General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18516, 19 October 1925, Page 8

General News.

On Tuesdav last, when tbo Sir James Clark ißoss was approaching New Zealand a school of seven blue whales was seen, some of which were over 100 ieet in length. In the Gisborne Magistrate's Court, Harrv Jeffrey was ordered to undergo eighteen months' Borstal treatment for failing to account for £45 received from the sale of art union tickets. Christ's College claim to hold the .long jump record for secondary schools in New Zealand. The record, 21 ft Brn, was established in 1877 by I<\ tr. "Westenra. Murdoch Campbell, aged forty-eight, the youngest son of the late Malcolm Cam-bell,, of Kaikoura.. and the third victim of the Opapa tram disaster, died at Hastings on Saturday mornins;. V start was made on Saturday with the work of rena wins the tramway track on the south-western side ol Victoria, street, between Bealey avenue and Salisbury street. Like the portion on the north-eastern side, it will have a bitumen finish\n examination of the copra from the Turakina shows that a vory small proportion was burned. The rest was onlv affected by water and can be reconditioned. None of the meat in tho lower hold of No. 5 hatch was damaged. The ship also escaped lightly, only a few beams being a little buckled. An elusive comet whose cycle brings it within the ken of astronomers every seven and a half years, though not alwava picked u D readily, was found by the honorary director of the Wangamu Observatory on Saturday. This is Brook's Comet, which made its appearance at 12 hours 45 minutes a,m. The Prime Minister said at Dargavillo on Saturday nigjit (telegraphs pur correspondent) that he saw no objection to a protective tariff within reason. Sitch a tariff would bo for the purpose of giving the industries a start, and he did not see bow we were to Ret any local industry going without a protective tariff. In commemoration of the laying of the foundation stone on St. LuKes Day, October 18th, 1869, aod of the consecration of the new church .on October 17th, 1909, special festival services were held at St. Lukes Church, Manchester street, commencincr on Saturday evening, when the Rev. H. W. Smith was the preacher. Yesterday, Holy Communion was. celebrated at 7 aon., 8 a.m., and 12.10 p.m., as well as at 9 a.m., when the service was sung and an address was given by the vicar on "The loung Churchman's Heritage." Dean Carrington preached at the 11 o'clock service and Archdeacon Taylor at 7 p.m. Tho Prime Minister remarked at Dargavillo on Saturday night (telegraphs our correspondent) that the Commission which had been sent abroad to investigate rural banking was described as a trick to beat the requests for a farmers' land bank. That was not so. He might have been a little short when certain people waited on him and said they had come 'to eee if he was sincere. He simply said, in consequence of that observation, that he could not discuss the question with them, for whether he lasted ten minutes or ten years he would not allow it to be said that he was insincere. Tho job was not worth it. Tho 04th anniversary of tho founding of the Bank of INiew Zealand was on Friday last, business having been commenced on October 16th, 1861, in Auckland. That city continued to be tho headquarters of the bank until about a quarter of a century ago, when the head office was removed to Wellington. The bank was incorporated bv an Act of Parliament with a capital" of £500,000. Tho Board of Directors at the time comprised: Mr James Williamson (president), Dr. (afterwards Sir) John Logan Campbell, the Hon. Thomas Henderson, Messrs James O'Neill, Thomas Itussell, C. J. Taylor, and G. B. Owen. Mr Alexander Kennedy was general manager and inspector, and the auditors were Mr Samuel Browning and Captain W. C. Daldy. After Mr'H. Y. .Widdowson, S.M., had ordered! a 15-year-old lad to pay costs on a charge of having ridden a cycle in a reckless manner in Colombo street, he said: "These boys are an absolute nuisance on tho streets. I think boys undar a certain age should be T>rphibi&ed from riding hicycltesi. They simply ride about and don't take any notice of tho by-laws, the police, or anything else. What they need', when they are caught, is a good, sound thrashing. But, still. I can't order that." The father of the boy in court agreed with his Worship, "but," he said, ''unless a boy's sot a bicycle now he practically can't get work. All the firms who want message boys expect them to have a bicycle, and if they haven't got or.e. well, then the boy's don't get the jobs." What does your boy do?'' asked the Magistrate. li He's a message boy, sir," the father answered. Stabbing pains in the joints—dull aches in the muscles—these are the first warnings of rheumatism. 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