LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Wenzl Scholium. am Auckland business man of note, is at present in Palmerston North.

Today is the 16Mi. anniversary of the assassination at Lisbon of the King and Crowm Prince of Portugal.

The taxed costs in the Lubrano divorce case which Commander Vitiali was directed to pay amount to close to £4OOO (says a Sydney cable).

A motor mechanic says one should never use petrol to clean the hands. It ruins the skin. Soap and sawdust is his sovereign cleanser. v Damage estimated at £50,000 whs caused by a fire at the East India railway workshops In the suburbs of Calcutta. A vast quantity of railway stores was destroyed (says a cable.)

Among the visitors to the Awapun! meeting were Sir Walter Buchanan, Wairarapa, ‘Mr and Mra W. A DunCan, Wanganui, Mr A. Alexander, and Dr. and Mrs Fookes, New Plymouth, Mr and Mrs A. Strang, Heretannga, and Mr and Mrs Alfred Reid, Blastings.

Men’s fashions change more slowly than women’s, which are meteor like in comparison. Last year it was remarked that one bowler hat was seen on the race course; this year there were six. A Wellington lady says we are behind the times, for in that city may be seen several hundred hardhitters.

Two handsome shields of interest to primary schools are showing in one of Collinson and Cunninghame’a windows to-day. The M’Kelvie Sports Championship shield for primary schools competition carries one name only, that of Manchester Street school Feilding. The. M. and W.C.A. and P.A. school shield bears the names of Terrace End three times and Waitahora, Apitl and. College Street onco each.

The mental gear of an inebriate In the Palmerston North Court yesterday slipped a cog in its efforts to avoid a holiday from the cares of the world at His Majesty’s pleasure. In answer to the Bench he stated that he had a permanent job in A.piti to go to. He had been in Palmerston North for the past five months. The presiding Justice: “Do you mean to say you can go back to the job after all that time,” Accused clutched at the straw. “Oh yes!” he said hastily, “I often leave it to come In to town for a few days!”

A woollen Cardigan ia always useful and worth every shilling you pay for it. for the comfort it gives. New shipments include fawn, blue, and mole, to be retailed at the low net cash price of 11/9 net cash. In cremo, extra good quality, 29/6; and and in the fashionable bulti colouring., outstanding value 27/C, net cash, by The C. M. Ross Co.. Ltd