LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3932, 18 April 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

+ William Joseph Donovan, a Dannevirke tobacconist, was lined £35 for bookmaking. The dead body of a man was found on a sheep station in the Napier district yesterday morning. The man was apparently a swagger and had been dead for several months. It is understood that lessees of railway bookstalls have received the following circular from the Railways department: “The department intends to take over and control your stall when your lease expires on June 30th next.” A special vote of thanks has been passed to the Oroua Downs ladies by the Methodist Church for their splendid effort in connection with the raising of funds. This resolution was omuiitted from the report of the meeting.

Two 'Chinese at Otaki were convicted and fined .€25 arid €l3 respectively for smoking opium .and permitting opium to be smoked on the premises. James Brown, a stranger to the district, was sentenced to three months imprisonment in the Levin Police Court on Tuesday for using obscene language in a public place. Kenneth Cain, aged 17, residing with his parents at 59 Victoria St., Pctono, was last night struct by a railway motor Irus on the Esplanade at Petone and killed almost instantaneously. The death of a live-year-old Maori boy from Otaki occurred in the Palmerston N. Hosptal on Tuesday. The lad was admitted suffering from lock-jaw and it was considered necessary to inject anti-tetanus seruan but the body was too rigid. An anaesthetic was given under which the little boy died.

Lady Ngata has contracted the disease from which her son died hist week. -She now lies in a critical condition at her home at Waimatatini. Neither ,Sir Aipirana nor Lady Ngata were able to attend the funeral ijf their son on Saturday.

A new sedan car came to grief on the Foxton Jlimatangi highway at the site of the filling work opposite the Chinese Gardens on Tuesday afternoon.'The steam roller which has been engaged in rollng down tho foundation work was proceeding to the Eangiotu section but became embedded in the filling. The gang was at work endeavouring to extricate the roller When the ear came up and attempted to pass. In doing so it skidded and crashed into the. front of the roller, badly daimagng front of the roller, badly damaging tyre.

Bishop Molyneux, who arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Tuesday, is associated with a story of adventure in one of the New Hebrides islands several years.ago. He was informed that a French recruiting vessel was taking away against her will, a native married woman. He asked the captain to release the woman. The captain flared him to set foot on the vessel hut the Bishop did so, brushing aside a gun stated to have been levelled at his head.-Tie had his arms injured by a club, and in the confusion the woman jumped into the Bishop’s boat and was carried homo in triumph. The filling; of a deep depression over the eulverted creek on the main highway opposite the Chinese garden has caused the County workmen much anxiety of late and drivers of motor vehicles trouble to negotiate. Many heavily-laden lorries have been temporarily held up in the loose tilling, but lighter vehicles have been able to proceed. Metal has been hurried to the spot and the work has been speeded up with commendable consideration for the travelling public. The locality is now safe for all traffic. A special word of praise is due to the ■workmen for the assistance they have rendered to motorists during a very trying period.