NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Orders for manures for autumn topdressing are not so numerous this season as last (says the Wanganui Herald). This is accounted for by the lower wool prices and the fact that many thus being compelled to practise ’ economy at the expense of their pastures. Haystacks cut in two are a common sight, in parts of Franklin and the Waikato (says a northern exchange). Owing to bay being stacked when not properly dry, farmers have been compelled to adopt this, procedure in ordqr to prevent the stacks from going on fire or commencing to rot. The increasing demand fon " Bourbon proves the housewives’ appreciation o! a genuine breakfast, beverage. . “ Bourbon ” is produced by A. Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 32 Octagon, Dunedin:.. A wireless direction-finding apparatus was in use around the streets of Grcymouth one day last week, and the novelty attracted considerable attention. The object was to locate faults in the electric power lines, which might be responsible for the noises which have been handicapping radio reception at Greymouth recently, particularly in daylight. Already shipping space has been booked for ' practically 1,200,000 cases of New Zealand fruit for export, and it is ex-, pected that the total shipments this year will reach fully 1,250,000. The previous best record was in 1928, when the highwater mark of 1,019,000 cases was reached, an event which was. marked by special displays of New Zealand fruit in London. Conn’s antiseptic mouth wash, recommended by leading dentists; price 3s and ss.—Only from Conn’s Pharmacy, Ltd., High street. Dunedin... Production i records are still being broken at the , Dobson mine, which is working two shifts, full time (states the Grey Star). Last year’s output was a record, but during the four months of the current year (October, November, December, and January) the production total has already exceeded by 14,000 tons the total for the corresponding period of the,previous year. See Captain Brown present the cycle to the winner of the man hunt at 1.30 to-day at Calder Mackay Co.’s Store, 180 Rattray street... “ It is a wise father that knows his own son,” is an old saying expressive of the unexpectedness of children. But it is • wise boy that knows his own father (remarks the Chronicle). A letter from a small boy in the Health Camp starts as follows: —" Dear dad. I hope you are getting on with your job.” The father isn’t quite sure exactly what the son has in mind.

The best sports coats value in Dunedin this year is at “Ascot,” corner. Princes and Rattray streets. They have 250 coats in single and double-breasted to pick from; prices from 17s fid... A remarkable instance of the annihilation of space by the use of wireless was related by Mr Leo Carillo at the weekly luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club. Mr Carillo is a friend of Commander Byrd, and when in Wellington he took the opportunity of speaking by means of wireless to the American airman who is anxiously awaiting relief in his Antarctic village in the Bay of Whales. At the same time he broadcast a request that if anybody in the United States heard the conversatioh he would be pleased to receive a cablegram from him. Later he received a message from a Wellington enthusiast, who said that he had been listening-in on a short-wave set to somebody in California telling a listener in Ohio-that he had heard Carillo in Wellington, New Zealand, talking to Commander Byrd in the Bay of Whales. . Do not miss this: Prince of Wales house whisky. 10s fid; four or more, 10s. Fine old port, 3s.—C. Hinchcliff. proprietor. Phone 10-721...

The largest parish in England, in which Dartmoor, a wide, empty stretch of waste land and its prison stand, is under the care of the Rev. G. Thorpe, who arrived at Auckland by the Ulimaroa on Monday. Mr Thorpe is -rector of Lydford. He 'came .via Suez, and will return by the same route, and will have travelled over 25,000 miles for a stay of 18 days in New Zealand. Dartmoor, Mr Thorpe says, houses only half the convicts it used to. Instead of 1350 who were once kept there, there are now only about 600. This, according to Mr Thorpe, illustrates the decrease in serious crime in the Old Country. Since the war many of the prisons have been closed, and others are being closed. The improvement in the standard of life and in education and the social legislation of various Governments are mostly responsible. Mr Thorpe said the dole system had also helped, All convicts at the prison, which Mr Thorpe controls for six weeeks every year while the chaplain is on holiday, are men whose sentences are greater than five years. They are sent to Dartmoor from Brixton Gaol, and from Parkhurst convict settlement on the Isle of Wight, where men of poor health serve the first few months of their sentences. “No prisoner has yet managed to escape completely from Dartmoor,” said Mr Thorpe. “ Many have broken out from the building and have often covered some distance before being caught again, but no ‘ one has got away altogether.” Special shipment ladies' woven marl art. silk jumpers, newest V neck style; two pockets, trimmed contrasting colours; red-white, black-white, royal-white, fawnmgger. red-black, red-navy, green-nigger; 18s goods all at 11s 6d.—T. Ross, 130 Princes street...

