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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 1 December 1933, Page 6

Miss Lilian Familton, of Oamara, accompanied by Guides Bowie and Souter, made a traverse of the three peaks on Mt. Cook in seventeen hours, good weather being experienced. Miss Familton is believed to be the first woman to make the trip from Hooker, on the west side, to the Tasman side. The great ride of Gerhard Ruden, who brought the news of the liberation of Vienna from the besieging Turks to Hanover, was recalled in October by the 250th anniversary of the victory. Ruden covered the 600 miles to Hanover in such forced rides that he died of exhaustion after delivering his message. A monument in the Neustadt Church at Hanover commemorates his feat.

The extraordinary number of years in which certain'- Bavarian peasant families have been associated with one farm came into prominence at the “October” Festival at Munich, when such families wore recipients of special honours. The oldest is the Ibler family from Ritzelsdorf, Upper Palatinate, who are documented back to 1385. Many Bavarian families have occupied the same farm since the early part of the seventeenth century. Fire on Wednesday evening totally destroyed a four-roomed house and its contents, owned and occupied by Mr and Mrs G. Hillman, and situated at the corner of Arapaepae and Roslyn Roads, Levin. The occupiers had left the house less than half an hour before the outbreak was noticed to visit some friends nearby, and everything then appeared to be safe. There is only a very small insurance on the building, while the contents are not insured.

To have been' caught in the tentacles of a young octopus was the unenviable experience of Mr H. Hamilton, director of the Native Arts and Crafts School at Rotorua, who is at present supervising the erection of the Tokomaru Bay new carved meeting house. Mr Hamilton was exploring the rocks at low tide. He put liis hand, in a pool and found it immediately in the grip of a young octopus. When he withdrew his hand hurriedly he brought the octopus to the surface and killed it. The tentacles measured over 30 inches, and the body was the size of a football.

That pigeons were being shot in the Tiritea Reserve was, a statement made by Mr E. G. Matthews, the chairman, at last evening’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. A shot had been heard, he said, and a pigeon seen to fall. There had been a good number of pigeons in the reserve, but they did not seem to be increasing. Mr R. AV. Priest said that the City Council had promised that people would be barred from entering the reserve with firearms. He did not think any action was possible. The reserve was too thick in which to find anybody when they were in it. No action was taken.

The Otago Rowing Association has decided against the furnishing of a guarantee for the visit of the New South Wales crew. The demand for farm labour in South Canterbury at the present time is stronger than it has been at any time in the past three years. The Whangarei district has experienced eight successive days of wet weather, accompanied by oppressive conditions. Rain commenced with a heavy downpour on Wednesday of last week and, with tlie exception of a few hours of fine weather at intervals, showers continued until two days ago, with a light drizzle prevailing.

The present strength of the Legislative Council is 21, but it will be reduced to 20 when Sir James Parr leaves shortly for London. Five other members are due to retire next year, so that some action to restore the strength of the Council appears certain to be taken before or during next session of Parliament (says a lobby correspondent). Eleven calls were received by the Palmerston North Fire Brigade during November, as against five in the corresponding month last year. Of the calls received during the past month four were false alarms, three were to rubbish fires, two to actual outbreaks at buildings, one to a motor lorry in the street and one to a residence where an overheated gas oven was the cause.

The Melanesian Mission’s new motorship Southern Cross is reported to have cleared Thursday Island on Wednesday, en route from England to the Solomon Islands, where she will be stationed. She is the seventh mission vessel to be named Southern Cross and was built to replace the Southern Cross VI., which was wrecked on Aneityum Island, Loyalty Group, on November 2 last year when she was on her maiden voyage.

Sentence of one month’s imprisonment was imposed by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on Albert Bailey, of Sydenham, for stealing a newspaper. Bailey was seen by a newspaper runner at 5.15 a.m. to go into a, garden and steal a paper left earlier by another runner. He kept the thief in sight, and chased and captured him. He then handed him over to the police.

