LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 12 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The gate takings at Athletic Park, Wellington, for the Fourth Rugby Test on .Saturday are stated to have been about £7OOO. Invitation holders are reminded of the Old Girls Hockey Club dance tonight. Extras will be played by the W.F.C.A. Orchestra. Over three inches of rain fell in 40 hours at Pahiatua, reported a Press Association message received last night. Rain was then 'still falling. A Pahiatua Press Association message reports that P. E. Wingfield’s stationery and fancy goods shop was broken into during the week-end. A quantity of goods was disarranged and about £2O worth of articles taken. A youth formerly employed in the Manaia Post Office pleaded guilty before justices in the Manaia 'Court yesterday to a charge of having secreted 75 printed booklets addressed through the post to persons in the district. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence and his name was suppressed.—(P.A.) An accident occurred in High Street, Carterton, near Dr. W. H. Young’s residence, on Saturday evening, when Miss Sybil Davies was riding her bicycle towards her home. A ear 'approached from behind and collided with her. Miss Davies was dragged along for some distance, but fortunately sustained no serious injury. The bicycle was fairly extensively damage ed. The young lady was taken to the surgery of Dr. Young, who attended to several bruises and minor cuts. There was a large attendance in the Municipal Social Hall last night, when members of the W.E.A. Play Reading Circle gave a public reading of Sir J. M. Barrie’s play, “What Every Woman Knows.” The cast was as follows: Maggie, Mrs H. B J(e;d; Gountesse do la Briere, Mrs W. A. Michael; Lady Sybil, Mrs C. V. Sugden; .John Shand, Mr. F. E. S. Roekel; Hon. Venables, Mr. W. Hickson; Alex Wylie, Mr. H. C. Robinson; David Wylie, Mr. H. B. Reid; James Wylie, Mr. G. Shenan. The reading was well handled and 'ably interpreted throughout and provided *a very enjoyable c-venii.g’s entertainment. A meeting of the Ladies’ Committee of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society was held last evening to make final arrangements for the ball which is to take place in the Municipal Hall on Thursday evening. All preparations are now well in hand for what promises to be a highly popular and successful function. First-class music will be provided, for the dancing, which starts at 8 o ’clock and an excellent supper will be served. There is every indication that the ball will attract very large attendance. Notwithstanding the fact that a very large number of invitations has been sent out, numerous requests for invitations are being received. Evidently Henry John Millen, who shot his wife and then himself at Howick on Saturday morning, had decided to end both lives. In a letter he left to his only son he stated that he was tired of all worry and trouble. .‘Your uncle will look after you,” the note concluded. The funeral of the two victims of the tragedy took 1 place at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Flat Bush, Papatoetoe. A long cortege 1 followed the two hearses and many friends and relatives waited the arrival of the funeral at the Cemetery, which is situated in *a Ijcaiifirul p.*rf of the district. Many beautiful floral tributes covered the caskets of. the victims.—(P.A.)

The adjourned inquest into the death of Thomas Redford Harrison, commonly known in New Zealand as Thomas Gordon Lennox, who was found dead in bed at the Railway Hotel, Christchurch, on July 28, was concluded yesterday. After hearing the evidence of Dr. Thomson, who made a post-mortem examination, the Coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, found that death was due to heart failure, following pneumonia. George Thorngate Weston, a solicitor, gave evidence that under instructions from a ’Wellington firm of solicitors he had been looking after the deceased’s affairs. He had no doubt that the deceased, who had been known as Thomas Gordon Lennox was in fact named Thomas Redford Harrison.—(P.A.) A sum of £2OO, which will carry a Government subsidy of a pound for pound is definitely in 'sight by the New Zealand Astronomical Society towaids the cost of an expedition to Niaufou. A further £lOO is required and the society is making a determined effort to collect this. Of the subscriptions received by the society totalling £159 9s Od, Wellington’s share is £6O 10s. Christchurch has given £l2 18s 6d; Dunedin, £l3 12s 6d and Auckland, £3B Ils. The American and New Zealand expeditions will be tho only ones on Niaufou, which is in the belt of totality. The American expedition is to be led by Commander C. H. J. Keppler. Professor S. A. Mitchell, of the Leander McCormick Observatory, Virginia University, is the leading scientist. The New Zealanders will leave Auckland by the Niagara, preb-1 ably on September 23.—(P.A.) '