The Waikato Independent Incorporating "The Cambridge Gazette." TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3224, 27 May 1924, Page 4

The Waikato Independent Incorporating "The Cambridge Gazette." TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the interruption of telegraphic and telephonic communication through the storm, Cambridge is practically isolated, and we are unable to publish late telegrams and cables.

A start has boon made with the erection of a new convent school in Rotorua. The cost will be over £4OOO.

Though in many places throughout the district falling trees have done extensive damage to power lines, il is notiveable that the poles have stood up splendidly and no caso has been reported of a pole being broken.

The nomination of Mr H. Alan Bell being the only one received for the extraordinary vacancy on the Cambridge Borough Council, caused by the resignation of Cr Bell, that gentleman has been declared elected to tlic office.

Mr Launence Andrews. London qualified eyesight specialist, associate of Mr H. Grocott, of Hamilton, will visit Cambridge on Friday next, May 80th. Mr Andrews may be consulted at the old Bank Chambers, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

During the progress of the Learning-t.on-Hautapu match on Saturday afternoon, Tom Bourkc, a Hautapu player, sustained a nasty kick in the back on the spine, find had to retire. 'Fortunately the player has received no serious injury.

A lad named W. Williscroft, aged IS, has been found dead at Te Tulii, Wanganui, having apparently been accidentally shot, while. pig shooting. The boy was missing, and search was made, but the body was not found until Saturday morning-

A Walton Rugby player, A. H. McGregor sustained a 'broken leg- in the Walton-Wairero match on Saturday, and is now an inmate of the Public Hospital.

In Invercargill, with its population of about 19,500 persons, there are more motor-car accidents than in either Wellington or Auckland, with their much larger populations. This is greatly due to the careless way in which ears are parked here, said Inspector McNamara in the .Southland, Motor Association.,

The growth of the Nelson apple export trade is shown by a report by Mr .1. 11. Thorp, orchard instructor. The total quantity of fruit exported during the present season from Nelson Central fruit district (Montere Hills) discloses an increase for 1924 of over 1(M) per cent, as compared with 1923.

The poor old Ford got another knock from a lady in the local Court on Friday (says the Waipa Post). “You are accustomed to travelling in a motor car®” queried counsel of a witness in the motor collision case. Witness replied: “I am accustomed to travelling in a Ford —I suppose that is a. motor car! ”

The president of the Cambridge Orphans’ Club (Rov. C. Mortimer Jones), Messrs A. Curtain, W. Riekitt, H. L. Possenniskio, J. Barnett and A. Campbell were the .guests of the Te Awamutu Orphans’ Club session night on Saturday evening last, when the visitors were treated to the hospitality of that Club.

Four men were injured in the match North Shore v. Suburbs, played at Avondale on Saturday, and three were taken to the hospital. 11. Jaggs suffered from eoneussion, David Reid had a rib broken, A. McKollar suffered a dislocation, while Stanley llvkers was also hurt. A student of St. Stephen’s College, Parnell, William Davis, suffered a broken leg as a result of football the same day.

A painful accident occurred on the Ohaupo Road on Saturday night when the driver of a motor-lorry named Signal, employed by Messrs Somerville Bros., Te Awamutu, butchers, sustained severe injuries to his face and eyes. The carbide generator on the lorry exploded while Signal was attending to it with a lighted match. The suffered immediately received medical attention but he will probably lose the sight of one eve.

A serious accident occurred at Glen Massey on Thursday. Some boys were playing with an empty carbide drum when they threw a lighted match into it. An explosion followed and a boy named Galloway, twelve years of age, was severely burned about the face. It is feared that he may. lose the sight of one eye.

We notice that an offender is being prosecuted in a Wellington town for writing advertisements in chalk on the asphalt footpaths of that town. It does not appear to be generally known that this is an offence against the borough-bv-laws, and as the practice is sometimes followed in Cambridge, we would offer a warning against the possibilities of a prosec.ution locally.

Foxton possesses a musical prodigy — a young girl who will not be thirteen until next month—who, at the last Trinity College examinations was awarded a certificate of special merit for piano playing, and next year will sit for her A.T.C.L. examination. At eight- years of age she passed the junior examination, nine years the intermediate, ten years the senior, eleven years higher local examination with honours. At* the last-mentioned examination the examiner strongly advised those having control, of her work to keep her from going for her letters for at least two years. Anyone wishing to reach Morruisvillo or the other towns in that direction would be well advsiod to take the train instead of by car, for the road across the Matnmaoho flats is reported wellnight, impassable (says the Waikato times). Even after a little rain the Matumaoho boulevard, as it is dubbed by humorous motorists, is bad enough, but with the rainfall during the last few days the road is in a frightful condition, and it is folly for a heavy car to attempt, to get through. The road has not been so bad for many years.

