LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Western Star, 22 August 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The auxiliary Ketch AVairiiam. returned from the Sounds on Thursday morning with two tons of fish.

Laugh and grow fat, and then some people will laugh at you and grow fat, and so on and on.

G.: “ You haven’s any brains.” Y.: “No brains.? Why, man, 1 have got brains that have nevey been used.”

We have been informed that. D. McKenzie, who met with an accident at tiie Orepuki sawmill oil Monday last, is progressing favourably.

'The Chamber of Agricultural Societies, Brisbane, has decided to recognise the performance of Mr A. L. Payne's,, Hector in jumping 7ft OJin at Bowen as a world’s record for a pony of 13.2 hands.

The German steamer Westfalien, which arrived at Sydney on August 8, brought an assortment of cargo from a variety of nations, including French goods''loaded at Antwerp. There were also consignments Irom Holland, Boloium, and Germany. Among the latter it-was noticeable that the German toy is returning.

Many people who are growing pmus insignia trees have hut ottle idea ot what they are really worth. A tiee recently felled at Pakowliai (states the “Hawke’s Bay Tribune”), cut feet, valued at £1 per hundred and 300 fencing battens. In addition, it cut six cords of firewood, which brought the total value of the tree up to Loo.

Celestials are entering into many walks of life in New Zealand, and are now ’penetrating into tlie building trade. A few days ago a Chinaman applied for entrance to the. Carpenters’ Union in Dunedin, but lie had not been officially received. The applicant nails from Burma, and has references which any New Zealander might fe proud. One particular feature of the * «;w Tamaki (Dannevirke) factory is the whey vat and drains, consttu rca o beautiful polished tiles. The v at i* like a huge tank constructed teiow floor level, and is capable of hoMmg about 9000 gallons, being 59ft ong, 41ft wide, and 4*ft deep. It is tne largest of its kind in the dominion.

At the Invercargill sessions ol the Supreme Court, John I>. Staucombe was found guilty, in the lower court to six charges of committing lalsc pretences. and was sentenced to ri- x montiron each charge, the sentence to be cumulative. On a charge of committing an indecent act, William Lyons was found not guilty, Michael Prendevide and Clarence Dudley Bush, charged with assaulting and robbing. Wham James Letcher, at Drummond, we're sen fenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour.

At the Magistrate’s. Court (Gisborne), Francis James Hodges, a farm laborer, appeared on a charge of mating a false document bv splitting a 10s Bank o New Zealand note, and uttering it to a shopkeeper with intent to be acted on as if it were genuine. Hie accused was further charged with passing a split pound note to another man. The accused. who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial.

The appearance on the Dunedin streets, savs the ‘Dunedin Star,’ of a Packard motor car bearing the number l 071,939 lends to the thought that the policemen in the city where it came from would have had a job to catch its number if it flow along so registration was m California. In om cooler city, where cars never—or hardly f>ve j._go at speed, the long array or figures is merely unusual. His Honour Mr Justice Sim sitting in Chambers at Invercargill on the \tmust. granted Probate an the estate U,f DnixvMcXav. late of Fairfax, married woman, to William Me Nay, Woodlands, fanner; Brooate m the estate of George Kirby laic ol l.iveiton, hotelkeeper, to Jam- RoU'.-lsou Kirby of Riverton, widow; and i robalv in the I estate of Biclu.rd B-u’-i late <>l Gunimms j Bush, farmer, to Wniiam Bayess Hop!croft, of Dummies- Bush, farmer, ail on ;the apiplication of Mr W . s. Hunter.

: H the quarterly meeting of the Soullvi liind League held at Wyndluun. the I question of the itiverton bridge was [ dscus-ed, and it was decided to write the Iliverton Boron eh Coumil, and the Pub’ic Work Depirtnieni. to find out iwliat had lieen done. Mr Drew mentioned that conferences had been held hTi the local bodies interested, tor twelve years. Whenever a M niter ot |tlu> Crown visits '.Riverton, he i- taken ■to visit the bridge, and the rnvwor i* |always the same, that the bridge H dangerous, and the Government„ will fool” f intn the matter. This ha*, now ibeen going for twenty years, and not twelve years as stated by Mr Drews

A telegram from Los Angeles says that Norman Selby, known in the prize ring where he was famous years ago as “Kid” McCoy, has beer, arrested. charged on suspicion, of the murder following the finding of Mrs Theresa Moors, with uiiom he .-s said to- have been living, shot dead. Later McCoy attempted to rob a grocery store but was foiled by a bystander, who was shot in the scuffle.

An assoqintioA message from Timaru states that the long _ continued dry. spell, the worst- for thirty years, wasbroken on Monday morning by a fall of 68 points. The rain will do incalculable good to the cereal crops and pastures, hut a good deal more is wanted. The sheep have come through the winter fairly well, but in. the absence of roots or other feed, the cattle fared badly, and it is anticipated that laigo numbers will die of starvation beloie the spring feed comes. At the Police Court at Dunedin on Wiednesday, Alexander Robert Ktetnnedy, Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, was charged with the theft of £72, the property of the Government. This money had been taken between’ April and August. A remand was granted till August 26 for' the auditor’s report. Bail was not asked for. The Cl i Men correspondent of the Southland Times, referring to a paragraph appearing recently, in which at was mentioned that seagulls attacked sheep, states that the practice is only 100 common. The gulls come down when ever a sheep gets erst on its back, and ■>'ou fr e out its eyes, so that the shopherds are kept busy at lambing time. According to the correpondent, if let alone, gulls will stalk a new-born lamb, worry Tt till it- tires, and then cruelly pick it to pieces. _ . The work of stnvghtemng the ''aimntuku river is proceeding satisfactorily. Mr Alex Guise in in charge of operations, and at the present time is busy st-raigh! ening the stream jii the vicinity of Mr Bailee’s property. By rutting through solid ground for 36 chains the river will he shortened by about- two miles. At the present time the channel is being cut by means of a scoop. It is expected that a steam shovel will be brought into operation in about four months time, so that faster progress will be made.

0 1 . Night of Moonlight, Stars and Splendour! Gay night which crowned a perfect day, At a carnival on The Grand Canal In Old Yeit'ca far away. A night of music, love and laughter, A dawn of languor to endure— Hoarseness and chill, then comfort after Peerless Woods’ Gfreat PeppermintCure.