LOCAL & GENERAL.

Western Star, 8 November 1935, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Tlie adjourned annual meeting of th<l Riverton Regatta Club takes place this evening at 7.30 o’clock.

The heavy rains of the past two days have benefited the miners, and a plentiful .supply of water is now available for mining.

Armistice Day will be observed on Holiday ,at 11 a.m., when a short service will take place at the Monument.

The annual Methodist Spring Fair will be held in the Empire Theatre next Friday afternoon and evening.

The total taxation for last year amounted to £24,737,939, or £ls 18s 7d per head of the population, including Maoris.

The sale s tax collected during September totalled £200,300, a slight' decrease as compared with the total for August.

'l'lie All Blacks defeated Oxford University after a hard game by 10 points (two converted tries) to 9 (a. converted try land field goal).

'file Empire pictures are screening “Lazy River,’’ featuring Robert Young ami .Jean Parker, on Tuesday next instead of Wednesday next.

A rink from the Aparima Bowling Club visited Nightcaps on Saturday la s t to play for the Western District Stars, the game resulting in a win for Nightcaps by 25 to 15.

Manawatu can now claim tbe distinction of having an agricultural and pastoral show with the largest number c.f entries in any Dominion fixture of a similar naturo, 5325 entries having been received for the jubileo show this week.

Following a police raid in Nelson street, Auckland, Ah Lee, a Chinese gardener, was charged with being the occupier of the premises and permitting them to be used for th© purpose of smoking opium, and was fined £IOO. Several Chinese found on the premises were fined sums of £3O and £2O each, according to the circumstances.

Some time ago application was made by the Riverton Progressive League to the Minister of Internal for a grant from the Art Union Fund to the Early Settlers’ Museum and also the Centenary Fund. Word has now been received by the League’s secretary that the sum of £75 has been granted to each of the above societies.

An eight-year-old girl was running across the street at Eisenstadt (Hungary) when she stumbled and fell in front of a motor car. The car was unable to pull up. It ran over the girl. A lorry which was following the car passed over her body, too. Th e girl was then rescued, unscathed. Both cars had pased over her without touching her, and the shock had been sufficient to prevent her from trying to move.

That a blue costume with three diagonal white stripes shall be adopted throughout the Dominion as the uniform of lifesaving patrols on duty was the decision of the annual meeting of the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association (reports the Evening Post). The value of having such a uniform lay in the fact that the public would more readily assist and respect those so attired in the case of a rescue.

An increase of nearly 8 per cent in the number of motor vehicle* licensed in the Dominion is disclosed by the official figures for September 30, the grand total of vehicles licensed being 192,844. compared with 178,652 a year ago The registrations of cars has increased during this period in the North Island by 7745 and in the South Island by 3058.'There has also been a. substantial increase in the number of commercial vehicles licensed—North Island 2.523, South Island 1,285. Motor cycles, however, have decreased in number to the extent of 117 in the North Island and 302 in the South

Herman Gornfskv. a New York factory owner, die's not believe in taking risks After he had had Joseph Sansoiie arrested on a charge of theft, from the factory, he decided when the case, came inlo court not to proceed with the charge. The magistrale asked him to exulain. “Well.” said Mr Gerofsky. Joseph's father is my barber Twice a week 1 sit in his chair and mv throat is at his mercy.” Nevertheless, the magistrate decided to hold Joseph on a charge of theft.

How did the term “boycott” arise? The writer of a paragraph in a northern paper traces the origin of this much-used word to rreland It appears that it followed in the train of certain events in 1881. when Gnptain Boycott, •m Irish landlord, xvas ostracised by tile Irish agrarian insurgents In a speech to the Land League that year John Billon. M.P., said : “on e word as to the wav in which a man should he boycotted. When any man ha* taken a 1 ai’m from which a tenant has been evicted, or is a grabber, let everyone in the parish turn his back on him; have no communication with him ; have no dealings with him. You need never sav an unkind word to him ; hut never say anvthing at all to him. If yon must inoet him in fair, walk nwav from him silently. Do him no violence, hut have no dealings with him. Let everv man’s door be closed against him; and make him L'e] himt-olf a str-mger and a east, away ip lij s own iieijllbwhuad, ’’