That he was only a quarter of an hour out in his estimtae of the time it would take him to go round the world on his recent tour, which included New Zealand, has been revealed by the Bishop of London. “It took me nine months.” tne Bishop said. “ When I left in July I said t would be back at 7 o'clock on May 7. Actually, I arrived back at a quarter to 7,”

The question was raised at the Napier. High School Board’s meeting last ween why there had been a decline this year in the number of new pupils at the Napier schools, but it was explained that the position was a general one, and not confined to Napier alone. Almost every secondary school throughout the Dominion had this year reported a smaller roll number.

One day’s rain was experienced. in the first 19 days of February at Arthur’s Pass. On the Westland side of the pass, the rata is in full bloom, more beautiful than in six years past. On the Canterbury side, mistletoe flowering flaming red on top of the beech trees, with snowy peaks in the background, makes the trip over the pass and through the Otira Gorge extremely beautiful. \ Women’s Crepe Bloomers, assorted colours; strong elastic at waist and knee; most wonderful value; post free for one and eightpence in stamps from Gray’s Mail Order House, Milton... The Waitomo Caves are easily holding their own as one of the star attractions of the Dominion, judging by the large number of visitors who continue to patronise the modern hostel erected in that district. The glow-worm cave, with its" myriads of tiny jewel-like gleams of light reflected in turn from the dark waters of the mysterious underground river, is considered by overseas visitors to be the most beautiful sight encountered during their wanderings. The man hunt at the Exchange Corner will provide unusual excitement at 12.30 to-day.., The stone fruit market is in a precariposition (says the Timaru Herald). Owing to a short supply of this fruit coming to hand, prices lire correspondingly higher, with apparently no great reduction in sight for some time. Freestone peaches are expected" shortly, and this will relieve the position somewhat in rethis kind of fruit. The apricot season is nearly over, and nectarines ; ara in short supply. Retail prices range between 4d to lOd per lb for all classes of stone fruit. Prices for jam-grade stone fruit are exceptionally high, due to there being very little procurable at present. Save your eyes. Consult Peter G. Dick, D.8.0.A., F. 1.0. (London), optometrist. Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians. 499 Moray place (opp. City Hotel).,. “ New ‘ Zealand should be particularly interested in the art of etching, inasmuchas Carles Meryon, the greatest French etcher, lived at Akaroa from 1843 to 1846,” said Mr Linley Richardson at the Citizens’ Luncheon Club, Palmerston’ North, last week, “Meryon came out to New Zealand on board the French boat Le Rhin as junior officer at the age of 21. The others found Akaroa dull, but he was very much interested in it as a study for his work.” 1 These towels i are sterling value: Coloured striped guaranteed fast to washing: 18 by 38, Is lid; 20 by 42. 2s 6d; 23 by 49, 4s 6d per pair. White Admiralty, 24 by 48. 4s lid per pair, posted anywhere for cash.—Kilroy and Sutherland, Ltd.. 192 Princes street, Dunedin... ■ Since he had. appeared before the bakers’ conference of last year, said an expert speaking at the recently held bakers’ __ conference, there had been a change in him, and he felt his. knowledge had decreased in the interval. You’ve been married since then,” interjected the secretary to the accompaniment of general laughter.. The speaker went on to explain that the research workers’ progress along the road of knowledge was linked with many disappointments, and some success, and the greater the distance covered the more he realised how little was known in his science. Owing to enormous demand for Barton’s famous sugar-cured Bacon.'more, and yet more Pigs are wanted to meet it; highest current prices.—Bartons, bacon carers. Manse street. Dunedin... / .

