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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 6

While playing with fireworks a Christchurch youth was injured about the face through a cracker exploding.

The totalisator investments on the Auckland Cup, which was run on Saturday last at the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting, amounted to £27,637. A statutory first offending inebriate, who appeared before Messrs M. A. Eliott and A. Hannay, J.P.’s, at the Police Court this morning, was convictcd and discharged. The curlew (godwit) have been arriving in large numbers for some time now and are reported in very large numbers on the sand banks and mud flats of the upper reaches of the Tauranga harbour. The shooting season opens at an early date.

A Christchurch tram conductor was recently tendered a £lo'note for a fare and accepted it, thinking it w r as a 10s note, giving change for 105... At the end of the day the mistake was discovered.

A car, believed to have been taken without authority, collided with another car at the junction of ltuataniwha and Waverley streets, Waipawa, on Saturday, with the result that two young men are in hospital at Waipukurau suffering from cuts and shock, About 30 members of All Saints’, Central and Longburn Troops of Boy Scouts, under Scoutmasters Vasey and Millgate, left to-day by motor lorry for l' oxton, where they will spend the next ten days under canvas. Visitors wili be welcomed to the camp on .New Year’s Day.

Recently morotlian passing interest was evinced in a car and trailer which passed along Broadway, Stratford. The trailer was a roomy tent, mounted on pneumatic-tyred wheels, being strongly built and comparatively light. For camping purposes it would appear as being most convenient and particularly suitable for moving from one place to another, states the Post.

A fire in its incipient stages was discovered under a seat of the Waipukurau Jockey Club’s new stewards’ stand on Boxing Day. There w&s a strong wind blowing at the time, but fortunately the smoke was noticed by the occupants of the stand and the application of a jug or two of tvater soon saw the outbreak extinguished.

A Thames telegram states that the postmaster at Patetonga, Mr H. Robertson, received injuries through a bus skidding and going over a fifteen feet bank while returning from the Auckland races. The driver and another passenger were thrown clear, but Mr Robertson was pinned under the vehicle. The injured man w r as removed to hospital. “Don’t turn out those lights 1” It was the lit. Rev. Bishop J. TaylorSmith, of England, who spoke before beginning his sermon in tho All Saints’ Church, Sumner, Christchurch, when the verger switched off the electric lights. “I like to see the faces of the people to whom I preach,” he added. “No doubt it is economical to turn down the lights, but it is also a great loss.”

One old lady in the Auckland Infirmary with the memories of youth lingering in her mind was very enthusiastic about the glorious sunshine which ushered in Christmas morning. She said it was just like the old Christmas weather of 60 or 70 years ago, when every Christmas was a fine day and all the young women' donned their white frocks and put on white stockings to match. The Christmas spirit stirred into action tho conscience of one Christchurch citizen to the extent of forwarding conscience money to the Christchurch Tramway Board. The manager was busy opening his mail on Christmas Eve, when lie found a Christmas card with a 5s postal note attached. On the card were these words: “Conscience money for damage done in an accident.”

A total eclipse of the sun which will be visible, mostly as a partial eclipse, in Eastern and South Africa, Southern Asia, North-Western Australia and the Indian Ocean, will occur on January 14, while an annular eclipse of the sun which will be visible, generally as a partial eclipse, over the North Pacific, will take place on January 10. This is the minimum . number of eclipses that can occur in any one year.

The task of fighting a fire without water, although it was the Avail of a reservoir that Avas endangered, fell to the lot of the Mount Eden Eire Brigade, Auckland, on Sunday afternoon. A patch of dry grass lialf-Avay tip Mount Eden became ignited, and the flames spread rapidly toAvard the AA’ooden reservoir enclosure. The fire brigade Avas summoned, and the motor made light of the steep climb. It Avas found that there Avas no hose connection, and the firemen had to beat the fire out with sacks. No damage Avas done.

_A tailor’s shop on Lambton Quay, Wellington, Avas burglariously entered last night. An endeavour Avas made by the police to locate the OAvner, but Avithout success. It seemed probable, however, from a survey of the premises at that time that some rolls of suiting had been stolen. Entrance Avas gained by smashing the glass panel in the front door of the shop, Avhich permitted the burglar to put his hand through and open the door by turning the lock from the inside.

