Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3681, 23 August 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Foxton 'Soccer team drew with B.S.A. on Easton Park on Saturday, the score being 3 all. The locall police are investigating an alleged theft from a motor car which was parked in front of the Town Hall on Saturday night. House Officer: “My man, you are suffering from a chronic complaint.” Patient: “I know it, doctor but don’t talk so loud —she’s come here with me.”

In the world’s light-heavyweight wrestling championship at Melbourne on Saturday, Ted Thye defeated ‘Sam.Cla.pham by one fall to none in "en rounds.

A speaker at , the meeting of vestrymen in St. Mark’s Parish Hall, Te Aroha, in referring to the register of parishioners, said: “There are quite a number of members of the church whom we do not know until they die ,and come along to be buried.”

With debts owing to unsecured creditors amounting to £491 10s, and with no Albert George Richards, draper of Palmerston North, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. He has not yet made a personal statement concerning his affairs. A meeting of creditors will shortly be held.

At the Sydney Stadium on Saturday “Tiger” Payne knocked out Johnny Squires, the heavyweight champion of 'South Africa, in the first round. Payne fought wildly, missing frequently, but shortly before the end of the round connected with a heavy right swing to the jaw and onted Squires. “Footpaths’dirty . ... —pave meat artists!” he said as he took out his handkerchief and bent to his task. An enterprising optician had installed in his window a device which threw a coloured sign on the pavement and this annoyed the Saturday evening celebrant who tried in vain to erase the offending design (says the Wanganui Chronicle). Monica Claire Oldfield, aged 5. years and 7 months, was playing in a bedroom of her father’s house at Broadfields, near Christchurch, on Saturday morning before an open fire when her nightdress caught alight. Her brother and sister tried to pull off the blazing garment and the brother, aged 11, threw a blanket round the girl. But the child was severely burnt and died in the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday afternoon. At the inquest the coroner commended the brother and sister on their prompt action. A verdict was returned that the child died from burns and shock accidentally received.

Under the auspices of the Bureau of Entomology and the Marketing Board, a cargo of 15,000 chrystalises of the English bluebottle fly, carefully packed in layers of moss in wooden boxes, at a uniform temperature, will leave for New Zealand, Australia, and the Falkland Islands. When unpacked, a small parasite of the flies which fed on the bluebottles will emerge. It is believed that they will attack and exterminate their natural enemy the blowfly, which is such a pest to sheep. Similar experiments last year were very successful. The shipments of the chrysalises are: New South Wales, 6400; for New Zealand, 6000; and for the Falkland Islands, 2000.

At last week’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, the Education Department wrote stating that £240 was available for distribution amongst committees for extra work carried out. The sum of £ls was alloted to the Foxton School Committee. An interesting and instructive lecture on “First Aid” was given, before members of the local Fire Brigade by Mr I. Corn, on Tuesday evening last, which was much appreciated by the officers and men. At the conclusion of the address Superintendent Downes thanked Mr Corn on behalf of the Brigade. ,{ A young man was teaching his lady t.o play golf. The hole was on top of a rise. As the putting green .came into view and he saw the lie of the balls he shouted “A stymie, a dead stymie!” and as the girl approached she said with a sniff, “I thought I smelt something as I walked up the hill.” Mr Hodge, architect to the Wanganui Education Board, visited Foxton to-day. The plans for the secondary department are l now complete, and have been approved by the Department, and tenders for the work will probably be called next week. Confirmation of the transfer of the land will be dealt with at a sitting of the Native Land Court at Levin to-morrow. A case of daring theft was reported in Feikling on Saturday, when a Chinese retailer’s cash draw was rifled and £l2 10s in silver and notes stolen. It. is reported that while the Chinaman went to the rear of the shop for a few minutes ■some person entered the premises and walked round the counter. Tt was then an easy matter to open the till and extract its contents. The “New York Times” ship news reporter, setting forth an interview he had with Paderewski just before the latter sailed for Europe, says he asked the virtuoso which of the two countries he liked better during his New Zealand and Australian tour. The pianist, with a gesture, replied: “Oh, New Zealand —New Zealand very much more. The people there are nicer and more cultured.” A concert troupe from Shannon to the number of 35 will give an entertainment'in the Masonic Hall tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, commencing at half-past seven, in aid of the Methodist Circut funds. Miss 'Chalk, Mrs Yeo and Mr G. F. Smith have also promised to assist. As Mr, Mrs and Miss Chalk are taking up their residence in Levin, this,will afford their many friends an opportunity of saying farewell to them. A Christchurch message states that at a conference of representatives of the Malvern, Selwyn and Tawera County Councils, held at Malvern on Tuesday, it was decided flint amalgamation of the three counties was desirable. The conference followed the suggestion of the Highways Board that the smaller counties should unite for the purpose of bringing about a speedier programme for road improvements. A pleasant variation from the Parliamentary disquisitions on the woes of the farmers was heard during a speech on the Financial Debate by Mr. C. E. Bellringer (Taranaki) who assured an interested House that during a recent visit to iris constituency, he found quite a change in the general feeling. There were signs of an improved trade and fhe men on the land .were in good heart. He had never seen Taranaki look better than to-day, and right through the province one saw evidence of good results from a more general use of fertilisers. An extraordinary error is alleged (o have occurred at Fratikton Junction a few days ago. A Te Aroha breeder consigned ten pedigree Jersey heifer calves by rail to a purchaser at Makarua, IjJorth Auc-k-* land. When it reached Frankton the truck containing the Jerseys was connected with a train lpad of ' three days old calves which were en route to the Horotiu* freezing works to be killed and prepared as boneless veal. The quality of the Jerseys was not noticed and they suffered fhe same fate as the calves which accompanied them. The sequel is a claim against the Railway Department for £l5O, the value the owner has placed on the pedigree Jerseys. Boneless veal is stated to be not/ a popular topic for discussion at the Frankton railway station just now. On the grounds that fire brigades perform a national service and that fire loss'is essentially a national ioss, the Fire Boards’ Conference decided to request the Minister in charge of the. Post and Telegraph Department to allow a special low raid for fire brigade telephones and for fire alarm system rentals. It was pointed out that telephone and alarm systems were so closely associated with means and methods by .which national loss from fire could be minimised that they deserved consideration, as regards a reduction in rates, the cost of wiring for alarms being very high. Uniformity in telephone numbers for' all fire stations throughout the Dominion was also urged as being desirable. When for a cold you seek “good goods,” Look for the label bearing “Woods;” Don’t be mistaken, make quite sure, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Wlhein you have it you have the best, When you take it you prove by test; Standardized, soothing, fresh and pure, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.44.