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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 203, 31 July 1925, Page 6

At the Auckland Supreme Court at the retrial of George Francis Shaw, on a charge of bookmaking at Whangarei, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty and accused was discharged. The retrial of Tadija Cvitanovicli, charged with bookmaking at Matakohe, resulted in an acquittal.

At the Supremo Court at Auckland the grand jury returned a no bill in the case of George Edward Barker, who was charged with manslaughter arising out of the death of Thomas Bilteliffe after an injection of heroin. Accused was accordingly discharged. The Union Steam Ship Company has announced that its turbine “ferry” steamer Wahine, which lias been laid up at Wellington during the winter months, is about to be recommissioned, and will re-enter the Wellington-Lyttel-ton service to-morrow evening to permit of the withdrawal of the Mararoa.

While working on a borough contract, a Maori named Behu fell over the edge of a quarry in the Heino Gorge, a depth of forty-five feet. A passing car was requisitioned and he was removed to King George V. Hospital at Rotorua. The X-ray examination showed that Rehu had sustained serious spinal injuries. “A lot of ratepayers aro quite unreasonable in regard to the rubbish they expect us to cart away for them,” said Mr G- E. Tansley, chairman of the Mount Roskill Road Board, in dealing with a complaint that rubbish was not collected fast enough. “They evidentl.v expect us to do impossibilities. One day I saw an old bedstead and a perambulator among the rubbish at one gate.”

Prior to the arrival of the American Eleet at Sydney, a cartoon was drawn by a sailor artist, showing Australia as a beautiful, strong-figured young woman, cordially welcoming a handsome American sailor, carrying the greetings of 110 millions of Americans, with imposing Federal buildings in the background, flying a banner, on wdiich was inscribed a message to the Fleet from Australia, “Walk Right Ini” The phrase caught on among the sailors. “They aro a fine body of men, but they cannot march,” w r as the manner in which a passenger on the Moeraki, which arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Tuesday, described the American sailors. It was most noticeable that the men had not been ashore very long before they wero walking the streets or riding in cars and trams with girls. “If you hear, as we did, that the American sailors are then wait until you see them ashore,’ ho said, “they are sure fast workers.” Disappointment at the number of entries received in some of the elocutionary classes at the present festival of the Manawatu Competitions Society was expressed at the Opera House last night by Mr Farquhar Young, of Christchurch, judge of elocution. “It is really disheartening to have a number of excellently chosen items and to find that there are only one or two competitors who think it worth while to recite them,” , lie stated, adding that surely in a town of the size of Palmerston North there must be a large amount of talent.

A passenger by the Moeraki, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Tuesday, recounted an incident that gives a good idea of the care that is being exercised by the police in Sydney to protect the American sailors from crooks. This passenger and a friend invited two American sailors into a hotel for a drink. The barmaid gave short measure, and one of the civilians protested. The manager of the hotel was called, and he asked the two friends to retire, making it apparent that ho considered them to bo crooks. Further protests on the part of the civilians led the manager to summon the police. It took the friends exactly an hour to satisfy the minions of the law that they were respectable, law-abiding citizens, who wero merely out with the idea of treating their American cousins. It was announced by Mr James Wallace, chairman of the Board of Directors of the local Y.M.C.A., at a function in the lounge of that institution last evening, that, while in England, he had purchased the best procurable wireless set suitable for such an institution as the Y.M.C.A. The set was complete with head pieces and the latest type of loud-speaker, and it was expected that it would arrive early next week, when it would be installed immediately. After thanks had been extended Mr YVallace for his generous gift, that gentleman, in reply, stated that he hoped the set would prove an additional means of attracting young men to the building, which he could say with conviction was, as far as it had gone, one of the • finest he had ever seen. He concluded by urging the early completion of the building. Mr Edgar M. Robinson, senior boys’ secretary of the World Alliance of Y.M.C.A.’s (Geneva), who is at present visiting New Zealand, arrived in Palmerston North yesterday and was accorded a welcome by the local Y.M.C.A. Board of Directors last evening. At the second world conference of Y.M.C.A. workers among boys, held at Portschaeh, Austria, in June, 1923, a special emphasis was placed upon the importance of boys’ work as one of the most constructive forces for the bringing in of a new era throughout the world. Resolutions wero passed in favour of setting up some form of world leadership, and, as a result, »lr Robinson was invited to be responsible for securing an adequate group of thoroughly qualified boys’ work secretaries. It was in order to carry out this undertaking that ho took up his headquarters with the world’s committee in Geneva, to operate from there in giving a lead to boys’ work in a world sense. Mr Robinson, who is regarded as one of the clearest thinkers in the Y.M.C.A. movement, will leave for Wanganui on Saturday.

The Don-Paterson anti-liquor meeting is advertised for Monday night in the Municipal Hall. Mrs Don is president of the New Zealand W.C.T.U. and has a wonderfully impressive account to give of her trip to the States. Rev. John Paterson, M.A., one of the brilliant young preachers of New Zealand, will also speak. Breezy, brilliant and logical is the testimony of those who have heard him. The public aro cordially invited.

Final clear-up in men’s wear at The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd.’s, includes oddments in men’s working shirts in good drills and Oxfords. Ail are well made, strong and roomy; manufacturers’ samples which arc to be thrown out at 4s lid sale price. Originally they were selling for 7s 6d to 8s lid. (Lato night Fridays).—Advt.

In the billiards match at Dunedin Tothill is leading McConachy by 7879 points to 6001. The best breaks were: McConachy 359, 284, 248, 190, 157 (unfinished), 132 and 98 j Tothill 144, 142, 84 and 75. Notice has been received by the standing committee of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland of a bequest of £IOOO for the central fund, under the will of Miss Mary Ann Barstow. A further bequest of £SOO has been made, subject to a life interest. A fine specimen of a half-grown female orang-outang, .donated to the Auckland Zoo by Mr Eliot Davis, arrived by the Arawa this week. A second animal died two days after the Arawa left Southampton. The orangoutang came originally from Borneo, and was transhipped to London. An Auckland telegram states that Mr John Massey, farmer, of Manakau, brother of the late Mr W. F. Massey, has been nominated by the Manukau branch of the New Zealand Political Reform League as the official Reform candidate for Manukau in place 'of Mr L. A. Johnson, who has retired. Sis canaries, valued at £IOBO, the gift of Mr Eliot D ivis to the Auckland Canary and Cage Bird Club, arrived this week by the Arawa. The birds have been imported in an effort to improve the breed of canaries in the Auckland Canary Club. The birds consist of a pair each of the Crested, Norwich and Yorkshire varieties.

Despite methods of suppression, 15,000 octavo copies of William Tyndale’s English New' Testament were distributed in England before 1530, said Rev. G. H. Gibb at a meeting at Auckland commemorating the translation. Of that number only two were now' remaining. A fragmentary copy was in the library of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and an almost perfect copy was in the Baptist College at Bristol.

‘•The luxuriousness of railway travelling in America is greadly exaggerated,” said Mr H. E. Vaile in the course of a lecture on the United States at Auckland. “Pullman cars are the most uncomfortable things that have ever been invented. They make one think the Main Trunk express is not the worst train in the world. In my opinion, England easily comes first from the point of view of comfortable railway travelling.”