NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3506, 3 July 1926, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

June was the driest June in Christchurch since 1902. The total rainfall was .903 of an inch, being 64 per cent, below the June average.

“This is the first time in my recollection that 1 have seen one Chinaman suing another,” said Mr. E. D., Mosley, S.M., at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, when judgment by default was given for Sue Lee and Co. (Mr C. IV. Webber) against Wong Koon, for £2O 5s sd, costs £4 Is 6d.

A Paris tribunal declared that cutting corns and other growths on the feet is illegal, unless done by fully qualified medical men. Associated Seine doctors had sued Galopau and Sons, who have practised pedicure in Paris for 70 years. The firm was fined 100 francs and costs. The wife of the station-master at the Newcastle (England), Central Station, in declaring open a firstaid room at the station, said that if railway-men were injured they would be able to come into a place where they could “groan in comfort.” Sometimes they had had to keep a stiff upper lip when a groan would do them a lot of good.

Joseph Mercer, charged with negligent driving on January 22, when his car smashed into a telegraph post at Papakura, was sentenced by Mi’. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at Auckland this week to a month’s imprisonment, the sentence being altered to a month and one day to enable an appeal. The Magistrate said that defendant was driving a car which was badly smashed. One liie was lost and a girl lost her eyesight. He was sorry for Mercer but had come to the conclusion that he was not taking the necessary care.