Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4422, 4 March 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A reminder is given of the Surf Club euchre tournament to be held in the Town Hall this evening’. Six hundred people attended the swimming carnival in the local baths on Saturday evening.

A big seven-sealer sedan ear proceeding in the direction of Levin this morning ran into the ditch at the corner just south of the hill fiend on the Foxton-Levin road. The car was not badly damaged and no one was injured.

A man named Timothy Edward Cosgrove, aged 47, has been arrested and committed to the Supreme Court for sentence in connection with the mysterious disappearance of the pay bag containing £4OO at Longwood (liiiyercargill) recently. ■ The monthly meeting of the Lunch Club will be held in Whyte's Hotel on Thursday, when the speaker will be .Mr. If. M. Bould, of Levin, who will speak on “Rig Game Hunting in South Africa.” Air. Bould has only recently returned from an expedition into the wilds of this country. The chairman will be Mr. (1. F. Smith.

It is announced that the linn ot Cadbury Bros., Bournville, has purchased, as from 31st Alareli, a <ontrolling interest in the old-es-tablished firm of 11. Hudson and Co., Ltd. (Dunedin), manufacturers of chocolate, confectionery, bis- ( uits, and Hour. This business was founded by the late Richard Hudson in .18(18.

Settlers at Raraparaumu are per tiirbed over the number of fires of mysterious origin that have occur red in the district during the last tlirn* weeks. From the miturc ol‘ the tires it is concluded that there is a lire liend operating, or at leas: an irresponsible person. Not only have a woolshed (containing a few hales of wool), an old slaughter house, and haystacks been destroy ed, but fences also.

Two men, .John Fitzgerald and Herbert. Russell, wore travelling on a .jigger near To Horn on Saturday afternoon when they suddenly encountered the north-hound Auckland express. Russell leaped to safety, but Fitzgerald, who had his back to tbe engine, was struck by

the cowcatcher and received serious injuries from which he died two hours after admission to t lk* Palmerston North Hospital. The deceased was a married man agi d (11 venrs.