Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4039, 9 January 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The s.k. Itimntangi recently mi Ihe 'Foxton sendee lel'l Wellinglon for Pioion mi Tuesday.

Last Thursday t tie racehorse [ti”lrland Mystery was found in its stall at \ Y : a i jin I; ii ran with a deep o-a.sh in I in* t hroat . The horse had icil urn 11 v to lie scratched for the races on that day. Font play m suspected.

small hoy, dohn McLaughlin, was admitted lo the Christ ehitl'cii hospital on Tuesday suffering from severe scalds. The hoy tell had, v. arils into a preserving pan ol boiling jam, sea Id ill”’ Ids let’s and bark. His condition is serious.

Several ings of link arrived ai And,land <hy the Narlmda Urmn t'aleiitta and Singapore. This is the liist lime any of. this famous tiinlier has hemi imported into Auckland in the loiv (says the Star). Ii is shipped do order." hat it is reported on the waterfront that the limber wiill event a ally find its way into the hands id the Railway Department, and will be used in the fittings of some of the new de luxe eairriages.

A farmer witness hen T noTeel barb wire I do it this way: [ mu I an iron rod through the roll of wire, and over each end of I tic rod slip ;i. small .jam tin with a tide in the centre of the ‘lmltom. A trace chain is then looped over Hie end of .the rod at each side and swindle Lav attached io the middle of the chain. The free end of the wire is then fastened lo a post: and a horse hooked to the swingle Imr mi the wlire and the roll pitiful ahnii?. The ware not only eonr-s out straight, but most ol the slack is taken up and there is very little !i n ininyr do do.” The hanks will d<» themselves well in the way of holidays tins coining Aped. According 1 to Die Admauac for 193 d, the li\'c Faster iiolida vs— -(lood Friday, Faster Saturday, Faster Day (Sunday), Faster .Mondav and Faster Tin sda.V, April IS.’ 19, 20. 21 and 32 respectively —-will lie followed immediately by Ft. George's Day, April 23, also a Bank holiday. The public will he able to get some money mi the following day, hilt Friday, April 25, Anzae Day, will once more see the shutters up, and people. running- short of change.

“The newspapers in New Zealand will hold their own with newspapers in any other part of the world, -.aid I lie Magist rate, Mir. F. D. Mosley at Christchurch on Tuesday, when counsel for the youths Gray, who were accused of burglary and other crimes, complained of .an article that appeared in the Christchurch Star mi December 39th. Continuing:, Mr. Mosley said, “It may be that the paper made a mistake. I do not Know; we alt malm mistakes, and the newspapers in their endeavours to got all the news (andrightly too), probably go a little further than circumstances warrant.”

At' tin' inquest held at Manana on Tuesday concerning Hie deaths oi Theresa Zimmerman, 30, and two infant hoys, of six months and three years, flic Coroner, Air. 11. S. Sage, returned a verdict that, while in a depressed state of mind Airs. Zimmerman drowned her two children and then committed sui-' cide. The husband, David Zimmerman, engaged as a sharemilker, gave evidence that Airs. Zimmerman recently came to New Zealand from Switzerland .to mara'v him. She did not speak English, and lacked feminine companionship and was lrccuently depressed and troubled with insomnia.

Available figures show that the area occupied by tobacco in New Zealand in 1023-21 was 28 * acres, [n ]•927-28 il was (51)0 acres. Tin rrpin-i on the experimental consign-

ment a your or two ago was a good cue, and it is evident that this has encouraged further planting. Strict standardisation and regular supplies will, of course, he neceessary hefoire the industry will he satisluetory In the buyers and to the producers as well.

During the year ,jasi past 2(173 patients were admitted into the Palmerston North Hospital and the number diselinrgi;d was 258), \vhi |v > Lbi deaths oecunred in the hospital. ('uses of infectious 'disease. mainly scarlet fever, totalling 127, were dealt with in the isolation ward. Two hundred patients i nlerod Hie maternity home, and 01 bailies we're born. Attendances at anti-nalal clinic numbered -102 were recorded.

Following the Ih.i ealened im lismimeiit of two Johannesburg epor-lers lor rid using to disclose

■ioilidenlial informal ion to the police, the Loudon district branch of the Institute of Journalists has cabled supporting the Smith African Society protest against an at • t< mpl to compel journalists to break the long-established maxim that emilide.iiccs reposed oi them mi.ot not he bet rn \ c-|.

