GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 27 March 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

' Farmers who were in town yesterday learned with satisfaction that the price of lamb had advanced to lOd per II). —the highest that it has been this season.

The C.F.O.A. have decided to erect new business premises at Geraldine to replace those recently destroyed there by fire: The cost ot the new premises is estimated to run into £1)000 or £IO,OOO.

At yesterday's meeting ot the Timaru Harbour Hoard the harbourmaster reported that tile total tonnage ot the shipping in the port on .March 1. viz., 29,050 tons, was the largest ever experienced in the history ot Timaru.

At Cromwell yesterday .James Patrick Reid was committed tor trial on a charge of attempted murder of (leorge Adams, who was stabbed in the stomach with a butcher's knite at Mukarorn.

At the residence of My. C. 0. .Moulder: Wanganui lhpriil...iit a giant Minitower which has reached a height <> 14ft 7in.' Olvfrig to its, heighf and strain upon the stem a stall had to be placet! 'alongs'ilo the plant to prevent it being broken in the waul.

Gordon Henderson, who was hurt in the collision oii ’ the Pleasant Point Road last Saturday evening, lias progressed so .' well that he has now left the hospital. Douglas Christie, who was less, fortunate, is progressing satisfactorily at the hospital. ' •

Latest advices show-that the opossum skin market- at Home has'dropped i'ullv 33 1-3 per cent, -'i lie, reason ol the’ drop is that last year the Queensland season was a dosed one and this vea'r it will be open and the market 'will no doubt be Hooded with skins. I his does not, augur well for trappers of opossums this season. In all probability the sk.ns here will not be wortn more than 2s Gd each.

A 'Blenlieini Press Association message says Unit the Tutanekai arrived off Blind River at 5 o’clock on 'lhnrsdav and was engaged all night testing and jointing the new cross strait cable. The final joint was finished" at 8.30 next morning, and the luiaiu’k.ii tell, at 0 a.m. for AVclliugton. A itnin a. few days communication, will be open.

What : s claimed to be a record, as far as New Zealand is concerned at mif rate, lias been put up by Messrs Behan and party in cutting the No. •7 tuline' at Lake Coleridge, in alluvial country they have driven and concrete-lined 82 J lineal feet of tunnel the excavated area being lo< square feet. in four weeks of six da vs each of 21 limits, four chains and a half of tunnel were completed.

In conversation with a “Herald” representative yesterday, a wellknown North Canterbury farmer, who wa.s in Timaru, referring to the millers' proposed wheat poo.l, said that this had already been the means of putting up the price of breedingewes. He knew of quite-a number of farmers who had intended to sow wheat this autumn, but who, with the pool prospect.ahead of them, had given up the idea in disgust and had definitely and finally decided to go in for sheep rather than for wheat.

On Thursday night a concert party consisting of Messrs J. .Johnston, L. Sherry, and C. Durning, visited the Old People’s Home, and gave the inmates a musical evening. The programme consisted of songs, and violin and banjo selections, and each item was well received, encores being frequent. The visitors were accorded a'-liearty vote of thanks, and the wish was expressed that they would pay a’return visit in the near future.

At a sitting of the Timaru Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr A. L. Gee, J.P., James Husband was charged that at Timaru oh ' March 2 3 he did forge an order for the payment of £3O, drawn on the Dank of New Zealand, purporting to he signed by O. Anderson, knowing same to he false and intending that it should he acted on as genuine. On the application of Detective . Walker accused. was remanded till Thursday next. Bail was allowed in self £SO, and one surety of £SO.

At a land sale in Timaru yesterday intending bidders and onlookers had their patience tried almost Ic the breaking point by the long-con-tinued ' droning ol the out whose duty it was to read the seemingly interminable conditions of sale. When at last the reached and those present heaved a big collective sigh, and were congratulating themselves on having outshone Job in the matter of patience, a bright, relieving moment came when the auctioneer told the story of the North.lsland land sale at which a Muori was present and gave vent to liis feelings at the close of the reading of the conditions of shle by remarking: “Py gorrio', sir, you make te long prayer.”

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