Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3594, 3 February 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual monthly meeting of the Fox ton Chamber of.’ Commerce will be held in Ross’s Rooms next Thursday evening at 7 o’clock.

Yesterday saw an influx of some 200 medical men to Dunedin, all of whom are either visitors or delegates to the Medical Congress which is to be officially opened to-night.

At the criminal session of the Christchurch Supreme Court, which opens on Tuesday next, five prisoners will stand their charges of causing death by reckless or negligent driving of motor-cars, and the other charges are for indecent assault and manslaughter.

A Scotsman and a Jew were charged with being drunk. “They were not merely drunk, your worship,” declared a policeman, “they ■were mad drunk. The Scot was lying in the middle of the road throwing away half-crowns, and the Jew picking them up and returning them to him.”

A firemen on the steamer Canadian Explorer, which arrived at Auckland from Canada yesterday, deserted from the vessel during the voyage in an unusual manner. When the steamer was in' the Panama Canal he jumped overboard in Galun locks and swam ashore unobserved by the officers. The swim was not a difficult one, because only a short distance separated the steamer from the sides of the locks.

Great excitement is prevailing amongvsome of the Mokau Maoris. It is stated that the shifting sand has uncovered the To'komaru canoe at Mohakatino River Heads, so that at low tide more of it is visible than there has been for the last 40 years. This canoe has a great value among the natives, as it is one of the original canoes in which the Maoris came to New Zealand. The canoe was wrecked at the mouth of the Mohakatino River, and has become petrified.

An inspection of the Batchelar Estate at Fitzherbert, Palmerston North, which has been purchased by the Government for the purpose of establishing an agricultural col-

lege was made by members of the Agricultural College Council yesterday. The visitors went over the ground in detail, their object being to become familiar with the topography of tlx* property. The Hon. (I. Fowlds staled for publication that there were hopeful prospects of it complete university being established at Palmerston North.

Writing to the Auckland “Herald” regarding a paragraph relative to big families reared by our women, and staling that 20 is New Zealand’s record, Mr. .las. B. Campbell says: —“About .1890-91 there appeared the following birth notice, which was so novel as to remain impressed on my memory: ‘At New Brighton, the wife of James Knight, of a son —the 24th —all horn in Canterbury; all doing well.’ Mrs. Knight was well-known, especially lo the old one-horse Irani drivers. The tramline went through her property, and she gave them occasional reminders (practial ones) that she had not received sufficient compensation.”

When a Magistrate or of the Peace passes judgment on footpath loving cyclists and speed kings after February 1, the familiar phrase “Costs 7/-” will not be heard. Instead, there will be a demand for 10/-, as fees for-war-rants will be increased from 3/- as at present, to 5/-. The change will conform with the new regulations issued hv an Order-in-Couneil oil December 20, and recorded in the latest- issue of the “New Zealand Gazette.” The fee for information and complaint will be increased from 5/- to 7/- and for hearing or re-bearing from 2/- to 3/-. Court costs will therefore he 10/-. Besides the increase in warrant fees, .charges for summons services have been increased by, one shilling.

Raoul Alpar, 40 years of age, who was in business in Auckland, died at the hospital from a penknife wound on the wrist. He was found in a state of collapse on Tuesday night at the side of the .street near the Domain cricket, ground.

Nothing is more pleasing after a swim in the surf than a, delightful sunbath lying on the sands, but when this policy of lying in the sun on a hot beach is pursued to excess, dangerous consequences may result. This was illustrated at Napier (says the ‘Daily Telegraph’) when a swimmer on the Parade became so thoroughly “cooked” that he resembled n cooked crayfish just out of the pot. The aftermatfi came in the evening, when the swimmer became delirious with pain of liis sun burns, which covered his limbs and body, and a medico was summoned. The medical man injected morphia to dull the pain and'induce restful sleep in the patient, but even with this/prccaution tlfc sufferer had to be watched all night, and was not out of danger the following morning'. His painful and dangerous experience should be a warning lo others.