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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 4

The Maiiawatu Swimming Centre decided last night lo make application for the 1926 New Zealand championships to be bold in Palmerston North. A river settler staled to a Wanganui Chronicle reporter yesterday that the bellbird was increasing in numbers and had been seen of late near Parikino and Ilipango Park. The New Plymouth Harbour Board's proposal to raise a loan of £600,000 for an extensive scheme of improvement and development at the port was carried by a poll of ratepayers of the harbour district yesterday by 2696 votes to 129.

The Wairarapa Gold Claims, Lid., lias been successful in engaging as manager of the claims of tho Kawurau Mr George Pettigrew, whoso reputation as manager of several former iUasleilon gold companies is well known.

A line of 2000 lambs, transported to the Wuingawa (Masterton) works by Motor lorries, killed out with excellent results. There were four rejected (two deformed and two bruised), two seconds, and the remainder firsts, with an average weight of 36ilbs. The composition of tho Main Trunk express on a recent evening was an unusual one. There were as many sleeping cars as there were second-class carriages—five of each. Three of the sleepers were occupied by wool buyers. The total number of carnages on the train was 17. At the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday, Arthur Motley appeared on remand on a charge that on November 26, at Bangataua, he did wilfully set lire to a building. On the application of the police, the accused was further remanded to appear at Ohakune on Wednesday next.

At yesterday’s meeting of .the Patea County Council the chairman said he hoped all councillors would pay their rates before the end of the month, and thus set a good example to the ratepayers. It angered ratepayers to pay their rates and then find the councillors were still in arrears.

“This appears to bo a ease of someone being ‘taken down’ and I am going to claim my expenses and hand them over to the Mayor’s Christmas fund,” stated a local solicitor who appeared as a witness in a civil action heard in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Several people residing in the vicinity of the Linton street tennis courts have been startled lately by the whizz of small calibre rifle bullets which have passed unpleasantly near. In one case, at least, it is reported that a house was under a miniature bombardment.

It was stated at last night’s, meeting of the Terrace End School Committee that the inspector had informed the headmaster that so far no school in his district had attained such success in the pronciency examinations as Terrace End School had clone. The headmaster was congratulated on the results achieved which were 55 proficiency and two competency certificates, the' pupils presented totalling 57.

In a case at Wellington wherein a resident of Evans Bay proceeded. against the City Council for an injunction, also claiming damages sustained through the smoke nuisance from the new electric light and power house, Mr O’Sheu, city solicitor, claimed that tho council was quite within it 3 rights in doing what it had done, and applied for a non-suit. The Magistrate suid he would consider the matter, and tho hearing was adjourned.

By escaping from the watchful eye of their attendants, climbing a fence, running through a kitchen garden, and then hiding in some bushes, two young male inmates of the Auckland .Menial Hospital, on Saturday afternoon, had a temporary period of liberty. But it lasted but a short time, both the young men, who are between 22 and 23 years of age, being safely returned to the hospital witlnn a few hours after their escape. “The curse of England, in the opinion of tlie Englishmen t met while at lioine,” said Mr E. \V. Temple, of Masterton, to an Age reporter, “is tho system of Unemployment doles.” At Bristol, Mr Temple said, he saw a queue of unemployed extending over a quarter of a mile waiting for the dole. The question agitating the minds of those in power was how to end this pernicious system without causing an industrial upheaval. Most business /non he hud met considered that, before Britain could create employment for her vast army of unemployed the European tangle would have to be straightened out. Germany must bo put on her feet again. It seemed strange to a New Zealander, said Mr Temple that, while conditions were so unsettled, “soap-box” orators were allowed to preach sedition and disloyalty in tho public parks while policemen'stood calmly by doing nothing. Mr \V. T. Farrell, of India, will speak in the Kosy Hall to-night at 7.30. His subject is “Prayer,” and Christians are especially invited. A good opportunity for ladies to purchase a reliable English washable doeskin glove at a very low price at Collinson and Cunuinghame’s this week. While doeskin gauntlet gloves effectively stitched with black, well made and perfect _ fitting. These were 19s 6d but the special gift price is only 9s lid pair. Bo sure and get a pair of these before they are all sold at Collinson and Gunuinghame’s.—Advt.

