Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER .30, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3556, 30 October 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER .30, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chinese of Palmerslon N. liave collected among themselves the sum of £2B 15/0 which tliey linve donated to the hospital. Henry Bilborongh, aged 08, farmer, of Dunsandel, was found dead yesterday at Dunsandel, with a gunshot wound in the head.

A white Leghorn egg, weighing iiozs. was brought into our office yesterday by Mrs J. Thomson, of Thynne St. In size it approaches that of a goose’s egg. William Ernest Woodham, a hawker of dress goods, was charged in the Magistrate's Court at Oamaru, on Thursday, with carrying on business as a bookmaker. He said that he was a married man with a wife and seven children at Christchurch. He was fined £2O.

Five skeletons, of three adults and two children,/were found near the City of Auckland wreck - at Otaki on Thursday. They are probably- the remains of natives who died years ago. The skeletons were laid bare by the river altering its course.

Some time ago Mr J. Knise, of Avenue Road, cut down a boxtliovn tree on the property occupied l»v Mrs Sullivan many years ago, which was over fifty years old. The tree was a. chain in circumference and had three barrels each thicker than a man’s body. Five loads of good wood was obtained from the tree.

The slip in the Mauawatu Gorge is still holding up railway traffic between Palmerston N. and Woodville. The Napier express to Wellington proceeds via Wairarapa. It is anticipated that it will probably lie the middle of next week before the railway track is cleared for traffic. The professional boxing contest between If. Gunn (Timaru) 9st, and H. Lec-kie (Dunedin), 9st, took place in Dunedin last night. The contest went the full 15 rounds and the referee, Mr D. Patterson, awarded the fight to Leckie, a decision which certainly did not meet with general approval.

Sir Oliver Lodge lecturing in London, said he attached no importance to the talk of getting into touch with Mars. “We have not done so,’’ he said, “and are not likely to. A\ e may get ctherwaves there, but how are they to know what we are talking about? They don’t understand Morse or English.”

Owing to the temporary breakdown of the Dunedin broadcasting station the wireless service announced for the Methodist Church tomorrow evening', has been postponed. It is now hoped to listen-in to the Gipsy Smith mission service from Christchurch in a fortnights time. Mr Billings, who will be in charge of the listening-in, states that the Christchurch station is much more powerful than that at Dunedin, thus securing far more satisfactory results. “We like our boys to receive a good education, but my expeiiencc goes to .show that in many instances too much education for a boy who is to become a is a mistake. These opinions were given to a Daily News representative by a Taranaki farmer recently. The farmer went on to say that if country children stopped their schooling after having passed through the standards at the country schools, they were much more satisfied to take up life on the land. If, on the other hand, the boys and girls were sent to high school and college, they came in contact with a good deal of town and social life, with the result that when they had finished their schooling and returned to their homes, the} became very dissatisfied with, home life. It was not long before many of them rebelled against the dullness and uninteresting features of life on the farms, and sought positions in the towns.

“I notice that when' you are friendly with your husband you call him Percy, and that when you arc wild you call him Pereival. Now, what is his name ” said Mr Justice Alpers in the Wellington Divorce Court on Thursday, to a petitioner. “I really don’t know,” was the reply. His Honour: You took so little interest in him that I suppose his name didn’t matter.

Alfred Hall, a rabbi ter, single (aged 3-1), employed on the Waiteko station on the East Coast, was found drowned on Thursday afternoon. The body was in a decomposed state and death apparently occurred three weeks ago. Deceased was in the habit of making prolonged excurisons into the back country for‘rabbits, and consequently he was not missed. Deceased’s parents reside at Hastings.

There is living in the Oamaru district an aged man who held a selection adjoining the Kellys at the time of their lmshranging exploits in Australia. He has a vivid recollection of the stirring incidents of those days, and states that he remembers well the frying pan with which Mrs Kelly struck a policeman over the bead for attempting to kiss her daughter Kate. He alleges that one of the Kellys who was reported to be in the house when Ned Kelly was captured, and whose body was not found after the building was fired, effected his escape and is at present in the Argentine.