LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2313, 4 December 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ingvart Harold Jensen, a third offender for drunkenness in the statutory period, was convicted and fined £l, in default 48 hours imprisonment, at tho Palmerston North Court yesterday. It will be of interest to tho general public to know that all insurance companies are reducing their rates by per cent as from Ist. January, 192'). This arrangement will be sub ject to revision from year to year. The dimensions of the McHardy cups at present on exhibition at Ekstedt’s Ltd., are 12in. x lOin. (Manawatu Golf Club), 12in x.Gin. and 9in. x Sin., (Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association).

“It is a mystery that people will pay £2OO to £3OO for a business without first spending a few guineas for an auditor to ascertain from the books what ttic actual profits arc,” said Mu F. K. Hunt, S.M., in a case at Auck. land. In a little while the wooden wing of Parliament House will be demolished, and after that a start will be made with the completion of a new Parliament House, which at. present stands about half-finished. The old building was erected in tho very early days of the settlement of the country During the month of November, the estates of the following deceased persons In tho Palmerston North District weer accepted for administration by the Public Trustee: —Thomas Manson, Charles Alexander Phillips, Florence Maude Potton, Norah FUzaboth Small, Robert Watts.

A traveller had two of his trunk; of samples removed from a sample room at Waipawa, into which entrance had )>cen gained by some means. The enterprising thief evidently knew nothing of a boot traveller’s samples, for after breaking open the trunks, the disgusted man had to leave everything, as only one boot of each kind is carried.

In to-day’s issue the Railway Department advertise particulars of the issue of special cheap excursion tickets to Woodville on December 9 and 10 l.> connection with the Woodville races. Those tickets are at a very cheap rate. Attention Ss also drawn to Iho running of a special train between Palmeißton North and Woodville on both days of the meeting.

Two men wore walking along Commerce street, Auckland, on Saturday morning when suddenly one stopped dead, and dived upon a piece of paper which lay on the footpath with the rapidity of a cormorant taking a mullet. Opening the paper out, lie saw It to be a £1 note. “Halves,” cried his companion. “You’re on,” said the finder. “No, you're not,” said a third man, who had been walking in front, but suddenly turned in, his tracks. “That’s mine—thanks!” Hosts of bargains at The C- M. Ross Co., Ltd.'s, big Removal Sale of Root, wear. See women’s or maids’ English glace kid and patent leather Oxford shoes, round toes, self cap and row, square, leather heels. Ideal wear for the college girl. In sizes 2 to 5; Special sale price 18/9 net cash