What might easily have been a tragedy Occurred at the State mine bins, Eewanui, recently (says the Grey Star), A coal wagon had been half filled when, a groan was heard. The stream of coal was stopped, the wagon removed from under the bins, add the doors on the bobtom of the wagn opened. The coal fell to. the ground, and a few moments’' energetic shovelling disclosed a man. He was. extricated little the worse for his experi-r ence. He was not a mine employee, and had evidently entered the wagon while itwas en route from Greymouth to Reef ton and gone to sleep. '■ Hia7 was a awakening.' Had his groan not been' heard his body might have been noticed as the coal was dumped into the hold of a vessel at the Greymouth wharf. The chances are, however, that the men unloading the coal elsewhere in New Zealand would have had an unpleasant shock. Country Storekeepers.—Handle the famous, acknowledged best,-smatlgouds in the South Island, and increase your turnover; liberal margin.—Barton’s. Manse street...

A wonderful moonlight trip by aeroplane was experienced By Major G-. A _C. Cowper, of Hamilton, last' week. Major Cowper left Rotorua at 3.45 ia.m. and arrived at Hamilton exactly an hour later. The moon was shining brightly and there was not a cloud in the sky. Flying' at 5000 feet, Major Cowper had a magnificent view of the moonlight on Mount Ruapehu, and on the waters of the Tasman Sea and -Pacific Ocean. The lights of Auckland,. Tauranga, Arapuni, hod Hamilton were clearly visible, and the whole scene mhde a gorgeous panorama. Major Cowper, who was travelling alone, made an excellent landing on the Hamilton aerodrome at Rukuhia. ; Annual Summer Sale in full swing. Bargajps for all. Special display of School wear this week. See windows, all at Sale Prices. -The Mosgiel Warehouse.—A. F Cheyne and C 0... “South Africa has every prospect of having a record season. Every man on the land over there is a genuine farmer, and is engaged in either dairy, sheep, or mixed farming. The country has made wonderful progress during the years which have succeeded the Great War” said Mr A. Allan, leader of the South African farmers’ tonring party, which arrived in Auckland from Sydney the other day. “Our one object is to produce agriculturally for the world’s markets. South Africa has reached that stage to-day when it is over-productive, and we have to find markets for our produce. We can and do produce cheese and butter, and the low prices for wool have made the South African farmer pay more attention to dairying. During the next few years it is our intention to build up our export trade in fat lambs and those other commodities.”

Captain Brown will give a cycle free to thev first person who discovers him at the Exchange Corner to-day;.. A warning regarding the evil of certain present-day tendencies is contained in the annual report of the president of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce (Mr M. H. Oram). Mr Oram says that there seems to be abroad at the present , time a spirit of restlessness, almost of recklessness, which results in a regular orgy of spending. “ WTien comfort only should be the watchword, luxury is demanded, and one cannot but deplore the almost entire absence of that spirit of thrift which is always so welcome in times of prosperity,” he says. “It may be that the almost ultra-cautious utterances of Sir Harold Beauchamp and the corresponding attitude of our local bank managers may bear good fruit, in whicß case a temporary fall in the price of our primary products mighf’not be altogether an unmitigated hardship.’” Grandism (951): Heredity is a great influence. The harder dad’s nose is pressed on the grindstone, the more the kids’ noses turn up... A donkey’s lack of emotion in distressing circumstances is well exemplified in. the pet story of a prominent New Zealand medical man who was spending a vacation on a friend’s farm. One day the hired hand came bursting in with the news that the farm donkey was standing perfectly still, with its mouth wide open, and seemed to be in trouble. The doctor proceeded to the scene, and made the discovery that .the animal had a white turnip stuck in its throat, and was on the point of suffocation. Realising the urgency of the case, the doctor shouted for a broom and some oil. A bottle of lubricating castor oil was forthcoming, together with a broom handle, whereupon the doctor knocked off the top of the bottle, poured the contents down the donkey’s throat, and rammed at the turnip with hia homely probe. With a “plop” the turnip disappeared, and the donkey breathed again. Never in the course of the " operation had it moved from its original position.’ Many thousand pies a year Does Hitehon’s factory treat; Their bacon’s fame still holds its name* ’Cause it’s mighty good to eat.. .'