LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18021, 9 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At rhe Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Joseph Stivener was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of indecent assault at Aramoho.

During last week the Sydney police made a hundred arrests ot thieves and burglars, recovering property of a total value of £3OOO. A Sydney cable states that tram conductor Thomas Gallagher has died as the result of injuries received in the Coogee smash. A new clause in the Washing-up Bill enables'- the Castlecliff Domain Board to control the public bathhouse at«Castlecliff and make improvements therein, and also levy charges for its use. The contractor for the workers’ dwellings, Mr A. G. Bignell, made a tart with hi job yeterday morning, material for the preliminary w’ork on the Puriri Street dwellings being taken to the sections. A prosecution—the first of its kind in Wanganui—was heard at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when a motorist was £ned 5/<for driving past a stationary tramcar. The prosecution is intended to serve as a warning to motorists. On behalf of the Allies, Marshal Foch and Field-Marshal Wilson have arranged that the Allied command at Constantinople shall be held in rotation for the first two years. General Sir Thos- Harrington will act in the first place, a French general succeeding him. Tei? university professors who are members of the Reichstag replied to the Oxford professors’ manifesto declaring that they are ready to resume their common labours on behalf of science and to relegate to oblivion everything offensive spoken or written in both camps during the war.* The first shipment of cherries from Sydney, which arrived last week, fetched from 30/ to 36/ a 121 b. case on thfe Auckland market. The first of the season’s gooseberries were also placed on the market last week, and realised good prices. The bananas which arrived from Fiji by the Atua on Wednesday were in splendid condition.

“There were no ears this morning for the men going to work at the Eastown Railway Workshops,'' said Mr E. J. Foster at the public meeting held last night to discuss the tramways service. “ JVe came home on a car, and the conductor took a ‘nip’ out of our tickers for the trip we w alked. The conductor said that was according to instructions. There seem to be seme financiers on the Council.”

At 11.20 yesterday morning Capt. R. Russell in the Avro aeroplane, now so well known in Wanganui, en route from Pelmerston North to New Plymouth, flew over the town. Driving into a head wind, the familiar drone of the engine was more pronounced than usual and a large number of people gathered in the streets to see the machine pass overhead. The journey was broken at Westmere. where r, stop was made. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui-Waitotara Patriotic Association the Society reported that a country member of the Association had notified him that it was his intention to' donate £lOO (surplus wool profits) to a deserving disabled soldier for the purpose of helping him to furnish a home. It was resolved to accept the gift with thanks, and to notify the generous donor that when a suitable recipient has been found his name will be communicated to the donor.

Two persons who were awaiting trial at the present session of the Supreme Court stowed away on the Wiltshire which left Wellington on Tuesday for London, via Panama. They are Myrtle May Reid and Sydney Swenson, charged with bigamy, the latter also with false pretences. They were on bail of £l5O each. A wireless from the captain was the first intimation that the fugitives had broken bail and been discovered on board. The captain was instructed to transfer them if opportunity offers to a vessel bound for New Zealand.

On the authority of the American jnotor journal Automotive Industries, it is stated that New Zealand has more motor vehicles than ajl Australia. Mr G. Hamilton-Grapes, consulting automobile engineer, of Melbourne, who is at present in Wellington on his way to America, informed a Post reporter that, in his opinion. there were certainly more commercial vehicles in Wellington than in Melbourne, with over six times the population of the New Zealand capital city. This he regards as all the more astonishing, as Wellington with Its high hills and heavy grades, is not particularly well suited to the development of motor transport. The motor-express is a remarkable feature in Wellington, and how the owner manages to make it pay at the present price of petrol is a marvel to the visitor. A story comes from India to the effect that a clergyman who kept a school for native boys introduced cricket to them in order to foster a manly spirit, and they were keen on it. After a lot of difficulties he managed to get a fair team into shape, and it was decided to challenge a neighbouring school. A match was finally aranged, and the clergyman impressed on the’*>oungsters that they must do their tfest to win. To encourage them, he gave them 15 rupees for new bats and other tackle, and left it to themselves to spend the money on what might be considered useful. When the great day came, the team turned out for the match. On the face of everyone' of them shone the light of a quiet confidence in their success, but they carried all their old tackle. “Why!” exclaimed the clergyman, “what have you done with the 15 rupees I gave you? Where are your new bats?” “Well, sir,” replied the captain, “you said we were to win the match, so we spent it all on the umpire.”

An elderly man named Francis Smyth collapsed in Bell Street, near the Gospel Hall, yesterday morning. Constable Annabell, who was in the vicinity, took the man to the hospital in the ambulance. Smyth is a stranger to Wanganui, and is believed to have come from Australia.

Recently the local tea-rooms and restaurants raised tne price oi alter noon Lea uom niiiepeiice to one sinning, NOW some ot tne tearooms m »» angaiim nave drawn up changes eased upon me “pay lor what you eat ’ principle, as obtaining m London anu oilier cities. Inc new tanfl list is as louows: —rui ot lea with mux and sugar, per each person, nd each; pot of conee, per each person, od earn; scones and nutter, iu each; isaiidwiclies, id each; oread and nutter, id per largo slice; cases, ad eacn ; gems and butler taliernooiis omy), Lu each: jam and cheese, id extra.