One firm of brokers has railed MOO bales of wool from the Masterton district foi til Wellington sale next - week. The infections diseases notified ™e Palmerston North health district ]»■*»«* were one of diphtheria and three P mo il fam . A number, of timber mills in Otago and Southland are closing down early tn year, and as a result several hundied men have been .thrown out of employment. While out with a party a boat, : oin the Waikato river an enginedriver of Mercer, W llham - lard, aged 37, a married mail, was shot n the side owing to a pea-rifle accidentally discharging. The bullet struck one o .Mallard’s ribs. lie was taken to the W aikato Hospital: where he is making satisfactory progress.

The Pahintuu Borough Council has resolved that a reduction in the number ol councillors from nine to six shall taae effect next April. The council also favourably considered a proposal lor the formation of . a fire board, and will probably submit it to u poll at the municipal elections.

A number of windows in Terrace End have been broken recently, in most caseo at night time. The missies used by those responsible appear to be fuzes similar to ones removed some time ago from electric light standards in the Square. Church ana school windows have received attention from the larrikins us well us those in private homes.

“There is a great deal of unemployment in England and constant talk of shortage of money,” *said Dr. J. Blnckmore, of Christchurch, who arrived in Auckland by the Niagara this week. “At the Game time, during public, holidays, the pleasure resorts were simply swamped with well-dressed, well-fed people who seemed to have no luck of money to spend.” In the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. Thomas Marsh was acquitted on three charges, namely, that he had unlawfully broken into the dwelling of Charles Hundley (his father-in-law) at Urenui; that he had been unlawfully on the premises with intent to commit a crime; at.“J thul he had been unlawfully on the promises.

Considerable difficulty was experienced in Auckland yesterday in berthing the Maraina. which arrived from Sydney. The vessel was swung by the tide, and her bow touched the steamer Pakipaki, lying at Prince's Wharf. The barrier formed by the vessel closed the basin to the ferry steamers, some of which were delayed for some minutes. It was not long, however, before the Maraina was berthed.

A'silver button, dug up in a garden at Te Papapa, Auckland, is occasioning the finder, Mr \V. Thomas, no little curiosity as to its identity. The letters R.A.F.B. embossed on it may, he thinks, have reference to a regiment of the Imperial forces which fought in tho province during the Maori wars. On the reverse side is the maker’s name, Shand Mason, Blackfriars. The button was found about a foot below the surface, and is in an excellent state of preservation.

A Dunedin telegram slates that, writing from Washington, Sir Lindo Ferguson litis notified the Otago University Council that he has secured from the college of Physicians of Philadelphia between 11.000 and 12,000 valuable medical volumes, duplicates of the college’s magnificent collection, for the Otago University library. The Philadelphia authorities hud no power to donate the books, but offered them at tho nominal price of 10 cents each, whereas many are valued at 10 dollars. The Minister of Railways (the lion. J. G. Coates) stated yesterday that it had been decided to call applications throughout the British Empire ns well as in New Zealand for the position of chief mechanical engineer of the New Zealand Railways, which has been rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr E. E. Gillon. The salary offered is >1137 '-per annum. Pending the appointment of a successor tb Mr Gillon, Mr R. P. Sims, assistant chief mechancal engineer, will have charge of the mechanical side of the department.

An endeavour on the part of three men to get a cheap trip by the Moeraki, which arrived in Wellington on Monday from Melbourne, was frustrated by the vigilance of the purser, who discovered the stowaways f .*vheii the bout was a day out from Melbourne. One of the uninvited guests paid up immediately, but- the other two did not, for the sufficient reason that they did not have the wherewithal to pay. They were met by the police on the arrival of the ship at Wellington, but on giving an undertaking that the money, for which they had telegraphed, would be paid, no action was taken against them. A Press Association telegram from New)’ Plymouth states that Dr. Clapp, consulting geologist for the Taranaki Oilfields. Ltd., when interviewed, said that drilling will commence at Tarata immediately and that preparations had been made to drill on the foreshore close to high-water mark at Moturoa within the shelter of the breakwater. The geologists will make an extensive survey preparatory to locating the site of the third bore. Mr Osborne, geologist of Sydney University, has joined the staff and another is to be appointed. Two complete drilling plants are already on the ground. A peculiar incident, that of the reappearance of a long-lost wedding ring on the Te Anau-Milford track, is reported by Mr S. J. Collett, of the Government. Tourist Department, who has recently visited the Sounds on the West Coast, Mr Collett] states that one of the trackmen employed by the department, when making a new ] waterway, discovered tho ring, and the | oldest “inhabitant” on tho track staled : that he remembered faintly a honeymoon i couple losing the bride’s wedding ring many years ago and their distress over tho matter. Unfortunately -no note of the name i or address of the couple was taken. The i ring was inscribed: “From John to May.” j