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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9855, 24 July 1914, Page 4

Palmeratoa Nort*. The New Zealand Horo ' tats has arrived after Issrinaiden voyago (says a UmdMOSMaJ, k She oarnos two 1.7 guns for sstf-protsotton and two s«t, of wireless A first offender .for msoetiety was con. rioted and ordated to pay * <* b n {™ •• the Court this mmnWti aaeesrs " J Haynes and A. J. Chanem, J.P. •, presided. I It was aetfesiUe'at 4* &B*&* & urt last week that tfiwe we* a distinct differ fence in the types of aativs witnesses (say. Ithe Tamnekt Herald's «WP°^ P i 11 '- They wen aM very intelligent, but differlently mannered. One witnoes was an .x----ample «» all with his "No, sir, J eg, tir/' Another spoke mcejy, but.without polish. The third spoke of bw father «» r< my old man," and addressed his eoun*l aa "Mac." The ttanhevirke Chancer of Commoro. is anxious that a protest should be made, ♦ because the rates for the carriage of freight on the South Wand are much lower than those in the North. The complaint cum before the Council of the Wellington i\u tral Chamber of Commerce, when it wu» decided to point out to the Northern body that the difference was only to be expect ed, for the railways in the South had to compete to a greater extent than those in the North with steamer traffic. Mr D. Buick, jun., of Kairanga. lost one of his thoroughbred horses on 9feOnc*day evening. The horse was being taken along Main Street when it became fractious, and collided with a passing motor-car. The horse bolted into Grey Street snd then into Terrace Street and down Featherston Street to the High School, where its propress was arrested. As the animal was found to have broken a leg it was destroyed. The motor-car was slightly damaged.

Included in the dances to be girveo at the juvenile fancy dress ball on Wednesday evening next will he a number of fancy ones by children from several local schools. The** should have a. very pretty and pleasing effect. The committee is an enthusiastic body, and is sparing no pains to make the affair a big success, and indications point to such a realisation. A meeting of the committee was held this afternoon. The ball is being organised to help in the liquidation of the debt on All Saints new church, and will be held in the Agricultural Hall at the Showground. A practice will take place at the hall at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and all children taking part are requested to bo present. A man named Brice had a very fortunate escape from death owing to a gun accident at Taihape this week. He was getting through a fence on the State Farm road, when the pea-rifle he was carrying went off. The bullet entered just above the right cheek-bone, and passim? through his head, lodged in the flesh bel9e his left ear. The injured man appeared to be in a very bad way, but when medical assistance was procured it was found that his injuries were not as serious as was expected, owing to tfie outlet missing the vital parts. Brice is making good progress towards recovery. The Ashburton correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that Mr W. Begg, farmer, of Ashton (Ashburton County), recently had a very unpleasant experienoe while attempting to ford the Ashburton River near its mouth after dark. He, with a companion, was driving a young horse, and when about half-way across the stream the trap capsized in a deep hole. Mr Begg was pinned underneath the vehicle, but, fortunately, his companion was thrown clear. The horse was drowned, but for the cool, brave courage of his friend Mr Begg would have lost his life. It was with great difficulty, and when he was bordering on a state of collapse, that he was assisted to the bank.

