LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20114, 29 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest addition to the telephone exchange is No. 1067, Mr Ben Holmes, motor garage, Ridgway St.

Mr F. Spriggens, secretary of the Fire Brigade, desires to acknowledge the receipt of £3 from Mr. G. F. Newsome to the brigade’s funds.

A Westport wire says the coal output last week was :— Westport Coal Co., 8958 tons, ten cwt.; coke, 48 tons, 12 cwt. Stockton: 1776 tons, 4 cwt.

The amateur boxing tournament which was to have been held in the Opera House on Wednesday has been postponed until a date to be arranged — probably one night next week.

At the Police Court on Saturday morning Edward Carolen was fined 5s or 24 hours’ for drunkenness. Andrew Davidson was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment for being an idle and disorderly person.

The postal authorities advise that the s.s. Manuka, which sailed from Sydney on June 24th for Auckland, is bringing Australian mails and also an English mail via Suez. The Wanganui portion is due per Main Trunk express this afternoon.

At the Police Court at Dunedin on Saturday morning, the hearing of the charge against Leo Boranoff, alias Arnold Copeland, alias Albert Bernstein, of being an idle and disorderly person and having insufficient lawful means of support, was continued. The case was dismissed.

An inquest was held on Saturday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sarah Mime Smyth, who died at Petangi on Friday last through poisoning. A verdict was returned that Mrs Smyth’s death was brought about by a dose of poison self-administered while in a state of temporary insanity.

The Castlecliff Railway Company offers a reward of £5 for information which will lead to a conviction of the person or persons who stole a quantity of slabs and firewood from the company’s yards at Castlecliff on or about the 25th inst. It is hoped that the information will be forthcoming. The directors have determined to take the strongest legal measures possible to bring the culprits before the Court.

The addresses in the Gospel Hall yesterday at 3.15 on “The Feast of Pentecost” were both instructive and interesting. A good company gathered together. In the evening at 7, a big assembly gathered to hear “The Three Supreme Questions of Life.” The speaker took Genesis 3-9, “Where art thou?” Mat. 27-22, “What shall I do, then, with Jesus, which is called Christ?” and Heb. 23, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?” Mr. Hunter speaks in the same place tonight on the subject “The Feast of the Trumpets.”

An extraordinary case was reported at the Juvenile Court at Gisborne on Saturday morning. The police apprehended a little girl aged eight years, who was tramping overland with her father from Auckland. It was stated that the pair had tramped from Auckland to Tauranga, and were on their way to Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, to the man’s brother. They had been sleeping in the open in bitterly cold weather, and the child was in a pitiable condition. She had been given clothes by settlers. The child was arrested for not being under proper control, and was committed to a Wellington receiving home.

A Christchurch wire says that the search for the young man concerned in the taxi “joy ride” case, two Sundays ago, is continuing. His identity has been established, but his whereabouts are as yet unknown. The girl was before the Court last week, and was remanded on the charge of not being under proper control. The Magistrate said he believed her mother was not a proper person to have charge of her. (The girl mentioned, who is 15 years of age, was found in a street under the influence of liquor late at night. She said that she and another girl had been taken for a “joy ride,” and had been given brandy, by two men.)

Mr. F. B. Clark, secretary of the Wanganui Labour Party, asks us to publish the following statement of the fund raised in behalf of Mrs. Larsen and family :— Results to date of euchre tournament and dance, £6 2s.; donations received at “Chronicle” office, £5 5s.; donations received by Mr. R. O’Hara, £9 7s. 6d.; donation from Painters’ Union, £2; total, £22 14s. 6d. Mr. Clark also acknowledges the gift of a sewing machine from “various friends,” and numerous other donations sent to Mrs. Larsen without names attached. On behalf of Mrs. Larsen, he also expresses thanks to Mesdames Sampson, Comyns. O’Hara, the District Nurse, and the other ladies and gentlemen who so kindly came forward to alleviate the distress of the family.

Farmers have plenty of hard work, and it is fitting that they should have a little play occasionally. Feilding district farmers had a night out on Friday. to do honour to a local farmer. “Bill” Reid, of Makino, is known as one of the best sports in the Feilding district, and as a breeder of fat sheep and lambs he has often done his best to capture the big trophies at the various shows held in Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu. Among other trophies won from time to time he succeeded in annexing the valuable cup presented to the winner getting most points in fat sheep and lambs at the last Rangitikei A. and P. Show. This cup was handed over to Mr Reid at a social gathering held at Denbigh Hotel, Feilding, on Friday night. Mr J. H. Perrett, president of the Feilding A. and P. Association, presided, and among those present was Mr A. M. Ryan, secretary of Rangitikei A. and P. Association. Taihape.

It is a far cry yet to election time, but already distress signals have been run up in the Wardist camp in Nelson. In 1912 Mr. Atmore, after adroitly sitting on the fence up to eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, got down amid a blaze of limelight and saved the Ward Government. It is true that even the distinguished support of the member for Nelson did not suffice to give Sir Joseph Ward more than a further brief hour or two of office. But one good turn deserves another, and now the Ward following, according to the local papers, is off to Nelson to save Mr. Atmore. It remains to be seen whether even the combined eloquence of Sir James Carroll. Mr. McDonald, Mr. Witty, Mr. Isitt, and Mr. Wilford will convince the electors of Nelson that they did not make a bad break in 1911 in sending a political rail-sitted to represent them in Parliament. These gentlemen, Mr. Atmore informed his committee on Friday last, are to stump the electorate on his behalf during the session. We doubt if Mr. Atmore’s case would be much improved even if Sir Joseph Ward and the whole of his assorted and variegated following went over to the rescue. Nelson now knows its member. — “Dominion.”