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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 4

In the C'ambrklgo Magistrate’s Court a flinuera farmer, It. Duncan, was fined £2O and costs for failure to exterminate ragwort on his farm..

Radium for cancer research by Wellington hospital, which was obtained by public subscription, subsidised by the Government, arrived at the hospital recently in perfect order.

The reduction of duty on bran and pollard, from £2 10s to £1 per tan, announced by the Minister of Agriculture early in the week, operates from April 30, according to an Order-in-Council issued last night. - * A petition is being circulated in Fiji, with tt view to its presentation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, asking that the administration of the colony should be transferred from the Colonial Office to the Government of New Zealand.

The number of marriages solemnised locally for the month of April was stated yesterday to be 25 up to an early hour in the afternoon. A further certificate granted later in the day makes the total 26 as compared with 15 for last month. At the meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union, in Wellington, last evening, Mr J. Prendeville moved that the South African tour should not be undertaken before 1928. He considered it unwise to have overseas tours in too rapid succession. The motion was carried.

The sittings of the Royal Commission Consisting of Sir Harry R. Reichel, principal of the University of Wales, and Mr F. Tate, Director of Education, Victoria, to hear evidence in regard to university education, will probably commence in Wellington on June 23. Four boys tramping along the Woolston sandhills preparatory to bathing in the estuary, near Christchurch, were attacked by a young cfctupue, which was in tho sand close to tne water. They stabbed the sea terror and hacked off its tentacles, ono of which tufts fft. 3in. In length. Tho octupus measured fift. from tip to tip. The presence of the cheeky little house sparrow in New Zealand was accounted for by the president of tho Wanganui Acclimatisation Society at a meeting this week. He remarked that years ago the New Zealand societies Sent to England for the English hedge sparrow, but a mistake occurred and the house sparrow was sent instead. It is probable that representations will be made to the Royal Humane Society for the society’s, recognition of the smart rescue effected by Mr John Robert MacDonald, the Union Steam Ship Company’s wharf labour foreman, who jumped into Wellington harbour last Friday afternoon and saved, tne life of the 15-year-old girl, Kathleen Tuohy ..(states the Dominion). Wien- working operations were proceeding aboard 'th€ Rlinu dredge at Hokitika last evening, a bullet struck a window near the rear of the dredge, smashing the glass and penetrating a wooden partition and piling a few inches- above an employee’s head. Investigations so far have proved fruitless, relates a Pfess Association message.

When the Hororata. was being coaled from the Kaimatiawa at Auckland the other day a waterside worker lmd a narrow escape from being smothered in the ship’s bunkers. A growing heap of coal ho was standing on suddenly collapsed, and because it was of a powdery character ho was almost submerged. It was when he had sunk almost to the level of his mouth that help came.

A verdict of accidental drowning woe returned at the coronial inquiry at Whangarei concerning the death of Robert William Pearce, aged two years, whose dead body was found by his mother in a creek at Ruatangata. on Wednesday afternoon The child had been missing from his home for only a quarter of an hour.

A New Plymouth Press Association telegram states that a pathetic tragedy occurred near Pate a yesterday, the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Mead, of Lower Ball road, being buried to death when the house was destroyed by fire. Tho mother and father were away at the milking shed at the time, lea-viQg a boy in charge. When the boy discovered the fire be could not reach the baby owing to smoke.

“After nearly two years’ experience with insulin, we are entirely satisfied with its efficacy in the treatment of diabetes,” a medical expert at the Christchurch hospital told a representative of the Press. “The insulin treatment and dietary regulations have proved a boon to sufferers, to an extent known only to the sufferers, and not appreciated by the general public.” Commodore Beal, of H.M.S. Dunedin, at a. Rotary Club luncheon in Dunedin, said it Was hoped to have another vessel of tlm Dunedin class in New Zealand before long. There were 231 New Zealand ratings Serving in the British Navy—ls 4on the Dunedin, 45 on the Philomel, and 35 in England—under going special courses ih torpedoing, gunnery, etc., and more boys were desired.

Have you a Thermos flask they keep tea. cocoa, coffee, iioup, baby’s food and all liquids steaming hot lor hours. They are also useful for motor trips and picnics. Just fill them up the night before and next morning you oan have a hot drnk. Price* (is 9d, 9s 6d, l 7» fid, 21s to 27s 6d with four drinking cups. W.o oan also supply extra refills. Colliuson and Son, Broadway and King street, Palraerslnn North.—Advt. For children’s coutfhi and Colds the l«st remedy is N&rol. Agreeable and safe. More economical than mixtures or qprups. 60 doses Is 6d.—Advt.

Mr H. Frost (prMiferll re'narked **jj£ 4 %g4g* British team. A man was arrested at 'JtijdaV North by„ Detective MoLcntw en a charge of breaking- and PtSSf'Bav dwelling of William Pitman at W (Wellington) on March 3, and stealing therefrom property valued at bo . He was taken to Wellington last eveningAlthough the Palmerston North Philatelio Society is a comparatively ««.*» body the books of stamps exchanged tween the members during l^l ®. PfS'Ma reached the substantial value of bliv - 3d. The exchanges resulted in me- - of stamps to the value of bji 10Jd, while books to the value of £3l4j sid had not found buyers and had been returned to their owners, tho balance being still out on exchange. “I feel that I am succeeding a sa *l° r ’ for ih Earl Jellicoe you had a very clo«<» friend. I am very anxious to continue to show interest in those things and msntutions.in which lie did, and 1 would be soriry to feel that they had Buffered frorn my taking his place. So did the GovernorGeneral, Si.* Charles Fergusson, assure those assembled at the Sailor s Home, Auckland, when he paid a visit to tii institution during the week. Recently a visitor to the Wanganui Hospital took a snap of a child inmate, l'ne film war developed by a well-known 'photographic firm. In the background ot the photograph there appears well defined a woman's form with the face clearly outlined. There was no woman in tne vicinity of the child when the photograph WaS taken. A lady-who inspected it declared that tho woman s hair was done up in a fashion in vogue about 10 years ago. “That -this branch of the English Association, being the only branch in New Zealand, learns with great interest that efforts are being made by the Munster of Education to improve the standard ot English speech in tho sohoolt of New Zealand, and wishes to convey to them its warm sympathy and support and the desire of Us members, individually and collectively, to assist him towards this end in every way in their power,’’ was a motion passed by the Christchurch branch of the English Association at a meeting ot Canterbury College.

