Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3972, 18 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tihe fiirst lambs of the season made their appearance in the Glen Oroua and K'airanga districts last week.

Tickets for the spectacular demonstiration iby leading local talent to be. held in the Rloyal Theatre on Thursday next are obtainable at Mr. R, L. Heath’s shop. Circle 2/-, downstairs 1/-.

Antonio Novak, a restaurant keeper, of Elthara, pleaded guilty at the Eiltha.ni Coulrt to a charge of book/majkdng and was fined £lO9. He was given two months to pay. The accused made two ten-shilling bets with a- detective in connection with the Wellington races. “Are you a believer in Genesis, chapter one, verse three? If so, get busy,” was the wording of a telegram signed “Mossburn,” which Mr. A. W. Rodgetr, chairman of Hie Southland Electric Power Board, received. The verse is: “Let there he light, and there was light.”

New Guinea is the home of the most wonderful feathered creature, “the Bird of Death.” A wound frokn its bea|ki causes excruciating pains in every part of the human body, with loss of sight, speech and 'hearing, convulsions, lockjaw and eventually death.

A deputation of South Island Progress Leagues’ representatives and private citizens will wait on the Government in Wellington and, urge the early completion' of the main .trunk railway to Pieton. Indications are that this will he one of the biggest deputations sent to Wellington fed 1 several years.

Early on Monday evening a youth at Pahiatiia. took a car from a motor garage. He was pursued by the owner and a constable in another cajr and was caught near Whakajongo. On Tuesday the youth was brought before the Children’s Court at Palmerston North and convicted, and an order was made for lhs return to the Weraroa State Farm.

The body of William Wyatt Matthew Oark, a billiard saloon proprietor, was found lying fully clothed on a couch in a curtained alcove of his saloon at Hawcjra when the police entered about 8 o’clock on Monday evening. The circumstances indicated suicide. The deceased was 57 years of ago and unmarried. He had no relatives in New Zealand.

A proposal that farmers should be required to pay a license fee of 5/- a year ‘for carrying a gun met with severe criticism at a meeting of the council of the An did and Acclimlatisation Society recently. “1 do not think that any Government will ever compel the farmer to pay anything for a gun lie uses,” said the president, Mjr. F. E. McKenzie, in speaking against 'the proposal. Mr. C. A. Whitney said that similar licenses were in force in England. The scheme would return revenue to the Government and also to the societies. On the ground that it would he unwise to antagonise;farmers the majority of members voted against, forwarding the suggestion to the conference as a remit, and it was dropped.