LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 August 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday (August 21) was the u9t.li annivensairy of the first attack on Te Ngutu-o-te~Man u iby a. force under Eieiit.-Ciolonel McDonnell, when four Muropean s were killed and eight wounded. The big .disaster 1<). the Colonial forces onau'rred nearly a. mouth later—September V. A resident of Sprcydon, Christchurch, was very surprised the other day to find a plug of dyna.Tni.te buried in his supply of household coal. There was not detonator aiUiivched. Breaking in.tr> the premises of A. IC. Strange, radio and electrical engineer, at Orni'stchureh, during the week-end thieves seem reel about £l3O worth, of .radio apparatus. The thieves entered by breaking the lock of the strong iron gate which closes the right-of-way, and then got into the shop iby forcing two hoards off the door. The burglars concentrated on small, expensive pieces of wireless apparatus.

The wet weather yesterday spoilt the day for Dawson Falls, and there were ouiy a. few carloads that braved theelement,!,. Those who did go up, however, enjoyed the outing, finding the road in good order. The weather lias lK’en for",some time unfavourable for c iml>ing, and no ascents lmive been made lately. There are rumours of :a threatened strike of the BCK) men at the Addington Railway workshops, as ai protest against the iniquity which, they claim, is represented by the transfer of men to tiie/ Hillside workshops, Dunedin, says the “Dominion.” There is general dissatisfaction, and the Tradesmen's Association and the A.S.R.S. men will meet shortly to decide on a course of action.

A Wanganui grocer has been reading She nock Holmes, and when he missed some money from the till he decided to put some of the Sherlock hints into practice, with the Jesuit that lie straightway brought off a scoop, says an exchange. lie marked a. lOs note and smeared the door handle of the office with ink. His suspicions Here Jeoifiect, iior one of his employees, when challenged, had to produce the tell-tale fingers for inspection. Tlie young man was charged at the Wanganui Court with stealing 10s and £l, and was remanded. Mi - . J'. E. Giegg, who lias been for a number of years sales manager for Messrs Purser and Suisted, Ltd., Hawera, and previously for many years with Pursers, Ltd., Wanganui, is joining the staff of Messrs Geo. Syme and C 0.., Ltd. (Mr. Gregg will be in complete charge of the furnishing warehouse which Messrs Syme are opening in High Street, Hawera. In the meantime, from Monday, August 22, Mr. Gregg will be at their warehouse in Princes Street.* A severe epidemic of measles is a 1 present rraging at the Central infant School (New Plymouth) and on Friday morning there were 108 -children absent out of a. roiLl number of 251. Wihile there are a few eases at the Centra! /School, other town schools are not affected to any appreciable extent-. “Herald.” A visitor from Taranaki who had just been through Hawke’s Bay ji: quest of killing cattle informed a “Dannevirke News” representative that it paid him better to buy cattle at Hastings and truck them to Taranaki than to buy on the West Coast, as, despite the transit expenses, ‘the cattle proved cheaper than if /bought in Taranaki.

A tragedy iva s narrowly averted at Feiiding on Friday when the Limited crashed into the trailer of a motorlorry, reducing it to a mass of splintered wood ancl crumpled iron. The occupants of the lorry missed death by inches. The Limited, which does not stop at Feikling, was passing through the town at a .fair speed, sounding the whistle at various crossings, but the driver of a Power Board truck did not hear the warning in isufficient time to stop or accelerate. Fortunately the truck was. over the line, but the trailer was just passing over the /rails when the engine struck it. The connecting pole between truck and trailer was snapped by the force of the impact, and the latter vehicle was carried some fifty yards before being thrown clear. The Limited pulled up, and it was found that the engine was considerably damaged, but it was able to proceed. No one was injured.