LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12950, 15 May 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

That i have lived on good terms with so many good people gives me more pleasure than any other reflection.—Sydney Smith. The total number of wireless receiving licenses in Britain at the end of April was 7,055,464, compareel witii 6,310,939 for the year previously, an increase of 744,525.

The London Transport Board for six days during the Jubilee carried 81,500,000 passengers, nearly two million daily above normal. Jubilee day aggregated 12,060,000, which was three million above the normal Monday load.

A campaign against the “no stocking” fashion has been launcheci by the big hosiery eentre. Women employees in hosiery factories have been warned that they' must wear stockings while work-ing-—London cable.

A divorce was granted at Reno yesterday to Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, heiress to the Woolworth millions, at a ten-minute private trial here. It is expected that witlun the next 24 hours she will marry the young Banish nobleman, Kurt Haugwitz Reventlow.

A thief silently' entered three houses, including a boarding establishment, ill Wellesley Street, Auckland, early on Sunday morning and stole a total of £25 10s in cash and a gold watch chain. Although he stood at their bedsides while revmoving the money' from their clothes he did not awaken any of the occupants.

The London Baily Herald’s diplomatic correspondent says Turkey has formally notified foreign Ambassadovs that if there is any revision of the military clauses of the peace treaty Turkey will ask for a revision of the Straits Convention of 1923 with the restoration of her right to fortify the Bardanelles and forbid foreign warships to pass the Straits.

At a meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Rugby Union last night it was decided to challenge Auckland for the Ranfurly Shield.

It was mentioned by a Makomako settler at the Farmers’ Union meeting yesterday that the swede crops in this district had been a failure owing to the ravages of the diamondbacked moth.

On Friday night a dance will be held in the Alakuri Hall in aid of the hall funds. Capital music will be supplied by Anderson s orchestra from Bannevirke and the floor will be in tip-top order. A tasty homemade supper will be served.

The wailing of sirens at 10 a.m. on the left bank of the Seine sent residents scurrying to shelters as part of the air raid drill, says a Paris cable. The medical school had 200 yards of underground corridor imji’rovised as a first-aid station. Thereafter the “patients” were moved to hospital for gas neutralisers. Firemen also participated.

The number of visitors to Rotorua in the year ended April 30th is estimated to exceed 130,000, according to an analysis of figures made by the town clerk. One well-known private hotel entertained from December to April inclusive 18,737 guests. The great increase in the number of visitors is regarded as sound evidence of the passing of the depression.

Three distinct earthquake shocks within a period of six minutes were felt in the Masterton district on Monday night. The first, at 10.54 p.m., was a light tremor, but a minute later a much longer shake was felt, and at 11.0 p.m. yet another sharp tremor was experienced. In the Maurieeville district the ’quakes were much heavier, being severe enough to awaken residents who were asleep. Tremors were also felt in Pahiatua.

_ When it came to the election of vice-presidents at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Farmers’ Union, Air J. H. Bremner promptly proposed Mr C. Jennings of Makuri. who had proved himself to be one of the best and most interested of tile Union members. Air Jennings said he had always made it a. rule never to take a vice-presidency unless he was prepared subsequently to accept the pre” sidency and he was not prepared to do that. The chairman (Air E. L. Heckler) and the meeting in general would not accept All- Jennings’ refusal and he was duly elected.

The London newspapers are giving prominence to the “sufferings” of two wives, Alesdames Cameron and Siedel, who are in Lamdon but are separated from thei>r cricketing husbands by the implacable decree of the South African selection committee that ladies must not see their husbands more than once a week, must not travel in the same train, stay at the same hotel or enter the pavilion while a match is in progress. “It is like being engaged all oyer again, said Airs Cameron. “Our husbands take us out to dinner and see us home but leave us on the doorstep.

Among tne shoals of congratulatory messages received by Mr B. G. Sullivan, M.P., on his re-election to the Mayoralty of Christchurch is one from a Maori admirer whose home is many miles from Christchurch. He writes to Mr Sullivan in the following terms: “Bere Ban Werra pleased an much delightful! ta see you get to mare-sliip once more. Py gorry much ta near go dis time. Him ta big gun. He keep on you tail all da way'. Py gorry wid all the i>ig guns on da eounsil, you no need da police-man in da lobby no more or worry about da carrot for da eounsil horses. You come da pa. We give da tangi show yoji how gratitude we are. Wall I close now. Py' gorry werry werry pleased vou in.— Kia Ora.”

The meat situation remains a deadj lock says a London cable. The British and Australian Ministers resumed deliberations in Mr Thomas’ room in the House of Commons yesterday .LiteriiGoii and again traversed the whole ground. There was not the slightest progress and Ministers departed without even issuing a. communique. All the proposals and coun-ter-proposals were apparently futile, and it was impossible to compromise on the Anglo-Argentine agreement either pending the termination of the agreement or afterwards. The Australian Press Association, referring to the Anglo-Australian meat deadlock, says that the Rt. Hon J G Ccaftes, New Zealand Minister of vil * ake up the discussion on behalf of New Zealand later in the week. He wall take a-totally diftferent line from Australia. J

The farming community and others will learn with regret that m i-L SeV °" years spent as lecturer m veterinary science at Massey ColNrtV u' McLinden, M.R.CbV.S., N.8.A., has resigned with the inshortH M r is tU T rni .? K t° England well toi - -MeLinden kas become - " 1,1 New Zealand for his leadmess to assist the advancement O iarnimg interests in any way, and PV s j", d K° at many A. reoeeV , W u ? n three occasions in Tsrt’d y t arS he has . judged the North bi,;J championship for Clydesdale horses and was the judge of pig seoTsl nml rt Koyal Show in the South _ slaucl. He has been ever ready to lecture to farmers’ organisations on stock matters and his ability has been so recognised that he is a memOKA° f i tJ ? e eou , n< ti , . s of the Ayrshire, Clydesdale and Pig Breeders’ Socie-