EXCITING EXPERIENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 8

EXCITING EXPERIENCE.

MOTOR DRIVER AND MAD

PASSENGER

BY TELEGRAPH —PRRBS ASSOCIATION

DANNEVIRKE, Sep. 23. A motor car driver named James had an exciting experience while taking a passenger to Palmerston North yesterday. -When near Maharahara the fare asked him to increase the speed, but the driver refused, and the man, a tailor employed in Dannevirke, violently attacked him. James, who was alone, had a severe struggle with the. man who, when he had quietened down somewhat, was taken to Woodville, %vhere help was obtained. The passeng«T was brought back here to-day, certified to as insane, and committed to an asylum.

The live stock market in Southland is very animated, and big prices are being given for both fat sheep and cattle. Buyers of stook for export are scouring the country in all directions, and anything from forward stores to prime fat is finding its way to the slaughtering pens of the three freezing works in Southland. A line of 60 fat bullocks changed hands at 40s per 1001b which is probably a record price for beef for export. There is also a'keen demand for bulls for killing, with a view to shipment abroad.

The American .paper cup to invade England, and with it the paper plate and the paper tumbler. A speaker at the Blackpool sanitary conference' sounded a warning against crockery. The best washed dish, he said, retains some germs. It is cleaner and.safer to burn the whole service after each meal. This counsel apparently squares well enough with the necessities of present-day housekeeping. No doubt much of the tension between modern mail and mistress would go at a stroke if, broken dishes were no longer a possible cause of it.

Of 23 centenarians who died last year in the Commonwealth, eleven were residents of New South Wales and seven of Victoria. The oldest, centenarian on the list, which is included in a return issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr G. H: Knibbs),' was a grazier of New South Wales, who had the misfortune to meet his death through a fall when 112 years of age. He had lived in the Commonwealth for 96 years. Two women, aged respectively 108 and 102, succumbed to burns. One of them had resided in Australia for 93 years. The longest resident in the Commonwealth was 107 years. He was a gi-oom, who was boi-n at sea, and lived all his 107 years in Australia. Of two Australian natives, the oldest was 110 years. The total number of years of the 23 centeimrians was 2364, but only in 13 cases was senility given as the cause of death.