Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3971, 16 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At aibout 8.30 o’clock last night a slight earthquake was experienced, followed by another tremor a l about four o’clock this morning.

George James O’Leary, a service car driver, charged at the Palmerston North -S.M. Court yesterday with negligent driving, was fined £3 on each charge and his license cancelled.

The Labour party social committee will hold a. euchre party in the Town Hall supper-room on Saturday evening next in aid of All Saints’ ‘Children’s Home firewood fund. Admission 2/-. ‘Ten prizes will Ibe competed for. Mr. Justice McGregor, in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, awarded £BOO general damages and £IBO special damages to Lizzie Edith Mathejrs in a case in which she claimed from. Hugh Muir £1250 damages for injuries received when plaintiff was run down by defendant in a motor-car in October last.

Avon Roderick Ayres, aged 40 years,'a labourer, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Wellington yesterday for a. breach of a probation order by failing to report. His conduct, it was stated, had been unsatisfactory. He had gone to Christchurch with a girl, an ex-patient of a mental hospital, and the girl could not now be found. Ayres is a married man with three children.

In a recent issue of the London “Spectator” a writer says: —“I have been told that there is no memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the Dominion of New Zealand. Particularly at Wellington, where your great contributor died, it would -seem appropriate that there should be some tangible expression of the debt that not New Zealand only but the whole Empire owes to his vision and vigour. At Shannon on Sunday a fire destroyed a four-roomed residence owned by Mr. J. S. Wilkinson and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Coyle. Just before 11 o’clock Mrs. Coyle was awakened by a smell 1 of smoke, and investigation revealed that the back part of the house was in (tames. Mi-, and Mrs. Coyle made a huTtried exit and gave the alarm, but the fire brigade could do nothing, as there was no fire plug in the vicinity. ‘The cause of the outbreak is unknown. There was an insurance of £450 on the bouse and £125 on .the furniture, but Mr. Coyle is a heavy loser over the insurance. The medical superintendent (Dr. Frank Ward) reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board that for June the nvoirage number of occupied beds was 179.4, admitted 235, discharged 236, died, ten. Patients remaining in hospital numbered 174. Ton scarlet fever cases and four diphtheria cases had been admitted during June. Twenty-one cases of infectious disease remained in isolation. Sixteen mothers had been admitted to the maternity home, while 28 had attended the antenatal clinic. Sixteen babies had been born. Eight mothers and eight babies remained in the home at the end of the month.

While boring for water at the Waipnku dairy factory, near Stratford, recently, a considerable volume was lapped at a depth of 187 ft. and as it was thought that some gas would probably be coming up also a light was applied to the end of the' pipe. Flames immediately shot up, almost to the top of the derrick, to which height water was also flowing. A evoss-pipe was later put on, and a large quantity of water was ejected. The (lames continued, and as time went on the supply of water greatly diminished and the gas seelmed to increase. It is thought that the gas has been caused by decayed vegetation, of which a considerable quantity, was encountered as the bore was being put down. The water which has come up is of a dirty, muddy colour and contains no traces of oil.

The bulletin of infectious diseases in the Wellington health district for the week ended at noon yesterday shows a slight increase in the total number of cases Ireported. Scarlet fever, diphtheria and pneumonia appear to be prevalent, there being ten cases of pneumonia reported in the Central Wellington area.

Protection from the annoyance of music from gramophones and wireless sets in shop doorways is provided in a by-law approved by the Auckland City ICouncil. The bylaw makes it an offence for any person to play music in .premises facing a road to the annoyance of people in the vicinity. The terms of (he new rule are wide enough to cmlUrace similar nuisances in suburban or residential areas.

That the position in Palmerston North with regard to charitable aid was very good for this time of the tear was reported by the relieving oflVcr (Mr. F. Aisher) lo a meeting yesterday of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. He said there had been a decided drop compared with the corresponding month of last year. There was a noticeably large number of men travelling the roads and calling on him. During the month 42 calls, and ho assisted 35 with beds and meals.

