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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 142, 20 May 1925, Page 4

When engaged in the Wanganui railway yards, Gilbert Tremaine, a married ma i aged 33, was run over by a horse truck, both legs being practically severed. He was taken to the Hospital where he died.

At tho Police Court at Wairoag Charles lie ary Ford was charged with the theft of goc ds valued at £7l 12s lOd while employed by R. S. Herbert, storekeeper, Nuliaka. Accused was remanded till Friday, bail in £1(0 being granted. ,y il votes to seven the University •Senate at Christchurch yesterday expressed approval of raising tho matriculation nge fron 16 to 17 years, on the motion of professor Hunter, who said they were getting int) the universities many pupils with immaturity of mind, and that they would greatly benefit from another year at school.

A large number of Gisborne cyclists had their machines stolen recently, and the police are constantly having such thefts reported, states an exchange. In some instances the bicycles have been found in different parts of the town within a fow days of the theft, in others they have not bei n heard of since. ,

Through confusing the lamps of a motor cai with a number of lights burning as warning signals where repair work is being dole on the Great South road, Auckland, a resident of the city, Mr T. Frazer, stepped in front of a motor car on an evening of last week and was knocked down. He was severely hurt about the head, and legs.

There has been presented to the Alexanler Turnbull Library, Wellington, by M:- Percy D’E. Hodgkins, a folio of water oo;our sketches by his late father, Mr \V Ilium Mathew Hodgkins, founder and president of the Otago Art Society. Tho sketches number 48, and include half-a-dozen pencil, many of which are almost finished pictures. Tho scenes are at Timiiru, Akaroa, Sumner and Wellington, and they are mostly dated 1868-69.

When Mrs Wyn Wills was driving in a gig to Patea from Kakaramea recently (states a Taranaki exohange) one of a mob of cattle, with a couple of dogs at its heels, rushed straight for the horse. With great presence of mind she swerved it to one site, with the result that the bullock insti ad of hitting the horse, hit the wheel of th 3 gig, throwing tho occupants out of tl: sir seats, but fortunately not out of the gj r. As showing the force of the impact, til ire was subsequently found a hole nearly he if an inch deep made in the wheel by th 3 bullock’s horn.

Fugi silk is used so extensively these days for underwear as well as fiock9 that women will bo glad to know that an exceptionally good line is to be ol>tained at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd’s. Pure natural fugi silk, 29ins. wide, only 3s 6d yard net cash. —See it. —Advt-

The Auckland City Council has fixed the Mayor’s honorarium at £SOO per annum. Two new motor pumps ordered in England by the Gisborne Fire Board are to be capable of forcing water a distance oi 1000 foot. -

The AH Black team to visit New South Wales next month will play a match versus Wellington on 3rd June, leaving for Auckland the same evening and sailing for Sydney by the Moeraki on the sth.

Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., has received from the Prime Minister, Sir Francis Bell, a telegram expressing sincere thanks for Mr Nash’s kind congratulafions. on Sir Francis appointment as Prime Minister.

A disastrous firo occurred at one o clock yesterday morning, when the Clutha dairy factory was burned to the ground. The flames had a firm hold when the alarm was' given, and the heavy gale made a save impossible. A private cur and three lorries were destroyed. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building was insured for about £2OOO

Government Statistician figures issued Bhow that Gisborno for the first three months of the present year had a lower death rate than any town in the Dominion, the number of deaths representing 5.21 per thousand of population. The next best positioned towns were Wellington and Wanganui, each, of which had a rate of 6.68 per thousand.

The pyramidal formation of the wreaths 4t Point Halswell, to a height of about thirty feet, is easily visible from the heights of Wellington City and from most points around the harbour. Among recent visitors to the 'vault were Mrs Massey and her two daughters, Mrs G. L. Taylor and Mrs C. W. Salmon and the Minister of Railways and Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates). A record number of entries have been received by tho Manawatu Rugby 'Union for its annual seven-a-side tourney to be conducted at the Showgrounds on June 3. The senior division has attracted .11 teams, tho junior 19, third grade 12 and tho primary school division 17, milking a total of 59 teams. The entrants include clubs from Wellington, Shannon, Saiadon and intervening districts. A telegram from Te Xuiii states that seven trucks in a goods train bound for Frankton were derailed close to Kiokio at about noon yesterday through running over a bundle of newspapers ori the line. Two trucks were thrown off the line and telescoped, and the others mounted across the track. Three lengths of rails were tom up. As the mishap occurred close to the station, traffic was diverted through a loop line, That tho Minister for l'ducutior had been reported as having 1 cited Palmerston North as a shocking example of overlapping in educational matters was mentioned by Mr W. R. Bitnie nt lust right’s meeting of the High; School Board of .Governors, which decided to ask I lie principals of the three schools under its jurisdiction to report to the next meeting, with any suggestions that they might wish to make. i / The High Schools Boayefl of Governors last night decided to write to the Director of Education pointing out the necessity for making further building provision at the Technical School and asking him' 1.0 come (o Palmerston North fit: once. in speaking on the matter, Mr Durward sard that the board should not accept temporary shucks, sis had been suggested, but should pi ess for the additions be ing made in brick.

