Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.

Shannon News, 26 February 1929, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.

The Rev. and Mrs Farnell, who have been spending a fortnight at Paraparaumu beach, returned home on Friday evening.

The excursion train to Plimmerton on Saturday brought to the Railway Department £lO3 18s 6d, as compared with £lO6 10s 6d last year.

The usual weekly euchre tourney will be held in Laurvig's Hall, Bailance Street, on Thursday evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. Good prizes are again offered and an excellent .supper will be provided.

During the broadcasting of the children's session from 2YA Wellington on Saturday, Mr C. Cronquest ("Cousin Charlie from Shannon") was on the air, when he entertained those listening-in with song and story. His voice came through well over the wireless.

The Methodist Church Harvest Thanksgiving Sale will be held in Mr Carter's shop, Ballance Street, on Saturday, 2nd March, when a fine lot of produce of all kinds, cakes, sweets, and children's'clothes will be on sale. The latter items will be on view in the shop window from Thursday until the day of sale. In addition to the above there will be a number of competitions. e

There was quite a flutter of excitement in the township yesterday as a result of a report that gold had been discovered on Mr Kilsby's property on the Heights Road. Unfortunately the report is rather premature. From what Ave can gather from one who is interested, about thirty years ago, soms quartz that was alleged to have been picked up in the locality, on being tested some years later, was found to be of very rich quality. The finder being unable to make further investigations, handed same over to a friend, who some months ago formed a syndicate which engaged an engineer to make a search at the spot where the quartz was supposed to have been found. As a result a seam of gravel and rock has been located, but whether it is of a gold bearing nature remains to be seen. In the meantime the syndicate are putting in a shaft and are prepared to spend a certain sum of money to test the venture. All will sincerely hope they will strike it rich.

Everyone will remember the Innisfail incident, in which the removal of a coat of arms from the Italian Consulate nearly caused international complications.' Mischievous boys certainly removed the T)late but the responsibility for the trouble must be laid at the door of an enterprising journalist, Mr George Groom. According to his own story in 'Newspaper News' he was not able to go away for his Christmas holidays and so felt rather bored in a town which was strange to him, and when the Italian VieeConsul told him, during lunch, of the incident he saw its possibilities. He wrote a strongly worded protest which the Consul "O.K.'d" and which was issued under that gentleman's name. The "news" of course was intended for Queensland ad Canberra consumption only, but there were other enterprising journalists too, and it flew round the world with extraordinary speed. The Vice-Consul, Signor Luciano, earned the high regard of those in the know, because though assailed from all quarters by Press and imblic he did not depart from the original statement which was not exactly his own.

A motor cyclist was fined £4 10s in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington for riding along Hutt road at 65 miles an hour. He had a girl on the pillion seat. The patrol constable had to do 74 miles an hour to catch him> Few of the thousands of people who annually visit Plimmerton know that it has historic associations, apart, from the fact that it was named after John Plimmer, one of Wellington's notable citizens of the early times. In an article "The Eomance of the Bail," in the Bail ways Magazine, Mr James Cowan says the old Maori village of Taiipo once .stood on the site of Plijnmerton. It was here that the wily old Te Rauparaha, who had been secretly assisting his nephew, Te Rangihaeata, against the whites, was skilfully captured in 1846 under Governor Grey's direction. He was kept a prisoner for two years in British ships- j of-war,. The exact spot where Te Rau- J paraha was captured is quite close to j the present railway station, and the I natives point out a little grassy space j bordered by ngaio trees between the station and the beach as the place where the old warrior's hut stood and where he was surprised and seized at early dawn by a party of British bluejackejs.

, Scarlet fever cases are again very numerous in Central Hawke's Bay.

The membership of the Hawke 's Bay Automobile Association now stands at 1419.

The total value of Auckland's building permits was £127,599, compared with ,£68,051 in January of last year.

During the first nine months of last year there were 248 murders in New York, only 20 of which have been solved.

It is estimated that work for 300 men for four years will be provided oy the Auckland City Tramway extension scheme.

Dalgety and Company's report, dated London, 18th February, states that there are sellers of finest N.Z. butter at 178 s, but buyers are- holding off. N.Z. cheese is quoted: White 86s to 87s, coloured 90s.

