LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15019, 5 October 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

When a m'an failed to answer to his bail at Willesden a friend said: “He has had a bit of an accident —got a job, sir, after being out of work for nearly a ye'ax.”

A meeting of the Congregational Te*nnis Club was held last evening to make final arrangements for the opening of the courts at 1.45 to-morrow afternoon. The patron of the Club, Mr O. Pragnell, has consented to open the courts.

It is not often that a fatality ensues from the bite of a katipo spider, but one recently occurred in Wanganui, a boy being the victim (stages a correspondent of the Auckland Star). He was playing in drifting sand, about a couple of miles inland, and was bitten on the sol© of the foot. _ Poisoning ensued, and, despite medical treatment, he died a few days later.

The International Labour Office at Geneva gives the following as the numbers of disabled in th© principal belligerent countries in receipt of pensions: —Germany 1,537,000, Australia 16,000, Austria 164,000, Belgium 110,000, Canada 45,000, United States 157,000, Finland 10,000, France 1,500,000, Great Britain 1,170,000, Italy 800,000, Poland 320,000, Roumania 100,000, Jugo-Slavia 164,000, Russia 775,000, Czeeho Slovakia 238,000, New Zealand 20,000.

The deterioration of trout fishing in 'the Eketahuna district has led to . a number of explanatory theories being advanced ,says the Express. One is that the increase in the number of •small birds has so diminished the surface feed of the fish that they now feed on the bottom and will not readily rise to a fly. Another erstwhile, angler expressed the view that a mistake . had been made in imposing bait restriction by the Acclimatisation Society. . The result was, he said, that the number of big cannibal fish which would not take a fly on any account, were being greatly increased, and these devoured no end of the younger fish. He considered that if bait restrictions were removed these big fish / would gradually be caught, and the fishing would soon improve.

A Hampshire clergyman indicates that there are still people in rural England who are not all B.A.’s. He says that a bridegroom would thus render the promise in the marriage service: “With my body I thee washup, and with all my hurdle goods I thee and thou!” While the bride’s version of her promise would be: “To ’ave an ’ to ’old fropi this day fortnight for better ’oTiSe, for richerer power, in siggerness ’ealth, to love cherries and to hay!” There is also the story of the bishop who rode out on a. long round of leaving calls, attended by his groom, who was sent into the house, before startino-, to get some cards. When they reached the last house the order came: “Leave two cards here, James,” and the unexpected reply followed: I can’t, my lord; there’s only the ace of epades left-”

A rather amusing incident occurred at the Suburban, Kaikoura, the other evening (says tlie Kaikoura Star). A settlor who resides near the Waimakariri hooked up his horses in his wagonette about 8 o’clock, and took Ins family to a neighbour’s residence some three miles distant across th e river and along the roughest piece of road in the district. After spending a pleasant time the family returned to the wagon, and th e small members of the party heard an unusual noise under the vehicle. On investigation it was found that eight head of poultry had gone to roost on the axle of the wagon and had don© the journey in hobo style. But for the investigation, the fowls, would likely have made the return journey, but the excitement of the kiddies frightened them, and they took shelter in a hedge.

During the course of his visit to Pahiatua on Tuesday evening, the Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister of Railways) wias approached by a deputation which urged th e connecting up of the evening train from Wairarapa with the train for Dannevirke. Mr S. Bolton, county chairman, in introducing the matter, pointed out that the Wairarapa _ train failed to connect by only a few minutes, and the expense and inconvenience occasioned travellers to Dannevirke as a ■direct result was considerable. Mr R. W. McVilly (general manager of railways) stated that this matter had been considered time and again, but there were difficulties to be contended with. There was insufficient accommodation at, the Woodville station, and the amending of the time table, would necessitate the holding up of three trains there. The Department could not alter the time table of the evening train from Palmerston North or of the train from Na.pier, as the people of those places considered it the most suitable for them. Mr McVilly assured the deputation that if it had been possible to grant th e request the department would have done so.

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According to the Greymouth Argus, on© effect at Westport of the coal trouble is that the Seddon Co-operative Mines’ coal has been advanced in price by 4s a ton.

At the meeting of the W.C.T.U. yesterday afternoon, Mrs Rouse, of Lansdowne, gave an invitation to hold an “at home” meeting at her house, which was gratefully accepted, the date being fixed for Tuesday, the 16th inst.

A Thames message states that the body of Samuel Vernon Dent, who was missed off a launch going to Kerepehi on Friday last, was discovered floating opposite the Shelly Beach landing in the Piako river yesterday morning by a launchman.