T'lie harking ol dug- gave ao uia: mof lire at Biiiiny-I Imrpe -it a. an o'clock oil Tuesday morning, when the main building of tile lliiiinythorpc Stores, Ltd., was To-

tally destroyed by lire. When dis-c-evened the flames had too (inn a hold mi the store proper io prevent is destruction, but a hastily Inrmci! bucket brigade succeeded in

-aving the adjacent bulk store, Dilih the store and stock were insured. The contents of the bulk store were damaged by water.

Recently wc made reference to the discovery bv Mr. B. H. Gower .• i‘ : i .;rev wa rider motiicring a -.buiiti" ciii-g oo winch paragraph fas since liren given wide puhlieifv. In Tuesday evening's "I’lisi” M. Norris writes as follows in reler-,-nce to the mailer: “in your "News of the Day" eolitmn of Kafnr<l a \ las! is an iicemint of tt einboo having 1 laid its egg in the nest , ! a grey warbler, and surprise is expressed ml the bird choosing a lies! of so small a nature and peculiar build. The’ cuckoo would have no (Ill'fii-iilt v in depositing its egg, a:-, il invariably lays its egg on the ground, and carries it m its month tc Die nest of Ihe bird chosen for its foster parent.”

The dispute between Bishop ('herring! mi and Dean Barnett in Die Waikato diocese, which arose through the Bishop's ad mil in attempting to set up a commission to impure into the Deans fitness to continue in ullice, has been amiculily settled. The Dean obtained an interim 'injunction from the Supreme Court lasi February restraining the Bishop from proeeed-

with the commission. It was subsequently agreed that a commission appointed by Archbishop Avcril! should deal with the matter, and the injunction was wittidrawn. 'flic Archibishnp interredi d between parties through an emissary, and as a result a happv set I lenient has been a rranged.

The disappearance of Mr. Adam Adrtinson, the Slu\v:u*t Tsliiml hergris King," so cmieerned the inhabitants on the island tli.it search parties were dispatched in search of him, but: the residents were relieved to hear in a few davs that the missing- man had returned safely. Messrs Lead, Had Traill, who were conducting a detailed search of Mr. Adamson's haunts, actually visited his camp at Doughboy Bay, which at the time was doji vied, Mr. Adamson having sol out i'm- Mason's Bay. Here he found Do- place deserted, and returned after the part v had left. One of the Leach brothers, however, later paid a visit to Mr Adamson's camp,

when it was found that the missing man had returned.

Dome cooking' will be as obsolete 5(! years from now as Lonio-eobbled shoes or home-knitted socks are to-day. The pies Dial mother used to matke —which hit oar-quarter sentiment and three-quarters hard u ork —will all he in I he past tense, and woman's lot in general will lose much of its dlriidgerv. So says Angust Heinrich, one of the leading caterers of San Francisco (according lii a report published in the 1; ( lnistiaii Science Mopitor ). t umpaclness will be the keynote of lhe apartment of the future, with mechanical ■contrivances to do the housework. All furniture will ho ‘‘built in,” and most articles will "do double duty. Food will he delivered already prepared for eating, doin’ vi]) in artistic packages. Greater happiness, he believes, will tie the result.

A Ilnwe.ru resident and his family met with an unenviable experience while motoring from Ilnwcra lo New Plymouth in an open car on Thursday, having the misfortune near Midhursf to run into a swarm of hoes, says the Star. Within Die.few seconds the ear and the occupants were covered with •bees, while the radiator was smothered with them. Fortunately, none of; the parky endeavoured to brush Die. bees off, and all escaped being stung. It was a ticklish process, however, to stop the car and gently -Lake the bees off, especially as they had clustered in the hair of one of the party. To remove them from the top of the car was also a problem, but luckily, the swarm shifted of its own.accord, and a much relieved family went on its

The don Mi occurred in tlio disIriH hospital :iI Wilmngarei yesterday of A Uteri Shrcve, aired <>!), of Famo, win-. IVII from n bus i!! Mbaic.mrei mi Monday night and I'llil his skull t'ract nreil.

The “Derahi" mail' desires in acknowledge wedding favours from M'r. mid Mrs. F. Procter mid joins will) I heir many local friends ;n wishing 1 hem henllh mid. happiness lor the fuluri’.

A niiirried mmi umned .1. Dingle, re si iLi ug nl Wellington, was admilfed In (he Pa 1 mersl on Nori h Hospital yesterday. While ridinyr :i motor bicycle near hovin he enllided '.villi a ieleplioiie post and .sushi sued a (Vaelured ley.

