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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 5

To-day was the day set apart for Ambulance Saturday, but owing to the stormy weather no collection was taken up in the streets. If the weather is fine next Saturday the public will be given facilities to subscribe to a good cause. During the past couple of months it is stated (says the Manawatu Standard) buyers have been quietly operating' in' Taranaki on behalf of Canterbury clients, and a-s a result some 14,000 sheep, mostly breeding ewes, have been shipped to Canterbury from this province. One buyer alone forwarded a line of 9000. Several thousand lambs have also been forwarded to Feildmg. Outside buyer 3 have been active amongst cattle also, and quite a number, principally young eteei'3, have been transferred to the East Coast. ' Mr. Robert M'Nab has received ad* vice from the University of New Zealand that he has passed for the Doctor of Literature Degree. Mr. M'Nab has held the degrees of M.A. and LL.B. sirice the la,te 'eighties, and the Aehburton Guardian understands that the new honour has been conferred on him by virtue of his thesis on New Zealand history, which, as author of "MurihikUj" and a£ editor of the New Zealand Historical Records, he submitted, and which were examined for the University by •Professor Egerton, of Oxford. _ There are only two other Doctors of Literature in the Dominion— both University professors. The Rev. A. T. Brainsby and Mrs. Brainsby leave Wellington on Wednesday next to conduct a ten-days' special mission at the Baptist Tabernacle, Auckland. The mission has been well prepared for in the northern city, and the missioners will be supported by a mission choir of 100 voices, under Mr. A. Wilson, organist at the Tabernacle. Mr. Brainsby will be away two Sundays. Tho Rev. Knowles Kempton will occupy the pulpit at the Vivian-street Church on the 10th May, and the R-ev. Alfred North on the 17th. On returning from Auckland the missioners wilt commence a similar mission in Wellington, and afterwards go on to Dunedin to conduct -& third mission there. Says the Wanganui Chronicle::— The following telegrams speak for- themselves : — James Thomas Hogan, Esq., Eastown, Wanganui, — Governor has appointed you member of Wanganui Harbour Board. Appointment gazetted today. — '(Signed) George- Allport." "Mi*. George AUport, Marine Department, .Wellington,— Please convey my thanks to Hi* Excellency for the honour conferred on me, and inform him that I regret I cannot see my way to accept any ' favotir at the hands of the present Government.-- -(Signed) Jas. T. Hogan." Air. ,W, A. Veitch, M.P., ha-s received word from the Marine Department that the Governor has appointed him to the Wanganui Harbour Board in succession to the late Mr. J. T. Muir. After the hurricane of January last (writes the Aitutaki correspondent of the Auckland Herald) this island has been suffering from a scarcity of breadfruit. The main commodity was all destroyed, and the kumaras planted have been destroyed by caterpillars. Thus the inhabitants have had principally to i depend on imported necessaries such as rice, flour, biscuits, etc. About 70 tons of copra are to be despatched by the steamer Talune in April. It is rumoured that the steamer will not call here again for three months. A small quantity of copra is yet to be made, and the truit (oranges, etc.) will not be> matured until July and August. Very small shipments will be available even then. The trade prospects for the present yeai? are not at all promising. During the voyage of the Zealandic, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Thursday from London, a dismasted ship was sighted on the 21st March, in lat. 46.29 n., long. 7.58 w., bearing about eight miles^ west. With y a view ( to rendering assistance, the 'Zealandic bore down on the vessel, which proved to be the Odei'sjaa, of Christiansand. The' derelict presented a very forlorn appearance, and there were no signs of any life aboard, »the crew haying apparently been taken off some time previously. .The signal F.J. (send lifeboats to save crew) was flying on loose halyards. Wireless messages Were sent out from the Zealandic, warning other vessels of the danger, and, as nothing else could toe done', and the weather being too bad to board the Odersjaa, the White Star liner continued her voyage. Stamp printing Has now begun in earnest in Melbourne (says the Argush and at a very early date the penny kangaroo issue will be regarded merely as a freak philatelic novelty. Stamps of the new King's head design are now being made available in large quantities, and as soon as the existing supplies of kangaroo stamps, are used the more dignified issue will be circulated exclusively. The Federal Postmaster- General (Mr. Agar Wynne) stated last week that new 6d and Is stamps would be on sale in the course of a few weeks, as all the necessary arrangements had been made for striking them off as required. A kookaburra will be the main feature on the 6d stamp, and the Is'design will be almost a replica of the former West Australian pattern, in which a black swan formed the centre-piece. A means by which the oyster beds in Hauraki Gulf may be more effectually protected than at present was suggested to the Prime Minister by a deputation of settlers which waited upon him at' Kwrei-a, between Thames and Coromandcl (says the Auckland Herald). It was pointed out that tho Marine Department was now planting additional oyster beds along the forsshoro, and it was suggested that tho settlers should have the right to protect tho beds abutting on their respective properties. Tt was stated that in many cases in which the oysters wore ♦•uken by picnic parties, settlers Unjustly received the blame. At present the latter have no right to act , as rangejjs, _ but it was urged that if they had this power it would greatly as-.' sist in protecting tho beds from illegal depredations. Mr. Massey said that be would bring tho matter before the Minister for "Marine. j A number of beautiful little limestone grottos were discovered a. few days ago along the course of a creek in tho Taihupn Domain, and within about five minuted' walk of (he local post offiro, According to tho Taihapo Daily News, the spot is a- reinarably beautiful one. Near tho creek is to be seen a small limestone cliff, covered with a white deposit, daintily hewn and fashioned into fo'itastjc forms resembling lace of the ino^t, elaborate design, pieces of fern, twigs, leaves, and moss, delicately bound together by a process that must have been going on for centuries, tho whole making a picture that a. world-famed carver in ivory would prize and envy. The largest of the grottos is only about 7ft each .vay. but hanmng from the roof are numbers of little stalactites of every imaginable shape, while uhe floor and walls are covered with rows and rows of miniature pHlibadea and terraces. Further along the creek are a succession of smaller openings in the bank, all filled with beautiful stalactites and other Jime stone formations t which have so far escaped the hands of vandals. It is understood that the Domain Board intends to fake 3tep<s for the protection of the grottos. 'the Otago Rudby Union is sending a team to the North Island this season, and a match will be played with Manawatu. . ~ ;