Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3775, 3 April 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A-Queen carnival at Greytown in aid of the Memorial Park and File Brigade, realised the sum of £5Ol.

Cambridge defeated. (Oxford in the University boat race on Saturday by ten lengths. Time 20min. 21 sec. This is Cambridge’s fifth win in succession.

There are at present thirty-ono cases of scarlet fever in the Palmerston N. Hospital, mostly children. The cases are of a mild nature and the patients are from various parts of the district.

T. Kerrison, while playing in a practice game of football at Pahiatua on Saturday, fell and fractured his leg. Kerrison was a Bush rep. and a member of the Pahiatua senior team.

Tweed overcoats from 27/6 each net special value this week a Tompkins, Co.-op. Draper?

A further extension of the existing restrictions on immigration to New Zealand has been decided upon by Cabinet, the expiring date being moved forward to the end of the present year. Results of the restriction policy since its adoption reveal a substantial decrease in the number of arrivals.

Ernest iClarke, a building contract br, aged 31, of Dominion lid. Auckland, disappeared on Saturday afternoon while swimming at Point Chevalier Beach. Clarke had been teaching two little gi.ls to swim. He took them to his wife about 3 p.m. and re-entered the water for a final dip. His wife believes he swam out to a moored raft off the beach. That was the last she saw of him. All efforts to find the body were fruitless though maintained with many helpers till 3 a.m.

Our shop open all day Wednesday.—Tompkins, Co'.-op. Draper.* Bankruptcy figures for the Palmerston N. district for the month of March, 1928, show a slight decrease when compared with the figures for the same .month in 1927, 6 petitions being filed last month as against 8 for March 1927. There is also a decrease shown in the figures for the first three months of 1928, compared with the first three months of 1927, there being. 14 filed for the first three months of this year and 17 filed for the first three months of 1928.

When you go to buy hosiery and gloves, you naturally ask yourself “Where can I buy dependable articles?’’ In order to get satisfaction it. is advisable to buy from a firm who have up-to-date stocks. The C. M. Ross Co. do not allow stacks to get out of date, therefore you efin confidently make your purchases from this firm, noted for hosiery and glove values. See to-day’s advertisement.!

The local Eire Board estimates for this year total £534 10/- (less £7O unexpended last year) as against- £433 2/8 for 1927 and £5lO for 1926. The principal item of expenditure this year will be the equipment of an automatic fire alarm, which will be connected with the telephone exchange, which will mean that every telephone will be a potential fire alarm. On the outbreak of fire, the exchange will be rung up and the operator there will immediately connect with the siren.

A remarkable case of a supposed corpse coming to life is -reported from a mortuary at Penarth, Cardiff. George Ellis was given up for dead, following an operation to a knee. He was taken to a mortuary, where lie suddenly awoke and found himself surrounded by bodies. Two attendants bearing another body entered just as Ellis called out. They promptly dtropped the stretcher and bolted. Ellis was taken to a hospital. It appears that he had fallen into a trance, when his heart ceased to show signs of activity. A remarkable operation was later performed to the knee joint, another man’s amputated leg being dovetailed into Ellis’s with complete success.

The (preparatory work of laying out a new seaplane base at Hobson ville, near Auckland, is to be commenced after Easter.

The fire siren sounded for a grass blaze at the back of Cook St. shortly after two o’clock yesterday afternoon.

The road between Sandon and the Bulls bridge, which has been closed to traffic during tar-sealing operations, was again opened to the public as from noon yestesday.

The last span of the Shannon bridge is now in position and the decking is being proceeded with. The approaches should be completed this month and the bridge opened for traffic next month. Foxton’s rainfall for last month totalled .48 inches. The warmest day was the 19th., when 74 degrees was registered in the shade, and the coldest day was the 24th, with 52 degrees.

A young woman, whose name was suppressed, charged with concealment of birth, at Wairda, yesterday, was remanded to appear on the 10th of April. The inquest was adjourned sine die.

In future the Foxton Methodist circuit will be known as the Fox-ton-Shannon Home Mission station. Mr J. H. Edmondson, of Hokianga, who succeeds the Rev. Peryman, will take up his duties on the 12th.

Prize-winners at the last Labour Social Club’s euchre tournament were as follows: —Mesdames F. Vertongen, J. Harper and E. Groom and Messrs H. Hirini, J. MeKnight and S. Dudson.

On a charge of having abducted a girl under the age of 18 from Auckland, James Henry McKeich, aged 20, appeared in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. He was remanded to appear at the Auckland court on Thursday.

The outbreak of scarlet fever in Canterbury is still serious. Last Monday there were 101 cases in the Bottle Lake Hospital, and tothe total is 130. Fifty-eight additional cases were admitted during te past week, compared with 35 for the preceding week.

Distribution of our free gifts on Thursday evening at 8 p.m. — Tompkins Co.-op. Draper.* While playing about at his home on Thursday last, George Raymond McDonald, the three-year-old son of Mr and Mrs George McDonald, of Helensville, swallowed a sewing needle. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where an operation was performed but the child died yesterday morning. A body which is supposed to be that of Miss Ellen Downey,, one of tht victims of the double drowning fatality at Titahi Bay on March 25, was recovered yesterday afternoon by a party of Italian fishermen. The body was discovered floating some eight miles south of Titahi Bay by the fishermen at about 3.45 p.m. A police van was sent out and the body brought back and placed in the morgue.

