LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr P. Ryan, of Masterton, while following his usual vocation yesterday, cut two or three of his fingers severely with a chopper*

The Princess Street railway crossing at Palmerston North, was the scene of another collision between a tr«*n and car last evening. James Buglass, a motor mechanic of Palmerston North, driver of the car, is in hospital with head injuries as a result. —(P.A.) • A mail bagf registered letters was missed from the Blackball train on Friday evening, states a Press Association message from Greymouth. The discovery was made when the bags were cheeked with the waybills. Inquiries so far have been fruitless.

Several heads of the Forestry service of Canada, states an Auckland Press Association message, are passing through by the Niagara to attend the British Empire Forestry-Conference in Australia. They include Mr. v . H. Finlayson, Director of Forestry in Canada.

The boatswain of the S.S.. Huntingdon, while engaged in swinging the hatches on the vessel at Dunedin yesterday afternoon, was knocked off between decks into a lower hold, fracturing 'both legs and receiving head injuries. The injured man, who is named Robert Kean, 53 years of age and married, was admitted to hospital.—(P.A.) Playing in a yard of the Concrete Block Company, Hamilton East, yesterday, Mervyn . St. George, aged six years, a son of Mr. A. St. George, was struck by a falling block. His skull was fractured and he died soon after admission to hospital. It is reported that the child was swinging by a rope suspended from a pile of blocks, when a block fell.—(P.A.) The usual fortnightly euchre tournament was held in the East Taratahi Schoo! on Saturday evening. The ladies’ prize was won by Mrs S. Green And the mein’s by Mr. G. Gregorie. The consolation prizes went to Mrs J. Henderson and Mr. W. A. Downes. Supper was provided and dancing indulged in. A song and recitation were given by Mr. Fulton.

William Winnie, a linesman employed by the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, was electrocuted yesterday afternoon when doing some wiring work at Akatarawa. The Wellington City Ambulance was summoned, but Winnie was dead when the car arrived. He WBA a single man and lived at Lower Hutt. At the time of writing no further particulars were available.—(P.A) A Press Association message from Greymouth states that William Linklater, who pleaded guilty to thf* theft of £23 Ils lOd, the property cf the Grey Power Board, by whom he was formerly employed as a meter-rater, was admitted to probation for two years by Mr. W. Meldrum, S.M., on condition- that he takes out a prohibition order for that period. William Henry Danvers, aged 22 years, pleaded guilty-at Gisborne yesterday to three charges of theft by misappropriation, and was admitted to probation for 12 months. Danvers was employed as a book canvasser by a Dunedin firm, and the amounts unaccounted for were received at Woodville, Cambridge, and Matamata.— (PJL) In the Supreme ' Court at Christchurch yesterday Mr. Justice Adams sentenced Walter Patrick Murphy, alias Murray, to three years’ reformative detenticn on charges of breaking, entering, and theft. A youth of 17, who pleaded guilty to assault with intent on a female, was sentenced to fivo years’ in the Borstal Institute.— (PJL) •

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club yesterday, the president, Sir Edwin Mitchelson, referring to the fact that the club did not have a representative on the executive committee recently elected by the Conference, said that the procedure followed at the election (one man, one vote) was net only quite irregular but also a very deliberate slight to the club. Speaking in regard to the club’s contributions to the Conference and the Conference>*s attitude to the club in the ma‘. ter of racecourse inspectors and stipendiary stewards, he said that the chib was evidently looked on as a milch cow. Improvements at the course are to cost £200,000, including the extension of the course, a new members’ stand, and other improvements. The extension of the totalisator houses was also outlin-ed.—-(P.A.)

The death of a well-known pioneer Settler, Mr. Malcolm Macinnes, at Makaraka, Gisborne, yesterday, at the age of 88, is surrounded by circumstances of a rather pathetic interest. The deceased, who was born in Scotland, came to New Zealand in J 858 but later went to Australia and returned to New Zealand at the time of the Gabriel’s Gully rush. Forty-seven years ago he came to Hawke’s Bay, where ho fell in with a friend, Mr R. G. Mather, also from Scotland. After working on stations the two took up land in Poverty Bay thirty-seven years ago, being the first settlers on Crown land near Wharerata and until 1914 they farmed land in Poverty Bay, then returning to Makaraka, where the two have lived since. Both the deceased and Mr. Mather have been inseparable companions for forty-seven years and neither has married, the two being well-known identities throughout the district on account of their close association.—(P.A.)