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Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 6

. Cricket was played at Logan Park for tlio first iiaic on Saturday—real cricket, not the petrol-tin wicket-, sort, for the teams represented Port Chalmers second grade and Albion second grade, and the players say that they never had a better ground to play on. The pitch was very good and the outfield a treat.

One John Howard William Tapp was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the Supremo Court sitting at Tiinaru on - November 4 for obtaining goods by false pretences. By a regrettable mistake the surname was turned into Tripp in the Association telegram of that date, and this correction is therefore published to set it light.—Press Association.

As the south express was taking the crossing at Stirling yesterday it ran into a motor truck upon which were stacked crates of fowls, vegetables, a smithy’s bellows, and other farm gear, which was well scattered as the truck overturned. When the train pulled up the liberated fowls were seen flapping their wings and excitedly cluckhig, while they sought a precarious roost on the cowcatcher and other parts of the engine or ran along the metals. The driver of tho truck, who had jumped clear just before tlio impact, was obviously upset, and a train passenger, pointing to the bellows as they lay by the side of the railway line, remarked dryly: “I suppose that is what made him get the wind up.” Beyond the damage to truck and stock, no great harm was done; indeed, it is rumored that poultry is on the menu in several Stirling homes to-day.

There was a clean sheet at the Police Court this morning. Once more attention is called to the magnificent display of azaleas and rhododendrons in the Dunedin Botanic Gardens, and it is to be added that the mountain lilies and cclmesias have come on so well as to make a finer show than in their native habitat. In the house the strcptocarpa are also well worth looking at. Tho Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society’s annual exhibition is to be opened to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. It is in the old quarters at tho Early Settlers’ Hall in Cumberland street. The new arrangements aro such as do not fit in with' a private view and a ceremonious opening, so on This occasion the welcome will have to be simplified. The president (Air John Loudon) will open tho exhibition and the public will enter straightway. Two machines from the lire Brigade were called out at 9.5 last nhdit to tho corner of Maolaggan and HUI streets. The call was maliciously given.

The monthly meeting of the committee of tho St. Clair Life-saving and Surf-bathing Club was held in the pavilion last evening, when there was a full attendance of members. Mr P. J. Priest (president) was in the chair. Complaints having been received as to the sun-bathing on the rod of the pavilion, it was deckled to close tins portion of the building in the meantime. 'Hie beach inspectors wore instructed to take action against persons sun-bathing on tho beach without the regulation costumes. Air A. Knights was appointed life-saving instructor, in place of Air Triggs, who has left the district. 'Thirteen new members wore elected. Final arrangements were made for the openjng of the season on Saturday next. Various sub-committces were set up to take charge of tho children’s races on the beach, sand-modelling, treasure hunt, bun and treacle competition, and several other attractions.

To bo aroused from sleep at I a.m. by the persistent ringing of the telephone, and to be told that “Auckland wants to speak you ” is a novel, it not agreeable, experience. It happened to one of our leading commercial men last night. The firm’s representative, at present in Auckland, wanted to speak to bis chief on- urgent business, and as the ordinary telegram would take too much time in bringing a reply ho conceived the happy idea of ringing up. The voice came through quite distinctly, and could bo heard as plainly as if the speaker were in the same room. Thus has modern science been used to expedite the transaction of modern business, and one is inclined to wonder “ What next.”

When the .big blast is let olf at Otago Heads, for the purpose of providing material wherewith to go on with the mole building, it is calculated that 50,000 yards of rock will be tumbled down by four -and a-half tons of explosive "to bo loaded in the chambers of the quarry under the direction of Mr J. R. Leggo, Nobel’s expert. In the Police Court, Auckland, Koran Francis Burns, aged 8-’, admitted bigamy. On July -’B, 1020, lie married, at Auckland, Linda Dominion Rowdier, and on July 27, 1927, went through the form of marriage with Kato Bcazlcy at Tirau. Accused was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.—Press Association.

The Norwegian whalers have great faith in the resources of Ross Sea, and are looking forward to a good haul of whales during the ensuing summer months. The big oil-fuel mother ship, C. A. Larsen, arrived at Port Chalmers this afternoon for water and fresh provisions. On leaving here she proceeds to the whaling base at Stewart Island, from whore her sister ship, the Sir James Clark Ross, takes her departure at the end of this week for “the ice.” The chasers join the mother ships at the winter quarters at Stewart Island. Two new chasers join the fleet this season. One of these arrived this morning at Port Chalmers for a supply of fuel oil from the C. A. Larsen, which is herself an oil fuel burner. The new chasers show improvements on their predecessors in several details, and the deadliness of their harpooning equipment lias not lacked attention. _ The harpoon weighs 1441 b, and to it is attached a 31 in manila line, 30 to 40 fathoms of which are usually required to span the distance between the gnu on the forecastle head .and its prey. The disabling charge of explosive is fitted to the penetrating end of the harpoon. The harpooners are the skilled exports of the chase, and a keen rivalry develops as to which chaser shall account for the largest number of whales for the season.

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