LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“There was every indication when I left .England that the winter would hold less hardships than the. winter .of last, year,” stated Sir Herbert Matthews, an English agricultural expert, who arrive. l :lL Auckland this week from Sydney. Hu added that generally speaking the industrial and social conditions of England were gradually improving. taxes were still very heavy and the uuein ploynicnt problem was si ill acme.

At. tile Mai Valley yesterday a‘.einonn. painful injuries were sustained by Sydney Day. aged 10 years, son of Ur and Mrs G. A. Day. of (.’oilingwood Street. The b'-y was playing wilii a dog wli’en the animal bit him severely on the bridge of the nose. Medical attention was sought and the lad '.os brought to his home. The animal was (lest roved.

A meeting of the Children's Cala! Committee will lie held ill Mr (i .I’. . Russell's rooms a 7.30 o eloek t<> night (Thursday). business important. Alf sillisi• i*ilie,'s are cordially invited to i a I i end. ' t Saltasli (Cornwall! Education Commit- 1 tee were informed that a girl, asked when leaving school v.lial employ men i she expected, replied that she wished ' In gi • on the dole. i Mrs Lily Kelly, of Abbotsford, ! ! anada. was charged with injuring rows hy 1 hrowing a solution el lye over them. I lie rows (lied from I heir in juries. Richard Little and Joseph Atk'.nson. neighhours of the accused, who owned the! cows, state that they were on quite i friendly terms with .Mrs Kelly. | Zolhe Richards, 32, farmer, of liar- ' row. (anada. was drowned hy being pinned underneath his motor ear when it overturned in a ditch in which there was eolisideratde water, dames Rarhani, of Hanover, a passenger, was able to flee himself. Cold and platinum valued at from 25.000 to 30.000 dollars, was reported : t .den from the William 11. Taylor jewellery factory at Newark', AWL. by nine men. who forced girl employees to -it 111 the floor II 111 il they made their "Siapes. Kinms' Motors are advertising a re-j vised s'-rvire for tig, coining season. ' Their mid dav ear and also weekly lorry service will prove a gnat benefit both ■r the In d residents, and tourists, giving : p does a surer means of t rnnspnr! 1 V.'l en lie Sr place:!. ‘

A correspondent writes >!iaf lakaka Valiev up to the present lias n 't been I'toii.-L a Itt'c! a. I h\ tiie drought that prevails so extensively thnughoiii the province. In i lie Smith Canterbury tennis tourin inen* the handicap singles championsnip was won hv M'-s ( L M. Aitkeii. •0.l ttic mi \ed band ii a p 1 !• mblcs by Mrs Morrow and l raninioiid. The N iag-i, 'vh i'ii arrived at Auckland last Kridav afternoon frum Van,i.uver. lii'oiigli! tin- American athletes, Jacks, u v. Si ho’/, and Lloyd Hahn, who arc in tour New Zealand. Sclioix. is the world's greatest sprinter, while liahn is a great distance runnel' amt has twice beaten records held by Nurmi. Dm ing 1925 lioilding permits to I lie value ot c.ct I luvc qua Hers of a nmiioii Cl IV -J bv the Uhl iSt cli u/'cti 1 Ci.'unul Ilm exact amount war .(Y 50,352, i i.mpaied v. iib 1180.0.99!/ lor ;iJ24, a decrease el JJ5.9.624. Tin- contractors lor repairs and niter atoms to the Waintcn County Council premises opposite the Municipal Cham liars have commenced wo'k at the hack pert!',;! of the building. At Blenheim this morning. George Cut iiberi Turnbull, alias Harry Camp ell, was s' 'ill, meed lo two months' imprisonmect at Wellington Gaol. by justices, on a charge i.t tliclt cl bis lnali''s swag, to which lie pleaded guilty. Fives Assoriiit i<>ii. The Waimea County Council is taking steps to obtain information as to toe 1.1 igin of the fire on Rabbit Island. 11. !’ati-rson. a labourer, died at Seattle from bootleg conmnsition of denatured alcohol and soda water, which police , hired in have killed 45 persons in Seattle this Year. Two men died ill a v ... k from drink. They collapsed on the streets’. The authorities asserted that boot leggt rs purchase denatured alcohol h r 35 cents a quart from Japanese druggists. mix it with soda water or grape juice and rebottle it in half-pint- bottles, selling them for 75 cents and nnc dollar. A? a meeting of the -Appleby Domain Board to-day "it was resolved that the bathing sheds at Appleby lie painted, it being specified that Nelson paint should be used. Mule evidence of an Indian tragedy of perhaps a century ago was umarthid t'rom a fissure in the Garden of the Gods. Colorado, when police exhumed lhe bones of a gianl redskin. A bone arrow, between the third and fourth left ribs, provided the key to the Indian s death. Near the left hand of the victim wire found several other arrows, worn with age. Experts in Indian lore identified the skeleton as that- of an Aia uahne. probably slain in a battle with Ctcs. The Garden nlitlic Gods, near Colorado Springs, was the shrine ot western tribes foi' centuries. \ petition was received at todays meeting of the Waimea ( utility ( oiincil 11-1,111 ratepayers in the ( leixellos disL'ict p,laving to he severed Iroui the county. Members agreed that the request was a reasonable one. as the district was an isolated one; but it was agreed to. hold *lm mat ter over for a month pending information ns to the area of land concerned. Ae. unusual mishap had pitiful consequences for Mr Oliver Hunter, a farmer. of Church Bay. While returning to ilis home from an outlying paddock luslipped mi a n-.'ky slope and itis tea bottle was smashed, a. jagged edge i cut ting liis !i*ft wrist, severing nil «irlory. Holding his wrist tightly' Air Hunter made for the nearest residence, a bout three miles distant, and there was given first aid. He then started (.'til lor Lvttelton to secure treatment- hy a d'*’i.,li-. On reaching Diamond Harbour lie collapsed from loss of blood, but, a boat was quickly procured to ferry him across the harbour. lie is now progressing sat i/lactorilv.

A fifteen-years-old mystery was recall rd in the Probate Division when 1/ i'd Mcrrivale gave leave to presume t!ic death, as having occurred on t,r since October 29. 1910. of Frederick Fermor-1 lesketh. Mr Frederick I'ernior Heskcth was a younger son of Sir Thomas Fermor-llesk'th, and was a subaltern in the 9th Lancers. in September. 1910. lie returned from South Africa and went to stnv with his parents at Chadshunt Manor. Kincton. Cbeshir'. A month later lie disappeared, lie was beard "f as a passenger in tli,, steamer Leinster to Kingstown: a leather kitbag was found aboard the steamer, hut all trace of Mr Fermor-1 lesketh had gone. There was a world wid,. search fur him. hut the missing ofTiccr was never seen again. Ladv Fertnor-1 leskef It died in 1924.'

The Bishnpdale Hill road, stated the County Engineer in Ids report submitted at to-day's meeting of the Council, is still carrying tiie greater portion of '.raftic in’o the city, and a suggestion was made that when the Highways Board visits the district this month an endeavour should he made to have the road inspected with a view to having it declared :: main highwav.