LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The MasTorton A. and P. Association has received a special prize, valued at £1 is, from Mrs A. Buick, for the best maiden greyhound at the Mastcrton show in February.

John Rupert Lawrence, of Gisborne, was lined £5 and cost’s for 'conducting a game of chance at. a sideshow in the street, In which one person threw a dart at a board of numbers, and others made bets on. the result.

Two hundred and nine boys, members of the Stop Out Club, organised toy St. Peter’s Mission (Wellington), are enjoying t.lie annual camp, which is toeing held at the Ashhurst racecourse. The Rev. T. Fielden Taylor is m charge.

Last month 10 permits for buildings valued at £2516 were issued toy the Masterton Borough Council. £ ur ”’ r s the year 164 permits, valued at £78,6-1, were issued, as against 157 valued at £97,723 in 1924, and 169 valued at £90,434 in 1923.

The .Taiwanese training ship Iwate is expected to arrive at Wellington on February 18th. She has on board for training 90 naval cadets, including a Japanese prince, grandson of the last of the Shoguns. The vessel will be at Wellington for a week, and will then proceed to- Aiiicklnjicl.

When the two industrial sites at Potone were sold at auction last month the purchaser of one of them remained unnamed, having acted through an agent. It is now stated that lus principal was a large American motor concern, which handles several well known Cars and motor trucks, and which intends to use the site for a. large assembling factory to supply the New Zealand market.

For the first time for years the Picton freezing works worked between Christmas and New Year. The Marlborough farmers, with the low prices this vear ruling for mutton, seem to be averse to ’shipping down to Christchurch, and are forwarding to the local works. If the present killing continues throughout the season. Pic-ton bids fair to reap the money which has formerly been snout out of the district.

Later particulars of the tiro at the Alfredton boarding house show tha.tjt wr.H discovered at 2 a.m. by Mr A. Edmonds, who was sleeping downstairs. There were 22s boarders, who had just time to make their escape. Mrs Hartlev lost £IOO in notes and one of the boarders 'lost £22. In half an hour Fie building was' completely gutted. The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen. The building was an old one, part having been erected in ISS6.

A New York cable says:—Perhaps it is not unusual for a lady who loses her prospective husband to another to lose her temper as well. But a New York girl went a bit further, and rather spoiled the wedding party. As the bridegroom was entering the license bureau lie was attacked violently by liis old sweetheart. His bride came to. the rescue, tout had her glad rags almost torn to shreds by the spurned beauty. .Police intervention was necessary before the bloody-nosed groom and dishevelled bride could bo pronounced man and wife.

When the last mail left South Australia, Mr Wilton Power, an actor wellknown in New Zealand, was- lying in iho Port Pi.rio Hospital suffering from the effects of a revolver bullet. He was performing in “Little Nelly Kelly, with the Lionel Walsli Company, in which he has to be shot by one of the other characters. On this night the revolver went off us usual ,but Mr Power was found to have been wounded. At first it was thought to be the wad from the cartridge only which had inflicted 'the wound, but an X-ray examination showed the presence of a bullet an inch and a-half deep in the flesh. One of the cartridges with which the revolver wins charged had been left intact, instead of, as usual, having the bullet removed. Three days after the accident Mr Power was on the high road to recovery, and mad there would be nothing to prevent him appearing with the company in Perth at Clirist-

The traffic department of the Wellington City Council is considering the auvisaoility of providing “poached eggs” at street intersections lor tne guidance of wheeled traffic. The ••poached egg” is so-called because the raised centre of the metal device is invariably painted yellow, whilst to make it more obvious it is, as a rule, surrounded by a white circle about eight inches in width. ' These devices are inserted in the centre at the intersection of two or more .streets, and merely serve as a mark to assist traffic in keeping to its proper channel and prevent cross-cutting. One of the devices submitted to the council was a circular sage-like construction of ■ cast iron, which was a protection to a dome of yellow glass, below wnicli it vas proposed to place electric lights, so that the “egg” would be visible after dark. As the protection was about eight inches above the level of the ground it was deemed to toe too high high enough to be an obstruction. An other device only four inches in height is to be inspected before a decision is arrived at. Just openoil. All Alzes in CUrX Crop' Sole Sandals for Children. At C.rpcn ter and Evans’ Footwear Store.*

Two Napier doctors recently had their ears utolen, and both vehicles were eventually located abandoned in the same place.

Last Sunday week three very plucky rescues from the sea were made by Wellington life-savers at Paekakariki. Mr. TJlie Shannon and Mr Tom Howie were spending the day on the beach, and on three occasions rescued young men who got into difficulties. The lifesavers worked without a life-line, and had considerable difficulty in bringing the men ashore.

