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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 81, 4 March 1935, Page 6

Large quantities of mushrooms have been forwarded to the Auckland market from the Mai’ton district within the past few days. Failing the customary appearance of Mrs Agnes Sutherland, a widow, aged 74 at a church service yesterday, several of her friends visited the cottage where she lived alone in King Street. They found her dead in bed, death being due to natural causes. Two members, Messrs H. C. Choyce and J. Itendell, having reached the great age of 95 years, a special game was provided for the ‘elderly veterans at the recent tournament ot the Auckland Veterans’ Bowling Association. The combined ages ot the two rinks engaged were 708 years, an average of 88 J years. While spending a holiday at the Banks Peninsula bays, Mr V. Peters, a well-known Christchurch musician, became very friendly with n small boy, who never let a day go by without bringing the visitor a gift of somo sort. Ou the morning that Mr Peters was leaving the boy turned up with a katipo spider securely bottled. The spider, still safely imprisoned, has since been placed in a city shop window for exhibition. It has lived in its prison without food for nearly six weeks. Sounds like the discharging of a gun, in a series of sharp explosions, were heard at about 1.30 o’clock on Sunday morning by residents who were startled from their sleep in Stanley Avenue, Bussell Street, Albert Street and localities as far away as Broadway Avenue. Inquiries failed to reveal any reason for this rude shattering of the silence at so early an hour on the Sabbath until it transpired that the staccato noises emanated from the exhaust of a car which was continuously back-fir-ing as it proceeded up Featherston Street. Ordinary combinations of words are apparently not expressive enough for opponents of the Mortgage Corporation Bill in the House of Representatives; but mixed metaphor has certainly added to the entertainment of the debate. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr M. J. Savage) impressed on the House that the £1,000,000 capital of the corporation would he a mere pebble in the ocean; but he was assured by the Minister of Finance (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) that it would be “a fairly hefty pebble. ’ Mr W. E. Parry accused the Minister of precipitancy' by saying that the Government bad roiled up its sleeves and waded in, and another member, referring to the introduction of private capital into State institutions, feared that the “private shareholders with one peanut were going to be the bell-wether of the Mortgage Corporation.” Mr .Samuel was most expressive when he prophesied that the “army of private investors at the gate would be wanting to suck the life-blood of the farmers.’’ A special line for you. 36 inch pure silk lingerie Ivanebo crepe in dainty tones that please everyone. Good washing, no extra filling to make the weight. Will not cut. Pink, apricot, peach, nil, sky.„ Usually 4s lid, clean-up week special 3s fid yard.— Collinson and Cunmhghame, Ltd.— Advt,

At the Taumarunui Magistrate’s Court on Friday a sawmiller was fined £ls for allowing sawdust to flow into a stream in which trout existed.

The net- financial result of the appeal conducted by the Palmerston North branch of the Plunket Society on Saturday is expected to be well in excess of £BO. ■

“One unfortunate feature of the past two years has been the poisoning of dogs, both in the city and country,” said the chairman (Mr Crosby Morris) at the annual meeting of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “This work is dono by someone, who, unfortunately, cannot be detected.”

The establishment of a permanent memorial to Dr. L. Cockayne, in the form of an area in the public gardens set aside for New Zealand plants, was urged by a deputation from the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, which waited upon the Christchurch Domains Board on Friday. The question was referred to the narks and gardens committee for consideration. Few men have done more for the rifle shooting movement in New Zealand than the president of the National Rifle Association, Colonel F. B. Creswell, Y.D., of Christchurch, who will announce his intention to retire from that offlco at the annual meetiig of members of the association to be held at Trentham to-night. Colonel Creswell has attended every national meeting at Trentham for well over 40 years. An outstanding steaming performance has been achieved this summer by the liner Monowai, which has established a reputation amongst transtasman travellers for the remarkable regularity of her passages between New Zealand and Australia. During the 12 weeks from November 29 to her arrival at Wellington from Sydneyyvia Auckland on February 21, the Monowai steamed a total distance of 23,125 miles, of which nearly 9000 miles w.ere covered in one period of four weeks.

A bullet fired in the Mesopotamia campaign disabled a soldier’s left ankle. He was pensioned out of the army and given work on a Government farm. A little time ago a gun carried by his companion went off accidentally, and the charge so badly injured the soldier’s left leg that, it had to be amputated. He was then informed that his pension would be stopped, because it had been payment for a maimed angle, and he no longer had the ankle. The lawyers say he has no redress, although (a) he would have been better off financially if the leg had been amputated in Mesopotamia, and it was no fault of his that it was not; (b) if it had been amputated then he could not have been shot in it later; (c) and if he had. not been disabled on war service he might never have been in front of an explosive gun on a Government farm. The incident occurred in India, but it does not seem to be certain whether its subject is an Indian soldier under the Government of India, or a British victim of the pension authorities in London.