The Inangahua Times. TUESDAY, NOV. 6. 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Inangahua Times, 6 November 1934, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. TUESDAY, NOV. 6. 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr J. Bird, the wall known dentist, will arrive in Reefton on Thursday on his usual professional visit.

Mary Pickford, the actress, has announced that she and Douglas Fairbanks, her husband, are happily reconciled.

Applications by students for admis sion to the Christchurch Training College are approximately double the quota allowed for this district. There are 94 Divisien A applicants (quota 38) ; and 13 Division C applicants (quota 3). • We remind our readers of the Forty-Fives Tournament to be held in the Parish Hall this evening, when the prizes offered are good as well as useful.

The Melbourne Cup, the most valuable stake run south of the line, takes place at Melbourne to-day. The time of starting is 3 30 p.m. and 530 New Zealand time. There are 24 horses still engaged in the race, and of these are six New Zealand bred —Nightly, Sir Simper, Linbohm, Thao, Miramond, and Gladswood. The last named three are, however, owned in Australia. The result wili be posted up at the Times Office immediately on its reaeipt. H.M.S. Sussex, which brought the Duke of Gloucester on his way to Australia, is a ship of big men. Captain Derek Schreiber, of the Hussars, the Duke’s second equerry, is 6ft 6in. Major Quill and tenant Phillips, officers of the marines, are both 6ft 2in, and among the marines there is scarcely one less than 6ft. The giant of them all is Corporal Pordage, who scales 18st fib, and is one of the champion athletes of thf ship.

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Tbe Sabbath appears to have been 1 more strictly observed in New Zealand fifty years ago than it is to-day. | Be-auae members of the House of , I Representatives went in the Govern- i ment steamer Hinemoa on a Sunday j to inspect certain harboura, tbe Rev A. Reid, a Methodist minister of Auek- ' land, vigorously denounced them. He aaid he anticipated that some such curse as befel the Israelites of old wou'd fall upon New Zealand, owing to such an 4 outrageous desecration of the Lord’s Day.' Children’s white summer gloves ■ or.lj Sd p»!r. At 'Thorpe’s f £’ |

Salvation Army headquarters announce that General Evangeline Booth is expected in New Zealand shortly. She will leave Sydney on April 25, arrive in Auckland and attend a congress in Wellington on May 7. A Sydney man. Mr B J. Nelson, claims to have discovered a new process for the cleaning and drying of the feathers of mutton-birds, and has expressed the hope that he will be able to found a great industry that will be a great important to Australia and New Zealand. It is claimed that because of its resiliency and curl, no bird plumage is more suitable than the mutton bird feather for quilt filling. It is said that a large financial offer has been made by a German firm, anxious to learn the secret, and that this has been refused.

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