LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 February 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Eltham Pipe Band returns on Saturday evening from the trip to Dunedin. We have received from Mr J. O’Shea a contribution of £1 for the McGHnchy Fund. Just after midnight a taxi with several women passengers crashed through the railings of the Fitzgerald Avenue bridge, Christchurch, landing on its •side. Only one occupant was hurt, but the car was badly damaged, says a Press Association message. Carl Andrews, aged 13, of Ngatimoti, Nelson, was admitted to the public hospital with a- fractured leg. He was holding a rope attached to a horse when the animal bolted. The rope became entangled in the boy’s legs and he was thrown tQ the ground. —Press Assn. Mr C. Rowe, an Eltham horticultural enthusiast, had remarkable success at the Waitara Horticultural Show yesterday. Out of 10 entries for dahlias, sweet peas, asters, etc., he obtained 10 first prizes and the Aster Cup. A radio message forwarded by Mr. and Mrs G. Taylor, of Hawera, who are passengers on the Arawa en route to Great Bi’itain, was received in Hawera on Wednesday, intimating that they were experiencing a pleasant voyage, and conveying best wishes for the success of the Hawera Scottish Society during the second year of its activities, which has just commenced. A fireworks display held under the auspices of the Eltham Eire Brigade, for the purpose of raising funds to assist the competing team’s expenses at the Dunedin Demonstration, was held at Taumata Park last night. Although the evening was very fine and the display excellent, the attendance was not a large one, and consequently the profit on the venture will not he very big.

At the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton yesterday, Mr. Wilson, S.M., granted a re-hearing of the case in which a motor-’bus driver, Sydney Janies Thomas, was sentenced on Wednesday to seven days’ imprisonment for stealing the steering wheel and bonnet from a truck abandoned on the roadside at Horotiu. After evidence regarding accused’s character had been heard, the sentence was altered to probation for three years.—'Press Assn.

A cottage on a Broomlands (Raglan) farm was burnt down on Tuesday night (says a Press Association telegram). The occupant was a middle-aged man named Willis, who cannot be found. He told a Maori who works for him that he might go fishing. The farm abuts on the harbour, but, as he was a good swimmer, his drowning is considered unlikely. A! large party is out searching, but no traces have been discovered.

The beach at Moturoa (New Plymouth) was yesterday-visited by school children and parents from the schools of. Stratford, Eltham, and Normanby districts. It was estimated that 2,4Q0 were visitors to the beach, and the railway siding there presented a very busy appearance while they were waiting for tlie train. To-day it was expected that a train load would come from behind Stratford and that amongst them would be numbers of children who had never seen a train or the ocean.

A fatal accident which occurred on the Te Aivamutu-Ohaupo Road on the evening of December 12, when a motor, lorry returning from the Te Awamutu races upset, Ernest White being killed and another passenger injured, had a sequel in the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday, when the driver of the lorry, Leonard, Charles Davis, was charged “that, while in a state of intoxication, and whilst in charge of a motor-lorry, he caused the death of White.” The trial is likely to last two days.