LOCAL & GENERAL.

Western Star, 3 December 1935, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A sailing race will be held on the estuary to-morrow evening by the local Sailing Club_

The Prime Minister (Mr Forbes) will tender his resignation to the GovernorGeneral on Wednesday.

As the result of additional postal business for Christma s jn London 11,000 additional persons will be employed during the holidays.

Another strike hag occurred at Sydney, where the seamen have decided not td work under th© new Federal award. A number of vessels have been tied up and the crews discharged

In their first innings against Queensland the M.C.C. made 558 runs, and have a total of 164 in thei r second innings for the loss of six wickets. Queensland compiled 203 in their first innings.

The Anglican Church sale of work will be opened in Fleck’s Hall l on Saturday afternoon and will b© continued in the evening. The Ladies’ Guild will have a large and varied assortment which will he displayed in the various stalls.

Mr M. JT. Savage states that both) the Sales Tax and Exchange Rate will be reduced gradually by the Labour Government. The exchange would! probably be reduced in March by 2£ peri cent.

Lord Wvford, who announced his retirement from racing recently on i aching his eighty-fourth birthday, has two idiosyncrasies. He ha§ never been oat of Britain, and he has probably the longest moustache in the peerage.

It is rather interesting to note that with a voting strength of 5024 in the year 1911 the late Mr J. C. Thomson was returned for the Wallace electorate with a lead of 2062, and to-day with a voting strength of 8657 the Hon, A. Hamilton was returned with a lead of 1910.

The Winton A. and P. Association: held its show on Saturday. Although the entrie s showed a decrease compared with the previous year, the attendance was very gratifying, th© sum of £lll 12s 6d being taken at the gates as compared with £93 10s 6d last year.

The first pump for the retail supply of petrol obtained from British coal was put into us© in London on Saturday. It was announced that the output from the plant of Low Temperature Carbonization, Limited, would shortly be doubled.

It i s not generally known that the railway departemnt issue week-end excursion tickets to Queenstown, during the summer months each year. In this issue particulars are advertised concerning the issue of these tickets on Friday, 6th December next, and each succeeding Friday and Saturday until further notice. The substantial reduction in fares should enable Southland residents to visit Queenstown and enjoy a short holiday at very small cost.

David Church, the seven years old son of Charles Church, of Ohai, met' with a painful accident on Saturday. The boy was following a seed drill and' had the first finger of hi s left hand daught in one of th© cogs. Hie bore the extricaation of the finger from the drill with the greatest fortitude, and after being attended to by Dr Wood, of Nightcaps, was removed to the Riverton Hospital, wher© it was found necessary to amputate the injured member.

The medical superintendent (Dr A. Kidd) reported that on November 1, there were 56 males and 65 females in the Waipiata Sanatorium, a total of 121, all of whom were doing well or improving with the exception of 17 whose condition was reported as stationary. He reported having visited the different centres in th© committee’s district during the month and recommended patients as suitable for treatment from the following districts: Southland, South Otago and Vincent, 2 each; South Canterbury, Waitaki and Wallace, l each.

V -f ' There was a sad drowning accident in the Aparima river at Otautau on Saturday afternoon whereby a young man. Alexander Beange, 18 years of age, lost his life. Beange, with two companions, Robert Pettitt and W. Watson, wcut swimming in what is known ay the ‘big’ pool. He dived oil' the springboard and cam© up struggling, but immediately sank. Pettitt went to his assistance but himself got into trouble and was rescued with difficulty. The alarm was quickly given and Dr Reekie and Constab]© Whit© and a band of helpers rushed to the scene of the accident The body wag recovered a quarter of an hour later, and resuscitation of life attempted without success. Deceased wa s a son of Mr and Mrs Alexander Beange and was popularly known throughout the district. Mr Beange is manager of the Otautau dairy factory T"

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that owing to the rekqquQ aemeafg G[qi?o otff jo spam poyiori at Cape St. James, near Saigon, Cochin, China, last month, it is believed that the cable steamer Recorder, which for many years has been stationed at Auckland, will bo called upon to carry uut any necessary repairs in the northern area until the lost vessel is replaced. Although no officiat'd information has been received, it i 5 under-: stood that th© Cable, which was stationed at Singapore, went ashore at Cape St. James, whore there is a cable station, and becarn© a total loss. Tho crew was landed in safety_ 'The Recorder i s at present at Melbourne, wher© she is transferring to the cable steamer Faraday 80 miles of cable, which she took on board at Suva ini •July. After repairing a fault in the Pacific cable near Norfolk Island, the Faraday is to lay a telephone cable across Bass Strait from Melbourne to Tasmania