Two scholars at the Haverfordwest Grammar School in Wales have created something in the nature of a record achievement bv -winning State scholarships enabling them to proceed to the University, having sat at the same examination and having passed in the same subject, classics. The headmaster of the Haverfordwest Grammar School is Mr R. S. Lang, M.A., a nephew of Mrs E. H. Rennie, of 30 Colombo Street, Palmerston North.

It is believed that a fortune of £1,000,000 awaits New Zealand claimants, and among those claimants are the descendants of Charles Crawford, a pioneer who came to New Zealand on the Philip Laing in 1848 (states the Dunedin Star). It is known that Mr Crawford resided on the Otago Peninsula about 1800-75, but little is known of liis movements since that period. A firm of local solicitors is making inquiries on behalf of certain descendants.

The proposal that annual contests between athletic teams from Australia and New Zealand be held was discussed and supported by the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Centre, last evening, and a resolution was carried that the centre write to the New’ Zealand Council pressing for a revival of inter-Domin-ion contests, and suggesting that the Melbourne Centenary celebrations offer a suitable occasion for the carrying out of this plan.

Whilst returning in a motor boat from a successful day’s fishing at Lake Rotoeliu, a party of Te Puke sportsmen were given a very thrilling chase. A deer that had been driven down from the back country took to the water, being pursued by one of the dogs. The chase was promptly taken up by those in the boat, and after crossing and recrossing an arm of the lake three times the animal was caught and brought ashore. It was found to have been wounded by a shot, and it was dispatched. Representations wer e made on Wednesday to the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. J. A. Young) by delegates from the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement regarding the denaturalisation and possible deportation of Ivan Tomasevic, who was found guilty in Auckland recently on a charge of disloyalty. The Minister stated that Tomasevic’s naturalisation would be revoked, but it was not considered necessary at the moment for him to be deported, providing he abided by the laws of the country. Patrick Hart, aged 17, met with an accident near Mrs Treanor’s farm, AVaihi Road, Paeroa, from which he was lucky to escape with his life. After finisfling some ploughing the youth unhitched the team and was endeavouring to mount one of the horses to ride it home went it bolted along the road. His leg was caught in the harness, and he was bumped along the road for about half a mile, receiving numerous serious bruises and abrasions. The bolting horse was caught by some relief workers, who were working on the road, otherwise the consequences might have been more serious. Following a collision between a delivery lorry and the cycle which he was riding Mr Frederick Downing, of 74 Ferguson Street, was admitted yesterday to the Hospital with injuries to his left leg. The collision took place on the ltangitikei Street-King Street corner at about 4.30 p.m. and the cycle was damaged. The Free Ambulance took the injured man to a doctor and then to the Hospital. He is progressing satisfactorily, the authorities reported to-day. It was at first thought that the limb had been broken but an X-ray examination did not reveal a fracture.

The painting of a portrait of Professor T. H. Easterfield by Mr A. F. Nicoll, of Christchurch, for Victoria University College, Wellington, lias been completed. It is the intention to unveil at Victoria College portraits of the four foundation professors, of whom Professor Easterfield now Director of the Cawtliron Institute is one. The others are Professor J. RankineRrown, Professor H. Mackenzie, and the late Professor R. C. Maclaurin. The portraits of all except the latter have been painted by Mr Nicoll, Professor Maclaurin’s being supplied by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A more liberal view of claims by exgoldminers for the miners’ pension is suggested in the recommendation to the House of Representatives of the Goldfields and Mines Committee in respect to two petitions praying for the miners’ pension. In referring the matter to the Government for favourable consideration the committee states: —“In view of the occasional conflict of opinion between doctors as to whether a miner is suffering from pneumoconiosis, resulting in numerous petitions to Parliament and much physical distress and agony to petitioners travelling for the purpose of reinspection, this, committee is of the opinion that men who, as the result of having been miners, have contracted disease similar to pneumoconiosis which incapacitates them from work should be allowed to qualify for the miners’ pension.”