LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The value of building permits issued in Hawera during September amounted to £2742 10s. "

Annual meeting of Otakeho Tennis Club 011 Saturday.

The Waverley Co-operative Dairy Company has been offered 6£d for the season's output of cheese. The company has not accepted the offer.

A terrific hailstorm," fortunately of short duration, passed over Korth Manakau some days ago, when the stones were said to be nearly as large as ping-pong balls. In consequence of the fall many trees were stripped of their foliage-

The grass grub ha© made its appearance in some of the strawberry gardens in the Lower Moutere di&trict (Nelson), and threatens to ruin the crops. Two years ago this pest did serious damage, but last season it was apparently dormant. Some gardens in the same district are unaffected, and the plants are looking particularly well.

According to the Wanganui Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, there has been much mortality in that town among old people this year. . On one day registration papers for, five persons were received. The youngest of the five was 74 and the^el-.le&t 86.

Building operations at the Opera House are progressing rapidly, the contractor (Mr Tong) heing exceedingly fortunate in not having been delayed a single hour on account of weather conditions. The roof to the addition should be on in a day or two, and then all speed will be made to finish the interior. Marked improvements are also noticeable in the old portion of the Opera House. The dress circle and body of the hall have been painted and re-papered, and the lighting power has been considerably strengthened.

A shocking accident befel a young man named Frank Rae, while engaged in felling bush at a station at Mangatu. Poverty Bay. An overhead vine caught the axe while Eae was in the act of making a blow, and deflected the stroke. The full force of the blow struck the young man on the cheek, inflicting a terrible gash. After faint-» ing several times from loss of blood, Rae, with heroic fortitude, rode eighteen miles to Rangitutu, caught the coach to Puha, and went in by train to Gisborne. He was conveyed to a private hospital, where his injuries were attended to. The wound was of such a nature that it was necessary to put in no fewer than twelve stitches.

One day last week a young man named Harvey met with a rather unpleasant experience (says the Dannevirke News). He was working with a party of bushfellers on the Ituahine Ranges near Raumai, and left work at noon to proceed to the camp, a distance of about ten chains. He lost his way, and was not found until he had been over 24 hours in the bush and had crossed the summit of the ranges. A search party which had been out from the Camp since daylight came upon him in the vicinity of the Manawatu Gorge, near Woodville, when he was almost exhausted. Luckily, the Weather at the time was good, otherwise a more serious mishap might have befallen him. •

A Napier paper describes a sensation which was caused in the local hospital by a Maori patient, who was in the institution suffering from pneumonia. During the night he became delirious, and acquired a mania for smashing lamps. He sprang out of bed, diverted" himself of his night attire, and rushed down the passage. On the way down he encountered a nurse, hit out and knocked her over, and then rushed outside. A light at the entrance gates attracted his attention, arid for this he made a beeline. He was captured after a struggle, in which the night porter and another man received black eyes, and taken back to bed. Just as he was being strapped down1 the burly native espied a light above him. With one great leap, he freed himself of his captors, and smashed. the lamp with one blow, leaving the1 room in darkness. A scufflle ensued, but he was eventually overpowered and strapped down. Then the relapse came, and left him weak as a "child.