Tho name of one mayoral candidate was flaunted from many motor cars on election day in Wellington and the point was raised as Jo, whether such was not a questionable practice. The matter was brought under the notice of the police, who are making inquiries in respect to the matter before deciding whether or not to prosecute all owners of cars which did display such devices on Wednesday. It is understood (states the Dominion) that tho proposed charge is based on the provisions of the Locnl Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, section 16.

Despite the publicity given to the matter, a good deal of confusion apparently existed in Die rninds of some people relative to the making of application for inclusion on the electoral and borough rolls. In conversation with the Registrar of Electors (Mr C. E. Foote) this morning, a “Standard” reporter wan informed that Oh Wednesday last some 20 people, who had found that they weife not included on the borough roll, had rung him demanding an explanation, they having been under the misapprehension that their inolueion in the electoral roll likewise covered them on the borough roll. Word was received in Wellington this Week that Jack Ross, a seventeen-year-old student of Wellington Technical College, had climbed Mount Cook with Guidos F. Milne and V. Williams. After leaving the Hiast liut tho party used skis over tho Great Plateau to the Linda Glacier. The ascent to the summit end descent to tho Haast Hut occupied 14 hours 35 mihutes. Mt. Cook has been olimbed once previously this season, on February. 10, when Messrs F. W. Vosseler and J. Rawnsley, both of Wellington, with Guide Milne, climbed it in 18 hours 17 minutes.

A provisional roll containing 10,594 names has been prepared by the Registrar of Electors (Mr C. E. Foote) and the various sections as they aro concluded are being placed in the hands of the printer, tho letters A to K embodying 5336, or a shade more tlikn half the name# contained in the complete roll. The work of checking and revising will occupy some little time, but it is anticipated that the roll will have been printed and delivered by the end of the present month. Applications for enrolment will, however, be accepted until an Order-in-Couucii has been issued ordering the termination of the work. There are at present in the hands of the registrar some 49 applications which will be held over pending the preparation of the general roll. ; \

During the storm whioh raged on u recent afternoon, a family at Myrosa Bush, Southland, hail an unusual and rather terrifying evpetience, A particularly vivid flash of lightning Struck the electrio service wire leading to the residence and travelling along it to the switchboard. The wall-paper round the switchboard was slightly buried, and tne board and the switches in the houSe were blown completely out. The service _ line continued from the house to some buildings at the back, and the lightning run along this, but before reaching the outbuildings, switched off on to a tree, rati down the trunk and became earthed. The bark was ripped' from the tree, which, however, was probably the means of caving the outbuildings from serious damage.

In paying a high tribute to the recordmaking tour of Great Britain and France by the 1924 All Blacks Mr FroSt, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, made a suggestion at the annual meeting of that body last evening that the team should 1 make a tour of the Dominion this season in Order that- the New Zealand public might see them in action. “I am of tire opinion,’* said Mr Frost, “that a short tour tnrpugh Now Zealand this season, if it can be arranged, would be greatly appreciated,, and would do a vast amount of good to the game generally.” On the motion of Mr -A. Harris (Dunedin), it waS deemed inadvisable that the 1924 All Black team should be sent on tour through the Dominion this year. It was decided that a North y. South Island match should be played.

“I am old-fashioned enough to lay great stress on the fact that ‘the fear of the Lord is tlio beginning of wisdom,’ said the Governor-General, sir Charles Fergusson, in speaking at the .opening of St. Cutlibert’s College, Auckland, this week. “In these dayt of science and winders, there is a danger of our becoming too materialistic, end we lose sight c-f the fact that if our boys and girls are to attain what is best in life, their training should be based on tho strongest unci; surest of ell foundations, the Christian faith. I hope the college will always endeavour to reach the highest standard of scholastic attainment, but at the same time, 1 should like to think that all who leave the shelter of its wails will go out into the world-sot only thoroughly well educited, but firmly established in the faith of their fathers.” A reminder is given of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society’s Show, which is to be held at the Zealandia Hall tomorrow. Apart from the exhibits of local growers there are to be choice displays by well-known enthusiasts in Wellington and Marton, so that the blooms staged- will be a really fine show, surpassing, perhaps, the society's usual extremely high show standard.

That sleep-spoiling cough can be stopped by Nazol. Take some drops on sugar. Penetrating and soothing. 60 drops Is 6d. —Advt.

A *>ew all-wool stocking for ladies in a superior quality is embroidered, “Gold Seal,” specially selected by the London house of Collibson and Cunninghams. It represents the greatest in hosiery today. It is full fashioned with effective gold stripe, making it even more attractive and in all the new and popular colourings, they are selling very quickly. Price only 6s 9d pair.*~Ad?t. For bronchitis or asthma inhale Nazol. Immediate relief will follow. Start taking Nazol to-day.—Advt.