Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925.

Shannon News, 11 August 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925.

Mr and Mrs Eriq Gunning leave today on a' holiday visit to Waverley. At the Shannon Court, before Mr E. J. S. Spencer, J.P., a first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s.

The Shannon Choral Society will give a concert at Tokomaru to-night and will hold the weekly; practice in Shannon as usual.

We are pleased to report, from enquiries made yesterday, that the condition of the Mayor, Mr ,W. Murdoch, shows a slight improvement, although he is still very ill.

The annual meeting of the Shannon Croquet Club will be held on Friday evening next in the Bowling Club’s pavilion at 2.30 p.m. Alls members and intending members are invited to be present.

The tender of Mr E. J. S>. Spencer has been accepted for altering and renovating the schoolmaster’s residence at Shannon. The work to be carried out practically provides for a new residence.

On Saturday evening the contractors, who are installing the electric lights in the Domain, gave them a trial and they proved most satisfactory. It is expected to have them in full working order in the course of a few days.

Congratulations to the local competitors at the Manawatu Competitions, viz., Mr arid Mrs Bishop and Miss W. Pickles, Mr Bishop scored two firsts (National song and men’s sacred solo), Mrs Bishop 2nd (sacred solo), and Miss Pickles 2nd (violin solo under 18 years).

The Railway Department are considering the advisability of running a special on Sunday morning from Palmerston North to Wellington for the [purpose of conveying passengers to view the American fleet. The train if decided upon, will return in the evening.

The many friends of Mrs F. Whibley,. of Vogel street, will regret to hear of the death of her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Ann Williams, which occurred at Foxton last week. The deceased lady, who was in her 80th year, was botrn in Cornwall, England. After her marriage to Mr Wm. H. Williams, they sailed for New Zealand in 1873, landing at Napier. Two years later they removed to Foxton and she has resided there ever since. Her husband predeceased her 23 years ago. She- leaves a family, of six daughters and four sons and there are 61 grandchildren and 45 great grandchildren.

The death occurred early on Sunday evening (says the Mail) of Mr T. A. King, one of Otaki’s oldest and most respected residents. The deceased who was 67 years of age, arrived in New Zealand when a hoy, and after a brief stay in Auckland went to Wellington, thence to Foxton, where he lived for many years, making a number of friends. He then came to Otaki, nearly fifty years ago, and commenced business as a general storekeeper; after that opened a shop as tobacconist, and carried a stock of fancy goods also, which he successfully carried on till about five years ago. Mrs King died in Otaki in 1886. The members of the family left to mourn their loss are Mr W. T. King (Hamilton), Mr Joe King (Manunui), and Mr Jim King (Shannon). Two daughters, Alice and Annie, died some time ago. Messrs Howard Andrew, Ltd., call at-ention to their spring opening in this issue.

It is stated that tne American fleet require 2000 tons of potatoes during their short visit to New Zealand waters.

It is expected tfiat bacon will probably advance in price shortly, as indications point to a shortage of pigs in the Dominion.

A gooseberry bush grafted on a willow tree at Moulton Chapel, Lincolnshire, has produced a splendid crop, which is growing 6 feet from die ground like mistletoe.

That Wanganui is developing very fast is demonstrated by the extensive nuilding operations in progress and those being undertaken. In July over £73,000 worth of new Work was put in hand and buildings, in contemplation for which plans, have been prepared run into many thousands more.

The growing use of motor buses in preference to the railways was roundly condemned by Cr. Catley at Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhenua County Council. He said people rode In the buses and then had to pay through the nose fur the roads the buses damaged. “I would rather crawl than use them,” he • declared, j lie* buses should be feeders for tinrailways and not cbmpefei with them.

Cr. Bryant suggested at Saturday s County Council meeting that provision should be made in the Highways scheme tor tracks for .pedestrians on the roadside. With the increasing motor traffic it was very dangerous lor people in the country and there had been several bad accidents. The chairman said they would have tu do it out of revenue and not loan money.

An Auckland flat-dweller assaulted Ills neighbour because he was annoyed by the sound of a piano and of two mandolins which, >he said, played only twb tunes during the whole evening. While the mandolins. were only visiting, the piano was a fixture, and it annoyed this man, who had to go to work at 4 a.in. Once he secured a kerosene tin and threatened to beat it all night if his neighbour played die piano. ,

The County Engineer reported to the Horowhenua’ County Council on Saturday that the Levin Borough had made an offer to sell to the Horowhenua-County Council their share in the Austin crushing plant for the sum of £4O. He recommended that the -offer be accepted. In answer tq Cr. Catlcy, the Engineer said t-he crusher would be put into work at the Waikawa Bridge at once in connection with the Main Highways schemes

According to a well known ship ping expert, a deal of ship-breaking is being executed in the South Island. Recently the onc.e popular Takapuna was towed out beyond Wellington heads and sunk, and at the present moment a similar fate awaits the well-known steamers Rakanoa and Talune. Hie latter steamer,was for years popularly identified with the fruit trade with the Cook Islands.. It is believed that quite a number of old-timers have been consigned to ship-breakers.

The Chicago Chamber of Commerce recently carried out an interesting experiment in order to trace wiiat happened to a dollar bill within the short space of fourteen days. It put into circulation a new bill, with a circular attached asking every person into whose hand it came to make a note of the use he made of it. By the end of the fortnight the note had been spent thirty-one times—five times in payment of salaries or wages, five times for tobacco, five times for cigarettes, three times for meals, three times for candy, twice for shaves, twice for “men’s furnishings,” and once for collar buttons, automobile accessories, bacon, washing-powder, garters and tooth paste respectively.

Canon Spooner, for many years Warden of New College, Oxford, has just attained his 80th birthday, and has. retired. He has to admit being the author of many “Spoonerisms” which are quaint verbal mix-ups or malapropisms. Many of them have added much t.o ihe gaiety of nations. Jewett, the great Master of Balliol, was always entertained in hearing them. The earliest “Spoonerism’’ was that one in which Dr. Spooner is understood to have given out the hymn “Conquering Kings Their Titles Take” as “Tinkering Tiongs Their Kitles Kake.” Nervously noting his error he endeavoured to improve upon it by “Kinquering Kongs Their Tatles Tike.” He once described his baggage to a railway porter as two rags and a bug, instead of two bags and a rug. Everyone utters one or more good Spoonerisms in the course of his life. A clergyman became the delight of his congregation because he continually referred to the “farren big tree,” and was fond also of dwelling on the text, which he quoted as “Many are called but chew are fosen,” ending up his sermon with the exhortation “Be ye therefore of the fosen chew.”