A concert ear is the latest innovation on the Great Southern Railway of Ireland. 'Six of the seats have been removed from a 60ft. roach, which has low-back reversible scats, and a collapsible stage lias been erected. Artists, who are provided with dressing rooms in another carriage, give variety performances during long distance excursions to the West of Ireland. .Several performances are given during each journey, and in three trial trips the Dublin Glee Singers and Railway Entertainers had audiences totalling over 1000. During the summer season this travelling variety show will be a feature of many of the excursions.

At a dinner given in his honour at Eltham last week, Mr. C. J. Belcher related some of his early experiences in Taranaki. Talking up a section about five miles out of Eltham in 1895, he spent three winters in felling the bush before be deemed it wise to settle on the spot with his wife and family. He wore dungarees and a singlet in the busli, and generally was wet through all day. On one occasion a passerby gave his mate and himself the news that their camp was on fire. All they could rescue was well-roasted potatoes, and after eating some of these they walked into Eltham —a sorry-looking pair. Mr. Wilkinson was Mr. Belcher’s only friend in the viliege, and lie proved a good friend, procuring clothes for him and lending him money. Mr. Belcher went to Wanganui Iby train, by the stealmer Stormbird to Wellington —the roughest trip he ever had —and by train to’ his home in the W'airarapa. Later lie established his family in Taranaki, on the property where he still lives. What’s this? Pipe-smoking fast growing in popularity in America? So the American papers say. And it seems that pipes of British manufacture are the most fancied in Uncle Sam’s country. Well, cigarettes and cigars are alright, of course —but there’s nothing like a pipe for solid comfort, after all! Yes, and the doctors say it’s the least injurious forin of smoking. As to that it depends mostly on the tobacco. Some brands contain enough nicotine to “kill at 40 yards.” Their constant use is not safe, anyhow. Most of the imported brands are like that. How is it ? The tobaccos grown and manufactured here in New Zealand by the National Tobacco Company, Ltd., (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand), ace remarkably free from nicotine. You can smoke them with absolute impunity. Why? Because they are toasted, and this eliminates the nicotine poison and gives them their renowned flavour and fragrance. Aslk for “R.iverhead Gold” (mild), ‘/Cavendish” or “Navy Cut” (medium), or “Cut plug No. 10” (full strength).—Advt. 11. Attention is called by the Rev. Dr. J. J. North to the following remarkable story which presents some interesting parallels to the case reported last weelk of Caroline Porrett, who was kidnapped by AI a oris and lost for 55 years. In Parkmaii’s history of Canadian origins there are many records of 'kidnapping by the Redskins. Frontiersmen lost little girls quite often in the earliest days when the Indians commanded large tracts of unexplored country, and recovery was rare. Parkman’s narrative runs: “An army under Roquet marched into the country of the Delawares and cowed the tribes and forced the return of some hundreds of captives that had been seized in border raids. When the arony, on its home march, reached the town of Carlisle crowds were waiting to identify their lost children. Among them was a woman whose daughter had been carried off nine years before. Among (he female captives she discovered one in whose features she discerned the altered lineaments of her child. But the girl had almost forgotten her native tongue, and returned noi sign of recognition. The old woman bitterly complained that the child she had suckled had forgotten heft'. The general suggested an expedient. ‘Sing her the song you used to sing when she was a child’. The old woman obeyed. There was a sudden start, a look of bewilderment, followed by a passionate flood of tears, and the lost daughter was restored to her mother.” The local incident and this from the sister Dominion recall the dangers of pioneers.'

