THE Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1921.

Shannon News, 11 October 1921, Page 2

THE Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1921.

| 11, is reported that, another public taxi is to he run twice daily between Shannon and Foxton. \ t On Saturday Mr J. M. ltussell, of i Wanganui, motored through to Shannon for the week-end. Mr Harold Hook has a very attractive display in his windows. The decorative work was done by Mr Geo. | Kingsbeer, Of Levin, j The Shannon Cricket Club will hold ; a dance on Friday, October 14, to open j the season. Complete arrangements i are being made and a pleasant evenjing is anticipated. The Druids Held their usual forti nightly dc\rtco on Friday evening, there J being a fair* attendance present. Mr J ll. Spencer supplied the music, and ! extras 1 were played by Messrs. J. | Olsen and Merwood. Mr J. Crow.ther I made an efficient M.C., and altogether the evening was an enjoyable one. .

■. - j-zL. . f, On Saturday evening at 6.15 o’clock Mr Clayton noticed a man in Iront of Mi’ Gunning’s drapery department ac.'m’g in a suspicious manner. The jjian was liien moving away with soiueiinug under his overcoat. Mr Gunning was nnormed, and followed the man, hut he)ore reaching him saw him drop a parcel. Ou catching up and investigating, Mr Gunning found dial me suspect had appropriated three shirts and two pair of trousers. Constable McGregor was' communicated with, and the man, whose name ( is Thomas Carey Williams, was arrested yesterday. Williams appeared before Messrs. . Spencer and Taylor, il.lVs, on a charge of theft. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £lO or three 'months’ imprisonment, the goods to be returned to. Mr Gunning.

David Fitzgerald appeared before Messrs. Spencer and Taylor, J.P.’s yesterday, on a charge of drunkenness, having been arrested ou Saturday - .evening by Constables McGregor and Shannon in a helpless state. He pleaded guilty and was fined £1 or 24 hours’ imprisonment. "" It evidently blows, in liie Tohioiiiaru Valley. A resident in asking the County Council’s permission on Saturday to erect a building on Council property, said it would have to be built on piles to guard against wind, as skids were useless in the heavy gales that prevailed at times./ The request was granted. Deporting .to the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday, the engineer (Mr W. N. Anderson) stated that, the main roads again suffered considerably owing to the very heavy motor traffic over them to and from the third test match at Wellington, also to and from the OtaEi races. On .the evening of September 27 (the second day of the Otaki races) no fewer than 133 motor cars passed the intersection of the main and Muhunoa roads in exactly one hour, all northward hound. Ci:.. G. A. Monk, chairman of the Horowhenua County Council, stated at meeting .that one of the questions considered at the recent Counties 1 Conference was that of rate collection. It was stated that In the Wairarapa a much shorter period *was allowed before the penalty was applied on overdue rates, and it was a great success. The conference as a whole favoured the adoption of this procedure, but defeated a motion*., to allow a rebate on rates paid within v a certain date of the issue of the. rate notices. 1

. It happened at a Melbourne, metropolitan hospital (says a Bulletin contributor). Among the day’s outpatients was a Chinaman in a bad way, and appendicitiis was diagnosed. An operation was fixed for that afternoon, and Wun Lung being entirely agree-1 able lie was sent home to attend to some private affairs and told to return at 3 p.m. At that hour every- i thing was ready for the carving, and j right on time an impassive Chink was j undressed, washed and anaethetised. j Then the operating surgeon scratched j his head when he found the appendix j quite normal. But such things do j happen now and again, so the incision was sewn up- Later, a few pals of the patient called to see how he was, and then it was discovered that the man operated. upon wasn’t Wun Lung at all, but a, comparatively newchum friend whom Wun had dispatched to inform the hospital authorities 'that, he felt all Tight again and had changed his mind about being cut open. Tlie messenger explained that he thought the earlier proceedings were some form of ritual that he was compelled to undergo. f /The .Johannesburg authorities are at their wits’ en dto know what to do with a full-blooded Zulu who speaks English fluently but not a word of his native tongue, lie has wandered all over South Africa in a vain search for work, hut owing to his inability to speak Zulu'the rest of his tribe treat him with suspicion. He was adopted when four years old as the mascot of the 3rd Hussars, then stationed at Maritzburg, and he went to England with the regiment. He settled in London, and when the! war broke out he joined the Machine Gun Corps. On being demobilised he decided to return out of curiosity to his native land. He has now come to the conclusion that' he had better return “home” to Wapping, in' tjie East End of London, where his boyhood was spent.

