GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6655, 7 July 1928, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

A Suva cable announces the arrival of the Niagara yesterday from Auckland en route to Vancouver.

The Aberdeen-Cojmnonwealth Line is inaugurating a regular fortnightly service to Australia via the Suez Canal, states a London cable. A Sydney cable states that at the sheep sales yesterday a special stud Merino ram bred by Donald Grant Limited, Collarenebri, realised 1125gns. Tour stowaways on the steamer Kaitoa from Auckland were fined £3, in default three days in gaol, in the Gisborne Police Court yesterday morning. Accused ware David Bussell, aged 27, Henry Wixon, aged 23, Norman Travers, aged 22, and George' Tiiillo, aged 22.

A Blenheim message states that Captain Ken Hall, of Hororata, arrived at 11,15 and Mr. Douglas Mill, of Auckland, at 11.35 yesterday in Moth 'planes from Christchurch. They arothe guests of the newly formed Marlborough Aero Club. They are expected to give an exhibition of flying over the town.

The industrial rabbit industry is at last on the list of livelihoods in New Zealand. It was reported at a meeting of the .Auckland branch of the Smallholder Industrial Babbit Club last week that the Government had decided to permit the keeping of the improved British strains of wool and fur rabbits. Subject to reasonable conditions, included penalties for letting the rabbits escape. A resolution was passed thanking the Government for sympathetic treatment of the question and promising to conduct the industry in a way that will cause the authorities no anxiety. Exciting experiences befell a bridal party and a number of guests at a wedding at Maramanui on Thursday, when negotiating the flood waters left by the heavy rain the previous day. The bridal party, while coming to Dargaville (says the correspondent of the Ne,w Zealand Herald), had the misfortune to collide with a motor lorry loaded with ’pngs. Two of the patty suffered minor injuries, and an axle of the motor truck was broken. In the evening another party returning from the wedding celebrations was marooned in a flood on the road, but it. was eventually roscued by a motor sent out from Dargaville. 1

Last night two pedestrians had s miraculous escape from serious injury as a result of being run into by a privately-owned car at the corner of Eu&hine Street and Broadway. An elderly man named James Frederick Bants, of Amesbury Street, accompanied by Miss Rose Cokes, was crossing Broadway at the Euahine Street .corner on their way towards the hospital. They observed the' car... coming down Ruahine Street towards them, but thought it was going; to continue straight on. The car turned into Broadway and the two pedestrians were knocked over. They were quickly removed to the hospital where the young lady was found to be practically uninjured though suffer; tg fr-m shoo If Mr. Banks . suffered minor abrasions and will be X-rayed this morning, though last night no injuries of any serious nature were apparent.

The precincts of a police court are never very inviting, especially when one is summoned there by the dictates of a ‘ ‘ scrap ’‘ of blue paper. But'some peopledget through the careless reading of their official notification. The other day a well known resident of the Otago Peninsula spent a morning listening to the dry details of the court .expectantly awaiting his turn to bo called for a breach of the motor by-laws. When the “majesty of the law” sternly announced that the “ Court now stands adjourned," the dairy farmer stood amazed, and approaching a “limb of the law" inquired when his case was to come on. “What is your case?" was the query. Producing his “bluey" the official inquired, “Can you read? Tour case does not come on till this day week!” The farmer quickly left to attend to Strawberry and Bluey, and. incidentally blame Mr Sidey’s Summer Time Bill for his mistake.