LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 1600, 31 May 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by .). C. and R. G. Fitzgerald, of Kiwilahj. farmers. At Chicago, Charles Brookins creat- • ed a world's record for. 220yds over ■ low (lift Gin) hurdles. His time was 23secs. The railway line on the Waihi-Pae-roa section, which has been blocked since last Monday by extensive slips, has now been restored and normal traffic will resume to-day. This week's Gazelle, notifies the taking, under the Public Works Act, <if 20 acres of land near Morrinsville' as sites for dwellings for Government railway employees 1 . The Chief Postmaster, Hamilton, has been advised that mails which left Welling! on, via San Francisco, on April -29, were delivered in London on Tuesday last, 27th instant. A telegram from Wellington -states that the Coroner's' enquiry into the death of Whall resulted in a verdict that he was killed by being stabbed by Joseph Barnes in the course of a scuffle between the two men. Mr A. Christie, the well-known Jersey breeder of ifikurangi, who Ims been in Hamilton during the past few days, has at present under test a co\V which promises to become the cham-i pion Jersey animal of the Dominion. The cow has been under test for eight months, during which period it has returned SGOlb of butterfat, and with two months still to go; it promises to even top the great feat of Pretty's Flirt with 10121 b for the 12 month's. On August 23rd next Mars will make one of its closest approaches to the earth within the present century, slates an astronomical correspondent of the ".Manchester Guardian." The two planets will be separated by about 35.000,000 miles, which is cosmically speaking, a mere trifle. Every two years and two months Mars is in "opposition Io llie sun, I hat is to say, the sun, the earth and Mars are in a straight line with the'earth in the centre. ' The planet then rises at sunset, crosses (lie meridian at midnight, and sets at sunrise; and for some months before and after these oppositions Ihe planet is a prominent; object in the night sky, and is care- :• fully watched by astronomers located in various parts of the earth.. At Auckland yesterday a wife sued : her husband for maintenance. The' evidence showed that when first married they had a house when everything went smoothly. They, however, gave up housekeeping and went into lodgings, the result being that there was a rift in the lute, the sequel being court proceedings. In adjourning the case for a couple of months Mr Hunt. S.M, remarked to the wife. "Although I've sided with you, I don't think you've been just the wife you might have : been. Husbands don't want to go off j to dances on their own, and all that sort of thing. I'm going to adjourn this for a couple of months, because I think a young couple like'you should have a home. The man's earning 1 enough. He'll have to provide a ' home, and I'll inspect it if necessary to sec if it is the right land."