LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4590, 16 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A GRUESOME FIND

Shortly before mid-day yesterday the Dannevirke police received advice that the body of a middle-aged man had been found in a paddock at the lower end of Princess street, with the throat cut. Constable Campagnolo said a little girl, while gathering either ferns or grsses, noticed a man lying in the grass, face downwards, and, thinking he was sick, gave the alarm to some people in the street, who telephoned the police. The eonstable proceeded to the spot and found the man in the position described, witli a razor alongside the body. Decomposition had set in, ami the appearances indicated that death must have taken place three weeks ago. The body was subsequently identified a g Georgo Peck, lately of Palmerston North, and lormerly or j'Waione. The deceased was a single man. CARD TOURNAMENT. The following was the result in the first games of the above tournament, played at the Foresters' Hall last night: Foresters' A team defeated their B team by 22 games to 10 ; and Druids defeated Oddfellows (M.U.) by 20 games to 14. FOR THE BOWLING GREEN. A Palmerston bowler, who was recently in AVellington, was interested in experiments being carried out or. one of the city bowling greens with a- worm destroyer. The latter, in powder form, was sprinkled over the grass during the day. The following morning the surface was thickly covered with -dead worm which, when scraped together,, made four heaps, each a foot high. Tho powder has the effect of strengthening the grass, afart from destroying the worms.

"The P.P.A. is the strongest political body in New Zealand,"' said MiGeorge 'Harford, a national vice-pre-sident, at Mr Dittcrich's meeting at Masterton last Saturday night. AVhen does a man present a firearm at another person r 1 The popular opinion doubtless (says the Dunedin Star) is that a rifle is presented when it is pointed at an object; but the Invercargill Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr G. Gruickshank) took a different view at the Orepuki Court, when he dismissed a case in which a man was charged, under an amendment to the Arms Act, with presenting a firearm at another. As the gun was pointed from the alleged offender's hip, and not from the shoulder, his Worship considered that there had been no demonstration of the correct definition of "present."