Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 5. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3661, 5 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 5. 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Heavy floods are reported in Hawke’s Bay, and the roads in and around Napier and Hastings are covered with water.

The. other day an advertiser put an advertisement in the Taranaki Herald for a girl to assist in a shop. At noon he telephoned to ask that it should not be repeated, as he had already had over 100 applicants.

Two prisoners, Lawrence Burton and William Thomas, who escaped from Rangipo prison at Tokaanu on June 19 and were recaptured on Juny 22, were sentenced to six. months’ gaol, cumulative with present sentence.

The clerk of a police court once said: “I regret to say, your worship, that we have no Bible this morning to swear upon to tell (he truth, because the bull-pup has chewed it up.” “Then make the prisoner kiss the bull-pup, we cannot wait about here a week lookingfor a Bible,” the magistrate remarked.

It is sixty-two years to-day since (he founding of the Salvation Army, and Sunday last was observed throughout the world as Founders’ Day, special reference being made at (he local services to the life and work of William and Catherine Booth, the first General and “Mother" of the Army. Attendances were good throughout the day.

A sale of 400 bales of rabbit skins was held in Dunedin recently (says the Otago Daily Times). The value of this lot was estimated at £60,000, and gives an excellent indication of the revenue that the pelt of the mneh-kfespised pest is bringing .info the province. As there were approximately 2500 skins in a bale, it will be seen that the present estimated value of tihe skins is a high one—more than 1/2 each.

The conservation of the whitebait industry was discussed at a meeting of the Auckland .Acclimatisation Society, when it was said that a letter had been received from the Marine Department stating that the one really big difficulty which presented itself was the fact that the whitebait run occurred in rivers at different times. An endeavour would be made, however, to attend lo the matter. Wife-desertion seems to he on the increase in all parts of the Dominion. “It's getting- pretty hot,” said Mr. F- K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland recently when commenting on the problem of the defaulting- husband in the Queen City. Inquiries show that the position is far from satisfactory in Wellington. Each yetCr the community is called upon to shoulder a growing burden placed upon it by those who shirk their responsibilities.

The fact that a middle-aged resident of Masterton, who has been deaf and dumb from birth, could hear plainly the playing of a piano, the stirring music of a band', and the soft refrains of a song per medium of wireless, was the remarkable, result of an experiment carried out by Mr. W. D. Ansell, of Masterton'(reports an exchange). Mr. Ansell had great difficulty in conveying the meaning of the sounds to the afflicted but delighed listener, but eventually that knowledge was imparted.

During the last few days there has been quite a competition among different parts of the outlying dis triets as to the honour —if such it can be termed —of providing the coldest nights, says the Otago Daily Times. Kurow has been very near to zero, but Duntroon claims to have gone one better. It was so cold on Sunday night, according to a settler from the latter district, that a hot-water bottle that had fallen front a bed was found in the morning to contain a solid block of ice. Further than that, butter -had to be thawed before it could' be used.

The Manawatu Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, decided to ask Messrs Nash, Linklater and Field, M’.s.P., to protest against the adoption of the Daylight Saving Bill when it came before the House.