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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3107, 28 December 1921, Page 4

The first total eclip-e of the sim visible in Australia sitin' the earliest settlement in I| H > ci.iil’iinit will lake place on September 21st. 1922. Several liumlrei! Maoris who have been n l l.en(liii” lintana’s camp passed through Palmerston North today on route for southern destinations. Nelson s old ship the Victory left hei moorings in Portsmouth Harbour on December 16 for the dockyard for dry-docking and general overhaul. 1 his will probably he, the last; journey ol the famous vessel (states a London cable to the Sydney Son). It i, reported, says (he Carterton paper, that a runholder in the Gladstone district who recently purchased a large properly there, paying some thing like £30.000 down, is giving up the struggle and turning the land back to the original owner. In the athletic sports gathering at Mao terton yesterday \\. J. Gandy, formerly of Palmerston North, was second in the 220 and 440 yards handicaps and third (dead heat with another runner) in the 100 yards handicap. A week ago there were 111 unemployed on the books of the North Canterbury l.'nemploymenl Committee. Now there are 78. The committee will continue its relief works until the close of the year, and will then discharge the 82 men at present engaged thereon. “It is a time when we must, all economise,” said the Mon. C. J. Parr, Minister for Health, at Henderson a lew days ago. “1 know iiiv own salary is coming down by £2OO or £3OO in a week or two, hut what of that? We must all come down a little." At Sydney recently Judge Beehy passed a sentence of three years’ hard labour upon George Herbert Conroy, alias George Hudson, aged 31. a New Zealander, against whom there are prior convictions in New Zealand. In 1915 he was declared to he an habitual criminal, and according to the police report he was a close companion of another well-known New Zealand and New South Wales criminal. Hudson was found guilty of receiving. The London Sunday Pictorial stales that the two new British warships to be built under the Washington Conterence agreement will not be super-Hoods, hut vessels of a special design of 35,C0G tons, resembling (ho Queen Elizabeth, hut more heavily armed. The ships doomed by the Washington Conference will ho oil; red lor sale. Mr Henry Ford, who il was reported had offered to buy the vessels for conversion into agricultural machinery, has not yet made an odor. From Japan has come a request to the headmaster of SI. Andrew's College, Christchurch. for information regarding the col lege (says the Lyttelton Times). The writer. Tomoyana Santo, says: “Please send me your reports, bulletins, journal, catalogs, and illustrated guide." The lei 1 or. although addressed to Mr J. K. Anderson, headmaster of lilt l eollege, came through the Department of Industries and Commerce. 'I he latest pupil enrolled at the school was from Pneiios Aires. “There is no such thing as ‘red tape,’ ’’ declared Mr W. Gee, chief postmaster at Auckland, speaking at Henderson the other day, amid laughter. Red tape was really what other people called business methods, he added. A Government department could not he treated as a private business, therefore they had to have that splendid tiling called red tape. (Renewed laughter.) Mr Gee also said New Zealand civil servants were absolutely tree of political influence and were the most independent hotly of men in the Dominion, An instance of the great advance made in the popularity of music in t hristchnrch was given by Mr R, IL Owen, director of die Royal Christchurch Musical Society, at a six-io 1 given to Dr. Bradshaw in the \rl Gallery Hall (slates the Christchurch Pres.-), Many people thought a short time ago, said Mr Owen, that, what with piclure entertainments and jazz dubs, there would he nothing left for the musical organisations hut to shrivel up a nil go out of business. How far wrong this was was ■Town at: the performance of The Messiah, given by the Royal Musical Society and the Male Voice Choir in the King Edward Barracks, when dose on £OOO paid for admission. This was a matter of amazement when it was realised that just a few years : ago such a pertormaneo would have drawn ' an attendance of ahottl 750. i Train arrangements for New Year hoii ( days are advertised in this issue. Special 1 trains are being run from Wanganui and 1 Palmerston North on Doth Monday and Tuesday in connection with races at Mar- 1 ton. On New Year's Day special trains ' will run from Palmerston North to Foxton and Ashhnrsl in connection with the vari- j

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The erection of the Coleridgerl’ijnui'u electric transmission lino has now reached Ashburton, a distance! of aliout. 