Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4437, 8 April 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Before a crowd oL' 00,000 spectutors at London on Saturday, England defeated Scotland in the soccer international by live goals to t wo.

At Buffalo, Fidel la Barba (12-i 11,.) look a ten rounds' decision from Paul (1241 b.) in a swift, bard light, but la Barba was easily the better of the two men.

Porpoises are reported to nr tairly plentiful along the coast at present. Un Sunday a number of shoals were seen sporting in the sen quite (dose in slmre and attracted ,i good deal 01. attention.

A lady visitor to Foxton this week was asked, “wlnW in Eoxton appealed to her most? “The L. !\l. Boss Coy's drapery establishment with its beautiful display ol seasonable goods," and she added, llie prices are tar and away moie reasonable than Wellington.

In to-day’s issue the C. M. Ross Coy. advertise showroom goods suitable for Easter and present wear. The (Stove for Value is at, present carrying the biggest and best assorted stocks ever shown locally and the prices all round are ihe most reasonable.*

Twelve miles long swarms of: hungry Hying red locusts penetrated the. Government defences in the Sinai desert, crossed the Suez Canal and settled on the cultivated area near Ismalia. lhc Government is despatching 110 ilame-throwers ami 200 tons of liquid destroyer.

On Saturday evening, the Foxtou Surf and Life Saving Club held a. dance ill the Ala,sonic Hall. .Dani ing was indulged in until midnight nnd an enjoyable Lime was spent, by all present. The competition for iho box of chocolates was won hy Miss D. Mitchell.

Air. M. Laird, Superintendent of the Telegraph Department at Sydney, who is. retiring after 52 year’s service, predicts that there will he no telegraph at all at the end of llie next 50 years, because it will be superseded by telephone and wireless.

An elderly man, W. H. Morris, was found dead in bed in bis whare at Palmerston .North on Sunday morning. Deceased lived in portion of a coal-yard in Lyndliurst Street. He was apparently in good health when be retired on Saturday evening. A medical certificate to the effect that death was due to natural causes has been given.

In briefly extending a welcome on behalf of the congregation U> Dr. Gibb at the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Air Nicholas remarked that the late Rev. Jas. Duncan before Settling in .Foxton eighty-live years ago, had ministered to a Lew .Presbyterian families in Wellington, who had subsequently founded St. John’s Church, over which Dr. Gibb had subsequently ministered with marked success, for many years. After the services Dr. Gibb was met by many who bad sat under his ministry both at First Church, Dunedin, and St. John’s, Wellington.