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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 7

While in Christcharch, Councillor Frost, of the City Council, mot Mr. Wirth, of Wirth'e CHrcue, and told him j how well the lionets presented by Mr. Wirth to the Wellington Zoo wa» getting on, though there had been no increase in the lion family in the Zoo. Mr. Wirth suggested that the lioness should be replaced by another animal from which progeny was already expected in tlue time. This suggestion will probably be approved by the Reserves Committee. With regard to the statement in the Press that Mr. Wirth proposed to donate a bear to the Zoo, no official | intimation of the offer has yet been revived by the Town Clerk, who, however, is in communication with Mr. Wirth. Hhould the offer be made, it will doubtlets be accepted gladly, and deeply apprseiated by tho City Council, which owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Wirth for his geneioeity to the Zoo. At a meeting of the, "Waterside and General Labourers' Union* in Westport, ib was resolved to recommend the establishment of a co-operative ttore. Mr. Henderson 4»f St. Andrew's) predicted at last meeting of - th© Tiruaru Fanners' fJnion that there Would be a great shortage of wool in New Zealand, The conditions, he said, point to this. The first of the poles for carrying ths lights and overhead wires for tho new tramway jfygtem at Invercargill was placed in position in Dee-street, opposite the hospital, on Monday. The poles are to bo embedded in concrete and placed at a distance of a chain and a half apart. It is many years since North Otago Agricultural land was so productive as this season, according to the O&maru Mail, which states that one man, with only seven acres of grass, is milking five cows, grazing seven head of young stock, and three horses, and ia reserving three of tho seven acres for hay. ¦ Mention of tho ca»e in which the In- . elector of Awards claims £200 from Captain D. G. Watson, secretary of the Merchants' Service Guild, for allegedly inciting coastal shipping officers to | strike, was made in tho Magistrate's Court to-day. Hearing of the case was cct down, for the 23rd inst. The inhabitants of Invercargill and the surrounding districts are to be afforded an opportunity of seeing an aeroplane in action at no distant date. The machine ib being put together by Mr. M'Kenna, of Belfast, and the well-known Maori' wrestler, Mo&na Paratene, who is something of a mechanic. Tho aeroplane will be fitted with a 40-h.p. engine. Some idea of th# v&st quantities of timber imported into Canterbury is given by the statement • that for one month alone, the monthly term ending on 9th December laafc, no less than 8,601,800 superficial feet were landed on the wharves at Lyttelton^ and most' of it came from ' America, und was probably Oregon pine. The figures are good evidence of the activity o£ the, building trade in this part of the Dominion (remarks the Lyttelton Times). Two young men from Timaru, who have returned from a trip to Mount Cook, informed a reporter that the tourist traffic on the mountain had not previously been so great. For the last six: years the young men had made this journey, but on no former, trip had they seen so many visitors m this year. A fact which struck them Very forcibly was that the greater portion of the visitor* were North Islanders, some hundreds being from Wellington alone. Arising out of all alleged sale of bicycle «m»,; A civil action was decided in 1 the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day. Plaintiffs were the Cycle and Motor Supplies, Ltd., and defendants were J. B. Clarkson and Co. The amount of the claim was £12 IDs. After hearing evidence, his -Worship gave judgment iot defendants, with costs. Mr. F. F. Newman appeared* for plaintiffSj and Mr. H. G. Evans for defendants. Mr. W. Platt, of Maaterton, whose success with the divining-rod has been clearly demonstrated in the Hawkes Bay and Poverty Bay districts, claims to be able to divine the presence of' oil as well as water. According to the Age, Mr. Plat^ recently went over some oilbearing country not far removed from Masterton, and has located what he believes to be an extensive oil spring. He intends offering his services to i-ome of the Taranaki syndicates, to assist them in locating oil wells. Mr. F« B. Gillingham, chairman of the Macfccttaie County Council, who recently visited the State nurseries at Hanmer, was much interested in the yoting trees, as the Mackenzie Council has planted out many thousands in different parts j of the county. He also visited the prison camp, and saw thousands, of young trees in the seed-bed*, all looking remarkably wall. About 3000 acres *re, planted around Hanmer, and the largo block* of healthy larches appeared in the distance like fields of green wheat on [the flats. Captain t Daniel Bockett, one of the oldest resident* of the Te Awamutu district, died a few days ago. The deceased, who was seventy-three years of age, came out to New Zealand in ¦ the ship Devonshire in February, 1863, .Volunteered for service in the Waikato fcfter the outbreak of war, and was made captain of the Waikato Mounted Rifles. He served through all its engagements, including Te Awamutu, the | big, fight at Rangiohia (now called Hairini), and Orakau. Wher* the war ceased he settled in fta-ngiobia, and lived there for about twenty-five years; removing to Te Awamjutu twenty-three years ago, and (resided ' there since. Some interesting pariksolara concerning the giant trees of Victoria have been prepared by Mr. A. D. Hardy, F,L.S., of the Victorian Forest Department. In a review of the records hd states that a collection of photographs of giant tree* was prepared for the Centennial International Exhibition held in Melbourne in 1888. A reward of £30 was offered to' anyone who would point out for the purposes cf scientific measurement a tree of 400 ft, and an additional JB3 for every sft in excess of that height. Mr. James Munro pcl 1 - • tonally, offered an additional reward of .£IOO for the discovery of a 40dft tree, but the greatest height accurately ascertained by the experts sent out to establish the record on that historic occasion was 326 ft lin. This tree was of the ¦Eucalyptus amygdalina regnans, and was upon a spur^of Mount Baw Baw, uirjety-one, miles from Melbourne. At 6ft from tho ground -it had a girth of 26ft 7in. A tree of the same species in Sassafras Gully, Dandenong Ranges, which i**s 219 ft 9rn high, at 6ft from the ground had a girth of 48ft 6in. A ndte by Baron yon Mueller in, the Garden«» Chronicle for 1862 says :— "Several trees have recently been measured 'on the tfpper Yarra an,d on the Dandenong. The highest kiiowa is ascertained to be 480 ft, and, therefore, as high as the Great Pyramid." However, none of these grt&t heights w» v«rifad when the album of photograph* w»* prepared in 1888. Th« ftedwood, which is the italfesfc American tt«e probably, occaskmally attains a height of 400 ft vor mo», but the greatest recorded measurement is 340, feet. On Saturday next, commencing at 2 o clock, the annual sufltioo sale of Smart s unredeomed jJledges will be held. The lots to be offered on Saturday next will consist entirely of jewellery, gold and eilvor watches, chains, diamond rings, «te. Mr. J. Spotted Nfcol will conduct the sale in Begg s late music shop, Willisfitreet, ' j