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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 6

James Jelley, aged 25, while playing for the Athletic League team against City, at Dunedin, on Saturday, received a severo knock on the back of the head, and was admitted to the hospital suffering from concussion. f A five-scater motor car was extensively damaged yesterday when ft collided with one of the ornamental trees in Fitzherbert avenue. It is not known how the driver failed to notice the tree, but the vehicle was badly knocked about. A request by counsel that a serious case be referred to the Children’s Court raised a problem in the Christchurch Supreme Court. Aftcf the question had been argued shortly, Mr Justice Adams dealt with the case, counsel not pressing his request, but no ruling was made or opinion given on the construction of the new Act. “Tho early bird catches the worm.” C. and C.’s groat winter clearance sale commences on Thursday morning, 29th, at 10 o’clock. Shop earlV and secure some of tho exceptional bargains which are offered in all- departments. You cannot get better valuo anywhere. Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd.—Advt.

At the Hamilton Police Court two Auckland motor lorry owners were charged with having failed to take out heavy traffic licenses. One, J. L. Gunning, was fined £3 on one charge, and the other, M. McCarthy, was fined £2 on each of two charges. Fixtures for nearly 70 civil cases were made by Mr Justice Stringer in the ■Supreme Court at Auckland last week. They included four appeals against Magistrate’s Judgments. A day was set apart for the hearing of about 40 undefended divorce petitions. There will be six ordinary jury cases during the session and three defended divorces are to be submitted to juries. An Auckland telegram states that fire cosiderably damaged St. Mark’s Hall, at the corner of Itemuera and St. Mark’s roads. The Itemuera and Parnell brigades turned out and found that the blaze had started at the hack of the hall. The stage, ceiling, scenery and stage fittings were badly damaged before the brigade had the blaze under control. The hall is insured for £4OOO, and the contents for £225. The cause of the fire is unknown.

A serious accident befell a child, Sutherland McKay Teden, aged four and a-half years, a son of Mr William Teden, at Glen Afton, Waikato, on Friday. The child was playing with other children in the Glen Afton railway station .yard when it ran m front pi a motor truck driven by Mr Frank Ward. The . child was knocked down, and received injuries to the head and body. It was later admitted to the Hamilton Hospital in a very serious condition.

An amusing example ;of American local patriotism and civic pride was given by Mr C. R. Ford in a lecture at Auckland. Showing lantern-slide of a substantial 'building completely shattered by an earthquake in an American town, Mr Ford said he saw the picture in a newspaper and wrote to the civic authorities asking for details of the earthquake. A reply had come back stating there had been no earthquake, but merely a slight tremor which had done no damage.

On a recent afternoon a collision occurred at tho overhead railway bridge near Taneatua, Bay of Plenty, between a car driven by Mi; £. Addison, of Waimana, and a four-ton lorry driven by a native named Pi, of Opotoki. The collision occurred head on, and Mr Addison and Mrs Olen and two children were thrown out. The children were badly cut with broken glass, and were taken to the Wliakatane hospital. Mrs Olen was only slightly injured. Both vehicles were damaged considerably. Two professors of the Auckland University College, Professor C. W. Egcrton (English), and Professor A. B. b itt (Education), the latter being an expupil of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, will celebrate their sabbatical years in 1927. They will be absent on leave throughout the year. Professor. Egerton intends to visit the universities of Great Britain and Professor Fitt will journey to America, taking advantage of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to visit United States and Canadian Universities. A five-seater motor car driven by Mr A. Mackres, of Cuba street, Palmerston North, overturned in a cutting on the Paekakariki Hill at six o’clock last evening. Apparently an extremely thick fog, which was the worst experienced in these parts for some time, caused the driver to lose his bearings and, as a result,' the car crashed into a high bank on the left hand side of cutting: None of the occupants, who included Mrs Mackres, a baby, and a young man, was seriously injured, although they all suffered more or less from shock. The party were conveyed to Paekakariki, and subsequently proceeded by taxi to Palmerston North. A lad, about 14 years of age, while on the platform of a train travelling via Green Lane, Auckland, was thrown into a queer state of dilemma, and the path he took as his choice might have been somewhat of a serious one. The lad was at the time sparring with another young pugilist of about his own weight, and, in order to stop a blow, he took a flying leap off the moving train and landed very heavily on the side of tho track. After a short time, in which he had rested his somewhat weary and sore body, the young actor of daring feats managed to get to his homo bearing a full quota of bruises and scratches obtained in the crash.

Fully exposed to the wind and sea, the former Northern Company’s steamer Manaia, which Went ashore on Slipper Island about six weeks ago, fared badly in the recent easterly gales, and is now fast breaking up. The wreck, which lias been washed about a chain in the direction of Rabbit Island, is again firmly wedged on tho rocks of the reef, listing to port at an angle of between forty and fifty degrees. Continual batterings by the huge seas have caused the stern portion of the ship aft of the mainmast to disappear, and only a mass of brokon planking and twisted ironwork now remains.

Tho fact that, contrary to popular belief, the great majority of earthquakes have no direct connection with unusual volcanic activity was mentioned during tho course of a lecture by Mr C. R. Ford in Auckland. Mr Ford stated that most earthquakes were the result of tho fracturing of rooks and tho slipping of rock strata over each otheV m tho production and growth of “faults.” Tho sliding of ono great mass of lock against another set up vibrations which were propogated in all directions through the surrounding rocks as waves of elastic vibrations. Modern seismology had demonstrated that tho superficial layers or c/ust of tho earth were in a state of perpetual tremor. It was only those tremors of sufficient intensity to bo felt by human beings which were usually designated earthquakes.

Burglars, of the amateur variety, are still activo in Wanganui, and on Friday night four business premises in tho Avenue, and one in Guyton street, wero entered, or showed signs of attempts having been made to effect entrances (states tho Chroniclq). The marauders let themselves in at the rear of tho premises of Messrs' Andrew McSkimming (tailor), A. Ross seed merchants, and Nicholson and Dickie (land agents). As far as can be ascertained, nothing was removed from McSkimming”s, but a few shillings were removed from Ross’ establishment, and about £3 from Nicholson and Dickie’s. Messrs Adams’ garage and Cuthbertson’s wood and coal depot, in Guyton street, showed evidence of the depredations of tho intruders, but nothing is missing from these premises. In the safo of one of the buildings concerned there was reported to be a 6um of £2OO. Mr G. G. Williams, who for several years past has been engaged in estate and general commission business in Palmerston North, has joined the wellknown firm of ■ Kenneth McDonald, estate agents, produce and share brokers, llangitikei street. Another successful dance was held on Saturday evoning under tho auspices of tho R.S.A. Approximately 150 couples were present and the music was supplied by a professional orchestra. Mr Lyford was M.C. and extras were contributed by Mr Scott. First aid for coughs, colds and influenza, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt.