NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10871, 15 April 1929, Page 6

NEWS BY MAIL.

FA TH ER. CHR I STA lAS G ETS STUCK.

BRICKLAYER TO RESCUE

A well-known baronet had an awkward experience over Christmas. He was invited to a house party in the country and was told that- lie would have t<> impersonate Santa Claus and conic down the chimney cue of those wide,old-fashioned places—with gifts for the guests. It was arranged to let him down by a rope from the roof. All went well until lie got- half-down when, suddenly, lie stuck. The combined efforts of all tlm guests failed to remove him. Ho was Hedged as tight as a sardine. Those I clow tugged as bard as they could and tliow" above pulled for all they wore worth, but it was no use. Eventually a brieklaver bad to lie sent for. He descended ihe chimnev. knocked away some bricks, and released the mnfortuiiato man.

AUTHOR'S TERRIBLE VOYAGi:

NEWCASTLE (N.S.W.) TO AUCK-

LAND. Boyd Cable lias taken some hard knocks in his time. He served his apprenticeship to life in a very hard m hool—-that of the old sailing vessels. As a young mail he frequently shipped, before the mast, both out of home and Australian ports. •'1 shall never forget a Christmas voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Auckland,-N./.,‘3 he said. •‘We had strong, fair winds which justified us ih expecting to rial'll port in time for Christmas, and make a. record passage. Instead we did neither, and nearly went to kingdom come. •Rhi Christmas night when we were days from port we nearh foundered. I shall never forget that night. We we re: rulmiing before the strongest gale I have ever experienced i" my seafaring days. When aU the hands were roused to shorten sail the- ship was in a terrible plight. “For half a dav we wrestled with the mainsail. AY hen at last it had 1 ejn furled and 1 came oai deck, it was only to learn that I should have to complete' another watch. “We celebrated Christinas three da vs later in the forecastle head with a mug of tea. the first nourishment many of us had taken for 2-1 hours.”

WI IA LES ’ • IX V A SION. SEA MONSTERS COLLIDE IN SCOTS HARBOR. Unusual .scenes were created at Lerwick, Shetland last month, by the entrance- into The harbor of a school of whales which remained there all day. Estimated to number SC(), the h hales came close inshore, and after swimming along both sides of the harbor, assembled in deep water in the centre. Hundreds of people in

motor launches obtained an excellent c.lose-tip ♦iew. * The whales were so densely packed that they collided with. each other when diving, and when launches charged through them commotion prevailed. The school always followed a. large'' whale acting as leader.

AFTER TS YFAILS. TAILOR SUES FOR UNFAIR WEDDING SUIT. Sean Hoyle of Loiighanure. was sued at the Dungloe Court, last nx.htli by Hugh Gallagher, a -jailor, of Knockastoler. for forty shillings, the price of a suit of clothes supplied on the occasion of his marring;', 28 years ago. .Justice O’Hanrahan thought that in the circumstances the statute of limitations should apply, hut Hr F. Sweeney, for the plaintiff, argued to thn contrary, and referred to a rernt Northern Jrehdul decision on the same issue. The case was adjourned to allow of the law being looked into.