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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 4

Twelve bankruptcies, -11 of them in the North Island, ore notified in the latest .issue of iho New Zealand Gazette. *

The police have i-eceivet! advice that a man named David Cbeyne was found drowned in a well at the hack of his residence in Union street. MiltoUj at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. Suicide is suspected.

The Superintendent of Police has been advised that'Elizabeth Cull, SI years of age, a single woman, died suddenly at Romahapa on Friday. An inquest will be b«*d. The deceased, who was an Invercargill girl, had been working with her sister at Romahapa. ' j

The City Fire Brigade received a call at 1.16 a.m. on Saturday to Messrs Reid and Gray’s premises, Princes street south. The services of the firemeb were fortunately not required, us an accidental false alarm had been registered. On Saturday afternoon Constable Hamilton arrested a married mao on a charge ot obtaining clothing to the value of lls 9d from Jane Kaler, Green Island, by means of false pretences. _He will appear before tho court this morning.

Owing to the holidays the monthly meeting of tho Green Island Ratepayers’ As- \ sociation was not so well attended as usual. Mr D. Taylor presided. Several important matters conducive to the welfare of the borough were discussed. It was resolved to hold a meeting on February 15 to put into execution several recommendations thau were laid on the table at previous meetings. The chairman urged the ratepayers to take more interest in the borough, and sard the ‘ best way to do this was to join the ussocialion, which was doing its best to improve tho district as a whole.

A three months’ sight-seeing tour of New Zealand on a bicycle is the programme arranged by Mr E. A. Pearson, a member of the survey branch of the. Now South Walgs Registrar-general’s Department, who arrived at Auckland by the Mamma. Mr Pearson, who has teen an ardent cyclist for 37 years, is strongly attacheu to his favourite pastime. He has cycled over a great portion of the commonwealth, his long trips including rides from Sydney to Brisbane, and from Sydney to Melbourne. He states that ho has made the last-named trip, a distance of 577 miles, on three occasions, and has reduced tho time from 96 to 49 hours. He has travetled ..upwards of 100,003* miles on the bicycle, a threo-geared machine, that he has brought to New Zealand. Mr Pearson is also not unknown in the rowing world, having at one time been stroke of the Sydney Rowing Club’s senior eight.

A careful financier in Auckland, 'who , had bought a number of bonds witu coupons attached, and who felt that he could not afford the luxury of a safe to put them in, decided that the safest place to store them would be to put them in a tin box and bury them in a chosen spot in his garden in the suburb (say* the Star). He collected his interest every six months, but since ho had collected his last amount a wet winter had passed, and a lot of rain had soaked into the ground, and when ne wont to' get his coupons to collect the amount due on the 15th inst., he found that the damp had a very bad effect upon the documents, and, not only that, rats had been burrowing into the earth by the sides of the tin, and altogether the whole experiment has proved most unsatisfactory. He said that his father did the same thing with his savings in the Old Country, and no harm came to them, Jut he think* his father must have had an iron rpceptacle instead of a tin one. The advfce given to the old-fashioned, cautious financier was to put his bonds in the bank for safe ous- , tody.

A rather amusing incident occurred a day or two ago in a suburb of Wanganui. Two little boys aged between six and eight were watching a man with a horse anu dray who was engaged carting some sou into a paddock. The load yvak evidently rather heavy in the soft going, and thi? horse could not smll it. The driver used his whip to no purpose and then gave the animal a couple of kicks, which caused it to make fresh efforts, with the result that it fell over. The youngsters were so terribly upset at what they considered to be cruel treatment of the horse that they ran away with the object, as they said, of “forming an army” to tackle the man. Gathering together several other youngsters of about their own ago they fitted their pockets with stones and armed thpmselves with sticks. They then marched to the paddock, but found that in, the interval the “enemy” had disappeared.

“I arrived here this morning from Auckland, though it has taken me a long time to make tho trip.” With these few words one of the unemployed introduced himself to an Ashburton Guardian reporter. A sturdy, honest-faced man, but not unnaturally somewhat unkempt, he explained that ho had teen out of work for 18 solid months, and was only 36 years of ago, and enjoyed the best of health. “There’s nothing doing 'between Auckland and Ashburton,” he said, “and I don’t know how much further 1 will have to foot it. I have even offered my services for nothing so that I might be sure of meals and that I would not have to sleep out night after night, but could never get placed. It is a cruel shame that an able-bodied man who has been in tho country for years and years can’t got a job. while those who are coining from Homo fall right into work.” A rather remarkable experience befel Mr Charles Anderson during the progress of a storm at Opotiki. Mr Anderson was out fencing when almost directly overhead there appeared a vivid shaft of lightning which descended to the earth in two distinct forks, and taking a circular course appeared to meet again near the ground. It struck the fence upon which Mr Anderson was working, and would most probably have electrocuted him had he not suddenly released his hold of the wire. At it was he received a rather severe shock and for a moment was completely dazed. He, however, soon recovered. The term of the present Board of Agriculture expires on April 30 next, so that a new board will have to bo elected this year. According to a Gazette notice issued last week the system of election has been changed in one or two partictilars. Provision is now made for the circulation of nominations some time before the date of the election, and the election in each district is to be conducted by ballot on tho absolute majority system. The elections are triennial.

£SO Reduction: 1923 model Harley-David-aon motor cycles, fitted with carriers, lamps, pump, tools, Goodyear tyres; best value offering. Remember, £SO per machine reduction. 1925 models now on view.—W A. Justice and Co.,’ Imperial Garage. Pnnces street, Dunedin.—Advt.

Wc can see nothing incongruous in housewives singing and dancing for joy while “No-Rubbing” Laundry Help is doing the weekly family washing.—Allan & Co., agent for “No-Rubbing.”—Advt. The ahvays-busy tailor, the tailor that has set Dunedin buzzing—G. S. Roberts, Stock Exchange Buildings. It’s the material in the garment that gives the wear. See that it is good.—Advt Mollisons aro specialising in ladies’ Allwool Black Cashmere' Hose at 2s lid per pair.—Mollisons (Ltd.), corner George and Frederick streets, Dunedin.—Advt.

Try Watson’s No. 10 in hot milk fornightcap. Induces sound, refreshing sleep. Great whisky.—Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley, dentist. Bank cf Australasia, corner of Bond ana Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 1859. Advt.

Xmas Jewellery.—Just landed, large selection diamond rings, watches, brooches, pendants, and silver ware. Compare values.— Peter Dick, Jewellers, 490 Moray place,— Advt.