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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 4

We have opened up a particularly choice range of dress tweeds, really nice goods, at very moderate prices. Our exceptional buying facilities permit us to buy these goods direct from the manufacturers, so these goods come direct from the mill to our store. Needless to say, the patterns are specially selected, and the prices range from 1s to 5s 6d per yard. There is a special window display , of these tweeds in one of our large windows. McGrucr and Co. . *..n

j- . Wo hear that an outbreak'typhoid has occurred ahibngst the patients of the Porirna Mental Hospital, about nine of whom have contracted the disease. . A man named William Dewar, who bad apparently fallen from his ■ horse, waa found unconscious in Alma Hoad yesterday alternooni with severe injuries to his scalp. He was taken to the hospital, where ho is now progressing favourably. Owing to some young men continuing to use Victoria Park and other public places for Sunday football and other games, the Council has resolved to instruct the police to keep an eye on the parks, with a view to stopping the practice. The Weather Bureau reports as follows: —Northerly moderate to strong winds, veering to westerly strong to gale; expect showery and changeable weather; glass fall slowly, but rise slowly; tides good, sea moderate, sea increasing after 16 hours.

Mrs Eugenie Godet, aged 80, died in the Wellington hospital last night, says a press telegram. In opening thp door of her house last week she broke an arm, and as a result of exposure, pneumonia set in. This, combined with shock, caused her death. ,

Tlie Borough Council last evening a«ccpled two tenders in connection with the tramway extensions. The A.M.P. Society’s tender was accepted -for the loan of .£25,000, and that of the Miller Hardwood Company for the supply of jarrah sleepers, at 5s 6d each.

At a meeting at Whangamomona it was resolved to obtain the services of a medical practitioner, the settlers being willing to subsidise him. It was mentioned that a salary of .£IOOO a year wae awaiW ing any medical man who eared to £at» up his quarters in the district. \

A correspondent writes to the Transvaal Chronicle describing an extraordinary occurrence which took place on a farm in the Waterberg district recently in lull daylight. The occupants of a house on the farm were startled by a hissing, screeching sound, like that of a shell from a gun, made by an object which passed through the roof and into the floor. The missile, which was apparently an aerolite, then exploded with terrific force. (Two men were in the room at the time, one of whom was partly paralysed in the leg. In an adjoining room wore two’ little girls and three kittens. All the kittens were killed, and one of the girls was impressed with a curious mark on the body. A native in the kitchen was rendered unconscious, and others in the house were dazed. The windows and root of the room through which the object tell were blown out by the force ot the explosion, and the walls damaged, but no sign of t(ie supposed aerolite could be found, except a little dust.

A Christchurch resident, who had hia bicycle stolen a few month* ago, recovered the machine in a somewhat unusual manner. After the disappearance of the bicycle he kept a close look-out for any machine resembling his own, and the other evening his vigilance was rewarded by his seeing a bicycle almost identical with the one that had been commandeered standing outside the public bar of one of the city hotels. He waited until a man came ouo of the bar, and was just going to rido off on the bicycle, and then stepped forward and detained him. lie asked the man where he had obtained the bicycle, stating that it was his. At first the man said he had had the machine for twelve months, but subsequently admitted he had only had-it for. a month or two. He said he had bought it from another man for j£2. ' The rightful owner of the bicycle escorted the stranger to, the. Police Station, where no repeated his story, and gave a description of “the other man,” who is now being sought by the police.