LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1353, 13 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Out of 181 licenses issued recently to money lenders in Glasgow. 57 were, issued to women.

At a recent sale of ' old English silver in London a George J. kitchen pepper pot, weighing 1 }oz.. fetched 18ns fid per o'/... and a, George 1. pitcher cream jug, 30z... 2-10 s per oz.

‘•f am sure we shall lx;i only too pleased: to receive his resignation with regret,” said a speaker at a meeting in N'ew Plymouth. It is not recorded that the remark caused any laughter.

The degree of Doctor of Music has been conferred on .John McCormack, the tenor, by the Senate of the National University of Ireland, in recognition of his eminence rn musical work. Air Eric Mackenzie, of Onmoru, ha is received advice from London that his latest song-waltz. “Honolulu Sweetheart.” lias lictni accepted for publication on a royalty basis by a. well known firm of music publishers. Dozens of starlings were seen one evening chasing an invading hawk tip the coast (says the Wanganui Chronicle). At every turn made by the hawk the whole flight of starlings would wheel as one bird and pursue the marauder. The starlings chased the hawk for two or three miles before they gave tip the pursuit. While gathering driftwood on Buffalo Beach, Mercury Bay, Auckland, a young man. Gordon Lee, was bitten by a katipo spider. He was fortunately able to reach the hospital, which is not far from the bench, and received immediate attention. He suffered great pain. A Christchurch resident. Air Waller Smyth, has written a novel which will he published soon hv Messrs Mills and Boon, of London. The hook deals with life on a sheep station, and is described by the publishers as of the “romantie-mystery type,” with a rich admixture of adventure and comedy. What is believed to he. the first recorded ascent of Mount Alarm, in the Kaikoura Mountains, was effected. last Friday, by two young Wellington mountaineers—-Messrs .T. E. Rawnsley and T. H. S. Fyfe. Mountain Alarm, which is adjacent to Tapuaenukii, is 0400 feet in height, while Tapuaenukii is do feel high.

Poor old Now Zealand (states tlie Christchurch Sun). The folloAvmg '6 an extraet from a set of geography ox tore isos pnblised by an English firm: “The people of Now Zealand are densest along the east eoast of the South Island, the south eoast * f the North Island, and near 'Wellington and Auckland. Why is this?”

Somoi people looked upon red deer as vermin, observed Mr E. Creswell at the meeting of the Wairarapa North, branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society in Master ton, but in rough gorgy country they did good by keeping down tutu (reports the Wairarapa Daily Times). ”1 say there are hundreds of cattle saved every year in the Wairarapa by deer. ”

“We have never seen howflng greens before,” said Mr E. W. Casting, manager of the Australian Dowling team, at present touring New Z'ealand. “When wo refer to howling greens in Australia, we refer to thg places where we play bowk, but in Now Zealand the word 'green’ must be taken literally, everything is green—except the players.'’

An amusing incident occurred at a railway station not a, hundred miles from Hawora (says the Star). As the mail train pulled up at the station, a he whiskered old man, whose garb betokened the toiler from outback, thrust his head in the carriage containing the Australian howlers, and exclaimed : “Mow do, boys? Here's a quid; have a- spot! 1 belong to South Australia, hut I’m not going hack, f know the Chief Justice too well."

During a debate on grocers’ awards and wages generally at tho Arbitration Court in Christchurch one of the assessors became somewhat mixed when referring to a new award in Wellington. Tn reply to a question by his Honour, Mr Justice Fraser, the assessor said, “Wellington has a new award which will be brought Into force on the extermination of the old award.’’ “Yes,, extermination!” said bis Honour, smilingly.

There is no quackery or uncertainty about the Violet' Ray Treatment. and while it is by no means put forward as a cure-all, yet it is of the utmost aid in restoring to normal the-physical condition impaired from almost any cause. Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago, Sciatica, Goitre, Eczema, etc., are quickly relieved. Consult free. R. A. Billows, Darragh’s Buildings.

The will of the late Frances Tussaud, head of the famous waxworks, shows that site left, estate worth £2918.

A Herefordshire J.P., Air A. T.. Manley, who deid recently, was buried, by his own direction. at night, time by the light of 12 torches.

A smart piece of work was done by Ihe Wanganui police yesterday. Receiving information at 4.15 p.m. relative to a man’s departure from the city, the machinery of law was set in motion, and half an hour later an arrest- was made at Ha went.

AViien Hie Hull Magistrate asked

what a man’s occupation was a- witness replied: “He us a July barber.’’ Alagisirate: AY hat is that ? Witness: A man who comps from Ireland to work in the harvest fields.

The Sale Harrison Mission will commence in St. Paul’s Hall to-mor-row night, when Mr Harrison will speak upon “The Remarkable Jew, the Miracle of the Age.” See advertisement for Thursday and Friday’s subject s.

“1 can assure you that crime does not pay. A criminal does not oarn more than an ordinary labourer,” said Air Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Auckland when passing sentence on a youth who had pleaded guilty to theft and forgery.

C’ohhe’s draw atlen'tion in their advertisement to (special prices in dressmaking for autumn and Easter frocks, coats and costumes. Asj Easter is only tt matter of a few weeks away early hooking is essential to avoid disappoint merit.

In the course of his address to Hastings ratepayers prior to the Napier Harbour Board election Air H. lan Sinison said, the last name on ids

omuination paper was that of an undertaker. Ho got him because, lie its the Inet man to put you in

The Chinese Masonic Hall, Grey Avenue, Auckland, was gaily decorated with, flags and evergreens and illuminated by night, when about 300 brethren of the Chinese Alasonie fraternity and a large nuinbot' of Auckland business people, as guests, gathered to greet Grand Alnster Air Gin Crook Yin, who celebrated his 60th birthday and had been for 3U years Grand Alnster of the lodge in Auckland.

“W hen you get elected to the Royal Society you really know as little about it as you do when entering a, Aiasonk; Lodge, but it is not the Inst time that it Fellow of the Royal Society haw been in this room by two or throe. However this is the first honour of its kind to come to New Zealand for physics, and 1 am glad that it hits been given to a member of Sir Ernest Rutherford’s old collelge.”—Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, replying lo congratulations extended to him by members of the Christchurch Philosophical Institute on being elected to the Fellowship of the Roval Society.