Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922.

Shannon News, 28 February 1922, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922.

i j;l‘. Lev. Angus Sliieri, of tlie l’ies(oi ~..n i.unrcn, lias lorniecl- a strong .■oiniinik't! ai Aiakenia, and is now aoidiiig a service in the schoolimuse e\ ery Thursday at 7.15 pan.

i'.m is announced el ...-s Ann.e aim, oiii.v tiaughter oi Mr ,11,1 .wra .1. A.in, Avondale, Auckland, ,o .Mrs .1. A. s-v. iiidlelmrsi, eldest son ,»i .ui ,J. Swuiiileiunsi, oi Buckley, shannon.

Aiiss Lassie Kelly, daughter of i\ir am Ails L. ti. Kelly', had the misforuc io he blown Lorn her bicycle in <c heavy w-ud on Friday lasi, aim •ut her leg very t.adiy. ow.ug Hi

o absence oi itie local doctor she '.s taken mi l.evin. The wound lid) was a bad one, required four idles. Tlie little sufferer is tuak-

lig good progress. , ;ii i ue.Htay last a message cam-. r ug;i .adv.smg the police to meet ;v u u'ciock iiaiii, as someone ban ~.c;i a bullet through one of tlie car.mgCx Tne police, mi investigating, m.nu a clean-cut hole m the window ,ud ;t deni mi the wail opposite, also i stone in' liie carriage. It seems iiat a boy in the vicinity of Toko.Hi it threw a stone at the passing tram. Luckily no one was injured.

A motor-car driven by Mr Ik B. mottle, with two oilier occupants, m.tided while turning a corner on

.~e ilmkara liill on Saturday aiterjiijun, and went over the hank, but lomtuaiely did not capsize. So uvule was tiie angle ol ilie ear that those ,n tlie vicinity had to hold it upi igot with ropes while the occupants -ot out. Mr Gelhor, who happened ,u be passing, pulled the ear on to ~.e road again whir his Jiupmobde. . tie uiily damage done was a broken .p.or, and ibis was caused by endea- , ouring to hold the ear upright.'

11 is lortunaie tor die Corporation

> i Wellington,' 1 said Mr Horald tlnuiditunp, chniiman ol the Hank ol yew Zealand, iti an inierview, “tliat, through having met with a senes ol difficulties, it w'as unable lo go on lo the London market,, as it wished, some months ago. its failure to do so has no doubt been a blessing Jn disguise. H to-day Wellington is in a posit km to place the loan on the market, it ought to be able to do so at, roughly,'! per cent lower than it would have had to pay three or six months ago. That means a very substantial saving when we understand that, the loan is in the vicinity ol three-quarters of a million. It will mean saving £7500 a year.” Althouginhe air is lull of rumours as to what mortgagors might, call the •‘sweet i easonablness” of mortgagees who reduce the indebtedness of i a fillers because the slump has reduced ihe value of land, inquiry among lawyers indicates that very liUlo of this soil of thing lias been done .states the Auckland Herald). Probably the wish is 'father to the thought. Cases there are where mortgagees, realising the great, dil'liculiies facing ihe farmers, have agreed not to press for their interest for a period, particularly where the tanner is a man whose personality inspires confidence. in cases, too, private lenders may have followed the Government in allowing present interest to be 'capitalised, hut generally speaking the altitude seems to be that business is business and not philanthropic. Judge Talley has taken a case ol bigamous marriages recently be I ore. him. in General .Sessions to point fis proposal that all marriage licenses obtained shall he advertised in the papers, states an American exchange. His plan offers a more thorough safeguard perhaps than the publication of banns in church as a preliminary to all marriages and lie favours tiie requi renieiit of a month s interval between the publication of the license a.ud the marriage ceremony dself.