LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4040, 11 January 1930, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“By golly!” said the .Maori, “if te wife take out to prohibition order, I sue her for conjugular riglfts.”

The services «t the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted b\ the Rev. R. Fatherwood, oT Tarakinn.

De’CeUilitnl in Court: 1 am destitute. Magistrate: You are the most health.*-loosing destitute man I ever saw. Defendant: You cannot judge a sausage by its skin!

As a result of the four days racing at EUerslie during the holidays the Treasury benefited to the extent of £27,000, this being the amount which the Auckland Club will have to pay in taxation.

Mr. NY. li. Hildebrand!, foot, specialist and masseur, 55 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North, notifies local and district patients that he will be away for an indefinite pc - iriod as from February Ist. For appointments ring ’phone 0570 P.N.

The story is going the rounds that the Government recently sought to acquire a NYairarapa estate for closer settlement. The price asked by the owner was pro hibitive, but the Government got o little of its. own back by taxing the land at the owner’s valuation.

'Holding the view (hat Ins work in New Zealand is not yet finished, the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, ,Congregational pastor in Auckland, has decided not to accept the position of general secretary of the Christian Endeavour Union of Great. Britain, offered to him recently. Advice, from New York states that the Seott-'Sharkey fight has been fixciLup. It is recalled that it is 23 years since an English heavyweight fought for the world title. Scott, in an interview, said he knew that he would get a chance sooner or later and believes he can, bent Sharkey.

A report that a boat was in distress somewhere in the vicinity of Manawatu Heads was circulated 'yesterday afternoon and caused a good deal of speculation' locally and at the Beach. A careful watch was maintained at the latter place but no sign of any boat was seen.

Wirth’s circus which visits Foxton at the end of this month is this year under the personal direction of Messrs Wirth Brothers. Mr. Philip Wirth Jim, has taken up the mantle of his father, and holds the 'position of equestrian director, and presents performing ponies and horses, trained by himself. As ringmaster and trainer, lie is the youngest in the world, being under 20 years of age.

“There is no unemployment, in New Zealand as we know it,” said Mr. A. Douglass, headmaster of the Friends’ School, at Wanganui, who is a 'recent arrival from the Old Country. Among other impressions gathered while in this"country were the excellence of.hospitals and women’s rest rooms, also the adequate facilities for recreation. The provision made for domains and reserves in all the towns was also commented, upon in a favourable manne'r. All of these tilings, said Mr. Douglass, seemed to belong directly to the public than they wn- . moire directly to the public than they would in the Old .Country. When the coastal steamer Nikau arrived from French Pass at Wellington on Thursday morning it was found that one of the passengers, Mr. Robert Arnold Fuller, aged SS, had died on board. The deceased, a prominent accountant of Palmerston North, had been spending a holiday with his wife, son, and daughter at French Pass. The trip across t'h<} Strait was very rough, and Mr. Fuller was Violently ill. When his** son attempted to wake him in the /morning lie received no response, and Dr. Slater, who was called, pronounced life extinct, death being caused by heart failure. The late Mr. Fuller was for 20 years accountant for Bett and Bayley Ltd., and was secretary for a number of societies. The funeral took place this afternoon at Palmerston North.

Y.._ I'n-uid,' weekly cue lire tournament Ibis week resulted as follows: —Ladies: Ist and second prizes, Misses Brjjwn. Gents: Ist, Mr. J. Neville; 2nd, Mr. S. Hudson. Palmerston -North claims that I here is one motor vehicle in use- ui Unit town lo every live of the population.

An < !d identity in Wanganui states that he cannot remember when there had been so much water in the Wanganui River in .January as this year. With one or two days’ exception, the layer, he says, has ■been in Hood for the past fortnight. The sea is discoloured for miles around the month of the river. The same thing applies to the Manawntu.

The largest supply of peaches and plums for several years is expected to be available in Auckland this season, states the “New Zealand Herald.” Good stocks of plums and loganberries have been received at the City Markets, while increased supplies of peaches will shortly be marketed. Good quan-tities-of both cooking and dessert "apples and tomatoes are also expected.

A visiting motorist, while complimenting Taranaki on its asphalt roads, expresses the opinion that it was very necessary that the main roads should be widened in many parts of tlu* province. With the volume of traffic they were being called upon to carry they were too narrow, and the tarred macadam being badly broken away at the sides often constituted a serious danger.

William Cecil Martin, aged 30, was electrocuted yesterday at the site' of the new Waimakariri bridge, Canteuhurv. He was employed by G. F. Drury who was putting in two (dies for the North Canterbury Power Board. These were to earn- 11,000 volt i ransmissioTi lines. Martin, ii is stated, wnlinitialling a guy. wire fo • hiving the devriß.k when ttie guy wire-came in contact with the ft • Irnnsmission line.

- 'The wreck of the Manuka has affected the tourist bookings from Australia, according to the acting district .manager at the Dunedin Gvernment Tourist Office. He stated (says “The Post’s” Dunedin correspondent) that several Australian tourists for whom arrangements to tour New Zealand had been practically completed had cancelled their tours, giving the wreck, of the Manuka as their reason for doing so. As a thanks offering on the occasion of his eight ict'h birthday, which fell on Sunday, Mr. N. Alfred Nathan, of Anclldand, ,'has forwarded to (lie 1 Ladies’ Benevolent Society a cheque for £SO. -Mr. Nathan, like his father, Mr. David Nathan, before him, was a former president of the society. In forwarding the cheque to the present president, Mr, J. F. Ewen, Mr. Nathan described it as “a small thanikis-oiYering to the Almighty for allowing me to live four score years, in the hope that il may assist in relieving the sad eases of distress which from time to time came before the society.”