Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3672, 30 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

\V!ii:obail are reported to be running- at' the mouth of the Rangitikei river. A golf match was played this afternoon at Heatherlea links between Foxton and Levin players. A special meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held on Tuesday evening, at 7 o’clock, to deal with the baths question. “Just as a. signal of goodwill to a sister church,” said Mr Peryman, at the Methodist social last, evening, “there will be no service in the Methodist Church on Sunday morning, and I trust that as many of our folk as can attend the special service at Ihe Presbyterian Church will do so.”

A very enjoyable “five hundred” evening was held, under the auspices of {lie local Plunket Society, in the Plunket room on Thursday evening. The hostesses were Alesdames Barr, Trueman and Perreau. The ladies prizes were won by Mesdames Dudson and Cowley, and the gents In Messrs Thomson and Trueman.

A lamp which will light at the word of command, and go out when ordered, is the latest electrical wonder. The device is the invention of Mr. 1.. IT. Pearson, of Nottingham, a wireless enthusiast. Describing his invention, Mr. Pearson says: “It is an electrical switch which can be controlled by the human voice, or any vibration of sound.”

With an open razor beneath his body, Alfred Percy Robertshaw, a billiard saloon proprietor, of Belfast Street, Christchurch, was found dead on Thursday -with his throat cut. The body was found in the billiard saloon. The inquest was opened to-night, but adjourned after identification. Robertshaw was believed to be single. On the body when found was a considerable sum of money.

“You know that, the usual rate of interest for second mortgages is !) per cent, don’t you?” asked counsel of a witness in a Supreme Court case at Wellington this week. “Yes,” replied the witness, “but I have had it at 7 per cent. I can get it at 7 per cent., now. ” “Now, Mr. ,” protested counsel, “do you say that in all seriousness that you have had second mortgage money at 7 per cent.” Witness: “Yes, I do. I had it from your own firm, from one of your own clients.” (Laughter). Counsel did not press the point (says the Post).

Expressing disagreement with Air. Sidey’s Summer Time Bill, the Hon. O. J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, told the Farmers’ Union conference at Wellington that he was afraid that the measure would become law this session. A delegate asked the Minister to suggest some method by which farmers might block the Bill. The Minister answered that it was a matter for the Legislative Council, but' the farmer should certainly have somo voice in the matter. A voice from the back of the room said that at any rate at the next election they would have the opportunity of turning them out.

A protest against his occupying the pulpit of a Nonconformist chapel was addressed to the Bishop of Leicester by eighty members of the clergy and laity of the diocese. Dr. Bardsley had announced his intention of preaching a sermon at the Burton commemoration service which, held alternately in Anglican and Free Churches, was this year arranged to take place at the Loughborough Baptist Chapel. When asked if lie would preach the sermon, the bishop replied, “Circumstances permitting, I usually manage to keep my engagements.” And his lordship did keep the engagement.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid coughs, colds and influenza.

The annual teachers’ examination under the jurisdiction of the Wanganui Education Board will be held on Tuesday, August 30. The examination in Wanganui will he hold in the Central Infants’ School. Feilding and Palmerston North have also been appointed centres for the examination.

Air. Zane Grey and party are planning another fishing trip to New Zealand towards the end of the present year. During the past few months _the Zane Grey .party has 'been investigating the prospects of deep-sea fishing among the South Pacific Islands, although a great deal of success has not been met. with.

Communication cords are to be installed in railway carriages, after the Continental system, in pursuance of the Railway Department’s “safety first” policy (says the Christchurch Press). Boxes similar to those used for fire alarms will be used to contain the apparatus, which will be operated on the Westinghouse brake.

A ease was heard in the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday in which a number of defendants were charged with conducting at the Winter Show a game of chance that encourages gambling and is prejudicial to the public morals. The game in question is that known as the “rabbits.” After hearing- evidence the Court adjourned to inspect one of' the booths.

The silence of the members on the Reform benches in the House of Representatives when Mr. J.< M‘Combs’s Preferential Voting Bill was being discussed, was remarked upon by Mr. G. F. Forbes (Hurunui). “It reminds me,” he said, “of the old man who was getting very feeble and was sitting by the fira. When he was asked how lie put in his time he said, “Well, sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I simply sits.’ (Laughter). “I am told that in your Winter Show there is a place marked with three A’s, representing the AntiAsiatic Association,” said the Rev. G. 11. MeNeur, of Canton, addressing a Presbyterian missionary conference at Auckland this week (says the Herald). “There should be enough united Christian sentiment in the city and province of Auckland,” he continued, “to make such an anti-British demonstration impossible, because fundamentally itis anti-British.” The statement was greeted with applause.

The records of the Dominion meteorologist, Air. D. C. Bates, show that the coldest night so far was expenieneed in Wellington, on June 8, when the ground temperature was 23.9 degrees. In May the coldest night was on Alay 7, when the temperature reading was 27.1 degrees. This month the temperature has been down to 24 degrees on two nights. “Wo very often get the coldest nights in August,” remarked Air. Bates on Monday. “There is a saying, you know, ‘that as the days lengthen so.the cold strengthens.’”

A sudden and unaccountable lapse of memory on the part of a Tiniaru business man led him to Buy a railway ticket for Christchurch, and to go there, by express, without realising what he had done. His first realisation of the fact that he was not in Tiniaru came when lie was struck by unfamiliar sights in Christchurch. He immediately went to a telephone bureau to allay any anxiety which his wife might be feeling on account of his absence. Having done this, he returned by the next express to Tiniaru.

Dictionaries are in great demand locally just now as a result of the crossword craze and the owner of a good’one is a much-sought-after person. Air. R. L. Heath, of PurCell Street, is one of the lucky ones, however, who lias not been bothered for the loan of his dictionary by the crossword addicts. The book is a copy of Bryce’s Dictionary and measures exactly one inch by threequarters of an inch and is contained in a leather cover inset with a magnifying glass for the purpose of facilitating reading the small print. On the frontice page is a print of Dr. .Johnson. The book was printed in Glasgow and Mr. Heath has had it in his possession for 30 years.

It may surprise New Zealanders to learn that even those members of the Canadian Association football team whose home towns are in the coldest part of the land of “Our Lady of the Snows” have felt the cold snaps experienced in this Dominion very severely. One player states that, in his home town in Alberta the house fires were kept up day and night for about seven months in the year. Often in the winter months snow to the depth of some feet lay on the ground. But for all that lie had never felt so cold in Canada as he had at times during the tour of this country. Their match loss at Greymouth was due to inability to sleep on account of the cold. . In order to try to keep warm they had gone to bed in pyjamas, shorts, sweater, overcoat, sox and scarves, and then had not succeeded. To the visitors it was astonishing, he added, that the ’Canadian system of heating of homes did not prevail in this Dominion in the winter time.