The Christchurch tramAvaymen have taken a ballot during the last few days on a proposal to strike. It is said that the motormen and conductors are strongly in favour of a strike, oAving to dissatisfaction with their treatment by tho management (states a Press Association telegram). The ballot taken, hoAvever, embraces all members of the union, and all of the employees are not so dissatisfied as the traffic men. The result of the ballot has not been declared yet. If the declaration is in favour of a strike the proposal is that work shall cease on Ncav Year’s Day.

Snips from tho C. M. Ross Co., I,td.( big removal sale of footwear. Women’s or maids’ black glace kid one-bar shoes with imitation toe cap, on comfortablo round toes, low "leather hoels, only 16s 9d, moving-out salo price.—Advt-

While bidding adieu to a friend on the limited express at Auckland the other evening, a lady tarried over long and became an unwilling passenger to Frankton. It was not till the first express arrived at the latter place from Wellington that the lady was able to take train again for her home in Auckland.

There have been several anniversaries of late, but one of an unusual kind was celebrated in Timaru the other day, when,one of the oldest iesidents of the town celebrated the o/nd anniversary of the day on winch, te use his own expressive phrase, ho “put the cork in.” His decision to do this, he says, was the outcome of a joke, and though he had been one of the very “wets” before this, ho has been as dry as the Sahara ever since. Timaru Herald.

A Wanganui tram inspector who missed getting the number of a motor car travelling very fast along the Avenue yesterday,, stated later that it was leaded up with women, and tho way the car sped along the i • j gave one the impression that all hands were intoxicated. A man was crossing the street at the time with a lunch basket, and the car went so close that it knocked the basket out of his hand. The train popularly known as Field s express did not arrive at Palmerston North until 10.20 last evening, sengers by it had a weary wait at Shannon, where those proceeding *o Auckland transferred to the Limited express. Even after the long delay at Shannon until the connection was made, there was a further wait of some 20 minutes before Field s express again resumed its journey to Palm ston North. During the running of the Awapuni Handicap, the final event of the programme at Awapuni, the favourite, Licinius, fell in the straight. At the time the field was well bunched in a fighting finish and a gasp of dismay burst from the crowd as the horse and jockey went flying among the feet of the other runners. The animal landed on its near front shoulder with the rider, J. Barry, underneath its neck, but to the relief of the spectators, whose attention had been centred on the incident, horse and jockey staggeied to their feet, the latter retaining possession of the reins. .Barry, however, immediately collapsed, but except toi a nasty shaking and npnor cuts and bruises, escaped serious injury and, with aid, was able to walk back to the birdcage. Barry, who had come south from Auckland yesterday morning, again went north last night to fulfill his riding engagements at the northern meeting.

“The surest foundation of a happy and *useful life is a strong and healthy body,” said Miss A. N. Allan, principal of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, the other day. “Dr Gunns comments early this year on the poor physique of some of our girls show that we must attempt even more in the way of games and organised sport. I should like to see round the hall a health chart for each pupil in the school—a graph showing what her normal development should be, and month by month sho herself could fill in her gain in weight and see whether or no sho is making satisfactory prbgress. The sub-normal girls should _ have a period in the morning in which study is forbidden, and should bo made in that period to rest and to drink hot milk. Such a scheme is the work of a special mistress.” In these days of rush holiday traffic on the railways people availing themselves of the facilities of the refreshment rooms on the Palmerston North station sometimes have an anxious time. Often two trains are drawn up by the platform well away from the catering section and passengers are obliged to make a hurried exit and traverse a very considerable length of the crowded area wli'en the departure signal is given. Yesterday a young man and woman missed the Aucklandbound express, which drew out just as they commenced to run along the platform. They immediately set out for Marten in a taxi and effected a connection there, although the trip was made an expensive one. The young man concerned fortunately had a £5 note in his pocket, although both ho and his companion had their other money and effects in the carriage which they had vacated. This morning two young men dashed on to the station platform just in time to see the Auckland express go out. They, however, decided that the expense of engaging a taxi was not warranted in tho circumstances and rather dolefully inquired the time of departure of tho next train for Auckland.