Our Contemporaries

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

Our Contemporaries

"Westport Times": "NELSON, This Day. "A sensational stabbing affray at Board was held to-day. Members present were Messrs Smith (chairman), Harkness, Thorpe, Treacher, Scantier bury, Wilklns, and Hori. W. H. McIntyre." , Not the first board meeting where the members have been at daggers drawn. • .•-■ # •■..• ■ • "Manawatu Evening Standard": "FARMER EXECUTTONISTS." Gordon Coates and Company. w m ;'■*' "Manawatu Dally Tlmea": M 'John eel' was sung 1 before the sweets. ...•*'.• Seems a Ilttte late on the menu, surelyl V • • "Wanganul Chronicle": "Representing: the Manawatu Lawn Tennis Association agalnßt Southern Hawke's Bay on Saturday. Miss S. "V^alker won all the matches In which she was engaged, defeating Miss, Hobson In the ladles' singlets. 5 — 6. 6 — o _»» We always thought tennis was a hot game. . . • ' • ■ ■••■., •'' "The Gisborne Times": j "Stolen, from Salisbury Road, on I Thursday night.— One brace of Wild Ducks (owner very wild). Suspicions rest on someone. Ducks to be returned immediately, otherwise trouble looming . up. Reward from Sd to £10 for confidential information as to their whereabouts ... ." It's a certainty someone will be bowled for a duck. > ■• . * . • ' •■. Auckland "Sun": »W was a retired boat builder and had liver at — -, Point Chevalier. The inquest was adjourned sine die." We live(r) and learnt. . "Dominion": , V "The exhilarating '.rßlack -bottom" ballet, danced by girls in scarlet gloves and shoes, glittering top -hats, and a. fringe of beads, led by Miss Prince, was a stimulating specialty, which caught the fancy of the audience in no uncertain fashion." The little, but how much it Is! «# * . "Manawatu Dally Times".: "Mr. Harry Casey arrived in Palmerston North from Chrlstchurch. He soon settled down and put in a useful night's work at the Awapuni gymnasium, an ideal place tor training. Curly black hair, steely blue eyes, a "tin" ear, an iron jaw, a golden Irish smile and a nuggetty build describe the champion." Apparently a man of metal. • • # •■ * • "Taratiaki Dally News": "Petitioner, an engineer, said he was married to his wife in 1914 in London. In 1815 he came horn© on furlough from the war and found his wife's attitude was "very difficult.' About th© middle of 1916 he had more leave and found her attitude 'quite impossible'." Petitioner had been home long enough to find any wife's attitude il