Messrs Cooper, Rapley and Rntherfurd have been appointed»solieitors to the Palmerston Borough Council. Ah unknown friend of Egham has given a, piece of the Thalntes bank there to the public and seven acres near by as a playground for children. c In the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court yesterday Cathelus Mlacpherson pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally importing prepared opium, and was fined £2OO. The, s.s. Himatangi, which arrived in port with a cargo of cement from Tarakohe on Saturday night, left for Wellington on Sunday evening. 'The vessel is expected in port again to-morrow. The seasonal run of whitebait in the Waikato River is now beginning and catches are coming forward from the waters near the mouth of the rival’. It is expected that in about 10 days or so whitebait will be fairly plentiful. During the week-end the world’s largest flying-boat was successfully tested out .at Friedrichshafin. It is a twelve-engined Dornier Dux machine, built to carry 120 passengers. It has a length of 131 ft., height 33ft., and breadth 156 ft. It lias been in course of construction for two years and a half .'at Rorschach, on the Swiss side of Lake Constance.

A teller in the Christchurch branch of the Bank of Australasia, on Friday gave £IOO in change for a £SO note. The man to whom the £IOO was given .placed! two £SO notes on 'the eountefr, asking for change for one of them (states the “Lyttelton Times”). He was given change for two. He left the bank before the mistake Avas discovered. If lie does not return £SO, the teller will have to pay it. Fare attended with fatal results occurred in a five-roomed wooden structure at Dannerirke on Sunday night, the victim being Richard Lane, a Avell-knoAvn .resident, 80 years of age, who resided there alone. The fire occurred in the kitchen, and the deceased’s body was subsequently found there much burned. It is surmised that Lane, who rvas physically feeble, fell asleep while smoking.

“That is going ba'c'k too far,” -aid a debtor at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Friday, when being examined as to his financial position” (states the “New Zealand Herald”). “I would ask your Worship to protect me,” added the witness, Avho thought that counsel should go back further than last May, when the debt in question Avas incufired. “You seem to be very familiar with the Act,” remarked the Magistrate. '“Well, I have 'beeu here so often,” frankly replied the 'witness.

Racing and sports bodies would be well ad\’ised to carefully study the calendar before arranging Easter fixtures next year. Air. L. Cohen, of Wanganui, in speaking atthe Trotting (Conference held in Wellington last Aveek remarked that he did not think he Avould be divulging any confidence when he told them that the NeAV Zealand Government had received Avord from the League of Nations to the effect that that body, after consulting the religious organisations of the world, had decided to make ,a fixed date for Easter.

Alotorists frequently complain of the unnecessary twists and turns in streets and roads and look in \ T ain for the reason. In the case of one street in New Plymouth there Avas a very good reason for the tAvist that is in, it. This is Queen Street, Avhich runs from the post office to the Cenotaph. When this road Avas being laid out some 70 years ago, the tAvist had to be made because of the fact that a Maori chief of vanik and his dog Avere buried on the straight line. A deviation had to be made near the site of .the brewery, as the Alaoris objected to the burial plot of their chief being disturbed.

A large number of dogs have been poisoned in Gisborne lately. Though a large proportion of the dogs may have been paying the .penalty for raids upon sheep pastures, it is claimed that several deaths have occurred under circumstances that indicate a deliberate scattering of poison-baits. The -victim in one such case Avas a pet dog Avhich had been under most careful supervision, but which exhibited symptoms ot poisoning and died Avithin a few minutes. The OAvner, of the property on which the poison was picked up has offered -a handsome reAvard foil' information Avhich will lead to the discovery of the poison-, or. Two local dogs Avere poisoned a feAV days ago, hut no further deaths have been reported to date. It is about, a year ago since a poisoning epidemic (was experienced locally.

A large shipment, of motor-ears for New Zealand arrived at Auckland from*New York by the steamer Port Gisborne. In the total 340 automobiles of numerous makes, the shipment included 102 for Auckland, 109 for Wellington, 07 for Christchurch, and the balance for Dunedin. The Port Gisborne had, in addition, a heavy consignment of automobile accessories -and rubber goods. Much of this part of the shipment was for Wellington, where it will he delivered to manufacturing plants established in connection with the motor industry in this Dominion. Although the shipment does not rank as the largest of the kind from America, it is an indication of the high rate of motor absorption by New Zealand that such shipments should be arriving with comparative frequency. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.