LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 September 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whilst attending to a bull on Ms father’s property at Helensbroo'k, Milton, Mr. David Russell, jun., was seriously attacked by the animal, which tossed him in the air and afterwards trampled on Mm whilst he was lying on the ground. Mr. Russel sustained a fracture of' the left leg. He was medically attended to and convoyed to Dunedin for an X-ray examination

At the inquest at Christchurch into the death of Marjorie Kathleen Halligan, the fourteen-months-old daughter of H. Halligan, the mother said she w'ais preparing a lliot bath on Monday for one of the children, and went into the scullery. When she came back she found that the child had upset the water and was lying in it. The child was attended to by a doctor, but died in the morning. A verdict was returned that the deceased died from shock arising from having been accidentally scalded. The three United States sailors, who were left behind at Christchurch when the destroyer squadron departed from Lyttelton on August 21, are still in tlie city. So far no instructions have been received as to what course they are to follow. The men are beingcared for by the Y.M.C.A. on behalf of the American Consular Agent. They are wearing full uniform, and many conjectures as to their destiny have been aroused among people who havo seen them in the city streets. 'The body of Leonard Withers, five years of age, the youngest victim of the motoring accident at Kangiotu, between Foxton and Palmerston, on August 16, was recovered in the Mnnawatu River yesterday two miles above the Shannon bridge. It will Tk> recalled that a party consisting of the father (at the wheel), the mother, and two boys, aged 12 and o, was returning from a visit to the American fleet when the ear broke through a rail at the entrance to the bridge over the Oroua river and fell into ■ deep water lie low. Only Mr Withers escaped, the others being imprisoned in (lie curtained ear and drowned.

The Auckland City Council has decided to oiler a reward of £2O for the escaped leopard alive and £lO dead. No trace of the animal lias been discovered during the past two days. A proposal to use the Pakuranga hunt hounds lias been abandoned in the meantime, as the country is too rough. Mr. Harold Rayner’s stable at \Ya verify was completely destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon. At- the time of the outbreak there were three horses in the stable, and every effort was made to save the animals, but the lire gained so vapidly that the two-year-old Acreage was' destroyed. The other two were liberated with great difficulty, one, Hindi, being severely burned, but it- is hoped that re will be saved The insurance on the building was £l3O, but the horses were uninsured.

An advance display and sale of spring and summer goods will be held by the Melbourne, Ltd., commencing on Friday morning next. Many new attractive lines will be displayed in order to introduce the new department to the public. Look out for details in advertisement./—Advt.

The li a raw si was not able to cross the Onehunga bar yesterday, but she was scheduled to leave at noon to-day. and will sail from New Plymouth at the usual hour to-morrow night.

At the conference at Wellington on the migration problem a motion _ was carried suggesting that the Dominion should adopt, under a well-considered scheme, a progressive policy towards securing a sufficient number of suitable immigrants from the United Kingdom each year, and thus provide for the defence, prosperity and progress of New Zealand, and at the same time assist the Mother Country, by. relieving her of her surplus population.

Word has been received by the Christchurch police of the arrest in Sydney of Albert Thompson, formerly a clerk employed by the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Christchurch, on a charge of the theft of moneys the property of the company. Thompson" disappeared some weeks ago from his employment. He was on the staff of the grain branch of the company’s business. DetectiveSergeant A. Fade will leave for Sydney to bring Thompson hack to Christchurch, where he will he tried on the charge.