NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20252, 10 November 1927, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mild influenza usually is in evidence at this period of the year (states the Christchurch Press) and its appearance in Christchurch and in Ashburton is reported. There are about 500 wireless sets licensed in Hamilton. During the last three months 35 licenses were issued. Stay at the Prince if Wales Hotel, Good accommodation; best brands of liquors. 'Phone 10-721.—C. Hinchcliff proprietor... Fear is expressed in the Nelson district that the Mamin Hot Springs, which have considerable curative properties, are in danger of being destroyed by river erosion. One hundred and fifty six tins of whitebait were forwarded from Hokitika and stations along the line to Greymouth and to Christchurch by Saturday morning’s express. “ I know it is not much use a magistrate preaching. It has about the same effect as any other kind of preaching,” remarked Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court recently. To Country Stores.—Barton and Trengrove allow liberal concessions for handling their famous smallgoods. Largest output in South Island.—Barton and Trengrove. Manse street, Dunedin... “ In 30 years of teaching I have never had such a bad time among the children as far as illness is concerned as this year,” said Mr L. F. de Berry headmaster of Central School, Palmerston North, at a meeting of the committee. “There is plenty of work here for good men on the big jobs,” says an ex-,Wanga-nui resident, writing-- from Sydney. He adds: “ This is a good place. Of course there is unemployment about,’ but only among labourers.” Some excitement was caused in Shortland street, Auckland, on a record morning when an unattended horse attached to a light gig took fright at a motor truck and boltea downhill toward the congested traffic at the corner of Queen street. Tue prompt' action of a bystander in seizing the bridle brought the horse to a standstill before any damage more serious than the buckling of the mudguard on a postal van resulted. Paris and London report a decided tendency t 6 the bizarre in men’s fashions in some circles this spring. However, there is nothing freakish about -the fashionable high-grade wear that is being sacrificed at such low prices during the last weeks ef Messrs Watkins and Neilson's great amalgamation sale... That a glimpse into the future is ard ently desired by West Coast residents was proved Inst week, when a visiting lady, said to be gifted with “second sight,” found it impossible to attend imefche time at her disposal to all her would-be consultants (reports the Greymouth Evening Star). There was, it is stated, a constant stream of callers of both sexes to ner room all day, and her fee of 5s per head was cheerfully paid. In addition, .t is understood that the lady replied to about 200 . queries by post. In the opinion of Mr D. Hope, curator of the Christchurch Acclimatisation Gardens, if the gardens were properly stocked they would be a great source of education for children (says the Press). Cost of upkeep would bo greater, however, as a staff would be required to guard the birds. When the gardens were better stocked the birds ■ suffered from annoyance by irrespon-' aible persons, being fed with noxious matter. “I want to thank the police for the kind way they treated me when ip the lock-up,” was the unusual appreciation voiced in the Hawera Police Court last Friday by a man who, after being arrested on a charge of drunkenness in High street shortly after 5 o’clock, spent the night in custody. The smallest newspaper in the world is the Daily Pilot, published at Thursday Island. A copy that has recently readied New Zealand consists of a single slileet I2in long by 6in wide, on which is printed two columns of matter each 9in long. Occasionally, when “ pressure on space ’ prevails, the Pilot runs to three columns. When the late Lord Northdiffe visited Thursday Island, he and the proprietor oi the Dally Pilot were photographed together as representing the two extremes of “ the mighty lever. ’ We solicit a trial of our famous sugarcured hams and bacon, after which you will reject all others. —Barton and Trengrove. Manse street, Dunedin... In England, an architect, proudly pointing to a handsome ,£7OOO residence, described it as “a three-bathroom house.’’ The bathroom is the house, nowadays. It is about their bathrooms, not their picture galleries or their libraries, that the newlyrich are given to brag. Herein one sees, says a London writer, a return again to the age in which water was the supreme deity, and the altar of which _ was the bath. There conies to mind an item in a gossip sheet of the time of Queen Elizabath. “ The Queen hath built herself a bath, where she doth bathe herself once a month, whether she require it or no.” Prince Carol, who renounced the throne of Rumania a year or two ago, was twice arrested and nearly hanged as a spy at the outbreak of the war. He left Potsdam, where he was receiving his military training, upon receipt of the news of the outbreak, with instructions to return to his own country. After driving a few miles the Prince’s car was stopped at Michendorff. The villagers mistook him for a spy, became enraged, and tried to hang him to a lamp post, ridiculing his assertions that he was a Rumanian prince and an officer of the Prussian Guards. Some Guards officers chanced to be passing and released the Prince. It was stated at Marylebone Police Court that London hotel porters could earn, with tips, from £8 to £lO a week What stage of proficiency is necessary before one can be called a “ swimmer ? Mr William Henry, the secretary of the British Royal Life-saving Society, suggests that an average swimmer should be able to swim, without a rest, 100 yards breast stroke and 50 yards on the back, without using the hands—i.e., propelling the body bv the legs only. It is the arms that tire first, but anyone who can swim 150 yards in the two styles mentioned, says Mr Henry, can be considered a “ swimmer ” and competent to look after himself in any ordinary emergency. It is the stage of proficiency that should be airbed at by everyone.