50 miles from Coleridge. One cheese factory in the Aforrinsvillo district which sold its outjnit is paying out an advance of Is 9d per pound for Initterfat as ct'inpared with Is Id (hat is being paid by factories that are consigning. The census figures of 1921 establish Birmingham definitely as the second town in England and Wales. Willi a population of 919.438, she is beaten only by London, Glasgow, and Calcutta within the Empire, and perhaps by not many more than a score of cities in the whole world. Joseph Hannon, a statutory fourth ollcnd ing inebriate, appeared before AJr A. J. Graham, J. 8., at the Police Court this morning and was convicted and fined £2, being given 14 days in which to find the money. Two lir.st offenders were each convicted and discharged. Admission of lady bellringers into the Christchurch Cathedral Society of Bellringers was Lite subject of a notice of motion given by Mr \V. Carton, master of the society, at its annual meeting. Ibis innovation has been under consideration lor some time past. Lady ringers are admitted into several bellringing societies in England, where their efforts have been successfully applied. “A mining strike is good for business.” This rather surprising statement was made by a Greymouth grocer. He explained that strike talk among the miners set their wives to the tusk of stocking the family cupboard with foodstuffs and every penny available was devoted to this purpose, with y, consequent temporary improvement in the grocery business. “One day recently,” ho said. "I received no less than £IOO worth of orders from Blackball alone. J Tic busi ness done so far this month (to December 17) equals that for the whole of December last year.” “Will yon bet a new hat on it?” was a question addressed to the Hon. < . J. Parr at Henderson on Saturday, when he ven In reel a prophecy regarding the future growth of the district. “No feat ; 1 will not. I have been caught once already,” came the prompt reply, which was greeted with laughter. 'Hie Minister explained bow he bad promised the sanitary inspector a new hat for every person convicted for failing to clean up bis premises, and said lie was being flooded with prosecutions, and ho was afraid he would not be able lo procure enough bats in the stores.Herald. Better news has boon received about the dij-Hnr ging of refrigerated produce from steamers in the Port of London. The High Gommi.-siotior, with whom the Government, 1 has been in close communication in the. man, a. new advises that matters are improting, and that the Port of London Anihorny anticipates that, at the end of iho nionili. ihe situation will be approaching norm,;!. The High Commissioner ad- ' vises that during the month of September eleven out oi nineteen meat steamers were, unable to commence unloading owing to !;:• k of .'lor. -,c ashore for the cargoes, whereas, at present, only one out of eleven is unable to ikscliarge for this reason. The steamer Hina, formerly the Lady Barkiy, wlmii lias keen running in the Nelson-Guid, n Bay serv’eo for over 50 years, was sold i.y auction at Nelson last, week under an • >;-<i= r of the .'iipremc Conn, to satisfy a claim lor wages lay master and crew. Bidding Maned at £409, and went up in one jump to £SOO. 'thereafter there were £lO increases, and finally £5 advances, the vessel being eventually knocked down lo the plaintiffs in recent proceedings for £570. The Lady Baikly played a part in the Waikato war when she had a naval rating and was owned and used by the. Government for transport work in tied from the Manakau Harbour. What lias puzzled a 'neat many people in the wool trade, remarks a Sydney p.qi.-r, is the heavy buying by Japan of lhe fieri merino wools, ft is a matter of a change, of fashion among Japanese women. 'I bn kimono, the universal garment of Japanese womenkiiid. lias in its finer makes .hitherto been made of the finest and lightest silk. It is now being made of the finest and lightest wool. Made of such wool it has a gossamer-like texture. It is quite as light as silk, and it is more serviceable. r J hes-V woollen kimonos are now quite the fashion in Japan, and the manufacturers are finding themselves hard pm to it to supply (Indemand. Japan, it is estimated, will take 150,000 bales of our.wool, of which a large proportion on account of the new fashion will be high-costing fine merino. A North Shore (Auckland) resident, who for many years was connected with the fishing industry in the eastern districts of Scotland, says that ho is not at all surprised at the religious revival that has broken out there, reports the Auckland Star. The war with all its attendant disasters affected the fisherman's mind in a way that left, him a-different man. There were pent up feelings that had to find vent somewhere. The fishing folk have an intense faith in the .supernatural, and many of them are what is known as seers and sec visions, and their mode of living and their training fosters this spirit. They will wrestle with a passage from the Scriptures and read their own interpretations into it, and then they try and influence their fellows regarding it. The revival is a natural outcome of the happenings that have taken place since 1914. and under, wise guidance the fisherman's life will be improved by it, Mr Raymond Allsop, son of Mr John Allsop, the Randwiek trainer, who was one of the first amateur wireless experimenters in Australia, claims to have discovered i. remarkable electric ray, which will de.stroy steel or iron. For several years experts had known that there was an electric ray capable of destroying such solid metals as steel and iron, and Mr Allsop became keenly interested in it, so much so, indeed, that thi! discovery of it assumed the character of an ambition. Day after day and night after night lie secluded himself in his works and was continually experimenting. Tlien one morning, as long ago as November last year, he was experimenting with a certain set of instruments, the nature of which he declines to divulge, and was successful in destroying a piece of iron 6in. square and ,jin. thick with a ray generated by the instrument at a distance of 2ft. The ray was invisible, and it reduced the metal to tiny fragments within an eighth of a second. The fragments did not fly or scalier, but merely lodged upon the table on which the iron had been rested.