Mr. W. If. PihlebraiiiU, fool specialist and iiiasseiir, :"»f> Bmadw.-n Avenue, l’;ilmerst.on North, notifies local and district patients thal lie will he a wav for an indelinile pei'iod

as from February Ist. For ap , oinlmenls ring- 'phono (ioTO I’.N.

New Zealand have over 1:20,01)1! motor ears, or one ear for 1 1 persons, the same ratio as Canada. Toraiinki approximates Amorn-aM density of ears with one to every fi.fi;> people and Hawke’s Hay has one In every f>. 1 people.

dames Hlrnee Miller (’>o) was i barged al New Plymouth vaster d,• i v with issuing valueless eheipies Tor Ci 10 in payment of a ear .it Clorohaiiya on December ;21. De - teclive Mciklejohn staled thal sc\,.|i charges were pending concerning ehei pies uttered a! New Ply i l f 1 1 , and Miller was remanded liil Wednesday on hail (i'l2oo'l.

A drowning accident oecurred al Piifea on Monday afternoon. L. Soul how, a voting man, ayed 10

\rar-, whose parents reside ."i '■ hristcliiu-eli. was semi by tvi'ii hoy--, to enter the water a! Ihe mouth of the Paten river and start swimming.

!i ■ disappea red IV. i« e. ea me up a in, and I hen llnally d:- ippear- ••••! The body has not \e! been re • covered.

As a seipiel lot tie inriih n! on I lie i .uwood bow liny green mi Saturday, an impiirv was held on l ues dnv evening by tile (dull eommit lea. A residui on was passed that boiii members eoneeriied should he sns pended, and lha! Ilu-ir re-dgnn! ions should he sent in within twentyI on r lion rs. < d her wise action tor ex

mlsion would he taken under line* 2S. The men eonecrnel arc Mes--rs UV W. McKinley, president oj he club, a nil \\ . M anro.

New Zealand gave him the ini pressioti of a happy country char

aele.rised liy universal eleaiiiinehut not sufficiently appreciated liy its own people, declared l ord Craigavon, Prime Minister ol Northern Ireland, in Wellmyton. bi-d reek. “The people apparently," he add'd, •‘lake a pride in their homes, and even the humblest is most at true ■■ liw ,\ll seem to have taste in the layout of their gardens, and show

Aii accident with IV,iImvs Ik* I i'll n I’.ihii resident w!u-n motoring .it WJuiniii'knr.i Iho other liny. MilOl’is Were Working in ii paddock .iilj.iiiiil I" lll'* road, am! their dogs liii'l hiiii son re h ill”' t lie

viisc loir li.iiTS lit which there are |;• (-./(> numbers in the I'ioiilily. One hire rushed into the roadway in the :;; i i of till* (‘.if, mill endeavoured ill avoid being run down by I<*ii nillu' info the air, lint it crushed through the windscreen. The driver was showered will) living' li'niiim'iits ol glass, lint wns unhurt. The Imre was killed instantaneously.

Wit limit suggesting that prison

;;n ideal residence, one may perhaps doubt the truth of Mrs Maybrick's verdict, for otherwise the -i range euse id' James Kelly would he incredible, says ‘’Julia Ol.oudons Weekly." Nearly filly years ago Kelly was senleneed to death ’for murder, but .was subsequent ty reprieved and sent to Broadmoor, wlu-re bis »uinl behaviour and mu - sie.il talents soon won him a place in the prison baud. Membership ol the band included 1 lie privilege of wealing ordinary clothes on practice nights, n privilege that he decided to turn to account. Having manufactured a key out of a staybusk, lie unlocked every door be-

tween the priiet ice- room and tin* prison yard, scaled the wall, and disappeared. Despite 'keen efforts, lie was never recaptured. That was in ISMi-i. I'u February, 1027, a grey-Inured man astonished the. warder on duty at the gate at liT'oadinoor by asking to be admitted. "I want to die among old friends,” lie said. “I am James Kelly, and thirty-nine years ago 1 escaped .from here.”

