GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

The Manuka left Melbourne yesterday for Wellington.

At the Sydney wool sales yesterday the market ruled firm at previous rates of the week for all descriptions. Good clearances were made. Greasy Merino sold to 28d.

A Nelson message states that an elderly woman named Mrs, T. Sharp, of Wai-itl. Is In hospital as the result of a motor car that she was driving striking a train while entering the Wakefield station. Her condition is serious.

Robert Henry Brochie, aged 23, alias Edward C. Cross, previous convictions for theft at Dunedin, was yesterday morning at Greymouth fined a total of £ls, in default two months in gaol for defrauding a Greymouth hotelkeeper of £5 for board and lodging.’ Accused pleaded guilty.

What constitutes probably the first consignment of live poultry from this country to Britain was made a couple weeks ago by Mr. E. M. Bell, of TCarerc who exported two White Leghorn cockerels, of a particularly heavy laying strain, through Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Coy.

Te famous dancer Isadoro Duncan met a tragic end in 'Nice, states a London cable. She herself was driving a motor car along the Promenade drs Anglais, when .a long scarf caught In a wheel and dragged her from her seat into the roadway, where she was found with her spinal column broken. Death occurred at a hospital.

The stock and fittings on the first floor of Alexander Ross and Sons' boot factory on Cambridge Terrace. Wellington, were damaged by Are yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. The insurance is £5200 on the machinery, fittings, and stock in trade. One fireman. James Stewart, was sent to hospital, with burns on the neck.*-Press Association.

At the Inquest at Wellington yesterday regarding the death of Thompson- Faulkner, a chimney sweep, aged 54, who was found electrocuted on Mount Victoria on Tuesday, evidence was given showing that deceased evidently held a fencing wire in his hand and throw a weighted fishing line over some high tension wires. A verdict of suicide was retyrned.-

Whlle returning to Waikaremoana in a motor truck from a funeral at Wairoa on Wednesday, Charles Murray, an elderly married man, Is alleged to have grabbed the steering -wheel causing the lorry to somersault several times over the bank. He had his chest crushed and was killed instantly. The other occupants fortunately escaped with minor cuts and cruises.

Messrs. E. Larcomb and F. J. Watty of Palmerston North, have invented and registered a most ingenious electric “mechanical hare” for greyhound racing which is so popular at present in Australia; it is simple and perfect In operation and at least 200 per cent, cheaper than those In present use, the invention has been placed in a metropolitan broker’s hands, for purposes of flotations of a company to manufacture, and market the device.

The cruiser "London” was launched on Wednesday a t Portsmouth, states a Rugby wireless. Lady Blades, the Lady Mayoress, of London, appropriately performed the christening ceremony. The “London,” which is of 10.000 tons, is the first of four cruisers of the 1020 programme designed by Sir William Berry, Director of Naval Constructor She is also the first ship of her type. The name “London” has been perpetuated in the history of the British Navy, the new warship being the eighth of the lino.

’ A youth who refused to take the oath of allegiance required under the Defence Act came before the Magistrate at Gisborne yesterday morning. The defendant. Leslie Bugden, refused to take the oath for religious reasons. but he admitted in court that no one had told him not to and that his father advised him to take it. Even when disked by the Magistrate to take the oath. Bngdcn still refused and he was fined the maximum penalty. £5, Mr. Levvey, S.M.. warning him that if he persisted and did nor pay the fine he would be sent to gaol for 14 days.