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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 8

A statutory first-offending inebriate was fined 10s. by Mr A. J. Graham, J.P., at the Police Court this morning. The Main Trunk express for Wellington this morning, was of exceptional length. Drawn by two engines, it consisted of 18 cars.

An unusual event took place at a Hamilton church this week, an infant, her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother all being baptised. A pleasing spectacle at the function tendered yesterday to the delegates of the Baptist camp was the colourful scene presented by the array of dresses. Each class had a separate material, and the blending of the colours made a unique and pleasant sight. The value of buildings for which permits had been issued by the Christchurch City Council during the year ended on Wednesday showed a decrease of £88,649 compared with the previous year, though the value of permits for new dwellings increased. On Thursday night a middle-aged Maori named Munga Beattie, riding a motor cycle with sidecar attached, crashed into an oncoming tramcar at Gisborne and was removed to the Cook Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg. ‘•'There is nothing criminal in that,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Pofico Court at Auckland this week, when counsel referred in grave terms to the consequences of a conviction against a defendant for fuiling to register a firearm. “Half-a-dozen respectable citizens have been fined for having unregistered rifles,” added the magistrate.

Mr J. S. Dickson, M.P. for Parnell, contradicts the statement that has been made that he is an aspirant for a place in the Cabinet, and says he told the Prime Minister several weeks ago that on account of domestic reasons it would not be possible for him to act as a Minister.

With the object of increasing the fund to send It. A". Itose abroad, several local young ladies made a street appeal on Thursday afternoon, selling badges sent up from AVellington. Their efforts met with fair measure of success, and the amount raised is to be forwarded on to Wellington. To-day is the diamond jubilee of Oamaru as a municipality under the Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865. The first meeting of the first borough council was held on August 6, 1866. Prior to that date the local governing body was a town board, which had jurisdiction for about three years.

A request from a ratepayer that the roadside lawn in front or his residence be put in order and sown in grass, in which case he would undertake to keep it in the same good order, led to a discussion at the meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council this week. The request was referred to the streets committee with power to act. The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has received the following messago from Rarotonga, dated Thursday at 8 a.m.: “A severe northerly storm has been raging since midnight. The Union Company are heavy losers. Both launches ancl the majority of the lighters have been lost. Thero has . been considerable damage to the foreshore, but no material damage to dwellings has been reported.” A fatal accident occurred at llemuera, Auckland, on Thursday night, when a man named Dagg, an accountant, aged about 50 years, stepped off a tram and was struck by a motor car. Ho sustained injuries which resulted in his death at the hospital. A woman, about 50 years of age, who has not yet been identified, was knocked down by a motor car at Onehunga on Thursday night and killed instantly.

Kiddies’ flannel rompera, round neck, three-quarter sleeves and bolt, in grey only trimmed with red. These are beautiful and warm. Sizo 18in 8/9, 20in 9/11; also kiddies’ flannel rompers, round neck, three quarter sleeves, bolt, also pooket end trimmed with rod buttons; excellent and warm for the cold flays. In nav y shade only, size 18in 9/11; 20in 10/9. —Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd. Advt.

Wellington had beautifully fine weather for the holiday yesterday, a largo number of people travelling both to and from the city. A cable from Vancouver reports ihe arrival of the Niagara with 6000 cases of butter from New Zealand. During the voyage. Mr E. Mills, a Canadian passenger, died and was buried at sea. The motor car which was stolen from in front of the Opera House on one evening this week was returned by the “borrowers” some time later in the night, but the persons responsible have not yet been apprehended.

The bodies of the victims of the recent drowning tragedy at Wanganui wore recovered yesterday. That found between the city and Castlecliff was identified as that of Alexander Mitchell, and that of William Hamilton was discovered near the rowing sheds on the riverside.

The railway authorities have decided to stop the practice of people crossing over the line in tho vicinity of the Auckland railway station. It is announced that in tho future all trespassers caught will bo prsecuted and that tho fines will be substantial.

The balance-sheet presented at the annual meeting of the Horowhenua Rugby Union disclosed that, after entering upon tho season’s activities with a credit balance of £lO 18s 9d, tho year had closed with a balanco of £2l 19s 4d. Assets in tho forril of jerseys, trophies, outstanding accounts, etc., were set down at £132 16s 4d and liabilities at £9B 19s Id.

A Press Association message from Christchurch states that during Thursday and yesterday over 6500 people left Christchurch for southern stations (mostly Dunedin). Two records were established by the Railway Department, first in sending eight expresses on Thursday, and, second, in sending 750 people on tho first relief train yesterday.

Three Auckland young men who had been loafing about the streets and who on two occasions unlawfully took a motor car and journeyed through the country were charged at the court jit Auckland and imprisoned for three months. One of them was given another three months for a breach of his probation. On churges of vagrancy tho trio were convicted and ordered to come up for. sentence when called upon.

“I know of nothing better for the education of farmers,” remarked the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. O. J. Hawkon, when speaking at Rangiora, recently of the value of agricultural and pastoral shows. These shows were difficult to carry successfully, particularly with regard to finance, but they achieved a great amount of good. They brought stock together, and . showed farmers what their neighbours were producing and what stock there was in the country. One of the few remaining links with New Zealand’s political past, Sir Robert Stout, gave a passing reminder of this fact when speaking at a public meeting in Auckland this week. “As showing how time carries all before it,” he said, “there are only two members alive to-day who were in the House of Representatives when the Education Act was passed in 1877. They are Mr C. De Latour, then member for Dunedin, and now living at Gisborne, and myself.” A fire occurred in tho factory of a dye works at Christchurch at 5.40 on Thursday. Tho drying room flooring was destroyed and the ironwork warped, but little structural damage was done to the brick building. All tho Easter orders for dyeing and cleaning had been completed and the clothing removed to another portion of the works. The fire had a good hold, but the brigade liiado a spleiidid save. A gang of four undesirables, two men and two women, were rounded up by t-lie police on Wednesday at New Brighton, where they had been living in a bach. They appeared before the Magistrate’s* Court at Christchurch and were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. William Thompson, aged 43, described as an undesirable, who hung around railway stations picking up men from the country and living on them, also appeared before the Magistrate’s Court, and was sentenced to three months’ hard labour. Some lads with a perverted sense of what constittites a ]oke caused two little boys severe pain on Thursday. The smaller children were in the street aiid were accosted by the older lads, who asked if they had been “had” on All Fools’ Day. On receiving an affirmative answer, they suggested that they should close their eyes and open their mouth. This 'they did and then one of the older lads dropped caustic soda into tho mouth of one child, but the other one closed his mouth just in time and received the substance on the lips. Considerable pain was caused to tho two children, who liad to receive medical attention, but tliey are now out of danger.