LOCAL AND GENERAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2560, 10 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

While riding in the •jumping events at the Friendly Societies' sports gathering at the Te Kuiti Domain on Saturday, Miss Casey sustained a nasty fall from her mount at the brush jump. Fortunately,'however, she received no injury other than a severe shaking. ■■■ . - •

A Maisterton resident states that on a recent visit to Nelson lie was astonished to see that on the table of a fashionable hotel there were American apples only, despite the fact thatt Nelson was a home of apple-growing, and, he remarked, that a vessel in the harbour was loading thousands of cases of Nelson apples for export to England. ■"

The adoption of the system of wearing numbers on jerseys during the coming Rugby season was decided upon by the Hawera Club (reports the Hawera Star). With a view to ensuring punctuality in ' the commencement of games the committee also decided that a player not ready a quarter of an hour before the scheduled time of commencement of a match would be replaced by an emergency.

The scourge of influenza among dogs which recently caused much havoc in Hawke's Bay, and which was reported to have died out as suddenly as it appeared, has not apparently been entirely repressed. A farmer in the central portion of the province recently lost a complete team of valuable trial dogs with the complaint in the course of two days.

While recently playing with a horse in the Plantation district of Glasgow, a man met with a curious mishap which nearly cost him part of his tongue. It was stated by the police that he was rubbing) the horse's nose with the sleeve of his jacket, and at the isame time projecting lids tongue towards its face. The animal suddenly snapped at him, and, catching his tongue, nearly severed the point. He was taken to the hospital where six stitches were put in the tongue.

Fork in hand, and optimism written on his face, an ardent young Christchurch gardener set out the other morning (says the Sun) to see how his crop.of potatoes was going to yield. The first effort brought to light 20 fine large tubens. Growing excited he dug 'again, and once more the fork lifted more potatoes than it did earth. "Come and look at this," he called to his wife. She came and looked, and laughed. "Why," she said, "that's where you pitted half a sack soon after Christmas 1"

Mi* Robert Yewen, a Sydney business man, who Avas in Christchureh last week, found out, very regretfully, that he had been misled regarding the scenic attractions of the South Island (states the Lyttelton Times). "I asked at the Tourist Bureau in Wellington," he said, "and they told me I would not see much' in the South Island; that the scenery Avas far better in the North Island. ' Therefore I made a few business arrangements at Auckland and Napier, Avhereas I coUld have done iso just as easily at Dun* e'din '■'•

Eel fishing has its attractions among Europeans, but to the Native race it is 'more or less of a business (says the Wahganui Chronicle). One Okoia farmer Avas recently awakened in the dead of night by the sound of voices near his homestead. His subsequent investigations revealed a party of 10 Maoris working the creek in his property Avith the aid of lanterns. Eight of the party were Avading the stream almost Avaist deep, and throwing eels on to dry land Avith bare hands. The fish came out so quickly that the two men on shore had a isteady job killing and bagging them:

Large numbers of people are blissr fully unaware of the fact that it is an offence to halve the eggs of a protected bird in one's possession "(says the Opunake Times). Recently two very ancient kiwi eggs were found by Mr W. Wan on his farm near Wiremu Road, aintl, with the aid of a gas mask, he was able to "blow" them. Thinking that they would be of educational value, they were delivered to this office for transmission to the Opunake Public School', eventually reaching tlie school. We have now been asked by the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society to explain why we permitted the egg's to remain in our possession, reference being made to section 40 of the "Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22."

An American newspaper correspondent claims to have discovered the most obliging man in the world, in the person of ai passenger on board the steamer Rensellaer, during a. recent voyage. This hero had noticed that! a letter had blown from the hands of one of the passengers into the Hudson River. With a gentlemanly, "I'll get it for you/' lie dived over the side. The lifeboat was lowered, and when the model of courtesy was returned, to the ship he handed over the letter with the comment, "I am afraid it The report says that he spoke with a Swedish accent, so Europe may take the credit for his upbringing. It is a* pretty tale (comments the Glasgow Herald) < but one feels that a really obliging man would have offered to dry the letter or to type out a copy neatly on the ship's typewriter.

Aai unusual incident happened on the Masterton..green on Saturday during a game between a Masterton and Grey town rink. It was a long head and the Masterton lead put one of his bowls in the ditch and the other ran out of play. The Masterton No. 3 was asked to remove several opponents' bowls; from near the jack. His first shot missed, and landed in the ditch. He had another drive, and this time he struck something amd there was a scatter of bowls. On a count being taken, it was found that the Masterton rink had no bowls in play. The skip played at firm draw in 'order to rest some of the timber, v but the bowl lodged in the ditch. His second attempt met with a similar fate* and the team had not a solitary bowl on the green, their opponents getting seven.