NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2065, 9 December 1919, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

In years past the tendency of emigration from Denmark lias been towards America, but Mr R. Kampp, who is visiting New Zealand as official Agricultural Adviser to the Danish Government, after touring Australia, is of the opinion that the Dominion offers a better iield. On Ids return to Denmark he is prepared to make representations to that effect, and the success of early Danish settlers in Manawatu and the Seventy-mile Bush and elsewhere will, no doubt, be quoted in his report.

“1 have just excused the man who brings the cream, so I suppose I must excuse the man who supplies

the strawberries/’ remarked his Honour, Mr Justice Stringer, at the Auckland Supreme Court, when a strawberry grower followed a milkman in a request for relief from serving on the common jury owing to urgent business reasons. Mr Dixon, counsel for the strawberry man,'said the fruit was just about right for picking, and if the owner were tied up at the Court lor a week it would spell ruination. Both the applicants were excused.

In the course of his Peace Treaty speech in the Chamber of Deputies on September 251 h, M.,Clenienceau explained why the English language had been preferred to the French for use at the Peace Conference. “Jl is not my doing," he said, “Speakers of English have increased by .many scores of millions since the eighteenth century. It is not my doing that English is the most extensively spoken language in the world. Moreover, its adoption was an act of generosity towards the men who shod their blood tor our country.” “There is no such thing as “goslow’ in the butchery trade," said one of the workers’ representatives at a conference in connection with the Auckland butchers' strike. “When a man is on the job he has to go ‘eyes out’ to keep up. Look at the way the men worked the day before the strike. No body of men could have acted in a more sportsmanlike spirit.” Representatives of the employers concurred, one employer remarking that there was no doubt that they played the game and worked splendidly through the rush before the strike.

The damming back oi the Waikato Hirer for the hydro-electric scheme will result in a lake 18-i miles long ami about 180 feel deep at Ihe lower end. This will provide a due inland water-way for motor launches and small ."learners into country that is now rapidly being settled and brought into farming land. The Te Awamutu-Putaruru railway, a hieh is being promoted under the provision of the “Local Hallways Act,'' proposes to cross the river on a bridge built on top of the dam, thus providing the up-river farmer with a most convenient access to the outside markets. The lake will also afford lishing, shouting, and boating possibilities, and scenic beauties that should prove a decided attraction to the future tourist and holi-day-maker, Old time election meetings had much more sap. “If. I had a son who was an idiot like yon I’d drown him,” said an interrupter to a young and boyish-looking candidate. “Evidently your father was of a different opinion,” was the reply. Or take the reply of Sir George Heid when he received a packet of Hour full on his expansive chest: “1 always said 1 was a white man.” Or one of Lloyd George’s retorts —when a man in the audience called out, “I knew your father when he drove a donkey-cart.” Lloyd .George replied: “1 have seen the earl myself, but I thought until now the donkey was dead.”