The presen system of car registration by the Government was defended by Mr J. E. Peach at a meeting of the Hawses Bay Automobile Association the other day (states the Napier Daily Telegraph) He remarked that the present system of numbering was most helpful to the police in tracing missing cars. Owing to the necessity for declaring the engine and chassis number, pointed out, it was impossible for anyone to disguise the car, merely by changing the registration numbers For all your medical wants our mail order service is at your disposal. “ Conn'* sell for less.” —Conn’s Grand Pharmacy... Ladies of Milton find that for best footwear values they have only to go to . Gray’s Big Store... At a meeting of suppliers of the Kai Iwi cheese factory it was unanimously decided not to observe summer time hours (says the Wanganui Chronicle). It was contended that it would not be in the interests of suppliers if milking were carried out under the new standard time, as in the afternoons the cows would, in most cases, be brought in for milking during the heat of the day. The Kai Iwi School will open at 10 a.m. instead of 9.30 a.m. as previously. The 3 Queens art. silk stocking looks, wears, fits, and feels like pure silk. All the newest shades for 6s lid at T. Ross, 130 Princes street... A record season for lambs Js anticipated at the Picton Freezing Works, which will open in the course of a week or two, provided the operation of forward buyers do not • interfere unduly with the handling- - of the district’s surplus lambs, at Picton. The works have been extended and improved in anticipation of handling an extra large number of stock. Whitebait were plentiful over the weekend, good catches being made in Greymouth on Sunday especially (states the Grey River Argus). The price suffered » corresponding drop, to the good content ol lovers of the fish, the general price being Is a pint, while in one case at least, an enterprising individual was retailing them at three pints for Is “There must be * fire sale on,’’ remarked one humorist, onnoting this price. It is generally recognised that splendid results nave been obtained by farmers feeding molasses to their stock during the winter months. ’ We can supply in cases containing two 561 b tins at 9s per case.— The Otago Farmers... A collection of samples of native work from the Solomon Islands has been presented to the Canterbury Museum by Lieutenant-commander E. G. ilhodes (reports the Press). The collection includes pipes, baskets, and some excellent pieces of native craftsmanship. Notes issued by the Confederate Government during the. American Civil War have been presented by Mr W. E. Brittenden, and the Chinese tapestries, given to the Museum by Mrs Terris, are now on exhibition. • Recently some Wanganui police officers sat for their sergeant’s examination (relates the Herald). The geography paper included a map of the Tararua and Ruahine ranges. One constable when _ asked later how he fared in the examination replied that he did splendidly, except in the geography paper. When he had drawn the map of the ranges he discovered that he had left out the Manawatu River, so he had to set to work and shift a big piece of the Ruahines to get the river through. Revolviftg Clothes Driers are largely taking the place of the old-fashioned clothe; poles. These driers take up practically no room when not in. use, and can be lowered-and'raised for the breeze io. revolve the driei, thin, bringing all sides of the clothes to the sun. They only cost £3 15s, complete with about 160 ft clothes line, and are obtainable at Laidlaw and Gray’s, Rattray street. See us, or write for particulars... A family in Opawa will have good reason to recollect the introduction of daylightsaving. Father retired to ®Bd reasonably early on- Saturday evening and, as instructed, put the house clock on an hour._ Hours latei the daughter came home, and, remembering summer time, put the clock on another hour. . All day the next day that family battled against a two-hour handicap, and it was not until nightfall that the “ doubling-up” was discovered and a. much-jaded family sat .down- and laughed heartily at the joke on, itself. “One of the reasons whv the fruitgrowing industry in New Zealand is in the present position is tb&t the growers’ have never had an organiser,” declared a