Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3539, 18 September 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. A number of cases were held over at yesterday’s S.M. Court owing to the absence of Constable Ryan who is away in the South Island owing to the death of his; mother.

A case that has )»<?en adjourned several times at the local S.M. Court, was withdrawn by consent olj Court, at yesterday's sitting, before M. R. M. Watson, S.M.

Adverse weather has detained Captain Cobham at Ragoon. The Air Council is arranging to give Cobham an official luncheon when he arrives in England.

A fuly. developed octopus was caught in the ITauraki Gulf this week by a trawler. It was unusually large for those waters, measuring 12 feet across, with its tentacles extended.

Hon. 0. Ilawken (Minister of Agriculture) announces that the Government has arranged to take over the Batehelai} property on December 1. If possible, arrangements will lie made with the owners to carry on (lie working of the property till the Government needs it, The next move is the election of the Council.

Mrs John Windsor, of Union St., met with a serious accident yesterday morning. She was attending to an incubator lamp, when it tipped over and in endeavouring to extinguish the flames, she sustained severd burns to the hands and arms. Medical aid was summoned and the sufferer’s burns attended to. The building in which the incubator was in narrowly escaped destruction by lire. The Auckland Education Board is endeavouring to’secure power for Education Boards to dispose with the services of married lady teachers. At its meeting the other night,'the Wanganui Education Board decided to support the Auckland Board’s effort, it being contended that it was not fair to other teachers that married women with husbands in good positions should be able to draw good salaries. A young woman; passing the north transept of the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral, came within a foot of death a few minutes before one o’clock yesterday afternoon. The heavy stone cross was hurled off the gable by the gale, and narrowly missing her head, crashed to the ground a few inches from her feet, where it broke into several pieces.

“Aim I right for Wellington?” Two Te. Kuiti residents received a mild shock the other morning when this question was put to them by an elderly man who looked to be but a recent recruit to the ranks of the swagger fraternity, says an exchange. He. was heading for Auckland at the time, and having put him right, the two citizens extracted the information that he had walked from Hamilton after a vain search for work, and had nothing to eat that morniig. The first deficiency was speedily supplied, and after a little consultation the man wiht the pack was given an address where a .week’s work at least, was to be found.

It is interesting to note that such a railway accident as that which occurred in New South Wales recently is hardly likely to eventuate in New; Zealand, as in this country all carriages are equipped with the Wcstinghouse brake, and a mere parting of the train would automatically apply same. It is not every railway system that has trucks as well as carriages equipped with automatic brakes. Even in England, practically the home of railways, all the rolling stock is not so equipped.

An article in the Lake County Press by Mr P. de la Perelle, of Winton, recalls the fact that 25 years ago the bed of the Kawarau river was bone dry for about one hour, owing'! to a huge slip from the mountain side in the vicinity of Gibbston completely blocking the waterway below where the Shotover and Arrow rivers join the main stream. A miner named Andrew Reid walked across the dry river bed, but did not do any fossicking as he feared the temporary dam would not hold long. Within an hour the obstruction was swept away and the river resumed its course.

“Tc wahinc get tc paper and read about tc dairy control,” said Ilori to a reporter 10-dav. “I come to town to learn more about him. To control him te great ting I (ink. Te Board take charge of te old cow, save me and te wahine chase him round te blackberry bush to get him milked.” Honi’s lip dropped when tol'd that the control did not act in that way, but that it controlled the marketing of butter. “That no good at all,” replied Ilori. “I control all te butter te old cow give myself. Who control te Board?” asked Ilori anxiously.—Wanganui Herald.

For the term of his natural life was obviously the impression gained by a'young man, a new arrival in the country, who appeared as defendant in a paternity ease at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court last week (says the Herald). ITe stated that he was employed as a farm labourer for £1 a week and his keep, and the prospect of having* to pay an order of 10/- per week, a/id also 5/- per week towards maternity expenses amounting to approximately £l4, was naturally not pleasing. Contemplating the situation with a very despondent air, he inquired in a broad accent how long he would have to continue paying 10/-. “Sixteen years,” remarked his Worship. The young man made no comment, but there are times when silence is more eloquent than speech.

' “Feilding is now a suburb of Palmerston North,” declared Mr Anderson, at a meeting of the Kairanga County Council, when expressing the opinion that the Palmerston N. Borough Council should contribute towards the cost of the new Aorangi (Bridge over the Oroua River.

“You musl noLsay that/' observed 1 lie chairman, Mr Batchelor. “Well, there arc six motor buses running daily between Palmerston North and PciMing,” Mr Anderson replied, expressing the viewpoint that on account of whal it derived in business from the Feilding traffic over the bridge Palmerston N. should contribute towards the cost. “Feilding doesn’t like this motor traffic. It hates these motor buses like poison,” was a further comment.

The estimated expenditure attached to the attendance of the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. ,T. G. Coates) at the Imperial Conference is set down in the Supplementary Estimates at £3,500. Mr Coates is to lie granted £1,750, the permanent head of his department (Mr F. 0. Thomson) who will accompany him is to be allowed £750, whilclfioo is earmarked for other expenses. The four members of the delegation to attend the Empire Parliamentary Association Conference in Australia this month are to be granted £75 each. The grant for the Government representative to the third PanPacilic Congress at Tokio, Japan, is stated as £2OO. A sum of £2,150 is voted to meet the expenses of the New Zealand delegate and his private secretary attending the League of Nations Conference at Geneva.

A burlesque race look place at the Dannevirke Hunt meeting on Thursday in the Tahoraite Hack Steeples, described as one of the greatest farces ever witnessed on a racecourse, the sequel to a chapter of accidents being that Gay Bobbie had the stake money and the tote to himself,, although he passed the post a long way behind Kovno and Fairfield. Labour Morn was the pronounced favourite of the six runners. At the second fence of the stand double the first time, the three leaders, Ohorere, Oneroa and Labour Morn, ran off, leaving Kovno, Gay Bobbie and Fairfield, but all three went inside the flags' at the next fence, Gay Bobbie being taken back by his rider. Ohorere and Oneroa in the meantime were taken back to the stand double and negotiated it, but the former baulked at the next time of asking. Thus four were left in the race. Passing the stand the second time, Fairfield led Kovno, while Oneroa and Gay Bobbie were three furlongs behind. Oneroa fell along the back and Fairfield fell at the last obstacle but one, but was remounted, narrowly missing coming to grief at, the last. Kovno passed the post over 100 yards ahead,of Fairfield, while Gay Bobbie’s number was hoisted in, the judge’s box a full minute before he arrived. After an inquiry, following a protest on behalf of Gay Bobbie, Kovno and Fairfield .were disqualified for not completing the course, and the only other contestant to finish, Gay Bobbie, was awarded all the honours.