NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Ascension Day. Today is Ascension Day, a feast day in the Christian Church. Forty days after the resurrection of Jesus Christ He ascended up to Heaven, and ever since the Church was established the day of His ascension has been commemorated. Power Over Rivers. Claiming that primary producing interests were being sacrificed in the course of providing fishing grounds for sportsmen," the Rangiotu • branch of the Farmers' Union submitted to yesterday's .iriterprovincial conference a remit asking that acclimatisation societies be not given power over rivers against the interests of producers, reports "The Post's" Palmerston North correspondent. On the other hand, it was pointed out that he difficulty could be solved by dairy companies establishing pig farms and feeding the whey milk to stock. It was also pointed out that the interests of public health were served by the existence of a law prohibiting' the 'polluion of streams and rivers. The remit was lost. Frozen Meat Trade. "The development of the frozen meat trade with Britain has been perhaps the most important feature in the development of New Zealand," said Mr. Kaymond Oakley, president of the MidCanterbury branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union at the annual meeting, reports the "Times." "The first shipment from this country was made on February 15, 1882—fiftythree years ago—when the. ship Dunedin took Home a cargo of 4909 carcasses of lamb and mutton. She arrived at her destination on May 24. At the present time we are exporting more than 10,500,000 carcasses annually, the latest figures, taken from May 1, 1934, to May 1, 1935, being 8,?71,240 carcasses of lamb. \ and 2,123,883 carcasses of mutton—a iotal of 10,895,123 carcasses for the twelve months." Not in Programme. At Hford, near London, a bonfire arranged lor the King's Jubilee caught alight too soon and the Fire Brigade tried to put it out. The crowd shouted "Let it burn," and so hampered the work of the brigade that,the firemen turned the hose on them. Some of the crowd then dragged the hose and the firemen away amid loud cheers. Eventually the brigade gave up the attempt and moved off, booed by the crowd. Another bonfire was of a different kind. Nearly 2000 people surged round the Bermondsey Town Hall and watched the burning of an effigy of the Mayor, Councillor S. H. Weightman, who refused to attend the meeting of the King and South London councillors on Camberweil Green on May 18. The National Anthem was sung, and then, for more than an hour, the people danced in front of the Golden Harvest Mishap. Shortly before 6 o'clock in the evening of Tuesday, May 30, 19.33, the American cargo steamer Golden Harvest, outward bound from Wellington to Melbourne, ran on the northern end of Barrett's Reef at the Heads. The vessel's plating was pierced forward, and the No. 1 hold became flooded. The cargo consisted of about 3,000,000 feet of timber, a fair proportion of which was on deck, and a small quantity of general cargo. Several attempts to pull the vessel off having failed, arrangements were made to discharge the timber off the fore decks with the object of lightening the bows. Almost exactly twenty-four hours after she struck; the steamer slid off the reef, mainly owing to the efforts of the salvage tug Toia, which had been maintaining a steady strain on a heavy towing-wire from the stern of the vessel. The Golden Harvest proceeded up the harbourunder her own power, with the Toia in attendance, and having a decided list to port. She was subsequently docked. A Selwyn Anniversary. Yesterday was the 93rd anniversary of Bishop Selwyn's arrival at Auckland to begin his labours in New Zealand, which covered a period of 26 years. He was consecrated in Lambeth Palace Chapel on October 17, 1841, and sailed from Plymouth on December 26 in the ship Tomatin, accompanied by Mrs. Selwyn, their infant son, and a party of ten other people, including five clergymen. Having reached Sydney on April 14, 1842, the ship went aground and had to be repaired before she could proceedoosn s her voyage. Bishop Selwyn, however^ took passage for Auckland in the brig Bristolian with his family and some of the others. The brig anchored in the Waitemata at midnight on May 29. At dawn the bishop was rowed to Judge's Bay with his chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Cotton. His first act was to kneel upon the sand in prayer. In after years he made many such landings at Judge's Bay; from voyages, »ot only about the New Zealand coast, but to the remote island (groups of the Western Pacifl.c.