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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1924, Page 4

Diphtheria is very prevalent in New Plymouth at the present time. At the Blenheim Magistrate's Court a case was mentioned in which a local dentist agreed to accept Is a week off an account of close en £5.

The subject of foot and mouth disease was mentioned in the House of Representatives yesterday when Mr Smith (Taranaki) gave notice of intention to ask what steps have been taken to prevent the introduction of ■foot and mouth disease into the Dominion.

F.rncst Lomond, aged 35, a marred man, the engineer at the Timaru brickworks, was palling off a belt on the engine in order to stop it yesterday, when he was caught in tlie belt and twisted round (he shall. Hi.- body was fearfully mutilated, having to be cut from the shafting. A poll of ratepayers of the Mangaonc riding in th<s Kairanga county was conducted yesterday on a proposal to borrow £2OOO for the purpose of renewing the culverts and bridges. Little interest was evinced in (he matter, only 43 votes being recorded —30 in favour of the proposal and 15 against it.

The annual report of St. Paid's Methodist Church states thai movements are in jwogress for holding teacher-training classes, under the Rev. K. I\ Blaraires, next August, r.ud the ministers of the town have undertaken to establish a local training institute, and are only awaiting the response ot the teachers to inaugurate classes.

A Montreal brewery advertised that it would give a bottle of beer and a free drink to all persons who applied for them. A crowd estimated at 25.000 stormed the doors, and the police reserves had to be called out. The crowd included many women with children in arms, cripples, and people of all walks in life. Many lost their hats and had their clothing torn in the rush.

At the Hamilton Supreme Court, Lucy Jenkis. widow, of Manunui, claimed £2500 damages from the I'uker.eka Sawmill Company for the loss of her husband, who was killed while working on a locomotive belonging to the company. Evidence was given that a log on the side of the line telescoped the locomotive, killing the claimant's husband. The jury awarded £2OOO, one-third to go to the widow and two-thirds to the children. At the meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union on Thursday evening it was announced that the official party to accompany the All Blacks so fa? comprised: Judge Acheson (Auckland), Messrs \V. S. Dustin (Wangnnui), 11. Murphy (Wellington). L. C. Simpson (Wellington). W*. 11. Stephens (Pahner-ton North). A. K. Stephens (West Coast). G. D. Gray (Otago) and E. J. Bennett (Ilawera).

Considerable difficulty was experienced by vehicular traffic, particularly the milk floats, in negotiating the Ashburton bridge carlv on a recent, morning. Right rain fell during the night, and this remained on the asphalt dressing of the bridge, only to become frozen soon after. Consequently when traffic commenced in the morning the bridge surface was more or loss iced over. More than one milkman had to take his horse out of the cart, lead it over the bridge as near as the edge as possible, where the surface was comparatively free of ice, and then drag the cart across. "Field's express" has at last made its appearance in the authorised time-table published t>y the N.Z. Government railways. 3t, has taken a very long time to get there, and we take it that, its appearance after a great length of time indicates that it is now officially recognised as supplying "a long-felt need." The train is well patronised en the whole. Leaving Rahnerston at 6.55 a.m. daily, it gets into Wellington at 10.52. but makes a more expeditious run back in the evening, leaving Thomdon at -six oVk>ck and arriving in Pahnerston North at 9.55, thus giving business men and others seven hours in tl«? metropolis, where formerly fe«F«Uerc by the 7.10 a.m. train from Palrnerston desirous of returning from Wellington the same clay had only four hours in the city. Memo ior Itoitters.—The C. M. Rosa Co., Ltd., wish to remind all those who liave garments to enter for their knitting competition that the closing date is positively Monday, June 30th. Competitors are kindly requested to forward their exhibits at their earliest convenience.— Advt. For children's hacking coughs. Woods' great peppermint cure. —Advt

At the Auckland Police Court yesterday. Augustus Gordon Roose, storekeeper formerly of Dargaville, was committed for trial on two charges of absconding after the presentation of his bankruptcy petition and two of concealment of property. Accused pleaded not guilty. An Auckland telegram states that Lawrence Wyutt, aged 19, formerly employed on a farm at Omahu, who was in hospital there for heart trouble caused by acute rheumatism, was found at three o'clock this morning dead, haying cut nis throat with a razor. He had not given any evidence of a suicidal tendency, and despite his infirmity was generally of a chereful disposition. At the Auckland Police Court yesterday a negro namod Archie • Walter Taylor, alius James Arthur Pollard, aged 35, at present serving a sentence of five years' imprisonment for theft, was charged with bigamy. It was alleged that he mairied Alice May Spry at Collingwood, Melbourne, on October 7, 1912, and 8t Wellington on January 21. 1916, be went through a form of marriage with Annie Elizabeth Mitchell. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Nominations closed yesterday for the election of live members of the yYanganui Education Board. The retiring members, all of whom were again nominated, were as follows: Messrs K. V. Laws (Wanganui urban area). \V. V. Durward (Pal-mer.-lon North urban area), W. A. Collins (Went Ward), A. J. Joblin (North Ward), and U. Mclntyce (South Ward). Dr. Mitchell, of Huntecville, was alto nominated for the Northern Ward, and that will be the only ward in which there will be an election.

An amusing incident occurred at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Cuba street and Manners street (says the New Zealand Times). lour young ladies \Tere crossing the street when behind them sounded a motor-car horn. The young ladies, slightly alarmed, hurried back to the footpath to avoid the supposed motor-cgr when a small lad on a bicycle whizzed past them. Instead of a bell ha was using a motor-car horn to warn pedestrians of his approach, and when he tooted the horn they stood not on the order of going! The Marlborough Power Board, after a full discussion of reports from the engineers of the Clarence river hydro-electric scheme, with a vie* to including Kaikoura in the scheme, decided to reject it on account of the extra expense, totalling £83,000, and decided in favour of the Waihopai scheme, estimated to cost £500.000 (says a Press Association message). The secretary was instructed to take the necessary steps to secure Government sanotion of the proposal. It will be necessary also to obtain the sanction of the ratepayers.

Among tin competitors who intended taking part in the great tourist trophy motor cycle race in the Isle of Man this year was Mr J. Bweeny, the well-known Palmerston North rider, who left for England a while back. It will be remembered that lie was severely injured as the result of a fall from his machine at Marion early this year, and was for some weeks a patient at a private hospital in that town. The Isle of Man race, which is the world's c|a*sic in its class, was to commence on Wednesday, but so far no cabled results have come to hand.

The Waihemo, with a heavy list to port, steamed to Port Chalmers on Wednesday with No. 2 hold awash. The vessel left Pert Chalmers last Saturday afternoon for Nauru Island via Newcastle. On Sunday, when clearing Foveaux Strait she ran into heavy weather, and a heavy sea came up. Having no cargo the position became critical. The propeller was partly out of the water, and ineffectual attempts wore made to alter the course. Hours passed and the conditions did not improve. Eventually the Waihemo was headed back for Foveaux Strait. At about midnight on Tuesday Donald Broderick, a seaman, fell down a hold, and was severely injured. He was conveyed to the Dunedin hospital after the ship's arrival, where his condition if reported to be satisfactory.