Very appropriately the honour of being the first woman to arrive in Waimate by air fell to an ex-Wai-mate girl, in the person of Mrs D. Mill, who accompanied her husband in his Moth 'plane, which landed at her uncle’s (Mr E. C. Studholme) homestead at five p.m. yesterday, after a flight of one hour and thirty-five minutes from Sockburn. A very large crowd witnessed the landing. Mrs Mill was brought up in W'aimate, residing there until some years ago .

When the name’ of Ronald Edward Morrison was called in the Supreme Court at Nelson on Tuesday, he failed to appear for sentence on a charge ,of 'breaking, entering and theft. It was pointed out that Morrison had absconded and that he had gone to Christchurch. On Thursday a motor car owned by Eric Undrill, of Kilmore St., was stolen from Cambridge Terrace. A constable at Rakaia identiled the missing car, arrested its driver and discovered that he was Ronald Morrison.

“It is a pity we cannot revert to the old Christian practice in which the Bishop of a Diocese washed the feet of 12 of the poorest men in the district on Maundy Thursday,” said Bishop Cherrington in a sermon in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, on Sunday. His Lordship said that the institution of such a practice in a Cathedral on the Thursday before Easter would serve to demonstrate the reality of the truth that there was no respect of persons in the Christian Church. In his sermon, he dealt with the need for ignoring class consciousness and for approaching worship in a spirit of humility. ’ -■>

A young man who was very anx-

ious to know if a certain young lady cared for him enough to say “Yes” explained his dilemma to a friend, who suggested that if he went to see her each night for one week and stayed until 10 p.m., he would soon find out if she -cared for him. He did this, and on Sunday night, as he was saying “Goodnight. Mary,” he exclaimed “Didn’t I come Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night?” and Mary answered, “Yes, John.” “And aren’t 1 here again, to-night?” “Yes, John.” “Wlell, aren’t you beginning to smell a rat?” From the way people come into our shop Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we begin to realise that they appreciate our values, and love the bargains we are offering. During this week we are offering special gifts and values that cannot be beaten. — Tompkins, Co.-op. Draper.*

A young man named John Phillips was fined £ls by Mr Barton, S.M., at Wanganui, yesterday, for being intoxicated early in the morning while in charge of a motor cycle. His license was also cancelled for 12 months.

The vital statistics for Foxton for last month, with the figures for the corresponding month last year in parenthesis, were as follows: — Births 3 (4), deaths 3, (1); marriages 5 (5). Maori births nil (1), deaths nil (1). The Municipal market which has been in operation in Christchurch in temporary quarters since December 19, shows a profit for the period of £SO, according to a return presented to the City Council last night. Dr. Joseph Patrick Hennessy was charged at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Friday with having unlawfully used an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage. He was remanned until 4th April, bail in £250 being allowed.

Sunday was All Fools’ Day and it was also the first Sunday on which the continuous telephone was in operation locally. As a result a number of subscribers were aroused from their Sabbathical slumbers by “fool” messages, which were, however, taken in the right spirit. Patrick Joseph Casey, a single man, aged 53, an employee of the Grey County Council, was killed at Paroa yesterday morning. He was thrown off a lorry and received head injuries. He never recovered consciousness, death taking place five minutes after being admitted to the hospital.

The results in connection with the Croquet Slub shop day, held on Saturday, are as follows: —Cake guessing, weight 3flbs., Bryon Cummerfield; lamb, 411b5., Mr E. Huntley (4141b5.) and Mr Wilson (40i lbs.) half each; nail-driving: gents Mr Dunn and Mr Desjardines; ladies: Mrs Roore.

Our attention has been drawn to the danger to traffic on the WhiroIcino Rd. on the Levin side of the bridge, in the Horowhenua County Council, by the growth of gorse on the roadside. Unless this is cut down there is a grave danger of i serious accident occurring at this spot.

At the Supreme Court at Gisbor’he, judgment was given by Mr Justice Ostler in the ease of de Peliehet, McLeod and Co. v. William Douglas Lysnar. The claim was for £3,000 on a guarantee allegedly given by defendant over credit, in Gisborne, by his brother. The Court gave its decision for plaintiff for the full amount, with interest at 7J per cent. WBien Mr Halversen, of Te Papapa', awoke at 4.30 on Saturday morning, he discovered his wife was not in bed, says an Auckland mesage. He found her dead in the kitchen with her head in the gas oven. Mrs Halversen was 32 years of age and had undergone several operations in hospital. She was expecting to return there for another operation.

Over one hundred years old and “he thoroughly enjoyed his pipe.” That was recorded a while ago of Mr William Reeves, who passed away recently at Knox Home, Tamaki, Auckland, aged 101. The antitobaccoites are never tired of telling us that smoking shortens life, but if anyone cared to take a census of inmates of these charitable institutions, they would discover that great numbers of very old men —yes, and very old women, too, derive comfort and consolation from their pipes. Smoking so far from being injurious is really beneficial so long as the tobacco is good and does not contain a heavy percentage of nicotine. The imported brands are practically all of them, loaded with nicotine. Our New Zealand tobaccos, on the other hand, contain so little that they may be smoked all day without any ill-ef-fects. They are full of flavour and fragrance too, sweet and mellow, and delicious. Ask for “Riverhe'ad Gold” if you want a fine aromatic; “Navy Cut,” (Bulldog) if you like a good medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10,” (Bullshead) if you prefer a grand, full-flavoured sort. —Advt.