LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

There was no improvement at a late hour last evening in the condition of the elderly woman who fell front a moving tramcar in Newmarket on Tuesday evening, and is lying unconscious in the Auckland Hospital. The name of the woman is still unknown. She is aged about 50, has grey eyes and rather sharp features. Her height is sft. 4in. She was wearing a light brown coat with a fur collar and a grey hat, on the inside of which was the name " Millingtou, Thames." She had white stockings and suedo shoes. She was carrying a u chubby " umbrella and a small fibre caso containing a pair of rimless spectacles with the name of the maker, Geo, P. De Castro, Paeroa, stamped on the case. Injuries to the head sustained tnrough a fall in Queen Street resulted in the admission to the Auckland Hospital last evening of Mr. J. Innes, of 18, East Avenue, Mount Eden. His condition is not serious. Injuries to the knee and ankle were sustained by Mr. L. R. Piesse, of 6, B'rancis Street, Grey Lynn, an employee of tho Post and Telegraph Department, yesterday morning. Ho was riding a motor-cycle along' Hobson Street when tho machine skidded on tho tram rail, throwing the rider heavily. Ho was taken to tho Auckland Hospital, where he received attention in the casualty ward. There is still no trace of the five-seater Chevrolet motor-car, No. 2537, which was removed from Victoria Street West on Monday evening. The car, which was painted a slate colour, is owned by Mr. R. H. Manning, of Portland Road, Remuera. A large number of steamers are due at Auckland within the next few days. Tomorrow tho Canadian Explorer will arrive from Halifax, tho Cumberland from Napier, and the City of Melbourne from New York. On Saturday tho Kurow is duo from South and on Sunday the Ribera is expected from Texas, the Kaitigi from Westport, and tho Waipahi from Southern ports. Tho Royal Mail steamer Niagara will arrive on Monday from Sydney, and the Wairuna from San Francisco is duo that day. On Tuesday the Kaiwarra is coming from Fiji and the Marama from Sydney. Other steamers due next week include tho Canadian Miller, from South; tho Mariston, from Nauru Island; the Sally Macrsk, from St. John; the Parcora, from Liverpool; and the Port Napier, from London. There was keen competition for beef at tho Westfield sale yesterday, values being from Is to 2s per 1001b. higher. Extra choico and prime ox made £1 lis per 1001b.; choice and prime, £1 7s to £1 10s, and ordinary and plain, 19s to £1 Is. Prime young cow and heifer beef realised £1 7s, ordinary £1 2s to £1 ss, and rough 14s to £l. Heavy prime steers made £l3 to £l4 ss; light prime, £9 to £ll ss; and unfinished and small, £6 10s to £8 15s. Sheep were yarded in less than averago numbers and improved in value by Is to 2s a head. Heavy prime wethers made £1 13s to £1 14s; medium prime, £1 9s to £1 10s 6d; and light prime, £1 9s to £1 10s 9d. Extra heavy prime ewes realised from £1 5s to £1 7s, and light prime 19s to £1 0s 9d. There was fin average yarding of lambs and prices were unchanged. Pigs were penned in average numbers, there being little change in values. Choppers sold from £3 to £4 2s; medium and heavy liaconers, £4 4s to £4 12s; light baconers and heavy porkers, £3 10s to £4 2s; and medium and light porkers, £2 18s to £3 Bs. Prices for calves were well maintained.

Houses made out of motor car cases do not appeal to members of the Birkenhead Borough Council. At the meeting of the council last evening permission to erect a temporary dwelling of two rooms, to he constructed with tho material mentioned, was refused. It was stated tho cost of the building would bo £lO. The Newmarket fireball is to be replaced by a siren, and will bo offered for use as a church bell. It, is considered that if the bell is obeyed with the same alacrity it has been accustomed to command its new career should be decidedly successful. The siren which is to take its place will be made so that it can be operated from the Borough Council chambers in Broadway.

"My machine is so fast that I was afraid it would get ine into trouble some day," said William A. Thompson, when charged in the Police Court yesterday with speeding over Grafton Bridge. "Yes, and the day has arrived," commented the magistrate, Mr. Poynton, amid laughter. "You are fined £2 and costs." No fewer than five juries were empanelled simultaneously at the Supreme Court yesterday. Two were sitting in Court and three had retired to deliberate. By good fortune one had just reached a verdict as another retired, and consequently the officials wore spared the need of finding three jury rooms. An Auckland resident was startled recently to see two small children playing with what appeared to bo a live shell lying on Rangitoto Island. Officers of the Defence Department, however, stated in reply to questions that there is no possi-, bilty of live shells ever being found on the island. The shell in question would probably bo an Bin. missile fired from Fort Cautley, but the shell would not contain a chargo. The Bin. guns at the fort had not been fired since 1914, so that in any event the shell must now be very old. The only live shells which wore ever fired at the island wero small six-pounders, and if ono of these failed to explodo the fact was noted at once and a search party was immediately sent to the island to destroy it. The albatross found on Muriwai Beach on Saturday and taken to the zoo died on Tuesday morning. The bird was in a weak condition owing to the buffeting it had received in the recent storm, and it was not expected to live. The body of the albatross, which is a very fine specimen, has been taken to the Auckland Museum, where it will be prepared for inclusion in the collection of sea birds. Members of the Clyde Quay Wellington School Committee arc proud of the accomplishments of ex-pupils. As a case in point, reference was made at the annual meeting of householders on Monday evening to the fact that Mr. H. G. R. Mason, an ex-pupil of the school, had entered Parliament as member for Eden. Mr. T. Forsyth, M.P., stated that Mr. Mason had been a brilliant pupil at Clyde Quay and at Wellington College, and his success was particularly gratifying. " I am sorry that he is on the wrong side," said Mr. Forsyth, with a twinkle in his eye, " but, even so, it is satisfactory to see men of the calibre of Mr. Mason entering Parliament."