During the month of September, 1923, the estates of the following deceased persons were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee: — Elizabeth Wademan Hirst, Alexander William Watson, Helena Mary Reid, Herbert Charles Garnett, Enoch Goodin, Edgar Thomas Withers. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn has visited the schools in Palmerston North with a view to picking out suitable children for the health camp, which is to commence on November 20th. These children have been medically examined recently, and are to be weighed and measured and graphed for the final selection. The' number of children taken from Palmerston North will be 35.

A rather nnusual case was heard at the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, Ngaruawahia. A native, a first-grade interpreter, wias sued for £3O on a judgment summons. The evidence led on his behalf, showed that he owned land valued at £IO,OOO, but the. Native Land Court had it .so “tied up” that he could not dispose of it, and got little revenue from it. Mr A. H. Young, S.M., said that at seemed very. strange that a man owning £IO,OOO worth of property could not pay for his groceries, but he could not see. his way clear to make any order for payment.

If Sydney persists in being so healthy, its growing army of doctors will have to look for fresh fields. Sydney has never had such a wonderful health record as that of last year, when the death rate was as low as 5.16 per 1000 of the population, and the infant mortality rate as low as 56 per 1000 births. These figures place Sydney in the leading position among the world’s large cities. The figures for Liverpool, with which Sydney may be compared, according to the authorities, were 14.3 and 107 respectively. Mrs Eleanor Isabel Morris, of Luckmow Avenue, Nottingham, was fined £ls ' and costs, in addition to having her license suspended for 12 months, at Nottingham, for dangerous motoring. It was .stated that the defendant, who pleaded guilty, was driving a big touring car near the junction of two important roads at West Bridgford, when she ran-into a girl cyclist named Ada Vine, who sprang from her machine to avoid a collision. She. was too late, however ,anil was knocked down and injured. The magistrate said Mr.s MrfVris. had aggravated her offence by driving away after the accident. New Zealand possesses many similar motor car drivers who should be dealt with in the same way.

A cablegram fram Paris, stating that an attempt to reintroduce long skirts in that city has failed, and that Parisian women (undoubtedly the smartest in the world) absolutely refuse, to accept the hampering length—beiAg determined to show their ankles—lias created a very uneasy feeling in business circles in Sydney (.states the Sydney Daily Mail). In Paris the long skirt has been almost unanimously rejected. American, English and Australian designers will not be far . behind Paris, for, What Paris says must go. This is indeed bad news for a great many people. It was stated in one of the big warehouses that thousands of pounds will be lost if Australia follows the lead of Paris in this respect, and nothing is surer.

A general meeting of the shareholders of the No. 1 Workers’ Mutual Benefit Building Society was held in the secretary’s office last evening, for the allocation of £3OO by ballot (free of interest) and £3OO by sale by tender. Mr R. Krahagen 'occupied the chair, and a fail' number of shareholders were present. Mr F. Witt was nominated to draw the marbles from the ballot box. The first number drawn was 52, held by Mrs E. C. Chamberlain, who, holding one .share, was declared entitled to £l5O. On proceeding with the ballot, 214 was drawn, being held by Mr Harry Nee, who was declared entitled to £3OO. The chairman then called for tenders for £3OO by sale, and as no tenders were received it was decided to hold another ballot, which resulted in Mr A. R. Selanders (Wellington) drawing the £3OO. A sum of £750 was allocated at the meeting.

An anti-marriage society lias been formed by a number of young people of both sexes in the Carnteel district of Co. Tyrone, and the activity of its members has led to some amusing scenes, states t'he Belfast correspondent of the Westminster Gazette. Several couples who had arranged to get married found the road to the church barred. During the night trees were felled to block the highway, and the- church gate was locked. In one case the new suit and boots of the best man were stolen the night before the wedding, and he had to hire new clothes before he could leave for the church the next morning. The bride and bridegroom, in this instance, managed to make their way past the obstacles in the road and gain an entrance to the church—although in a somewhat undignified manner. When they left they were pelted with lime and flour. The police have taken the matter in hand. Legal proceedings may follow.

The committee of the Masterton Harrier Club held a meeting in the Y.M.C.A. last evening, Air J. Bradbury presiding. A balance: sheet and report from the phyiseal culture class show that the class has been run to great advantage, and the committee are to be congratulated oh the good work accomplished. S. Carr is a certain winner for the Reynolds trophy, with 175 points, C. Blane for second trophy with 165 points, and the ’third trophy seems to be still in doubt, with L. Emery half a point in the lead of Wallace and Christian, which will be decided on Saturday. L. A. Keats wins the Cairns medal and the trophy donated by Mr T. Wyeth for the club championship. The Wairarapa 'Sub-Centre ’<s. five-mile cross-country championship will be run on Labour Day, in connection with the Labour Day sports. Intending competitors should hand their nominations in, as entries close on the 13th. A sealed handicap will 'be run with the championship. Air A. Nattnass has been appointed supervisor of the race.- R. A. Rose will concede up to eight minutes’ start in the race to-morrow, but the handicaps seem so well placed that the finish should be an exciting one. This will be the last run of the season.

