Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1928. LOCAL AND-GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3813, 3 July 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1928. LOCAL AND-GENERAL.

In a fourth grade Rugby match at Wellington on Saturday, a Marist. player, E. Gornall, received injuries which made necessary the removal of an eve.

A reminder is given of the social and dance to be held in the Masonic Hall this evening. An enjoyable social time is assured all who attend.

Linoleums further reduced at the C. M. Ross Coy’s. Sale. Ist grade 7/0, 2nd grade (i/0, 3rd grade 5/11. Lowest prices for 15 years.*

It is officially announced that the Prince of Wales will leave England for his East African four wit If his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, on 7th September. </

Kingsford Smith states that he hopes to commence his flight to New Zealand within the next three weeks if the weather is satisfactory.

Monty Hill, aged 50, a single man, porter at the Greymouth hospital, was found with his throat cut at an hotel yesterday morning. Ilis condition is critical.

There passed away at his daughter’s residence, Thymic »St., this morning, afler a brief illness, Mr Robert Fa ire, aged 70 years. The interment will take place in Wellington. Burglars who broke into Sargood Son and Ewen’s boot factory in Richmond Street, Dunedin, during the week-end escaped with £2O worth of boots. Entry was effected by breaking a pane of glass in the window.

A little girl, Ina. Twigg, was warming herself by the fire at her home, Matamata, when her celluloid doll burst into flames, with the result (hat her left arm and face were r:-,erely burned. The girl was removed to 'the Waikato Hospital.

Henry Shephard, a married man, 75 years of age, fell dead in the Methodist Church at Gore on Sunday evening as the service was commencing. The deceased was an oiiijcer of the church. The service was abandoned.

The Prime Minister and Minister i'or Public; Works visited Pahiatua on Saturday. The former opened the ferro-eonerete bridge at Ngai.iiri. Brief speeches were made and the Prime Minister was presented with a framed enlargement of the bridge.

The first shipment of petrol for the Canterbury Automobile Association’s scheme to supply members will arrive at Lyttelton this month. The (petrol will be sold through bowsers and also in case lots. The bowser price is not yet announced, but the price per case will be 14/8, equal to 1/10 per gallon.

In a few days’ time, the second Moth aeroplane in New Zealand will make its appearance aloft. This is the ’plane that was ordered by Mr. W. J. Hall, of Ilorornta, and it arrived at Christchurch by the Taranaki the other day, from England. It has been unpacked at the YVlgram Aerodrome, and work on its assembly is now in progress.

Wflien the fifth motorist last week appeared at the Gisborne Police Courl on Saturday charged with intoxication while in charge of a ear, the Magistrate, Mr. Levy, fulfilled his threat to regard no intoxication drivers as first offenders and sentenced Kawau Ratapu to 14 days’ gaol, cancelling his license for 18 months.

A young man, Sidney W. J. Tucker, son of J. W. Tucker, Wood Street, Grcytown, was found in his car outside a residence in M('Master Street, Grey town. An empty bottle which had contained poison was alongside the body. He was 21 years of age and had not long returned from Sydney. An inquest will be held bv the Coroner this afternoon at his father’s residence.

Many strange requests are made of a newspaper, and the following from a correspondent to the Auckland Herald is probably a fair sample. “I am in need of £250,” he writes, “to help me to commence in business. It is my life’s ambition to be able to wipe out unemployment of every kind in the whole world. Do you think you could introduce me to some person who would be willing to help me for such a noble purpose 1 ?”

At Wellington yesterday, Sydney Davey, a tobacconist was fined £SO and Edwin Houghton, a secondhand dealer £2O for bookmaking.

The s.s. Kennedy loaded 42 head of fat stock for Addington at the local wharf last night and left on the evening tide for the south. The friends of Mrs. I. Ross will be pleased to learn that she returned home from the Palmerston N. Hospital on Sunday.

Mr. 11. Hutchins received word that his brother was seriously ill yesterday and was not expected to live.

John Cooper, aged 40, who refereed a soccer match at Wanganui on Saturday, died on Sunday morning at his home from heart failure.

The deaths are announced from Palmerston of several pioneer residents, who had attained a ripe old age. Amongst them are Mrs. Mary Willescroft, aged 94; Mr. Johann Frederick Thessman, of Ashhurst, aged SO; Mr. Robert Ilugliburn Newth, aged 88; Mr. .John Hutton Waugh, of Taonui, 'aged 92; and Mrs. Elizabeth Drummond, also of Ashhurst, 78.

It was recently reported that numerous insulators on electric power lines at Hastings had been broken by shots from pea rillcs. Since then two boys have been found as the culprits and they were severely admonished. This should be taken as a warning to the thoughtless, who should bear in mind the great danger of interfering with power lines.

As a result of the shoaling of the Greymouth bar the port’s shipping trade has been considerably hampered lately. The Kaiapoi had to shut out 190,000 ft. of timber intended for Sydney, while the Kaponga shut out 550 tons of coal and 30,000 ft. of timber when Leaving for Wellington. The Kaitangata had to sail under a restricted draught, leaving 400 tons of coal behind, while the Kartigi, which left last week for Melbourne and Adelaide, shut out 30,000 ft. of timber.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Gertrude Raikcs was charged with driving a car in a manner that might have been dangerous to the public. It was stated by the police that defendant drove at 35 miles per hour past the railway station, where a line of taxis in the centre of the road made this place an exceedingly dangerous one. Defendant stated that at the time she was driving some lady hockey players, to 'catch up a bus they had missed. This the Magistrate accepted as a mitigating circumstance, inflicting a fine of £l, and costs £1 18s Od.

At Christchurch yesterday, William Alfred Burgess, the central figure at the inquest in connection with the recent tragic death of Miss Emily Forward in a bach at North New Brighton, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for disobeying' of a maintenance order in favour of his wife. The warrant will be suspended, provided arrears are paid off at the rate of 2/0 a week in addition to the current order of £2 ss. The arrears amounted to £298. The magistrate added: “You had no reasonable excuse for not paying this maintenance. You were running two baches at the time, while you were letting your wife get on as best she could without money.”