NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19213, 20 January 1928, Page 12

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

A meeting of householders will be held in the Mount Pleasant School on Monday night. There will be dancing in Dixieland to-mor-row night.

A literal demonstration of the meaning of the figurative expression "a bolt from the blue" gave a young man iu Lower Stuart street, Dunediu, an unpleasant shock on Tuesday afternoon. •By the look on the unfortunate man's face after he had regained his bearings it is to be feared that his curiosity concerning the peculiarities of English idiomatic usage was not such as to make a practical explanation altogether welcome. The young man was passing the premises of Messrs P. Hayman and Co., and was walking on his right side of the footpath, when he received a sharp blow on the top of his head. Bewildered, and it must be admitted, not a little annoyed, he fumbled with his soft felt hat for a few seconds, smoothing out the dents, and returning it to the correct angle, and then he turned to face his aggressor. However, he found reprisals unnecessary, for behind him lay the corpse of a common pigeon, which a few minutes before had been circling round the top of the warehouse. The cause of the bird's sudden fall to death is unknown, as the young man wasted no time on further investigation.

Twenty loud speakers hare been placed in Cologne Cathedral so that the sermon can bo heard from every seat.