GENERAL ITEMS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10854, 6 June 1928, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS

X.Z. AND ABROAD. A motor. accident occur rod on the Gladstone Road. A car driven by a Maori Tommy Isaacs, who- had with him as passengers Hauea Karauria and Roliipi Haeata was returning to Gladstone. In negotiating a bend' on the road the front wheels became locked and Hie car overturned, being badly damaged. Isaacs received a sovere cut on one of his hands, Pahipi Haeata an injury to a leg, and Hauea Karauria suffered internal injuries. The latter was conveyed to his home. The new home of the British- Embassy will be dedicated by Sir Esine Howard, the British Ambassador. Exercises consist of laying the- corner stone of the British Embassy. The Canadian -and Irish Free State legation staffs and officials of the Tnited States and other governments will attend. Roman Catholic, Archbishop Kelly has issued a pastoral declaring that birth control by any meu-n-s other than by voluntary mutual, prudent and opportune abstinence is an outrage upon the- divine institution of marriage and upon tjie personal rights of human beings.—,Sydney message.. Mr C-. N. O'Leary, schoolmaster at Awatoitoi, was knocked down on the road by a motor car near Awatoitoi and sustained a. fractured leg. He was conveyed to the Mast-erton Hospital. Mr O'Leary is a widower, aged 64 years Alt is understood that the motor car was. driven by a resident- ci- Wellington. The Dail E ire-awn shelved Mr Eamo-n de Valera’s motion for the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance. The Birthday Honours include: Knight °f the- Thistle: The Marquess of Linlithgow ; Knights Bachelor: Mr Ben Morgan, of the Empire Producers’ Association, Mr Percy McKinnon, chairman of Lloyds, Mr J. Sandeman Allen. M.P. for West Perby, and Mr R. Mitchell Banks. M.P. for Swindon. Two large spinning mills, together with machinery, were destroyed -by fire at Ipswich. Queensland. Rothko established a new world’s running record for 25,000 metres, -doing the distance in 85 minutes 14 seconds.—Helsingfors message. At an official dinner a-t- Government House, Auckland, states Press Association message, the Gov-ernor-General presented -Sir Walter Stringer with the letters patent Knight Bachelor, -and, Mr A. E. Ellis with the badge of C.M.G. The New Zealand Olympic team hr..s arrived in London and was welcomed by Sir .Tallies Pan-. The team trains in England and competes at the amateur championships in July. The members accompany the Britis-n team to Amsterdam. Sir James Parr also welcomed the New Zealand farmers by the Remuera. Diming Olympic tests the German spr inters Keening. Courts, Non bo?, and Wiclnnann ran 400 metres relay in 40.8 seconds —-a world’s, record. Fraiulei-n Lange put the weight 11.57 metres —a world's record for women. An Australian Pre-ss As-scoiatio-n United Service, message .from: Lonon., states that the Bishop of Ri.pon ordained the Rev. Lawrence Neville Watkins, of Wellington, to the parvsn church at Leeds. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch reports th-o death of Mr H. VV. Jennings, a. well-known stock uuct'-on.'-er. of the firm of Pvne. Gould, and Guinness, at the age of 80. Mass meetings of all the N.S.W. coal industry emiTThyees on the northern fields passed a resolution pledging themselves to sta-nd solidly together and fight as one body any afitempted reduction in wages or alteration. in conditions which the colliery proprietors may seek to enforce. While a steamer was discharging Russian kerosene oil into the Standard il Company’s tanks at Sewri, near Bombay, a tank containing fiOO,000 gallons burst into flames and was destroyed. After ain all-night fight fire brigades saved adjoining tanks containing millions of gallons of oil. Nineteen were killed and many wounded in three- riots between Hindus and Moslems of Punjab- and the United Provinces during the Bnkrid celebrations. At Ruipar in the Punjab. six Sikhs and two Moslems were killed in fighting which followed an attempt to sacrifice a- cow. The

I police fired on three occasions in orj de-i- to disperse the mobs, i Relatives of the late- Ernestine, [Mary No-rgrove-, the murdered woman) waited on the Prim© Minister to rpjSre-sent the opposition to- the ‘ decision arrived at -on Saturday by I the Executive Council to sentence j Alan Georg© Norgro-ve to- imprisoni ment for life. Commenting on the Executive Council’s dieis-icu a-t. t-ho Metlio-dist Church service, the Rev. P. Paris said:- “We should all be grateful lor the Executive Council’s act. of mercy. I feel certain that it is not according to- Christ’s spirit of teaching that we- should ever take the lit© of a man because he has taken the life of another. That is the law of the jungle, which: Jesus lepudiated.” “I won’t endorse- your license—but you may consider yourself fortunate,” said Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., to Neil Olsen, a labourer, aged 44, who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court. Wellington, to* answer a. 1 charge of being -found in charge of ei motor-car while in a state of intoxication. Rennarking that accused ought to- know as well as he.did that severe penalties were imposed on those who partook of - liquor while i driving a motor-car the- Magistrate imposed a fine of £lO, and ordered Olsen to pay expanses totalling £1 OiS. A Rugby representative match, played at Hamilton, resulted, in Auckland (30) beating Waikato- (nil.) In the first trial game prior to competing for the Prince of Wales’ Cup, Federation Franoai-se De Rugby trophy, and To Mari Rose Bowl, the South Island Maoris were defeated by 14 points to 6 by the North Otago rc-n resell ta.t i ve s. Perfect weather prevailed in Nelson foe the holiday. The Rugby seven-a-side tournament wa-s won by | Old Boys in the senior grade, ana; by Wakat-u in the third grade. r At Rugby League, New South Wales defeated England by 20 point*, to 15, after a hard contested game. At Soccer, New South Wales beat Queensland by 3 goals to 2. A message from Captain Inglesin*. states that be descended in the village of Nassiraya. Iraq, where there is not a, single European. The descent was due to valve trouble. He expect,; -he. will have- t-o -dismantle the- machine. The airmen telegra-Tjhed the Air Ministry that they were forced j to land near Ur of the Chaldees in a j sand-storm and are uninjured. I Sir Auste-n Chamberlain, en route to Geneva, interviewed M. Bri-and, who subsequently announced that ■ btoh were in agreement on all probj Ipms of the League’s agenda. Thev particularly examined disarmament in view of t]_;o disou-ssio-n-of the- preparatory dis-iirmiament committee in July, and also the anti-war pact negotiations which M. Briand is convinced will s-oon be happily concluded. . j A,t six o’clock on Saturdav morning a. man shabbily dressed and with his clothing disarranged wa, s found in a state of collapse on the steps of the Invercargill Police Station. Blood was running from a gash in his neck arid there was - another wound in nt» lelt arm above the wrist. He- was helped into the station, arid ax It o’clock appeared in t-lie dock art the Police Court, his head' swathed in bandages. He wins charged before Mr 1' Cruiekshank. S.M.. with attempted suicide. So far facts went to indicate that- t.hte wounds were self-in-flicted. As there was no evidence te he brought -forward, the Magistrate ordered accused to- he- remanded for medical observation until next Saturday. Australia’s reply to th© Kellogg outlawry of war proposal has been received and is understood to he favour able.