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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19433, 20 October 1925, Page 6

The potato market is particularly firm owing to the big increase in prices in Sydney. The market price there to-day is £2O per ton, and sales have been made from the South Island this week. The steamer Karetu sails from Lyttelton to-morrow for Sydney with over 500 tons of potatoes.

A heavy rainstorm at Matahiwi on Friday had ft damaging effect on the railway line, throwing tho rails out of alignment. As a result a train from Palmerston North was delayed and reached Dannevirkc, its destination, at 8 p.m., or about 45 minutes late.

For attempting to cross over the railway line at Klarere when the line was not clear, W. S. Fell, of Longburn, was fined £2, with costs £2 15s, at Palmerston North yesterday. Defendant’s motor car was struck by the train and knocked into the ditch. Nobody was hurt.

The esplanade along the Wanganui East side of the river is just now a delightful promenade. With the advent of spring the fresh green leaves and the beautiful flowers present a riot of colour. Flowering peaches are just now a special feature. The esplanade should be one of the most frequented walks in Wanganui.

A further step towards the recovery of the radium which found its way by mistake to the ash tins of the Dunedin Hospital and thence to the tip has been made by the OVago Hospital Board. The Hospital Committee recommends that the six bags of ashes which showed radio activity should bo sent to a Belgium firm, Radium Beige, for the extraction of the radium and the reconditioning of the tube at a cost of £l3 a milligram. Tho tube originally held about nine milligrams.

Tho election orator, thoroughly warmed up to his subject, had reached his peroration (said tho “New Herald.”) “Fellow-citizens, men and women,” he said, “Let me beseech you most earnestly that at this crisis in our national life you will think deeply, reason cldarly, and judge soundly of the issues placed before you. So it will follow that upon no one of you can fall the reproach of having done, knowingly, land consciously, anything -which will leopardiso our jiberty. ” Which simply show’s the profound influence local events sometimes have on national questions.

Excitement ran high one morning last week near Alton when a stray young Hereford bull took charge of the road and charged all and sundry whenever the opportunity offered. A milk farmer in his dart on the way to the factory was the special object of his attention. Tho bull charged tho cart and did some damage to the horse. Eventually some men armed with pitchforks came on the scene and the sharp goad cooled tho animal’s fury and persuaded him that discretion was the better part. That ended the fray. It is reported that later on the animal was shot.