LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In connection with, the mystery attaching to the disappearance of Mrs. Mouat from her home at St. Martin’s, Christchurch, the police on Saturday resumed dragging in the Heathcote River three miles below the house'. . While coining up the Wellington harbour from Blenheim on Saturday morning the auxiliary scow Echo carried away her foremast in. heavy northerly weather. Evidently the vessel’s engines also were affected, as she was unable to proceed under her own power. The tug Cowan went out in the afternoon 'and towed the vessel .to a berth. The. open water -swim from the New Plymouth baths to the East. End beach for the Flanagan Cup was postponed by the New Plymouth Amateur .Swimming Club yesterday, on account of the rough sea. The event will be decided on Thursday afternoon. The system of work" by poet in the schools has been extended very much during the last week or two. The Auckland Diocesan Girls’ School have adopted the method, and have sent hooks and a programme of work to pupils in various parts of the country.

William Hunt, a married man with eight children, was drowned while attempting to cross the ford at the mouth of the Awakino River, on horseback, yesterday morning. He had crossed once and was returning when his horse got into a deep pool and he was unseated. The. horse reached the shore without its bridle and with one stirrup iron missing. Hunt '9 body was recovered in the afternoon.

The output of the dairy factories in the Stratford district is generally considered satisfactory. In one factory the output for this season up to the present is about per cent, over that of last , season. A well-known dairy farmer remarked that had jt not been for the exceptionally heavy cold snaps experienced, the present season’s output would have been much larger, says the Post. The Sir James Clark Ross, the mother ship of the Norwegian whaling expedition, returned to Port Chalmers yesterday from the Land of the Midnight Sun, bringing with her the result of her operations in the shape of 31,500 barrels of oil. A.n interesting feature of the expedition disclosed in an interview with a importer was the fact that the small whale-chaser Star 111 is the vesse] that has penetrated farthest south, of any ship that has entered the Antarctic circle. She was dispatched on February' 2{> in search of an inlet where the mother ship might sheLter, and during this piece of exploration work she sailed for three days along the Great Ice Barrier and penetrated further south than any other ship. The coldest snap experienced by the whalers was when the thermometer touched 36 degrees below zero. A mishap resulting in painful injury to Mr. M. M. Robertson, of Okaiawa, occurred on Friday afternoon. Mr. Robertson was engaged in removing an iron stove from the deck of his lorry at a house on the Sheet Road, neat Kppuni, when a plank he was using to lower the stove suddenly gave way and its heavy burden fell, jamming* Mr. Robertson's left hand and severelylacerating three of his fingers. He was taken to the Hawera hospital, where it was ascertained that, fortunately, the hand was not fractured, though several stitches had to be inserted in the injured fingers. On Saturday morning lie was sufficiently recovered to return to his home.