member of the newly-formed Tomato and Stone Fruit. Growers’ Association in Auckland last Friday evening (states the Star). “ We want to take the ‘ bull by the horns ’ and do something,” he added. Other members were in favour of the proposal, and it was decided that the Executive Committee be recommended to adopt the suggestion. Waters' Pharmacy, 20 Princes (under Savoy) serves' you better and saves you money..; ; . V A Wanganui man who is at present working at Wov Woy, situated about 40 miles from Sydney, writes, to a friend in Waganui: This place is famed for its fishing, but I have been here three weeks novf, and have hot seen anything larger than a 1 tiny schnapper (reports .the Wanganui Herald). The fishermen make a great fuss' when they capture a bream about Bra long. There is- no telling what mig.'.t happen if they were transplanted to Pelorous Sound where pne g£ts a fish on each hook as fast as one can pull a line up.” ■Exceptional value: Flannel Unders, the well-known Doctor Brand, in Shetland and navy, 6s 6d '"ch; All-wool New Zealand Flannels—Shetland 6a lid, natural shade (unshrinkable) 8s lid, navy 9s 6<L posted anywhere, for cash. —Kilroy and Sutherland, Ltd.. 192 Princes street, Dunedin.. . “ Stealing Marlborough’s thunder might well be applied to a recent issue of the Northlander, a newspaper published at Kaitaia and describing itself as the “ organ of Progress and Democracy in the Northland ” (reports the Marlborough Express). It makes a feature of “ boosting ” North Auckland, and as a part of this campaign publishes a large photograph showing a big harvesting of oats, the presumption, of course, being that the photograph was taken in its own district. Actually it is a Marlborough photograph, in which five well-known Blenheim settlers engaged in harvesting operations can -bo easily recognised. Home Sew,ng Week at the Mosgiel Warehouse. See Window Displays. All sorts of Materials, all double width and priced right, from is 6d, Is lid, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 6d, and 3s lid yard; 2Jyds to 3yds for a dress. If you cannot call write for patterns—A. F. Cheyne and C 0... Quaint creatures are no novelty to the men on the dredges which scrape the harbour floor. Week by week they see rare creatures hoisted from the -bed of the Waitemata. But the other morning even the dredgemen were surprised by a queer fish sucked up through the pipe-line by the dredge operating at Devonport, to squirm on the mud deposited behind the retaining wail. . The fish was almost the exact shape and colour of a fairly large sausage. Captured and placed in a bucket, it disclosed a faculty for expanding and contracting, at times trebling its normal dimensions. The stranger still awaits classification. Just landed, ex Somerset, a fuli supply of nCw season’s Blue Mountain Jamaica. The finest Coffee grown on earth.—A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin... During a discussion on the financial affairs of the Farmers’ Union at a meeting of the Marlborough Provincial Executive, it was remarked that new members did not care to find themselves involved in the necessity for paying up the organisation's back debts (states the Express). Mr H. S. Reeves said it was like a man buying a property and finding he had to pay up rates left outstanding by the previous owner. “Oh well,” observed Mr'F. E. Fairweather, philosophically, “it is like marrying a woman. You take her for better or for worse!”—(Laughter.) Well-groomed hands -alwayc, where Waters’ “ Chap-Lotion ”. is used. 2s posted.—Waters’ Pharmacy... “ I am of opinion that there is too much money spent on main highways and not enough on back roads,” said Mr J. M. H. Triop at a meeting on Monday of the Geraldine County Council (reports tin Timaru Herald). He said that the time was approaching for the carting of wool and grain, and the back roads should be in a fit state to_ carry this traffic. “As soon as there is a race meeting on there are demands to have the main highways put in good order for the motorist, but we poor farmers are overlooked.” Mr Tripp said. “Oh! the farmer does not matter at all; all he has got to do is to pay,” the chairman (Mr K. -Mackenzie) remarked amidst laughter. Dad swears by Hitchon’s bacon. He’ll eat no other kind. There is no waste in Hitchon s. He even eats the rind...