LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2346, 16 January 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A London cable states that the Prince of Wales has donated £SOO to the Queen Alexandra Memorial Fund. A motoring party between Wangehu and Bulls recently passed eight "swaggers” on the road, the majority of them in the sere and yellow. Heavy snowfalls have occurred in London and the Midlands and hunting has had to be abandoned, states a cable.

A well-known Wanganui sport who is about "to be married, sent a telegram to hie bride-elect, at Wellington the other day, intimating that he was putting a pound on a house. The young lady, in her haste, construed th e word “house” for “horse.” and sent him a reply telling him not to be silly, arid that she was hurrying to Wanganui to look after him.

Pleading guilty to the theft at Wellington of a ring valued at 25/-, the jiroperty of E. W. Gieraberg, a young man named Clarence Xhos. Booth was admitted at the Court yesterday to twelve months probation on the condition that he took out a prohibition order. Accused was described as a recent arrival from Home and it was stated that drink had been the causa of his downfall.

A man named George Travers alias Ernest Watson alias W. H. Watson, appeared before Messrs W. McKenzie and J, Mowlem J’s.P. at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with stealing a bicycle valued at £6/10/the property of Joseph Boucher. The theft is alleged to have taken place on November 19, 1924 j 'over a year ago. On the application oXthe police accused was remanded until Monday next.

A peculiar incident occurred in an Otago town recently (reports the ‘•North Otago Times”), which will not be forgotten by the person connected with it. A man was walking along lighting his pipe, when all of a sudden there was a loud report, and the pipe was blown out of his mouth. Needless to say he was astonished, as were people in the vicinity. Apparently he was the victim of a practical joke. Surprise has been expressed at the fact that one had to pay sixpence for a permit to take a camera into the Exhibition. This is probably one of the innovations of the organisers of the Exhibition to make every post a winning! one, and the revenue front this source must be fairly considerable as photographs of the attractions to be found at the Exhibition will no doubt be largely sought by amateur photographers. One car owner installed a carburettor that, was guaranteed K) per cent, on f ucl. Then,he put in special spark plugs that were' guaranteed to vpave 20 per cent. He next added a special rear axle that was guaranteed to save 20 per cent. He put on high-pressure “cord 1 ' that pro mised a 20 per cent saving! And now, with a fuel economy of 100 per cent., he has to stop every hundred miles and bail fuel out of He petrol tank to keep it f’om running o/j; Honest!

One great mistake that is made in New Zealand is the cabling of every little earth tremor that occurs. It has far-reaching results, and does us damage, says a correspondent of the Christchurch “Star”. Thirty different Australians were asked why they did not take a trip to New Zealand. Ex actiy seventeen of them replied that they were afraid of the earthquakes. Six of them said that the sea was too rough and dangerous. The Australian Press gives us a good deal of New Zealand news, but surely we do not need to advertise every tremor that is felt and frighten thousands of people from visiting our soil.

Commencing Tuesday, January 19, nt 9.30 sharp, the event of the season —The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd’s Great Summer Clearance Sale. Early buying will save many a disappointment.

Mr. J. Bull, of Hunterville, has very kindly donated the sum of £5 towards the expenses of the Palmerston North Municipal Band at the Dunedin Band Contest. Absentmindedness has cost a visitor to Palmerston North this week the price of a newspaper advertisement and 19/- reward. He placed a suit case in another person’s car in mistake for his own. Tho other was honest and handed the bag over to the police. The Palmerston North railway shunting staff is still being kept working at high pressure in receiving or stock trains from Hawke’s Bay* and sending them on to the northern districts.] An exceptional heavy train of 60 total and two engines left Palmerston North early last evening mostly' with sheep, for the Main Trunk and Taranaki. There is one trouble that New Zealand motorists are practically free from and that is freezing of the water in th e cooling system. In America a very largo quantity of alcohol is used every winter to make up a .non-freez-ing solution for use in radiators of cars during the cold season. It fe estimated by the U.S.A. prohibition department that over 32,000,000 gallons of alcohol will have to be provided during the next few months for motorcar consumption. This means an allowance of nearly two gallons of alcohol per motor vehicle in use on American roada. This alcohol fa doctored so that it la unfit for human consumption.