Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3964, 4 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual monthly meeting of the Foxton Cham!bor of Commerce will he held in Walls' rooms this evening’ at 7.30 o'clock and will take Ihe form of a. social evening - . The benefits of advertising in the "Manawatu Herald" wore brought home to a local resident this week. A day or so ago he inserted a-smnll advertisement in the local paper advertising some pullets for sale. Bv yesterday he had quitted a large number of his fowls locally, and received orders from Tflikoren, Woodville and Dannevirke. . j Wspcclapula r hut grim nfee \Vith deal'll is being staged by all aeroplane frpm Darwin to Sydney. The machine is carrying Mr. F. Holmes, a millionaire squatter and prominent sportsman, who left- Dakwin on Tuesday morning with a 'trained nurse, suffering from hemorrhage. Ilis condition beteamc worse, and it was decided to send him to Sydney on’ the Mission’s ambulance 'plane,

The inquest on David Ogilvy, a well-known Masterton business man, who was found dead in a bath in Ulemvood private hospital oil Tuesday imorning with his throat cut, was held yesterday 'before Mr. ,1. Miller, S.M. A verdict; of suicide was returned, the coroner commenting 1 that it was one of those unaccountably sad things that happened. The evidence showed that deceased had never given any indication of eoWnittiiig suicide. 1

The rainfall in Palmerston is. last month was the highest in that month for 16 years. A total of 7.22 inches has fallen, and what with earthquakes, cyclones, great gales and thunderstorms, the past month must (be reckoned an unusual one. Rain fell oiltwentytwo days in June, 1929, maJking 7.22 inches, and on twelve Mays, in June, 1928, making 2.4 inches. The Manawatu River has- been |n Hood, and the flood in the Ofoua River was reckoned the highest {or fifty years. iSo f.aV a total of 19.76 inches of rain haye. fallen in(Pallmerston North this-year. ’ v: 1 " !• Yiggo Lijinbyepaged 22, formerly of the Hamilton district, pleaded guilty -at. -Blehlieim yesterday 'to a charge of’-mischief, in that; he des-? tvoyed by fire on May 8 on the Te Kawliia -Xgarnawahia road, a molor cycle- valued at £4B, which he was purchasing on time payment from J. and W. AVljiite, motor engineers ,of Newmarket. He paid £lO on the (machine and Alien the firm.attempted to regain possession for the non-payment of instalments, he burned the motor cycle. | Accused was admitted to probation for 12 months and ordered to |iav £2O damages at the rate off £2 a month. ■ j

Several people who take an interest- in their dreams keep a pencil and paper at their bedside (says a writer in the London Evening News). One of theta stated to the writer that he had a dr dam recently which he was too sleepy to record. He repeated the details to himself, and thought he would remember them in the morning, but next morning the baseless fabric had quite melted. A few nights later another dream came to the man, whereupon he resolutely conquered his sleepiness, and wrote down a page full of the details. When he wakened in the morning he forgot -the dream itself, but remembered that lie had written it. He reached for the paper—and found only a .blank; sheet. It had all been a dvea'm within a dream. That animals and birds are more keenly sensitive than mankind jo tremors of the earth was illustrated in many earthquake incidents. A lady who lives in a .Wellington hill suburb has a large garden with

some native bush in the lower part of it, and one of the habitants of this bit of Maori vegetation is a fantail which has become a pet. af the household. It comes in every morning and invites itself ,to the breakfast table, picking up 1 the crumbs and clearing the place of flies. ; Before the first, ’qualities were felt last ■ Monday, it flew in in strange exeitment, fluttering round and round the lady's head and fwittering in a way that showed it, was greatly disturbed. She wondered what could have alarmed it so, and just then the earthquake came.

■Has the Americanisation of New Zealand affected even the lower orders of life? Due amateur naturalist thinks that it has, having recently ascertained that ants are addicted lo chewing gum. On a fcnlce post at Mangore, lie watched under a. magnifying glass an army of ants removing apiece of chewing gum, apparently stock there by a passing schoolboy. An endless double file of ants passed up and down the post from their nest in the ground. Each ant, as it came to the chewing-gum, hit off a tiny particle, 'bout turned, and joined the down file. The magnifying- glass showed clearly the morsql of grim held by each ant that returned to the nest, but a careful investigation of their underground galleries -failed to show where it lvacl been stored or what use had been made of it. -

The Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau) and IC'r. F. Robinson left for Palmerston North at midday .to attend a conference of local bodies convened. by the Kairanga' County Council to lifoet the Palmerston N. Hospital Board and discuss matters relative to Hospital rating. Prominent, amongst "the passengers who airvived at Wellington by the Tahiti from San Francisco on. Tuesday were a band of American negros, the Kentucky Jubilee Sing-, ers, who are reported to have been creating- a stiff* in the United States during the . past year. A “Dominion” reporter was informed by Mr. Foitbes Randolph, a . well-known New York prodneejr ,who specially selected the eight trained soloists from 500 voices, that his aim was to give nothing but the best. The selected singers had to undergo many months of rehearsals before they weff'o allowed to appear befolre the public. “The Kentucky Jubilee Singers," he said, “are all collegebred. 'Solme of them are the sons of clergymen, and this accounts for Ihe wonderful rendering of the grand old spirituals, which aroused much admiration an the States."

' ‘-War and everything -to do with it are completely contrary to the mind and teaching of Our Lord," said Bishop ‘Cherrington in bis charge to -'Synod at Hamilton on Tuesday. ‘AW need not. Worry because it has taken ‘the •Christian world centuries to find it out, nor because the so-called Christian world will not be in agreement with wlmf I say. It took the.same Christain. wo)rld 1800 years to diseover tliat slavery was an abuse which could not he tolerated by Christian principles. As clergy, we want to preach that war fmusf cease, as '"'hristian laity, we want to talk about it and do all we-can to lea • veil public opinion. The late great failure in this respect was said to he a war to end war, so we are only carrying out the spirit of sacrifice of those who took part if we agitate in this direction but there will have to he martyrs for it.”