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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1922, Page 6

The annual saving in coal made on the present electrified train services in Victoria, as compared with steam, is estimated at £58,000 a year, and there are other advantages.

"Exchanges:," says Lloyds' Bank Mont My, "are merely the effect of present conditions and not the oaiu.se. To attempt to stabilise (trade conditions by stabilising the exchanges would be as useful as to attempt to stabilise the weather by locking up the barometer in a vacuum, or to attempt to cure a fever by packing the thermometer in ice. Get the nations on their feet a-gain, and the exchanges will right themselves."

As the season advances the trout get into better and better condition, says the Kotorua "Chronicle." Many anglers would be very pleased to whip the streams all day for one fish, if it were of the proportions of the brown trout caught by Mr E. Meyer, of Ngongotaha, on Thursday, which tipped the scales at 12 Jib. Mr A. H .Trippe made a good haul at the week-end, placing no fewer than 25 trout, caught at Hamurana, in his basket.

New Zealand can really be very amusing at times (says the Sydney "Telegraph"). One of its small councils (Takapuna) has permitted members of the Eoyal Life-Saving Society to wear racing costumes on the beaches, providing that they wear overcoats when not actually in the water. Now, if only some of those councillors would come over and ride out to Bond! on a Saturday afternoon tram and see the way Sydney does it!

Two men, George Thomas Koy Anderson and William Fitzgerald, were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment at the North Sydney Court last week, on two charges of false pretences in connection with, the sale of tickets for an alleged benefit social in aid of the wife and children of W. Cotter. The police evidence was to the effect that the accused had sold tickets in North Sydney in aid of a non-existent Cotter, living at 90 Darling Streqt. Glebe. Anderson had been asked by Fitzgerald to get up a benefit for liim, and it ■was arranged to use the name of Cotter. A thousand tickets were printed, and 500 were sold, Anderson receiving 40 per cent, of the profits. Fitzgerald in evidence in his defence, said he was a wharf labourer. In consequence of frequent illness, he was unaMe to get constant employment. The idea, of a benefit social occurred to him. He had paid £2 2s for the hire of a hall.