■•. No woman should marry a man who doesn't smoke," declared Roberi Louis 'Stevenson, on one occasion, and “Lt.L.S." it must bo admitted knew human nature. Another famous author, Bulwer Lyt--1 <, ll , once wrote: "lie who (loth not .-.moke hath either known no great grief or refuseth himself the soltesi consolation next to that which comes from Heaven." As to the harmfulness of the habit if oh icily depends on the tobacco. Brands loaded with nicotine should he shunned. In that, and all other respects, our genuine New Zealandgrown tobaccos hold pride.of place,since they contain very little nicotine and may be freely indulged in without affecting nerves or heart. The secret of their freedom from nicotine is that they are toasted—as no other tobaccos are. Hence, also their wonderful flavour and fragrance. They are exclusively manufactuircd !by the National lobaeco Co., Ltd. (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry), favourite brands: “Riverhead Gold,” (a mild aromatic); “Navy iC'ut,” (a choice blend) ; “Cavendish,” (the sportsman’s smoke) j and Cat Blug' No. 10,” (rich, dark and full-flavour-ed). —Aclvt. 50.

There will not be any sitting of the local S.AL C.'nurt this month. The next sittiny will he on the 13th Frbrunrv.

Tliere lias been a marked elianyo in the weather since yesterday. Duriny the niyht rain commenced to fall and has continued at intervals since.

The IJunferville .Rabbit Board has decided to take immediate action against all farmers who have failed to destroy rabbits on their properties.

A boy in this town received a surprise the other day (says the laihape Times). lie blew lip a big red balloon and then threw it up in the air. If landed on a. lawn and !:. hurried to pick it up, hut was surprised to see a big humble bee alight on it. The boy hesitated a momeilt, and then it lie surprise came —the balloon collapsed with a bang.—Sting!

Mrs. Alice Coupe, aged 11, of IVlonc, (lied a! tin* Rotorua Hospital lasi night (says a Press message) as the ii'csull of injuries received on Deeemher both, when a ear drixeii bv Mr. .). Williamson, of Potoue. went over the bank at Waira'kei. Alesdames Williamson and Lockwood are still in the hospital. The i',died down the eighty-foot lank, spilling the occupants in its iicsccnt.

The reeoiisl ruction of Messrs boss, Rough and Co's. Mairoa mill, which was destroyed by lire !iiv.a; ds Dm mid of last year, has in.w been completed and milling was commenced on Monday. Air. h. Nation visited Mairoa last Saturday to superintend the iustalla-. tiij ii of the machinery and returned i-i Fox ion mi Monday night. Mr. T. Dal/.oli, of Shannon, is now i'ore- •::! ii ni Ihe Wiliroa mill.

A, ii increase in Die number of .A : - foi the dissolution of unhappy marriages are shown in Die Pa Imei si on 'North Supreme Court by in ’s for last year, when compared witli those for the previous ycai. Thirty-live petitions for Die ■ I:•...o1 111 ion or nullity of -marriage were filed, an increase of nine over Die previous year. Decrees absolute totalled 12, an increase of two, and decrees nisi l(i, an iilerease of live. Only one npplicaiion for tlie restitution of conjugal ■ : gh!s was made as against seven in DIAS.

Whal is believed to he the lirst trip in an aeroplane by a nurse in New Zealand to attend a patient was made liy Nurse Higgins, of Romuera, recently. The previous evening, Dr. .1. 1L D. W ood, of Remuera, Hew to an urgent ease at (Halm, near Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, in a (Mps\ Moth aeroplane, piloted by Captain -I. 1). Dewitt. The 'plane returned the following illuming, and left the same after - iiooii In convey Nurse Higgins to the ease, Dm paiicnl residing al - he isola led si a Don. ‘

Three Napier hoys recently made a 'Unisi interesting bicycle tour, riding from Napier to Rotorua, and 1 iien i>y the new road through the I.re worn country and round the shores of Waikareinoana to Wainui, thence hack to Napier, says the Telegraph. The trip took tell days, lhe hoys carrying a tent-ily for sleeping. The youths met with great hospitality from settlers all along the route, and often 'received a meal or a night's lodging at a farmhouse or a Public Works camp along the new.road. One hoy left No pier with £1 to defray the expenses of the trip, "and returned home with ty - si ill in his pocket.

A sf l iking example of whnl a boy i on accomplish if he has Ihe will to succeed in spile of very severe disabilities was brought before the

Southland Kducalion Board l'eeeiiiiy. It was an exercise book showing I lie work of a hoy at the Nightioiis School. This hoy, although he has been without arms from birth and is now 1-1 years old, is in Standard I\., mid bus developed such a- remarkable prehensile power of one tool that he can write, rule lines and even draw in n manner winch would he a credit to a normally equipped child of his age. Holding the pen between his toes, In can perform with remarkable skill ail the ordinary tasks of school life. Re is an excellent singer, and is very popular.