Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3545, 2 October 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Secondary boys played Primboys cricket at the school yeslerdav and won bv -ID mils to 13.

Warm rains have fallen through out this district during the past IV, days, promoting a wonderful grow th in pasture lands and gardens.

The vital statistics for Box lon during last month, with the figures for the Corresponding month of last year in parenthesis, were as follows: —Births 8 (7); marriages 1 (nil); deaths 2 (4).

At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr J. K. Ilornblow, J.P., a first-offending inebriate, who had spent the night in the lock-up, was convicted and discharged, while another was convicted and had his bail estreated.

The Borough Council’s new true,tor has been christened the “Matthew Henry.” The press was not invited to the christening ceremony but we : are informed that the road foreman and Town Clerk entertained those present with some wonderful stunts with the new machine.

A motor cycle reliability test was held by the Wanganui Motor Cycle Club to-day, competitors having to travel from Wanganui to Wellington. The riders passed through Foxton this afternoon. Mr C. Billings was the official checker and Mi; E. Rimmer, at the north end of the town and Mr W. Ross at the south end, acted as secret checkers.

A Frenchman was fined £2 at Christchurch for driving a motor ear at an excessive speed across a street intersection. Our foreign visitor must have thought he was in Paris, where drivers appear to speed to any extent, and if a pedestrian is run over he is looked upon as a fool for getting in the way of the vehicle.

To-morrow is bping observed as Home Mission Sunday throughout the Poxlon Methodist circuit, and the offerings for the day will be devoted to the help of Home Missions. ltev. R. B. Gosnell, of AVaitara, will conduct the annual Home Mission meeting in the local church on Thursday evening next, to which all interested are invited.

Recently the aeroplane flew to the local seaside. AA’hen nearing the creek from which. whitebait fishing is prohibited, the 'plane swooped low, to tin# consternation of certain individuals who were seen to withdraw their nets from the creek and disappear as if by magic, under the impression that the police had devised a new method of raiding them. ''

Bill Beach, of Brownsville, Wollongong, Australia, one of the greatest scullers the world has produced, celebrated his 70th birthday last week, and was the recipient of hundreds of congratulatory messages. The unbeaten world’s champion is in splendid health. He has signified his intention of giving an exhibition scull at the “Back to Skoalhaven” celebration. lie states that despite his years, he still feels able to give a good account of himself in an outrigger.

At Thursday’s meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce the question of a dairy factory for Foxton was again revived. It was stated that the bulk of the milk supplied to the Shannon factory came from the Foxton district, whereas if a factory were located on this side of the river it would add to Foxton’s prosperity. As it was, Foxton was impoverishing itself to build up a neighbouring town’s prosperity.

An unusual shooting accident occurred at Makerua two days ago, when a boy nine years of age, William Coley, was accidentally shot in the head by his father when the latter was usiijg a pea rifle to shoot birds. It appears that the lad came suddenly round the corner ,of a building_and was struck by the pellet, which inflicted a scalp wound. The little patient is progressing quite satisfactorily at the Palmerston A T . Hospital.

At the inquest held at Auckland on Hassell George de F. Garland, who was found dead in his office on September 14th, a verdict of suicide was returned. The evidence pointed to the fact that deceased was in financial difficulties.

The body of Luiz Delara, the 20-year-old Spaniard, who made the mysterious attempt to swim the English Channel from Gris Nez on September 20, has been recovered at Wimereux. Two men saw Delara enter the wafer and later a parcel was found with a note: “I’ve gone to try to cross the Channel unescorted. Kindly return my clothes to the Excelsior restaurant where I work.”

It is safe to predict that this district will be subjected to a plague of mosquitoes as soon as the warm weather sets in. The reason for this is that large areas of land near the town are still covered with surface water. Residents should get rid of any stagnant water about their residences and where unable to do this spray the surface of the water with kerosene, which spells death tn the insects.

One of the big coal proprietary companies in Otago is prepared to extend its workings as soon as definite agreements with the workers are fixed up. That coal is there in the mass has been proved by borings. The market for the coal is assured. The only requirement now is a certainty that the wages rate will he stable for a period so as to| justify the opening up outlay of several thousands of pounds.

An unusual accident happened at Mangatainoka a few days ago. A well-known farmer, Mr N. Bicknell, and an employee, Daniel Bradley, were fencing. The former was engaged in vigorously driving a post home when (lie iron head of (lie sledge-hammer .he was using, flew oil the handle and hit his. assistant, who was on the other side of the fence, a violent blow on the top of Ihe head, felling the unfortunate man and rendering him unconscious. Before assistance arrived, however, the man had recovered, and beyond the loss of blood and a small hole on the head, he seemed little the worse for the strange mishap.

A farmer’s wife from the King Country who is at present visiting Auckland, says that the young Maoris have proved the farmer’s best friends this winter. If has been only 100 true that since the autumn farm hands have left their work on the land to go and get high wges in the steady jobs with regular hours in and near the cities. When labour got scarce, and it was quite impossible to fill the vacancies on the farms,.the young Maoris stepped into the breach and filled the bill splendidly. Especially are they fond of getting behind a plough drawn by two good horses. The Maori loves horse-flesh, and it was wonderful how skilful they became after a short experience.

A Maori named Jimmy Wereta, who ran away from gaol some time ago, and was subsequently reeaplured at Dannevirke, gave a novel excuse for escaping from durance vile to the Wellington Magistrate on Thursday: “Well Sir, you see, it’s like this,” said the prisoner, leaning forward in the dock, and addressing the Bench most confidentially, “My girl was waiting at Dannevirke for me to marry her and I wanted to let her know that I could not go on until I came out again.” For gaol breaking, Jimmy was sentenced to twelve months hard labour and for the theft, of a motor bicycle to accelerate his locomotion during his freedom, he was sentenced to a further three months. Both sentences to be served at the expiration of the detention he is now undergoing.

A Wanganui settler says: “I have just heard of a district up-river, in which the settlers along a stretch of eight miles of road have in the past live months shot 3,000 pigs, and a pig eats as much grass as a sheep, and lie or she also cats lambs. For a long time I was sceptical on this question, hut experiences of this lambing have quite convinced me of tire fact that pigs of both sexes kill and cat lambs, not only while they are helpless just after they arc born, but up to a week old. In the district which I speak about, a settler whose farm joins an abandoned section, counted 20 lambs in one paddock. Next morning at daybreak there was not one — mangled lambs in plenty and bleating mothers all over the place. And the difficult part of getting at the cause of the trouble is that he pigs are all nocturnal workers.”

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Official advice has been received by the Attorney-General (Hon. F. J. Rolleston) of the final rejection by a British and American Claims Arbitration Tribunal of a long-stand-ing case —Ihe claims of William Wlebster, an American citizen, to large areas of land in New Zealand alleged to have been purchased by him from the Natives during the years 1836 toj 1839. When Constable Owen opened the door of the Magistrate’s room at the local courthouse this morning, he saw the floor littered with papers from the pigeon-holes. On making a close inspection he saw a halfgrown hedge-hog in the bottom rack, were it had endeavoured to cover itself with departmental documents. How the nocturnal wanderer managed to get into the room is still puzzling the local police, who are “investigating the case” pending the hearing of a charge of unlawful entry and causing wilful damage to the property of His Majesty’s Government.