Tinned eggs are as good as fresh if preserved with Sharland’s “MOA” Brand Egg Preservative. One bottle will do twenty dozen.*

The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club elected no less than 50 vice-presi-dents at its meeting last night.

A traveller can ride for seven hours by railway train, or mor© than 800 miles ,between Singapore and Penang, through the Federated Malay States, and not once lost sight of the rubber plantations.

During the hearing of a desertion case from the. White Stax lineT Homeriea, at Southampton, it was said that 20 firemen and eight trimmers skipped the ship, .and the company had to pay a bonus of £2 each to the remaining 84 firemen and trimmers to carry on.

The capital expenditure on the Wellington Municipal milk business to date is £101,770, made up as follows: — Land, buildings and plant (Wellington and Eahui;, tokens and machinery, £1066; motors and carts, £9832; cans, £6762; bottles and crates, £7064; horses, £973; harness, £704; men’s equipment, £109; office furniture, £B4l. Edwin A. Powell, 91, formerly a master coach builder, was the subject of an inquest at Wolverhampton, when a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was recorded. The widow said her hushand won a £IOO prize offered by the late King Edward, when Prince of Wales, for a cab best suited for London streets.

Preston Education Committee have decided that the parents of elementary scholars shall pay one shilling for three months’ medical treatment of their children for minor ailments, after the first fortnight, which will be free. Visits to the dentist will cost sixpence each, or a shilling for complete treatment. Spectacles will be supplied at cost price. Tonsils or adenoids can 'be removed for five shillings. A 29-storev hotel building, which, it is said; will be the tallest structure of its kind in the world, is-to be erected in Detroit at once on the site of the Cadillac Hotel, now being raxed. The hotel, to cost approximately £2,800,000, is to be completed by October Ist, 1924. It will have 1215 guest rooms, be Italian Renaissance in type, and built of stone and brick. The site of the hotel is on Michigan Avenue, between Washington Boulevard and Shelby street. Fernand Leclerc, who killed'Mile. Oilrat, a shorthand typiste, in Paris some months ago and was sentenced to death, has been informed that his appeal has been rejected and that he must die. He offered his body for experiments. Among the replies came one from a medical student who declares he has already succeeded in making the hearts of rats, carp and guinea pigs "beat after the animals were dead. He wishes Leclerc to let him handle his warm body, as lie proposes to replace the murderer’s heart (after an injection of albuminous substance) by a mechanism formed of two suction pumps, both operated and regulated by an electric motor. Leclerc is shocked at that prospect. The first half of 1923 will go down in theatrical history as having been a period of many quick failures. The. following plays, put on in London since the beginning of the year, failed to last a hundred performances: —'‘The Inevitable,” 10 days; “Trespasses,”’ 10 days; “Marriage by Instalment,” 14 days; “Good Gracious, Annabel,’’ 15 days; “Her Temporary Husband, 4 weeks; “Love in Pawn,’’ 5 weeks, “The Love Habit,” 6 weeks; “The Gay Lord Quex,” “Via Crucis”’ (Sir John Martin-Harvey), “Three is a Crowd,” and “Pedlar’s Pie” hadshort runs. The following list gives the actual number of times half a dozen new pieces Recently produced in West End theatres were performed: —“Angelo,” 29 performances; “Merton of the Movies,”' 38; “TheTlnsect Play,” 41; “If Winter Comes” 53; “Carte Blanche,” 60; ‘ 'The Young Idea,” 60. It is estimated that, at a low estimate, London managers lost £50,000 on failures during the first half of this year. »

Bungalow for sale. Two unfurnished rooms to let. Good sound copper wood, etc., for sale.

Shepherd, with dogs, required for station.

Aleeting of Oddfellows’ Cricket Club to-night.. Three or four unfurnished rooms to let.

Watson and Co. require junior for grocery.

Woman wanted to assist with washing at' Solway College.

Splendid five-roomed house, with all conveniences, for sale.

Civic reception to Commissioner Hodder on Tuesday next.

Three cheap second-hand cars advertised for sale by H. J. Jones and Co.

The United Cricket' Club will practice on the Memorial Park on. Saturday afternoon. , Some lovely new pictures have just been landed by the A.P.F., Perry street. Inspection is cordially invited. Smart young man wanted for dress and Alancliester department, also young lady assistant for drapery department.