An invitation has beam received through the Prime Minister’s office and through the Speakers cf the Legislative Council and the House cf Representatives for members of the New Zealand legislature to attend a. conference of the American group of the* .fnter-Ps.rliamentary Union in October, at Washington. Tins invitation, which has l*cn extended by the President of the United Statas. at the request of Congress, will be considered when Parliament meets in June.

A Wellington telegram states that yesterday at ,'tl.4C a.in., John 'Roberts Goldsmith, aged 'l2, a single man, third cook’s assistant on the liner Ruahiae, attempted to jump overboard while the vessel was proceeding from Napier to Wellington. The chief officer, Mr Upton, prevented him. Goldsmith appeared strange in his manner and was to be taken to licepita' at noon, when he was discovered drawnec. in a bath. lie had filled the Imth with water and kept his head under tlie water. He came from Barking, London. The Native Appelate Court gave an important decision at Gisborne respecting the right of the descendant) cf the rebels in the Haahau troubles of 1.865 to participate in coripinsation in connection with land taken by tho Crown in excess of the territory voluntarily ceded The court held (hat the natives who had been disloyal warn not for that lea-sorr alone debarred from participating in any compensation or lolief that might be granted by the Government.. The land that was awarded lx, the Crown for settlement purposes was assumed! to be that olf Hie rebels, but it may not b.avo exhausted the whole of their lights. So far as those rights were not exhausted, they were util!, entitled to claim.

A Blenheim message states that considerable interest lias been evinced in many parts ot llie Dominion in the suggestion recently benight, forward by Mr R. ,P. Furness, a prominent member of the Marlboroigh Progress League' railway committee, that, as the first step towards completion of the South Island main trunk railway, tits recently appointed Railway Board should be invited to consider the introdu.ctioc, to coincide with the commissioning of the new ferry steamer Tarnahine, of a daily railway sendee between Picton and Christchurch, the gap between the railheads at Whvranui and Parnassus being bridged by a motor service, run either by one of the existing motor service companies or by the Railway Department ittell.

In regard to the proposal by the High Schools Boml of Governors to lease frontages of the school site ill Rangitikei street, Ron. C. J. Farr wrote to lest night’s mel ting of the board stating that he did not like to par : with playing ground space espc dully in tire case cf tt boys’ school, but, if the bor.rd was satisfied that; it would have plenty of space when Ulti Rangitikei street frontage van disposed of., he would approve the proposa.l to let «i limited c umber of sections. The money received from the leasing of the sections would 1,-b endowment income. On the reading of the letter, Mr W. F. Ihirward commented that tiro property belonged to the board. The chairman, Mr J. A. Nash., M.P., stated that it might be necessary to have something inserted in the Washing-up Bill and he undertook to look into the matter, whioh was left in hid hands. !3ome time ago the High School Board of Governors wrote to the Education Department requesting that instructions should be given for the roof of the girls’ institution to bo repaired as quickly as possible, owing to leakage in wet weather. At, last night 1 s meeting o;E the board a communication was received from the Minister stating that repairs of this nature were matters for tine hoard to attend to, the cost to be defrayed from income from endowments. The board v;ould therefore have to arrange for the work to Ire carried out locally. On the reading of the letter, Mr J. W. Rutherfurd commented that the board could not possibly do the work out of income, foi; it would be bound to leave them in debt- a.t the end of the year. It should be passible to obtain the sum needed —£200 —out of capitation. On his motion, it was decided to write further on the matter.

Mr Harry N. Holmes, 0.8. E., F.R.G.S., who is visiting Palmerston North this week under, the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., is a much-travel.od ir im. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was for eight years general secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. He then circled die world in the interests of the “Men and Religion” movement, afterwards remaining for three years as national secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in South Africa, going through the campaign in German Soutii-West Africa with the troops of General- Botha. He spent four years in France, and has travelled very extensively in Canada, and the United States, 'and now resides in New York City. In addition to being a gnat traveller, Mr Holmes is a brilliant speaker, and it*is certain that liis audifiice at the lecture ho will give to-morrow evening at the Municipal Hill will; fully appreciate bis outstanding gifts as a .speaker.