LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 January 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The heat i lithe shade at 1 o'clock to-dav was 88 degrees. This is thp highest temperature recorded so tar this summer.

At the Levin Kennel Club's Show held yesterday, Mr T. W. Front s terriers won two iirst, two second, an i special prizes.

Some idea of the grip the Katana Church has upon the Maoris will be gathered from the fact that at Tuesday’s gathering there were 110 apostles, 60 lay readers, and 70 sisters. A proposal of the Now Plymouth borough to rhiso a loan of £186,000 to extend the water and electric power services, submitted 'to a poll of ratepayers to-day, was defeated by 733 votes to 627.

A Christchurch telegram says that Joseph the cyclist who wa s badly injured in a collision on Monday evening, lias now recovered consciousness, and is making satisfactory progress. He lias undergone a successful operation. On Monday afternoon, Harold AValter Reid, escaped from the Etako prison (near Trent ham). He was unnoticed until rounding up time. lie was seen at Upper Hutt in the evening, but bolted through the scrub and gorse towards the river and hills. Reid was recaptured yesterday, .afternoon, by the warders.

Tli body of a man named Edmund Thomas Vaughan, aged 63, was found in the river at Katikati on Tuesday •afternoon by some boys, who were bathing. 'At an inquest yesterday, it was found that death ~ was dije .to drowning, and that there wis ho evidence to show liqw tli© deceased got iiit<> the river.

A rapidly-revolving electric fan, weighing 56 ..pounds, hurtling down from the ceiling, created more than a mild sensation in the dining-room of a \\ r aiiganui hotel one day this week. The fan crashed into a table, narrowly missing one of the diners, and buried itself in the floor at a spot where a few seconds before a waitress had been standing.

The wife of an Edinburgh enginedriver left four children, the eldest aged four years, alone in a house and went shopping. She returned and found the house ablaze. The neighbours fruitlessly endeavoured to save the babies, who were incinerated. The mother’s body was found across the babies. She lia.d apparently tried to save them.

AVilliam Victor Alley, a labourer, aged 24 years, was committed for trial yesterday in Wellington, charged with stealing a motor car valued at £375, the property of an uncle, George Alley. The 1 accused told the police that .his uncle ©wed him £9 for work and he would take value out of the use of the car.! He also admits taking another car* i As the result of. studies in Europe aiid -America, Dr, Tillyard reports tto the- 'Government definitely on the good prospect of either partial or complete control of a number -of noxious -weeds in New Zealand without exposing the country to any serious damage in other directions. The method of control is by the introduction from abroad of parasitic insects to attack, blackberry, gorse, ragwort, convolvulus, earwigs and horntails. Although lie suffered from a fracture of the spine through being gored by a bull at the Christchurch Show, in November last, William Templeton, ail elderly man, to-day can walk about and is on the high road to recovery. Dr. Fox, superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, where Templeton was treated, states that although recovery may .seem remarkable to the general public, the facts of the case were that the fracture; was not bad and so the nerves were not greatly damaged. John Taylor, aged about 55, for some years a ship’s cook, and who latterly had been working ashore as a cook, was found dead on the roadside near Burke’s Pass, seventeen miles from Fairlie. Ho had been cooking on r. station in the Mackenzie Country and was walking to Fairlie when, it is supposed, he was taken ill and expired. He was a native of London, and so far as is known had no relations in the Dominion.

It is 'practically certain that owing to the presence of black spot in the orchards there will be no export of apples from Canterbury this season. The lack of an overseas outlet may have an important bearing on prices. A cable states that Mr Daniel Breen took the oath and a seat in the Dail Eireann. He is the first Republican to do so, and declares his intention of working for the removal of the barriers separating the Irish people, including the oath of allegiance to the King.

To finance the Stiac’s proportion of the family endowment scheme, says a Sydney cable, it is proposed to tax the non-employing class who receive an income in the form of dividends, interest»nd commission. The annual amount estimtaed to be so raised is £1,500,000, and the total estimated cost of the scheme in Its present form is from £7,000,000, £3,500,000 of which will have to be provided by a six per cent, tax on wages sheets.

Trophies and prizes to the value oi £9O will be distributed at the Bideford sports, to he held on Mr J. Balloon's paddock, Bideford, on Saturday. A programme, of horse and toot events, including a number for the juvenile members of the community, litis been arranged. Hot water and refreshments will be obtainable on the grounds, which are ideal for picnicking. It is confident]v anticipated that, the gathering will lie one of the most successful vet. held.

