NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 18

NEWS IN BRIEF

It takes a more spectacular prank to arouse interest among Wellington people on a busy shopping night than that undertaken by a young Wellington woman the other night. For a bet, she paraded from Courtenay place to Willis street and back to the Town Hall—handcuffed. Hands held before her, and accompanied by two stalwarts, she wended her way through the hustling shoppers. But her handcuffs might just as well have been silver bracelets. She won her bet —but nobodv noticed her. It’s really marvellous how sweet tlie tones come oot o’ the bagpipes if you have a nip of guid whusky just before ye blaw. The Waterloo Hotel, Caversham, keeps the best... Far some months past a blackbird which is more than half pure white has been an interesting and constant visitor to a Mount Eden (Auckland* garden. The bird is shy when people are about, although very much at home among its own kind, but it has a very distinctive harsh note of its own which announces its presence and enables a good view to be obtained of it with the exercise of a little caution. The purity of its white colouring makes it very conspicuous. Miners are touchy in the matter of beer. Their job is a dusty one, with corresponding desiccating effects on the throat. But a principle they may put above the quenching of a thirst. At Corrimal, New South Wales, the miners declared the local hotel “black” on two grounds—(l) dismissal of a popular barman, and (2) at 9d, as the price of a “schooner.” Other hotels outside the district charge Bd. Pickets guarded the boycotted “pub.” and there the matter stood as the Sydney mail left. Anniversary bargains this week at the Big Store, Milton,. Men participate in this with overcoats at 75s and 655... The thought of standing on one bank of the Rakaia River after the salmon season watching fishermen on the olhc' 1 bank landing good bags is so strongly disliked by members of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society that they urged them council to extend the salmon season to the end of April. Mr A. E. Smith said that while the North Canterbury season this year ended in the middle of April, the Ashburton Society’s season did not close until the end of April. Thus those on the north bank in the last two weeks of the month stood by while others on the south bank enjoyed their fishing. A way of eliminating undesirable colours and flavours from honey has been discovered, according to the annual report of the Cawthron Institute. It states that work in this direction has been the most important activity in honey research at the institute. The method is filtration. It is estimated that the treating of lowgrade honey should be commercially successful, but lack of finance has prevented the testing of the laboratory process on a semi-commercial scale. Grandism (3202); The sherry wines of Jerez have a peculiar distinction of their own. The Grand stocks six distinct types... “ I am looking forward to the establishment of a permanent health camp, which I hope will be in Central Otago.” said the school medical officer (Dr Irwin) in a report to the Southland Education Board the other day. Dr Irwin said that there were many children who would benefit by a prolonged stay in a drier climate. It was decided to support Dr Irwin’s suggestion that a health camp should be established in Central Otago. Mr J. Hargest. M.P., mentioned that the Education Department was negotiating for a block in Patearoa, Central Otago, which was regarded as an ideal site. Approaching the Rev. 1 Walter Langston, acting vicar of All Saints’ Church. Palmerston North, recently with a tale of poverty and hunger, an unemployed youth was taken into the study 'and given 5s to help him on his way. The following morning (states the Manawatu Times), while the vicar was in church, he returned and look two money bags Which had caught his eye. As a result he later appeared in court, facing at the same time four other charges. He pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence.

Special showing in all departments of new winter goods; all bought before the rise. Be wise, call early. Your inspection invited. —The Mosgiel Drapery Warehouse. A. F. Cheyne and C 0... New Zealanders can be found among ports and cities almost throughout the Far East, according to the experience of Mr A. V. Prince, who described some of his impressions along the Chinese coast. ■in an address to the Christchurch branch of the Wellington College Old Boys’ Association. Jn Hongkong, he said, 10 per cent, of the European population were New Zealanders or Australians, and an Australian and New Zealand Association was thriving there. He met quite a number of New Zealanders in various Eastern ports. A wintry job is being done by public works linesmen in the construction of a 66,000-voll transmission line over Arthur’s Pass to carry power from the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric station to the West Coast. From Arthur’s Pass the line will take power to a main substation at Arahura, near Hokitika, and from Arahura on to Dobson and up the Grey River to Blackwater to supply various mining requirements and the Grey Valley Power Board’s distribution system. The Diesel stand-by plant which was formerly in service at Lyttelton is to be re-erected at Dobson to take the immediate overload in the Grey Valley area, and later will be available for stand-by purposes in the event of interruption of supply from Coleridge over the Arthur’s Pass line. Why burn your fingers with broken pot or kettle lids? Bring the size—we can supply.—Dickinson's, Ltd., 441 Princes street... One of the cars of the Traffic Department of the City Council cruised the principal streets of the city the other afternoon (says the Christchurch StarSun). while one of its occupants implored the citizens, through a loud speaker, to preserve their lives by obeying the traffic rules. To what avail! Not much, it seemed, for the loud speaker had just passed the intersection of Colombo and Cashel streets when a young couple, pushing a chair with a two-year-old passenger in it, strolled casually across Colombo street, through a gap in the traffic, against the red light. There was a burst of laughter from the groups of pedestrians who were waiting, on both sides of the street, to cross, but the two with the push-chair seemed to be completely unaware of the faux pas they had committed. Actually they were newcomers from a city where traffic lights for pedestrians are still unknown, and, on the afternoon stroll, had been more interested in the shop windows and in trying to keep some sense of direction than in the appeals and warnings issued from the Traffic Department’s car. Strength, flavour, aroma. All are found in the favourite “ Bourbon ” brand of coffee and chicory. “Bourbon” is produced by specialists. Instructions in every tin... Alexei Tolstoy, whose mother was a Turgeniev, and so he is of two illustrious Russian literary families —was the guest of honour at the Pushkin centenary dinner held in London recently. Mr Tolstoy was born in 1882, and was making a reputation for himself before the war as a poet and writer of stories. During the revolutionary struggle he was on the White side, and in 1919 he fled to France. In 1921 he accepted the Soviet and returned to Russia, where he has produced novels, stories, plays and biographies in great variety. “The Way of Suffering ” and “ The Childhood of Nikila ” axe his best-known works. He is now completing a life of Peter the Great and also a play on Lenin for the 20th anniversary of the ‘ October Revolution. Now and then an angry blast Foretells that winter’s coming fast. ’Tis then that we appreciate Hitchon’s bacon on our plate...