News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 30 December 1938, Page 4

News Of The Day

1 No Publication on Monday. i The “Northern Advocate” will ■ not be published on Monday (New Year’s Day). • • * • Stevenson’s Grave. Regret at the condition in which the track to Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave in Samoa is kept (was expressed by Mr T. U. Ross, a Wellington business man, on his return from a cruise to the Islands by the Matua. Mr Ross said the surface was very rough and the going was not at all easy for any but young and agile people. He thought that if the track could not be kept in order in any other way, Stevenson enthusiasts should start a fund to finance the upkeep of the route. • « • •

The Shadow of The Block. A last, desperate bid for liberty by a large turkey caused a brief stir in Tennyson Street, Napier. In company with a number of other birds, the turkey w.as being shepherded into a saleroom when it suddenly broke free, and, with whirring wings, set out for the wide open spaces. Spurred on, doubtless, by a premonition of things to corpe, the bird flew rapidly down a long by-lane and into Tennyr son Street, where its appearance caused a mild sensation among pass-ers-by. Quick as a flash, however, a man near whom the bird flew threw out his hand and, while the turkey was still in flight, caught it deftly by one iwijng. It was ,a catch which would have done credit to a test cricketer. The dejected-looking turkey was soon restored to the society of its fellows.

Increased Receipts. Despite the adverse weather on several days during the Christmas holiday period, the receipts of the Auckland Transport Board show an advance of £326 on those for the corresponding period of last year. *♦• ' * y ■ . .v- .y’ ; y Little Boy’s Fall From Rock. Falling from a rock while playing at Mair Park yesterday afternoon, John Rogers, the 20-months-old son of Mr C, Rogers, Princes Street, received head injuries sufficiently serious to necessitate medical attention. The little boy was admitted .to the Whangarei District Hospital, and; was reported today to be making satisfactory progress. • • • • Freak Egg. A curious freak egg has been laid by ,a White Leghorn fowl owned by ■ Mr Ron Sowman, of Marlborough. It comprises what appears to be the halves of two eggs, one slightly bigger than the other, which in some way best known to the hen, had become joined together as neatly as though it ahd been specially manufactured. , E .ft

Conscience Pricks. It is not only the Government that receives conscience mone'y from people who have defrauded it. The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has just received "from Lom. don an English Treasury note for (worth £l/4/10 in New Zealand), which was sent to-the secretary with. a note, which stated, inter alia: '“The sender of this*brief note spent four weeks in New Zealand during May and June this year. One day he was out rabbit-shooting on the Canterbury Plains, when some quail got up, and he shot two of them. As he is a Christian and has a conscience, he feels that he ought to make reparation.”