GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 15 May 1925, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

At the Divorce Court in Wellington a witness described his wife as “a street angel and a house devil if ever there was onel” At t-lio Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., suspended for twelve months the license of a motorist charged with driving in a manner dangerous to the public. A Press message from Taumarunui stales that a heavy rainfall for twentyfour hours caused the Wanganui river to rise rapidly. part of the recreation ground was inundated. The rain ceasocl last evening, and the river was subsiding. Washouts were reported on some country roads. The season for fishing for salmon in South Canterbury closed yesterday. Taken as a whole, it is considered to have been a poor one, though it is estimated that about 500 salmon wore caught at the Hangitat.a river by anglers, who fished on the Ashburton, as well as on tho Timaru side. That Hawke’s Bay sportsmen are not all dead shots, or that they aro sometimes not too particular in their choice of targets, is shown by the fact that a backbloeks settlor recently found four of his sheep shot dead (says the “Telegraph”). On an adjacent holding a bullock had been slain in tho same manner.