LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 24 February 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The residence of Mr. E. J. Hyams, of Wellington, who is about to leave for England, was entered on Tuesday night and goods and valuables said to be in the vicinity of £3OO worth were stolen. (Bl). Mr. W. G. Lamb, president of the Chamber of Commerce, occupied the chair at the meeting held on Monday, not: Mr. F. W. Temple, as was stated in error in a report we published yesterday. Advice has been received by tho Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) that the Renown will reach Lyttelton on the morning of March 19, and leave on the same evening on her voyage southwards.—(P.A.). At tho Napier Supreme Court yesterday, Arthur Gordon Kale was found guilty of attempted carnal knkowledge, an attempt to prove an alibi failing. Accused was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding three years,— (P.A.).

A Press Association telegram states that tho Club Hotel in Pahiatua has changed hands, H. Cowan and W. R. Ross having purchased the freehold from J. Byrne at a very substantial figure. Tho Commercial Hotel also is owned by Mr. Cowan who is managing director of the Tui Brewery Company. James Pilcher, aged 81, an inmate of tho Napier Old People’s Home, died yesterday morning as a result of accidentally taking a portion of the contents of a battle of liniment in mistake for a cough mixture. Everything possible was done for tho sufferer, but he succumbed on tho way to hospital.— (P.A.). Most people are fond of watching neat divos, but ono was performed in Cole Street this week which many would like to have seen. As everyone knows Colo Street is being dug up and new drain are being laid. At one place wheel traffic is required to cross an new drains are being laid. At one place vert. A certain well-known gentleman was cycling along in the rain on Tuesday morning, doing his best to shield himself by means of an obviously new umbrella. He struck the rise unexpectedly and—rose. The umbrella helped and tho drain received him into its wet embrace. Skid marks were seriously measured, but no incriminating evidence was found. On Tuesday night a motor car decided to explore the same drain in an unexpected moment so al! will be pleased to know that the drain is now filled in.

A circular issued by the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board states that for the fortnight ended February 18, the following quantities of dairy produce under control of the board were sold: 45,549 boxes of creamery butter at an average price of 173 s fid; 343 boxes of whey butter at an average price of 153 s lid, and 34,140 crates qf cheese at an average price of 935. Butter graded up to the end of October, the' board states, has not yet all been sold, although some of tho November gradings have been sold. This is due to , the fact that some steamers carried produce belonging to the first pool as well as produce graded in November. Further, while the loading of the final October gradings was completed approximately at tho same date at all ports; the steamers carrying this produce varied considerably in their final sailing dates. The quantity of cheese sold represents gradings into the fourth week of October. Later .advice from London states that the price orf salted butter has .been reduced by 8s per cwt.

As a means of conveying accurate information about the Dominion and the life and activities of its people with a minimum amount of trouble to the inquirer, a “Pocket Compendium of Statistics” brought out by the Government Statistician will not easily bo beaten. This little volume of 150 pages is of waistcoat pocket size, and costs only one shilling, but it is a treasurehouse of facts and figures. Apart from a useful official list, it gives up-to-date and in many cases comparative, particulars of population, land occupation and use, production, trade, railways and roads, motor vehicles, taxation and debt and other branches of national and local body finance, banking, pensions, and many other matters of general interest and concern. The information given is at once so comprehensive and so well selected that to many people this little compendium will bo much more useful than the weighty Blue Books from which its contents arc extracted. This latest production of tho Census and Statistics Department should win and hold an assured popularity.

When about half a mile f rom Springfield yesterday, the ChristchurchSpringfield bus overturned and remained lying on its side. The passengers had to break the windows to get out. The driver suffered an injury to his arm and a passenger had a hand injured.— (F.A.). William Park, an elderly farmer of Mangamahu, twenty miles from Wanganui, shot himself yesterday morning. His wife heard a shot and found him dead, rvith the top of his head blown off. He died almost immediately. Deceased is said to have had financial worries. He leaves a grown-up family. —(P.A.).

Pickpockets have been very active among the large crowds in Auckland city during the last two days, and a large number of purses and pocketbooks have been stolen, many later being found in a city hotel and elsewhere without the money they had contained. Two meij. were charged in Court yesterday, and two other men were arrested last night.—(P.A.).

