NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21360, 13 June 1931, Page 22

NEWS IN BRIEF

After remaining quiescent for over three years, a geyser near tne mourn of the I'ouranga stream at Koiorua nas ‘‘come to fue, and it played DnsKJy last ween. The i'ouranga enters Lake Kotorua at the upper end. ihe geyser, although it does not possess a name, is wed known for its vagaries (.relates the Auckland Star). During its brief term of activity it sent up snots ot 3U to 40 ieet.' The non-stop journey from Hath to London was frequently made by Mr A. i!'. Carey, of Christchurch, on a recent visit to TJntain, and he recounted at the Baptist Union meeting recently how he occupied'a carriage with six other men, who sat like graven images all the way. “ I thought, “ This is hnigland,'” said Mr Carey. “It was most uncomfortable/'’ j\ow' the dark mornings are here you will require an Alarm Clock. Just landed this season's stock of Alarm Clocks, Luminous Clocks, Striking Clocks, etc. Brices from 8s 6d. —Deter Dick,'jewellers, watchmakers, and opticians, 490 Moray place, Dunedin...

“New law” was brought before the Waitotara County Council at a recent meeting, when a. letter was received from a ratepayer complaining of the state' in which his frontage had, been left’ after the removal ,of soil. The letter stated, “I am advised that all the soil in front of my section to the middle of the road belongs to me.” Councillors and the engineer had not heard of 'the new departure. , > ;

“ The work which the British and Foreign Bible Society and the National Bible Society.-of Scotland are doing in the world is too apt to be taken top* granted,” said the Rev. D. Calder, reprer sentative for the British and Foreign Bible Society, at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Wellington. He stated that the Bible'was now printed in GOO languages, and it would soon be able to realise the words of the old hymn. “ Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing My Gre'at Redeemer’s Praise.”, Because their performance, land relia-. bility are taking motorists in all parts of the country by storm, do not neglect your opportunity to investigate the claims of India Super Tyres. Look for the Red Ring. Agents: The Otago Farmers...

Damage and destruction of Church ot England property . through the_ Hawke’s Bay earthquake last February has been estimated at pver £IOO,OOO. Urgent repairs will' cost approximately £22,000, and this sum includes only £3500 for a temporary church to replace the cathedral, which was valued on a replacement basis at £37,500. These estimates, compiled by the surveying architect for the diocese of Waiapu, have been placed before congregations in connection with an \appeal in Wellington.

New Zealand honey has not suffered from the depressed market overseas. The London publication, the New Zealand News, states that one well-known brand of New Zealand honey increased Its sales throughout Europe by nearly 15J per cent, during the first quarter of this year, as compared with the same period of 1930. The achievement was particularly commendable, as the price is higher this i’year. The increase is attributed partly ’to good advertising. ■

Annual Winter Sale in full; swing. Bigger selections and bigger values than ever. See windows. Cal] and (look round; no one asked to buy.—The Mosgiel Warehouse. A. F. Cheyne and Co.i . Many curious legal points were raised in the Supreme Court, in Auckland! last week during the hearing of a compensation claim by the owners of a sandy section near the Takapuna end of the Milford Beach. Discussion of the effects of high tides coming on to the section led Mr Justice Herdman, who presided,' to ask: “ What becomes of a whale if it is cast up on the land? ” “It would be a chattel,” said Mr Stanton, who supported the claim. Mr Finlay, who opposed the claim, pointed out that ambergris cast up would be in the same legal position. Mr Stanton said that such objects , differed from moving sand in that they never became part of the soil on the section. ■ . .

“I live at the junction of the railway," said Mr H. E. Gilbert, of Hamilton, at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Wellington, “ and I often get a telegram asking me to meet three Maori girls and put them on the Limited express for the Maori Girls’ College at Marton. I meet the train with my -car to find not three, but 13 Maori maidens, three ukuleles, four banjos, and six guitars. I don’t know what Miss Kinross, the principal, does with them at Turakina College, but we all know that shesends them back to be great influences ’for'good in the kaiangas from which they comm” y- ■

That it was somewhat unusual to see so beautiful an art gallery as the Serjeant Art Gallery in a town as small as Wanganui was the opinion of a Los Angeles visitor to that city during the past month. Many visitors signed the book at the gallery during May, and there were several who expressed similar admiration to that of the American traveller. Some of the places from which they came were Johannesburg,, Rhodesia, Suva, Melbourne. Sydney, Bristol, and London. In all, 517 visitors entered the gallery as compared with 95 from Wanganui, a total of <312. During the same month last year 688 people inspected the gallery. ’ / We are selling Penfold’s port wine at 4s per bottle, house whisky 11s, pints 6s_; cash with’ order. Prince of Wales Hotej C. Hinchcliff, proprietor...