After eating mutton, a Lambeth family became very ill, and a four-year-old boy died. The father said, they went to Hampton Court-, where they had mutton sandwiches made from the remains of the Sunday joint. Next morning they were all taken ill. They had noticed nothing wrong with the mutton. Dr. Weir said the child’s death was due to food poisoning. The mutton might have been perfectly good and gone wrong through being infected by some germ without the taste being tainted. The;Coroner said he was satisfied the mutton (Njpw Zealand) was perfectly good wheh sold, and it had got tainted in one day with germs flying about in the dry and dusty weather.

* j Ou Friday evening' Constable McGregor arrested a man named Walter Lestdr Redwood on a charge of stealing two buggy lamps, a buggy whip, and a rug from Browne’s stables at Palmerston North. Redwood was driving from Hawke’s Bay to Paraparaumu, and said when arrested that he had brought the rug from there,and the lamps and whip from Hawke’s Bay. He appeared before the court at Palmerston on Saturday and pleaded not guilty, stating that .be/jhajl chased the articles in the .stables from a strange, man for 6s. After hearing the evidence of Constable McGregor, the Magistrate said he was not satisfied with .prisoner’s '-statement. 'He would be convicted and fined £5 and £1 costs, in default one month. The cutters at the VSffiitanui mill have stopped work, there being, some dissatisfaction about the price. A meeting was held on Monday evening, but no* details are available. Mr' McCulloch, jun., was taken to the Palmerston Hospital by ambulance on Saturday, he being seriously ill. ' Dairymen have -bright- prospects with, regard to feed this season, Shannon never looking better in that respect. (The price, however, is likely to fall. Waikato companies are paying, at present Is 5d for butter fat, Is 6d for cheese and Is 7d for dried milk. v The Company’s new lorry is doing good work. -

Mrs Byers is making a good recovery and is expected home about the end of the week. I

An educative activity that is being promoted by the W.E.A. Executive in Wellington is a summer school, which will open on December 24 and continue for a week or ten days. A programme of lectures, entertainments and excur- y sions is) being drawn up, and the school will meet in one of the suitable suburbs near Wellington. . The continuance of the: fixture annually depends on the support it receives this year. Each visitor payjs his or her. share of the cost, and the whole of the arrangements, Including accommodation, ar£ made by the Executive. / Several Shannon members of the Association contemplate attending the school. * , i Recently a - stray horse from- the Hutt County was impounded !in the lower portion of the Horowhenua County, and an account for £llßs 6;1 poundage fees was sent to the , Hutt Council. Aat Saturday ’s meeting .of the Horowhenua Council a letter, was re- . ceived from Hutt agreeing to pay .tlie amount claimed. The letter was re • ceived with- thanks, Cr. Harkness remarking that though Hi\tt may be hard up, that body was at least honest.

-At the meeting of ( the Horowhenua County Council, Councillor McLeavey referred to the nuisance being caused by the spread of gorse on (certain of the country roads, Foxton Road! in particular. He mowed, and it was carried, t that notice be served on occupiers or owners of land throughout the county who have allowed gorse to grow on the roads abutting on their properties, that such gorse must be cleared in accordance- with the law on tthe question. A successful aeroplane flight from Te Kuiti to Manoii was made on Saturday afternoon by. Captain A. C. Upham, D.F.C., in a iOOh.p. Avro niachtne from the New Zealand Flying School at Kohimarama. A start was made from Te Kuiti at 2.26 p.m. and. Marton was, reached at 5,20,-a call' having lateen made at Winiata, near Taihape, The flight was over a great deal of rough mountainous and bush country, with no facilities for landing. “The' newspaper is; a great text book if intelligently used,” said Mr F. Milner, rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, at the srst Pan-Pacific Educational Conference at Honolulu. “The teacher, to use it properly, should be • well-informed on international topics. Its use promotes interest in the subjects discussed and helps to prepare the student to take part in affairs. It cultivates an interest in international matters which so profoundly affect all, humanity, it makes the students broadminded, and able to envisage big problems in an intelligent way.”