EN PASSANT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 11

EN PASSANT.

NOTED IN THE NEWS. TOPICS AI«D TAGS. METWEEN THE LINES. (By KAITUHI.) At a public meeting at Takapuna this week, two motions were moved, one by a Mr. W-hite, and the other by a Mr. Black.—This sort of thing should be checked. A prominent English politician puts his success down to the credit of his wife, whom he describes as an angel.—Any amount of Aucklanders iiave angels for wives—they are always harping on something.

Kakepuku settlers held a busy bee on Saturday, and built a hall in one day.— They must have buzzed round a bit. At the Arbitration Court this week employees of one tailoring firm complained of the unequal distribution of the work.—They weren't suited evidently. A cablegram from Sydney on Tuesday stated that the price of flour had been increased 15/ a ton. —This looks like a "put up" job. A fill-up par squeezed in the bottom of a column the other day informed us there are ho swear words in the Japanese language.—'Wonder what a Jap. says when he hits his thumb with a hammer Shakespeare may be quite right when he asks, "What's in a name?" but it does seem in order that a boxer named "Kid" Socks should be badly punished in the fly-weight boxing championship in London on Monday.—He got "Socks" all right. Mr. Campbell, a noted scientist, challenges the claim of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that the photograph recently shown on a lantern slide in London, was a "spirit" ■ photograph of Lord Camberawait developments. "My husband and I," said Mrs. Bourchier, in an interview, "are two of the people who go about the country preaching against steel houses."—Wouldn't it be better to hire a hall? Says..a cable from London: Major General Burrows, a big game hunter, with a brilliant, war record in the Indian Expeditionary Force, has married Hilda Mumm, iwhom he divorced last year."— He's a game hunter all right. Despi.te all'the arguments put--forward about trams not being so up-to-date as buses, it is surprising' how the people hang on ito them.

One of the cases-heard at the Court this week-was a claimito-recover -money lent.-^-It-should have'bfcen full pf interest.

; .An attempt to, introduce a Bill legalising betting and- the .registering, of bookmakers, has again met with failure in'the House of Commons.—-The votes in favour or'lOO'.tb 1, bar-one. . i Walter Haddock, a bankrupt, told the official Assignee, Mr. Fisher, on Thursday, that he had tried several different jobs, and on one occasion had been selling books, —That was a novel idea.

Hot pies are ' now" being sdld outside the gates of racecourses and football grounds in Auckland. —Judging by the vocal efforts, of the owners, they are doing a "roaring" trade. ■ Mr. A. Bryden, secretary of the Auckland Bowling 'Centre, has been presented by fellow bowlers with a 'handsome upholstered chair, also one for his wife. .: —Very suite; of them.

In December the Aberdeen Town Council unanimously resolved that all civic functions should be "dry," but when it was reported that intoxicants had been served at a luncheon the Parka Committee 'had given to an architect, trouble began, and a notice of motion ivas tabled to rescind the "dry" resolution .-—in other words they are going to •'Scotch" it.

According to published reports there is more unemployment in Auckland just now than has been the case for some years.—Tiiis emphasises the difference between being a workfngman and a man working.

A message from Vancouver says there are no tidings of Captain George Wilkins, and it is believed, that the explorer has been delayed for some unknown reason.—Wonder what/ he will tell Mrs. Willrins?

Two' well known London conjurors hold that "spirit" photographs a,«trickery, and have offered tp expose what they call the fraud. —Evidently they have something up their sleeve. The returns for passenger traffic oh the New Zealand railways for the past year shows a decrease of 600,000. —In these days when one has to hurry, people prefer to walk.

Thieves broke into Walters' store at Blockhouse Bay on Thursday night arid stole a quantity of cigarettes.—Then they "smoked." As the result of experiencing a good year it has been decided 'to reduce the price of gas in Blenheim. —Does this mean that members of Parliament are to have their salaries reduced?

Professor Mackenzie recently discovered a skull antedating any known human remains at Cohuna, near the Murray River.—The fact of the jawbone being of abnormal size suggests that way back in the dark ages there were Parliaments.