Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3740, 12 January 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Divorce suits, in Auckland And year totalled 288, as against 32&in 1.926. / Mr G. King, of Avenue Road, &ad the misfortune to gash his knee Idth a flax hook while at work on Tiles,dajn As a result he will be .unable to resume work for some days. Advice has been received from the Karetu en route to Newcastle that Joseph J. Murray, an able seaman, was loslt overboard on Sunday. Murray ,was well known in Lyttelton where his widow resides. He was 29 years of age. Robert Seymour, the 21 months old son of Mr. N. Seymour, taxi driver, of Galloway Street, Hamilton East, wandered away from his home on Tuesday and was later found drowned 1 in ;a tub of Avater which had been left for stock in a neighbouring paddock. The body of a man Avas discovered in the Waikato River at Hunt•Jy on Tuesday. Papers in the clothing indicated that the man’s name Avas apparently George Birnie. It is believed that the body is that of the man Avho jumped off the railway bridge at Hamilton into the river this week.

Leslie Bognuda., a plumber, aged 28, residing at 138 Daniel Street, Wellington, died at the hospital on Tuesday afternoon at the result of injuries received through falling off the roof of the 2YA Broadcasting Company’s studio. Deceased was working on the -building when the accident happened.

wireless plant has been installed in one of the carriages of the special train used by Wirth’s v circus, and Avhen the train was in the railway yard at Ashburton many people remarked upon the aerial running along the roof of the carriage. This is probably the first time Avireless has been used on railway carriages in New Zealand.

Seeing a little girl running a scooter along a tramline in Addington on Tuesday and a tram bearing down upon her, Gertrude Taylor, a young woman, rushed across Ihe road to save her. The motorman applied the brakes but the child was caught by the tram and carried fifteen feet. Miss Taylor, however, avus knocked over and received injuries to the head and a fractured leg, being in a serious condition when admitted to the hospital.

By means of a new high speed camera, motion pictures have been taken of air moving into an aeroplane cylinder at the rate of fourteen yards a second, and of the flight of a, bullet crashing through air electric light bulb. These,pictures have been made possible by a camera that takes 20,000 exposures a minute, invented by Baron Shiba, a Japanese engineer. When shown on the screen as a slow motion picture the bullet went slowly up to the bulb, and at the moment of impact dented the glass before it ploughed its way through, while fragments of glass floated in the air. '

The Levin Dairy Company are paying 1/3 per pound for butterfat supplied during last month. For the corresponding period of last season a similar amount was advanced. The amount of butter produced this season to December 31st was 669 tons, as compared with 516 tons in the corresponding period of last season, the increase being 153 tons, or a fraction under 30 per cent. • For the month of December the output showed an increase of 33 tons, being 170 tons as against 137 tons a year previously. At present the daily make is 206' boxes of but for, a decline of 22 boxes from the peak of the season.

A thresher shark was caught by a local fishing party over the bar Hie other day. The tail was brought up to Foxton where it was on exhibition.

By a curious coincidence the number of births, deaths and marriages registered in Morrinsville during December, 1927, Avas exactly the same as in December, 1926. The figures are: Births 13) deaths 1, marriages 2. When a schoolboy was gathering pipis and cockles at Puru on the Thames coast, he unearthed a gold sovereign case containing a lialiC sovereign (says the Herald). The case Avas in a good stale of preservation.

As an indication of the extent of the tobacco industry in the district, the, quantity of tobacco shipped from the port of Motueka during 1927 totalled 672 bales and 70 cases, compared Avith 238 cases in 1926. A considerable area is down again this season.

It is stated that bird and animal life within the area .inundated by the Arapuni dam behaved strangely when they found their haunts invaded by Avater. Rabbits, for instance, have been seen plunging into the water in order to get back to their burrows.

The eighty-second anniversary of the capture of Ruapekapeka Pa, which marked the close of the war with the Maoris in North Auckland, fell yesterday. Colonel Despard, of the 199th Regiment, was in command, and the British were assisted by the > friendly natives under Tamati Wakanene.

(With the completion of the interior of the Katana Temple another big gathering has been arranged for January 25th,. the date of Ratana’s birthday. There is good seating accommodation, a platform for the choir, and a pulpit for the preachers. The Japanese Bishop Nakada has promised to he present at the re-dedication service.

A rather peculiar accident befel a Patea resident (says.the Press). Whilst in his fowl run a rooster attacked him and inflicted a nasty Avound on his elboAV Avith one of its spurs. As a result the sufferer is now an inmate of the local hospital, Av'here he Avas compelled to undergo treatment under an anaesthetic for the injury. He is now progressing favourably towards recovery.

A young man had a narroAV escape from being buried alive in sand at St. Clair. Dunedin. He and a friend had excavated two holes in the sand about 7 feet deep. They then commenced to burroAv toAvards each other, and Avhen one of them was well in the tunnel the sand on top collapsed, burying the unfortunate- youth several feet. The prompt efforts of the friend and onlookers with spades brought the victim of the mishap speedily to the surface, little the Avorse.

