LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2693, 11 July 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Chaml'Ci of Commcr.;.': lias been formed at Pahiatua. At bowls. New Zealand beat Bundaberg (Queensland) J72 points io 159. Private medical practitioners, in Dunedin state that influenza is waning. There were only three fresh notifications yesterday. "The Kca is th- ivagvoE New Zealand birds," sir Mr. A. Roe at the Lunch Club •-stcrday. "He will spend hours s l, ',ng up and down the roofs and bui'.Umgs in frosty weather." Bank returns show free deposits in New Zealand Co be "28,276,202, fixed deposits £17,106,71s Government deposits £049,041, adMinces £40.227,092, discounts £1,484,1/9, in circulation £6,741, *77(;, cc'n £7,959.701. Purnett and Windsor, two of the prisoners escaped from Mount Eden Gaoi were captured at Bombay on Monday night by Sergeant Cowan and Constable O'Donnell. Windsor bolted, but was chased by O'Donnell and was seized after a two hundred yards' sprint. Here are three tempting sale bargains showing at The O. M. Ross Co. Ltd. Children's all -\ uol navy b'oomers, sizes 0,1, and 9 usually 4/11 and 5/11, to clear rcr 1/11 net cash. Ladies' grey fleecy lined bloomers, full size, elastic at waist r:id knee; usually 3/11, sale price 2/31. net cash. Maids' sports corsets, at top. four suspenders attached, usually 10/fi, sale clearance price 6/xl net cash.*

The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has declared an interim dividend of thrco per cent on preference shares, and four per cent, on ordinary shares for the half year.

A movement is afoot in Westport to endeavour lo induce Parliamentarians en route to the official opening of the Olira Tunnel to come, to the coast via Blenheim, Nelson and Westport, proceeding- to Greymouth and Hokitika and on to Otira, completing' the tour at Christehurch.

" The Totara lizard is the most aristocratic animal on the fac e of the earth, said Mr. A. Roe at the Lunch Club yesterday. It had the construction of a crocodile, the wing- formation of a bird, and a rudimentary third eye. The only other place in which it was discovered were remains in geological strata.

" Practically the whole of the steel work of the destructor plan is now in position and the boiler has been tested The brickwork in the walls o, , building is almost finished and the steel trusses for th c roof are on the job, and will be placed in position early next week," said the borough engineer (Mr. J. p. Hughes) last night. A meeting of traders and manufacturers was held at Christehurch yesterday to consider how best to increase the trade of New Zealand witn the East. There was only a small attendance, and a motion was carried that, owing to the lack of interest shown, it would not be advisable to take any action. At a meeting of the Rugby Union s! u,gilt it was decided that twothirds of the proceeds of Charity Saturday should be divided between the Williard Home, All Saints' ChildDome, St. Vincent de Paul Society, and the District Nurse Fund, the remaining third having been earmarked for the Sir Arthur Pearson Fund. At yesterday's meeting of the South Otago Hospital Board, Mr J. W. Henton, Kaitangata, moved: "That the Government should be requested to take control of the whole of the hospitals in the Dominion." He contended that the time was not far distant vvheu the State would control all medical services. Further discussion was held over till next meeting. An innovation in forming lantern pictures and diagrams illustrating church ceremonial in public worsnip, has been introduced at Sunday evening services aji St. Paul's Anglican Church in accordance with an expression of opinion at tin annual meeting. Thc experiment seems likely to become generally a permanent feature of the sermons. Rev. C. A. B. Watson is the vicar, states an Auckland telegram. A pompous member of a travelling theatrical company was spurting up and down tho Marlon ailway station platform. A red-faced and perspiring gentleman, evidently a new arrival in the Dominion, rushed up to him, clutched his arm and asked: "Can you t ted me is this the Patea train?" The other removed his arm from the stranger's grasp, and replied frigidly: "My dear sir, I am not the stationmaster." 'Oh, aren't you?" spluttered the hot and hurried one "Well what the deuce do you mean by swanking about as ihough you vc-re?" The death of thc late Mr Matthias Jensen, of Mauriceville, at Dargaville last Sunday, had an especially pathetic side. The bulk which gored him was a young one and quite tame; Mr Jensen had frequntly stroked it. When he did so on this occasion it tossed its head playfully, and the sharp point of the horn caught Mr Jensen beneath tho chin and pierced thc jugular vein. There was nothing vicious about the animal, which went on quietly grazing. Mr Jensen's wound was bound up as well as possible for the 30jnile drive to the doctor. He con-i versed on the way. but th* loss of blcod was fatal, and he died before reaching the doctor.