LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2478, 19 October 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

\ Wangunui resident, aged, 73, boasts that he has not yet been to a moving picture show.

The Oriental Bazaar in the Zealandia Hall will remain open to-day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Cycling accidents in tho metropolitan area of London during 1921 numbered 10,900, as against 3700 during 1918. The English language, in a modified form Will ultimately become the universal tongue, according to a French professor. There are more motor cycles ridden in Victoria, Australia, than in the whole of Canada. The numbers arc 14,000 and 9902 respectively. Mr J. Hodgens, the official Labour canidate for the Palmerston seat, will speak at Tiritea on Tuesday next, at Linton on the following day and at Aokautere on Thursday.

The United States War Department has disposed of £200,000,000 worth oi surplus property, and realised 53 per cent of original price paid, which is considered satisfactory, as goods were purchased at the peak price and under war exigencies.

People having septic tanks on their premises should be warned by a recent local experience. When mowing his lawn a gentleman broke through the decayed wooden covering and was precipitated into a tank of accumulated drainage seven feet deep. Half an hour elapsed before he was rescued, and recovery occupied several months. While the wooden cover will bear the weight, a concrete slab should be laid over it.

A local school teacher with an earn-] e t- t desire for reforming schooi methods; points out that the present system reaches nowhere in the race for life.j "Take at random twenty men who have attained the degree of M.A., 8.A.1 or B.Sc. and pit them against an equal number ot" poorly equipped artisans in any occupation by which men live, other than by teaching and they would be hopelessly left behind." His observation is one to make men think. We cannot all be teachers. As a warning in regard to the safcj stowage of heavy luggage, the misad-l venture of a chauffeur who was pinned to the steering wheel by a fall of luggag" is to the point. A four-seater motor was travelling along the main road at Broughton (Lancashire, Bug-' land) when the oscillation of the cari caused the luggage to fall on the chauf-i four, whose head was pinned down on the steering wheel. The car, thereby; rendered out ot control for the timebeing, collided with a telegraph pole, | and was damaged. When rescued' from his Perilous position the chauffeur was to be suffering from slight injuries to his head and neck, and the passengers escaped with a shaking.

"Just what we've been looking for" is what so many mothers say when they see the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., allwool Sports Suits for boys. This range is undoubtedly the best in value we have vet offered. Sizes 3 7 11 15 Net cash prices 28/- 33/- 38/- 43/and other sizes.

Woods' Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds.*

Chicago plans to keep pace with New York City in the mater of hotels by erecting a 25-story hotel on Michigan Boulevard at a cost of 12,000,000 dollars (approximately £2,000,000). Its most notable innovation will be an aeroplane landing, more than a block long, on the roof.

Early yesterday morning a fire partly "destroyed Messrs J. J. Corry's malt-house at Picton, together with a largo stock of Barley. The insurances are £3OOO on the building and £2OOO on the stock. The origin of the fire is unknown. The stock was valued at £SOOO and the building at the same figure.—Press Association.

A contributor draws attention to a vital omission from nearly all the recorded results of competitions m speed. We are told the time to half a second occupied by pigeons Hying from Wellington to Palmerston North, cyclists pedalling from New Plymouth round the mountain, or from Warnambool to Melbourne; but the distance is invariably omitted —without this the time is of no interest whatever.

Before the Kairanga County Council decides to do anything to improve the dangerous bridge on Rangitikei line, many drivers hope it will straighten the road at that spot. In level country it has puzzled travellers to know why there are so many angles on the road to Awahuri. An old resident says the road followed the few dry spots and skirted the swamps when all was bush or swamp, hence the wavering road line.

The "programmes" issued just outside the of the Opera Houst. hist night, where Dr Mary li. Armor addressed a large audience on the subject of prohibition, proved to what one old gentleman termed a "snare." In the semi-darkness outside, small boys distributed the supposed programmes with the assurance that they were "free programmes." Consequently ardent prohibitionists and others trudged into the hall clutching the papers only to find when they got in side that they held a copy of "Cheerio the official magazine of the liquor trade. <

A local sport out for a day's hare shooting took his favourite retriever to assist in collecting the expected bag. Luck was quite out, and the dog was pining for want of exercise. On the. home journey it pounced upon and killed a sitting hen pheasant—a rare object in these days. A kicking tor the hapless dog, a hasty concealment of the crime, and a successful search for a broody hen were followed in due time by the mystery of eight little clucks of strange breed in the fowl run The family shares the enjoyment of a novelty with many neighbours, but none share the knowledge of the unwilling crime. The owner of the dog is fearing a speedy recognition of the breed and rctnbution by the lav/; but the little wild fowl, though turned outside the run, steadfastly rt; fus 0 to Leave the garden where their faithful foster-mother is still clucking through the netting.

Life has its vagaries and a crowa which was waiting for the arrival of the Auckland express at Palmerston North yesterday, was treated to a vaudeville "turn" which might easily hav e been the envy of promoters in that lino of business. Just when evervone was y.iakmg the usual eleventh hour dive for tickets and luggage a raucous voice was heard to say "down with the government, I say —" but the articulation was not good. Then there emerged from the crowd, a woman of anywhere between thirty and fifty, obviously in fighting mood and presumably a disciple of Bacchus. Hei grievances embodied nothing in particular, but a good deal in general and again she defied an imag.nary oppositionist was "to ■ with the Government" then seeing a porter, moving sharply towards her, the "lady" pulled her skirts up to the knees and made off, but her course was manifestly crooked. When at a safe distance she ventured.again the "'gin the Government" cry, but this time she fell an easy prey to constable Murphy and availed herself of his arm to the Police station.