Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3550, 14 October 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An important general meeting of the Foxton Cricket Club will be held in Walls’ rooms to-night.

The sculling race for the New Zealand Championship between Hannon and Mason, has been fixed for November 27 at Whangarei. Two storemen, John Willis, married, aged 42 years, and Phillip .Allen, single, aged 21 years, employees of A. R. Hislop and Co., of Wellington, were discovered dead yesterday morning, their necks having been broken by the floor of a goods lift’descending upon their heads as they leaned over a breast high lift well bar on the groundfloor, of the building.

Apropos of Mr Bruce’s arrival in London, a Daily Express carlo n pictures John Bull as a lion welcoming the young bull from Australia, the inscription reading: “Come right in, lad. We've no coal fire, but

you’ll find my heart warm.” John W. Ashworth-Chadwick, a; middle-aged man, who kept a bookseller’s shop, near the Botanical Gardens, Dunedin, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday, suffering from a severe gash in the throat, which is presumed to have been self-in-flicted. The storm which broke in Canterbury on Sunday, has proved the most severe experienced during the Spring for many years. Snow was lying from two to six inches deep on the high country. It is feared that the mortality amongst lambs will be heavy on the hills, where lambing is later than on the plafcis. The ferry steamer Maori had a rough trip from Lyttelton in a heavy south-easterly gale on Tuesday night. A big sea running caused the vessel to roll considerably. The race horse Waetea fell down in his stall in the hold, and was badly knocked about by being kicked by other horses. He had to be conveyed from the wharf in a live stock cart. About thirty clmkkor, a great game bird in mountainous country, which were imported from Calcutta, have been liberated in part of the country considered by the Otago Acclimatisation Society to be suitable for the birds. They were released in splendid order after several months’ careful attention in the aviary. Another shipment of Chukkor is being obtained from Calcutta. A salesman employed by a firm of Blenheim land agents, was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of forging a deed of mortgage. Charged at Court he was remanded till October 20, bail being allowed in £SO and one surety of a like amount a condition being that the accused reports daily to the police. His name in the meantime was ordered to be suppressed. Following on the heavy rains a few days ago, the temperature dropped considerably on Tuesday night, with the result that a fairly severe frost was experienced locally. Considerable damage was done to early crops of potatoes and other tender plants, besides which it is probable that the frost will have a detrimental effect on early' crops of fruits.

After terrifying experiences at sea, the launch Dauntless and her three occupants (John McNeil, Patrick MfeLean and Paddy Breen), missing from Lyttelton since Sunday, were picked up by the ferry steamer Maori shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday morning. The launch had drifted forty miles up the coast and was buffeted by a howling southerly wind and mountainous seas.

At Ashburton on Tuesday, William Francis Halliburton, late land and financial agent, was committed for trial on three charges of theft of money, namely £152 17/11, £244 8/3, and £261 7/11. Evidence was to the first mentioned money on behalf of church property trustees, and in transmitting it, tendered his own cheque which was dishonoured. The other two sums were received by him under power of attorney and he used a portion in his own business. Accused pleaded not guilty. With no warning, only a red streak of flame to herald it, a ball of fire about 12 feet in diameter, burst with an ear-splitting, nervewracking report some little distance from a Moutoa settler on Sunday evening. It was while he was sitting in his cowshed milking that this unpleasant celestial phenomenon occurred, but luckily, with no damage other than a momentarily physical shock to the waiting animals, who were panic-stricken. The cowshed was undamaged by the electrical discharge.

Owing to the collapse of a staging on the waterfront at Timaru on Tuesday, three men were precipated twenty feet, to the ground. One, Michael Conway, about 30 years of age, sustained serious injuries, including a broken pelvis, from which he died. The others escaped with slight injuries. A Wanganui business man who has returned from Auckland, remarks on the extensive building operations that are going on there. The new railway station is to cost over £200,000, and will be one of lhe finest blocks of buildings in New Zealand, while it is claimed that a new hotel, to cost £IIO,OOO, will be the best hotel south of the Line. —Chronicle. Wm. Alfred Sandman, teller of the Bank of Australasia, was charged in the Dunedin Police Court on Tuesday with the theft of £660. Accused pleaded guilty, and said that gambling and horse racing had run him into debt, and he had stolen the money to get clear. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed in two sureties of £2OO, and £2OO in his own recognisance.