Shortly after 2 o’clock on Sunday morning fire completely destroyed the Armidale private hotel and an adjoining cottage in Amohia Street, Kotoniu. The hotel was a one storey, wooden building of 80 rooms, owned by Mrs Parkeek and occupied by Mrs T. H. Aston. The cottage was owned by Mr W. E. Bennett and occupied by Mr T. Parata. The total damage is estimated at £4OOO. The insurances on Armidale total £2200.

A regrettable incident caused a little excitement on Victoria Square on Saturday afternoon, during the progress of the Hautapu-Leamington match. A spectator shouted out a deprecatory remark regarding one of the Hautapu men's play. The player referred to promptly walked up to a spectator ntod struck him on the face. It appeared afterwards that the man struck was not. the offender. Apologies were ottered, a lid the incident which looked as though it might bo a serious matter, endod. : . ..

On enquiry at Frankton yesterday morning the Waikato Times was informed that the 48-hours’ regulation was in force there from that day.

Old residents of Cambridge declare that last night ’s storm was the wildest, and most severe they have ever experienced. This district is singularly free from gales, and the experience of last night was all the more terrifying. The Cambridge R-.S.A. will hold a reunion at the Town Hall on Thursday, .Tune Ifttli, when,all ox-service men of the army, navy and air forees are invited to be present. Rev. Walter Averill, secretary, is taking up this matter with enthusiasm, and there is every prospect of the function being a huge success.

The Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. Ltd., will hold an important clearing sale of pedigree Jersey cattle, on account of Mr W. J. Chynoweth, at his farm, on the Cambridge-Hamilton Road, to-mor-row (Wednesday). Mr Chynoweth’s Jerseys are famed far and wide, and there should be keen competition for his stock.

To give an idea of the velocity of the cyclone which swept the district early this morning, wo might mention that four huge piue trees towering about 60 feet in height, on Mr Innes Taylor’s property, were blown out by the roots, leaving great gaping holes where the trees stood. The spread of roots in one tree would be fully fifteen feet.

In proposing the toast of Parliament at a R.K.A. social reunion at Palmerston North, a speaker impressed upon his hearers that he was impartial as party politics in a rather unusual way. He said: “I think Tom Wilford could not form a Government if he had an opportunity; I hope Harry Holland will never get into power; and I think the present Government is the rot tones! we have ever had.”

The Master of the Waikato Hunt (Mr Wynn Brown) informs us that the pack is now in tip-top condition and back to old form, after the serious setback it had, due to illness, some time ago. The hounds on order to the Hunt Club arrived in Auckland by the Dorset., but will have to stay in quarantine at: Motuilri for a period of about six months. Five little puppies also arrived, and the Master hopes next season to have the pack figuring as one of the best in the Dominion.

A shocking fatality occurred near the Loiigburn Railway station, Palmerston North, on Sunday evening, when Harry Charlesworth, a labourer, of Tiakitalymm, was run over by a goods train during shunting operations. The engine driver first became aware that- something was amiss when the engine bumped over deceased. Charlesworth was quite dead when extricated, his head being horribly mutilated while several limbs were broken. Charlesworth was a married man with five young children.

At a. meeting of suppliers to the Morrinsville , Dairy Company, Ltd., at Kereone, Mr McCausland, chairman of directors, mentioned that the increased supply had resulted in 370 or more tons being dealt with in the Company’s second season. The grading for the season had been consistently good, having gone as high as 944. The average advance for the season had been* 1/4.7, while the indications were that the final payment would be very substantial.

Tlx* motion-picture ns an educational factor! A local Maori who can neither read nor write, some time ago saw a picture representing- the. story of Anthony ami Cleopatra and was evidently greatly impressed thereby, as the following- will show. He was recently engaged putting down a water system for the. County Council when an acquaintance happening along- asked, “Well, ehoa. how do you like, the job?" Honi accepted the question with due gravity. “Well,” he said, “it. like Cleopatra an’’ Hanthony very fascination!” Once more (Shakespeare lias triumphed. A Shannon resident is considering- the advisability of trying- to give away a section lie owns in Foxtou( says the Levin Chronicle). The Government valuation is £.120, but as a matter of fact, although the section is close to the town, Mnd v consists of half an acre on a corner, the owner is unable to get £ot) for it with £5 down. As the rates are £."> 7/0 per annum, and he has held the section for some years and paid about. £2O in rates without receiving any income from the land, he says he would like to find some rich person he could give it to—ait enemy preferred.