A nice story is being told concerning a country race meeting says •the Christchurch Star. The stipendiary steward, having reason to suspect that the rider of a horse avus under the influence of liquor, requested him to get off the horse. “’Ave a ’art, sir.” pleaded the rider. “Get' off that horse; the committee Avant to see you,” said the stipendiary. “Get off the ’orse?” queried the rider. “That’s Avhat I said,” came hack, the stipendiary. “Look, 'Sir,” said the rider, “if you kneAV ’ow ’ard it Avas to get up ’ere you ’wouldn’t ask me to get down.” Thomas James Campbell, labourer, 48, pleaded gfiilty at Wellington on Tuesday to obtaining £33 by means of false pretences, the story being that he Avent to a registry- office in Palmerston North, representing that he Avas a. Avell-to-do farmer of Taihape, and wished.to engage a housekeeper. He engaged a avoman named Blanche Gook, and obtained £33 from her by explaining that lie Avas temporarily embarrassed and wanted to truck some stock to the farm. He sent the woman to Taihape where she found she had been hoaxed. Accused also admitted obtaining £5 by means of a valueless cheque and £3 from Charles Simpson by representing that he was a relative of Simpson’s son-in-law. Accused had previously served terms of imprisonment for false pretences, forgery and theft. He Avas sentenced o’t six months concurrent on the two minor charges and on tlie third charge was convicted and is to come up within three years if called upon, on condition that lie repay the £33 at £1 per week after his discharge.

Consternation reigned amongst the smokers assembled on the platform at Wellington the other day when the outward-bound Hutt train drew up without any firstclass smoke car attached. lioAvever there were two cars labelled “A” and “B,” respectively, and a smoker, pipe in mouth, exclaiming “B” is for Baccy, juyiped into the “B” car, and all the other smokers followed suit. Presently someone asked: “If ‘B’ is for baccy—what is ‘A’ fort”. “For abstainers, of course,” same the reply. Everybody laughed. Precious few “abstainers” from the weed these days! —possibly one in 50. Well there’s no harm in tobacco, so long as it’s good and doesn’t contain too much nicoltine, as those imported brands do. Our New Zealand tobaccos contain so little it doesn’t matter. That’s why they are so safe. They are unbeaten for fragrance and flavour, too. Delicious. Those chiefly in,;, demand are“Riverhead Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, asd “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bulls'head) full strength. They are on sale everywhere. Aiw tobacconist will supply you.—Advt.

Sydney Ferries Limited have issued a writ against the Union Steamship Company Limited 1 claiming £30,000 in regard to the destruction of the Greycliffe. Mrs. Ellen Thom Dougherty, an inmate of the Rotorua Sanatorium, suffered from, a nervous breakdown, while absent from the institution, is supposed to have taken poison. She died in the sanatorium later. At an inquest a verdict was returned that deceased met her death from the effects of a. dose of strong iodine, self-administered, while temporarily insane. While playing at the back door of his mother’s home at Gisborne yesterday, Norman Douglas Bim r bier, the two-year-old son of Mrs Doris Bimbier, fell into a ten-gal-lon cask of water and was drowned. The child was missed for only a few minutes. He was found with Ais head down in the cask. A doctor was summoned, but life was extinct.

At' the Christchurch swimming carnival last night in the tepid baths two New Zealand records went by the board. In the 220 yards men’s championship D. P. Lindsay registered 2.29 or 2 3-5 seconds better than the previous recird. In the 150 yards men’s back stroke Moorhouse beat his own New Zealand record of 1.50' by two seconds. Mrs. Crawford, wife of Herbert Crawford, of Havelock North, has been, missing since noon yesterday. Her hat, scarf, and handbag were found ill a motor-car late on Tuesday night together with a note which read: “Keep money, return bag to Crawford, Havelock North.” A police search last night and throughout to-day has been resultless.

The mail' who hanged himself on the Marine Parade at, Napier on Sunday .morning has been identified as James George Tinson, a watersidcr, aged about 52. It is not known if he has New Zealand relatives. It is understood he was a single man and resided at Napier. A formal finding was returned at the inquest. , Motor cycles are cheap in the Napier Hospital just at present (states the Telegraph). A recent visitor to the institution told a reporter that so fewer than five.motor cyclists in ,one ward, all suffering injuries as the result of accidents while riding their machines, had deluded to quit their respective mounts to the highest bidder and in future to eschew the pastime of motor cycling. The Eiffel Tower, the world’s highest structure, which during the 39 years of its existence has been the scene of 111 suicides, is doomed, as the Ministery of the Interior lias announced it must be demolished to prevent it falling. Despite an expenditure of £BOOO annually for upkeep and painting, corrosion is increasing steadily and it would have fallen long ago had not workmen been kept continually renewing the bolts. Already it has passed its estimated life span by 19 ■’years.

Every year since the Otira tunnel was opened for traffic on August 4, 1923, there has'been alsubstantial increase in the volume of goods carried by rail from the West Coast, says the Marlborough Express, and the figures for the eastbouml freight for the 12 months tiOAv reach nearly half a million tons. In 1927 the total Avas 449,996 tons, as compared Avith 421,906 tons in 1926, 354,867 tons in 1925, 302,044 tons in 1924, and 88,171 tons in 1923 (four months and 27 days). The grand total is thus 1,616,984 tons.