A!embers of the Masterton Park Club desirous of going to Carterton and Feafcherston to-morrow are requested to be at the Park gates at 1 p.m. Alembers and intending members of the Masterton Cricket Club are notified that practices will commence to-morrow at the Cameron Park at' 2 o’clock.

Alessrs. Cole Bros., “The Reliable Decorators” draw attention in. their advertisement on page one of this issue lo those who intend papering their looms.

Manicure rolls have the ad van P '0 over sets iu cases in that they are more compact and handy for travelling. R. H. Hill and Co. have just received a choice assortment of newest styles at prices to suit all pockets. If sufficient inducement offers, Messrs J. Singleton and Co.’s 14-seater motor w 2] } run to tli Q Kourarau electric headworks on Sunday afternoon,, leaving the P.O. corner at 2.15. Seats may be booked by ’phone 1241, or at the office, Church street.

The Alasterton Municipal Corporation Gas Department 'announce that demonstrations by Miss Una Carter (cookery demonstrator for the Wellington Gas Co.), will be given in. the Lecture Hall of the AlunieipaJ Buildings (Perry street entrance), on Friday, October 12, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Miss Garter, at .those two demonstrations, will specialise on how to use the gas oven. All interested are cordially invited to attend.

Now showing at Carpenter & Evans, the new Aletalace, for ladies’ men’s and children’s shoes. The latest in laces.*

Don’t ask for Egg Preservative —ask for Sharland’s “MOA” Brand Egg Preservative. There’s a difference. With “Moa” eggs may -.be poached, boiled or fried.*

Your teeth are Ivory Castles; defend them with Gibb’s Dentifrice; 1/-. —At the H. T. Wood Pharmacy.*

Both given the knock-out by “NoRubbing” Laundry Help—hard work and disease bacteria concealed in soiled elqthing. It’s hygienic.

An offer recently made by a South Island resident now in Europe to giver ( £SOOO if the Yale telescope is set up in .ty,,the South Island, is now confirmed. The Wanganui Acclimatisation Socjjfifc ety has obtained a large supply oSPi pheasants’ eggs, and these are being I distributed among local poultrymen to* hatch and rear the young birds. A supply of mallard duck eggs has also been•sewed for the same purpose.

A man and wife and nine children! wer e said at Newcastle to be living ia a small .stable at Dinnington Village,, near Newcastle. John Harrison and his wife were charged with neglecting their children. It was stated that Harrison earned 27s a week, on which to support the family of 11. The family were now in the workhouse. The case was adjourned for a month.

Mixed bathing is increasing in popularity in Christchurch. The latest converts to the idea are the Waltham swimming clubs. The combined committees of th e men’s and ladies’' swimming clubs which us© the school baths have agreed to mixed bathing on Saturday afternoons between the hours of two and four. The Salvation Army training farm at\K Putaruru, where there are 100 orphans, f boys from Britain, the younger ones go- ■ ing to school, and the elder one 3 learning farm work, was visited by . Silt William Windham, of the Overseas Settlement Delegation. He made a comprehensive inspection, of the farm; being personally much interested in thia form of overseas immigration.

“Another blisterN You must not expect the department to carry all tho babies,” remarked the Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Railways, in reply to an observation made by a member of the deputation from the bacon factories which waited upon him at Palmerston North in reference to a proposal that the department should take over tha .scales at loading stations.

Steady progress is being made with the erection of the Wanganui Woollen Mills, one of the buildings being at the roof-high stage, .says the Herald. A lot of the machinery is now on its way to New Zealand, so that ther e will be no delay in commencing the operations of manufacturing. AH arrangements are well in hand for making a start, and the designer is at work preparing JA the designs of the fabrics.

Questioned recently, Mr S. J. Harbutt, chairman of then Auckland Power Board, confirmed the .statement that application was being miade to the Government to increase the .charge above* the maximum permitted by the schedule. It was desired ito raise the charge to 6d, the same as the. lighting rata. The additional charge would only apply to offices and shops, and would not affect the domestic supply.

The Auckland City Council last night adopted a programme of tramway extensions to the suburbs, with additional rolling stock and equipment for the .workshops to build its own. cars. The. programme will occupy three years from next October, and cost £20,000, the loan proposals regarding which will be placed before the ratepayers this year. The council also decided to erect a new dam to impound 500 million gallons of water at Huia Valley, with an additional pipe line to the city. The engineer is preparing •estimates for placing before the ratepayers at some time. A loan for £IOO,000 for various drainage extensions previously authorised will h© submitted to the poll.