LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. W. G. Marks, of Auckland, who was injured on Mt. Egmont on Thursday, was reported by the hospital authorities last night to be in a satisfactory condition at the time. Seven days’ imprisonment. was the penalty ordered for John Joseph Larking, who was found drunk in Devon Street on New Year’s Eve. He was brought before Mr. R. W. D. Robertson, J.P., the next morning. He will be further dealt with on January 12 for an alleged breach of his prohibition order.

The Maoris in the Northern Wairoa district have arranged .to hold a large gathering of Maoris and pakehas at Whakahi in August next, to mark the birthday of the late Sir James Carroll. On this occasion, says an exchange, advantage will be taken to formally open a large meeting-house, now in course of construction, to the memory of the late ariki.

Remarking that of all the places visited as yet by the Carinthia on her world tour he liked best Hong Kong and New Zealand, Mr. F. W. Kellogg, one of the t urists, said the British were to be congratulated upon the way in which they governed Hong Kong. He took pains _to go through the native city in the company of a Chinese merchant, who had Jived for some time in San Francisco, and he found a very positive opinion prevalent that to be under British rule was the ideal condition.

A word of praise was given the Press of New Zealand by Mr. F. W. Kellogg, one of the American tourists on board the Carinthia. Mr, Kellogg, who at one time owned the San Francisco Call, and whose wife, too, comes from a family of newspaper magnates, said that it seemed to him that the New Zealand newspapers covered local news very well; by not giving too much space to each item a big field 4 was covered. “The added, “and it is obvious that your make-up of your papers is good,” he Press is in a prosperous condition.” A peculiar phenomenon is reported to have occurred at Waipu and Maungaturoto. Following upon warm and noimal weather, a bank of heavy clouds approached from the east, presenting a semi-circular front. When the cloud reached the settlement there was a heavy fall of large pieces of ice. Unlike ordinary hail, the pieces were of irregular shape and varied in size from that of half a crown to a shilling (stat'es the New Zealand Herald). Almost all had an air bubble in the middle of them. The fall did not last long, and at Waipu there was no rain afterwards, although at Maungaturoto there tVas subsequently a heavy downpour. Some children who were bathing had a rather unpleasant experience, but nobody was harmed. The ice cut and bruised growing vegetables and shrubs as though they had been beaten with sticks. The matron of the New Plymouth Hospital acknowledges the following Chrj-.tmas gifts:-—Toys children’s ward. Miss Wood, Mr. Ki’uby, Mr. A. little, mrs. Ruebe, Roma Pennington; sweets, Mr. Hughes, Burgess, Fraser and Co., Mrs. E. L. Thorpe; fruit, Burgess Fraser and Co., Mrs. E. L. Thorpe; cheques, Archdeacon and Mrs, Evans, Young Joe; poultry, Mrs. Hopkins, I.X.L. Butchery, per Mr. Macßae; eream, Mr. Kurth; flowers, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Reesby, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Alexander (Fitzroy), Mrs. Southam, Mrs. Street (Bell Block), Mrs. Johns, Mrs. S. Burgess, Mrs. Brodie, Mrs. Boyle, Mrs. Moody, Mts. Winfield, Mrs. Kidd, Mrs. Hunestone, Young Worshippers’ League, Whiteley Memorial Church, per Miss Ward and children; magazines, Mr. F. Messenger. Mrs. Boulton, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. W. Holmes (Bell Block), Mts. Smart, Mie. Reg. George, Mrs. Stronge (Gpunake), Mrs. Warren (Waitara); fly swatters, H. Ward and Co., per. Mr. L. Little; cards, Joan and Ralph Kidd.