charge. The baby had crawled away from its mother unobserved.
As the Napiar train passed a crossing near Terrace End, Palmerston North, on Monday night, two men, who appeared to be wrestling near the line were noticed by the driver. When the engine passed them, one stood back and hurled a bottle which struck the upper ledge of the cal) in the vicinity of the driver’s head. Broken glass and contents of the hottle were scattered over the tender, while some found its way on to the floor of the cab. The culprits immediately made off in the darkness, putting pursuit out of the question. Had the driver been hit, the consequence to him would have been serious. As it was, the point of impact was only a few inches above his head.
All railwaymen are familiar with the story of the laconic telegram of an engine driver who, in reporting a mishap to his engine, telegraphed to his superior, “Off again, on again, gone again,” meaning that it had left the rail, been replaced and bad resumed its journey. Railwaymen of a certain section of the New Zealand railways which need not be specified are now chuckling over another story of a like nature, states the Auckland “Star.” It runs that, on account of recent accidents, railwaymen were ordered to report mishaps at once, and without delay. One day, a high official received a wire which ran: “Man fell from platform in front of engine. Will wire details later.” Five minutes later came Hie. “details” as follow: “Everything O.K. Nobody hurt. Engine was going backwards.”
The “April Fool’’ crop this year is as large as ever, and those who fool the fools have made a new and interesting departure in their foolery. Several persons on the staff nf a city business concern on the morning of April 1, states (lie Auckland “Star,” found notes on their desk to ring 20-513 —“urgent.” They rang (or rather, dialled), but it was only after repeated calling that one of them managed to obtain the number. Then the inquiry as to bis business was a very irritated one. It appeared that the attendant had done nothing hut lift the receiver since about 8 a.m. to answer individuals who called up to state that they had been instructed to “ring” and ask what it was all about. Apparently hundreds of people had received similar messages. “You’d better come along here and we’ll attend to you,” one “ringer” was told. “Where is it?” asked the perplexed inquirer. “The Mental Hospital,” was the reply, and s'o it was,
The Postmaster announces that the motor bike registration plates are now to hand.
At the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, William McAteer was convicted and fined £5 and his license suspended for six months for being drunk while in charge of a car. Messrs. Levin & Co. Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, dated Ist April, 1926 in connection with the frozen meat market: —“Quotations are unaltered. The demand is very good, particularly for lambs.”
The number of surgical operations performed in. New Zealand was referred to by the Minister of Education (the Hon. J. A. Young) in a recent speech. The Health Department is now examining the position statistically, and will report thereon to the Minister.
The infant son, aged six months, of C. Waldron, Gaisford Terrace, Waipukurau, was drowned in a bath on Sunday morning. The mother was bathing the child, and left it for a few minutes lying on its back, kicking and laughing, while she went to the kitchen. She returned to find the child dead. At the inquest yesterday a verdict was returned of death by accidental drowning.
At the Methodist Shop day held on Saturday, March 27th, the competition results were as follows: — box of tea: Mi’s Parkes; dinner: Mrs L. Bullard; sheep: Messrs Barratt, Scadden and Anderson; cake: Mrs Ellers and Mr. W. Bullard; tea cosy: Miss B. Bailey; chocolates: Misses Mr. Stevenson and B. Brewer; boudoir cap: Mrs Cowley. One of the few remaining links with New Zealand’s political past, Sir Robert Stout, gave a passing reminder of this fact when speaking at a public meeting in Auckland the other evening. “As showing how time carries all before it,” he said, “there are only two members alive to-day who were in the House of Representatives when the Education Act was passed in 1877. They are Mi’. C. de Lautour, then member for Dunedin and now living at Gisborne, and myself.” Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of fiction, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary •complexity. Shag is too full-flav-oured for many smokers. It contains a lot of nicotine, and excess of nicotine is a bad thing. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately practically all imported tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of their chief recommendations. Also —and this is important —they are all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. There are several brands of this popular tobacco. Riverhead Gold mild, Navy Cut (Bulldog label) medium and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full strength. Each of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes, would doubtlessly prefer the last named.*
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