A Haniilton-Te Kuiti service car, with a full load of .passengers, recently caught tiro when nearing Otorohanga. Though the rear portion was considerably 'damaged, the car was later able to continue its journey. It is surmised that, the outbreak was caused by . a spark from ii lighted cigarette or pipe smoked by one of the passengers-. A young man was arrested at Wellington yesterday afternoon by Detectives Hunt and Cooper on six charges of breaking land entering. The premises alleged to hiave been entered are those of Airs Mary Dryden (Karon), Air Garvin Wallace (Karori), Miss Lucy Newton (62 Bowen street), Frederick John Ilarrap (5 Featlierston Terrace), Miss Ethel M. Bcc.ro (Grant road), and Mrs Mary Ann Claphiani (37 Grant road). The articles alleged to have bee a taken comprise a great varietv of clothes, etc. Accused will appear to answer (he charges this morning.

When Driver A. E. Johnson, Loyal Artillery, saw a pair of horses attached to an army wagon galloping through High street, Aldershot, he threw himself at their heads. As be hung on to them they mounted the pavement and were brought to a standstill. As one of the horses fell Johnson seized a little child who was in danger of being crushed, and pushed it through a. doorway into .shfetyt. In Aldershot orders the G.0.C.-in Chief, General Sir Philip Chetwod-e, commends this gallantry, and directs an entry of it to be made in Johnson’s conduct sheets.

It seems a shocking thing to freeze fish alive to keep them fresh for the market Jit the journey ; s end, but it lias been found that when they are unfrozen they are just cs lively as before,

and show no sign, of injury or illness. It- was noticed that fish in Siberian rivers that are frozen solid in winter cam® cut ail right in the spring, and This give an idea for experiments which have been going cn for some time. The system is now being adopted in America as a regular thing. The fish are put in n. tub into which oxygen is forced, and after being kept three days just above freezing point, they are frozen, and the blocks of ice, stripped of the tub. are wrapped ui> and put into cold storage.

Cross-country running is becoming a popular sport among-professional women on Saturday afternoons (states a London correspondent). Dressed in silk shorts, warm jerseys, and shoes, but without stockings, teams of women take trains into mid-Surrey or Herts, and there indulge in hare and hounds over three or four miles of country. A pioneer in. the sport was Airs Eliott Lynn, vice-president of the Women’s Amateur Athletic Association, who claims this is the very best form of exercise in cold weather for women who have 'been working at a desk all the week. It is -necessary, however, to keep in training, and this can be done by standing-running exercises after, tha morning bath. The woman cross-coun-try runner must stand still, and, with hands on hips, raise her legs in the action of running. It is said that extreme youth is not essential, and that women in the forties may be expert cross-country runners. ‘‘Shorts” and a roomy jersey do not constitute an attractive. costume, and the bare legs of the runners are muddy 'before a crosscountry chase 'ends, but the satisfaction conics later, after a bath, a rubdown, and a change into ordinary attire. ’ Wliat with the exercise and the fresh air, the women athletes look forward to another week in hospital, office, or shop, with new hope. Some of the cross-country runners are women who tested Association football a season or two ago and are now looking for a further novelty.

Wirth's big circus, combining menagerie, huge elephant herd and famous ring artists,, will visit Mfisterton towards the end of this month.

Sale of all ladies’ wear in stock will commence at the Excelsior Showroom, Queen street, at 9 n.m. to-morrow. Ladies should visit the showroom early to secure- bargains, as the reductions are sure to draw a throng of purchas-

Capablc help wanted. ■Contract work wanted. Capable housekeeper desires position. Black Currants, etc., advertised for sale. Hc-use to let at Castlepoint, for one we-’k. Euclire tourney, Trades lfall, to-mor-row night. The W.F.C.A., Ltd., insert special scatters in our wanted known column. The. A.B.C. motor service management insert an advertisement on page L

Hen selecting their next, suit should inspect the suiting at Nicol and Co., Ltd., tailors. London Unlimited announce the sum mer sale now in full swing. You are asked to see the wonderful bargains in the 14 win (Tows. The Masterton Auctioneering Co. advertise a sale -of an Overland truck and general furniture at their Mart at 2 ip.m. to-morrow. Under instructions from the Registrar of tlie Supreme Court, The Fairbrothers Limited, are to sell, on the 13th instant, 10} acres of land in a central position in Mastcrton. Glad news indeed! Hugo and Shearer's Annual Summer Sale commences Friday, January Bth. From all accounts this is going to be a super-sale—a sale which for sheer price-cuttings is without parallel in the history of this store. Be early on Friday, the Sill.

A Sydney message states that the Commonwealth steamer Cooec, formerly owned by thei Germans, lias been sold to a Continental buyer.

Two hundred and fifty-four men are employed on the Stratford-Alain Trunk railway, according to the latest official returns. On the Opiinake railway IS4 men are working.

A London cable states that it -is expected that ian Anglo-French compromise will be arranged to permit the Maori, team to extend next season’s projected (tour to Britain despite the present difficulty of arranging fixtures.

