NEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14229, 1 December 1909, Page 5

NEAR AND FAR.

v.- . i*r « hj mail? wh,ch l,KUall - v ar "vcß i ;\° I. ; was ' °" "C'-ount of the accident to the Warrimoo, sent bv the Moe-i-aki via Wellington, and will therefore be due in Du.iedin on Thursday evening. Letters usually delivered bv letter carriers may be obtained over the counter between 7 and 8 p.m. "Our Own" wires from Invernimll : A good deal of correspondence has been pawing between the Now River Estuary nehermen. the Marine Department, and the Acclimatisation .Society concerning the hrst-namecls application for an increased area for netting trout. The .Marine Department fi representative conferred with the Acclimatisation Society last night. As a result the society have decided on the following recommendations to the Marine Department :-(l) If the Government should decide to legalise netting inside the New Rner Heads tho society arc of the opinion that the area should be at least to the seaward of a line drawn from Owi Point to .Stanley township (that will give an area of about twenty suuare mile* to net in); (2) re the extension of the netting area, the .Southland Acclimatisation Society strongly urge the increasing oi the minimum penalty for all illegal trout netting to £5. Poaching is very rife and detection extremely difficult, 'while the present minimum of £2 in certain breaches is insufficiently deterrent The society recommend further that nettin" licenses be granted only to professional fishermen. (,>) In the event of a conviction oi any licensed holder under the liberies Act all licenses held bv such person*, shall be forfeited, and all boats used in the illegal taking of trout shall also be forfeited. Three, years ago a gentleman living on the hast B.dt, Christchurch. acf ■dressed a note to a friend in "Queen street, Dalhn'gton, some three miles away from his own' residence. In* his haste he addressed it " Q UK)II street Dar ington, C.C. ' The letter promptly started off on a trip to Darlington. Cape Oolony but finding no hoiulng' place there it was forwarded to Darlington, England. Then it took a trip to America where it spent a year in troubled wanderings. A. futile journey to Daring Downs f 0 lowed, and then it returned to CTinstchiirch. and was duly delivered at its proper destination after having occupied three years in travelling three miles. The envelope is a ve-itable curiosity of postmarks and endorsements It is not often that wild horses are seen on the Main Trunk route, writes he travelling correspondent of the Dominion but on Tuesday morning a mob of about a dozen were grazin-r on the railway line near Waiouru. and the early goods trains from Taumarunui had to slow up m order to pass them Lho strangers, which wore led by a beautiful grey stallion, had come down ironi Mount Kuapehu. Their tails, which trailed on the ground, were each tnlly ten feet long. | t is stated with reference to the grey stallion that lie is a pure-bred animal, which some veavs ago mysteriously disappeared from "near Wa.pukurau, Hawkes Hay. and that since that time numerous unsuccessful attempts had been made to capture him Some particulars of the British expedition to Western New Guinea appear in the Geographical Journal.' It will be under the command „f M r W alter Goodtollow leaving Knghuid on October 22. ravelling via Colombo to Singapore, and heme by Dutch boat to the Am Islands, the party then proceeding bv schooner to a point on the coast of New Guinea north-north-east from that irroup. [ t . j s ex pec-ted that the landing will be made early in January. Among the naturalists taking part in the expedition are Dr A. V R Woollaston. Mr W. Stalker, and Air g' C Shortridge; while Captain Bawling has been appointed surveyor to the expedition. He will be assisted by Dr Eric Marshall a member of Sir Ernest Sh.-u-kletons recent- Antarctic expedition At a meeting of the W.C.T.U. held Yesterday afternoon the following office--bearers for tho year were elected :—Presi dent, Mrs Blair; vice-presidents—Mes-damea.Don, Kirkland. Chisholm. Adams and Driver; recording secretary. Miss bimson; corresponding secretary, Mrs Dick: treasurer, Mrs Evans. Short -iddreeees were given by Mrs Blair tnresi dent), the Rev. VY. Hay, and the'K G. Knowles Smith; and Mrs Butcher Misses (sparrow and Evsiib contributed items to an excellent programme. Mies S Broad acted as accompanist. It is understood that Sir John Eisher took the title of Baron Thetford A skating ,-ink. just opened in'the West l-.nd of London, comprises dinin.r roo irs grill rooms, bathrooms, type-writin" and dictation room*, telephone rooms a- readhi" room, and a nursery! The.'passionate roller-skater, for whom so much has been done, ne?:l neither go home nor to his office. Major John Charles Wheeler, of the 84th Punjaub Regiment, described by t brother officer as the "hardest" man. physically, whom he had ever met, died while about to undergo a slight operation. The lirst lady member who ever sat a f the Council table of the Liverpool CityCouncil h.is just been returned in the person of Miss Eleanor Rathbone, who polled 1,066 votes against 516 east for Air Weiland, her Socialist opponent. The new councillor is a well-known social worker in Liverpool, where her father -was a shipowner, and represented the borough m the House of Commons. She is the sister of tlie gentleman who for many years represented in London tho syndicate of papers) of Kkxli the ' livening SUr' k om. [