Fame, .with all its embarrassments, has come into the lives of two pretty young sisters living in the quaint Somerset village of Barrow, Gurney. They are the Misses Edith and Mildred Carter, daughter of the village blacksmith. The father of the girls sometimes finds too much work to do, and Edith and Mildred ’ put on blacksmith’s aprons, roll up their sleeves, and lend a hand at blowing the bellows or fixing a horseshoe. They form the prettiest pair of “ blacksmiths ” in England. They helped their father undisturbed until recently. Then, one day, they -were “ discovered.” Publicity was thrust upon them. A photograph of the sisters, busy at .work in the forge was circulated far and wide, and now a “ talkie ” of them has. been made. “We have had offers of marriage, offers of jobs, and offers of free samples of face cream to save our complexions from all over the country and the world,” one of them said. “ Young men seem to like the prospect of having a blacksmith’s daughter as wife! ” A gold fever has gripped Brazil, and the excitement can be likened only to the days of ’49 in California, and the early days of the Klondike. Repeated reports that new hig gold strikes have been made in the State of Minas, Geraes, have caused a rush to the mining, camps. The picturesque scenes of earlier gold rushes are lacking, for nowadays prospectors travel by train and motor cars, and scientific organisation by practical mining scientists replaces the rough and ready methods of the old-timers. Little towns which were once famous as mining camps, but have for a 100 years or more been engaged in farming rather than mining, what was believed to be “ worked out ” country, are taking on a new lease of life.

The use of the term “quid” is npt permissible when one is addressing Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., and a solicitor, Mr G. G. Lockwood, was rebuked when he made use of i the term in the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, “Have you never had the experience of a member of the staff borrowing a quid and putting in an I 0 U for it? ” asked Mr Lockwood of a witness in a civil case. Mr Mosley expressed surprise at the use of the word by a legal man. Mr Lockwood: " I was putting it from the point of view of an office boy.” Mr Mosley: " Yes, but it is not an office boy , speaking.” A fair amount of Russian timber is now coming into New Zealand, by way of Sydney, a commercial man told a Christchurch Sun reporter. Russian _ timber had been used in the furniture trade here for years past,, he said, but previously it had come through England. Now it was coming direct from Russia to Australia, and thence here. As an instance of the low prices which the Soviet is prepared to quote, he said that a shipment of Russian three-ply oak was expected here in a few days/ to sell at anywhere between 3d and 6d a foot. ’ The Japanese three-ply oak used by the furniture trade here eOld at about 7d a foot. Some Russian timber he had seen was of excellent quality. .■ Grandism (1354); The standard of quality by which wine or spirits, are judged in Dunedin to-day is based on Grand Hotel quality, whicjr never-varies... The Stratford Mountain Club, under the supervision of Mr T., R. Anderson, has completed the erection of the Manganui Gorge Hut on Mount Egmont. The work- was practioally completed by a working bee last week. The hut, which is 12 feet by 12 feet, is set on substantial concrete piles dove-tailed into the scoria. Bolts 2J feet long; hold the flooring plates. Through the generosity of Mr Anderson, a telephone has been placed' in the hut and connected with the Stratford Mountain. House. Te Oh a, one of the carved, storehouses in the Maori collection at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, 6nce contained the body of a victim of cannibalism, said' Mr V. F. Fisher, in the course of.-a lecture the other afternoon. Tahuri-o-Rangi, the son of Manawa, the craftsman who carved the storehouse) was in a party led by Haere Huka, who murdered a Ngati-Haug *bhieftain named Hunga in 1835. The body of Hunga was cooked and placed on the veranda of t)ie building. The outrage caused warfare between the Ngati-Pikiao and the NgatiHaua, the hostilities lasting until 1860. All British! The coffees and chicory used in the fßourbon” brand are all Empire, products. Blended by A/ Durie and Co., coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin. “ Bourbon ” for breakfast.-, / “The British Legion at'Colchester'"is not forgetful of the epic chapters of the Great War in which the gallant Australians and New Zealanders bore their part, and 'Anzac Day, the anniversary of the historic landing at Gallipoli, was observed, bj* the annual pilgrimage to the graves in the Colchester Cemetery, where Test the remains of Australian, and New Zealand soldiers who died in hospital here,” states the Essex County Telegraph of May 2, in giving an account-of the. Anzac Day ceremony. “ These graves,, near the monument, with its Sword of Sacrifice, are all trim and well cared for, and bn Anzac' Day Colchestrians placed their floral tokens of memory upon the mounds till they were ft blaze with the'brightness of spring, embl ms of immortality.”