In the vicinity of the Round Bush, a j well-known landmark on tho southern slopes of Ruapchu, a somewhat unusual sight awaits the passing traveller. Ono notices skeletons of sheep hung up, in some cases from four to six feet from the ground, in branches of the manuka scrub that nourishes near by. How did they get there? The explanation is a simple one. The locality is visited by heavy falls of snow, and j the ground is frequently covered to a depth of from two to throe feet. The scrub be--1 comes weighed down. The sheep, in strugI gling over the snow nocking for shelter, i are often entangled in the lower branches, and in their weakened condition are unable to escape. They die, and the snow in melting releases the deadly trap in which they have been caught, with the result that the branches fly back to their original position, taking the carcases with them.— Waiiaarino County Call ] If you want to catch an early train there i is no need now to buy a special alarm clock j (says the -London Evening Standard); if you want, in fact, to do anything at any particular time, there is no need to rely either upon your own efforts or upon the possibility of Eliza Jane failing to call you. All you have do do is to ring up from your own number the supervisor of your own exchange. You tell her your number, and state that you want to be called, say, at 7.30 to-morrow morning, or, indeed, at any time of the day or night. The request is docketed by the supervisor and given to the operator, who rings your bell at the appointed time, and keeps ringing it until you answer. For this service the charge of 3d per call is added to your account. 'Of course, the system has its disadvantages. If you have no bedside telephone and only want to be reminded to take your medicine every two hours, it would be rather disconcerting to have to walk down three flights of stairs in the dark every time to stop the bell ringing in the hall, so that you could get to sleep again. But that can' be obviated by having an extension wire fitted to your instrument, so that on such occasions it tan rest with your watch and your book and the reading lamp on trie reading table P ext to your bod. A more serious difficulty » the human clement of error at tho exchange, with the dread possibility of a wrong number. A case of pitiable poverty anfl want oame under the notice of a Christehurch reporter last week. In a small cottage in Milne street, hpreydon, live a woman and her three children, whose ages range from two to six years. The woman and the children were neatly but poorly dressed, and it was evident that they'were having a hard struggle to make ends meet. In tho counts of conversation, the woman said that her husband was at present in the mental hospital at Ponrua, and that there was verv little chance that he would ever be dischsnred. During the late strike, when her husband was out of work, she went out washing, and had kept herself, her husband, and fiv/i SS I * B U.™3 tW ° of whom *e» now m the charge of her sister in WellingI 7u* oleven wceks ■"«» her husband had been sent to Porirua, and ever herself and ih© three children. She UvinTL% > . feß S[ }"* P««**»»y been £v. g A? TC' tW ° m ° nth «- T *« aa\s in the week the woman goes out wash- ?«•>» d *y» «he takes in and on i h °7 *\««»««d with theTiß wont iSti %~&?\ ST E school?" ** * UOWwi to ieod hi * <*>

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ttEETt fcr # he ww re* *a» AilrmtfcJ C »£7 jTr *"* offence *SH* «Sfe nt m % fcttoke" J Rat fc t an RSfV r?^ "! i he Magistrate, as ho •ned the defendant £l with coata (14s). tW*™J™ "s"* ise of the **itim Vtm > among the mission stations in the Melanesian Islands (states the New Zea ISUM?' ?" ***** 0f Ambryn, the «owL ?*!l rOU8 1 ?t u P tion a months •go was passed The volcano was still fSSSraL *"»* quantities of volcanic dust; which almost completely obKTSJI wUn i * leeward - The people m Jof jsa * the distu& What is supposed to be the first shipment of wheat shipped from South Australia to South America was taken by the s.s. Hottye which sailed from Wallaroo on the CTth ult The consignment (says the Sydney Commercial News) consisted of 80 - 000 bags, and is destined for Brazil. It is underrtood that the cargo will be mixed with the South American product, with a view to improving the flour, and, if this is the case, the result will no doubt be await-1 ed with much interest. A truck containing furniture was burned on Friday night at Waverley racecourse («ys the Hawera Star). When the evening goods train from Wangamu was entering the station yard the driver noticed smoke conv ing from a truck in the yard. It proved to be loaded with furniture, and was to have been taken.up the Mam Trunk line on Saturday. The tram staff saved some of the furniture. but moat of A waa destroyed. Among the things burned was & piano in a case. It is the furniture was owned by Mr Bnehall of Whenuakura, who lately sold out his farm and was going up Hamilton way. The dairy industry has made substantial progress in the Masterton district during the past season all the factories having handled a much greater supply of milk than m the previous year (reports the rimes). Great progress is still anticipated in the coming season, and most of the factories will be enlarged in order to cope with •I inCTeased ftfW ° f milk. The cheese industry has shown great expansion in the *ortv Mile Bush during the season just closed Two new co-operative companies have been formed during {he past few montn «, and additions are being made to several factories in readiness for next season. Ihe output of cheese factories i n South WairaTapa increased about 20 per cent, compared with the previous season. Eighteen years ago Messrs Weddel and U> shipped a quarter of beef from Queensland to Malta, and it remained until this year in the cold storage rooms of the Army meat contractor there. A month ago these TOO J na . were .taken over by the Government, and the antique hindquarter was sent Home o 8 a i.c U i r i o * & made its a PPearance in bmithfield, when a group of blue-smocked experts gathered round to watch the joint thawing itself out in the blood and suet laden atmosphere, of the Central Market. A hole was bored in the haunch, and samples of beef were "extracted and were pronounced to be sound meat. To keep the joint fresh for eighteen years it has cost at the rate of one penny per stone per month for storage about £1 a year, more than Beven times the original value of the beef —which would be about £2 10s.