GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

A Sydney cable states that the Ulimaroa sailed yesterday at 1 p.m. for Wellington.

The secretary of the Post Office advised that telegrams for Mexico are subject to censorship. In the Dunedin Police Court yesterday Stanley John Pringle, who was stationmaster at Ravens burne, was admitted to 18 months' probation on a charge of stealing ,£8 6s Bd, the property of the Government. The following reply is reported to have been sent from Christchurch by two prominent members of the Wairarapa Rugby team to the Mayor of Mastorton to his suggestion that the Ranfurly Shield be dropped overboard: “Will willingly drop the shield overboard if round your neck." A gang of 30 men has left Auckland for Kerepcehi where the Lands Department is commencing a flax planting scheme for the relief of unemployment. Nearly 1500 men are now engaged on Government relief works'in the, Auckland province. Arrangements have just been made to place another 125 on forestry work at Rotorua and other centres. This quota will probably include 100 from Auckland and 25 from the Waikato,

“If you fellows can’t pay your license fees you cannot afford to keep a wireless/’ said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch last week. “P,cannot afford to have one, and I don’t know how,you manage.” “But my set is only worth a couple of bob, sir,” said a defendant. “The cat’s whisker is broken, the crystal is worn out, and some of the connections are broken, . I run my lead-in wire from a neighbour’s aerial. ’’ A fine of 5/- and costs was imposed. “I have managed to get:a small ap-pointment—-not much, but something to keep mo out of mischief. I am very lucky to get anything at all, for things are as bad as they, can be here, and many thousands aro out of employment,” writes an Aucklander now resident. in the United States. “I do not know whether I like the country or not yet. I must say everybody has been very nice to me, but the conditions of life are altogether different. 1 -chink New Zealand wants a ipt of beating.”

At Christchurch yesterday/ Cyril Arthur Miller, aged 39, a salesman, was sentenced to six months ’ hard labour by the Magistrate, Mr. Mosley, for as saulting;; Mary-: : Miller, an ' elderly woman with whom ho lived. -The police said, that the woman had an interest in an hotel in the south and when money became duo accused beat her unmercifully to obtain some of it. Accused said that, the woman fell down. The Magistrate:' Well, she won.?t fall , again.- Six months ’ hard. • v ' With a sack wrapped robnd it to deaden the sound, a piece of asphalt weighing 20 pounds was thrown through the window of. a jeweller ’s shop in Chancery Lane; Christchurch, on Thursday night. The shop is occupied by Mr. J. H. Hancock wh6' was not bn the premises at the time.. Wire mesh shutters protected, the lower half of the window which was occupied by shelves filled with watches and other jewellery. Excluding the window, about £lO of damage was done to the goods inside, but nothing was stolen. A well-dressed man was seen walking away, but he eluded capture. . . '■© > “This is the cheekiest, letter that has come before tl/o Oiuncil, “‘remarked Cr. W. W. Scarff at the mooting of the Heathcoto County Council the other night,, reports a Christchurch 'paper. “The writer wants tho county to become a party to creating a monopoly.” Tho letter referred to asked the C.oun.cil “.to consider tho matter of granting no more bowser permits in the immediate vicinity Of the one lately .erected by him,” It was stated tfiat the bowser had not yet been ereotodj and that the Council had no power : byor the erection of bowsers on private property. it was decided to inform the -writer of the letter that if he erected a bowser, or a portion bf it pn the footpath, he will require to take but an indemnity policy in favour of the Ooun--oil,--. ;; : - ■ ' h