Five new aeroplanes have been ordered by the Wigram Aerodrome and will be purchased through the Air |Ministry at Home (states the Christchurch One of the new machines is a dual-control Bristol, and another type (D.H.50) will have accommodation for four people. Two fighters of the Bristol service,, type, and a scout aeroplane are the others ordered. Another wireless outfit that can be converted for either telegraphy or telephony is being obtained for the Wigram Aerodrome, recent experiments with a converted set having proved only partially successful.

“Well, Palmerston North seems to be a very sane place,” stated Mr A. M. Mowlcm, 8.M., of Mastodon, at the Magistrate’s Court on Monday, on it being mentioned during the hearing of a pillion riding case, that the carrying of’ passengers on the rear of motor cycles was permitted in Wellington and Wanganui. “When T go along the country roads in my district,” said His Worship, “and, see the risks people run through pillion riding, I marvel that they don’t meet with more accidents. They seem to have a special Providence watching over their heads. How a young lady could trust herself in this case on the rear of a clattering mass of) machinery is bevond me.”

A speaker at a public meeting in Palmerston N. on Tuesday night, said that Palmerston’s total indebtedness was £883,702, or oyer £2OO an acre. Add to that the private* indebtedness of property owners and our national debt, and they would see that they were very heavily committed indeed. If they set the number of property owners at 4000 then the indebtedness a head was aver £2OO. Tn the next seven years Palmerston X. would have falling due loans totalling £280,500, and no provision having been made for their repayment, more than possibly, the burgesses would, in that time, be compelled to renew them at a higher rate of interest. Discussing marriage in India, at his lecture, in Palmerston N., the Lev. Mr Long stated that the ceremony lasted 10 days and during that time, the bride was subject to all kinds of treatment, including leasing. “Widowhood, however,” he added, “brings down upon the woman a curse which is hardly bearable.” Whereas prior to her misfortune she is clo/thed in finery and jewels, these have to be discarded for kitchen towelling and, banned from enjoyment, the unfortunate woman is sent to the back of the house, aijd becomes the slave of her sons, daughters and nieces. At one time she was spat on, but now this form of contempt has been abolished.

The most original event) in Auckland dramatic circles this year was undoubtedly the Chinese play produced in Chinese.at Scots Hall on Monday evening. For weird, outlandish amusement and a good laugh, it could not be beaten, says one exchange. The Chinese portion of the audience laughed* hugely because it understood the comedy. The European section laughed because it did not understand it. Without a speaking knowledge of the language, it would be presumptuous to comment upon the merits of the play or even pretend to knowledge of what it was all about. “Oy Kwok Yuen Yong” was its title, and that should be enough. It was written by W,ai Poi, the president of the Auckland Branch of the Chinese NationA novelty has appeared on the market in the shape of a toasted tobacco, which has caused quite a sensation in smokers’ circles. The process of toasting seems to have a most beneficial effect upon tobacco, similar to what cooking, broiling and roasting has on food. It develops the flavour and makes generally more savoury and appetising, and last, but not least, also more digestible. Small wonder that the local product has greatly gained in popularity through this latest improvement, and smokers are advised to give it a trial. There are three grades obtainable now —Riverhead Gold, a very mild and aromatic smoke; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength; and if you prefer a full body, try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label. All made of a new type of leaf famous for its small percentage of nicotine. Doctors and experts proclaim them to be healthier than most of the foreign tobaccos; and another consideration is their lower cost. They will reduce your tobacco bill by 30 per cent. Caversham Mixture is the latest,addition.

A loan poll was carried at Featherston yesterday on a proposal to raise £2,000 for street and footpath improvements. Observing that it was hard to beiieve that the slum conditions he had seen in the principal cities of New Zealand did actually exist, Mr R. B. Hammond, Director of Town Planning, during his address at the opening of the Health week campaign in the Wellington Town Hall, stressed the necessity for modern suburban development in the Dominion. The meaning of the word -him, lie said, should not be known lo New Zealanders

Qualification for the headmastership of Merchant. Talvors school, which, it is announced, will be vacant at Christchurch, were laid down by the company with great precision when the school was founded, says a London paper. The headmaster was to be “a man in body whole, sober, discrete, honest vertuous, and learned in good and cleane Latin literature, and also in Greeke, if such may be gotten.”

“Members of the Government Party occasionally harass the Government,” said the Hon.G. J. Anderson in a speech at Auckland on Saturday afternoon. “But we don’t potter about trying to deal with them. We simply go straight ahead.” The audience of commercial men laughed heartily at the allusion, apparently forgiving the two monstrous puns. Mr. Hands was present, sitting in the front row, but his fellow champion of the motor-bus episode, Mr. Potter, had an apology for absence.