Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3840, 4 September 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heavy vain fell throughout this district last night and this morning.

A short sitting of the Manawatu Licensing Committee will be held at -noon to-morrow.

'The primary schools throughout the Wanganui Education Board district re-opened this morning after the recent vacation.

For taking bets on a racecourse at the Feilding races on ,April 7th, Walter Goodyer, was convicted and fined £3 and costs at the Palmerston North S.M. Court on Satuiday. An increase is shown in the bankruptcy figures in Palmerston North for the month of August. Three petitions were filed, compared with one in July, and two in August, 1927.

Mr. R. Desjardines met with a painful accident while cutting wood on Sunday. The axe slipped and badly gashed his foot with the result that he will be confined to his home for some time to come.

The export veal trade in the Waikato is increasing rapidly and three companies are operating in the Waikato and Thames Valley. One concern has slaughtered over 5000 calves, nominally five days old, since the season opened in July. Burglars entered the shop of Mr. John 'Watson, draper, of Port Chalmers early on Saturday morning, entry being gained by cutting a hole in a panel of the back door. A safe was forced open and £.114 in cash secured.

At Dunedin last evening William Couston, aged 55, a single man, an ironmonger, was found sitting in an outhouse at his residence with a gashed throat and an open razor nearby. He died just after the doctor's arrival. At Auckland on Saturday, a porter at the Esplanade Hotel was fined 10/- for supplying liquor after hours and the wife of a medical man was fined £1 and costs for being found on licensed premises after hours.

Fifteen hundred Mau supporters paraded in the Apia streets last week. The wearing of Mau uniforms by allegedly improper persons and of Samoan high chiefs’ head dresses caused factional disturbances and assaults. As the result of one, a Samoan died through knife wounds, and another was dangerously knifed. To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d. Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.*

The Papal Legate’s (Cardinal Ceretti) levee at the Sydney Town Hall yesterday was largely attended by a representative gathering. The hall urns beautifully decorated in the Papal colours. Cardinal Ceretti was enthroned in the middle of the hall, taking homage from the slowly moving crowds as they passed by. There was no speeches, the crowds silently paying tribute to the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia and New Zealand.

The body of William Henry Miller Green, a single man, aged 27, was found in Havelock harbour in a very decomposed condition yes- , terday. Deceased had been missing since July 23. He was last seen alive at 10.30 on that night, when he .left Havelock to walk to a workmen’s camp some miles away. The .night was dark and foggy, and his 'way lay along the precipitous bank of the Pelorous River. A verdict , 0 f found drowned was returned, there being no evidence to show' how he got into the water.

Nine purebred' Hereford bulls were to have been sent to Apia, Samoa, by the Government steamer Maui Pomare, which left Auckland on Saturday. After five of the animals had been lifted on board it • was found the foredeck was not roomy enough for nine pens to contain the bulls, so it was decided to ship the animals by the Tofua instead. In consequence, the five animals w’ere hoisted ashore again, and reloaded into a railway truck. Afterwards all the animals were taken back to Westfield to be yarded until the Tofua sails next Saturday.

The Rev. W. H. Nicholas made special reference to the signing of the Peace Padt at the local Presbyterian church services on Sunday. He expressed the hope .that the pact would ultimately lead the nations to settle their differences by peaceful methods and that wars would cease.

For being drunk while in charge ol a motor-car in Willis Street on Friday night, Thomas Clarence Pearce, a motor salesman, aged 28, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning. The Magistrate, in imposing the penalty mentioned, told accused that as it w’as his third conviction a term of imprisonment would have to be imposed. “You must,” said Mr. Page, “know’ the danger of your action.”

A Blenheim resident who w’as present at the recent inter-collegi-ate football tournament at Nelson relates an amusing incident centring around a proud mother’s partisanship tow’ard the team in wdiich her son was playing. She “barracked” vociferously for her side, but despite her vocal encouragement it steadily lost ground, until at last its defeat was assured. Then she adopted new tactics. “After all,” she remarked, “what can you expect? Look at the difference in the size of the players! Just look, for instance, at that great hulking brute* in the w’hite jersey!” “That, my dear,” explained her patient friend, “is the referee!”

“Pronunciation of Maori w’ords, < beautiful in the mouths of the initiated, are grotesque in the attempts of those who are unaware of the five chief rules governing Maori , vowels sounds,” said Mr. Farquhar Young, elocution judge at the Hawera competitions, the other night (reports the “Taranaki Herald”). He had found Italians best able to pronounce at sight Maori words. After travelling on the raihvays and passing beautiful examples of the .native words, he had discovered committed atrocious blunders when calling names of stations. He suggested they should be obliged to pass a test before being allowed to call the names of stations.

At the Sydney Stadium last night, in the presence of 14,000 people, Ted Tliye won the w’orld’s light-heavyweight wrestling championship from Hugh Nicholls in the sixth round. - The contest was (characterised by extreme violence, and the announcer at 2BL, Sydney, in describing the_ bout from the ringside, said that Nicholls smacked Tliye in the face. Thye retaliated with a punch to the body. He was obviously groggy from the strenuousness of the bout, and Ni.cholls went behind him and suddenly caught him around the body. Thye threw’ himself backw’ards, putting Nicholls off his balance. .Nicholls fell underneath Thye, his (head striking the mat heavily. He was stunned and Thye won the fall. Nicholls was assisted to hi§ corner, and despite the efforts of his second, at the end of tw T o minutes he was too dazed to continue, and the second threw in the towel. Thye’s was the only fall in the contest.