NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3673, 2 August 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Word has been received from London that a tender for the castingl of the 40 bells for the Wellington war carillon has been accepted.

Three sailors of the British squadron which recently visited Copenhagen administered a thrashing to a young Danish Communist who was offering seditious literature printed; in English to passing sailors. They also tore up his stock of leaflets.

The responsibility of mothers in giving their children spiritual training in the home was emphasised by the Rev. E. E. Bamford at the annual meetng of the Auckland Diocesan Mothers’ Union this week. He said many parents shirked their duties in this direction, and he instanced a ease in the suburbs where the housemaid brought the child to be christened while the parents were at the races.

A veVy curious accident happened to a iittle girl named Betty Ries, daughter of Mr. H. Ries, necessitating treatment at the Dannevirke ‘Hospital. She was going to school ■and dropped her sewing, which caught between her knees, the sewing needle entering both and breaking between. The parts of the needle were quite embedded and surgical aid was required to extract them.

One of New Zealand’s best-known hurdle horses, Paritutu, is dead, and by a strange coincidence lie outlived his master, the late Mr. Newton King by only a few hours. Paritutu raced for twelve years and rested for twelve. In 138, starts he gained twenty firsts, including the Grand National Steeplechase in 1911 in record time. He also secured 25 seconds and 21 thirds. Sixteen Australian schoolboys, accompanied by a master as manager, will arrive at Wellington on August 23rd, to.commence an Association football tour of New Zealand. The visitors will play in Wellington, Palmerston North, Hamilton, Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and will leave for Australia on September 16th. This will be the first team of schoolboy footballers to visit New Zealand. ; A two-year-old boy received painful injuries in an unusual manner at Greymouth. He was playing in a room at the store of his mother with a little girl. The latter left the room, and, knowing that the boy was following her, closed the door, which struck the boy’s head, with the result that his teeth were forced through his tongue, the latter being practieallf severed. An operation was performed. A correspondent has forwarded to the Otago Daily Times a recipe for the complete destruction of the common house fly. If a weak solution of formaldehyde is secured from a chemist and placed in saucers in rooms, the correspondent says the deed is done. , The fly cannot resist sampling this solution, and its first sample is its last, as it dies forthwith and is disinfected at

once. / Through a man dislodging a stone with a pick, two fire engines made a trip to a distant suburb of Christchurch the other day. The man was engaged in digging a sewerage trench, and as lie drove his pick into the ground a stone flew up and made a direct hit on the glass panel in a fire alarm box. One engine from the central station and one from Sydenham station-responded, only to find the navvy puzzled as to how he could stop the fire engines from coming. By shouting loudly, journalists in Auckland and Christchurch last Wednesday afternoon carried on a telephone conversation with moderate success about the Bunvood murder. The Auckland Star rang up the Christchurch Star for the latest news of the arrest. It took the telephone people a little while to make the connection, _but the speech came (through moderately well. A shorthand writer at Auckland took the message rapidly, and this piece of journalistic cnterpiise was no doubt appreciated by northern readers. Borne of the sportsmen of Christchurch (says the Lyttelton Times) have forwarded an autographed bat and ball to Messrs W. Cunningham and W. E. Merritt respectively, accompanied in each case by a cheque which was made up bv means of a small charge made to each man placing his name on the article. The senders forwarded the ball to Merritt with the hope that it would reach him about the time that he ompleted his 100 wickets for the tour. The number of telephone subscribers in the Dominion were stated at the Dominion Farmers’ Union Conference recently to be 109,000 who paid in subscriptions £923,000 at an average rate of £8 10s. If a flat rate were charged the price would have to be raised to £lO. In view of this explanation .eleven remits at the conference dealing with rural telephones were referred to the Executive in order that replies might be received from the Department. A young man who had been workling on a "farm at Eltliam was told by his employer that he had no more work for him at present, but if matters improved later on he would be very pleased to re-engage him. The young man decided to leave for Australia, having sufficient money in hand to pay his passage there and keep him for a few weeks until he obtained a job (says the Taranaki “Herald”). Ho decided, however, to walk to. Wellington and apply at various farm houses along the road for work. All he obtained was one

day’s work between Elthani and Wanganui. He caught the express at Wanganui, stating that lie bad tired of wearing out bis boots on a fruitless task. The railway revenue for the four weekly period ended June 25 was as follows (the revenue for the same period last year being shown in parenthesis): North Island lines, £297,779 (£318,105); South Island lines, £215,073 (£219,137). Mr. John Lawson, of Pokaka, King Country, died suddenly recently under particularly sad circumstances. He had received a message stating that his father was dying at Marton, and while running to catch a train in order that he might see his father before the latter died, the son collapsed and pas-, sed away on the station platform. Five members of the detective force under the control of Inspector A. Cameron have 'been conducting the investigations in connection with the Bnnvood murder. Detective James Bikerdike, whose transfer to Auckland was announced some days prior to the tragedy, is one, and the others are Detective-Sergeant Young and Detectives Walsh, of Wanganui, Jarold, of Wellington, and Laugeson, of Christchurch.

•William ’Heggie, farmer of Te Horo, at the Supreme Court at Wellington, sought his discharge in bankruptcy but failed to obtain it. When the case was called the Chief Justice (Sir Charles Skerrett), who was on the Bench, pointed out that the necessary notice had not been given “I had no money to put in the advertisement before,” said Heggie. “I am afraid that I have no jurisdiction,” remarked the Chief Justice. “You are just one day short. It is a requirement of the statute that fourteen days’ notice shall be given. By advertising on the 12th you have given thirteen. I am afraid that you will have to advertise again.” “School football in New Zealand has reached a crisis, and it rests with the old boys of the Dominion secondary schools whether it reJains its present place in the schools,” said Mr. Thomas, rector of the Timaru Boys’ High School, when speaking of the secondary school games at a reunion of old boys recently. Mr. Thomas said that at present Rugby was the principal game in the Timaru High School, but he could not say if it would remain so after such scandals as the Ranfurly Shield one. It was time to look into matters. Personally, lie would like to see all the trophies given for football thrown over a cliff. It was the game for its own sake, not for the prize, that mattered.