Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3034, 11 May 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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between Wellington and Auckland will cease runnig after June 5.

The new President of the New Zealand Alliance is Mr C. Todd of Dunedin. Among the list of vicepresidents is Sir Robert Stout. Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the death of New Zealand’s greatest statesman, the late Right Hon. W. F. Massey. The Rev. G. Dent, of Palmerston North, received a cable from London this morning notifying him of the death of his father, head of a well known English printing and publishing house.

Foxton was visited on Sunday night by a succession of gales, which caused houses to creak and windows to rattle dangerously. Minor damage was done to fences, etc.

At the Masterton Police Court on Saturday Leslie McDougall was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for using obscene language cn a motor bus from Carterton to Masterton in the presence of a woman passenger.

Attention has been directed time and again in these columns to the dangerous curve in the road after crossing the railway line, which has been the scene of several accidents. The road is under the control of the Borough Council, which for some reason, not specifically stated, refuses to straighten it, stating that it is safe if drivers proceed slowly. The state of this road now, however, is a disgrace to those responsible, being a succession of dangerous pot-holes.

Billing’s Cash Cyclery advertises its first Wlinter Sale of cycle accessories on the front page of this issue. On the 22nd May at 1.30 p.m,. a number of second-hand motor-cycles and cycles will be offered at auction by Mr. G. T. Woodroofe, auctioneer; practically without reserve. The values offered by Billing’s Cyclery have always been competitive, but at their sale and auction some exceptional bargains should be secured. The machines to lie offered at auction are already on display at their premises opposite police station, Main street. Owners of launches and yachts at Auckland are looking forward to a very high tide which is supposed to come in a couple of weeks’ time, so that they can haul up their- boats to places of safety for the winter months. Many old seafaring men, who all their lives have studied the tides, say that when an abnormally high tide is due, it is because the sun, moon and stars will all be pulling in one direction. One old man, asked how he knew this, replied that seafaring men knew more about the heavens than most people did, and in a few days it would be seen that what he had stated about the high tide would come true. He had never in his life looked at the heavens through a telescope, but he had used his eyes to good purpose. In the days of sailing ships when sailors went on long voyages the sky was the sailors’ open book of life. —Star.