Men are wearing leather coats with all round; belts this winter. The “ Ascot ” Outfitters, corner Princes-Rattray streets are showing the best value at £5 15si and will post any size‘anywhere for cash..' ~ In a letter Just received by .Mr, R. Leslie Jones, of LyalJ Bay, Wellington; from Mr Amando Cespedes. Marin, oper-’ ator of the famous short-wave station NRH, situate in Heredia, Costa Rica,’ Central America, he, stated that he would broadcast a special programme for New • Zealand during, the present week. The transmissions will be heard in New Zealand from : about midnight for one hour, and at the same time each day during the week. >NRH transmits 'on' 3,0.5 metres,; with a power of only • wattd,: ahd: usually signs off in Morse code. Short-wave listeners in New Zealand- should hear the transmissions'if the conditions'are favourable. , „ 1 -1 i- ' : T. Ross.—-Stock of new season’s gloves, hosiery, corsets,- ladies’ and children’s vests, cardigans, and umbrellas for next two weeks will be sold at 20 per cent, ; reduction on present low prices, or onefifth off all purchases of 2s 6d or over T. Ross, 130 Princes street;.. “It will, not' be thought out df place if I make a brief reference to the causes which necessitated the postponement of the which should have been held here on February 16,” said the Chief Justice, his Honor Sir'Michael Myers,’ in the course of his charge to the Grand Jury at the opening of the Supreme .Court sessions in, Napier the other morning, ' I like to express to you as representatives of the people my own sympathy afiad that of my fellow judges for the disaster that has befallen your beautiful province. This sitting is being held in the shadow of disaster, but ! hope that in the sittings which follow, the sun Will shine more and more brightly on your district, which will be more happy, mdre prosperous, and more beautiful than ever.” '

All prices at Gray’s Big Store have been brought into line with to-day’s* reduced values. An inspection will repay you when you visit Milton... In the course of a letter. to a friend in Blenheim, a Montreal business man says/ “There is plenty of work going, but returns are somewhat .meagre. 1 have a eort of : general idea that .New Zealand is better 1 off than * almost any. country,! even though newspaper reports recently seemed to indicate that the whole country was being shaken about in a somewhat careless way. Having seen several letters published on this side from irate New Zealanders who complain that the news stories were shockingly exaggerated, I gather that a good part of the island stands pretty much as it did befpre. . . . Like pH . countries, Canada is feeling the effects of the' depression, and until we see some way of selling, our wheat at a fairly good price I do .not expec* much improvement.” ’■ Shop at Barton’s.—Cooked ham, sliced, Is 8d; whole cooked hams. Is 6d; halfhams, cooked, Is 7d; smoked hams, Is Id; bacon, large rolls, Bid per lb;- bacon, light rolls, 9|d; bacon. Half-rolls, lOd; rashers, 9d to la.. .' - \ ; The following clause regarding lots for 1 potato growing by unemployed recommended by the Reserves Committee was adopted at a recent meeting of the Invercargill ,City. Council Having considered the suggestion that the council has .unused reserves ploughed and offered in lots to unemployed residents for the growing of potatoes and finance the purchase of seed and fertilisers, recommend/* that the superintendent of reserves report.on the areas on the corporation reserves which coaid be made available fbr- the purpose; that_ an advertisement be inserted in the press calling for offers of land which owners would be prepared to have used for the purpose, and calling for applications from unemployed men for prepared lots for growing potatoes during the season; that the lots be prepared under the direction of the superintendent of reserves by ploughing and harrowing; that the_ seed and fertilisers be supplied to applicants and that the cost of same plus the cost of preparing the land be made a first charge on the crop. _ . . __ Men’s., working shirts, sizes 14J to 17, striped “Tiger Twist” or plain grey “Oliver Twist,” 7s lid; Khaki Veldt, 8s 6d. Posted anywhere for cash. — Kilroy and Sutherland, Ltd., 192 Princes street, Dunedin... A shelter to accommodate 150 men is to be opened by the Wellington City Mission. The shelter is .urgently needed to house single men and youths from 17 years of age and upward, who are less and unemployed. A novel maintenance scheme is to be tried. 1 Books of tickets are being issued to people who are prepared to assist, and each ticket will entitle a man to a bed and two -meals at the shelter. When the holder of the book has disposed of the tickels, he will pay the City Mission £2 10s. This system, it is thought, will appeal to people who are being constantly approached by destitute men. The use of the , tickets will obviate the tendency to give cash to unknown callers, and when any man tells < a story which rings true, he can be given a ticket with the assurance that the possession of it will gain him a bed and food. . ' ■

When in business one grows wise And learns to advertise. It lets folk know what’s really good, And that Hitchon’s fare is ideal f00d...