According to a London cable after thirty-one operations and being twice certified as dead, Mrs Shrive, aged jiftv-five, was buried at Ruslulen. Thirty years ago, as she was being canied to the Bristol Mortuary, the hearers stumbled, and the woman was found to be alive. Two years later she was laid out as dead, but regained consciousness. She has since suffered from lupus and cancer, but. had an exceptionally sound heart. Her case was regarded by medical men as a marvellous one of resistance against malignant disease. At the relatives’ request two of the woman’s arteries were severed before the interment. A boy, eleven years of age, named Thomas William Foster, a son of Mr. W. P. Foster, of Carterton, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a gunshot wound in the- right hand, ft appears that Foster was playing with a boy named Creeks in Tin orchard on a property near Wardell’s Bridge, Tc Whiti, at 11.30 a.m., when from some mysterious and unknown cause he was shot in the hand with a pellet from a gun. Ho was attended shortly afterwards in the Masterton Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate a.'portion of the thumb and the first finger. The Hon. A. D. McLeod (Minister of Industries and 'Commerce) yesterday stated that a tribunal lias been set up under Section 3 of the Board of Trade Act to inquire into the proposed ‘operations of the Proprietary Articles Trade Association. Full opportunity for all evidence for and against the association would be given. The following have been appointed to take evidence: Mr. W. B. Montgomery, exComptroller of Customs;. Mr W. B. Haywood, manufacturer, Dunedin; Mr. M. J. Reardon, ex-workers’ representative on the Arbitration Court; and Mr. ,T. W. Collins, secretary, of ,the Department of Industries and Commerce. Comprehensive powers of investigation are conferred on the tribunal. It will commence sittings probably on February 14 in Wellington, and later in other places.

Most of the visiting players to the Wairarapa lawn tennis 'tournament left Masterton yesterday. The tournament was undoubtedly the. most successful controlled by 'the Masterton Club. This success was due largely to the delightful weather, and also to the shilled manner in which the tournament was handled by the officials, of whom tne secretary (Mr H. M. Boddington), the president (Mr G. W. Sellar), and Messrs A. IX Low and H. H. Danieli did 'their utmost. The courts played splendidly throughout and reflected great credit on the groundsman. The very onerous task of providing refreshments was under the care of Mrs G. W. Sellar (wife-of the President), assisted by members of the ladies’ committee, whose efforts were sincerely appreciated by the large number of coni-, pet i tors. ! Apprentice wanted. 4 ’Silver watch found. Mule clerk seeks 4 position. Girl wanted to do housework. Fountain pen and sum of money found. ! Woman wanted to do washing and cleaning. School-teacher requires board in Masterton. Mrs Millward. dressmaker, lias commenced business at 230 Queen Street. 'The Masterton 'Horticultural Society has decided to hold its annual autumn show on Wednesday, March Oth. The schedules arc. well in hand and will be available very shortly. ' The Church of Epiphany Sunday School picnic wlil be held on the Solway Showgrounds on Saturday next. A bus will leave the Sunday School for the showgrounds at 10 a.m. sharp. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd.; will hold an important sub-divisional sale of Kawakawa Estate, J’alliser Bay, Wairarapa, on Tuesday, February 22, at 2 p.in. Particulars advertised on page 8 of tills issue. The principal of St. Matthew’s Collegiate School for Girls and Kindergarten will be at the school on Friday, January 28, between 2 pan. and 5 p.m. to receive parents and guardians for the enrolment of boarders and day scholars. First term commences Tuesday next. t auicular cooks specify SHARLAND’S TABLE VINEGAR, Rich, piquant, and free from mineral acids In bottle nr bulk Accept no ether. *

A first-offending inebriate who was locked up from Hall street yesterday, was convicted and discharged in the Police Court at Masterton to-day. After hearing a deputation from the Mangamahoe School Committee, the Education Board yesterday decided to rescind its previous resolution, closing the school, and to notify the Edueatioh. Department to this effect. The Federal quarantine authorities have decided that the importation of Hew Zealand potatoes in Australia will be prohibited from February 15 owing to the presence of corky scab in imported potatoes. Honesty is not a lost virtue in Masterton. Yesterday a lady lost an envelope containing a £5 note, and inserted an advt. in the “Daily Times’’ in an endeavour to recover the same. This morning the £5 note was returned by a young man who had found the envelope on the Post Office steps. A Brussels cable advises that a Belgian society has offered the use- of £IOO,OOO worth of radium for the treatment of King Ferdinand of Rumania free of charge. Five t «grains of radium bromide,'the largest quantity ever use a at one time, will be contained in an apparatus specially constructed at the Brussels Radium Institute. The acting deputy-director of navigation at Brisbane has been advised by wireless from a passing steamer that the steamer C'ooma, which went ashore on the north reef last July, is afire. Dense smoke is issuing from her. It is thought that three men are aboard. A later wireless from the steamer Chronos stated that, the Cooma was totally destroyed by fire. The three men aboard were rescued.