Major Cowper, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Craig, of Hastings, landed at the aerodrome at Ihumata at 11.40 on Saturday after a good flight of 2-J hours from Hawera. The total flying time from Christchurch was Bhr. 55min.

It is reported that a North Island buyer is shortly to take delivery of some 30,000 wethers bought forward in the South Island at £1 per head. This gentleman's freezing schedule for the season is said to run about 200,000 sheep.

The wedding took place last week at the Otaki Methodist Church of Mr. Alexander Tulloch Kebbell. bank manager, of Wellington, and Miss Airini Tui Foutawera, also of Wellington. The Rev. Crockett (PresbyteTian) officiated.

Landing upside down, with the hood completely smashed and the windscreen shattered, a car somersaulted into drain on the side of the AshhurstOorge Road on Tuesday. The occupants apparently had a wonderful escape from grievous injury.

Rev. Father J. Seymour, who suffered a serious break do\vn in health after leaving Otaki, and has been for the past six months in Sydney, has been appointed assistant priest at Timaru. His brother (Rev. Harry Seymour), has been appointed to Reefton.

• To lose 400 out of 600 fine rape lambs I as a result of ragwort poisoning was the recent experience of a Wanganui ] farmer. The lambs had been grazing on a ifape paddock, in Which the ragwort had grown up with the crop. They ate it off with the rape, and the pois-' onous weed had had its effect when the animals were turned out on to good bush burnt country.

There were two disappointed thieves in Levin on Saturday. A local confectioner in the morning displayed a new line of chocolate on the counter, and within half an hour one of the packets had disappeared and another one went later in the day. Of course the packets were only show dummies, so the chagrin of the thieves must have been great when they -opened their "booty" and found they had nothing for their trouble.

Mr A.* E. Davy, who has been Dominion, organiser of the United political organisation since the inceptionof the party, has been appointed chairman* of the United Party's executive'. Owing to pressure of business, Mr E. Masters, of Stratford, has found it necessary tc relinquish the chairmanship, but he is retaining his seat on the executive. Mr O. Moller, who was the Auckland orgaViser for the party, has, been appointed Dominion organiser.

Reporting to the Horowhenua Power Board yesterday the Electrical Engineer (Mr J. A,. ISmith) said that since last meeting 12 applications from new consumers and 21 applications for .extensions to existing installations have been received comprising 6 ranges, 4 waterheaters, 3 shearing motors and 3 pumping motors. Eleven new consumers and 19 extensions have been connected, including 5 ranges, 7 waterheaters, and 3 small industrial motors, a total increase of 53.141 k.w.

There passed away recently at Ms residence, 87 Waipapa Road, Hataitai, Mr. Frederick Overend, who was born in Wellington in 1850. Apart from three years of his early youth spent in the Otaki district, Mr. Overend had lived in Wellington. For thirty-five years he followed the sea, trading mostly round the New Zealand eoast. The late Mr. Overend was a member of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows for 58 years. He is survived by a widow and five daughters—Miss Overend, Hataitai; Mrs. Harry Young, Palmerston North; Mrs. M.. Rowell, Wellington; Mrs. R. Walker, Tatau, Ohura, and Mrs. T. Wood, Nihotapu, Auckland.

: Undismayed at the reception meted l out to the Law Practitioners' Guarani tee Bill by the last Parliament, the : New Zealand Law Society will take ■ sfeps to bring the measure, in slightly amended form, before the House of i Representatives at its next assembly. Viewed with suspicion by members of! the House, the Bill, which provides for the creatim of a fund of from £6OOO to £7OOO per annum, to be formed by i annual levies upon each ' practising ( member of the profession, did not re- j ceive consideration by the House of j Representative? and was shelved. But j since then the Mansell case in Auck- j land and the Batchelor case in Christchurch have again, shown the neces- j sity of some form of public protection. | ) This is held to be provided by the , scheme endorsed by the Law Society. : Curiously enough, the year in which the scheme was launched without sue- , cess proved to be one of the worst ( years in the matter of defalcations that . the country has seen since the war.