Thieves were very active in Sydney shortly before Christmas, and many operated in broad daylight. A substantial haul was made in Alanly, jewellery, clothes and miscellaneous articles valued at nearly £4OO being stolen. At AraielUTc a complete trousseau was stolen. A AY ell in gt on lady who visited Kai Iwi beach during the holidays states that she saw the very latest in bathing costumes (reports the 'Wanganui Herald). A lady strolled placidly down to the water attired in blue bloomers with a big grey patcli up one leg, a football jersey and a little home-made bathing cap. It was the most unique bathing costume I have ever seen, said the AVellingtonian.

The value of lucerne as a. summer fodder has been forcibly demonstrated during the recent dry spell and fortunately this class of crop lias increased on the AVest Coast, says the AVaiiganui Chronicle. The green patches resemble oases in the desert to the traveller who secured, a, panoramic view of the coun-try-side from some vantage point. Queen Alary, who lias ever shown her interest in the sick, has taken yet another scheme for their benefit to heart —the fund for fitting wireless to hospitals, initiated by the Daily News. She sent the Daily News a message of congratulation, saying that she considered the equipping of 10,000 beds with wireless in so short a time to be ia “wonderful achievement.’ 5

Arriving at the house of a patient at Crathes (Aberdeenshire), a nurse found tliu place full of smoke. She dashed into the front room —which was in flames —and rescued the tenant’s baby, dazed, but alive. With a neighbour, the nurse then returned to .the house and brought out the- baby’s mother. Airs Raith.. but she was dead. It its believed that the mother fell near the fireplace, and that Stcr clothes were caught by the flames.

A Alaori was fined £lO and costs at the Eacit'ihi Court for cruelty to. n horse and a pig. It was alleged that lie had ridden the horse to Ractihi, arid through the absence of 'Stuffing ia the saddle the tree had penetrated the horse’s back and caused a wound. The story of the pig was that this animal had .been tethered in the. pah by a piece of wire, and the dogs of the vicinity were allowed to make occasional visits and take a piece out -of the animal. Tt was fmind to be minus its ears and a portion of the hinclquaiiter.

A scene of wonderful enthusiasm marked the clctse of Kreisler’s recital at the Albert Hull, London, on November 10th. After -the‘famous violinist had given half a dozen encores a large section of the audience refused to disperse, and packed closely round tho platform, keeping up an incessant cheering, and demands l for (tlie artist ’s reappearance. It was not until the authorities had turned out almost all the lights that the enthusiasts consented to go home. The recital all through was a personal triumph for a great artist, and Air Kreislcr quite frankly showed liis pleasure. ,

According to a cable, “The Times” Paris correspondent says: “All the world is becoming a football field, but it has been left to the Russian Soviet to discover that the game can be used as a means for advertising the advantages of 'Communism. A team of Soviet footballers is at. present in France, making wliat is deserbied as a propaganda tour. The team wears rod jerseys, and marches to the ground in military step, headed by the capfain carrying a red flag and to the strains of the ‘lnternational.’ They defeated a team of French workers by four pouits t.o nil. ’ ’

A woman who was burnt on the side rof the head while having her hair per-manently-waved at a hairdresser's was awarded £25 damages (and costs in the Glerkenwcll County Court. Judge Parfitt -said an allegation of negligence had been substantiated in this particular ease, but lie did not want anyone- to get the idea that this hair-waving process wa-s dangerous. The action had been brought by Miss Hilda L. Maidment, -of Finsbury Park, If., against- A. W. Jennings, -a hairdresser. Miss Maidmeat said that eight curling appliances were put on her head. She felt one burning, and -t-old the assistant, but. lie said, ‘‘Don’t be alarmed,” and told her that he would only be a. few minutes. Later two lumps appeared -behind the left ear, and her eye swelled. A doctor had to lance the injury to her head.

At a recent garden party in- London, at which the Prime Minister and various -other personalities were present, a younig boy, who bad been waiting hi.s opportunity, presented Mr Baldwin with a photograph of himself, with a request that lie should append liis signature. ‘‘Certainly, my lad,” retorted tlie Premier, handing back the signned portrait. A few minutes later the same- boy came up again with- a similar request. The Premier felt quite sure this was the same lad; however, in case he should be mistaken, Mr Baldwin proceeded to again oblige. Not many moments had elapsed before the ‘‘pushing” youth repeated the application. ‘ ‘ Why, sonny, this is- the third time you have asked me for my autogTaph, ■surely,” he said. “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “ You seo, my pal’s saving ’em, an’ -he’s promised me if 1 can- git three o’ yom, sir, ’e will give me one o’ Jack ’Obbs.”

According to a cable, the Queensland revenue returns for the half year show that the expenditure exceeded tlat revenue by £939,000.

All: F. Norris acknowledges the following donations for books for tlie blind:—Airs. .T. AY. Byclianan £l, the Chinese of Alasterton, £1 15s.

A, cable states that the. New South Wales revenue for the half year ended on 31st December was £17,837,000, an increase of £76,000 over the previous ‘corresponding period.