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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 4

Mr. D. C. Bates' weather forecast for 24' hours from 9 a.m. this" day is as follows: "The indications are for westerly winds, strong to gale, backing by west to south. The weather will '" probably prove squally, with heavy Bhowcrs. and become colder. Barometer unsteady, but rising shortly. ?ca rough off shore. Tides good." Some people' have curious lapses of memory in regard to their money. The last issue of the Government "Gazette" contains a notification that a man in possession of a registered mortgage for £435 over 174 acres of land had left New Zealand and had not appointed an agent to collect his interest or administer his property. Presumably it is many-years since he left New Zealand or laid claim to his mortgage, as the Supreme Court has now empowered the Public Trustee to exercise the powers conferred upon him in respect of such property. "And what about the part played by the miners?" asked the union representative (Air. W. Richards) -when Mr. Char,. Rhodes stated in evidence that the Waihi Company, in developing the mine, had to surmount great difficulties. The reply of the witness was to tho effect that he regarded labour as something to be purchased just like, machinery or other material requirements. "Then there is no sentiment as far as you are concerned?" asked Mr. Richards." "Not a bit," was the terse reply. An extraordinary accident happened to a well-known ecclesiastic one day last week, states the Wellington "Post." He was riding a "push" bike down Cuba Street, when be ran into a tramcar. The machine was smashed to splinters, and he was thrown into the air, and landed on the back seat of a passing motor-car, without a scratch. "Your cushions are nice and soft," he said, and, leaving the ruins of his machine on the road, he cleared out from the.scene while, several people were vainly searching for his mangled remains under the tramcar. The "Wyndham Farmer" reports :— At about 4.40 o'clock, almost immediately after the worst of the meteorological pandemonium, a nerve-racking succession of thunderclaps, heralded by brilliant flashes of lightning, broke out; and in one part of this district, at least, the eleotrical visitation left in its trail proofo of its uncanny power. On "Coldstream"' farm, Seaward Downs, the property of Mr. Robert two calves sheltering behind a gorse bush ■were struck dead by lightning; while the five wires-of a fence near by were all cut, through, the severed parts appearing as though they had been tinned with a soldering bolt. The fluid travelled along the wires, which it snapped in two other places, diverging the while on to two cross fences. Ere its energy became exhausted, the lightning had run along the 1 fence for a distance of 40 chains. There ueie no marks on the bodies of the calves. A young married man named. Edwin Parker was killed by a fall of earth in a sluicing' claim at Syeburn Diggings, .CentalOiaeo.-fltt ac_M«g>