LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 10 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather permitting the Municipal Band will play a programme of music in the Park this evening, commencing at 8 o’clock. A Sydney cablegram states that the wholesale price of butter has been reduced by one penny per pound to 186 s 8(1 a cwt. An effort is to .be made in the near future in Greytown to raise funds with which to develop the Greytown Memorial Park. i The Masterton A. and P. Association intends to have a luncheon on the first day of the next Masterton Show, at which all past presidents of the Association will bo guests. The Westport Coal Company directors recommend -a dividend of 6d per share, .making 7A per cent, for tho year, states a Press Association telegram from Dunedin. The ditsrilution of 6d per share from the insurance account is also proposed. j A Gisbone Press Association telegram states that Mrs Florence Whale was admitted to hospital last eveningsuffering from .the effects of a pea-rifle bullet at the side of her chest. Mrs Whale’s son was going shooting. He picked, up his pea-rifle, and, not knowing it was loaded, touched, the trigger. The bullet struck his mother. The injuries are reported to 'be not iserious. H. J. Halliday and W. N. Batty, both of Vancouver, and N. J. Godward, of Auckland, who left Auckland last month to walk round the world in six years for a wager of 5000 dollars, -and 1 who passed through Palmerston N. on Tuesday arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon. The distance from Pal.merston North to WelEngton is 9.5| miles.—(P.A.). I At the dispersal sale of the Aotea Jersey stud, owned by Mr. L. A. McDonald, of Levin. Mr E. C. Todd, of Masterton, bought the 4-year-old, Hollyoak Queenie (Grannie’s KnightSil vermine Queen), for 66 guineas. | This cow, as a two-year-old, won the Holly Oak gold cup for the best re- - cord made by heifers sold at Holly Oak jin 1924. Mr. Todd also bought a ■ yearling heifer, Oatea Holly Queen, for > 15 guineas. ' Mr W. Kemp drew the attention of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday to the faet that reafforestat tion was badly required in the native ■ bush at the Solway showgrounds. Mr | Kemp -stated that if the open spaces [ in the bush were not replaced with trees the association would soon lose all its bush. It was decided to keep the matter in view, it being recommended that the members of the committee should do the work. ! A final reminder is given to all members and friends of /the Masterton Harrier Clqb, of the .evening to be held in the Masterton Park Kio>sk at 8 o’clock to-night. The guest of the evening will be Mr E. J. Hoffer, captain of the club, who has been an ardent member for a great number of yesxs. The programme of the evening includes musibal items, dancing and a presentation to Mr. Heffer, who leaver Masterton shortly to go to Lower Hutt. I At the invitation of the Napier Boys’ High School, the Wairarapa High School cricket team is in Napier to play an inter-school match. The • team left yesterday, will play to-day ; and to-morrow, and return home on I Ss/turday. Mr C. B. McClure is in charge, and the members of the team are: F. Cormack (captain), G. Brash, A. Hood, K. McArtney, H. Feast, J. 1 Ramsden, K. Uttley, J. Bundle K. Dyer, G. Farnsworth, J. Groves and C. Wiseley. I A sensational accident, fortunately not attended by fatal consequences, occurred at the Stirling (Otago) railway crossing last evening, when the express from the south collided with a one-ton lorry loaded with merchandise and other articles. The motor vehicle was badly damaged, but the driver, who saw the train but whose . brakes failed to act, managed to jump clear in the nick of time. Included in the lorry’s freight was a blacksmith’s anvil. Had this fallen on the line, the express might easily have been derailed.—(P.A.). < Before Mr. Young, S.M., at the

1 Lyttejton ‘ Magistrate’s Court yester- ! day, Harold Creighton, aged 22, a . steward on the R emu era, was charged ' ( with stealing, on or about October 10, . ' on the Remuera 'between 'Southampton , 1 and Ceylon, four five-pound notes and ( , three one-pound notes from a woman passenger’s cabin. The woman had . left a money belt on her bunk. The _ steward took it and threw the belt away. Accused, who pleaded guilty, ! was convicted and ordered to repay forthwith the three pounds unrecover- ’ ed. The Magistrate said it would not be in the interests of the community or the accused to send him to gaol, as his contract required that he should be taken back to England.—(PA). i An inquest concerning the deith of Mrs Ellen Ann Caughley, wife of Mr. John Caughley, in a motor car accid.ent on Raroa Road, Wellington, on Sunday last, was held before Mr W. G Riddell S.M., yesterday. After hearing the evidence of Mr John Caughley, his Son (Frank Gordon Caughley), and Frederick Freeman Olli ver, a cyclist involved in the accident, the Coroner said that if both parties had kept to the left of the road, the accident might not have happened. However, there was no absolute law regarding positions on the road. It appeared to him that if there was an error of judgment, it was on the part of Mr Cuughley in coming to the conclusion that the cyclist could get past him, but he would not say that it was a wrong conclusion that Mr. Caughley came to. He should have applied the brakes fully when he saw the cyclist, and the car would probably have stopped before reaching the fence. A verdict was returned that Mrs Caughley died from injuries received through being accidentally crushed by a motor car driven by Mt. Caughley, which nan over a steep bank in Raroa Road, Kelburn. The Coroner expressed his sympathy with Mr. Caughley and his family.