A sensational collision between a Fire Brigade engine and a City Council motor bus occurred in Auckland last night. Tho bus was full at the time, but no passenger was badly injured, though one lady received slight cuts from flying glass. The bus was scarcely damaged, but the fire engine fared worse, the front portion being severely damaged. None of the firemen were hurt.—(P.A.).

A distressing fatality occurred at Matawhcro last evening, resulting in the death of Patrick Malone, a wellknown horse trainer and one of the pioneers of Poverty Bay. Mr. Malone was driving in a gig homewards when he noticed a friend and shook his whip at him in salutation. The horse suddenly jumped forward and Mr. Malone was thrown out, falling heavy one his forehead and being killed instantaneously. Ho was seventy-three years of age.—(P.A.).

It is understood (according to a Wellington Press Association message) that trouble in the ranks of the Association of Railway Engine Drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners in connection with the relationship existing between the General Secretary (Mr. W. McArley) and and certain of the executive council on the question whether the General Secretary or the President shall hold supreme authority culminated recently in the submission of the dispute to the abitration of Mr. E. Page S.M., whose decision will be final. The decision will be given shortly. The South African Minister of Labour, Colonel Cresswell, introducing the Iron and Steel Industry Bill into the Union Assembly, said, a Capetown message reports, that German experts reported favourably on the prospects of the industry in South Africa. Under the Bill the Government proposed to acquire the Pretoria Company and authorise share capital of about £4,000,000, to which tho Government would subscribe half a million sterling and guarantee sJper cent, or a million and a half. They would raise the next million by 7 per cont. preference shares, tho Government to have a majority on the board of directors. He denied that it was a Bolshevistic scheme. The- sole intention was to develop the resources of the country.

The Australian Labour Party Executive, A Sydney cablegram states, has Issued a manifesto to Labour leagues and councils explaining why Red rule should bo ejected by the party. It states that there has been a plot by Communists to secure control of the party, and, despite the warnings issued from time to time, the deadly grip of Communism is gradually becoming tighter and tighter on the Labour movement. The plotters have been at w'ork for the past four years, and, if certain members of the Labour Party have their way, the last act will be staged in June at the annual conference of the' Labour Party, and the curtain will fall with Communist members and emissaries in full control of the party and safely retrenched behind a set of rules which will allow no escape from their deadly grip.

Farewell social to Rev. and Mrs. Godfrey will lie held in the Church of the Epiphany Schoolroom this evening. N. R. Cunningham, Ltd., draw attention to a purchaser’s recommendation of the Hanscom super-heterodyne. The “Viami” are showing all the newest styles in costumes, coats, frocks tunic suits and millinery.

The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows notify that a motor conveyance w.ill leave at 8 a.m. on .Sunday for a trip to the sea coast, via Western Lake. Fairbrothers, Ltd., will hold a sale of meat at Carterton at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Friday) on account of Mr. T. M. O’Connor. Messrs. F. P. Welch & « Son invite offers for «} acres with eight-roomed house, in the estate of the late )'•- Day. The unreserved auction sale will bo continued to-day at the Masterton Engineering ami Machinery Co.’s premises Lincoln Road. Everything must be cleared.

Attention is drawn to the preliminary advertisement of sports programme run under the management of the Masterton Athletic Club at the grand gala to be held on March Sth, at 8 p.m. A prominent feature of the meeting will be the special lighting of the Park by high-powered flood lights tn be featured for the first time in Masterton. The nt.v Masterton industry, the Wairarapa Steam Laundrv, with its wonderful “Bag Wash ’’'service, is now in full swing, and housewives are new realising what a great boon it is. Although the factory lias only been running for a short period the support has exceeded all expectations and tho firm have been congratulated on all sides on the excellence of their laundry work. The firm are out to give satisfaction and with their up-to-date plant they are in a position to- execute al! orders promptly and efficiently. For the sum of 3s they wash as many clothes as can be .squeezed into one ’of their standard size bags. There is no trouble to the housewife. All she has to do is to ring 'phone 1378 nnd the wash will bo called for and delivered the same day. Both partners are expert laundrv men, and they will be pleased tr- sunplv any information either by telephone or at their new faetorv in King Street (near the F.C.D.C.).